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"Faking the moon landing is a good step toward faking a Mars colony, but it’s not a good step toward actually putting astronauts on Mars."

-Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

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Went to the grocery store with my kindergartener. We weighed some bananas: 2 pounds even. We weighed a watermelon: 4 pounds even. We weighed some mangos: a little over 1 pound. We weighed the watermelon AND the bananas: 6 pounds even.

“That’s funny” said the child “because 2+4=6 and two pounds and four pounds is six pounds. It’s like the same as math!”

“What happens if you add 6+1?”

“SEVEN”

“What if we put one pound of mangos on the scale?” <mangos added>

“IT’S THE SAME!!”

“OK, what’s 7-4?”

“Three?”

“What if we take the four pound watermelon off the scale?” <watermelon removed>

“Mama! Are you telling me math works In Real Life? Think of all the things you could measure!!”

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Kawanabe Kyosai, White Heron in the Rain, colour woodblock print, Japan, 1880

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Naomi Osaka attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue) pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com

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it's midnight on the 1st of june aest

unamusedsloth

“Vicious” Leopard seal tries to keep national geographic photographer alive by feeding him penguins.

bendablebananas

@maculategiraffe tags

daveedmee

explosion at health potion factory 0 dead 0 injured

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explosion at health

potion factory 0

dead 0 injured

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

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~ Florence Harrison "Oh why does yon pale face look at me from out the golden cloth" from Early Poems of William Morris

via internet archive

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in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

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bigfoots-biggest-fan

HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY

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Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).

punkrorschach

happy first day of pride everyone

themoonandmyman

I haven’t said anything interesting in a long while. this will continue

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lierdumoa

Okay I want to talk about this reply I saw in the notes:

straight trans people exist, and i literally just saw one a few minutes ago saying it hurt to encounter this kind of rhetoric. our pride *has* to be more intersectional than this—otherwise it’s just shaming.

I think @7ff00's reply is conflating the word "straight" with the word "heterosexual" out of a gross ignorance of cultural and historical context, and to what end?

The term straight means strictly adhering to conventional morality. The term only came to be associated with the concept of heterosexuality in the 1940s because conventional morality aligned itself against non-heterosexuals, declared us deviants, and criminalized our existence.

From etymonline.com: straight(adj.2)

"conventional," especially "heterosexual," 1941, a secondary sense evolved from straight (adj.1) in one of its senses, probably suggested by the stock phrase straight and narrow (implying path, road, or way), "course of conventional morality and law-abiding behavior" (ca. 1794), which is based on a misreading of Matthew vii.14 (where the gate is actually strait); another influence seems to be strait-laced.

And now, conventional morality has aligned itself against the trans community, declared us deviants, and criminalized our existence.

I know a lot of us have been avoiding reading the news, but it's important y'all know that Trump's new counterterrorism strategy specifically blames trans activism for the assassination of Charlie Kirk (based on zero evidence) and then goes on to specifically equate pro-trans activism with terrorism.

With FUCKING TERRORISM.

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/it-could-happen-here/trumps-new-counterterrorism-jmNlAMX_gs3/

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/06/trump-counterterrorism-strategy-vows-to-counter-violent-left-wing-extremists-with-transgender-ideology-00909284

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/trumps-new-counterterrorism-strategy-focuses-on-combatting-transgender-ideology/

It's fucking bad out there, y'all.

I've been saying for years that one of the biggest roadblocks to queer solidarity is people nitpicking the constantly evolving language we are allowed to use to discuss threats to our community, in a way that effectively derails any conversation that directly addresses the ACTUAL threats to our community.

And although I give @7ff00 the benefit of the doubt and believe that the reply was not written in bad faith, that's exactly what the reply is doing in this post — another derailment that turns a conversation about fighting conservative authoritarianism into yet another pointless semantics debate.

Trans people will never be "straight" no matter how heterosexual some of us may be. All LGBTQIA+ people will always be faggots in the eyes of the oppressor.

At least Gritty's managed to figure that out.

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i am a biological machine that turns cold cans of Campbell’s soup into shareholder value and nude selfies

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Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.