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Ok can I just say that I highkey love the uniforms for Shiz students in the new Wicked movie? sure they have the regular pants/skirt options, but they also have these pant/skirt combos, as well as short/skirt combos, and in scenes with students you can see that people of all genders are wearing all the different types of bottoms, meaning they aren't restricted by gender. TBH this is so cool and kinda how I wish they did school uniforms IRL. people get to chose what they're most comfortable in, and there's different options for different forms of gender expression.

(also imo the short/skirt combo is just a great idea for students since it prevents people wearing skirts accidentally exposing themselves/being exposed by other students. The students in the movie are all college-aged so it's not as big of a deal but irl a skort type situation would be so much more practical for small children)

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Where's my Jewish phrase for when you people are being irrevocably horny?

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Just tried to play an ancient flute and it started filling the room with this awful miasma that wont go away

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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

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which one of u was going to tell me that tea tastes different if u put it in hot water?

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Biases being broken down on both sides

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ohhhhh boy I get to tell this story now!! Admittedly it’s not as funny as opening a black hole or bringing an IT guy to tears of joy, but I have my own story of stumping the IT guys

so my first year of college, I needed a laptop and my mom was about to get herself a new one anyway so she gave me her MacBook Air. She gave it to me the day I moved in, since she had needed some time to download all her pictures onto USB drives before I could wipe it. So after unpacking all my furniture I plugged in the laptop, and looked up a tutorial on my phone for how to wipe it. But apparently whatever tutorial I looked up was too strong, because instead of deleting the MacBook’s memory, I accidentally deleted its entire software system. My entire laptop had been reduced to a black screen with a blinking white question mark in the center. My university has an IT section in the library, so I brought it there the next day, and the guy was utterly baffled by how I’d managed to do this. Luckily, he helped me redownload the last software system my MacBook had been running on. Mind you, I was a freshman in 2022 and due to my mom’s general disdain for software updates, the last system my laptop had been running on was Yosemite, a program from 2015. That in and of itself also got quite the reaction from the IT guy, but he showed me how to update my laptop on my own and sent me on my way. Also as a side note, since I have an iPhone I decided to make things easier by just logging into my MacBook with the same iCloud account. I got back to my dorm, went to update my laptop, and couldn’t because the laptop kept saying I had the “wrong Apple ID password”. For some reason, every time I input the password on my laptop, it was airdropping a six digit code to my phone. I’m sure the more technologically literate of you already know what that means, but I personally don’t know dick about shit so I had to return to the IT department to ask for help. The people there recognized me, and tried their best to help, but ultimately also couldn’t figure out what was happening. We even tried changing my password a few times just to be sure it was correct, but to no avail. They told me to call Apple support, and once again sent me on my way.

so I went back to my dorm, and called Apple support. After a few minutes of deliberation, the man on the phone realized the problem: nowadays in order to update the iOS on your laptop, you need two factor authentication. But two factor authentication didn’t exist in the days of Yosemite. So where normally there would be a box asking for my password AND a box asking for the six-digit code, I only had the former. We both sat there in silence for about five minutes trying to figure out what to do, until eventually I got tired of waiting and tried the dumbest possible solution on a hunch. I typed my password into the box, got the error message as well as the six-digit code on my phone, then re-typed my passcode into the box immediately followed by the code I’d just received. Somehow that actually worked, although to this day I couldn’t tell you why. The holler of joy I gave frightened the poor man on the other end of the phone, but I told him I’d solved the issue, thanked him for his help, and hung up. After two days and several dumbass moves on my part, I finally had a usable MacBook Air. It’s been 2 1/2 years, on top of the seven or so years my mom had it, and that laptop is still going strong. It can’t do anything too crazy, but considering the most strenuous activity I do on that laptop is play Minecraft it’s worked wonderfully for me. Keep on trucking lil dude.

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wow guys look at the cool uquiz, you guys should take it, i wonder who made it

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chillin on a Saturday night

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To anyone wondering if it's worth it to tear down fascist posters or whatever. I spent a few months last year engaged in silent battle with another student at my school who was putting anti trans stickers up everywhere. I had it down to a system where every night I would walk the five block radius they went up in, and tear down all the ones I could reach, and use a stick to put duct tape over the others. Like, within hours of the stickers going up, I would have already purged the whole zone. I knew the basic schedule of whoever put them up based on when and where the stickers appeared. I probably could have found them in person if I'd wanted to. And I told all my classmates and friends what the stickers looked like and got them to rip them down too. And after a few months of this, the stickers slowed, and then stopped forever.

My point is, a lot of this fashy or right wing stuff is one local weirdo. And if you pay attention, and do a little light organizing with your friends, you can basically make their efforts into a giant sisyphisean exercise in misery. You control your streets!

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I can’t tell if this is so stupid it’s genius or just actually stupid but has anyone online *tried* treating those “alpha male” dudes like they’re talking about the omega verse? Just saying, if those dudes faced the same cringe allegations that 13 yo wattpad writers do on a daily basis they may actually reconsider

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I cannot believe there's absolutely no way to watch free shows and movies anymore, there are too many paid streaming platforms and pirating websites have viruses and ads preventing you from watching it uninterrupted((.)) id rather follow the rules and purchase media moving forward because it is too inconvenient. Seriously, free and no ads or viruses with 1080p streaming is DEAD.