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gonna fuck around and make the NFL watchable

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the humble winged feline

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everyone in the world is either a democrat or a republican. everyone in the whole wide world is a democrat and a republican and america is the largest and most populous country in the world and america is easily the most culturally diverse country in the world because the middle class white people in my state (like a little country) are very different than the middle class white people over there (another little country, once more called a "state") and you could never understand how bad it is in america, the main country in the world. where are you from again? it's bad in america and america is bad but the way that america is run is the only way a country could possibly be run unfortunately. i don't like it but it's the only right way for a country to be run and you don't get it because the main victims of the main country are all here and you aren't. where are you from again? they never told me about that place. i don't think you get that real people live in america. probably because you're a republican. real people live in america and real people are hurt by america but what can you do? god said america has to be like this. god said this because god is real so god is american. you don't get it because you're over there and we're all here in america, the realest country in the world. where are you from again? how can you talk like this with what's happening in america? you're a democrat, right? where are you from again? my country is so large it stretches over yours and presses down hard. it's not my fault that they never told me about that place. my country covers the world. you don't understand how bad this will be for real people in the real world, the first world, the only world. they never told me—where in america are you from again?

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Fallen London: The Roleplaying Game is coming to Kickstarter! Follow the campaign to get a notification when it goes live.

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Fuckin gottem boys

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criminal profiling is just astrology for cops

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sometimes when I'm bored, I go through the list of recent bad faith Wikipedia edits that have since been reverted. a lot of them are politically contentious/offensive topics that attract crazies and trolls in general, but sometimes there are completely innocent inoffensive articles that people attack for no reason. some guy yesterday vandalized the article on the chemical element francium

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would you rather be taxidermied or be a wet specimen wait dont leave

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I'm trying to figure out a good way to say "you really should actually learn the basics of small talk" with sounding like I'm biased against autistic people.

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i think it's cute when americans talk about being from the 'great state of connecticut' or like 'the great state of wisconsin.' not when it's texas or new york or california obviously because then there's the fear that they're being serious. but when americans adopt that really earnest tone and are like 'god bless the great state of delaware' in response to a picture of a seagull swallowing an entire ziplock bag full of cheese-its. I think that's very endearing

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I think discussions around eating disorders would be a lot more productive if more people without eating disorders were able to understand them as essentially a specific manifestation of OCD where the obsessions and compulsions are focused on food and body size. Like with other intrusive thoughts and compulsions, obsessions around one's size or food intake are not rational or necessarily indicative of a person's actual beliefs about the world, and particularly fatness or food.

Many people with eating disorders, especially those who have spent time in recovery spaces and/or body liberation spaces, do not genuinely believe that fatness is bad and diets are good. Many people with eating disorders are vocal and outspoken advocates against diet culture and for body liberation. Fat liberation provides incredibly valuable tools for both fat and thin people with eating disorders when it comes to fighting compulsions around restricting/purging/etc, but it isn't a cure. Many people are aware that their compulsions are misguided or harmful to themselves and others and rooted in oppressive systems, but still feel extremely real terror and pain when trying to go against those compulsions. Many people with eating disorders are fat and are deeply involved with body and fat liberation movements, critically.

This isn't to say that people with eating disorders can't do harm or that we should never be held accountable for saying or doing fatphobic things--obviously a person with OCD's obsessions and compulsions can hurt other people. That being said, it does not help anyone to act like simply being a person with an eating disorder is harmful or indicative of a particularly exceptional investment in fatphobic beliefs, and it also is not particularly useful, accurate, or compassionate to act like the compulsions or obsessions of a person with an eating disorder are somehow more indicative of their moral beliefs or less terrifying and difficult to contradict than the obsessions or compulsions of people with other forms of OCD. In other words: treat people with eating disorders with compassion and as people who are severely victimized by our cultural obsession with thinness and not as the people creating said cultural obsession or else.

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A small collaboration with Ibraheem, whose campaign is still going!!

So if you have the money to spare I implore you to donate:

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Most blessed type of fandom experience tbh

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I actually really like the thing when you're starting to get the hang of a new language, enough to understand and say simple sentences but you gotta get creative to get more complex thoughts across, like a puzzle. I remember a time in the restortation school when a classmate who wasn't natively finnish and did her best anyway dropped something and sighed, telling me "every day is monday this week. I have had four mondays this week." And I understood.

I don't think I speak much of spanish anymore, but in the nursing school training period I did there, I did manage to get by with making weird Tarzan sentences. I got a nosebleed at some point and startled another nurse. Not knowing the words "humidity" or "stress", I managed to string together: "This is ok. It is hot, it is cold, I have a bad day, I am sad, I have blood. This is normal for me." And she understood.

And sometimes you just say things weird, but it's better than not saying it. One time, I was stuck in a narrow hallway behind someone walking really slowly with a walker, and he apologised for being in the way. I was not in any hurry, but didn't know the spanish word for "hurry", but I did know enough words to try to circumvent it by borrowing the english "I have all the time in the world."

The man burst into one of those cackling old man laughters that they do when something in this world still manages to surprise them. He had to be somewhere between 70 and a 100 years old, and I guess if there was one thing he wasn't expecting to hear today, it would be a random blond vaguely baltic-looking fuck casually announce that he is the sole owner and keeper of the very concept of time.