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have you ever been bullied?

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life actually gets better when you leave the house consistently btw like im serious

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Man at the bar on Saturday night, Craigville, Minnesota in 1937

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a (mostly) billy ‘shit from twitter’ dump

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im trying to go to sleep but i cannotttttt stop thinking about this and laughing

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King of Hawkins is whoever can swallow better, did I get this right? This town is so gay.

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IAN GALLAGHER AND MICKEY MILKOVICH — in Shameless (2011 - 2021)

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people born in 24 Are 2000 now

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it's funny, I was talking to someone last night who didn't really know what an illustrator was. so when I introduced myself as one, he gave a speech that would've probably gone over well with a gallery artist, but which was precision-tailored to make any illustrator within a 50 mile radius go into eyes-glowing-red kill mode.

his speech was about how there is a difference between craft and art, and how people can practice craft (as in, skillfully execute a painting) without it having any artistic merit.

so I'm someone who gets paid to paint waffles for restaurant menus and dinosaurs for museums exhibits, and AHHHHHH! AHHHHHHH! you can't make art without it being something something you've made. does that make sense? like every illustrator I know has an individual way of approaching any given imagery that is informed by a lifetime of inspiration, and of passive intake of culture, and of the specific mistakes they make because of whatever their particular mass of grey matter deems as important thing to render or unimportant, just fuck it up.

I can make something that is informed by both a century of Canadian print-making and by my own particular neurosis, and it can also be commissioned commercial imagery that I regurgitate without care because I want to pay my mortgage. everything is art, nothing isn't art, art is something sticky and impossible to shake off of you.

anyway he got very wide-eyed and said "I'm sorry if I offended you," so today I feel a bit bad for having gotten so, uh.... excited.

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Hey weird question but what happens if you put two reasonably likeable anthropologists of wildly different cultures together in the same room? Do they study each other? CAN they? Is it like an infinite conversational feedback loop? I'm imagining two dogs eternally sniffing each others butts at the park

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Asimov invented the three laws of robotics and spent most of his robot books pulling them apart and exploring why they wouldn’t work but why they couldn’t really be improved, either.

Most robot revolution stories assume the danger is when robots stop obeying us and start thinking for themselves.

Asimov’s stories suggest that the real danger is robots doing exactly what we tell them to.

I think that’s both more realistic and actually scarier.