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Watching the new tasting history and very charmed by the fact that the whole Michelin Star system apparently started out as, like, a galaxy-brain marketing campaign for the concept of road trips.

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I will always advocate for every queer person's right to be a fully autonomous sexual being-and that always must and always will include asexuals. Recognizing the significance of queer sex should not mean that every queer person should be mandated to meet an arbitrary sexual prerequisite in order for their queerness to be affirmed. Centering queerness around sex leaves very little room for queer folks for whom sex is insignificant, or for whom sex is never or rarely possible, or for queer folks who have never had sex before, or for queer folks whose only sexual experiences have been violent. It also leaves a lot of queer people, especially young ones, feeling pressured to have a certain amount or certain type of sex in order to legitimate or prove their queerness to themselves or to someone else.

-Sherronda J. Brown, Refusing compulsory sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

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there are some internet friends where eventually you start calling them by their real name and then there’s times where its like nah son your name is crispy forever

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m1=72.9 m2=119.6 m3=123.7 (solar masses) v1x=4.023 v1y=6.578 v2x=1.313 v2y=5.515 v3x=3.863 v3y=1.92 (km/s) x1=-20.0 y1=18.0 x2=-30.0 y2=-8.0 x3=18.0 y3=12.0 (AU from center) Music: Moonlight Sonata (1st Mvmt) – Beethoven

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@thebibliosphere I had to repost this for both of us because OOF

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i love six o clock because the clock looks so stupid. "|" like get real

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I must not mock Gen Alpha. Mocking Gen Alpha is the mind killer. Mocking Gen Alpha is the little-death that brings total generational solidarity obliteration. I will engage with Gen Alpha lovingly. I will permit them to be cringe. And when they grow up I will turn my eye to their accomplishments. Where mocking has gone there will be nothing. Only generational solidarity remains

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Not to be a Boomer but your social media should be your own space, not something employers are allowed to look at to judge you beyond the qualifications stated in your resume and cover letter

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okay everyone this is what REAL allyship looks like

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So this is a fun debate. Because Taylor is not very motivated by herself. She avoids getting revenge on her bullies even though she knows she could, she gets piles of cash and spends it on other people while living in a warehouse, she's horny AF but doesn't let it control her...she doesn't fit the traditional conception of a sinner as Christianity would define it. But:

Taylor wants a better world

Taylor thinks that a better world is possible if everyone else would listen to her

Taylor will straight-up kill people for getting in the way of her better world

That's desire, pride, and wrath. So it comes down to how much you weigh each of those. Personally, I say Pride. Saving Dinah, joining the Wards, going to Amy for emergency brain surgery, her feuds with Wards leadership? Those are all spots where Taylor said "I am what matters here". Dinah was Taylor putting her personal moral standards above other peoples' lives, joining the Wards and going to Amy were both Taylor solving problems herself without trusting her team/friends, fighting the govt bosses who tried to control her was about her knowing better than their decades of experience and established systems how to help people.

And it's for obvious reasons. Taylor knows, knows on a fundamental level, that no one in authority will ever solve a problem. She learned that before ever putting on a costume. She may not think highly of herself(which is what Pride traditionally means), but she knows what she's capable of and assumes the rest of the world is going to be a hinderance to accomplishing her goals. And her goals are obviously the only ones that matter, right?

Pride.

(This poll has a second part)

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i learned about Tim Wong who successfully and singlehandedly repopulated the rare California Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In the past few years, he’s cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (their only food source) and gives thousands of caterpillars to his local Botanical Garden (x)

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I love this

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"Pluto isn't a planet" Fine.

"Dinosaurs had feathers" Fine!

"Neptune isn't a beautiful oceanic blue, it's actually the same washed-out disappointing color as Uranus" I will kill you with my bare hands

Look how they massacred my boy

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I started out making a White “quirky removal” deck inspired by Bovine Intervention, which destroys a creature or artifact, and replaces it with a 2/2 ox.

Somehow, that evolved into a cow theme deck that doesn’t include Bovine Intervention (because it’s terrible).

I defend the equipment being included because of Bruse Tarl. Man is a warrior rancher, after all. He’d arm / armor himself and his cows.

This deck could probably be made better by reducing the more expensive cards to 3 apiece, and adding in 3 removal cards, but I’m not playing this deck to win every time.

I’m playing this so people will think “is that a cow deck?”

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Honestly thought I'd never hear the word "usborne" again. My mom used to live and breathe that company, and while I certainly don't regret a fair chunk, I do find it amusing as I look back now. I legitimately thought it had fallen off faster than Juice+.

In reference to a post where i mention my kid has the usborne “see inside germs” book.

So if people don’t know, usborne is a weird publishing company that has done indispensable books for British children for generations; they’re in every library, school and nursery, and have shelves devoted to them in every bookstore. They are how many people learned to read, and are the originators of many hyper focuses. They’re famed for doing educational lift the flap books for all ages, like “see inside your body”, as well as as the ubiquitous touch-and-feel series, “that’s not my….” In which a mouse comments improbably on various creatures not being their creature. “That’s not my dragon,” the mouse says, inviting you to stroke a dragon with a patch of fur on it, “its tummy is too soft. That’s not my dragon,” on the next page, where the dragon’s ears are lined with textured paper, “its ears are too bumpy.” This seems like such an inefficient way to find one’s missing dragon, a fact that simmers underneath you through endless repetition. Why does the mouse own so many things (pirates, ducks, polar bears) and why is it interrogating other people’s pirates etc by feeling their legs.

At any rate, turn a parents’ house upside down and these books fall out.

Which is why it’s completely hilarious that they are also an MLM.

Well. Kind of. In the old school sense. It’s less about signing up a pyramid scheme and more about getting a random citizen to buy a crate of perfectly popular books and try to sell them on from their home. It’s very traditional for Mums On Maternity Leave to do this. Pre-social media and online ordering, they’d hook up other mums at toddler group. Today, they post awkwardly on social media. The idea is that buying from another parent is cheaper than the bookstore, and they get to keep the markup. They get intense about things, and I believe they attend conferences. Nobody makes a huge amount of money and it’s unclear how undercutting local bookstores is helpful; it’s also basically the same RRP as Amazon I think.

And the books are perfectly respectable and sell perfectly well in bookstores.

So. Like. This marketing scheme is completely weird. Why?? Why does it still exist? People buy the books normally! You don’t need to promote them aggressively! You don’t need elaborate independent local middlemen schemes! You can just buy them! I have never understood this. I just file it under one of those weird mat leave hustles.

But don’t worry OP. They’re still going. They’ll never stop. The thing is that your mom got bored and online sales probably ate whatever residual profit margins were left and it’s probably very liberating for everyone to grow out of the “that’s not my cow” stage, but Usborne books are going strong.