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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Virginia Woolf

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"A banned book is always a good book. After all, what better company to be in than Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain?"—Marjane Satrapi, in the new introduction to the anniversary edition of Persepolis

Read the classic graphic memoir that remains "urgent, necessary reading" (Kirkus Reviews) twenty years after it was originally created—the story of Marjane Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution.

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Can women be twinks? Can men be butch? Instead of asking these incredibly niche questions ask yourself this, if they weren't allowed to do so, who would you have enforcing that ruling? and then, I hope this kind of re-framing opens your eyes about how silly that would be, to enforce as such. But really, this is what they mean when they say "kill the cop in your head." What good does it do you to try and police people more?

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Do you have any good rec for theory? I am unsure where to start but I wish to begin reading it again and am unsure where to start

yeah, I'll link my introductory reading list -

And if you've already read some theory, I'd recommend looking at works like Dialectical And Historical Materialism, The Tax in Kind, On Practice etc

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if i see one more fucking ‘reject modernity embrace tradition’ meme i’m going to lose my shit

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pay attention to how you feel about things

if something feels bad, try to figure out what about it feels bad, remembering that sometimes situations feel bad for reasons other than malice

people aren't neatly sortable into "good people, who make me feel good all the time" and "secret monsters, who i have bad feelings around because they're evil and plotting to harm me"

sometimes YOU are the person who is out of line and it's important to remember that possibility

even if everyone is genuinely trying their best, you may still want or need a situation to change, and that doesn't automatically make anyone involved evil monsters

try to figure out if the change you need is external (change the situation), internal (change your perspective), or both.

communicate in a way that invites collaboration.

don't go along with things you genuinely don't want (when avoidable) or form relationships with dynamics you're not interested in having.

if you do communicate your need for a change and collaborate on a solution, pay attention to whether the solution is actually being implemented and whether the situation is actually improving for you.

your gut isn't infallible. that's why you have a mind too.

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i'm sure it's also partly that i'm growing and maturing but i feel like getting into horror has really helped me to become more comfortable with my discomfort. like not even in a desensitization way, but in the sense that i make a conscious effort to interrogate my discomfort and disgust and fear and rationalize it and ask myself questions like "is my reaction the intention here or is it something i've internalized and am now reproducing?" and "am i being involuntarily provoked or do i have agency right now?"

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being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager and only finding out that you’re supposed to do warm up sketches every time you’re about to work on serious art when you’re fuckin twenty-five

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I will never get over how weird it feels to have tragic and emotional chapters of your life where you just also still go to work, and the grocery store, and see funny videos online all while feeling such paralyzing fear and heartache

life just goes on no matter what

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decolonizepalestine.com is an easy to navigate website run by two palestinians which breaks down common myths about palestine and provides a reading list organized by a wide variety of categories ranging from history and culture to media and censorship. it’s a good starting point to use if you want to learn more about the modern day situation in palestine and understand the truth behind myths that have been perpetuated about israel’s occupation of palestine.

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Just on a whim, because I know that Alcibiades is one of the weirdest and funniest characters in ancient Greek history, I asked ChatGPT "What's the weirdest thing Alcibiades ever did?"

ChatGPT came back with the details of something Alcibiades (henceforth referred to as 'Alci' so I don't have to keep typing it out) was accused of, but acquitted of.

When I pointed out that he had been acquitted and may not have actually done this thing, Chat GPT apologised and said, "yes, he was acquitted", and then went on to tell me that, nonetheless, the event was significant because it made Alci flee the city.

Alci did not flee the city, he was sent away on a military expedition, which was exactly what he'd wanted and asked for. When I pointed that out, ChatGPT apologised again for being wrong.

I asked again for weird things he might actually have done, and was told one version of a story I've heard before about how Alci stole some stuff from a friend. ChatGPT's version was different from what I'd heard, though, so I mentioned that, and only then did ChatGPT acknowledge that there were different versions of the story. As part of its apology and correction, ChatGPT said that it did not always have access to all information - but then proceeded to provide details of the version of the story I'd heard before, showing that it did, in fact, have access to that information.

I asked again, what is the weirdest thing Alcibiades ever did? ChatGPT gave me an answer, which was a story I'd never heard before, so I asked for a source. ChatGPT told me it was in Plutarch's Lives, and I presumed it was in his Life of Alcibiades, so that's where I looked. When I said I couldn't find it there, ChatGPT told me, sorry for not being specific, it was actually in Plutarch's Life of Nicias. So I went and read Plutarch's Life of Nicias and couldn't find it.

So I told ChatGPT that I couldn't find the story in that book, could it please be more specific? What I was hoping for was a chapter or page number or something, I just presumed I'd missed it.

ChatGPT came back with "no, actually it's not in that book, it may be a later invention, there is no concrete evidence for this story."

TL;DR: ChatGPT cannot be trusted. Even when it does give you a source, it can be wrong. It has no capacity to evaluate the accuracy or likely accuracy of the information it gives you. It will present you with wrong or debatable information and give you absolutely no indication that it may not be correct, or that other versions or interpretations are possible.

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