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Infinitely funny whenever the media or government or some corporation tries to fearmonger to me about the Chinese government getting access to my private information.

Y'all have spent the last two decades drilling into me that I should have absolutely no expectation of privacy. No expectation of privacy from my own government, who are by far the entity most likely to use my information to really harm me. No expectation of privacy from advertisers who will do anything with that data, give it to anyone, if they think it will make them a few cents of profit. No expectation that anything I write, even in private documents that are never posted, won't be used to train machine learning models to let capital owners eliminate more workers and further consolidate their wealth and power. All that's just how it is and I have to accept it.

But apparently, unbeknownst to me, there is exactly one entity that does owe me an expectation of privacy, and it's not one that has any formal social or legal tie to me. Fascinating. I guess I have a lot to learn about privacy.

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Cloud: don’t worry Tifa, Sephiroth can’t emotionally manipulate me if I know what he’s trying to do!

Cloud two minutes later: Damn, emotional manipulation got hands

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Sometimes people will email me begging me to approve a purchase order and launching into an explanation of how badly they need it and I want to take their hands and softly tell them that this company and this job means nothing to me and they can go expense a llama for all I give a shit

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Pretty sure I said I would start taping together my sewing pattern like two weeks ago. But I was doing other stuff.

Frankly I don't think I have enough floor space for the full thing so I'm going to need to just cut out parts as soon as they're fully taped

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tumblr is a beautiful ecosystem bc here you can see that transgender disabled mentally ill gay minorities can be just as annoying, obnoxious and reactionary as any cishet abled white person. THATS equality.

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sometimes, it's not so much about the romance as it is about the devotion. the adoration.

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just remember, one day you're going to open tumblr and the crabs will be raving like they never have before

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i just never want to see elon musk happy

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Thinking of my magnum opus…. the greatest thing I ever drew

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im so tired so here's a recap of what trump did today summarized and probably incomplete because we are in super hell:

End birthright citizenship (a.k.a the 14th amendment)

Remove the legal existence of non-binary people

Withdraw from the world health organization

pardon jan 6 people

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fucked up to me that some people dont let their pets on the furniture. you have this little guy in your house and youre not gonna let them sit on the couch with you? no kitty on the bed? incomprehensible.

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hot take: 

Gloin is the sexiest dwarf by dwarf standards.

Kili is the sexiest dwarf by elf standards.

Thorin is the sexiest dwarf by human standards

& Bombur is the sexiest dwarf by hobbit standards

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I reeaaally liked MAG 142, cuz, I knew he was "feeding" but I didn't know how TRULY horrifying it was for the people

and my engraved image of Jon, as this little, breakable, malnourished, please-get-some-sleep husk of a man, was interrupting with ✨the vision✨

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