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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

— Neil Gaiman

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unsung benefit i think a lot of ppl are sleeping on with using the public library is that i think its a great replacement for the dopamine hit some ppl get from online shopping. it kind of fills that niche of reserving something that you then get to anticipate the arrival of and enjoy when it arrives, but without like, the waste and the money.

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It’s impossible to overestimate the greed and stupidity of the average executive apparently.

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Do you believe in the divine?

depends on what you mean by the Divine. I’m a pantheist/panentheist meaning I believe that the universe and everything in it is divine or that the divine is present in everything. I believe the deities of most all religions and cultures exist in some form, but there is no anthropomorphic all powerful all knowing god. The biblical god is a god of war and volcanoes, not the all powerful creator of the universe. If the gods exist as noncorporeal (non-embodied) beings, they’re stuck here just like we are, while they have sovereignty over certain things, none of them can protect you from suffering, or grant or guarantee you spiritual fulfillment.

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If you want to follow me, go ahead, if you want to follow someone else, do it.

So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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“Capitalists don’t want market economies, where they have to compete with one another, eroding their margins and profits – they want a planned economy, like Amazon, where Party Secretary Bezos and his commissars tell merchants what they can sell and tell us what we must pay…”

— Cory Doctorow

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Since the r-slur is making a comeback (you know, the word that starts with R, has six letters, and ends in D), I'm gonna make a little PSA:

Yes, it's an ableist slur.

Terms like "asshat," "head-up-ass," "up their own ass," and "high on their own farts" exist. There's also words like crap, dogshit, half-assed, assclown, and chucklefuck. And on the less vulgar side, there are terms like ridiculous, nonsense, train wreck, pointless, insipid, self-absorbed, pretentious, annoying, boring, contemptible, vile, and disgusting.

Substituting words like restarted, poptarted, brain damaged, smoothbrain, etc. is still ableist, because either 1. you obviously still mean the r-word, or 2. you're still using disability as an insult.

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Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

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Bro! You are really smart! Your blog is really interesting to me. Keep up the good fight, man!

Thanks! It’s mostly a 🐦‍⬛ 🪺 of whatever I find interesting or have been thinking about/working on, so it’s nice to know anyone else finds it interesting.

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Jesus: explicitly tells his followers NOT to judge others.

Christians: Devote themselves to judging and condemning everyone else, especially the vulnerable and disenfranchised.

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The secret to adulting is this:

Learn how to reduce your resistance against the things you know you have to do.

You don’t have to like it or enjoy it. You just need to stop avoiding, delaying, or ignoring what you know to be in your best interest.

With repeated experience of the benefits, you will learn a new kind of appreciation for the practice we call “adulting.”

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The more I learn about the issues we’re dealing with today, the more obvious it becomes that basically everything is either caused or exacerbated by misogyny and/or bigotry. Whether it’s climate change, LGBTQIA rights or birth control, curing men of their idiotic, baseless hatred of women and fear of people with a lot of melanin in their skin would go a terrifyingly, unreasonably long way to addressing most societal problems.

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The problem isn’t people. The problem is corporations who act exclusively for short term profit and the benefit of their shareholders, and refuse to take responsibility for the effects of their actions on the planet, which are not so slowly fucking us over. The problem isn’t my carbon footprint. The problem is Coca Cola destroying the planet for slightly higher profits this quarter.