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  Time for Action. (CW: Link to a repulsive sex crime at Cornell) I'm not putting the URL in the post header itself because this is very serious trigger warning time. [Do not follow this link if a story about an extreme sexual assault will hurt you.](https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2026/09/tccsuykuvb4z) For those who read the story, might I recommend emailing [president@cornell.edu](mailto:president@cornell.edu), link to the story (there's plenty of links to find; I just linked to th...

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  Massive Trigger Warning from Cornell Seriously, if you're sensitive to anything related to SA or you just don't feel like boiling your blood into pudding today, don't follow this. The US 'justice' system is the single worst-named entity on the planet. It's related to seeking justice about as much as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea cares about its people.

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  They didn't lose their muse... There's enough documented cases where we KNOW this is the case to think this is likely true for a very large proportion of them. Dick Francis is a major case in point; his wife wrote most of "his" books.

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  Sexist Men Acting Like Victims I'm not sure which is worse for me: the fact that young men are regressing to hateful misogynists in greater numbers, or that there are women on that side.

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  In her 1925 Radcliffe College thesis, Cecilia Payne ... > ### ...calculated that stars are overwhelmingly hydrogen and helium. A senior astronomer talked her into calling her own result "almost certainly not real." Four years later, he published the same conclusion under his own name This is a story that should be taught to all girls from junior middle school onward. A woman makes a discovery, is gaslit by a man into denying it, then has that discovery and credit stolen from her...