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Has it already been proposed that Hatsune Miku is essentially the digital age successor to the cultural niche originally established by Betty Boop, did I see that somewhere or is it a weird thing my autism told me

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"It's all in your head." - Thank you Janette, that's why it's called mental illness. It cannot be in my ass.

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You know that Chris Fleming line that goes "Call yourself a community organizer even though you're not on speaking terms with your roommates"?

I honestly think every leftist who talks about the "revolution" like Christians talk about the rapture needs to spend a year trying to organize their workplace. Anyone who sincerely talks about building a movement so vast and all-encompassing that it overwhelms all existing power structures needs the dose of humility that comes with realizing they can't even build a movement to get people paid better at a badly run AMC Theaters where everyone already hates the manager.

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This is what causes inflation, in case you're wondering.

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I don't know which transfem needs to hear this but:

Thinness isn't sexiness.

Youth isn't sexiness.

Whiteness isn't sexiness.

Hairlessness isn't sexiness.

Society chooses what features of bodies get to be sexy and which ones don't. We don't have to follow those rules! Society used to think fatness was sexy once upon a time.

Please don't build your self-worth around what a patriarchal, heteronormative, white supremacist society thinks is beautiful. Love yourself, love your community because society at large wasn't looking out for you in the first place. Who gives a single, solitary fuck what they think.

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Nothing like inhaling massive amounts of plant semen all summer

*grabs you by the shoulders* listen don’t get it twisted you CANNOT get it twisted. those are plant penises, NOT the sperm. once the pollen lands on the female structure in question, THEN it germinates and makes the sperm. do you know how many college biology students are threatened by this misinformation each year?? how many fall victim to the classic blunder??

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oh are we playing with the cute little tinker toy today?

lets play a game called “snip!” its where i blindly pick a wire at random in your chassis, take my little clippers, and go snip! and we see what happens!

here i go!

snip!

Asdhhfkdhfjskhfjdjd hh-hh-hhey! 😳😵‍💫

*Arm goes limp.* I.. I... 😳😖

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REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ARE TRANS RIGHTS. ABORTION RIGHTS ARE TRANS RIGHTS. THESE ARE NOT SEPARATE ISSUES. PLEASE IM BEGGING CIS WOMEN TO THINK ABOUT TRANS PEOPLE FOR LONGER THAN FIVE SECONDS

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As an ADHD person who has to type fast and sloppy*, one of my eternal pet peeves is when there's a short word I want to use, but I have to use the long one instead, ESPECIALLY when it's just to be more clear.

This especially happens with "dominants" and "megabytes", though it fits a little with "booleans"

* like I make love

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Not telling your kid they have a learning disability, chronic illness, mental illness etc. so they can “feel normal” actually does the opposite. They will not feel normal if they do not have the context to understand that their normal will be different from that of their peers.

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Finding other trans people attractive is a crucial part of reducing one's own struggles with dysphoria, I am not joking about this. Obviously it is not ever a bad thing to want physical changes to help get where you want in your transition, but, once you start to realise people built like you now can be beautiful or handsome or even enviable for what are usually considered transgender traits, it can go a long way towards helping you feel like those traits aren't so bad to have after all...

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Shrinkflation

So, I found out a fun fact this last weekend!

Every state has a Department of Weights and Measures. One of their jobs is to make sure that companies are actually selling you the quantities they claim they're selling. For example, this is the department which tests gas pumps and makes sure they're really pumping out a gallon of gas when they charge you for a gallon of gas.

So....

If you happen to, just as an example, notice that your 1lb (16 ounce) box of San Giorgio spaghetti actually only has 10oz of noodles, and you weigh your other boxes of spaghetti to discover they run from 10 to 14 ounces but never the full pound they're supposed to have, and that's why you never seem to have enough pasta for leftovers the next day, then you can report that to the Department of Weights and Measures.

They will want to know where you bought the item, and then will investigate whether the store or the manufacturer is routinely shorting customers. If they do, they will issue a fine to the offending party, you will be eligible for a refund, and under some circumstances lawsuits may follow.

Now, I don't know the outcome of the complaint I just initiated, but they did not want to know specific receipts or times of purchase. Which is good for me as I didn't keep any of those things, at the time I just said "Wow, fuck San Giorgio" and switched brands. But this is still enough to get an inspector out.

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artist tips

don’t save as jpeg

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The three macronutrients are protein, fat, and carbs and so many diets try to cut out or reduce one of these things to help you lose weight and I’ve kinda fallen for that rhetoric a bit myself unfortunately.

Lately though I’ve tried to make sure I’ve got all three in everything I eat. I mean everything. Including little snacks and desserts. And? I’m eating less and still feeling full? Weird how not depriving yourself of a thing you need works better than trying to get rid of carbs or fat.

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"why is EVERY song about love" I'm begging you to dig just a tiny bit deeper, there's literally thousands of songs that aren't love songs. You don't even have to look for the most obscure underground artists ever, the fucking Beatles of all people have a song about a guy who kills people with a hammer

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doomsday preppers always keeping rusty tins of food in their basement but never building springhouses and smokehouses and paddocks for future livestock 🤨 those canned peaches are only going to bring you so far babe