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It turns out that actually standing by "men and women are not inherently very different" is a reliable way to bother absolutely everyone. Left or right, cis or trans, feminist or misogynist, all cling to the binary for dear life.

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the self-indulgent fanfiction will continue until morale improves

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I AM TRANSFERRING FLAVOR DIRECTLY INTO YOUR TASTEBUDS. DO NOT BE AFRAID.

LEMON

BLOOD

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BLOOD

VINEGAR

LEMON

BLOOD

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The Incest Diary, Anonymous.

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"could you win a fight with your doppelganger" and "would you fuck your clone" questions are fun but honestly they don't reveal nearly as much as my favourite question: could you manipulate them?

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sorry can you repeat that. i was busy trying to make eye contact and act normal and didn't hear you

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i show a neanderthal a doom metal album and they understand implicitly. they pick up a bass guitar and start to play it instinctually

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“annihilate yourself” from the tallahassee microsite

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She drinks red bull I drink monster she's cheer captain and i am a lobster

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Just a train ride~

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Oh I love it when an actor can’t dance for shit and they have to frame the shots around it

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I don't like the ways in which poetry is combinatorial, in arbitrary ways. Like there's some finite number of ways to say a particular thing, and you need a pair of those things which rhyme, and so it's just sort of a numerical fact whether that pair exists. And not only isn't a numerical fact, it's an arbitrary one, about which synonym happen to exist in our language

obviously this isn't most of it but it's PART of it, on some subconscious level your brain must be iterating through dozens of words trying to find one that works. Parts of it feel like a job for a computer, in a way that prose isn't (which is more about translating your meaning, rather than your form). Like you can imagine an LLM hooked up to a database of words with carefully labeled phonetic and semantic information. And it coulntwrite your poem for you (I mean, it could write a poem, but it wouldn't be the poem you wanted to write) but it could automate like half the process, it could present you a finite list of all the options thst exist in English. Not that this would be a good thing, it's just definitely possible. Which I feel like means something about the art

Visual art isnt like this. The state space is too large, the output space too unrestricted. It wouldn't be possible even in the Sci fi future to show you "all the options for what you want" at each areo

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projection

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when i was 11, i got kicked out from my local pool because i threw a plastic chair in the water. i was frustrated and considered a low-risk thing to throw in, basically, since i thought it was just plastic and wouldn't get damaged or leave residue in the water. mom read me the email she got from the center, where they worried that i was going to throw a baby in the pool, or a computer. id gone outside the acceptable window of behavior, and suddenly everything was equivalently threatening and condemnable. i was now a kid who'd proven myself capable of anything. this is a weird thing ive noticed, you just can't compare harms beyond a certain point, you're not allowed, it's all the same. maybe i shouldn't have thrown a chair in the pool, but it was very different from throwing in a baby.