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[elierlick]

This energy though

[krongbly]

The amount of transphobes that just don't know anything about swords or fencing is fucking killing me. Firstly, alot of fencing competitions are gender neutral. Secondly even if someone who did have a massive strength advantage entered a fencing competition that still wouldn't help them too much because a duel with swords is very rarely decided on strength. It doesn't matter how strong you are, if your opponent hits you that's a point for them. Fencing is won entirely by fucking knowing how to fence, shockingly.

Also, anybody commenting "Why is her hair greasy. She needs to wash her hair" needs to step outside the house like atleast once in their life. Girl just won a fencing competition and she was wearing one of these 👇 the whole time

SHE WAS FUCKING SWEATY

[pyroy3]

lmaoo

[pyroy3]

this post was brought to my attention today and I checked her twitter and this made me happy

transition timelines are one of the greatest things we have in the world

[the-haiku-bot]

transition timelines

are one of the greatest things

we have in the world

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

[fandom-man]

[scholarlypidgeot]

@moethh don't hide this in the tags

[circumgutter]

[paperandpencilsandskips]

The Magnanimous Airplane

[kawuli]

well, the ears dropped

[mff-doom]

[jenlog]

this is from the 2000’s btw

[anarchopuppy]

Looks like @staff mistakenly censored this comic, which is an ironic and very funny thing to happen

Here it is again. You might want to save it just in case an accident like that happens again

EDIT: HMM. LOOKS LIKE OP WAS BANNED TOO. WHAT A FUNNY. IRONIC. ACCIDENT

[bruntalism]

[bruntalism]

we kill the bat man

[its-not-a-pen]

previously on: stuff i did today

so a few days ago I accidentally spilled some hot chocolate on my copy of Durrant’s the cloudy mirror, (which critically evaluates the strengths and biases of the historian Sima Qian) and i was in the uni gym for 1 hour painstakingly drying the pages with a hairdryer

today: i thought it would be funny to officially make an offering of some hot chocy to the Grandaddy of East Asian History himself, Sima Qian.

I brought a bar of whittaker’s just for this lol. no expenses spared.

Sima Qian’s Special Hot Chocy has 3 squares of dark chocolate, 1 tsp of sesame paste, 1 tsp of decaf coffee, a pinch of cinnamon, 2 marshmallows, a wafer stick and 1 cup or hot milk. now, i cant be sure that i am the first person in history to offer Sima Qian a cup of hot chocy, but i can be sure that this cup is the most unique, delicious and decadent!

Sima Qian was not present in person so I drank it on his behalf

[its-not-a-pen]

Almost forgot, underneath it are a pile of history books from the zhou-han dynasties, the majority of which would not have been written had not been for the works of Sima Qian + “sexual life in ancient china” by RHV Gulik for laughs.

[qin-shi-huang-di]

and;,,, n one for me,,,,,,,,af ter all iev done for you ingrates

[qin-shi-huang-di]

ok! i’m done being sad! 😊 time for executions!

[mens-rights-activia]

The duality of man is thinking “children cannot help themselves and we all need to be patient with them as they explore what it means to be human in public” and also “damn, I wish this crying baby was not on the plane rn :/“

[ffcrazy15]

Just as courage is not the absence of fear but doing the brave thing in spite of it, patience is not the absence of irritation but doing the kind thing in spite of it.

[truenoodle]

"alas" is a truly S tier english word. fantastic mouthfeel, makes me sound like a world-weary wizard, looks cool when written out. good job to whoever created this word.

[hound-mother]

can i stress the importance of boundary setting? of being able to say no? if you want to be able to play with this shit, or really engage sexually at all, you need to be able to look someone in the eye and say “i don’t want this.”

[hound-mother]

if you can’t look me in the eye and say No, if you haven’t demonstrated an ability to voice discomfort when you feel it, you are not a safe partner and i do not want to play with you.

