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Are we ready to talk about how the how MHA was about how society failing the vulnerable and othered in society allows for grooming and radicalisation by extremist groups who seek destruction rather then resolution. But that also an individualistic society that only values strength and power does the same. And how both only leads to tragedy and that the only real solution is community building and support structures so people aren't failed by the system anymore?

Or is everyone still pretending that wasn't the entire point

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have been obsessed with ur art since the day i saw the drawing w high lqg and lbh. dream blunt rotation. thank you for drawing and posting all the treasures

HAHA I LOVE THAT!!! AWESOME feels so long ago now since i made that... also i just tried finding it on both my blogs and seems my dumb ass deleted it 💀

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was thinking about this earlier, i think it's fuckin stupid that speech to text software, subtitles, etc censor curse words by default. disabled people are not children, we can handle curse words of all fuckin things

and while we're at it, aac software should include curse words, again many aac users are not children and deserve the same options for communicating as speaking people do

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I had a dream about a Star Trek series with a ferengi captain and he was super endearing but it was like…the worst ship in the fleet and it was full of the misfits of starfleet But I loved this captain I loved him who is he

this is an amazing idea

It’s Nog.

Despite its face as a purported utopia, Starfleet’s got some unfortunate cultural hangups to work through when it comes to certain species, of course. Being the only Ferengi in Starfleet, Nog has to deal with all kinds of racist bullshit from his peers, his superiors, those he eventually outranks.

He makes captain real quick, through a combination of a few open-minded mentors, bull-headed determination, and the good old-fashioned lobes for the business of dealing with people. And he does it despite the bullying, the unfounded rumors and stumbling blocks thrown in his way. He campaigns to have his own ship and gets it simply because the bigots at the top can’t find a legitimate reason to deny it.

But they still try to set him up for failure. They crew his below-substandard ship with the dregs, the misfits, the near-dropouts of the Academy. But instead of getting frustrated, Nog sees opportunity. He knows what his ragtag crew feels like- the unwanted, expected to crash and burn, pushed out to be forgotten.

They know why they’ve been dumped together, pushed aside in the hopes that they’ll just go away. After an admittedly rocky start, Nog sits the crew down in the mess hall and tells these square pegs to start carving corners into the round holes Starfleet has shoved them into. You can’t fit the job? Make the job fit you. We could just give up and be bitter that we’ve all clearly been put here because Admirals Whats-Their-Faces are just waiting for us to bumble into a black hole, or we could surprise them. Prove them wrong.

For himself, Nog adapts the Rules of Acquisition to be compatible with Starfleet culture. His uncle Quark would need a fainting couch if he ever heard, but Nog is thinking profit in a much longer game. He wants to be just the first of many Ferengi to join Starfleet, so he must be a consummate cultural pioneer. More Ferengi in Starfleet might mean eventually Ferenginar joins the Federation. It’s a… very long shot, admittedly, and he might be long dead of old age by the time it happened, but Nog has faith in his people. The females’ liberation movement, going full steam ahead back on his home planet, proves his people can change for the better; it’s a start. Wider acceptance in the galactic community = profit for Ferenginar’s people, and Nog’s idea of profit has expanded somewhat beyond just latinum. (Quark would also need that fainting couch if he ever knew the radical altruistic turn his nephew’s philosophy had taken.)

Ishka listens to her grandson’s weekly transmissions home and could just burst with pride with each one.

He susses out the talents and skills each of his crewmembers has to offer. Puts them to work in ways that dance just around the edges of regulation, finding loopholes in only the way a good Ferengi can. The jerks in charge of handing out assignments keep giving him missions either designed to be a guaranteed fail or are so terrible and frustrating that they should just want to quit, but he turns these fetch quests and garbage details on their side to not only succeed, but return with valuable data or objects of interest. Nothing galaxy-shaking, but more than enough that it makes Nog’s detractors fume at the thought of this upstart shrimp of a Ferengi and all those should-be washouts doing well. Pretty soon Nog’s supporters, the handful of teachers back at the Academy, are all smirking quietly at each other in the faculty conference rooms.

Then Nog and his crew land the big one. One of their little throwaway missions turns over just the right space rock and there’s some universe-ending anomaly staring back at them. Their calls for assistance are treated casually at best- ‘Ugh, it’s the Ferengi and the USS Jury Rig (not their little tub’s real name, but the insult backfired, and Nog’s pretty sure Jenkins is the one who handpainted the nickname on the nacelles during a spacewalk; Nog pretends not to have noticed.), what, did they get caught behind a flock of asteroids?’

