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Breast milk is just filtered blood so presumably vampires could survive by sucking tiddies, in this essay I will

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When a trans woman is critiquing (e.g.) drag or Rocky Horror and somebody responds with some variation on "But it's so important to the queer community!", it's the weakest possible rebuttal.

Something can be a historic and cultural touchstone to people and also have serious issues at the same time. Viewing them as beyond reproach is a pretty conservative attitude.

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Internet User: Your chatbot isn't sentient and relying on it for information is a bad idea, you are being scammed by a techbro grift.

AI Stan: Um machine learning is used for lots of cool purposes? Don't you know machine learning is really good for protein folding??

Internet User: Language models are distinct from the useful scientific applications of machine learning shut the fuck up

A secret third faction: How dare you say there are useful applications of machine learning? Have you not considered that big tech is evil?

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what annoys me about explaining evolution to people who don’t think it’s real is that everyone’s idea of how it works seems to be from this

Whereas the reality is far more like

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Dame Archer kicks McDougal’s Scots ass there in the rain at the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire - August 11, 2018 - Photo by Douglas Herring

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When I (M29) was a young boy (M7) my father (M35) took me into the city (X167) to see a marching band (M23, M21, M22, F22, M24, M25, F21, M

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grand wizard and his young apprentice

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going from 2 monitors to 1 is so weird i have like a fantom monitor in my brain thats just always blank in real life. its like i lost brain capacity, the connections and insticts to utilize and look at the other monitor for tasks is all still there in my mind but the actual monitor itself isn't. transhumanist-phantom-limb-syndrome or something

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United Healthcare getting sued by its investors, because it didn't warn them that the CEO getting murdered (by the tendrils of their unmitigated greed) was going to lead to them approving more claims (for covered services that they had no right to deny) is a cartoonish example of exactly why their CEO got murdered.

Their argument is essentially "You promised us a specific profit margin that is not possible to achieve under this increased public scrutiny of your unethical practices. We only agreed to invest because of those unethical practices. So we demand compensation because you didn't warn us that you'd be behaving more ethically"

And idk. Satire isn't just dead. We've pissed on its corpse and now it's dissolving in lye.

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i am as white as a white american can get and the thought of using the white color emojis sickens me to the bone. bitch if you dont make me simpsons yellow

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I join the Discord server

I mute the Discord server

I'm never seen again in the Discord server

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It's impressive how Neil Gaiman vanished from the internet. Wish Rowling would do the same.

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i just think itd be funny if kittypets were a little more familiar to twoleg things such as: cars and bad words

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I will never stop being angry at the murder of analog systems.

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Wizards (1977)

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i hate people who know highways. “i’m heading south on I-65” okay man. i’m moving my rook to c2

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“Why are so many trans girls into werewolves and robots and slime and monsters?”

Because society views us as monsters. And when you’re viewed that way you have two options.

The first, you can break yourself. You can take a knife and carve off all the corners, take sandpaper and smooth all your rough edges, you can take everything remotely variant about you and you can try and obliterate it in order to make yourself acceptable to people who do not know you and never will.

The second option is that you can say “okay, if I’m a monster I’m going to enjoy being a monster. I’m going to take those rough edges and rough them up some more. I’m going to take all my sharp corners and make them knife edged. I’m going to embrace how weird and broken and fucked up I am and I’m going to make it a part of me. I’m going to love, fight, live, and die as a freak, but I’m going to do it on my terms and no one else’s”

I’m never going to be cis. I’m never going to be straight. In fact I’d rather die than be either of those. So I’m going to take what I am and make it my power instead of my shame.