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I don't care if it's overdone I support Dev Patel's establishment of a Righteous Vengeance Cinematic Universe. Look at him

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Keith Haring Gull!

idea from my friend @ TheBirdist on twitter! i'll be selling stickers with all $ going to a new england queer charity soon

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shoutout to whatever staff member has this bumper sticker at my school

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so sick of skinny catboy art its literally so unrelatistic where the fuck is his primordial pouch

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basically chatgpt is like if some of the worst people on the planet got billions and billions and billions of dollars to market a magic 8-ball as an incredible miracle technology. magic 8ball can be your friend. magic 8ball can help you make business decisions. and then people bought into the marketing and tried magic 8ball and wow! it really responds to what you say! and so they started like, asking magic 8ball to file legal suits and tons of predictable disasters ensued. and then everyone was stuck talking about whether ot not magic 8balls are inherently bad and dangerous technology thats sucking the soul out of society

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So this was inspired by a discussion I had with a friend yesterday.

It started with me mentioning offhand that once upon a time, I had considered arguing with my university that they should publicly post their class schedules because technically, anyone is allowed to sit in on a class, but that's practically blocked off from the community by virtue of them not having access to when and where the courses are happening.

He immediately pulled up a public-facing version of the course scheduling system that I never knew existed and said something like "If people really wanted that information, they could find it."

Information accessibility is a big deal to me, so then I started to explain that "not knowing what you don't know" and the vast amount of info people have to sift through are real barriers to people obtaining information and also that "This doesn't exist," and "I can't find it," look exactly the same, so if people can't find something, they will eventually give up because of diminishing returns on the effort of looking for something that may not exist.

But he just kept saying different versions of "Well if people REALLY wanted it, they'd go find it," which really surprised me because he's liberal, very intelligent and very into philosophy, but he couldn't seem to see the logical end result of a philosophy about information access that basically comes down to "pull yourself up by the bootstraps (and if you can't, you didn't deserve to succeed)."

So he went on this rant about how the general public should simply know almost all information is out there and put in the effort to find it (without any outreach or effort to engage the public on this), and I said,

"You will be perpetually angry at how unmotivated and badly informed the public is with your current attitude. And it will never improve without people who do not have your attitude. This is the reality you are doomed to because of this perspective. It's neither good nor bad. I'm not faulting you for it, but no matter what you have to say to justify your perspective, this will always be the result."

Because any "BUT THE WORLD WOULD BE BETTER IF PEOPLE WOULD JUST ____" philosophy is USELESS if you expect "people" (i.e. the public at large) to spontaneously start or stop doing something without some kind of outside effort - an outreach campaign, an educational movement, an incentive, etc.

If you're falling into those kind of thought patterns, it's not going to be productive for you or society because you're always going to be mad, and you're never going to do anything to change the things that make you mad because you're too caught up in your own feelings of indignance and frustration.

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Next years met gala theme is jeans and a nice top

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odysseus tying himself to the mast but he's doing some proto shibari type shit to make his tits look really good and his crew isn't saying anything but it's kind of hard not to notice

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this girl at uni was dressed sooo gay and then i found out she's just straight with a lesbian mom. dykebaiting is not a victimless crime 😔

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hrt saves trans lives

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Is your blorbo really some kind of fucked up gremlin, or are they just short?

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armadillo on a pillow

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also re: that post i know this is everywhere but a lot of psych meds make you super susceptible to heat so if you take any kind of ssri/snri/antipsychotic you should really be super careful for heatstroke the next few days