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The pope poll winner is known! Congratulations to Matteo Zuppi for winning the tumblr vote, which is the most important vote of all

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nothing but respect for our troops (smut writers) but listen. i dont want to be the person to tell you this, but not every character is going to be a dom or a sub. some people. and i know this is hard to hear. but some people do have vanilla sex. and some of those people might even be The Character.

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The original characters in Picard were so cool I loved how as the series goes on they're centered more and more and not shoved aside for the tng cast to keep coming back ha ha ha ha... ;____;

I've said it once I'll say it again

Them killing elnor, bringing him dramatically back to life, having him join starfleet academy to remove him from the narrative, only to ACTUALLY KILL HIM cuz they blew up the ship the writers FORGOT HE WAS ASSIGNED TO, OFFSCREEN, was the FUNNIEST SHIT EVER.

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so, they didn’t want players killing kids in the new lego star wars, so they made them immune to friendly fire damage, but they didn’t make them invincible, so now speedrunners are doing extended air combos on them to cross large gaps and climb tall structures. this has been dubbed Child Flight

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What if Meridia fuckin partied

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what if the new pope is problematic :/

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Holy **** oh right okay. So I was about to make a post about how using speech to text has already been a game changer for me but as you can see by the line of asterix at the start of this post the bloody thing auto censors swear words. (Yet bloody got through, ig Because it is a description and also British slang.). Hint: the word I was trying to say there starts with F and ends with K.

Oh and guess what else you can't say you can't say? **** [Nipples]. had to type that myself. penis is ok but **** [clitoris] isn't, and all my attempts to say "clit" were Misunderstood, which may just be my speech but at this point I am not willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Vagina is OK too but every time I say it there is a moment when an * shows up on screen first before the full word does. this doesn't happen when I say the word penis.

It is completely heinous. Anybody who needs speech to text is immediately forced to comply with the rules set out by people in a position of power and then enforced by a machine — a machine that is a very powerful accessibility tool. Imagine trying to dictate a letter to a doctor or fill in an E consult with speech to text, only to have words of your anatomy censored as if they are taboo. there is already far too much stigma around genital physical health — and note that I could say genital but can't say **** [clitoris] — for it to be okay for these words to be censored.

And even if somebody just wants to swear In a message to their friends or write smut/**** [pornography], they should be able to. There is no justification for this feature. No reason for it to be default.

I'm trying to find a way around this. There is a settings icon on the little speech to text bar that comes up, but this only gives me options For the speech typing launcher, auto punctuation, and to set the default microphone. it's making me extremely angry

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all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

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there is a slight sissy that walk Mr. Gorbachev problem with this plan; it’s too reliant pop goes the Tesla on a level of literacy that is becoming zig for great justice less common every year

lions are very mean and like jellyfish

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these are the things we can take or leave

shout every now and then

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Our Japanese class found it funny that in common terminology "food" isn't very distinguished from specifically "rice" until it was pointed out to us that in English "meal" is "loose roughly ground grain"

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10/10 dad joke

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please god stop talking about diets and weight loss in front of kids. especially if those kids are girls. and especially if you’re someone those kids look up to. but really just stop talking about about diets and weight loss when children are in earshot at all. I promise you you’re doing far more harm than good.

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unbelievable levels of down bad

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actually last post is similar to how ppl will go "yeah white americans don't really have any culture" in an allegedly self aware way that actually just screams "unable to conceptualise the culture they live in as anything other than the neutral default".

"Yeah i guess we don't really have any strong culture" and then they'll talk about homecoming as if you're supposed to know what that means (except you do because of how dominant their cultural export is)