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Once you start thinking about humans as a species in a biome, it affects your entire way of looking at normal things.

The other day I referred to female morning joggers as an 'indicator species' in that if you see women jogging in the dark it means that the environment provides migration pathways (sidewalks, clear signs) and doesn't have any known predators of female morning joggers (guy with knife, bear, BigTruck, male morning joggers).

Though, I think that people consider framing humans as animals reacting to their environment as rude.

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Was scrolling through AO3 and found this gem

Enemy to parent is a trope we have to popularise lmao

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Montana opening up some incredible possibilities here. imagine the chaos you could cause by filing a fraudulent marriage certificate for two random people who've never met

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I think every computer user needs to read this because holy fucking shit this is fucking horrible.

So Windows has a new feature incoming called Recall where your computer will first, monitor everything you do with screenshots every couple of seconds and "process that" with an AI.

Hey, errrr, fuck no? This isn't merely because AI is really energy intensive to the point that it causes environmental damage. This is because it's basically surveilling what you are doing on your fucking desktop.

This AI is not going to be on your desktop, like all AI, it's going to be done on another server, "in the cloud" to be precise, so all those data and screenshot? They're going to go off to Microsoft. Microsoft are going to be monitoring what you do on your own computer.

Now of course Microsoft are going to be all "oooh, it's okay, we'll keep your data safe". They won't. Let me just remind you that evidence given over from Facebook has been used to prosecute a mother and daughter for an "illegal abortion", Microsoft will likely do the same.

And before someone goes "durrr, nuthin' to fear, nuthin to hide", let me remind you that you can be doing completely legal and righteous acts and still have the police on your arse. Are you an activist? Don't even need to be a hackivist, you can just be very vocal about something concerning and have the fucking police on your arse. They did this with environmental protesters in the UK. The culture war against transgender people looks likely to be heading in a direction wherein people looking for information on transgender people or help transitioning will be tracked down too. You have plenty to hide from the government, including your opinions and ideas.

Again, look into backing up your shit and switching to Linux Mint or Ubuntu to get away from Microsoft doing this shit.

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not to be all i told you so about ancestry tests but 23 and me went bankrupt and can now legally sell human genetic information to the highest bidder, as per their privacy policy which was signed by approx. 15 million test takers

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maidens if you are going to flee dramatically from my castle in the middle of the night once i reveal my true nature to you please leave your candelabra on the little ledge by the portcullis we are running out of them

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now that trump has tiktok, twitter, facebook and insta in his pocket, get ready for a massive wave of internet censorship. one of trump's greatest weapons has always been misinformation; it's going to become harder and harder to spread facts and criticism going forward. posts that aren't made invisible will be magically ignored by the algorithm. dissidents will have their accounts deleted and voices erased.

this is a suppression tactic. this is another stage of fascism.

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You might find something like this on your property or along public forest trails. It’s about the same size and shape as a ketchup packet and smells like rotten fish. Believe it or not, this little packet protects you, your pets, and your family. The USDA drops these in areas (including Hamilton County) where raccoon-variant rabies has been known to occur. Raccoons find the packet and eat the contents, and it provides them with immunity to rabies. If you find one, simply leave it where it is, or, if it’s in an area accessible to a pet or child, just put on a pair of gloves and move it. Don’t worry, though— even if it was handled by a human or pet, it doesn’t pose any danger besides an unpleasant odor.

~ For Fox Sake Wildlife Rescue

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This is possibly the most insane national security story in the last 50 years. Includes a massive text chain between senior members of the Trump admin gaming out foreign policy and war plans on Signal, and they accidentally added a reporter to the group chat.

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The most popular browsers in different countries in 2012 and 2022.

by @theworldmaps_

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Another de-aged Danny au, but he's with Dan & Ellie & Jazz as well.

Jason has like just arrived back to Gotham, caused chaos in the underbelly due to well, 8 heads in a duffle bag, and is just starting his takeover of Crime Alley. It's going good, great even! And then he busts some sort of gang or smuggling ring run by people in white suits and there's... holy shit why do these four toddlers have Lazarus eyes?!

Is that a lab?! And Lazarus waters?! Jason might be a bit mad but he's not an asshole, he's not going to just leave these kids here to the streets. He can't just take them to the Batclan either, and as much as he begrudgingly trusts Talia, he sure as fuck doesn't trust Ras. Who knows what he'd do to four... what are they, pit-kids?

