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Just a thought, but I think that something that often gets overlooked in the romance vs friendship/QPR debate is how those things are just as socially constructed as gender, and do not, in fact, fall into a strict binary, or even trinary system. Relationships between people are fluid, negotiated things, and terms like partner, boyfriend, girlfriend, wife, husband, friend, etc, mean different things to different people, cultures and eras.
Whether two or more people decide to make their specific type of relationship exclusive, or committed or intimate; whether they’re attracted to each other, or decide to have sex, or live together, or cuddle; whether they do all, or none, or some of those things, they should be allowed to label it how they please. QPR, bromance, FWB, open relationship, polycule, etc. Sure, those terms carry connotations and assumptions, but hailing them as absolutes without any gray areas shows a lack of understanding for human behaviour, and creates unnecessary stigma and difficulties for people who are poly, ace, or aro, as well as anyone whose hierarchy of relationships is just different from the expected norm.
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real vs fake gym bros, the real ones want you to get better
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somewhere out there right now is a kid with curly hair being raised by people who have wavy hair at best and those people are giving them 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner and telling them to dry brush it. and that kid is gonna spend all of middle school and high school hating their hair and moping over the flat iron. they're being told right now that if they don't dry-brush their curl pattern into oblivion every morning it means they're unkempt and gross even though they naturally have the kind of ringlets that a thousand bridezillas would commit horrible murders for every june. it's happening right now it's an absolute epidemic and a tragedy every time
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Australia is likely implementing a ban on social media for children under 16 years. It will be by ID that they’ll track underaged users. This is a massive privacy violation and could result in people being put in unsafe situations.
This is the Australian KOSA.
Share and raise awareness please.

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Ok but what is up with clocks in the city watch series. Men at arms is 90% about clocks 7% about the mystery and 3% about me wondering if straight people are okay. The disorganizer in jingo. Obviously the time travel in night watch but also specifically old tom's silences ringing to start it off. Six o'clock in thud. Did terry just go "they're the watch let's make this whole thing clock themed"???
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what breed of dog would your rogue trader be?
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rest in pieces emperor’s children you would have loved disposable vapes
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A good rule of thumb for AI is "would you trust a trained pigeon to do this?"
"We trained a pigeon to recognise cancerous cell clusters and somehow they're really good at it" okay great, that's something that could plausibly be a thing.
"We trained a pigeon to recognise good CV:s and left it in charge of sorting through all our job applications" uh perhaps consider not doing that.
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hello my friends , long time no see .
Now we have two cute puppies.

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i think love is stored in nighttime conversations and “did you eat yet” and books left outside your door and “i waited to watch this with you” and splitting something in half to share and “im proud of you” and folded towels and “you can pick” and heads on shoulders and “you’re right, that was shitty. im sorry” and knocks on doors and “DINNER!” and stupid jokes and “hey i got this for you” and coffee made just right and… there are so many ways people say i love you silently every day over and over again if you only listen
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can u imagine if other pieces of media were as scared of calling their monsters what they are as zombie media is about calling zombies zombies
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when they had their forging competition, ferrus called fulgrim's hands 'pasty'. i also like to think that he said something about how fulgrim is dainty and he could probably lift him with one hand and fulgrim giggled like an idiot
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your opinion on does kidzbop count as censorship?
you know, this has been sitting in my inbox for nearly 4 years and I still don't have an answer
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