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guy who accidentally says good lord and good god at the same time, resulting in good gourd, and then he turns into a pumpkin because of the curse where if he ever says the name of a plant he turns into the plant. and then a weird girl comes along

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it's honestly kind of transphobic that pronouns are just silly little words but proverbs get to be whole ass sentences

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They should make a "are you mad at me" that is taken neutrally and informationally every time and doesn't make everything worse when you ask it

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boooooooo i hate when educational nature videos call animals that dont do crazy shit "primitive". a slug isnt primitive. it literally does not need to be any more than what it already is. why would a slug need agriculture or complex forms of communication. it has no need for what we think of as "advanced". it loves to eat dead leaf and sleep in flower pot. a slug is so cool

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I hate the ADHD thing of:

"You need to do X. this is very important" "can't" "oh well. I'll do something else instead and maybe I'll get the motiviation to do X later" "no, X is too important. you can't waste time on anything else" "so I'll just do nothing?" "yeah, and FEEL GUILTY ABOUT IT!"

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Shenker-Osorio says the left’s enemy isn’t the right, it’s cynicism. The problem isn’t that authoritarians want to erase the division between church and state, or take away our right to control our bodies. The problem is that this minority can get away with these unpopular proposals because the people who disagree with them think nothing can be done to stop them. For Shenker-Osorio, the tonic for this is to switch from the negative framing (“abolish ICE”) to positive ones: “respect all families.” Rather than saying “end the climate emergency,” she wants us to call for “ensuring clean, safe air to breathe and water to drink.” When the right says they want to cut taxes to improve the economy, we counter with, “we’ll raise wages and increase consumption, which is better for the economy.” Shenker-Osorio proposes a three-step method for changing minds. First, identify a shared value (“people who work for living ought to earn a living”). Move on to a problem (“our divisions distract us while rich people pick our pockets and hand the spoils to their corporate cronies”). And then, the solution: “rewrite the rules so that the wealthiest few pay what they owe and all of us have what we need for generations to come.”

-Pizzaburgers: “Everybody hates this idea, so it must be great”

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reblog if kiss girl ?

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I LOVE MULBERRIES! There are some trees down the street from the house where I grew up and every June I'd be so excited because when I walked home from school I could pick and eat them. They never ran out—every day, more would ripen than I could possibly have eaten. Free berries all June, oh, what a treat!

Another sample page from my new fruit-foraging zine, Fruit For Free! If you live in the eastern US, these trees are almost certainly growing down the block from you somewhere.

If you'd like to read the whole comic, covering this and many other types of easily-foraged fruit, you can get it as a free or pay-what-you-want PDF here!

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What if plants are not peaceful socialists sharing resources OR aggressive warmongers competing with and poisoning each other, but a secret third thing: Unknowable without the simplifying lenses of anthropomorphism

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oh your most controversial opinion is that pineapple goes on pizza? should we tell michael scott from the office? maybe joey from friends?

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So fucking on brand to hold these things up as all equally important lol

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the crêpes ask ...........

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reminder to clench your jaw, slouch your spine, and put a dirty mug somewhere you will forget about it

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The generation gap between me and ppl of my own age

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Live TV Subtitling Deck

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I think my favorite thing in Marie Kondo's work is the section in The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up where she talks about branding and labels contributing to visual clutter.

She explains that if you go through the whole tidying process and still feel cluttered and anxious in your own home, one thing that might help is looking around to see how much visible text and logos there are in your home. It can make you feel like you're constantly being advertised to, which makes you less comfortable in your living space, because you're basically in a showroom.

She suggests taking labels off of packages, storing items in different containers if you can, and making sure you take every purchase out of its packaging when you bring it home.

I think about that advice a lot when capitalism starts to get to me and I feel like I'm never gonna escape. Taking all the branding and advertising off of things has genuinely helped make my home feel more like my home. Peeling labels off candles, storing envelopes neatly on a shelf in a plain box, putting flour and sugar in canisters instead of leaving them in the bags, creatively covering logos on my tech...it all helps so much. Like, goddamn, it really made me realize just how much we are constantly being advertised to even when we think we're not.

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Speaking as someone who has written web crawlers for non-evil reasons...

I like how all the platforms (twitter, reddit) are destroying their APIs to kill "bots" but the fun thing about APIs is that only the good guys use them. They're like door locks: they only keep out honest people. Someone wanting to steal your TV will just put a brick through your window.

Similarly, people wanting to flood a platform with spam and pornbots will often just not use the API, because it makes it too easy to track them down. They'll instead write a program that pretends to be a browser, and clicks on links just like a human does.

Fun fact: that's an "API" that exists for every website, and for a long while it was the only API that any sites ever had. So when you're trying to automate using a site (for good or evil), the "api-zero" of just doing web scraping and user-agent-impersonation is always there. That's what the bad guys will use, and that's what the good guys are sometimes forced to use.

Anyway the end result of this sort of API monetization/destruction nonsense is that you're only killing the bots that were written with good intentions. You're killing the haikubots and that "THERE ARE FIVE LIGHTS" twitter bot. you're killing the reddit bots that help moderate submissions by automatically applying flair or timing out replies after too long has passed.

But the bots that are just there to send you crytypocurrentsea scams and entice you in with stolen porn? They don't use the APIs. They won't be affected. They'll keep on working. The people scraping your site for AI research? they won't even register an account, they'll just request the plain HTML contents of your pages.

So once you know that, locking out users from your APIs seems like a real bad idea, doesn't it?