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this part of stevie nicks’ interview with rolling stone is taking me out

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large women 👍. you agree. retrieve your halberd from the armory

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just had an absolutely atrocious thought

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Hey so fun new scam just dropped! I got a call earlier today from someone spoofing the local police department's desk number, asking me if there was a reason I'd missed my jury summons this morning.

Friends, I had not received a jury summons for this month. Which I told him, at which point his previously clear diction suddenly turned into a rapid mumble, only becoming clear for scary words like 'federal' and then asking to confirm my address, at which point I hung up and decided to call the police department later.

When I called the police department the desk officer sounded so tired y'all. All I had to say was "Hey I got a call earlier saying I missed jury duty this morning?" and she immediately sighed and told me that yes it was a scam that was going around and thanked me for calling to confirm.

So this is your periodic reminder that law enforcement agencies will not call you to tell you that you're in trouble. If you need to pay a fine of some sort they will mail you a physical invoice. Anyone calling you saying they're from the police or any other law enforcement organization (up to the CIA and yes I have heard of scammers attempting to impersonate CIA agents over the phone) who then tries to get financial information from you over the phone is a scammer.

I know I actually bang on about this a weird amount, but it is my fervent hope that the information will stick in peoples' brains if they get randomly selected for the adrenaline spike lottery. Scammers use scary words to get you to panic in order to shut down your critical thinking, and if even one person's brain spits out "Tumblr user waterhobbit said the cops/CIA/federal marshalls don't call about this shit" before their bank account routing number is in the hands of assholes I will consider it a job well done.

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the most annoying stage of burnout is when i want to write, and i have the urge to write, and somewhere in my skull are the words that want to be written, but they have to get through the cursed minotaur maze first and nobody remembered to bring string

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ffxiv voice lines are funny bc it's just

every character from 2.0-4.3: Take this! I have you! Enough!

Count Cidolfus Orlandeau, the Thunder God: Your coming was foretold, servant of Ivalice. Or perhaps you serve another. I am Count Cidolfus Orlandeau. Your journey ends here. To the current of life we succumb, its judgement swift and final, its bite as cold as steel. The hearts of men are black with corruption and must needs be cleansed. Open your eyes to the darkness and drown in its loveless embrace. The gods will not be watching. To live by the sword is to die by the sword. There is time enough for regret in the flames of hell. Even the strongest of shields cannot defend the weakest of wills. A moment's hesitation beckons a lifetime of pain. Misfortune hangs heavy on a head once held high. Such is poor cover for when the heavens fall. Honed is the blade that severs the villain's head. Endless is the path that leads him from hell. Hark! The screams of ruin rise above the storm's discord! Shudder not in her endless cold. Seven shadows cast, seven fates foretold, yet at the end of the broken path lies death, and death alone! I have been called the god of thunder. You will now know why. Upon my holy blade, the very world lies in balance. They who dwell aloft have spoken- let their words echo in your empty soul. Ruination is come! I call out to the skies and tremble as the brilliance of a thousand bolts blinds mine enemies and tears their flesh asunder!

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Unironically the biggest death knell I heard for twitter was the fact that, as far as anyone is aware, there are no longer any furries working at twitter.

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honoring all our trans siblings who are no longer with us on this trans day of remembrance. we love you, we miss you, we hold you in our hearts always.

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fuck "girl lunch" fuck "girl math" a woman is a hairy animal who sweats and grunts and excretes and hungers and gets wrinkly and dies eventually. you have to love that.

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here have this grond meme that my partner made

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Can you believe I'm having to make this meme even after successfully finishing up taxes and applying to job

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match my freak? no, match my whimsey, it's the only way we can survive what comes next

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omg did not expect to see “we have mainstream research evidence for transmisogyny now” this morning but happy friday?? thanks dr. devon price for pre-digesting it

and of course there’s the angle of, well lmfao yes trans women have been saying this in mainstream print since at least 2007 and doubtlessly in other fora for much longer, but sometimes an argument from authority has more force and how do we emotionally reckon with ongoing lack of agency in conversations about us, but i digressss