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The Bisexual flag is officially 25 years old today 🥳 💗💜💙 (December 5th, 2023)

happy birthday to this gorgeous flag!! remember that bisexuality has never excluded trans and nonbinary people and has never had any restrictions on preferences to genders :))

Random self kindness check, say at minimum one nice thing about yourself.

I am lore keeper extraordinaire for our dnd campaign ^-^

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Asking AI for information is like asking your drunk uncle for information. Usually wrong, definitely untrustworthy, and a little bit racist.

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when we say "Google used to work" we mean "Google used to be a tool that would direct you to reliable websites, such as government information sites, at the top of its results". Google no longer does that, because Google makes money now, and the way it makes money is to show you ads, and you don't increase the stats for the search tool and look at more ads if you leave Google and go to reference sites or government portals or encyclopedias or research papers. Google would rather you stayed on Google, so it gives you AI and ads and makes it hard to find anything trustworthy.

So, now you have to be your own old-Google. You have to think: Who knows this information? and: Where will they publish it?

I mean this as a directive. You have to learn to do this. You have to think: Do I need a visa for this country? Where will that information be made available by an official source? and take yourself to the government website. You have to think: Is my dentist open on a Saturday? and find your dentist's website, and call them up if they haven't put their hours online. You have to think: How long was Teresa May prime minister? and go to Wikipedia or the parliamentary website and work it out from there.

Consulting reliable sources is a necessary skill, and I'm sorry if you're only learning it now, I know that's a burden, but you can't get the real answers any other way.

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You need to think: Where would the number for the financial aid office of my university be listed?

Because the number in the AI summary may be your university, but it sure as hell isn’t the financial aid office.

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Become ungovernable

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Some people don’t want to hear this but sometimes accessibility is not sustainable or eco-friendly. Disabled people sometimes need straws, or pre-made meals in plastic containers, or single-use items. Just because you can work with your foods in their least processed and packaged form doesn’t mean everyone else can.

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My followers know I hate talking about politics and current events, and generally refuse to do so, but this is important.

A bill has been introduced in the US that would make all pornography a federal crime. Owning it. Creating it. Distributing it.

Under this law, fanart of nude characters would be a federal crime.

Under this law, depictions of homosexuality or simply being transgender, would be considered pornography and a federal crime.

This bill is not going to pass.

However, the reason for this bill is to continue to push the "overton window". The reason for this bill is to make banning pornography seem more and more normal to everyone until they can actually do that.

And remember, they consider depictions of gay characters and transgenders characters "pornography" in any context, including platonic.

They have been working on this for a decade now and it has been working.

If you are one of the people in fandom who thinks that "nasty" porn on AO3 should be banned because it's "icky" or "immoral", then this mental scam is working on you.

Censorship is never about protecting people.

Censorship is always about control.

Do not let the rising moral panic affect your mind and make you weak to propaganda that lets others control you and control what you watch and read.

Do not fall for the scam.

When they say they are going to ban "pornography" it means they're going to ban anything they don't like by calling it "pornography" and they don't like you!!

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It's M.E. Awareness Day!

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'The help we have provided to patients through the welfare and healthcare systems has had little rehabilitative effect,' says a researcher.

"Almost no ME/CFS patients return to work: "The help we have provided to patients through the welfare and healthcare systems has had little rehabilitative effect," says a researcher."

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“They see [in the research data] that very few of the patients were well enough to work again, even nine years after diagnosis. These are disappointing results, but unfortunately not particularly surprising.” —-

“Many patient stories show that those who try to adapt to the labor market often experience relapse. Working life is largely not adapted for people with low and varying work capacity, says Trude Schei, assistant secretary general of the ME Association.”

--- Volunteer in Norwegian ME Association: “There are days or weeks when I can't do anything. Few employers will hire someone who disappears for an extended period of time due to illness. It makes it difficult to return to work, especially if you don't get better.”

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“We need more research to understand the disease mechanisms behind ME and develop more targeted treatments. The healthcare system should listen more to patients,”