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gripping my thighs with my nails about this

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Art by JiHun Lee

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Franny Choi, from "I Guess By Now I Thought I’d Be Done With Shame"

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The thing about freeing the nipple is that it's not even about if you have breasts or not (already arbitrary but I digress) it's fully just gendered oppression. There is no ontological difference between Male Nipples and Female Nipples and all of it crumbles apart if you like, think even a little about people who aren't cis + perisex & how people try to apply these rules to them

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you ever see a picture of two guys and the only thing you can think is oh definitely one drunken handjob in 2006

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Can you explain to me the dfab, fmab and any others I have missed. I have been seeing them around later but do not understand their meanings. Thank you

dfab means designated female at birth. fmab means Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood

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Worlds is now over, and with that is the end of the Elemental Series for the year! While I won't be making any more edits, please feel free to continue - I'll keep this post updated until they all peter out :) If I missed yours, please reach out!

Thank you so much for everybody for taking part. Whether it was making or sharing, it was wonderful to watch our tiny tumblr community rally over an event like this. Maybe we'll try something similar next year...?

Elemental Haiku by Mary Soon Lee

Hydrogen | Hydrogen | Helium | Lithium | Beryllium | Boron | Carbon | Nitrogen | Oxygen | Fluorine | Neon | Neon | Sodium | Magnesium | Magnesium | Aluminum | Silicon | Phosphorus | Sulphur | Chlorine | Argon | Potassium | Potassium | Calcium | Scandium | Titanium | Titanium | Vanadium | Chromium | Chromium | Manganese | Iron | Cobalt | Nickel | Copper | Zinc

Gallium | Germanium | Germanium | Arsenic | Selenium | Bromine | Krypton | Rubidium | Strontium | Yttrium | Zirconium | Niobium | Molybdenum | Technetium | Ruthenium | Rhodium | Palladium | Silver | Cadmium | Indium | Tin | Antimony | Tellurium | Iodine | Xenon | Caesium | Barium | Lanthanum | Cerium | Praseodymium | Neodymium

Promethium | Samarium | Europium | Gadolinium | Terbium | Dysprosium | Holmium | Erbium | Thulium | Ytterbium | Lutetium | Hafnium | Tantalum | Tungsten | Rhenium | Osmium | Iridium | Platinum | Gold | Mercury | Mercury | Thallium | Lead | Bismuth | Polonium | Astatine | Radon | Francium | Radium | Actinium | Thorium

Protactinium | Uranium | Neptunium | Plutonium | Americium | Curium | Berkelium | Californium | Einsteinium | Fermium | Mendelevium | Nobelium | Lawrencium | Rutherfordium | Dubnium | Seaborgium | Bohrium | Hassium | Meitnerium | Darmstadtium | Roentgenium | Copernicium | Nihonium | Flerovium | Moscovium | Moscovium | Livermorium | Tennessine | Tennessine | Oganesson | Ununennium

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Elemental Haiku by Mary Soon Lee

Hydrogen | Hydrogen | Helium | Lithium | Beryllium | Boron | Carbon | Nitrogen | Oxygen | Oxygen | Fluorine | Neon | Neon | Sodium | Magnesium | Magnesium | Aluminum | Silicon | Phosphorus | Sulphur | Chlorine | Argon | Potassium | Potassium | Calcium | Scandium | Titanium | Titanium | Vanadium | Chromium | Chromium | Manganese | Iron | Cobalt | Nickel | Copper | Zinc

Gallium | Germanium | Germanium | Arsenic | Selenium | Bromine | Krypton | Rubidium | Strontium | Yttrium | Zirconium | Niobium | Molybdenum | Technetium | Ruthenium | Rhodium | Palladium | Silver | Cadmium | Indium | Tin | Antimony | Tellurium | Iodine | Xenon | Caesium | Barium | Lanthanum | Cerium | Praseodymium | Neodymium

Promethium | Samarium | Europium | Gadolinium | Terbium | Dysprosium | Holmium | Erbium | Thulium | Ytterbium | Lutetium | Hafnium | Tantalum | Tungsten | Rhenium | Osmium | Iridium | Platinum | Gold | Mercury | Mercury | Thallium | Lead | Bismuth | Polonium | Astatine | Radon | Francium | Radium | Actinium | Thorium

Protactinium | Uranium | Neptunium | Plutonium | Americium | Curium | Berkelium | Californium | Einsteinium | Fermium | Mendelevium | Nobelium | Lawrencium | Rutherfordium | Dubnium | Seaborgium | Bohrium | Hassium | Meitnerium | Darmstadtium | Roentgenium | Copernicium | Nihonium | Flerovium | Moscovium | Moscovium | Livermorium | Tennessine | Tennessine | Oganesson | Ununennium

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Terbium is a silvery-white rare earth meta with the symbol Tb and atomic number 65. It is malleable and ductile, and has a variety of applications in electronic and magentomechanical devices.

