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thinking about that post that's like "by providing a face-preserving way to admit the outgroup can be correct, that 'heartbreaking, the worst guy you know made a valid point' article has done more to rectify online discourse than any rationalist ever will"

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“Elon didn’t mean to sieg heil, he’s just autistic”

Do you guys remember when Kanye said he was gonna go “death con” on all the Jews? Do you remember how his apologists said he was just off his bipolar meds? Do you remember that he doubled down, said he didn’t actually have bipolar, and he had been misdiagnosed by a Jew doctor? Do you remember he proceeded to meet with prominent white supremacists and told infowars he was a Nazi who loved Hitler?

Nobody ever believes the Jews the first time, even though our culture has spent literally thousands of years learning the warning signs. We know what we’re looking at. It’s two consecutive Nazi salutes on a white supremacist’s inauguration day. You can downplay it all you want, but this coal mine’s canary isn’t coming back to life.

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I couldn't find the original post so I redrew it from memory for myself and anyone who needs to hear this

Very important message for LGBTQIA+ Americans today:

We gonna get through the next 4 years out of spite if nothing else ❤️

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mercy seems like a long shot here, so my prayer for inauguration day 2025: may they be incompetent. may they just be really bad at implementation. may their egos choke their effectiveness. may they drown themselves week by week with infighting and selfish posturing. may they be easily distracted. may the very governors and senators and agencies and religious leaders that the new administration expects to be friendly force endless stalemates to preserve their own power. may every delay turn into a three ring blame circus so chaotic that no one remembers what they were doing. may the good and necessary parts of government be too boring to draw attention and keep running quietly in the background. may the next four years be full of sound and fury and signify nothing.

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Once you get to a certain level of advanced maths, you basically become a wizard.

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Once you get to a certain level of advanced maths, you basically become a wizard.

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I love tumblr because the response to art in the tags is like

- wow this is great

- art

- cool art

- good art tag

- I WANT THIS PAINTED ON THE INSIDE OF MY EYEBALLS LIKE THE SISTINE CHAPEL

- cool art

- love it

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if i had a time machine and i wanted to absolutely destroy an ancient emperor or king, i would take them to the shark tunnel of an aquarium. giving them an ozymandias view of their legacy would do nothing, they can see that all empires rot just by looking around them. but the shark tunnel of an aquarium is something they haven’t seen before, something no one has seen before, something magnificent that they could build with technology only slightly out of their reach. they would bankrupt their nation trying to recreate that shark tunnel for themself. their dynasty would collapse within three generations, and, if heaven is on my side, they themself will be eaten by a shark to the delight of generations of historians to come

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DAVID LYNCH 🕊️ as GORDON COLE Twin Peaks, 1990-1992

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i miss him already

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RIP David Lynch (1946-2025)

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musk is going to die in a Tesla explosion in 6 months after sticking his nose where it doesn't belong and we will never get a conclusive answer on whether it was a CIA car bomb or just a normal Tesla malfunction

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Re the last couple reblogs: the thing about all of it isn't necessarily that having the private discord fic servers is bad. And maybe if commenting is something that makes you anxious, you want to be able to react there first and that's a great idea.

The problem becomes if you never then share that reaction with the creator, because even if we aren't writing for you/for the audiences and responses, we're only bothering to post it where you can see it for that.

I mean I'm not going to lie: often we do in fact write for the response. Writing is work; I write very fast, and a thousand words of the very raw-est first-draft story still takes at least an hour just to do the physical writing, let alone the dreaming up, the planning, the editing, the remembering, and everything else. Sometimes the existence of the art in and of itself at the end is enough reward for that work - but bluntly sometimes it really isn't.

But in addition, posting is also work in and of itself. It is effort; even when I had it moooore or less down to a cut-and-paste for YBEB it was several minutes for sorting it out, posting it and double-checking it per single-chapter fic (multi chapter fics, all the more so).

Fan-creators put their stuff up for free; fanwriters in particular create the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of novels a year which are then available for free to those who like them. (Other fan creators also make amazing efforts but as my thing is writing writing is the one I have equivalent-estimates for).

Some kind of response that the author can see and is made aware of - that is positive - is the only reward the author gets for going to the effort of, if not writing it, at least posting it where you can see it.

If you want that to keep happening, it's probably a good idea to give the authors you like some kind of reward. And I really am speaking just of the fics you actually like a lot!

An easy way is just to have a lot of standard Delighted Responses that you can use - that much itself is actively worth it to share with the author, because that's specifically the recognition/awareness that someone has loved it that counts. Others have suggested the also delightful idea that you just c/p the gushing you may or may not do in the private servers, and so on.

But frankly "this was delightful" or other simple handsfuls of words expressing happiness to read it is all you really need.

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Need yall to draw more werewolves with cunty booty shorts that say JUICY or RABID on them

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For several wild seconds, I deeply visually misinterpreted this photograph and what turns out to be a marlin scan for me as being the legs of the guy in front, seated on the bicycle

Rodrigo Moya, Marlín en bicicleta, México, 1968

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Has anybody gone over to that other website to tell him?

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