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imagine being forced to do all of the courting in your relationships. now imagine having gendered expectations around doing that courting. now imagine having dysphoria that is triggered by those gendered expectations but still being put in a position where if you do not do the courting you will not have a dating life. text that trans gal first.

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Most-used word in each US state.

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Zoozve, my beloved

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wheres that one photo of the computer programmer lady in the 80s with big curly hair and jeans and is laid back in front of her desk

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you have entered.. the scary door

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Baking is pretty easy if you’re good at following instructions. And if you just keep general baking ingredients in your house at all times you can just make something whenever you have a spare hour or so. Like if you want cookies and you’re out of cookies you can just have some cookies in less than half an hour. Like you can bake a whole cake whenever you want. There’s nobody on this earth that can stop you.

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The computer, which is widely used for playing solitaire[1], calculating large prime numbers[2][3], finding gay hook-ups[4], and organizing political extremism[5][6][7],

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Round 3 Division C: Olivia Voldaren vs Bitterblossom

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IT SPINS! Handmade electric motor! Entirely out of wire! They said it couldn't be done, but I have proven -- it merely shouldn't be done!

Photos don't really capture how ridiculously complicated this thing was to build, so I managed to film myself assembling the components too! Very proud of that.

In total, I've been working on this project on and off for roughly two years. This motor is my third version, though I went through something like seven designs of the commutator section (not counting how many failures it took to build a working example of a given design). I'm very proud of getting this to work at all.

Some close-up photos of all the components:

Six-way commutator. As the motor spins, this delivers electricity to only the correct pair of magnets at a time, leaving the other four off.

Magnet coils. I wound these by hand from very thin insulated wire. The center is a spiral of thicker insulated wire (darker orange) that protects the thin stands from the steel core and then wraps around the outside to hold everything in place.

Spring-loaded arms. These deliver electricity from the stationary frame into the rotating axle. They also have to hinge up out of the way or else there's no room to fit the rotor in place during assembly.

All the components laid out together before assembly.

And the full motor in all its glory!

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“Okay here’s the list of chores I want to get done today” I tell myself before having sudden full body fatigue from seemingly nothing

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Something you should always remember about every single person you see on this site is that they are a tumblr user. They are the kind of person who uses tumblr

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anarchist cities skylines where you start a new game and instantly lose as soon as you place a road

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Me too

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Linux user smugly looking up from their screens (they aren't aware anything happened, that's just their natural expression)