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plenty of people have talked about how people in the iwtv universe are probably losing their shit over two-time pulitzer prize winning author and renowned journalist daniel molloy becoming a nocturnal weirdo who wears sunglasses at night, whose parkinson's disease was miraculously healed, and who now believes in vampires, and i love that whole concept and i think it's hilarious, but i feel like the real-world equivalent of that has to be like... okay so i'm imagining a scenario in which a young history major is writing their thesis on armenia in the years following the armenian genocide and they've read what is the only historical monograph about (and has been praised by numerous sources as the most detailed and well researched account of) the assassination plot against talat pasha, the "architect of the armenian genocide" and been told by someone who saw them reading the book that the author, eric bogosian, is also an actor, and so they decide to check him out and the first thing they find is the interview where he says that he's always wanted to be a vampire and that neck biting is one of his kinks and also, just so everyone knows, he can in fact still get hard at 71 years old.

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the thing about propaganda is that it doesn't require a bunch of people to sit around rubbing their hands together going "muahaha we will deceive the masses with our evil propaganda!" and in fact it tends to be better and more convincing the more people involved don't conceptualize what they're doing as in any way propagandistic

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Shout out to "i wanna socialize with my Internet friends but I don't have anything to talk about", gotta be one of my least favorite predicaments

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Antique American Wisteria Stained Glass Landing Window from Cincinnati, circa 1890

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Terry Pratchett | The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)

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Portrait of Caubvick, an Inuit woman from Labrador [c.1772] unknown artist Hunterian Museum

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Sometimes reading Arthuriana feels like reading Alice in Wonderland.

“Well,” said Alice, “these are a dreadfully strange assortment of objects!”

“They all symbolize different aspects of Our Lord’s martyrdom,” said the Fisher King, casting a line into his teacup.

“Indeed. I am sure everything symbolizes something else, for if everything was only itself I should be very confused. Might I ask what the point of the bleeding lance is?”

Alice regretted asking the question as soon as she had done so, for she saw the pun that would likely be made about the word point. Instead, however, the room erupted in applause and shouts of “The Grail! She has achieved the Grail!”

The next castle she visited, Alice resolved to herself as the inhabitants of this one danced for joy, would be more sensible.

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barring that palestinian queers have and will always exist and to deem an entire group of people as being inherently homophobic is a fucked line of thinking, i do not support palestine because i happen to agree with their politics or because i expect palestinians to lay their life for me. i support palestine because genocide is, and will always be wrong, because i do not need a reciprocation for me to fucking loathe oppression and colonialism, and it scares me that many of you do not truly believe in liberation of the oppressed.

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very frustrating phenomenon that talking about AI makes people take off the commodity fetishism goggles briefly but with so narrow a scope as to make that useless. "AI only works because it builds on the labour of others!" okay thats a good start but you need to then take that lens to literally all other technology and production instead of to "which makes it uniquely evil" and it is this that many seem to find impossible

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Summer Snezhinka the Pallas's cat 🌞

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The City of Chicago

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Making the connection.

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executive dysfunction is literally like. ive had a random dollar on my floor for two weeks and i dont know when ill fit it in my schedule to pick it up. people dont realize this

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the desire to pronounce words as they are said in their source language for the sake of accuracy vs the desire to not sound like a complete tool

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Imagine if you locked Light and Patrick Bateman in a room together. They would be having the most generic conversation but you wouldn’t be able to hear it over the sound of their overlapping internal monologues. There would be a few seconds where their monologues both play in sync to say something misogynistic.