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every post hyping up ao3 makes it sound like a more embarrassing version of book tok #mysadtruth

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This is just another form of censorship, control of what we can/can't see and engage with, and another means of getting our private information.

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@wholesome-animal-images

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*Stares directly into the camera*

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the overlap between transandrophobes and intersexists is a flat fucking circle

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The Republican president of Utah's Senate managed to change consent laws after a relative was accused of raping a 13-year-old.

Newsweek reported a Salt Lake Tribune piece that Senate President J. Stuart Adams suggested that the Utah Legislature change the law that would change the child rape laws.

"Previously, as adults, 18-year-old high school students who had sex with a 13-year-old could face a charge of child rape, a first-degree felony," said the Tribune. "A conviction on that charge generally requires registration as a sex offender, while a conviction on the newly created lesser charge does not."

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Comet Thrower pictograph, Hell Roaring Canyon, Utah

Astrophotographer Tom Rae

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People celebrating the declaration of the independence of Ukraine, 1991

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Alien: Earth SDCC Promotional Poster (2025) William Gibson's Alien 3 variant cover (2018) + Alien: Earth unused original concept sketches (2025) by Tradd Moore

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i went to "mad at me" island expecting to find people i knew, something i understood. but when my boat landed, standing upon the shore were a million empty husks wearing my own face. every foot of the island was occupied, and everywhere i went, they watched me with contempt. they never spoke, never breathed. they simply watched. no matter how i grovelled and begged, snarled and cursed, tried to hide or kicked and hit, they simply stared. the hatred in their gaze was inescapable, but i could hardly return it, knowing that their doomed existence was of my own creation. knowing that the hatred was nobody's but my own. in the end i just wept, unable to stand the relentless gaze of my own infinite glare.

the guy who i accidentally cut off in traffic last week was there also

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see no aioli, hear no aioli, speak no aioli

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Debating silently showing this to one of the flight attendants while boarding

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this is what i've been wanting since i first heard about game changer. i so badly needed brennan to get his revenge, i cant believe this was his last recorded episode before he quit dropout. i sure hope he ran away to the cabin for the doll shoes and not because he trapped sam reich in a castle never to be set free.

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"exercise will give you more energy" gets said a lot as a common piece of health advice but I think it needs to be expanded into "exercising will make you tired while you do it, and you will continue to be tired immediately afterwards, sometimes even the next day too, but over months of consistent exercise, your muscles will get stronger and therefore get less tired out by everyday activities, making you feel like day-to-day life takes less physical energy than it used to"

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The bird app has a lot of garbage but this thread really tickled me this morning:

Bonus:

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an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

language is amazing

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