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i would rather never ever realise my lifelong dream of becoming a published author than resort to generative ai for it. that would not be an accomplishment but an embarrassment on my death bed

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Step 1: kill the majority of the Jews in your country

Step 2: exile the majority of the survivors to Israel

Step 3: say you don't hate Jews you just hate Israelis

Step 4:???

Step 5: profit

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im fucking sobbing why did they kill him twice in a row in the community notes

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One of the funniest superpowers would be super speed but no sped-up perception of time. You just take off running at the speed of light, can't see shit because you're faster than light around you, and slam dunk straight into a wall at lethal speed and die.

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*comes out of Wikipedia, hair disheveled and body red, wearing a towel, smoking a cigarette, with clear kiss and bite marks* So, I've been reading about nuclear propulsion in spaceships,

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Your posts made me realize I could fix the geography of my ttrpgs world by just. Moving it into the southern hemisphere

I feel very silly for not realizing that before. Thank you for pointing out obvious shit for Dipshits like me

That's great, but don't call yourself a dipshit! Anyone who wants to do better worldbuilding is not a dipshit

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The story of the first blood libel is crazy because straight up this story was invented because a Christian knight murdered a Jewish moneylender he owed money to, everybody knew he owed money to him and that he was broke, and he wasn’t even denying that he killed him, he just claimed that he and the entire Norwich Jewish community had killed a Christian boy more than half a decade prior and therefore it was okay for him to murder the moneylender, and then as witnesses he summoned someone who was not in Norwich the year the boy died, a maid who probably hadn’t actually worked there, and a dead person. And then for the next one thousand years anytime Christians (and later Muslims) wanted to get rid of the local Jewish community they either blamed it on an actual dead person or, more often, on the vague recalled memory of other kids/people Jews had supposedly killed, and that’s just an inescapable part of life now.

Sources: The Murder of William of Norwich, by E. M. Rose (2015); The Life and Passion of William of Norwich, by Thomas of Monmouth (Penguin Classics translation) (originally published 1172)

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"Of course [The Lord of the Rings] does not belong to me. It has been brought forth and must go now its appointed way in the world, though naturally I take a deep interest in its fortunes, as a parent would of a child. I am comforted to know that it has good friends to defend it against the malice of its enemies."

- J. R. R. Tolkien in Letters from Tolkien

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

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So like. What was going through Cobra Bubbles' head the first time he encountered Stitch?

He's trying to conduct a home visit. It's not going well. The last visit didn't go well. It's becoming more and more clear that he's probably going to have to separate this little girl from her only living relative, which he doesn't want to do. Nani's not helping her own case, and he's coming down pretty hard on her. And then suddenly this bizarre little blue creature pops up and flings a heavy book directly at his face. The sisters insist it's a dog, but it doesn't look, sound, or behave like any dog.

The thing is, Agent Bubbles knows about aliens. He knows for a fact that intelligent extraterrestrial life exists and that it knows about Earth. And yet he doesn't challenge the idea that Stitch is a dog or try to either immediately remove Lilo or demand that Stitch be sent away. He does specifically tell Lilo that the next time he sees Stitch he expects Stitch to be "a model citizen." Not under control or well trained, a model citizen.

Is he hoping that Stitch is a solution here? That this alien creature that, arguably, attacked him in defense of the Pelekai sisters, might represent a useful element of their support system if better socialized?

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there’s a transfeminist idea that has been slowly slowly trickling through the ecosystem and picking up power and momentum as it goes that I’ve been realizing I met wearing another face a few years back when I was reading starhawk

[“March 1982, I write in my journal: "Intimidation: In jail, they pull one of the women out of our group, lock her up someplace worse

so that we see their power

so that we become fearful

they pick the woman who makes us most uncomfortable, who is most loud and angry, least respectable, who least fits in

so that we do not really want to extend ourselves, telling ourselves that there is nothing we can do (even though all of us are here in jail because we will not accept that there is nothing we can do)

so that we don't try to do anything, telling ourselves

we don't have enough information to act

that it is not yet the right time to act

that if we try to act we will make the situation worse:

that it is better to let someone else (our lawyers, the experts) act for us

that she may have done something to deserve it

that she created her own situation.”]

trans women are treated like loud dangerous corrosively insane women whose humiliating defeat acts as a sedative and a restraint on the rest of the women. the desired effect is a group of marginalized people who reinforce their own passivity through the lessons they learn from what happens to uppity bitches.

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Hey did y'all ever think about that if doctors blame all fat people's medical issues on them being too fat without proper investigation and then feel justified in neglecting their medical concerns, then statistically more fat people WILL develop and potentially die from serious health issues and it might not actually be because of the fat when everything comes down to it

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So Voyager found out there is this bubble surrounding our solar system made up of solar material blown outwards by solar wind and acts as a border between the solar system and the rest of space has a temperature of 30,000-50,000 Kelvin.

For reference the surface of the sun has a temperature of roughly 5770 kelvin

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Officers on the ship keep telling me to do things handsomely, handsomely now. I'm the prettiest and cuntiest little lad in the frigate. Everything I do is handsome

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