[houndmother]

specifically what i’m thinking about here, though idk if clarification is needed, is that when you don’t tell me you’re uncomfortable you’re putting me in the position of harming you without giving me the option not to. if you never say “i don’t want this” then i don’t get to say “no problem, we don’t have to!” and you’ll grow to resent and hate me for crossing a boundary that was never communicated to me. actually, this applies to things other than sex too. if you never voice displeasure/discomfort, or direct desire, you’re making it impossible for people to respect you and give you what you want and keep you feeling safe.

[houndmother]

good tags. but i want to respond directly to one thing here bc in a lot of ways it’s the crux of what im talking about. “do not let them find out later that you weren’t actually consenting.” the thing about this is that, if you verbally consent, even if you don’t mean it, you DID consent. your partner cannot read your mind. they cannot anticipate that you weren’t actually feeling it. you don’t then get to turn around and go “oh this person assaulted me because i didn’t actually consent” when you said yes and responded positively to every check in. that person did nothing wrong, you failed to communicate. when someone needs to set a boundary and doesn’t, they’re causing the harm in that situation. their failure to communicate is what is putting them in an unsafe situation.

[dystopianscifiarchitecture]

Sports center, Barentsburg, Svalbard

Pictures by Klaas Vermaas

#architecturephotography #svalbard #1980s #dystopianscifiarchitecture

[redavexat]

[bonivers]

going on a guilt trip do yall want anything

[secondbeatsongs]

if you really cared about me you wouldn't have to ask

[sonoftheria]

✴︎ BETRAYED STRAYS ✴︎

[seren-starlight]

Unoriginal sin. Derivative sin

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I shared a post from another side about AI here and I just saw someone arguing that we shouldn't use AI to detect cancer cells because "AI will literally destroy humanity". And I'm like. I'm as happy as anyone that so many data centre projects have been cancelled and can't wait for people to stop wrecking everything I use by shoving unnecessary AI into it, but I do not think that you are correct, sir. If we could maybe focus on the real problems instead of falling for the AI investor hype (who want everyone to believe their product is world-destroying dangerous, because that gets more investment for some reason) then maybe we can have more useful conversations.

AI will kill a lot of mostly poor people through normal boring means like resource deprivation (most notably water and electricity), stupid mistakes (vehicle accidents, medication accidents, etc.), and being turned into military technology. It is not part of a Vast Conspiracy to Permanently Destroy Human Critical Thinking, turning us into Mindless Zombies, and then being used to Kill Us All. It's not exciting enough for that. And the solutions aren't exciting culture wars, either; they're long, boring campaigns of politics and legislation, all very monotonous work.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#you’re right#but I still fill like it’s doing an excellent job at destroying critical thinking

Maybe I'm just jaded but I've seen way too many panics about things "destroying critical thinking". Search engines destroyed critical thinking and mobile phones destroyed critical thinking and wikipedia destroyed critical thinking and religion destroyed critical thinking and Sparknotes destroyed critical thinking and teaching annotated Shakespeare in high school (that is, Shakespeare written in books that has footnotes explaining the jokes and historical references) destroyed critical thinking and letting kids to book reports on things written after 1980 destroyed critical thinking and adults watching kid's cartoons destroyed critical thinking and whatever random youtuber the person complaining hates the most destroyed critical thinking. I dunno mate I think that the concept of critical thinking is a bit more robust than that. There's always going to be people who mindlessly use whatever tool they have without analysing things properly -- I myself have shared my fair share of clickbait articles without tracking down the info sources. But none of these things "destroyed critical thinking". That was the amount of critical thinking that those people were inclined to do anyway. Your mum asking chatGPT how to cook a chocolate cake, following patently stupid instructions and then getting confused that the cake is shit has not lost her capacity for critical thinking. She's just trusting a gimmick app too much and couldn't be bothered tracking down a more trustworthy recipe.

[sqrt-73]

Interesting math fact of the day #541:

where tₙ is the nth term of the Thue-Morse sequence.

[sacred-portal]