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Circus clown seeking the profound, tumbling over, around, and down. (& if I may, I'd like to say-- the pronouns now are she and they.) (Who needs a normal bio anyway :))

[ishowdespair-deactivated2026012]

[lenin-it-to-win-it]

It’s so funny how like. Spock is queer bc of the subtext, the Otherness inextricable from his character, meanwhile William Shatner was handed the straightest man of all time on paper and fumbled the bag bc he couldn’t stop giving Leonard Nimoy fuck-me eyes and now he lives in a bi Kirk hell of his own devising, forever enduring the conshatquences of his shactions

[segamascott]

[thesituation]

[runawaymarbles]

*deep sigh* I guess we're doing this again. Anyway I looked up what she actually said, which was in fact about how she doesn't think getting the voting rights act restored is likely with the current congress (she's right) and THEREFORE:

Now, given the civil rights legislation’s hobbled state, minority voters will have to get “creative” and “ruthless” to ensure their full participation in democracy, Harris told Morial.

At the very least, that will mean voters will need to regularly stay on top of their voter registration statuses, to make sure they haven’t been purged. (......)

To hold the Trump administration accountable, voters should have “an agenda that is about turning out the vote in the greatest numbers we have ever seen, so that in light of and in this environment where they are cheating, we will be too big to rig,” said Harris.

If voters are able to push Democrats into controlling majorities of the U.S. House and Senate in this year’s midterms, lawmakers should be “uncompromising,” said Harris. This means revisiting policies around Electoral College votes, expanding the U.S. Supreme Court bench, and exploring statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C., she said.

TL;DR she thinks Congress isn't going to save us (no shit) so she wants to get better people in congress and then go after the electoral college and SCOTUS. You know. The things we've been begging congress to do for a decade plus????

[redstonedust]

my bugbear of the day is that i think its odd when people say "femme trans man" or "masc trans woman" they automatically assume it means no hrt. nothing stoppin someone from going on estrogen and also being butch. you can be 8 years on testosterone and be camp about it. being gnc is a whole spectrum babey open your eyes.

[yuri-puppies]

while not a big blog myself i have enough big mutuals and mutuals in law that every once in a while i get to experience the thrill of reblogging an underrated small post and watching it get picked up and launched into the stratosphere

[yuri-puppies]

like im not the wizard that casts the curse of 10k notes but i know a guy who knows a guy who knows a wizard ykwim

[runawaymarbles]

The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.

Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.

[zz9pzza]

Op's tags

#I just started dropping '2.5 Billion page views a month'#into conversations as early as possible bc they would Not believe me otherwise#it was right up there with having to say 'csam attacks' to get them to take my compartmentalization of information concerns seriously#turns out those are the magic words#otw#op

[runawaymarbles]

The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.

[kyraneko]

This post feels like watching an iceberg go by in clear water. The amount of stuff going on beneath the surface of AO3 just astonishes.

[jeffsatyr]

(ID in alt)

[elodieunderglass]

Approximately one THOUSAND felonies

[moonstrid]

Mr. Wpnz and Karen from the past, during their partnership at Hitman Inc. :pp I headcanon Karen to be ripped

[bomacx]

I’m down bad

[luckyladylily]

I think that for every character that is meaningfully trans in fiction we need five who are just trans for the hell of it. Stick a trans flag on their laptop or something and never comment on it. That sort of shit. I'm talking about the media landscape in general, not specific works.

There is a distinction between a trans character and a character that happens to be trans, and i feel very strongly that the former suffers greatly in a media environment where there is not enough of the latter. When all trans characters are trying to say something about being trans, then that is all trans characters are allowed to be. Minority case studies, nothing more. But if characters are trans incidentally, if that is normal, then a character trying to say something about being trans has much more depth.

I fully encourage people to just slap "trans" on any random character with hardly a thought and call it good. Don't even try to make it deeper if you don't feel like it. And don't worry too much about unfortunate implications, I find that many real world trans people are "unfortunate" if you look at them through that lens, because people are diverse and not just minority case studies.

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

do europeans know about beverage drive thrus

[gallusrostromegalus]

I saw this and IMMEDIATELY tossed it into my international chat like a live grenade and it has caused much mayhem, so thank you. Results so far:

Mixed results from the Americans because this shit is legal in only 30 states and almost impossible to get past a zoning committee so while they exist, they're extremely localized. Lots of yelling at Ohio.

