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I’m just saying if Daniel Radcliffe, the literal protagonist of the Harry Potter franchise since the age of ten years old, was able to disavow JK Rowling and move on from the HP universe then actually what the fuck is anyone else’s excuse. There is no one else on the planet who can say their entire childhood was HP more than that guy and he still cared about trans people more than the average tumblr user who says “we’re protesting by making all her characters queer and trans!!” like you can do better. You should do better.

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when i first heard about the male loneliness epidemic i was like oh yeah close camaraderie and bonding between men is often discouraged in favor of competition or, if not discouraged, at least filtered through a lens of individualism that precludes deep connections. and then i learned what people meant by it (men arent getting laid) to which i say skill issue

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You ever seen those videos of little baby reptiles hatching from an egg, opening their eyes, and immediately getting on the move with the full confidence that they know what they're doing? Like "hello, I have been aware of this world around me for 25 seconds and I have just decided that the best place for me is on the other side of this desk, which is the only surface I've ever known."

When you get old enough, that's how very confident newly adult teenagers start to feel like. They're like "hmm yes I'm 19, I have been a legal adult for a whole year now and I know exactly what I want to do with my life." And then they wiggle away real fast to that direction.

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donald trump will die on july 20th 2025 at 1pm pacific standard time

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Remember, everyone, we still have a system in place and the Constitution still exists. We are not in a full dictatorship, yet. We can not give in to despair at every single thing this new administration does, because those checks still exist.

And until they don't - and that's a big if - we must keep our heads about us. Do not panic. Do not fall into apathy. Do not do anything irreversible.

The system will not save us, but it can protect us from the worst possible outcome for now.

And we will continue to fight even once it can't or won't.

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Holy SHIT, you all, Conspiracy Theories is doing a revisit of the JFK assassination because a lot of new information has come out since the original episodes on it, and the expert they're interviewing just blew my fucking mind:

Under the United States Constitution, Lee Harvey Oswald is not guilty of the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

The interviewer asked why he keeps saying "accused killer" and "alleged shooter," and here's the explanation, which is deeply relevant to our times:

Oswald never stood before a judge or jury, and the Warren Commission began by deciding he was guilty and refusing to allow him to have counsel in absentia to represent his interests.

That's a violation of his constitutional rights to be considered innocent until proven guilty and to receive a fair and speedy trial by a jury of his peers, and violates state and federal laws surrounding his right to legal counsel.

Even if Oswald did actually shoot Kennedy, even if he did indeed fire the bullet that killed him, he is innocent under our legal code. I'm 36 years old, I've studied the JFK assassination multiple times, I've believed the official story was a lie since long before that was proven, and it never occurred to me that Oswald's guilt was never actually legally determined.

If you're wondering why this is important, take a walk down Hypotheticals Lane with me. The year is 2030. Our President Kamala Harris has declared all JFK documents are to be declassified, posthaste, and we are finally going to get to the bottom of this shit. There will be a trial.

How likely do you think it is that they could find a fair jury? I mean, Oswald's been dead at that point for almost seventy years, in that respect it makes no difference, but depending on what those documents showed, it could rewrite history. How many people, after hearing "Oswald was the shooter" for their entire lives, would vote "not guilty" even if the declassified documents showed he was innocent as the newborn babe?

THIS IS WHY WE KEEP YELLING AT YOU TO SAY "ALLEGED" OR "ACCUSED" IN REGARD TO LUIGI MANGIONE. When you accept as given that he is guilty, you are assisting TPTB in subverting his rights--rights hundreds of thousands of people have fought and died to save.

Remember this as you move forward. I have had doubts about the official story for twenty years. It has never occurred to me that if Oswald was not guilty--and he was never found to be so in a court of law, therefore legally he is not--then he is innocent.

Alleged shooters. Not convicted.

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Tbh up the Canadians. Let’s fucking go.

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"But states should handle education; we don't need the federal government in our business!"

Friend, I am from the SOUTH. I don't trust states to run education for dang good reason.

