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friend: how are you? me: [thinking] adrift. I feel like I’m lost at sea in a rowboat. most of the time it’s calm but i don’t know which way to shore so I just float. I want to scream for help but I can see that the horizon is empty far past where my voice will reach. me: [aloud] I’m okay. you?

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I feel like most of my followers know this but because I see a lot of cis folks who have a specific blind spot for it: This includes the theme park. I don't care if you want Butterbeer or want to get a wand or are already there so why not just walk in. It's all Her. Everything with the name is Her.

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Open letter by Israeli academics. “This is a horrifying litany of war crimes and even crimes against humanity, all of our own doing. … It is human societies, not governments alone, that commit crimes against humanity. … We cannot claim that we did not know. We have been silent for too long.”

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Narrator: they were not considering the offer

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This cover of "Don't Stop Me Now" is art.

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I want to see Gavin Newsom’s hair fall out from the stress of being bullied, help me make this dream come true

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Lot of people on this website are way more worried about some people in Western countries being scammed out of $20 than people dying from the famine their government is backing

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My favorite example of this comes from over a century ago when the Self-Playing Piano industry argued that if they had to pay royalties on the hit songs they were programming their machines to play, they would go under. This really is a second verse same as the first situation.

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and our government, tax dollars, and American bombs continue to enable it

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So much of reactionary centrism is the belief that you can be a "polite bigot" and not enable fascism. They want their transphobia, racism, and sexism but hold the authoritarianism. The problem is that authoritarian movements are built on bigotry. www.semafor.com/article/05/2...

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I have long suspected the eventual fight will come down to either killing copyright or killing the tech industry. If copyright wins, you're potentially looking at $25k per infringement. If AI wins, you're looking at the collapse of copyright and IP, which means the collapse of creative industries.

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In the eternal words of a tumblr meme: "then perish." "If we had to ask EVERY author permission to adapt their work, it would kill Hollywood" "if we had to ask EVERY woman for consent--" If you can't do it without exploiting people, you don't deserve to do it. Full stop.

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This decision says it's okay to remove books from a public library due to their content because patrons can always just buy them or "borrow from a friend". www.upi.com/amp/Top_News...

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#GNUTerryPratchett #Glorious25thOfMay

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hi yes and who pays for the army budget just wondering

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Israel killed 75 people today—human beings with names, stories, and families. Our people aren’t numbers. Our people are precious; their lives matter, and their deaths aren’t trivial footnotes deemed not newsworthy. Shame on the west for allowing this daily slaughter to continue.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

TODAY

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Maybe it's called a corpse flower because that's a dead ballerina stuffed in a bucket.

submitted 7 days ago • 138 comments

I mean, all Trump cares about is winning, even if it's clearly by cheat. If everybody who isn't American is too afraid to come, we'll win everything. So Bigly. We'll be hearing about the medal count for months. Who cares if it would be a diplomatic and economic disaster? USA! USA!

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I've seen some liberals earnestly argue that rhetorical concessions on youth healthcare or youth sports would get Republicans to back off on other trans civil rights issues. This is a complete misreading of Republicans. They want trans people to suffer and force them out of public life.

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Things are bad, so I'm donating $50 to @transjournalists.org again. They do great, necessary work to improve media coverage of trans issues and communities, including the TJ Stylebook and scholarships. If you can, please match my donation. You can also sign up to give monthly: bit.ly/tja_pride

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amazing update apparently his English teacher had to go become the assistant principal so he never found out how the play ended and asked me to tell him and it BLEW HIS MIND

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in the grand scheme of things I bet a lot of people realize in the car to work that they’re still wearing a towel turban for their wet hair I’m so ready for summer

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The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.

submitted 7 days ago • 207 comments

HEY CIS FOLKS: Now would be a great time for you to help ensure our trans brothers and sisters have access to the care they need. Call your reps. Fund an HRT Toolkit. Rinse. Repeat.

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Aid has begun, but at least 51 Palestinians have been killed today alone. Despite the ceasefire, they're bombing Lebanon again too. My aunt's in the north. That didn't stop them bombing her town in the fall. My cousins in Boston & NY are NOT white passing & only one has US citizenship. (1/?)

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--->

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Is it too much to ask for an IRS Commissioner who understands the law?

submitted 9 days ago • 1326 comments

cool, good, great, you absolute fucking idiots

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While one of my longtime absolute favorite comedians only got second on Game Changer tonight I'm also a big fan of the one who got first and honestly the fact that he pulled it off was art. I was so excited to see both of them pop up on Dropout and they absolutely delivered.

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Alsobrooks got an irritated call from me today and can expect a deeply pissy one from me tomorrow.

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