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☼ Catholic trans woman from internet past ☼ MA in Philosophy applying for PhD on Husserl's phenomenology and autism ☼ she/her ☼ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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incredible things are happening in China

Please help or signal boost!

Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.

it's also my birthday, i'm a little birthday boyy

She smokes in the house

New isolated lone wolf mental health episode we shouldn’t politicize just dropped

The thing about the Troubles is that, for all the violence dragged on for so long, the basic contours of the eventual settlement were relatively clear from the late 1970s. I don't know what an American Good Friday Agreement looks like.

you ever think about how in 2009 DHS released a report about the growing threat of violent domestic terrorism from the right and then Republicans got so mad about it the DHS secretary resigned?

Northernlion: "Y'know what? The gods envy us, okay. They envy us because we're mortal, and every second, it could be our last. So don't bring that in here chat, because we will never be here again. Okay?" The game he's playing: "Lets count to 4! 1... 2... Oops! Try that again!"

Oh things are fucked fucked.

You’re going to hear as much about “reproductive extremism” as you did “trans rights activism” in the same places, from the same people, with the same backers, with the same goal.

Me as a kid reading Dune: I don’t get why their whole society is built around the eradication of A.I., seems like they’re wasting a lot of tech Me as an adult: oh that’s why

This is why forums and the old internet are still important.

Does anyone remember a few years ago The Times had a headline something like "636 trans women in UK prisons for sex crimes" and then it turned out they had just assumed all women in prison for rape were trans based upon nothing, and then they quietly retracted it? Can anyone remember the article?

I know this is a thumbnail of a video about SFX but it made me realize there’s probably some really virulent anti-muppet bigotry on their world that we just don’t see

I once answered the phone in a fake Irish accent. The caller was genuinely Irish and I had to keep up the pretence when I did some temporary work for him. I am sure that he knew.

Who is the last person to completely seriously say Surfing The Web?

It’s time to bring back one of the early energy drinks

Hysterical to do this with The Raven considering that Poe wrote an entire essay about The Raven called The Philosophy of Composition wherein he explains that he meticulously agonized over every detail of the poem and states plainly that the raven "symbolizes mournful and never-ending remembrance"

but then something strange happened. suddenly there were kevins everywhere. kevins in places kevins were supposed to be. kevins hiding in plain sight.

Part 3 of this week's Better Offline: I walk you through how The Era of the Business Idiot has led to a dramatic deceleration in innovation - and how the tech media must fight back against their ridiculous narratives to save Silicon Valley. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... linktr.ee/betteroffline

tried to research something for a joke and got sidetracked by Google fabricating an R.E.M. song that does not exist

Cute how they keep inventing new names to help women not realise they’re autistic

Going up to basic 2000s Americana, putting my hand on it like the Vietnam memorial wall and saying "They no longer know how to make this¨

Just walkmogged some waitcucks at a traffic light’s pedestrian crossing. Enjoy the cold, dears - I’ll be over here, fifteen steps ahead of you and in touch with my city’s heartbeat

The practice of writing a Google Doc about your opps denouncing their wicked habits and slandering their family can be traced back to antiquity

The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

[Tidus internal monologue voiceover] I had forgotten about German.

anyone who got on social media after 2014 or so is under the mistaken impression that the primary goal of social media is for it to Accomplish Something while those of us who have been on since the start know the true purpose of social media is to give us a place to Post so we don't go (more) insane

This mask always makes me laugh. i don't like to look at the other one..

Haha oh no I had missed that the Iran thing was this serious

Reposting this for no particular reason

I bet people in Germany experienced this but it's genuinely frustrating how quotable American Hitler is.

Gonna start referring to what happens when academics use their specific tools to speculate wildly beyond their expertise as "rampancy:" "Our cognitive processors begin dividing exponentially according to our total knowledge base. We literally think ourselves to death." - UNSC CTN 0452-9 "Cortana"

I guess I have to be a whole adult-ass woman and tell the lady who’s recently single I like her

Seeing a fellow Husserlian: *doing the Significant Nod from the gif*

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRMV... upping our game

Dr. Husserl or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Going Back to the Things Themselves

Guy who keeps feeding cash into a Coke machine because he'll only drink from a can that says "Bro" or "Dude" and luck isn't on his side

I have had to Cut Back on Expenses recently, and I was forced to Down Grade to an "Econo-ASS" brand Ass !! You have to Turn this Knob if you want to Shit, and then it might happen within a Wide Range of Hours !! It all depends on the Condition of the Internal Turd Compression Springs !!