Nog and his crew realize help is dragging their warp-speed asses and they’re on their own. Defiantly, they roll their eyes, sigh (gee, shouldn’t we all own condos here at the back of everyone’s priority queue by now?) and get to work. By the time the first ship arrives to help, its just in time to watch the crew of the Jury Rig banish the terrible thing in the sky.

In the fallout, Starfleet command is made aware of all the things Nog and his crew has actually accomplished, along with all the shit they’ve put up with from superiors who set them up to fail. Nog is offered a newer, better ship. Some of the crew are offered promotions, positions on more prestigious ships. To a one, they decline. They’re staying with Captain Nog.

…they take the new ship, though.

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hello tumblr user. in front of you stands a confident and outspoken character. your challenge today & forever is to consider the possibility they may simply have self-confidence and are not just faking to secretly cover up massive insecurities. good luck

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Small reminder (to myself) that no matter how hard we try not every day will be the same - and that’s not a personal failure.

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There is simply no *principled* difference between book piracy and libraries. This doesn't mean you have to be in favor of book piracy if you like libraries, but it means you can't be so on abstract principled grounds, it has to be on a specific materialist "I think below this level of access libraries are good, but above it they are bad; it would be bad if everyone donated books more often, and libraries were much larger and easier to access"

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Liu Qingge's latest medical appointment

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WorkshopCompanion

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Ok clarification. They aren't banning VPNs but seeking to have them require age verification which is still bad but not the same thing

Also their argument seems to be that young children are seeing porn "accidentally online" and that is 100% a parenting issue not an internet issue

I had access to porn while young, every so often when searching sailor moon I'd get porn in the search results instead

But I didn't click on it because I wanted sailormoon

The danger to me was not online porn but parents who blurred lines of what was appropriate daily and a father who molested me combined with a religious magazine that told me that masturbating would mean I would grow up to be a rapist and a pedophile

I don't doubt that encountering a lot do sexual content online when you are young can be upsetting and damaging but why are young kids online all the time?

Why do they have the ability to find porn so young? That is absolutely a failure of the parents

Maybe the UK government should be investing more in children's groups, communities, and support and education for parents

Wild idea I know

But then this was never about protecting children

The UK may be about to ban VPNs!!!

RED ALERT! THIS IS REALLY BAD!

EVERYONE IN THE UK NEEDS TO PUSH BACK ON THIS NOW! LIKE RIGHT NOW!

If you live in the UK you should sign this petition against the age verification rules linked to this becasue they this law is already a legal and privacy nightmare!

and contact your MPs!

Contact Ofcom here:

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"i unfollow if our media interests no longer align" I still follow moots haven't spoken to in years and have learned the entire story of deltarune, mouthwashing, that one ninjago lego show, continuations of media I havent been into since 2018 and many others. I don't need a summary of something I just need Mutual to be insane about it on my dash

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Wikipedia is lost to our friends across the waters.

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Sometimes being a bit of That Customer is necessary

I always try to be nice to people at the other end of the phone but I was told two weeks ago that I was being moved from having an outpatient surgery to having an inpatient one and would need swabs taken before hand

That was the last I heard from anyone.

So I called the hospital yesterday to try to get the ball rolling

The guy at the switchboard kept interrupting me to say he had no idea what I was talking about. To the point I had to say "can you let me speak?"

Eventually he was like "idk maybe pre assessment?"

Me: well can you put me through to someone at pressesment

Him: *acting really put upon*I guess?

He then proceeded to send me through to the wrong section of pre assement but the person who answered gave me the right number and I was able to leave a message

Anyway I'm booked in for those swabs now but this was stupid

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PSA: AO3 HAS BEEN INFECTED WITH AI BOT COMMENTS.

Have you seen one of these dipshits? If you post regularly on ao3, chances are YES, but more likely you didn't notice nor suspect it was a bot. Sometimes they start off nice, or even praise you before getting nasty out of nowhere, like so:

But much like Grok, their newest obsession is nazism.

I don't know where they come from, or what purpose this could possibly serve other than suicidebaiting random people in the internet, I guess; but apparently they've started parroting names from real users to send these comments and shifting their general length to go by undetected. Maybe those are scrappers trying to train 'reviewbots' to be sold as part of some scam service promising to give feedback for newbie writers, who the fuck knows.

Here are more examples of the tone and backhanded compliments you can find in these:

If you regularly post on AO3 or interact with writers in it, please pass this along so they don't feel insane receiving bombs in their inbox. This is ridiculous.