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Happy disability pride month! Reminder your feelings towards your disability/disabilities, no matter how positive, negative, or complex, are valid and deserve to be respected. It’s alright to be mad that your mind and/or body don’t function how you’d like them to.

You have infinite worth simply because you exist. You deserve kindness, accessibility, and so many good things.

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"the only 'art' that sucks is ai art. that's not art"

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i spit real facts on this blog no art made by a person or any living being sucks. that is how they express themselves with the skill they have. AI however steals shit and makes it in 4 seconds with a stupid prompt someone gave it

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this site has learned to accept men's tits into their hearts. now i need you all to embrace women's flat chests.

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Happy birthday ghost!

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Happy Ace Week!!! 🖤🤍💜

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Every time I hear usamericans counter criticism of the US with „but you have to consider the social and historical context!“ or „it’s not like that everywhere, the states are all really different!“ I kind of just. Like do YOU? Do you consider regional differences in culture and minority groups and the lingering influence of past conflicts and regimes when talking about other countries, for example Russia, China, Germany, Turkey etc.? No? Then why do you expect me to be able to do that.

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USamerican authors specify the origin of your data in the title or abstract and stop assuming that your results are universal when they are indeed highly localized challenge 2022

This post has been brought to you by the tired European researcher gang

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Other non american gays that have a weird relationship with nationality? The only place i have seen my experience reflected is in american media and it creates this weird relationship with nationality, because i have spent years in my room on the internet engaging with the US not the country i actually live in. My gay identity has for the most part been expressed on the amercentric internet.

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a good chunk of internet leftism is just puritanical bullshit masquerading as woke and progressive which has thus developed into callout/cancel culture and respectability politics, encouraging a narrow, black and white worldview while discouraging critical thinking, creating insignificant and performative activism, and prioritizing discourse and public image over meaningful praxis

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How you treat people says more about you than what fictional characters and ships you like. You can like the nicest characters and healthiest ships, but if you’re harassing people, then you’re an asshole regardless.

You can claim your taste in fiction makes you a “good” person all you want, but ultimately your behavior reflects who you are. 

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The internet skews our perception in a lot of ways, but one thing I don't think people consider in online discourse is that getting a person to stop replying is not them "going away."

Like I've seen a lot of people justify responses full of rage about various issues as "I'm very frustrated about this issue that affects me, and I have every right to be," and I think that's probably almost always true, but it doesn't mean that arguments that mix rage, insults, and facts do a lot of good for the cause you're working for. It can get you social approval from people reading the comments who already agree with you for sure, but I think people feel like they've "won" when the other person has stopped replying almost like defeating a boss in a video game - "Woohoo! I got rid of him!" But you probably didn't actually get rid of that person? They probably just left the conversation, and if they felt super personally attacked, it's way more likely that they either internally doubled down on their current opinion as a defense mechanism or just decided not to express that opinion out loud anymore rather than changing their mind.

The rising culture of permissible rage on the internet concerns me because of the cases where the person just decides not to express their bad opinion anymore but doesn't actually change it. If they never feel safe to express an opinion out loud again, except with people who already agree with them, the discussions that might convince them to change their mind will never occur.

A lot of people I know only feel safe to discuss controversial things among their own friends/people who know them because they know they're less likely to get interpreted in bad faith or judged, and while that's a good first step, your friends or the people you know will frequently have a limited set of perspectives on an issue. The internet gives you so much access to diversity, and it's just a real shame that there's no guaranteed safe space anywhere where free civil discussion can happen.

*And to be clear, I don't think people should have to debate with other people whether or not they deserve rights and shit like that, but rarely are the opinions you see online that unnuanced. And if you do witness some bullshit like "____ group of people don't deserve rights," yeah, that person does deserve to be told to fuck off, but telling them off probably won't have an effect any more than arguing with them will - just a waste of time to even interact.

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"How can you be so ignorant with all the information out there..."

Stop. Homie, just stop. You're the 15th random internet stranger to pop up with some particular take on a controversial issue. I've heard people equally as passionate as you on the opposite side. Neither of you have any credentials related to the issue. You both have sources. You all have different sources. It would take me hours to sort through all of them and come to my own conclusion, and god I want to, but I am trying to figure out how to survive and support myself under this current version of capitalism. And if I completely gave up on that, I'd suddenly have less ability to help other people in the world than I do now. Please remember that the capitalist system as it currently exists is meant to keep people from being able to protest and spend significant time educating themselves about different issues, and it's very good at it. If I quit my job to research world issues full time and suddenly don't have money to pay my rent, I also don't have money to donate to anyone, to buy supplies for anything, to buy gas to go anywhere. But pursuing/working a full time job means I have limited time to go to protests, limited time to research things, limited time to help others.

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