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Saskatchewan: "What's insane to me is that you have these with the population density you have. What am I going to hit in Turtleford?"

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Bahia and Sao Paulo: "I'm stunned we don't have these tbh."

Prague: "We have these in my city, but only for boats."

Manaus: "My uncle has one of these! He also has a window on the other side so you can drive your boat up too :)"

(much Brazilian and Czech high-fiving)

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Brisbane: "There's an astonishing level of trust being displayed that people aren't just going to open a beer immediately"

Tallahassee: "Oh no, there is 100% cop camped like half a mile down the road to arrest people who didn't stow the booze correctly."

Brisbane: "Oh it's an invasive policing operation! Yeah, that's the USA."

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Newcastle: "No, this looks correct for the country that has bears breaking into your house". (The Australians and Africans have a bit where every time someone mentions their wildlife, they mass @me (who had a bear in my house) and the guy from Singapore whose mom adopted a wild water monitor and says it's her favorite son now)

The aforementioned Singaporean: "How am I exposed to an onslaught of your media and culture at all times and you STILL find new ways to horrify me?"

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Vatican City: "You can ride your bike through the brewery to get beer but the abbot in charge doesn't like it"

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Jakarta: "We don't have this because we're Muslim but we do have drive-thru Marijuana"

Kyoto: "We don't have these because we have public transportation. You can buy liquor from vending machines at the stations though."

Munich: "We don't have these because we are disciplined enough to pack our beer with us if we are going somewhere that drinking is acceptable, or there will be beer at that location when we arrive."

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India: "Why have drive-thru Liquor, when you can have liquor delivered to your vehicle? GET ON OUR LEVEL" (no less than nine different images from across the country of people in trucks that have been specifically modified to operate the business of driving up to other vehicles in traffic and selling them liquor)

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Pudasjävi: "...I should open one of these."

Everyone: "NO!!!"

(he has decided against this because "half the year people only use snowmobiles, so I'd have to shovel snow INTO the drive all winter and that's too much work")

[crochetdragons]

How does the international chat feel about the ones that are fast food-style drive thrus that serve mixed drinks, instead of being a modified liquor store?

[gallusrostromegalus]

General Consensus is that these are far more respectable and a much more sane design than "drive your truck through the middle of the 7/11"

Several people would like to know what a "Crawgator" is though, including myself.

[the-silk-rose]

"We are still unsure if he belongs to the Lady Heterodyne, or she to him."

Othar, that's just how cats work.

[thequeenofnightlyrics]

I want october. I want Halloween. I want fall. I want rain. I want thunderstorm.

[writingdose]

[leletha-jann]

Violetta! There she is! I was getting worried.

...look, I know it's Violetta's job to go unseen, but you get left for dead and sacrificed to an extradimensional entity one time, I worry about you forevermore. That's just how it works. I don't make the rules.

Featuring also: "You two do remember that this airship is already exploding, yeah, and you don't need to help it? That we are trying to escape the airship, not conquer it? ...you do remember that, right?"

Someone's gonna have to throw another bucket of water over them.

[thatlittleegyptologist]

"Using an Oxford comma is a sign of AI"

bestie boo, let me fill you in on something: if you're going to take any part of 'good grammar' and randomly assign it to She's A Witch! AI, you might as well give up. It's over. You're cooked. Anyone who has spent the last decade or more learning to type properly, anyone who has spent any time writing articles/papers/essays that require you to use 'good grammar' is going to fall into that 'oh no it might be AI' trap.

Stop hunting like it's 1692. You're not going to find Goody Proctor at the ChatGPT sacrament. What you're going to do is exactly what happened back then: harming people who've done nothing wrong.

[arviyya]

can I reblog this a million times

[c3rvida3]

I just learned that a lot of vintage perfumes and fragrances were intentionally created to blend well with the ever-present smell of cigarettes, and in specific a lot of iconic ones that are super musky and floral and civet-heavy were intended to compliment the smell of fur coats or even "refresh" that new fur coat smell, which is one of the reasons (besides just shifting preferences and trends) that a lot of them smell really, really bad to modern noses.

I bet there's some stunning genius diva out there right now who meticulously coordinates her Victoria's Secret body mists with her vape flavors.

[transxfiles]

[kotortwo]

got fired from being the entertainer at a bachelor party for twisting the groom-to-be's dick into a poodle shape

[json-derulo]

sitting my white ass down and listening