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Hey, don’t cry. Trans men and trans women holding hands forever, okay?

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The annual big poll, please RB so I can reach as many people as possible

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having a freeze response to stress is so funny in the context of normal adult stressors. millions of years of evolution are trying to tell me that the email will not find me if i stay very still and do nothing

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There’s certain hobbies and interests that aren’t inherently conservative or regressive but do attract a lot of people who are those things or worse and when you’re a progressive person involved in those hobbies hearing that someone else is interested in your hobby usually has to involve some “But are you normal about it?” conversations before you get too excited

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For weird dice Wednesday I submit gingerbread d20 I made for the last session before Christmas. I got to roll it and it rolled a nat 20!

This took a whole day to make and involved filing down many triangles to fit, and it tasted incredible.

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A billionaire donating his money to help make up for Trump pulling the US out of the Paris climate act, Elon Musk essentially getting kicked out of the white house, Trump possibly getting impeached next month... This world sucks but there is a shred of hope after all

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Schools, houses of worship, hospitals, and other "sensitive locations" are no longer federally protected from ICE raids and arrests. Many school districts and religious organizations are creating plans to protect immigrants and find ways to keep ICE out (namely through officially making their buildings private and therefore requiring warrants to enter), and I strongly recommend looking into local efforts and supporting them when possible, but a lot of the information about ICE that was true a week ago no longer is. Be aware, be prepared, and know your rights.

[more information]

[ACLU'S Know Your Rights page for immigrants, available in other languages.]

[Red cards for immigrant rights to print for free or purchase large amounts and share, available in other languages.]

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bro your whimsy. you forgot your fucking whimsy. your solemn and somber attitude is scaring the hoes

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So I had a hysterectomy today (hooray!) and I brought along my stuffed orca, Shamu, as a comfort object. And everyone i interacted with during my pre-op was like "Oh! Who's this?" so I was telling them all about him, how he's been with me since I was 9 and gone on every single vacation and road trip, and they were telling me about their own stuffed buddies (one lady said she still has hers after 40 years!) and all of this while I was signing consent forms and providing a list of the things I'd brought with me, you know, small talk.

So then a nurse comes over and goes "Okay, I've got some stickers I'll put on your things so we know they're yours" and I'm like "OK cool" so she puts a sticker on my coat and stickers on my bags of clothes and then she turns to Shamu and I'm like "oh I guess he gets a sticker too"

But no. She pulls out a hospital bracelet that's an exact copy of mine and slaps it on his tail, like so:

And i was delighted by this, so I took a picture to send to my friends, who were equally delighted, and were cracking me up with their reactions (like so:)

Anyway, they take me back and put me under, and when I awake groggily a few hours later it takes me a minute to get my bearings, so I don't notice Shamu at first. But then I realize he's tucked up next to me in the gurney, so I grab him, and my hand touches gauze.

And I'm like "huh?" so I look at him and I realize

They gave my fucking orca a hysterectomy

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he would not fucking say that but it’s he would not fucking talk about his queer identity like he was reading out of a college campus lgbt center brochure

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*aborted little brother voice* it would be my turn on the xbox...if i existed...

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well. in AI news, it seems like a Chinese company has managed to match OpenAI's most advanced models in efficacy and is taking it to market for 3% of what OpenAI charges.

which may be the first tolling of the bell for the ai bubble to finally pop

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andrew minyard character of all time. he's toxic. he doesn't talk to cops. he has an identical twin brother and they hate each other. he made his identical twin brother promise not to have any other friends and then doesn't even talk to him. he might be a misogynist. his only friends are a born-again lesbian who can beat him up, the runaway son of a yakuza-affiliated serial killer, and his therapist. he's a student athlete. he hates sports. he killed his mother. he's a Mean Girl who runs his friend group like a cult. he's a crim major for the bit. he has an eidetic memory. he's petty. he likes to get people gifts. he does coke sometimes but says it doesn't have any effect on him because he has too many mental illnesses. he's the love interest. he doesn't smile. he was right about wwiii. y2k goth. repeatedly risks his life to help people in situations that have absolutely nothing to do with him and says it's out of boredom. when they picked him up from the psych ward he got in the driver's seat and blasted screamo the whole ride back and didn't say a single word to anyone. oh my god he is exactly five feet tall. he's even gay

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My blog right now is really an art gallery of subpar media. I need to think (and post) about something smart, because my brain is actively rotting. And I think I'm making you stupider.

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https://twitter.com/archeometrie/status/1170031822614474752?s=12

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i was born a mouse with a twinkle in my eye and the doctor looked at me and wept "he'll never get the cheese" he said