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hate an x reader fic do not put me in a situation

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your honour, I had no choice. tumblr user pisshandkerchief told me to do it. 🤷🏽‍♀️

you there 🫵 sexualize this old man with me.

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A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine

by Amanda Bachman

"Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mouthing the Giant Plagiarism Machine™.

I’d like to remind you that our company policy is pro–Plagiarism Machine™. We’re a tech-forward, future-oriented company that doesn’t shy away from the promise of new innovation—even if that innovation is a Giant Plagiarism Machine™ that copy-pastes existing innovation into fake sentient sentences.

Lately, it feels like some of you aren’t the techno-optimists I took you to be. You’ve been heard uttering slurs like “I’m worried about my job stability” and “I just don’t think it’s positive for humankind,” neither of which sounds remotely optimistic or techno. I’ve even heard shocking reports of teams failing to incorporate plagiarism into their processes, because—I can’t believe I have to repeat this—“it’s not helpful.”

Team, hear me when I say that this is harassment, and it must end. Put yourself in your coworker’s shoes—say, a coworker with really nice, designer footwear, who has invested their personal fortune into the Giant Plagiarism Machine™, along with other intellectual-property-theft futures. Imagine how that coworker (could be anyone!) might feel working alongside such Negative Nancies.

Folks, that’s just not who we are. This is and has always been a company of risk-takers who are unafraid to move fast and break things. Or at least, that’s what I thought, until a bunch of you started bringing up the many merits of proceeding cautiously and keeping things unbroken.

It just really comes as a shock that such accomplished intellectuals, who’ve spent their entire careers pushing the upper bounds of human achievement, could be judgy about a machine that runs the entirety of human imagination through a shredder and glues together what comes out.

I guess I understand. I, too, was once a little skeptical of the Giant Plagiarism Machine™. But that was before I attended The Conference for Big Boy Business Owners™. Here, I learned that my fellow titans of industry have been re-orging to “leverage plagiarism” and “minimize thought-waste.”

It was at that very same conference that I learned critical thinking takes up 20 percent, sometimes 30 percent, of company time. It’s clear to me that some of you are not focused on the profit potential of outsourcing all of our thinking to a machine capable of remixing thoughts that have come before.

And sure, most of you are hired for your intellectual capabilities. But you don’t need to worry about losing your jobs to the Giant Plagiarism Machine™. As I always say, people are more powerful than plagiarism. (At least until the next economic downturn, during which I will quietly decide that, hey, maybe plagiarism was the dark horse all along.)

The way I see it, we’re family. It really does disappoint me that so many brilliant colleagues—whose genuine breakthroughs I’ve profited from for years—would be so quick to condemn this newer, stupider way that I and others like me can make money off your life’s work, through stealing.

So as we move forward, I want to hear a real turnaround in attitudes, troops!

Because, at the end of the day, you don’t really have a choice."

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Ok so today I was on the bus with another trans guy and we were talking about how hard it is to get testosterone. The waiting lists, the price, all the doctors you have to go to, that kind of stuff. Except, we were calling it ’T’, like you do when you’re both closeted and in public.

Then suddenly the elderly lady sitting behind us was like ‘young men, either I’m going crazy or you both have never heard of supermarkets, they have shelves full of tea there! Do you need directions to one?’

To which my buddy starts to explain, because why not. ‘Well you see, we’re both trans, and… ’

The lady didn’t wait for him to finish his sentence. ‘Oh no, I don’t mind that at all! Now do you want to know how to get to a place that sells tea? I’m actually heading there right now!’

We let her take us to the supermarket. We let her show us, excitedly, where the tea was. We both bought loads.

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I just never see ads because I use firefox like a normal human being who wants to watch things in peace 😌

I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

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what was done to make the legalization of gay marriage damaging there?

They ran a plebiscite, which is like a non mandatory opinion poll for the country

The thing was, the public demand from queer groups for gay marriage to be legal was so so high in 2017. 2017! Not ten years ago, of course it was common to be okay w gay marriage.

