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some people are afraid to be cheesy. I live my whole life on the charcuterie board

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is there anything more bitter than letting go of friends that you thought were your ride or die? coming to terms with the fact that you’re walking down different paths and you’ll be dismembered if you don’t let go of their hand. being true to yourself and your self-worth is something we’re never warned about. no one ever tells you that you’ll spend weeks pondering where it went wrong, what you did wrong, until you come to the somber realization that your time together on this earth just might be over. 

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laundry at sunset

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There is literally no circumstance where I support age verification to access a website. As I've said before I'm very much the "there's nuance here" person on almost everything but on this issue there's no nuance for me, it's awful and horrible in and of itself and it also sets an awful and horrible precedent

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Everyone on tumblr has Conditions. maladies. I log onto tumblr and my mutuals are unwellposting. Conditions I didn't even know existed and sound like dark curses but I will see a post from friend like "died about 60% today, fine now. Made egg on toast #yummytoast". There are so many people in this world with life experiences

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just saw a video of ocean vuong discussing how as a professor he has noticed that his students are more and more self conscious at attempting to be poets or writers even when it is what they want simply because they do not want to be perceived as cringe. we must free ourselves from the chains of cringe. the truth is people will perceive you whether you do what you want or do nothing at all….

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Today my wife texted me this, and then immediately called me to make sure I got it because it was “an urgent message”.

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Strange Bird

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[ID Lino prints of a stylised Przewalski's horse rearing up. The first design is of a horse in front of a circle with a dark head and neck, and two rounded shoulder crosses. The second is a mirror of the other, but without the aforementioned features. The first pair of prints are double printed with black ink on top of gradient yellow-orange ink. The others are printed in a yellow-orange gradient. End ID.]

New lino print designs! Will be up on my Etsy Tuesday the 28th of May.

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no amount of budgeting will make up for the fact that we simply do not make enough money

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[ID copied from alt text:

Digital drawing of a person putting an envelope in a red Canadian post box. They are Pim wearing a cowboy hat. Text above them says, "MAIL YOUR MP ABOUT CANADA'S CENSORSHIP BILL!"

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Canada's Internet Censorship Bill S209

Bill S-209 is 'An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to pornographic material', titled that by the Senator who sponsored it in the Senate.

note: Government laws in Canada are more commonly introduced by the House of Commons but the Senate has the same power. MPs in the House are elected directly by citizens while Senators are appointed by Prime Ministers. Bills from the Senate start with 'S' while bills from the House of Commons start with 'C'. Both parties need to agree on the contents of a bill before it passes into law.

This bill is similar to what's happening with KOSA/SCREEN in the US, OSA in the UK, and even Mastercard/Visa where "protecting the children" is being used as an excuse to level bans of 'pornographic material' online, propose the use of AI to somehow determine people's age to restrict their access to the internet, and force people to submit government ID and/or biometric data in order to "verify their age".

Don't be mistaken, this is a censorship bill. This is not about actually protecting children, this is not about reducing dangerous working conditions within the porn industry, this is not about making the internet safer. This is nothing other than allowing governments to control what you can and can't see online.

But porn is bad! Why shouldn't it be banned?

I'm just going to let @roach-works explain since they did it way better than I can: someone got really mad at me for being pro-pornography.

Also, banning 'pornographic material' is not only extremely broad, it is also an extremely slippery slope, because what always comes next is extending that ban to LGBTQ+ content, sexual or not. Censorship bills need to be stopped early, before it gets to that point.

What can I do to help?

There's a change.org petition floating around but if you're Canadian, you're better off directing your energy to call or write to your Member of Parliament to express your concern.

Find your MP.

Email template made by @sunn-kist.

Remember:

personalize your message (form and template emails can get filtered)

calling your MP is still the most effective

written letters are more effective than emails but I'd recommend both

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lotta guys who you can look at and immediately tell they have an MBA saying shit like “AI is punk” like okay, sure, suit-and-tie guy who looks like he’d drop dead if he came within a hundred miles of a shitty diy punk show in someone’s garage, I bet you’re an authority on what counts as punk

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i dont think the issue is having potatoes in your medieval-inspired fantasy in a vacuum. i think the issue is the sheer lack of acknowledgement of indigenous people and cultures in the fantasy genre with the exception of maybe some deeply racist coding of certain non-humans (usually orcs and elves).

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before you beat yourself up for not cleaning, ask yourself:

is there a proper place to put the things you're tidying up?

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I wish to purchase goods and services without entering a blood covenant that entitles the provider to email and text me forever and also store a bunch of my personal data that they’re going to apologize for exposing in a breach in the next five to ten years