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because I feel like anyone who has an Australian shepherd needs to post disclaimers: despite me posting pictures of my cute and lovely dog, i do not think this breed is good for the average owner. i do not recommend aussies for most people!

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When you say UHF, do you mean VHS or is there another term that UHF can stand for that I’m not aware of?

i was born in the right generation. i love watching tv shows years after they ended

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impromptu side eye. criminal impromptu side eye

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Just gonna repost thoughts to Tumblr when no one gives me the engagement I crave on Fediverse

Recently I've seen a few folks in different places complaining about the general enshittification of the Internet, and specifically feeling nostalgic for the blogosphere days.

And all of them talked about how those days aren't coming back because every blog is now SEO/sponsored/monetized/advertised to the point of unusability.

I feel like that misses the plot?

Like, "the blogosphere" was actively killed by "platforms". It was deliberate value capture and rent-seeking.

Used to be, a rural Iowa SCA mom could run the world's foremost compendium on small-scale pewter casting.

I don't need to tell most of y'all that these sites haven't ceased to exist, but they're essentially undiscoverable to a huge portion of Internet users, including a huge number of folks who actively want to find content like this.

The fact that you have to work so hard to find this is a deliberate act.

Not going to lie, not knowing a decent solution to this problem is one thing that makes me hesitant to do more writing online.

Not that writing isn't worth it for its own sake, but it feels discouraging to know ahead of time that I'm almost certainly going to be howling into the wind, no matter what I write, or how well I write it (never minding that good-faith feedback is an important part of improving!).

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Craving Mexican food so bad right now you guys have no fucking clue

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technically we’re ALL, always LARPing, because the Self is only a construct,

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I guess a more general version of the point is that in the last 50-ish years, everyday language has borrowed more and more of both the terminology and structural features of technical language. This happens for a lot of reasons. But I think it's mostly not a good thing. For one, being abstract and technical is not actually very useful in the messy real world, where concepts are fuzzy and vague and most things of importance are not quantifiable. For another, if natural language borrows too much of the authority of science and the law, it might find that there's not enough left afterwards for science and the law to do what we need them to do.

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when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳

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Wait. But if you’re aroace and I’m aroace then who’s flying the plane??

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deinosuchus wouldve loved a lamb souvlaki

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i'm the hot girl in your area. i killed the other ones it's just me now

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Give a man a leaf and he will eat it. Teach a man to leaf and he will go away

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This is extra funny because you would be, like, super dead