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Unconditionally accept nonbinary identities. I am no longer asking

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I recently got an on-campus job. During the interview process, I requested that I not be scheduled on Friday nights or Saturdays as I am a Jewish student.

My boss immeadiately brightened and rushed to explain - "Of course ! Of course! We want to accomodate you! We have another worker who takes off for Ramadan. Do you need to take off for Ramadan?"

I shook my head, incredibly confused. "Uh. That's. Not my jurisdiction. I'm good." Boss nodded but was sure to add "Let me know if that ever changes. We can help you with Ramadan."

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Emlenton, Pennsylvania, USA

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i was with my mother’s family and they were talking to me about my religious studies major. my great aunt asked me what the definition of hell was, and i responded “well i suppose it depends on who you ask.” and nearly all the protestants in the group decided that hell was “the absence of god” which i suppose is a fair answer, albeit not a universal one. my cousin’s wife was playing with her 3-year-old daughter and she says “well mommy says that hell is a mcdonald’s playplace” asdfghjhgfd

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Comic by Tom Gauld

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trans people will literally go “i have a complicated relationship with my history with gender and sometimes see it as a gender i ‘used to be’ and i don’t really look like a cis person of either gender and i don’t think i can fit it into simple categories” and everyone will spontaneously combust

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love this genre of post

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The agony of thinking you’re finished doing the dishes only to turn around and to your horror: the pot.

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some of my favorites

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My child said to me:

“Other-donkey, Elsa likes macaroni kiko”

Can you understand what this sentence means? Write down your guess before I reveal the answer in the next tweet

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my dashboard simulator

1: [fanart of video game i don't know]

2: here's today's post about the complexities of an asian country's geopolitics through the lens of a 19th century novel adaptation

3: is anybody else not afraid to keep on living and to walk this world alone or is it just me and that guy from new jersey

4: need to jerk off and get hit by a car and $1000000 in my bank accountttttttttt #fuckyes

5: [cool art]

6: here's a line by line dissection of act 6 scene 9 of william shakespeare's fuckall that ends bad which only seven living people on earth have read and two pieces of scholarship have ever been written about #this play makes me go insane

7: [gifset that won't load]

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The Labour Party should be banned from public toilets.

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the lighting for 6's title sequence looks like the lesbian flag and you cannot change my mind

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xkcd fans are the only fandom I've had direct experience with where people do the stereotypical nerdy fan thing of referring to installments of the thing they like by their release order numbers instead of their titles

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Wendy Carlos

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an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

language is amazing

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If I ever wrote a superhero story I’d want there to be a recurring shitty C-list supervillain in the background whose power was changing something’s colour and all her villainous plots would be colour-themed things like “If the city council doesn’t give me a million dollars, I will turn the city of GREEN Bay into the city of RED Bay!” and she’d turn the Golden Gate Bridge magenta or whatever.

So it’s all low-stakes villainy, but everyone absolutely hates fighting her because her very shitty superpower works really really well, and there are dozens of background characters who’ve fought her that are just permanently green now