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me: *is jokingly mean to my friend*

friend: *jokingly pretends to be hurt*

me:

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i think that all the people who argue about gender by saying "the woke left cant even define a woman" need to get hit with the "who are you" question by a buddhist monk. no, thats your name, who are you. no thats your profession, who are YOU. no you fucking idiot thats your species, who are YOUU. dumb bitch u cant even define yourself

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Happy Pride Month

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ppl on here get sooo mad when someone says you should be a little bit grateful for lgbt allies like sorry but i have homophobic overbearing parents & im used to people thinking gays are freaks and “groomers” so the concept of “cishet people who are willing to ally themselves with the lgbt liberation movement” is something i dont think ill ever take for granted. but thats just me i guess idk. yeah its praising the bare minimum but receiving the bare minimum allyship is a blessing when im used to deeply entrenched homophobia. i’d rather shit talk the people who actually want me dead instead of the cishets showing up at pride to day drink with drag queens. what does ridiculing them do except ruin the vibe :|

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"we need cops at pride to protect people!" WRONG. ASEXUALS WITH FLAMETHROWERS.

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I keep seeing people use this image as a reaction to people's original posts:

Which I think is really incorrect, because with an original post they haven't come up to ur window, u've come up to their window.

So I made this, as a more accurate reaction for original posts:

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for anyone who has ever asked themselves "am I trans enough?" or "am I allowed to call myself trans even if I'm not passing?"

I want you to know that you are loved, I want you to know that you are 'trans enough' and that you don't have to do anything extra to prove that. you don't need to pass as any specific gender in order to be trans, you don't need to be on HRT, and you don't need to be publicly out as trans either.

you are wonderful, and you deserve to be treated with respect. please don't let other people or your own intrusive thoughts make you feel any different

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Four things that are 100% true and you should think about if you haven't already:

You don't have to be a boy if you don't want to

You don't have to be a girl if you don't want to

You can be a boy if you want to

You can be a girl if you want to

This isn't a joke. This is reality. Have you considered these facts? If not, maybe take a moment to think about it. How's your gender doing? If you don't like it, it can be changed. Hell, even if you do like it, maybe you'd like something else more?

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I noticed today that the deadname of a client was clearly visible in their client file because it was their legal name, and flagged it for IT. I specifically flagged it as "Hey, if someone sees this and calls our client the wrong name, we'll lose them as a client." IT emailed me back immediately, and it's now invisible except on their contract with us, which the majority of us don't have direct access to, as opposed to their client file.

The reason I flagged it framing it as a loss is that what matters to most companies is money. If you can flag a bigoted practice as something that will lose customers, clients, or get them a lawsuit, that is significantly more likely to get taken care of quickly than trying to appeal to their better nature. I could have flagged it as "Hey, this is going to make our client really upset if they hear it.", which was my actual motivation for flagging it, but if I had, then it probably would have been taken care of in a few days or even weeks, not hours.

Always hit them with the profit argument for quick and decisive action.

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thought this looked familiar

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Y'all I know that when so-called AI generates ridiculous results it's hilarious and I find it as funny as the next guy but I NEED y'all to remember that every single time an AI answer is generated it uses 5x as much energy as a conventional websearch and burns through 10 ml of water. FOR EVERY ANSWER. Each big llm is equal to 300,000 kiligrams of carbon dioxide emissions.

LLMs are killing the environment, and when we generate answers for the lolz we're still contributing to it.

Stop using it. Stop using it for a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. We need to kill it.

Sources:

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New friends vs old friends is so funny, especially when they interact and the conversation goes something like this

Me: "Yeah, so that song really reminds me of that I was engaged to that guy for 4 months"

Friend 1: "you were ENGAGED!?"

Friend 2: "they were engaged twice actually. First person was a dick, the second one was actually very sweet and her cat was cute"

Friend 1: "this is like the time I found out you tried polyamory for a year"

Friend 2: "EXCUSE ME? SINCE WHEN??"

TLDR: I forget which friends get what lore drops about my life, it results in very amusing conversations where a lot of people learn a lot of new things about me all at once

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lovely story from a friend today.

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Is there anything more nauseating than ‘expensive heterosexual wedding’ culture?

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pick one you bald genderless idiot