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this tweet is literally never not on my mind

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always thinking of that “i couldn’t stop wasting time” quote

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I have news but I need everyone to know it's not fake and I'm not making it up

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"gee I wonder how I will transfer this information reliably across long distances"

the trustworthy telecommunications dish:

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To defeat algorithmic censorship, we must do something I call "reverse euphemism". Instead of coming up with "clean" versions of taboo terms, we need to use the taboo terms to refer to mundane things, thus forcing the censors to allow them.

We already started doing it with "rawdogging". We should keep going.

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agnostic is lowkey the funniest belief system it's just like yeah idk it's none of my business

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Anybody else have a growing fear of updating their tech cuz everything seems to be getting worse and worse

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call my meat a dead horse the way i hmm save as draft

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not to be a dirty commie or anything but i don't think any one person should have enough money to solve world hunger and then get to decide not to

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Absolutely wild to me when you read a fic you love just to discover the author has an empty profile, no other fics, and no bookmarks. Like they're a ghost giving you just a tiny taste of what they're capable of.

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The manufacturing of “unwanted” babies and children has a long and ongoing history and it’s partly about coercing women and girls into giving up babies they don’t “deserve” and partly about laundering the children of people who can’t afford to care for them RIGHT NOW into “unwanted, abandoned” children. Many countries have now outlawed international adoptions because of the number of cases in which adoption brokers stole children who had families and whose families wanted them.*

The vast majority of children in “orphanages” since the invention of the concept have been children whose families do want them back but can’t afford to keep them. John Boswell’s study of child abandonment in the European Middle Ages even found that this was true of children given up to monasteries—people sometimes needed the kid back! (Remember a child is a resource—a source of labor and old-age security)

And if you DO have a lot of children being born whose birth parents GENUINELY didn’t want them… then what you’ve got is a society in which people with childbearing organs do not have access to reproductive autonomy. Self-evidently.

*The Child Catchers by Kathryn Joyce goes into detail on how this affects evangelical Christian politics in the USA, it’s a ten year old book but it was unfortunately prescient for many of the developments of the last decade

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le miserable. there's just one of him