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i like socializing with other queer people but man there is nothing quite like having a married straight guy as a friend

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Reblog if you 100% okay with a transgender person correcting you if you accidentally misgender them or use their dead name.

please do

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Once again randomly remembered this story about a couple who had a small parrot - pretty sure it was a budgie - who didn't talk but learned to communicate with people in its own way. Once it figured out that people always turn to check their phones when the notification sound comes on, it started making the text message notification sound to request human attention. The parrot also liked to follow people to the door whenever guests were leaving, and would use its wings to pantomime the motions of a person putting their coat on. A very clever, charming bird.

And every once in a while it just randomly hated some people. Not for any real reason, or even reason to suspect bad vibes, but by deciding "fuck this person in particular" for shits and giggles alone. And one time when the owners had invited a new friend to their home, the bird decided that it Did Not Like Her.

So in the middle of polite conversation, the bird - who was free to roam around the apartment at the time - hopped onto the living room coffee table, right in front of the unwanted guest. And in that moment, the owners put two and two together and understood that whatever mischief the bird had decided to do, it was now too late to stop it.

But instead of unleashing the absolute hell that even the tiniest displeased parrot could be capable of, the little budgie made its little "may I have your attention please" cell phone notification sound, and once the guest was focused on the bird, looked at her dead in the eye while doing the putting-my-coat-on wing motion.

The guest did not recognise the pantomime for what it was, but she was nonetheless delighted that the parrot would do a little wing-roll dance for her. And the host couple were at first too stunned and then too polite to tell her how impressive that gesture truly was. Their bird had shown both remarkable restraint and cleverness by using its entire vocabulary of human communication just to say

"I have an important announcement: I think you should leave."

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Right, considering the current state of corporate politics on this site, and that it seems that only those affected seem to be actively speaking on the matter, it is up to I, the only fucking cishet on tumblr, to drag this out to a wider audience.

REBLOG IF YOUR ACCOUNT IS A TRANSFEM SAFE SPACE.

We need to show these higher ups how much we truly value them.

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one thing about me is I love brutalism. I love concrete. I love not living in a house with cardboard walls and I love looking at a building and thinking this imposing boy would survive a nuclear war

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VEGETA

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hot take: 

Gloin is the sexiest dwarf by dwarf standards.

Kili is the sexiest dwarf by elf standards.

Thorin is the sexiest dwarf by human standards

& Bombur is the sexiest dwarf by hobbit standards

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It REALLY is fucking funny how there is genuinely a distinct third faction in AI discourse on this site that is not "Pro-AI" but "The anti-AI crowd is talking about divine sparks of creativity and shit and I'm not about that"

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im trying to go to sleep but i cannotttttt stop thinking about this and laughing

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I figured it would be a good idea to point people towards resources that actually make art more accessible.

Heromachine 3

vector art based. browser based.

Fabrica de Herois

vector art based. desktop based. (MOBILE VERSION IS MUCH MORE LIMITED, IGNORE IT)

Microheroes International Board

modular pixel art community. this is a forum, searching for microheroes should help you find additional resources for this one.

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I don't always agree with the decisions of Wikipedia's volunteer editors, but having learned that their decision on how to handle the James Somerton situation was to deem him non-notable and turn his article into a redirect to a brief writeup of Hbomberguy's plagiarism investigation – well, like I said, this may not be a good decision, but in context it's an extremely funny one.

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We should take everyone who clamors for "order" and "respecting authority", shave them bald, write "egg" on their shiny heads in great big letters, and chase them through the streets with air horns and whoopee cushions. Give them no dignity, give them no respect, give them no peace.

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Hey this isn't my usual thing, but

This is (ordinarily) a Hollow Knight youtuber I like; I get that y'all probably give negative shits about Some Guy From Youtube but you presumably give a shit about copyright trolling and labor rights, so, to contextualize: They made a video concerning the treatment of contract workers by Valnet inc., the parent company of known dogshit SEO Mills ScreenRant and GameRant, among numerous others. Valnet are the subject of numerous individual suits, as well as a Class Action complaint in California for misclassification of workers- a practice which would allow them to avoid compliance with labor regulations

Their reward for this piece of investigation was having the video removed due to a transparently specious copyright claim, in the usual "YouTube simply cannot guzzle enough corpo smeg" manner They have made the understandable decision not to reupload the video, since three copyright strikes = a deactivated channel, a nearly irretrievable loss

Therefore, I am sharing this little incident because if there's one thing I love, it's the Streisand Effect nailing shitbirds to the wall as much as possible because they just can't fucking help themselves when it comes to abusing labor and/or power

Therefore reblogs are appreciated

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what if during their life changing field trip toph and zuko picked up a new chill hobby

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Oh.

To call WT's actions "antics" would be reducing the severity of what they're doing to creators. This is unacceptable behavior and it should be all the more reason for creators to start exploring other career paths outside of WT. For years they've been meticulously crafting an environment where people believe that WT is the only path to success, where WT controls the degree of success creators can achieve, from the manipulation of the promotional system to the lack of tagging and proper search functions on the app. Now that they've boiled the frog to this point, they're cashing out by flooding the platform with cheap imports, implementing AI tools, and of course, trying to use their contracts as a way to trap creators and keep them from owning their own IP's and maximizing on their own success.

I said it before and I'll say it again - Webtoons is planning to go public with their IPO this summer, so it would be a real shame if creators spoke up about the underhanded tactics used by WT to keep them from finding success in their own works. At the very least, it should serve as a reminder to all of us that companies like these can't amass billions without exploiting people along the way.

We can't even use "they're creating jobs for comic creators" as a reason to want to see WT succeed in spite of their flaws anymore because they're literally ruining people's careers, cutting them off before they've even started. That's not the platform being "flawed", that's the platform and the system it's built on being broken, full stop.