do this instead

I’m too sleepy to write up a big Business Meeting post tonight – I caught up on about two weeks of email and worked on harmonies all day, that’s a bit on the side of brain-eating – so I’m going to point to this instead:

A collection of local fire relief funds in North Central Washington

All that smoke and all those strange skies we saw at Sasquan? They were mostly due to these fires. There are other fires as well, but those are the biggest ones. It wouldn’t hurt to see about throwing them a little dosh.

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this is some serious street-preacher stupid right here

I mentioned elsewhere, recently, that I’ve spent my share of time arguing with street preachers and the like. There’s a special kind of determined antagonism towards reality they carry with them – I call it street-preacher stupid – and the best you can do at any point is to argue for the crowd, and let the preachers make themselves look like… themselves, really.

In that spirit, I present the following:

Sci-Fi Pundant insists that Worldcon defrauded its membership via the “asterisk” joke/charitable fundraiser, declaring the asterisks to be awards given outside the rules.

And, on the Puppies losing their captured categories to No Award:

And again, on the Puppies losing to No Award:

There is not a big enough facepalming gif in the world for this, so I will not bother appending one. h/t to Jim C. Hines for the unicorn-iconed claimant. Enjoy.

eta: Wait, on second thought, I came up with something:

There we go.

eta2: I’ve added a rather long quote in comments here. You may find it worthy as a fourth example.

 

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This part of a series of posts on the Sad/Rabid Puppy candidate slate-based capture of the Hugo Awards, and resulting fallout.

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