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this is me for the next year if you even care

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also i want everyone to know i went to the movie in my merch from the sweetener tour 1) because its the only pink i own and 2) because the rumor of thats when ariana auditioned i felt i owed it to myself to be my most cringe and i was rewarded by receiving one of my favorite movie musicals ive ever seen so it worked!!!!

yes i did see the wicked movie on release night and yes i give it a 1000/10 i am so so happy with it. i will engage in 0 disc horse about this i will simply be happy and await part two. when i was like 10ish i read wicked and cried listening to the cast album and couldnt understand what made me so emotional (hint i was a lesbian) and tonight i went to watch it with my equally gay wife and we cried and it was magical!!!!!!!!!

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yes i did see the wicked movie on release night and yes i give it a 1000/10 i am so so happy with it. i will engage in 0 disc horse about this i will simply be happy and await part two. when i was like 10ish i read wicked and cried listening to the cast album and couldnt understand what made me so emotional (hint i was a lesbian) and tonight i went to watch it with my equally gay wife and we cried and it was magical!!!!!!!!!

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Dice Man — it’s just how he rolls…

More radical fashion from the 16th-century Schembart Carnival here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/radical-fashion-from-the-schembart-carnival-1590

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Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.How to Turn off Word’s AI Access To Your Content

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”:

File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”

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you can discuss the problems within academia literally forever and you probably should but “historians are trying to keep information from you” is always going to be an anti-intellectual, reactionary opinion, sorry, literally no way around that

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homeschooling in the US needs to be regulated but this is one of those conversations that immediately gets crushed by extremist conservatives and even well-meaning liberals will pipe up to be like "well some homeschooling is good!" when that's absolutely not relevant. regulation will not change anything for the homeschooling families who are serious about their children's education. the people who need to be regulated are the fringe extremists

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im an abbot and tbh if i dont vibe with one of my monks i call the vatican and tell them he's tempting the other monks to most profane and unnatural couplings and they just take him back and send a new one no questions asked

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"Would you rather use the app? :)" I cannot begin to describe how much I wouldn't

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hi, i’m your local laid off discord employee, here to talk about exactly how safe it may or may not be to talk about Political Activism on discord. my credentials here are that i was a senior member of discord’s trust & safety team, which is the team that handles bans, legal investigations, and legal compliance. (my speciality was in child safety, anti-grooming, and taking down CSAM, but i also worked occasionally in low level terrorism issues and assisted that team in investigations.) i also know most of the people still working there in these capacities.

the tldr and most important thing to know is: i do not recommend you plan, discuss plans, or use any kind of hyperbolic (or not) language about violence to government officials or anyone in that vicinity on discord. please use signal instead.

a discord trust & safety employee is technically able to see any message you’ve sent under your account, going all the way back to the beginning of your account. unless you have manually deleted a message, it is viewable to a tns employee. now: it is a tremendous part of being on a tns team that we did NOT invade user privacy without cause. cause was usually: another user reported something you said, and we thought the reported message indicated you might be doing something elsewhere that was illegal (for example: a user says “i’m talking to this girl but she’s in high school lol.” i would then try to find evidence as to whether or not there was a child safety issue there. in this example, we’d require clear admission of age from both the user and the alleged high school girl, and then clear evidence of sexual talk between them, and go from there.) finding evidence required looking though all of that user’s messages.

most of the tns team, as i know them, are pretty resolute about not going further in looking than would be needed for action. most of the tns team that i still speak to is very much on the side of blue. your general conversations are probably perfectly safe, and we were very good at figuring out quickly if someone has reported you maliciously. i don’t believe you need to worry too much about your porn and fanfic and all that.

HOWEVER: reported content must be investigated, and discord can, and has been, legally subpoenaed to turn over user information. again, this has nominally been in Very Evil cases (CSAM and grooming, school shooting threats, murder admissions, etc.) but that could change, either at the federal level, or at the discord policy level. discord, like any social media company, could easily be pressured or forced into taking on different internal policies that could get you in serious trouble if you are organizing violent or “illegal” resistance. if that happens, there is a scenario where this incoming administration is given access to your messages.

again: please do not organize your political or social resistance on discord from now on. please use signal to ensure your maximum safety. do not panic if you have already talks about things on discord: you can easily delete your messages, and that WILL remove from an employee’s view. do that and use signal from now on.

stay safe. i love you. 💕

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you should be writing sonnets at the club

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I am becoming aware of the effect a lack of trust in the media has had on people, paired with a dearth of research skills.

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at least there's always the Character

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MOTHERFUCKER

I WAS SO WRONG ABOUT THIS BOOK I FINISHED IT YESTERDAY AND IT MADE ME SO SAD AND I CANNOT STOP THINKING ABOUT IT!!!!!!

i am not naming it yet because it will reveal my actually very niche and new research topic that i really dont want to have ruined but some day SOME DAY i will tell you all

i have begun reading some contemporary adaptations of shakespeare as part of the preliminary research for my PhD topic I'll be proposing and i have been humbled so fucking fast

i picked up the first thing i saw that was relevant to my research and from the description and author bio went oh this will be so fucking bad and jokes on me! i read a third of the book in one sitting last night because its so fucking good already

does it read like ao3 shakespeare tags? of course! but its good fucking food and i am so stoked about even ONE singular book in this category being good so far

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just made a new oc called guy whose life sucks