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what super expensive indulgence would u get for urself if u suddenly came into a bunch of money?? assume all bills/mortgages paid, all friends helped: what treat are u buying just for u?? for me it would be a quilted lambskin chanel bag in iridescent pink

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i put a message in my work group chat because im illnessing. and my coworker sent me the AI gen summary he received

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Tenjuan Temple, Kyoto, Japan

kyotophotograph

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may be a hot take but i think the fact minors can access 18+ content by just clicking a button that says 'yes im totally over 18 trust me' is like. totally fine tbh. its a non-issue. i dont care if curious teenagers are looking at porn. they've been doing that for as long as porn has existed. id rather teens explore their sexuality through images on the internet than rush into real life experiences when they're not ready for it yknow. the UK is trying to put stricter age verification in place (which in turn is becoming an online privacy nightmare) and like. for what. who is it helping. why is this a problem.

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Uk media reporting on the OSA:

Reality:

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I wish to purchase goods and services without entering a blood covenant that entitles the provider to email and text me forever and also store a bunch of my personal data that they’re going to apologize for exposing in a breach in the next five to ten years

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simply unbelievable eggplant my mother grew

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i just can't convey the frustration and sorrow that it's been to grow up at first without the internet and then watching it bloom into this useful, fun, connecting force you sometimes spent time on, only for it to degrade into this constant oppressive waste of time and energy where people are constantly pumping out algorithmically designed content for max algorithmic appeal and even the most simple search generates either no results or an infinite abyss of ai generated slop none of which is usable or correct. we briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.

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📸: Nikki Phillips

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So I was a TA for a figure drawing class and this last semester for little baby freshman. Overall my section students were really sweet and responsive to feedback. But my professor told me something about another section on the last day that had me about to pass out from laughing.

See, this is the first time some of these folks have seen a nude model. Even for me, having seen naked people previously, I still had an, “oh! That’s a penis!” moment during my first session in person. (For covid reasons my first semester was models in swimwear over Teams). It’s just one of those things you get over though. Since you need to draw it genitalia just becomes skin, it’s not any different to render than a shoulder or a calf.

But apparently.

There’s a crop of new students that are so shy of the genitalia that they’re submitting full body figure drawings with a blank triangle where the junk should be.

I asked, “is it X male model? Cause he wears a Speedo sometimes to pose…”

But she said no. She said there’s one student who is SO shy she refuses to draw buttcracks. The professor was flummoxed. She’d write on homework “needs gluteal fold for clarity” but this student is just adamant.

The professor went on to say, “They should at least be making them like a Ken doll! Even Ken has a bulge, these students aren’t even capturing the form of a bulge!”

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so when i was little, my dad would put on records any time we had to deep-clean the house. it's how i was introduced to the song roxanne.

i was like, maybe 5. "why is she putting on a red light?" i thought perhaps it was about the game "red light green light", which i enjoyed quite a bit because i was quick and small, and also i was prone to violence. maybe sting and the police wanted to run very fast and roxanne kept calling "red light" like the one kid in my kindergarten class who played the game wrong.

this is not what the song is about. add to this a fact that will become a problem later in my life (lesbian, nonbinary, etc) - my family is deeply catholic. my father (deacon, conservative, staring at a 5 year old) i guess sort of panicked because he said: "you know bug lights? and how they're blue?"

i was aware of this. some lights kill bugs but all lights were married to bugs, in my estimation of things. some marriages just end in killing, which i had learned from sneakily watching murder, she wrote.

he tried to explain that the red light is a bug-light, but just a different type. as an adult, i think he was mostly joking.

as a child, i immediately accepted this. this explained the pain in the man's voice. critically, reader, the understanding i had? they had written a song about roxanne, who is a bug. i would sing along and feel great empathy for this terribly suicidal roxanne bug, RIP.

anyway the answer to your question (how long) is: like a lot longer than you'd think. i watched moulin rougue for the first time and thought to myself: now hang on a second.

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I could watch this for hours 🐈🐈

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snake gore

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An onigiri drawstring backpack! The nori is open at the top so it has two little pockets

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It is your sworn duty, when you're in your 30's, to do something every day that would have gotten you viciously bullied in high school.