The Labor party were in opposition and had fairly calmly promised to legalise next time they were in power. The Coalition, who were in power, reaaallly didn't want to tho. Cos they're homophobes. But demand was so high that had to do something, so they did a plebiscite

Firstly, gay rights is not such a complex matter that the government can't figure it out themselves. We vote for them to represent us, this was the coalition going mmmm I don't wanna represent that, gross. Can the population do it for me?

Secondly, queer people are a minority. We're meant to be protected by the government. The government, the coalition, did not protect their citizens

What it meant was a public debate, with tv required to air equal weight to each side. And the coalition, the Australian government, ran vote no ads

So we had a big old public debate. With the coalition getting to hate on gay kids and tag it with 'sponsored by the Australian government, Canberra' tag at the end. It's very hard to find examples of this now, but different ads ran all night long. The love the community tried to pour out was not worth the hate that was supported to speak

This is an ad that ran before the plebiscite was announced, explaining the danger it could have

Here's the foreign minister being shown an ad that tells people to vote no, and her saying it's fine for that to play on prime time tv. It's wild, watch it

No gay organisation wanted the plebiscite. Once it happened they pulled their socks up and campaigned, of course, but it was devastating and devisive. I started wearing a rainbow flag as a wee 22ish year old and people threw slurs. The cruelty was on the street like it never had been before, and didn't need to be

The plebiscite passed with a yes vote

I can remember a lot of reporting around how 61.6% (yes votes) of 79.5% (total votes) is less than half. Less than half of the country gave enough of a shit to vote yes put the letter back in the mail box. Cunts.

The government then didn't pass it into law! No, they had a conscience vote, which means the ministers are not required to vote down party lines but can vote freely with no repercussions. Labor, in opposition, voted mostly yes. The coalition split the vote, but it did get over and gay marriage was dragged into law

Obviously it's good that we have gay marriage

Idve prefered we didn't subject our community to government sponsored vitriol for it. And I won't forgive the coalition ever. They are cowards. I would have absolutely preferred to wait three years and make an election of it

And I hate that they get to say they moved the country forward with this liberal equal rights agenda. Cos they didn't. They looked at their job, which is to make law, and found a novel way to step on the queers a little before doing that

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The evolution of (trans) man.

(Well, this one, anyway.)

Age 9: "Tomboy"

Age 15: Strictly enforced femininity

Age 30: Hitting the mental limits of being closeted all his life and about to crash HARD

Age 47: Fifteen years now since starting transition. Far more good days than bad, no regrets.

The world may be full of uncertainty and danger, but I resolve to continue to find joy in who I am. Be joyful to be kind to yourself and be joyful to spite the bastards who would tear us apart.

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Fandom Problem #9176:

Being proship doesn't mean "no one is ever allowed to have a NOTP ever again", it just means 1) taking responsibility for your own online experience and doing your part to avoid seeing it (i.e., NOT actively seeking out, which some people do despite claiming its a "serious trigger" to them) and 2) when you DO see it, not making your disgust or discomfort the creator's problem. It takes a lot longer to type out a angry comment than it does to hit the back button.

"Okay yeah well what happens when we DO see nasty shit we didn't want to see?" Oh no. You saw something distasteful on the internet. How will you go on. Maybe consider logging off if it's such a problem to you. That's what I do, and I don't make a big melodramatic announcement of my leaving either. Just acknowledge that this space isn't for you, and peace out.

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humans. we are not well suited to live with other humans in our current social environment. needz moar selective breeding.

you can domesticate one animal species of your choosing, which do you pick and why? explain your reasoning

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"homosexuality is unnatural! there's only two genders! it's a sin-"

I'm sorry, have you seen NATURE???

and there's so many more species than this that exhibit homosexuality, varying genders, etc. SO! MANY!

it's very much a natural thing. it always has been. unfortunately, while homosexuality is found in many species, homophobia is only found in one

ALSO THE ARTIST IS HUMON, FIND THEM AT HUMONCOMICS.COM!! was so sure I had included that but apparently I forgot, so sorry!

