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''i wasted those years'' who cares. you lived the only life you could've lived in those moments

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Benson Boone sounds like the name of a guy in a folk song who gets gunned down for adultery and thrown in a river

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i think community radio should be the only kind of radio that's allowed. dj this morning was back announcing the songs he'd just played and said "and then we had mykonos by fleet foxes, one of hunter biden's crack smoking songs" and then went on a 7 minute tangent about how good a hunter biden podcast would be. you just aren't getting that on commercial radio

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mē, tangō leviter Miētte cum latus pedīs meī: Miētta, dēmovēre ut nōn incurrere in tē

Miētte, cum oculōs ēius magnōs: tū CALITRĀS Miētte? tū calitrās corpus ēius sīcut follis? ēheu! ēheu! carcer prō Mātre! carcer prō Mātre prō Singula Mīlla Annōs!!!!

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obsessed with cats that bark

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the tragedy of distance is simple I want to sit on the couch with you and do nothing sometimes

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Kinda wish I wasn't feeling more and more vindicated every day about calling it from the start that treating the AI issue like a moral crusade where you have like a moral obligation to prioritize signalling and reaffirming your hatred of generative AI at any possible chance would lead to a lot of ostensibly "progressive" people uncritically parroting extremely reactionary rhetoric.

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No tech CEO or NYT bestselling novelist will ever match the creativity of a humble French postman who decided on a whim to spend thirty-three years building a surreal, majestic palace with the bricks and mortar of his dreams.

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late summer / early fall thoughts

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Anti public defender sentiment NOW of all times has GOT to be a psyop and I’m not being hyperbolic

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At the 9/11 memorial. Two pools of water, longing to osmosis together, separated by a capitalistic force using them as tourist attractions. This too is yuri.

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thinking about the ethics of prophecy and its role as a narrative tool of coercion and control again

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Whenever I see decent religious folks dunking on the cruelty, hypocrisy and/or literal bad faith of their shitty brethren by pointing out, say, that X political belief is not actually supported by the Bible, or that Islam is more progressive than Christianity on Y issue, it provokes roughly the same emotion in me as when the Menswear Guy reads some alt-right bro to filth for his poor tailoring choices, ie: I appreciate the optics of a terrible person being dressed down by someone well-versed in the rules of their shared field, but this doesn't change the fact that both field and rules are, from my perspective, a bunch of made-up bullshit that we'd be better off without. Like, I understand the depth of history and cultural heritage being invoked, I know why people care, but it's ultimately like watching someone win at Calvinball. Left to my own devices, I no more care what a given religious text has to say about morality than I do about how many buttons a random man has on his suit jacket. But I'm forced to know about these things because other people not only care about them, but frequently behave like the most reprehensible motherfuckers on the face of planet Earth as a direct result. So when someone takes them to task in a way they might vaguely comprehend, using their own weapons against them, I applaud both effort and sentiment. But goddamn, I very much do resent being made to take these made-up shibboleths seriously.

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Just saw an absolutely dreadful post about how "rejecting religion" is racist because ~faith can't be separated from culture~ and it is taking all my goddamn willpower to not go into conniptions in the notes

Suffice to say, yes, religion is an inseparable part of cultures the world over. Hinduism is part of what makes virtually every culture on the subcontinent, Judaism defines the traditions of multiple cultural groups, and just try and imagine Italian or Arabian culture sans Catholicism or Islam.

But the same is true of misogyny. The same is true of nationalism. The same is true of tendencies toward child abuse.

You think you can easily extricate misogyny from, oh, any culture in the fucking world? You think you can fight sexism without breaking down millennia-old traditions pertaining to clothing, relationships, and cultural norms? You can't. Combatting misogyny (or homophobia, or transphobia, or frankly any embedded bigotry) requires a massive cultural shift.

So... is feminism racist? Is it insensitive to fight nationalism? Are you disrespecting hallowed traditions by standing up for childrens' rights?

Or are you going to finally accept that it's okay to battle the parts of a culture that are harmful? Spirituality doesn't get a pass. Cultural shifts away from religion does not destroy cultures, it simply changes them. And, generally, for the better.

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I am going to personally bring back New Atheism out of sheer fucking spite at every asshole who's still whining about how it's okay to hate atheists because some of them are mean online

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The thing is. Cultural Christianity is a real problem but 9 out of 10 times someone brings it up in this website it's to complain about gays who don't believe in astrology or some shit like that.

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but why 😅😅🐈