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i think it's really fun when a rly specific trope is super popular in one particular medium but in other ones it's just totally unheard of. it's the time knife. visual novel players are suuuuper used to death games but many others encountered them for the first time in squid games. the other day my mom showed me all excited the summary of a super original novel she found and it was about a girl who got reincarnated as the main character in her favorite fantasy book

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if i took a women's scholarship and then transitioned during college would that count as swindling

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This summer I talked with a friend who has a high-support-needs autistic son. He shared the good news that they hadn't faced a severe meltdown in several years, because of a piece of advice they got from an ER doc.

It was something like, "I've seen a fair number of autistic kids come in for severe meltdowns. Every time, we check their blood sugar. And every time, it's low."

Based on this encounter, my friend added cinnamon and more frequent meals to his son's diet, and limited refined carbs. That was all it took to move severe meltdowns from a frequent occurrence to a non-occurrence.

(Edit: the cinnamon part is probably not actually helpful. The science there is not nearly as good as I thought.)

For myself, I noticed long ago that I get lightheaded easily from not eating, and that sugar gives me migraines. I've asked for diabetes testing multiple times about it, but the labs always came back stellar.

I shared this with some of my other highly verbal autistic friends, and they've had a similar experience.

So apparently that's a Thing 🤷

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We need to do what we can to protect the Internet Archive. Here is a petition that you can sign.

This petition alone might not be enough, but everything we can throw at this counts.

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wannabee twitter already bending the knee to terfs

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We live in the dumbest, lamest cyberpunk dystopia possible.

So LA has been — and continues to — protest against ICE. These protests haven’t gotten any smaller or lost any momentum, but social media wasn’t reflecting it.

TikTok users, realizing that the platform/other social media are censoring/deleting/shadowbanning these protest videos, decided to find a workaround.

They’re calling it the LA Music Festival. Ice detention centers and other protest locations are “stages.” The hottest band is Rage Against the Machine. “Here’s what gear you should be bringing to stay safe at the LA Music Festival.”

And it fucking worked.

TikTok has become a proving ground for a lot of new music, meaning lots of labels and organizations have lucrative deals with TikTok to promote their new artists and music festivals. So they absolutely cannot censor the words “music festival” or train the algorithm to ignore it, or they risk endangering that very important revenue.

So now protest videos are flooding feeds again, but it’s the LA 24/7 Music Festival. Truly an incredible timeline we’ve landed in.

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I really think we should stop saying "kid-friendly" and start saying "ad-friendly". We shouldn't indulge these companies and their excuses anymore. I also think that continuing to pretend that this is about "protecting the children" pushes a lot of the blame onto kids and teens, who don't have the political power to push through any of this censorship legislature. Corporations and governments are to blame.

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Call me whatever names you wish, but I think this is a much better (and healthier) attitude than “anyone under 18 should never be allowed to see any sexual imagery ever”

(For reference: this was at the Tom of Finland exhibition, containing actual, queer, kinky af pornography. There were definitely some young people there, perhaps in their late teens. There was even a parent with their baby who was probably too young to understand anything at all. And guess what, all those people are probably going to be fine.)

[ID: a sign saying “Please note: there is no age limit, but the exhibition is not recommended for children due to the explicit sexual imagery it contains. Parental or guardian discretion is advised.”]

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“never kill yourself” is such a funny phrase to me that i think it’s accidently started working. its like an affrimation. say ‘never kill yourself’ enough times as a joke and maybe you won’t try to kill yourself over minor inconviences anymore

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Nothing slapped my shit back into place like someone pointing out that the "genius gifted child with so much potential who got burnout and mental illness" is just the nerd equivalent to the jock "could have been a pro at sportsball if it wasn't for the injury".

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Well sorry my post-traumatic revelation was inconveniently timed for you.Your post- Oh you mean how you’re a realist now? Yeah. A “realist”? Really?

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found this three year old draft buried in my files. is it funny? I don't remember

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ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x03 - “Finally Got The Name Right” ↳ “Everyone in my life has changed. Promise me you won’t change.”

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no offense but if your friend is trying out a new hobby be fucking nice to them

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A much-needed boba break 🥰

(My commission with Eryx45 here)

(HQ of all my past commissions)