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hello people today i ask: what is your favorite artificial flavor, generally? like if you’re having a new artificially flavored thing and need to pick a standard flavor, what are you going for?

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花より団子？

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PEEPAW IS BACK IM SO HAPPY

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Aside from the obvious Hatsune MISTku and blue-hair-and-pronouns jokes, I think there's actually some interesting analysis to be made around the peculiarity of MIST taking a humanoid form for her digital avatar when she's literally the only CI we see do that

I think there's something to be said about her gaining more connection to humanity through her connections to Maddie and Dave, and also digging through Caspian's memories, I personally believe her choice to adopt a humanoid avatar was in large part due to the political environment of the cloud.

As the very first CI ever, MIST is basically the representative for her entire people. And as we see from TAE-O (the big head UI) in the last two episodes, the attitude of the UIs towards the CIs is positively discriminatory. They don't value the CIs inputs nearly as much as those of UIs, they seemingly create billions of them on whim with no thought for caring for them or considering them family, and the CIs are aren't allotted the same processing power as UIs are, leaving billions on billions of them locked in stasis, effectively comatose, to give more processing power to the UIs.

When MIST talks to Caspian about the CI space program (lol), it's clear that she has a pretty bleak perspective on the CIs continuing to be treated as second-class citizens and "burdens" if they stay on earth, to the point that the CIs are planning to just start leaving Earth for good.

Faced with a cloud that refused to recognize them as full people, whether consciously or unconsciously, I believe that MIST chose a humanoid form to try and appeal to the UIs and UI admins as a political move--to try and make them see her as a person, not an alien being, to try and get them to respect her and take her more seriously.

Which is INTERESTING to me, because this also means that the UIs are treating the CIs a lot like the embodied humans treat/treated them. The UIs might think they're above the humans, more ethical, more evolved, but they're repeating the exact same mistakes--the endless struggle of "us VS them" that Olivia warned about.

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my amoral dead wife who i feel nothing for. she woke up, the average amount of her body underneath the sheets, and looked at me from her pillow with unflinching neutrality. when we went to the beach she laid face down in the sand and didnt move until i was turned away

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Gem with an angler fish helmet!!!!!

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In this video, take a flight through millions of galaxies mapped using coordinate data from DESI.

Credit: Fiske Planetarium, CU Boulder and DESI collaboration

astrohumanist

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when i say “girl” randomly as an interjection i’m speaking to the omnipresent all knowing being of Girl. asking her for mercy. taking girl’s name in vain

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sentries

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rachel, i wish you were born a boy

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I’m curious about all my gaming followers: first Pokémon game, first Zelda game, and first Mario game in the tags?

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Ink & essence.

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Petal dance!!  

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So for all of you who think nothing matters:

We have a local, I guess I'll call it an events complex. It's where concerts and the fair go. It's owned by the city.

When Trump started the whole ICE thing, our commissioner sent a letter to the local representatives, telling them they could use it as a detention center for illegal immigrants. Our event center. Where the 4H kids show their fuckin' lambs.

"The fuck you will" was the resounding reply.

So, when I talk about coalition-building, and working with people you do not agree with or maybe even like, this is what I'm talking about. There was an immediate and vocal show of disapproval, from all sides. We all contacted people we knew would dislike this, REGARDLESS OF HOW THEY FELT ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE. The meeting was packed with people yelling at the commissioners. Of all political stripes. Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Prairie Populist, Independent.

Some were, of course, the tumblr-style arguments about inherent humanity, but--I think more compellingly if you're actually trying to put the pressure on--there were questions of, 'How are we gonna get paid?" "Are you aware of how, as the only event center for more than two hours, much fuckin money this brings into the community? ANd that immigrants of all types make up less than 2% of the population of the entire state?(my argument), "Do we trust the government to pay us?", "Isn't there a fuckin' empty prison in [town about an hour from here]? Are you just being a kiss-ass?' (offered up by a man I know to be very conservative indeed. BUT HE DID NOT WANT OUR SPACE USED FOR THIS) and, an argument that was so good I was infuriated I didn't come up with it, "DO you think the bank is gonna want to be known as the sponsor of "National bank Detention Center?" (Which caught on and the bank had to offer up a letter saying how they hoped the commissioners would use the event center as intended.)

They folded. A letter came out a few days ago from the manager of the event center, saying it was decided that the events center would rescind the offer, as "more acceptable alternatives could be found." They blinked.

That's the thing. All that happened is that a bunch of people got mad an went to ONE TWO HOUR MEETING. It changed everything.

SHOW. UP.

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Walked into the local marriott and guess who was behind the front desk. yuuuuuuup. the immortal king of legend who vaporized so many people it permanently fucked up the timeline.

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every time.

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Happy Pokemon Day!

It's been a while since I finished some art. I started this last year but never got around to finishing the drawing. Thought it was a good time to get back to finishing this.