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is it weird that, as a non-furry, i still wanna commission fursuit makers, simply out of love for the raw skill and passion that goes into fursuits?

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watching the gran turismo movie rn and just imagining how fuckin funny it'd be if this was about outrun instead.

yu suzuki revitalises the ferrari brand by having a brummie do 260mph drifts down the entirety of a florida highway with a blonde supermodel in the passenger seat.

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Hi! Do NOT donate to any fund claiming to raise money for Luigi, he is being held without bail, and his defense lawyer has also so far turned down offers for payment. All these fundraisers are scams.

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I actually do think it's very sad and kind of troubling that the same mind that produces 'femicide is such a present danger that taylor swift, probably the most famous white woman in the world, would be murdered if she came out as a lesbian' naturally immediately connects the desire to racially profile your ubereats driver to the thought 'clearly the person ordering has to fear far right pogroms and this is a necessary defensive tactic'.

it makes me think of the time I posted about the concept of mixed use space in urban planning and almost instantly got someone asserting that it would be impossible to share facilities because one in ten people through the door would be destructive sociopaths who break and steal things for no reason. there is this increasingly normalised abject fear of others that is inherently right wing no matter how you try to dress it in identity politics. gotta get some of you guys out of the house unfortunately.

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I'm bringing this one back bc I think her expression is so cute

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A bit of a pallet cleanser for everyone.

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seeing a lot of people suggest that healthcare CEOs should go into hiding or employ more private security and i could not possibly disagree more. you can't live the rest of your life in fear. i think it's imperative that they get back to work, in person at least 3 days a week at the headquarters address listed on their company's website.

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so last week there was a tweet that i guess you'd say went viral of some woman in america complaining that "my doordasher's profile said she was a WOMAN and a MAN (trans woman) showed up at my door!! i could have been RAPED"

and the bizarre self-tells from other people with regards to this tweet, among other things, really is just revealing to me that in the average westerner's mind, Gender™ is supposed to be some form of magic ward that only allows those ""worthy"" into cis women's spaces.

Like, I'm a guy, right? Unless you wanna get into some utterly absurd transvestigation bs, cis society would define me as male. I could literally just walk into any women's bathroom if I wanted to. It doesn't matter if it says "BIOLOGICAL Women ONLY!!" in the same tone as a treehouse sign reading "NO BOYS ALLOWED!!". At the end of the day, it's still a door. It's not like the sheer power of Gender Assignment™ will turn me to ash the moment I enter.

For that matter, it doesn't matter if there's a bouncer at the door that has to grope me on entry. Tucking isn't, like, sacred knowledge unknown to the cis folk. I figured out that was something you can do with a penis when I was, what, 12? Heck, if I was going in there to violate a body in the first place, what's to stop me from just pepper-spraying said Gender Guard?

Would tying the gender marker on someone's documents to their quick service delivery profile really solve the core problem? What, you're gonna insist that every driver you get is AFAB? Ignoring that, y'know, cis women rape people too, that still doesn't solve this supposed problem of not letting those tainted by The Bad Hormone near your house. It's... a house. It exists in the same physical dimension I occupy. If I wasn't more interested in just about anything else, I could probably figure out the residence of at least one conventionally attractive single woman in about a week, just by going on daily one-hour walks from one end of the neighbourhood to the other.

The solution is not to engage in this cop-coded isolationist bullshit. The solution is to consciously reject the fascist narratives of being entitled in any way to unrestricted access to someone else's body, and to make the concepts of bodily autonomy and consent core values, not footnotes.

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how far will you go?

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Israel swapped the food aids with bags of sand, Middle East Monitor reported

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by hook or by crook, perhaps even; babadook

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Heads up: Ryan Langley, the guy behind @sonichedgeblog, @segacity, @oldgamemags and @playstationpark is directly contributing to the bank account of everyone's least favourite muskrat. I've been a fan of Ryan's for years now, but this is completely unacceptable. I've unfollowed him on all the platforms I use, and I'm not contributing to his Patreon. I suggest you do the same.

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the thing about the tie-in songs for the sonic movies is that as much as some (let's be blunt, predominately white) sonic fans would like to insist otherwise, hip-hop/rap and its associated subgenres and offshoots have always been part of sonic's musical identity.

now, granted, the songs written for these movies are kinda generic (especially "stars in the sky" imo), but they fit well enough for these movies, and personally i can't imagine sonic 1 without "speed me up". it works for the kinds of movies these are (mass audience appeal with some fanservice for the hardcore sonic audience) whilst still working within the established musical influences for sonic.

a song with country influences for the third movie, however? i genuinely have to wonder what the suits at paramount were thinking.

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idk who needs to hear this but you don't need a supercomputer to run lbp in rpcs3 anymore. it runs fine (with a few visual artifacts and some shader stutter) on basically any modern gaming pc now.

this is the guide i followed for the settings to use btw: link