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Ok but the way it carefully doesn’t even disturb the surface tension and thereby make a splash

Tuna SHOULD be near-apex predators but.

Splashes are audible for a long way underwater and would attract even larger and scarier predators than tuna (sharks, orcas) so this is very clearly deliberate “hunt while remaining the apex predator in my immediate vicinity” tactics.

Nice.

Fun fact: Did you know that TUNAS ARE BAD BITCHES 💯

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hey USA, you aren’t the only country in the word (exasperated)

hey USA, you aren’t the only country in the word (comforting)

both are true

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Let's Make One Thing Super Clear: Intersex People Exist

Let's make one thing really clear, because the newest Radfem and especially TERF strategy is to act as if this was somehow controversial: Intersex people are real, and most of us (though no group as big as ours is homogenous) by far prefer to be called intersex, rather than "DSD", which scientists know and which is the reason why outside very specific medical discussion of intersex conditions scientific articles generally use the term intersex. (It is quite literally stated in several medical papers on the topic!)

Because here is the thing: We are always part of the queer community. We are are discriminated against because of our sex. And the idea of a sexual binary is used to commit attrocious violence against many of us.

if you think you can prescribe to us what sex or gender we are with the only options being "male" or "female" you are committing violence against us. You are saying it is a great thing that many of us will have unspeakable mutilations done upon our bodies AGAINST OUR WILL to fit into that binary.

You are saying, that actually it is fine and dandy to MUTILATE CHILDREN.

You are not a feminist. You are a horrible person if you think that. You are quite literally Nazi-levels of evil if you hold that opinion.

No, many of us - most I would say - do not think we have a fucking disorder. We just want to live in our bodies as we were born, and if we think we fit into a binary gender make this decision ourselves, as teenagers or adults.

Do not dare to talk over us. Because that is what you do. You take one of the most vulnerable groups - right now we have literally no legal protections against the mutilations forced upon us - and claim they are for you.

We are not.

Many of us are trans, because it turns out that in fact doctors or parents deciding what gender an intersex kid has at birth are right LESS THAN 50% OF THE TIME. Like, they literally are worse with this than they would be predicting a coin flip, forcing many of us to transition. At times restoring bodily features that originally had been there - or removing those that would not have developed without medical intervention.

Do not dare to act as if we are on your side. We are not. Fuck off.

If you are a TERF, you are also intersexist. No, we are not part of some fucking binary you came up with. We also do not identify as a "disorder". We are intersex. We are queer. And you want us mutilated, you fucking monsters.

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Oh the offence they feel when we do or do not honour their DNIs.

Also Japanese increasingly looks absolutely fascinating. Do I have it in me to level up my linguistic brain that far. 🧐

I have never read a more excellent article

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Also her.

Various things that are called some variation of "pepper" in various languages:

"Pepper," seeds of the plant Piper nigrum, a.k.a. black pepper, used as a spice.

"Peppermint," a hybrid of watermint and spearmint.

The edible fruits of the plants of the genus Capsicum, known collectively as "peppers," which includes bell peppers, chili peppers, etc. (some European languages make a distinction between peppers and capsicums by using the word "paprika" for the latter. A word that is a direct cognate with pepper.)

Allspice, also known as "Jamaica pepper," "myrtle pepper," but also as "spice pepper" in Finnish and Swedish (I suppose as opposed to the kind of peppers that aren't used as spices?), the dried fruits of the plant Pimenta dioica. More closely related to myrtle, guava, and eucalyptus than pepper.

Horseradish, a plant of the family Brassicaceae, thus making it a relative of mustard, cabbage, and radish, known in some European languages as "pepper root."

Ginger snaps, biscuits flavored with ginger, known as "pepper cake" in many European languages.

"Sichuan peppers," the dried fruits of the genus Zanthoxylum. Related to neither black peppers nor capsicums, but part of the same family as citrus.

Undoubtedly forgetting at least some but anyway. Forgot why I was doing this.

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did you know that I bully dogs for a living