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[Image description: A series of posts from Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@octodon.social dated Dec 08, 2022, 04:33, reading:

It's good that our finest minds have focused on automating writing and making art, two things human beings do simply because it brings them joy. Meanwhile tens of thousands of people risk their lives every day breaking down ships, a task that nobody is in a particular hurry to automate because those lives are considered cheap https://www.dw.com/en/shipbreaking-recycling-a-ship-is-always-dangerous/a-18155491 (Headline: 'Recycling a ship is always dangerous.' on Deutsche Welle) A world where computers write and make art while human beings break their backs cleaning up toxic messes is the exact opposite of the world I thought I was signing up for when I got into programming

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Gender is a performance and I'm a dancing frog in a top hat that keeps getting dragged off stage by a big hook.

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I love how all of the Batman villains are like “ah he’s not at the manor, it’s defenseless! and then alfred just racks an AK-47 and is like pull up bitch

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Hey everyone. There's another app on the Google playstore. Pretty sure it's not official and it's making money from in-app ads.

I think the AO3's latest post about apps is here:

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So it’s 2020 can we talk about how Avatar portrays femininity as well as just gender in general?  You have Katara, Toph, Suki, and like 800 other amazing female characters who are out here being warriors and making a point that women can be incredible fighters too, and there’s an episode that addresses this explicitly where Katara duels Pakku and basically explodes his reductive view of women (best scene in the whole thing is when everyone carts her in to apologize to him.) And there’s a lot about women being encouraged to take part in traditionally masculine spaces, particularly again with Toph and Katara. Katara is great too because the show doesn’t draw a dichotomy between a fighter and a healer. Katara can be gentle and motherly and a good shoulder to cry on, while also being a hundred percent badass. 

But then also the show is really good (albeit a bit subtler) about the value in men embracing traditionally feminine traits and activities.  Our main character is pacifist vegetarian soft-boi who wears flower crowns and makes jewelry and spends a lot of time talking about his feelings and he is by and far the most morally sound character in the series who is completely at ease with who he is. 

Then you have Sokka who a lot of people have pointed out has an arc that’s basically “chug respect women juice,” and part of that arc includes him wearing the Kiyoshi uniform, something he feels emasculates him, (and which the show makes a joke about tbf) but then they turn it around and make the ensemble genuinely badass. 

And then sweet Zuko who is absolutely someone who is portrayed as caring and sensitive in his childhood (by no small part due to his mother’s influence) who is raised in probably the most toxically masculine environment in the show. The Fire Nation might have women in its ranks, but feminine traits like compassion, mercy, and basically any emotion that isn’t a desire for destruction are seen as disgraceful. It’s notable what gets Zuko banished is his refusal to fight his own father, and how that is labeled disrespectful. 

It’s also notable that the people and places that change Zuko are more feminine in nature. He works in a shop, cleaning and preparing tea. He meets two young women who drastically change his view on Earth Kingdom civilians. He spends time helping a family with children. And through all this he’s there with Iroh, a guy who enjoys music, culture, and natural beauty, who’s sensitive and dedicated to humble acts of kindness for others, and who Ozai dismisses as an embarassing failure. 

And the show ends with Zuko ditching all this toxicity and just being the guy he wants to be. He even hugs Aang at the end, something Season 1 Zuko would never do with anybody. Our boy hugs!

Like the show doesn’t just empower women by letting them fight, it also shows the power and value in emotional vulnerability and compassion that is usually only reserved for women. It empowers women to fight and kick ass while also deconstructing toxic masculinity. 

Tl:dr: Avatar says let women fight, and let men be emotionally open with each other and hug!

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despite what popular opinion may lead you to believe, some rocks actually do have scientifically-proven auras! Unfortunately, those rocks are uranium and the aura is cancer. 

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I just cried over this picture. I’m not just saying that

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“The folklore among knitters is that everything handmade should have at least one mistake so an evil sprit will not become trapped in the maze of perfect stitches. A missed increase or decrease, a crooked seam, a place where the tension is uneven - the mistake is a crack left open to let in the light. The evil sprit I want to usher out of my knitting and my life is at once a spirit of laziness and of over-achieving. It’s that little voice in my head that says, I won’t even try this because it doesn’t come naturally to me and I won’t be very good at it.”

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Kyoko Mori, ‘Yarn’

That last phrase especially - “I won’t even try this because it doesn’t come naturally to me and I won’t be very good at it.” It really is like some kind of all-encompassing evil spirit sometimes.

(via blancheparish)

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Okay plaguecore fandom. I need your help with something.

I have recently acquired this absolutely stunning bronze plague doctor statue.

The listing I got him from says he was made by Evgeniy Grobov, but searching that in google yields no useful results.

This hollow eyed sculpture of a man fallen to his knees, crying out in protest at the pain in the world, exactly captures the feeling that drew me into plaguecore to begin with. If anyone has any ideas about the little fellow please let me know.

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King David: *plays a regular, non-secret chord*

The Lord:

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you can replenish your health by…: drinking water, breathing fresh air, eating a wild strawberry…

you can restore your mana by…: listening to folk music, breathing fresh air applies to this one as well… taking a walk…

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Blacklist (US TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Raymond Reddington/You, Raymond Reddington/Reader Characters: Raymond Reddington, Dembe Zuma, Masculine Reader - Character, Original Non-Binary Character Additional Tags: One Shot, Reader-Insert, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Some Humor, Ambiguous Relationships, Morally Ambiguous Character Summary:

Caught in a long game & learning the rules as you go has worked well up until now. How do you stay in the game facing a veteran player whose allegiance is only to himself?

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Welp, learned something new after returning from a hiatus XD

Bon it might just be the weed i’m smoking but wtf is goncharov my dash is COVERED IN IT and i… My brain is breaking

LMAO it's basically a movie that a collection of people on here have (and are, currently) inventing out of thin air. The original meme was this:

it's originally from like a year ago, but it's seen a popularity resurgence in the past few weeks (I remember seeing a post from @calidotgov about it that got a fair amount of attention, thats around when people started talking about it again). So yesterday @beelzeebub made this fake poster:

which gave people a basic cast of characters to work with, so now we're all just making up lore for this imaginary movie. that's what I've gathered anyway

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First day for #daisugabigbang & they chose to sacrifice a virgin 😅

Did I choose a title at 3a this morning? You’re damn skippy I did because I forgot one initially 🤦🏻‍♂️

Due to many requests, squirrels are involved!

All 🔍 work credited to below:

Many thanks to @decieven The Magnificent ❤️

All 🎨 work credited to below:

Everlasting bows to The Great @ofumofu 🙇🏻‍♂️

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