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May / 28 / they/she Hi, I'm May and I love ponies, Pokemon and other cute stuff! Don't be afraid to talk to me, I love making new friends!

[crumbwinner]

this clip makes me so emotional. i feel like this sometimes, at night especially. That the whole wide world may swallow me whole. That i’m wide-eyed in the face of God. that I’m not a victim of smallness but rather its loving disciple.

[multicore-processor]

The year was 2024. My friend had given me a Uniform Resource Locator, which I plugged into the Hypertext Transfer Protocol.

Bits flowed into my computer from hundreds of miles away, and the Picture Elements of my Liquid Crystal Display lit up as the hypertext rendered.

In an all too familiar pattern. Once again, I had become the victim of a Rick Roll.

[teomodo]

[redstonedust]

may be a hot take but i think the fact minors can access 18+ content by just clicking a button that says 'yes im totally over 18 trust me' is like. totally fine tbh. its a non-issue. i dont care if curious teenagers are looking at porn. they've been doing that for as long as porn has existed. id rather teens explore their sexuality through images on the internet than rush into real life experiences when they're not ready for it yknow. the UK is trying to put stricter age verification in place (which in turn is becoming an online privacy nightmare) and like. for what. who is it helping. why is this a problem.

[bealittleimprobable]

People panic about "But what if kids pick up bad ideas from it???"

When I was a kid, Power Rangers got banned at school because we all thought it was incredibly cool and kept trying to kick each other in the head. No-one bothered explaining "Those are trained actors and it's all practiced, they don't *actually* hurt each other, and you're not good at that yet", they just banned it.

So we went to the park after school and read Kim's smuggled copy of the Power Rangers magazine and kicked each other in the head there instead.

(This is a metaphor, but it's also literally true. So much kicking in the head.)

God forbid parents actually talk to their teenagers.

[evilnicegirl]

i hope that someday there will be no more advertisements ever again

[suigintou]

always blows my mind how many european countries still have monarchs. what do you mean you have a king. kill that guy

[identitty-dickruption]

there is also something kind of gross to me about the constant insinuations that the "questioning social norms" component of autism immediately turns every autistic person into a genderfuckery kinkster leftist who don't give a fuck. and I say this as someone who is a genderfuckery kinkster leftist. autism isn't a political alignment, it's a disability. sometimes the autism 'sense of justice' is wrong. sometimes an autistic person will find a home in conservative ideologies for many of the same reasons as other autistic people will find a home in communist ideologies. sometimes the autistic communist will come up with dogshit analysis even as they're guided by their sense of justice, because good political analysis isn't a feeling or a neurotype, it's a skill that you cultivate. I know it would be pleasant and emotionally soothing for you to be able to believe that autism turns someone into a superpowered leftist but it's a politically fraught and deeply questionable line of thought to be feeding into

[identitty-dickruption]

my autistic ass is currently doing a phd in disability & political theory on account of my special interest in late 20th century political philosophy. I am still frequently wrong. I read theory that I agree with for a while, only to think it through and realise that the theory has bullshit applications. I am a human person who happens to be an autistic leftist. it is important that I am allowed to be wrong and it is important that you are allowed to be wrong and it is crucial that we do not pin any of this to Autism

[syring3]

[scitwixi]

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Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash are very cute!💜

[atthebell]

the idea that jerking off every day makes you a depraved sex addict is so nuts the current obsession with declaring anything a sex/porn addiction is so fucking stupid why am i seeing other queer people and people on the left capitulating to this regressive shamey bullshit. experiencing pleasure is not sinful or overindulgent. we cannot be going around telling people they're not allowed to be horny and not allowed to have whatever amount of sex they want to have.

[moveslikekeithrichards]

when you save alarms for specific things but then you just keep reusing them. like sure wake me up at the chocolate milk alarm, what do i care

[madamepestilence]

telling people that the nazis were socialists is holocaust denial by the way

[ghostboyravenight-deactivated20]

“the nazis named themselves the national socialist german workers’ party in order to appeal themselves to the large population of workers who were greatly impacted by inflation and the economic crash of the 1920s and were not— in fact— socialist” should be an easy to accept explanation, but for some reason people don’t seem to think that the nazis would lie about their motives.

[lepusrufus]

I think we as a society don't hate ads enough. We can always hate them more you know.

[probuccalfat]

it’s wild how tech literacy lasted like one generation barely before it fell off

[tbposting]

The tech industry saw to it. In a drive to both expand their market by making it easier to pick up tech without knowing how it works, and in an effort to lock down controllable walled gardens and ecosystems they could fully control and exploit, tech has continuously and systemically destroyed both the need for tech literacy and the avenues for developing it independently.

You are not supposed to know how your devices work. You are not supposed to modify them without paying a service fee, you are not supposed to add functionality to them unless they sell it to you, and you are DEFINITELY not supposed to repair or reuse them when they could make you replace them at full price.

Tech literacy didn't die, it was slowly strangled out of people.

[owenthetokencishet]

So-called "free thinkers" when their friend has to pee

[gaynfl-moved]

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

guy who invented western musical notation: so we're going 12 tones to an octave, named after letters of the alphabet. me: got it. A to L. inventor guy: that's not what i said