T1 has never lost a Bo5 to the LPL during Worlds, including defeating BLG 3-2 in the 2024 Worlds Finals.

As part of the LoL Esports Elemental Series

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London Recap

Went to London to present at a conference the past week, which is why none of the lolelements stuff was updated! Sorry y'all! I obviously did a bunch of OTHER things while there that were Worlds Related, so I threw them all below:

Ran into multiple T1 staff including kkOma in and around the hotel I was staying in - turns out both teams were staying in the neighbouring hotel. They seemed busy. Left them alone.

Headed to the Fnatic networking party thing after day one of the conference and saw some old friends and also Sam Matthews? One of the guys was kind enough to give me a tour of the office space, which was neat.

Skipped out halfway through day three of the conference (it was getting really bad, in my defence) and went to the TL meetup and Fan Fest. Got autographs from the TL team and met a ton of people at Fan Fest! Pins were sold out, though.

Somehow snuck into this closed invite event back at the TL building (I think I caught the party organiser in a good mood lol, he was letting some fans in) and met a bunch of different influencers?? Like everybody relevant to League from Liquid was in there. Was extremely strange. Nabbed some stickers. The person watching over the merch did not give a shit.

Went to the Fan Fest morning of to look around. Saw Teddy the LPL caster SPRINTING to the arena so I did not get interact with him :(

RSVP'ed to the YouTube Gaming party - Untara, Wolf, Yamato, and Tifa were there if cooped out far away from the plebeians. Was a pretty good experience! Nabbed Untara and Yamato's autographs and had a pretty good time being the singular BLG voice in the audience for the bit.

Overall, I had a good time! Shame we didn't get tickets but otherwise I was really glad to actually get to be at a LAN event, y'know? MSI 2025 next!

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When I was a kid I read a ton of books that were definitely not appropriate for my age. One of two things would happen:

I was too inexperienced to understand what I was reading, and it had no effect on me.

I understood what I was reading, and I leveled up.

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Cobalt is a hard, lustrous metal that is only found within the Earth's crust in combination with other elements. It is light gray in its isolated form, but when ground down or combined, it produces a vibrant blue pigment that has been used since antiquity to color porcelain and glass.

Park “Ruler” Jaehyuk was one of the five original members of Gen.G, with his debut team being the Samsung Galaxy roster that won Worlds in 2017 and was then bought by KSV E-sports. Ruler would stay with Gen.G for the team's first five years, staying long after all of his former teammates left the LCK and gaining a reputation for his fierce loyalty to both the team and the few supports he played beside.

The only other team Ruler has ever played for, excepting his appearances on Team Korea in both the 2018 and 2022 Asian Games, is Jingdong Gaming, an LPL team which he joined in 2023 following EDG Viper's return to the LCK. Before leaving for China, Ruler stated on stream that the only LCK team he ever wants to play for is Gen.G and that Gen.G is the team he hopes to retire from.

Following Ruler's instatement in 2023, JDG was wildly successful, winning the LPL in both spring and summer as well as the Mid-Season Invitational. Ruler is the second player after and only player other than Deft to achieve the feat of winning the LCK (summer 2022), the LPL (spring 2023 and summer 2023), M.S.I. (2023), and Worlds (2017).

Despite originally signing a two-year contract that would keep him for 2025, on October 27th, Ruler officially left JDG. It is yet unknown where he will sign for the upcoming season, though he has suggested that he may be looking to finally return to the LCK.

This post is part of @enarratives’ LoL Esports Elemental Series.

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a post-doc was doing a guest seminar at my institute and at the beginning of his presentation he was explaining why he chose birds for his evolutionary analysis - so he said "well first of all, because birds are the best and most interesting animals and it's fun to study them" and a few professors in the room gave him a very serious nod

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so like I said, I work in the tech industry, and it's been kind of fascinating watching whole new taboos develop at work around this genAI stuff. All we do is talk about genAI, everything is genAI now, "we have to win the AI race," blah blah blah, but nobody asks - you can't ask -

What's it for?

What's it for?

Why would anyone want this?

I sit in so many meetings and listen to genuinely very intelligent people talk until steam is rising off their skulls about genAI, and wonder how fast I'd get fired if I asked: do real people actually want this product, or are the only people excited about this technology the shareholders who want to see lines go up?

like you realize this is a bubble, right, guys? because nobody actually needs this? because it's not actually very good? normal people are excited by the novelty of it, and finance bro capitalists are wetting their shorts about it because they want to get rich quick off of the Next Big Thing In Tech, but the novelty will wear off and the bros will move on to something else and we'll just be left with billions and billions of dollars invested in technology that nobody wants.

and I don't say it, because I need my job. And I wonder how many other people sitting at the same table, in the same meeting, are also not saying it, because they need their jobs.

idk man it's just become a really weird environment.