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Gumby went to Vietnam

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maybe i shouldn’t be bitching about seeing discourse on the discourse website but holy shit can you people disagree (even vehemently. be diametrically opposed and enraged.) without calling other human beings the most cruel epithets you can think of. especially y’all who claim to be internationalists and leftists. yeah maybe that person you’re arguing with is entirely morally bankrupt and ignorant. but can you please treat other people like people instead of being caustic assholes.

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i also think about this in relation to the endless cycle of content creation

spam emails are horrifying on an entirely different level once you actually begin to grapple with the material reality of ‘cyberspace’. how many servers were involved in dumping this message into my trash folder, where are they located, how much water goes into cooling them every day? where did the metals come from to build these facilities, who maintains them, how much labour and suffering and exploitation is required to bombard me with 50 messages a day i don’t even look at for products i will never buy? not just useless or a nuisance, but actively harming the earth & its people, and for what. zero social value, zero human communication, just capital trying to metastasise

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The concept of "spyware" has disappeared from the common internet lingo after it became the case that the word could now be used to describe nearly every major website and a huge percentage of the most commonly-used software.

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it really is crazy that if your body happens to look a certain way then its presence in any sexual capacity is automatically deemed "fetish material" and the people decrying it are convinced that they're somehow protecting your dignity. i think if you can't see someone express attraction to somebody with an amputation or who's 300lb+ or any other bodily variation without calling them a disgusting monster then that might actually speak less to your righteous dedication to the marginalized and more to your bigoted neurotic hangups about our bodies and sexual agency

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reading about how herodotus thought it was awesome that the babylonians had no doctors (patently false) and that instead they brought their sick out into the streets for whoever walked by to diagnose and there's a lot i could say about that from an academic perspective but all i can think of is

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washed up gun from lake michigan

via coravioletwalters

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walking my turtle

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read Why Does He Do That and you will understand

awareness of "the abused can become the abuser" is useless without the knowledge that abuse is a choice anyone makes that is made for self-benefit. recently I watched an interview on the psychology of domestic abuse and the woman who interviewed those who inflicted the abuse always made sure to ask "why didn't you take it further?" because the answer would always show the abuser hadn't simply lost control. for example one man said he pushed over his girlfriend but didn't kick her once she was down because he didn't want any noticeable bruising that caused suspicion. human psychology is much less poetic than you think. too many psychology enjoyers only enjoy the poetic

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it disturbs me that a significant number of people think that the issue with sexual violence, gendered violence, and misogyny is sexual desire rather than dehumanization, so they are relentlessly suspicious of others' (and their own) desires while simultaneously never at all interrogating others' (and their own) dehumanizing beliefs about other people, both within and outside of sexual contexts

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If there’s anything I’ve learned in life it’s that being confident and having self respect will sometimes evoke some of the most irrational obsessive hatred and anger in other people. Particularly if you’re perceived as someone who doesn’t “deserve” to feel that way about yourself there’s a very specific type of anger that comes from people who can’t understand why someone who they think should hate themselves doesn’t

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Putting aside the racial, environmental, political, economic history of suburbia I think the biggest characteristic of suburban psychology is a pathological, borderline self-destructive inability to handle any discomfort at all, no matter how minor (and in many ways, the more minor the worse it is). I can't explain it. It doesn't always manifest in anger. But once you notice it, it becomes very hard to unsee

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RULE NO. 1 OF WOUND CARE: ignore itttt :33

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as a professional hater, this speaks to me

tacking this screenshot to every single cannibalism dog metaphor pomegranate poetry/purple prose post i see on here

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classic