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I didn't do it on purpose but this holographic set ended up matching the colors of a set of six daggers one of my DnD characters has, a pair each of black, gold, and silver. hers are called the Reminders — each knife a lesson she's supposed to remember ⚔️

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🚨🚨If you use kindle, Download your books before Amazon removes the ability next week. That is your money you spent and those are your books. 🚨🚨

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Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

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spoiler: the answer it spat out was from an already published paper but the BBC is basically the yellow pages for llm scams at this point so that part was conveniently left out of this piece

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The most interesting thing about this season of LIB is discussing how uninteresting it is

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THE RIVER HAS ROOTS, my next book, comes out on March 4! That's in 11 days! I'm going on a five-city US tour for it! All tour stops & ticket-booking deets here: us.macmillan.com/tours/amal-e...

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Simple effective measures.

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I wanna be so for very fucking real right now: Any game company--and I mean ANY--that tries appeasing current sentiments by rolling back DEI or LGBT initiatives and support will lose my business for the foreseeable future. I won't even discuss their products. Games are a luxury I can curb.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

i do not wish to girlboss. i wish to girlplot. girlscheme.

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Finished s5 of Lower Decks recently & have preserved this snapshot of the show on to my phone because it is a visual poem that speaks to me on a molecular level

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A cool historical fact I learned today is that globally, but especially in the Western Christian tradition, regicide is historically pretty common - between the years 600 and 1980, approximately ~14% of Western monarchs was killed, or deposed and then executed, by their subjects.

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Once again, again, again, if you actually understand what antisemitism is, where it comes from, and how it actually manifests in our culture, it's a looooot easier to talk about and name in all the directions without sounding like a dingbat (and ya, pro Jews, I'm also not not looking at you)

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Literally today someone said we needed to be reminded of the JA incarceration so "it never happens again" and I was beside myself. IT IS HAPPENING. if you're willing to listen to a Japanese person talk about it but not a Hmong or Honduran or Haitian person you're a 🎶fuckinnnnggg racist🎶

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We wanted to market Crashlands 2 as a "surthrival" game but figured we'd just confuse people

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Crashlands 2 isn't a survival game. It's a surTHRIVAL game!

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I am so moved to get to share this with you all: the fourth installment in the Love Letters essay series. Nell, or: This Is Practically The Way It All Happened (give or bloody take), Peter S. Beagle's reflections on a thirty-five year romance with the woman he still calls "my one love".

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A reminder that @scarleteen.bsky.social is 100% queer and trans run and will ALWAYS be providing educational materials, support, and more to youth seeking sex, relationships, and health education from a source who won't casually erase their existence with their political winds.

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the Crashlands 2 beta starts tomorrow and I'm totally good and not freaking out or anything 🙃

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Strong, resilient systems are not efficient systems, and vice versa.

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

this is an instant block. if you're struggling, ask if someone can do the alt text. or just take the time. if you put garbage in there because you want to boost engagement, I won't fuck with you.

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If you find yourself asking what you're "supposed" to feel in reaction to a piece of media, can I recommend living as though you had free will

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this past week was very crunchy and my brain is sapped, so I kept it simple. in the shade, this color (Mooncat's Lust for Vengeance) looks almost sweet. and then the light hits it and you get a lovely and sinister (complimentary) green and copper flash. quickly becoming one of my faves

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Stopped on during my social media break to say: If your use of media as a tool to anticipate modern society and equality's decay is fully dependent on White perspectives (Margaret Atwood, George Orwell etc etc) then you should unpack how much that narrow view carries White Supremacy implications.

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On a day like this, it’s important to say THANK YOU to all the science and public health communicators for all you do. Your work will be even more critical in the coming years. Keep going! You are very much needed and appreciated. ❤️

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we are going to end up having to reinvent the university but I hope the people doing this work get paid for it

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if you don't click through to the article you'll miss that 1) this guy looks EXACTLY like you would expect a guy who owns a gold cybertruck to look like and 2) this is the "threatening" sticker lmao

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this needs to be seared into the mind of every citizen

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reading this on the heels of @edzitron.com's latest is really something

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The needs of racialized people are more important than the feelings of white people. The needs of trans people are more important than the feelings of cis people. The needs of disabled people are more important than the feelings of abled people.

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Once again, I am here from Poland to tell you that predicating your response to a rule of law crisis on fear of how your opponents will frame your resistance is as ineffectual as it is solipsistic.

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Just so you know the tik tok financial people are pushing people with student loans to file for discharging alleging doge is violating ferpa leading to a breach of contract. Also there are lawsuits www.courthousenews.com/students-sue...

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If you have student loans: file a complain for violation of FERPA. Start a lawsuit too. DOGE violated your rights

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When you launch projects, you never know how they will go because they depend on people. That's the beauty and also the heartbreak.

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I swear to god I might just start blocking everyone who replies to every single Trump admin policy implementation with “it’s a distraction.”

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Posting the v.e. Schwab covers I got to paint for the new ppl here

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tempted to just repost everything in this thread, but really, you should read the newsletter and subscribe if you haven't already. always smart, incisive, and 🔥

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Newsletter: The tech industry has turned on the consumer, using abusive, manipulative software as a means of extracting wealth from every corner of our lives. Both society and the tech media must fight back, as I believe many of us deeply love our tech. www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/

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Eligibility post for Nebulas, Hugo consideration! Short Stories: Chinese American, Red Riding Hood www.castofwonders.org/2024/11/cast...

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But what of the other 10%? Do we have anything to Report on that particular Minority?

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ditto

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