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my dear friend just looked up from the hat she's crocheting for a very large spherical rock we found in the river and said, in a slightly haunted tone that revealed this was the first time she was having this thought, "i should make something for my cousin's real human baby"

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girl if you have to go to a subreddit for advice about your boyfriend he is not the one

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mohantos 💟⭐️

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During one semester of PE in high school I got put in a section called Team Sports. This was significantly better than a regular unit because the athletic kids were able to play and I largely got to sit and watch.

Months were devoted to what they called Pickle Ball but I’ve since learned was basically ping pong with larger than average paddles. The paddles had been through the absolute wringer, all padding had been rubbed and torn off by a relentless stream of bored adolescents like myself.

This presented me with a unique opportunity. I had a pencil, nominally used to keep score. I had a blank wooden panel. And I had large stretches of time sitting on the sidelines.

Every day I’d pick a blank paddle. I’d doodle little animals, bizarre monstrosities, and a bunch that were just a huge eye in the middle with the words “Big Brother is Watching”. What can I say; I was reading 1984 at the time.

When we finally finished with the paddles and moved on to badminton I completely forgot my dozens of illustrations.

It wasn’t until several years later that it got brought up again. I was hanging out with a friend and their younger sibling. We were listening to them lament their high school experience of the day. “But I won the Pegasus paddle, so that was cool.”

“Wait- what?”

“Yeah, most of them are just Big Brother, so they’re not exciting, but there’s only one Pegasus so we fight over it. Last week I had an elephant I really liked though.”

“You guys fight over the paddles with art on them…?”

“Yeah!”

My friend turned to me and asked, “Didn’t you make all those drawings?”

Their sibling lit up, “You made them?!”

I sat in silence as the complexity of the world and the waves we leave behind as we move through it washed over me. I contemplated how intertwined I was with the rest of existence to create such a beautiful moment.

I had made art on a whim out of boredom and it had an effect on someone else’s day, someone who through random happenstance years later was telling me about it all unknowing.

Their sibling was delighted when I drew them another pegasus on the spot and announced that they’d be the talk of PE now that they’d uncovered the mystery artist.

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Woke up very high as expected, after the panic-correcting last night/this morning, but I DID wake up, which was the goal of, frankly, entirely too much shitty junk food.

And now, after my "morning" dose of insulin, a very sweaty bike workout, and a lot more water than I normally drink upon first waking up, my numbers are heading down.

Pls send "fucking normal-ass blood glucose" vibes my way? My brain and body could use them.

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@ the readfems making the “a cis boy who is medium at sports could just transition and become a star on the women’s team and get accolades and scholarships” argument:

Okay. Then you do it. Men have all those societal advantages. All the power. The system is built for men. You talk about this all the time. So why don’t you just become one? You want to get those promotions, that respect at the car dealership, you want to walk home at night and look over your shoulder less often. All it’ll take is, you know, a few years on testosterone. Changing your name. Reminding your friends and family to use the new name and pronouns because this won’t work if everyone knows you’re just pretending.

Or does the idea of doing all of that for the hope of a leg up in one or two specific areas seem, you know, fucking ridiculous?

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Downloaded your game and another like it and was horrified to see the other game had shit like watching ads to boost production and boosters and time skips. I uninstalled and it made me realize you're the goat

i'm honestly so glad it's been my hope that i've helped denormalize abusive monetization in web and mobile games at least a little bit

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I just really appreciated this and wanted to share

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I think any marriage needs its running jokes, ones that you can repeat with variations, or make callbacks too.

One of my favorite bits is describing the romcoms I watch to my wife as though I have never heard of a narrative in my life.

"She runs a small plane company, and he's from a major airline trying to shut her down, so it's really anyone's guess what's going to happen."

"Get this, he's a stuffy office dork and she's a free spirit, and they end up stuck in the same cabin on a cruise. Sounds like a disaster, right?"

"They've decided to pair up and be each other's plus one at a series of weddings to feel less pathetic, but it's not like they like each other or anything."

So I told my wife that I hoped she would still enjoy me doing this bit forty years from now, and she smiled and held my hand and said that she'd never liked it, not even the first time.