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Btw, privatization is stealing from *you.* You are the public in "publicly owned." Oligarchs are coming in to take the things we all share ownership of as Americans, like Medicare, Social Security, National Parks, PBS and scrapping them for parts they find profitable.

The right is planning to rob us and quite literally want us to thank them for the privilege by calling it "government efficiency."

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A recent ask you responded to about weight gain as healing reminded me of my late great aunt who would always announce how happy she was to see everyone fat when we'd visit her. I guess she's from an older generation where food insecurity was much more common so fatness was seen as a status symbol but it still made me feel good about my body. Now that she's gone I wish it was more common to greet ppl with "I'm so happy to see that you're fat :)" lol

aww how cute!! reminds me of my 87 y/o croatian grandmother who is always hounding her guests to eat, eat!! ❤️

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When you're a kid/teenager everyone expects you to base your career around your passions and interests and that works for a lot of people but it's not the full story. I wish they would also teach students to consider the lifestyle that career would require.

Like... if I had to choose a passion and work a career around it, I would probably work at a zoo or aquarium. But those jobs require a lot of schooling with STEM classes (which I hate) and a lot of early mornings (which make me feel ill) and an obligation to work in person with no flexibility to move (which makes me depressed). So even if I'd enjoy caring for animals all day, it's not a good career path for me.

My current job is travel writing, which is not my passion. I like it, but it's not my passion. But I work a flexible schedule, I can live anywhere, I get a travel stipend, and my team is really chill. So it works for me.

Rather than solely focusing on "What topics do you like?" I think we should ask students "Of the careers that suit your preferred lifestyle, which are the most interesting?"

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should you delete twitter and get bluesky? (or just get a bluesky in general)? here's what i've found:

yes. my answer was no before bc the former CEO of twitter who also sucked, jack dorsey, was on the board, but he left as of may 2024, and things have gotten a lot better. also a lot of japanese and korean artists have joined

don't delete your twitter. lock your account, use a service to delete all your tweets, delete the app off of your phone, and keep your account/handle so you can't be impersonated.

get a bluesky with the same handle, even if you won't use it, also so you won't be impersonated.

get the sky follower bridge extension for chrome or firefox. you can find everyone you follow on twitter AND everyone you blocked so you don't have to start fresh: https://skyfollowerbridge.com/

learn how to use its moderation tools (labelers, block lists, NSFW settings) so you can immediately cut out the grifters, fascists, t*rfs, AI freaks, have the NSFW content you want to see if you so choose, and moderate for triggers. here's a helpful thread with a lot of tools.

the bluesky phone app is pretty good, but there is also tweetdeck for bluesky, called https://deck.blue/ on desktop, if you miss tweetdeck.

bluesky has explicitly stated they do not use your data to train generative AI, which is nice to hear from an up and coming startup. obviously we can’t trust these companies and please use nightshade and glaze, but it’s good to hear.

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the xbox is a Machine. the playstation is a Device. the switch is a Toy. the personal computer is also a Machine. what the world needs, is a way to play video games on a Contraption

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[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled “do not stand at my grave and weep” after the poem by mary elizabeth frye. the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

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as someone who suffers from disordered eating (restrictive) and has done very questionable things to avoid hunger due to wanting to lose weight, how do you think people whose minds are wonky should go about dismantling the fear/gut reaction to fat bodies, I feel like a horrible person when I see someone fat and all I feel is a genuine fear of their bodies, I'm fine in the sense where I don't restrict nor do I feel the urge too, but I just feel like a bad person for not being able to see the beauty in fat people.

honestly? I don’t feel like answering this because your motivation to do better is coming from a place of guilt rather than any genuine care about fat people and how we are treated. this ask is similar to the last one I posted (although it’s about a week older). it reeks of entitlement. I’m not here to hold your hand because you feel guilty about your fatphobia. if you want to do better, you can figure it out without telling a fat person that you hate their body.

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this has been going around. PSA:

if you have made purchases within the past several weeks on https://goodsmileus.com/, the figure website, you are going to want to monitor whatever payment method you used. word is going around that goodsmile's payment system was compromised in some way and bad actors have been stealing and using people's card information throughout the past month or so.

goodsmile has not been transparent about whatever the fuck happened, but they have allegedly changed their payment system somehow in the past few days. maybe they are still compromised in some way, maybe they are not, but if you have bought from goodsmileus in the past several weeks: keep an eye out. a lot of people are reporting charges from uber and uber eats specifically or having their card added to someone else's paypal account.

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Heartwarming story: Little girl doesn’t have to do anything to fund her dad’s surgery because his expenses are covered by his country’s universal healthcare.

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"it's not that deep" it's never that fucking deep according to some of you. books? not that deep just enemies to lovers. films? not that deep just fun colors on screen. music? not that deep just ai generated lyrics. art? not that deep i could do that. and what if i want it to be deep for fucking once? what if i'm not content with surface level? are criticism and opinions and concerns to be dismissed in their entirety because you are happy floating on the surface never once wondering what's actually underneath? it's just a fun little thing it's not supposed to have big themes or ask the big questions well good for you but i'm asking