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29 | they/them | ♋️ sorry if ur here abt me reblogging posts from 2014, i'm cleaning out my likes i play some games, read some books and comics, watch some shows, and am in some fandoms.

[postoctobrist]

had to get this out of my head after you said it on the latest NGNM

amischo exismos

[liberalsarecool]

Billionaires lie. All the time.

[weirdplutoprince]

Nothing more painful than when a kind stranger tells you about some random AI feature in a way that is clearly meant to be helpful and you have to choose between nodding along in despair or turning wokezilla 3000 on them

[weirdplutoprince]

Double points if it's actually an Older Relative Who Likes You, and whose bid for connection you Do Not wanna reject

[wizardshark]

*in the middle of sex* hold on homestuck update

[wizardshark]

hey what the fuck. Who dug this up? What are you doing?? I’m not a historical artifact!!

[trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter]

🎶Dug this artifact up! 2013!🎵

[baradragon]

postmodern furry roleplay scenario

[scruff-mutt]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

war crimes were still bad when the president had more decorum on tv

of course if you excuse and normalize this murder in US foreign policy, it will be no different when a complete maniac is in power

[frankendykes-monster]

[hagiomoto]

I remember when people were ignoring that Obama was bombing Libya. They even cheer for it. A polite president would just make you people sleep on multiple genocides and wars.

[girl-effigy]

do you think it feels good for wolves to go awoo i think it feels good

[wizardarchetypes]

oh hell yes an open askbox. builds a nest in it

Aw man I can't remove that bc of the migratory blogger treaty act of 1918. very well.

[monidoll]

the united states of america is the most repugnant country in the world

[skaldish]

I think about this a lot.

[computationalcalculator]

may I add also “butt dial” vs “booty call” vs “bottom text”

[clitorius-maximus]

Hand job vs manual labor

[ohgreatblackbunny]

Tags deserved to be seen

[killadelphia]

[skiplo-wave]

From bottom of my heart

Putting folks hard work through a machine you don’t deserve call yourself fan of art.

[sionnualanicheallachain]

I think there's actually an additional level of betrayal here.

When I was a teenager and learning about critiquing, one of the things I was explicitly taught was that you don't share other people's manuscripts without permission, full stop. If you're critiquing someone's story, you don't show that draft to your partner, or your friend, or anyone, no matter how good or how bad or how funny or how weird or how whatever you think it is. You have been extended a degree of trust, but that does not come with the right to extend that trust to someone else on the author's behalf.

So even before you get to don't feed other people's work into AI, there's the very basic and technology-agnostic social contract of if you are critiquing someone else's draft, the permission to read it only extends to you and the feedback you provide should only be coming from you. Feeding it into AI is adding insult to injury, but even if you took the AI out of it and substituted another human reader it would still be Super Not Okay.

[carnival-toys]

it should be socially acceptable for everyone to bring stuffed animals with them wherever they want tbh

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

quiz: why do lobsters have one claw bigger

[goth-princess-gwennie]

They evolved to handle different prey. the larger crusher claw cracks open ahrder prey like a molar tooth, whilst the smaller pincer claw rips apart soft prey similar to an incisor tooth.

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

theyre lobsided

[goth-princess-gwennie]

oh I see! yay!

[recreationaldivorce]

we should bring back she/her as the generic pronoun

[recreationaldivorce]

im not joking btw im talking about how it used to be pretty common for communist writers to use she/her to refer to a generic worker/person/etc as a #feminist thing. it's more common to use gender-neutral language now but the problem is people are still constantly assuming that the default person is male, even when non-gendered language is used. she/her at least has the effect on the reader of like, giving them a stern look and saying "remember women exist". anyway i want us to bring this back

and before anyone gets silly, no it's not misgendering people who don't use she/her, unless you believe all the cis male writers who did/do this also believe that Everyone On Earth Is A Woman. it's a political writing choice

[dostoyevsky-official]

i was also thinking about how sensual the snow was, how suggestive the curves of the snowbanks appeared, their softness

[alterugdalf]

[foone]

I'm filling out forms for a doctor's appointment and they want me to list any family members who have had various conditions, like diabetes, various cancers, or if they've got "healthy".

apparently being healthy is a serious medical condition now

[foone]

also any form that asks you if you're sexually active and then wants to know what birth control you use should include "homosexuality", "no one involved has a uterus", "it's not that kind of sex" as options.

I mean if you're going to list 16 different methods you clearly are trying to be comprehensive, so lets not kid ourselves about what options are out there

[foone]

they list OCP as one of the birth control methods

HALT, SPERM. YOU MAY NOT PROCEED

[foone]

they also make me check which genders I've had sex with and only offer the vintage genders. come on, I'm not even binary, why are you assuming everyone I've had sex with can easily be slotted into a male or female box?

IT'S 2025, WE HAVE MORE SEXES AND GENDERS THAN THAT

[foone]

contraceptive method

* other, list here: [i only have sex with people who are already pregnant so it's not possible for me to get them more pregnant *shrug*]

[foone]

they have a section called "Social History - Other Factors" and give me various options, like:

military service

sleep concern (?)

exercise (are they asking if I have a history of exercise?)

bike helmet (???)

caffeine

[foone]

neurotypical fuckers are always like "autistic people have trouble following directions" and then hand me a form that asks if I have a history of bike helmet

[auyawolf]

well, do you?

[foone]

mind your own business, that's protected personal medical information