Now he's juggling his whole revenge-thing, running a criminal empire, taking over Gotham's underbelly, and being a single dad. At least the goonion seems to be down for helping, seeing as he's making Crime Alley safer...? .... Fuck he needs some proper sleep

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Another de-aged Danny au, but he's with Dan & Ellie & Jazz as well.

Jason has like just arrived back to Gotham, caused chaos in the underbelly due to well, 8 heads in a duffle bag, and is just starting his takeover of Crime Alley. It's going good, great even! And then he busts some sort of gang or smuggling ring run by people in white suits and there's... holy shit why do these four toddlers have Lazarus eyes?!

Is that a lab?! And Lazarus waters?! Jason might be a bit mad but he's not an asshole, he's not going to just leave these kids here to the streets. He can't just take them to the Batclan either, and as much as he begrudgingly trusts Talia, he sure as fuck doesn't trust Ras. Who knows what he'd do to four... what are they, pit-kids?

Now he's juggling his whole revenge-thing, running a criminal empire, taking over Gotham's underbelly, and being a single dad. At least the goonion seems to be down for helping, seeing as he's making Crime Alley safer...? .... Fuck he needs some proper sleep

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You're not the Boss of me! (DC x DP)

Okay so I see a lot of fics and stuff mentioning Batman having a "No Metas in Gotham Rule" and Danny either making excuses because he's not a meta or actually listening to the rule.

But uh, Danny has issues with authority and also, Batman has no authority over Danny.

Imagine Batman tries to scare Phantom off when he chases Johnny 13 into Gotham (Kitty kissed Superman so he's going to kiss Batwoman because that'll show her!) and Phantom literally goes,

"We're both vigilantes here. We're both technically doing something illegal. You can't tell me what to do, you're not my dad."

The problem is that Batman is used to getting this attitude. It's the lot in life for a dad with almost a full dozen adopted kids. The other problem is that he knows exactly how to address that tone in his kids - the Full Name Treatment. Batman's mouth moves faster than his brain can remind him this child isn't one of his and he goes,

"Jason Peter Todd-Wayne. When you're in my city, you follow my rules and --"

The two of them make eye contact, Robin laughs from the next rooftop over, and Danny has a whole new set of problems than just Johnny trying to kiss a vigilante lesbian. He's pretty sure he just figured out who Batman is; and Batman knows it.

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You're not the Boss of me! (DC x DP)

Okay so I see a lot of fics and stuff mentioning Batman having a "No Metas in Gotham Rule" and Danny either making excuses because he's not a meta or actually listening to the rule.

But uh, Danny has issues with authority and also, Batman has no authority over Danny.

Imagine Batman tries to scare Phantom off when he chases Johnny 13 into Gotham (Kitty kissed Superman so he's going to kiss Batwoman because that'll show her!) and Phantom literally goes,

"We're both vigilantes here. We're both technically doing something illegal. You can't tell me what to do, you're not my dad."

The problem is that Batman is used to getting this attitude. It's the lot in life for a dad with almost a full dozen adopted kids. The other problem is that he knows exactly how to address that tone in his kids - the Full Name Treatment. Batman's mouth moves faster than his brain can remind him this child isn't one of his and he goes,

"Jason Peter Todd-Wayne. When you're in my city, you follow my rules and --"

The two of them make eye contact, Robin laughs from the next rooftop over, and Danny has a whole new set of problems than just Johnny trying to kiss a vigilante lesbian. He's pretty sure he just figured out who Batman is; and Batman knows it.

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You're not the Boss of me! (DC x DP)

Okay so I see a lot of fics and stuff mentioning Batman having a "No Metas in Gotham Rule" and Danny either making excuses because he's not a meta or actually listening to the rule.

But uh, Danny has issues with authority and also, Batman has no authority over Danny.

Imagine Batman tries to scare Phantom off when he chases Johnny 13 into Gotham (Kitty kissed Superman so he's going to kiss Batwoman because that'll show her!) and Phantom literally goes,

"We're both vigilantes here. We're both technically doing something illegal. You can't tell me what to do, you're not my dad."

The problem is that Batman is used to getting this attitude. It's the lot in life for a dad with almost a full dozen adopted kids. The other problem is that he knows exactly how to address that tone in his kids - the Full Name Treatment. Batman's mouth moves faster than his brain can remind him this child isn't one of his and he goes,

"Jason Peter Todd-Wayne. When you're in my city, you follow my rules and --"

The two of them make eye contact, Robin laughs from the next rooftop over, and Danny has a whole new set of problems than just Johnny trying to kiss a vigilante lesbian. He's pretty sure he just figured out who Batman is; and Batman knows it.