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How I’d introduce a Deaf tech character in an action/sci-fi film.

Our heroes stop outside the big swoosh workshop door.

The introductory hero hands our pov protagonist a pair of earplugs.

“Why would I need those?”

“Trust me.”

Door opens, light and an INCREDIBLY LOUD recording of Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge Overture sweeps over our heroes. (Open to suggestions)

They step inside, the pov newbie clutching their ears.

Panning shot of workshop and inventions.

Our first intro to our Deaf techie is their sock-clad feet tapping in time.

Medium shot from the back of our Deafie dancing wildly.

Intro hero walks over and pulls the plug.

Silence.

Deaf techie turns around and sees visitors.

POV hero: “you know, you’ll go deaf if you’re not careful.”

Deaf techie [in sign]: too late. What you want?”

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generative AI literally makes me feel like a boomer. people start talking about how it can be good to help you brainstorm ideas and i’m like oh you’re letting a computer do the hard work and thinking for you???

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mentally taking a drag of my mental cigarette because I don’t smoke but life has been very smokable lately

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it’s so cool how the search function on every website, a technology that was essentially perfected over a decade ago, is borderline unusable now

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no i don't want to use your ai assistant. no i don't want your ai search results. no i don't want your ai summary of reviews. no i don't want your ai feature in my social media search bar (???). no i don't want ai to do my work for me in adobe. no i don't want ai to write my paper. no i don't want ai to make my art. no i don't want ai to edit my pictures. no i don't want ai to learn my shopping habits. no i don't want ai to analyze my data. i don't want it i don't want it i don't want it i don't fucking want it i am going to go feral and eat my own teeth stop itttt

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The computer is a machine built for looking at pictures of fish you wouldn't otherwise see. Anything else you can do with a computer was an accident and unintended

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If you are making calls to Republican politicians about not supporting certain bills, remember to stick to Republican scripts. No trying to play on their emotions. Don't talk about people dying or marginalized people being hurt or anything like that. That doesn't work on them.

Instead, focus on:

Cost. These Republican bills have MASSIVE costs that either tax payers take the brunt of or it goes into the national debt.

Withholding your vote. You weren't going to vote for them anyway, but they have absolutely no way of knowing that. Even if you've said in other places, they are not researching every single person who calls to see who's a Republican. You're just another constituent using your vote as leverage. Take advantage of that.

Hard-working Americans/working class Americans/veterans/etc. Figure out the specific group of people that politician campaigns the hardest to and talk about them and how they'll be hurt by whatever is happening.

Trump's stupid fucking bill isn't cruel and evil and it's not going to kill millions of people, it's a huge financial strain that will drastically increase the national debt while hurting working class Americans who just need a bit of help and you would never consider voting for someone who would support it.

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"oh homeless people are just gonna use your money to buy drugs" and? and?? the government uses my tax money to buy bombs and cops, you think I care if someone in a shitty situation uses money I gave them to feel marginally less shitty? fuck off!

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I thought y'all might like to see Niagara Falls lit up for Pride.

Hope you had a good one!

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After carcinization and anteaterization, let's hear it for whaleification:

Tamisiocaris borealis (Middle Cambrian, 30-50 cm): a Radiodont, related to Anomalocaris, filter-feeding with its anterior appendages

Aegirocassis benmoulai (Early Ordovician, 2 meters): another Radiodont

Titanichthys agassizi (Late Devonian, at least 4 meters): a Placoderm, a group of armored early jawed fish

Shastasaurus sikanniensis (Late Triassic, up to 20 meters): an early Ichthyosaur (possibly suction feeder of soft preys, not quite a filter feeder)

Leedsichthys problematicus (Late Jurassic, 15 meters, possibly more): bony fish of the extinct order Pachycormiformes

Manta birostris (from the Miocene, up to 9 meters): the giant manta ray, a cartilaginous fish

Cetorhinus maximus (from the Miocene, 8-10 meters): the basking shark, another cartilaginous fish

Eubalaena borealis (baleen whales from the Miocene, 13-18 meters): right whale, a mammal

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I hate that cutesy running joke meme trend of gatekeeping restaurants you like. Posting a picture of some amazing dish and when someone asks you for the restaurant going like "sorry uwu the place exploded" as an excuse not to tell because you want to keep it all to yourself.

Like what kind of a pointless vermin are you? Even a tapeworm wishes good health and long life for the host it feeds off from. If the place you frequent has no other patrons, it will go under and then you won't get their dishes, either.

Are you somehow unaware that the best way to have friends in high places is to uplift the ones that you already have?

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Pride month in Hell 🏳️‍🌈

a little gomens drawing i did a while back

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having an online persona is kind of funny bc you post abt something like twice and suddenly that’s the only thing ur known for...u post about cheese a couple times and suddenly ur the cheese mutual

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afaik the only augmentative suffix in English is -zilla.