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Ciabatta bread was invented in the 80s, while Fast Food was the standard in Rome 2000 years ago, and Egypt had Fishnet Bodycon dresses 2000 years before that.
every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing
August 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Ciabatta bread was invented in the 80s, while Fast Food was the standard in Rome 2000 years ago, and Egypt had Fishnet Bodycon dresses 2000 years before that.
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Albert Dorne (1906-1965)
August 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Albert Dorne (1906-1965)
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The discourse about how mod 20th century science fiction is/isn't "required reading" for the genre reminds me of dust-up in the world of Filk --ten ish years ago?
August 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The discourse about how mod 20th century science fiction is/isn't "required reading" for the genre reminds me of dust-up in the world of Filk --ten ish years ago?
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"They're only banning the BAD stuff" When you're a hammer everything looks like a nail. Gay handholding is as perverted and disgusting to them as "the bad stuff". You cannot give these people an inch
July 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"They're only banning the BAD stuff" When you're a hammer everything looks like a nail. Gay handholding is as perverted and disgusting to them as "the bad stuff". You cannot give these people an inch
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There are vanishingly few places for adults to sell works of art to adults online thanks to the christofascist policies of payment processors deciding what is allowed. Artists are watching their entire income and livelihoods disappear overnight. Please help us and sign.
This itch.io NSFW policy change is unfortunately nothing new, the problem isn't the platforms themselves but rather Visa/MC strong-arming these services into revising their NSFW policies.
So if you're eligible I invite you to sign this ACLU petition: action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
So if you're eligible I invite you to sign this ACLU petition: action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy.
Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.
action.aclu.org
July 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
There are vanishingly few places for adults to sell works of art to adults online thanks to the christofascist policies of payment processors deciding what is allowed. Artists are watching their entire income and livelihoods disappear overnight. Please help us and sign.
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guys my space bestie Raygun has written a sapphic scifi Cinderella with a femme cyborg protagonist, a butch alien prince, a snarky sentient gaseous cloud being (aka Fairy Gasmother), and a hilarious little bit of body horror about cutting off a stepsister’s whole foot. please read, it’s delightful
HEY DUDES, DUDETTES, AND OTHERS!! My gay ass love letter to science fiction is up now! If you've wanted to read my work but don't want to see Spock get his guts rearranged (valid but also what's wrong with you lmao) might I offer instead: lesbians
archiveofourown.org/works/67025188
archiveofourown.org/works/67025188
July 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
guys my space bestie Raygun has written a sapphic scifi Cinderella with a femme cyborg protagonist, a butch alien prince, a snarky sentient gaseous cloud being (aka Fairy Gasmother), and a hilarious little bit of body horror about cutting off a stepsister’s whole foot. please read, it’s delightful
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I've found the perfect Instagram account. Seattle's Twice Sold Tales owner Jamie recommends books and shows her cats. That's it.
IG twicesoldtales
IG twicesoldtales
July 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I've found the perfect Instagram account. Seattle's Twice Sold Tales owner Jamie recommends books and shows her cats. That's it.
IG twicesoldtales
IG twicesoldtales
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Superman is the story of an immigrant who grew up in Kansas, landed a low-paying job as a reporter in Metropolis, and still had time for a hobby because urban housing was affordable.
July 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Superman is the story of an immigrant who grew up in Kansas, landed a low-paying job as a reporter in Metropolis, and still had time for a hobby because urban housing was affordable.
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This guy is cool in the most important and perhaps the only way a guy like him can be cool- by not giving a single shit whether other people think he's cool
June 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This guy is cool in the most important and perhaps the only way a guy like him can be cool- by not giving a single shit whether other people think he's cool
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of June!
June 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of June!
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we ship everywhere! booksmith.com xoxo
June 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
we ship everywhere! booksmith.com xoxo
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Korean gangster movie: nobody has gun
American gangster movie: even the plants have guns
Indian gangster movie: hero is shot with gun and spits the bullets back at the shooters and kills them and then walks off
American gangster movie: even the plants have guns
Indian gangster movie: hero is shot with gun and spits the bullets back at the shooters and kills them and then walks off
one of my favorite things about watching Korean gangster shows is how nobody has a gun
started watching Mercy for None, which is basically What If John Wick Punched People Really Hard Instead, it rules, but it’s very funny that at no point has anyone considered shooting him
started watching Mercy for None, which is basically What If John Wick Punched People Really Hard Instead, it rules, but it’s very funny that at no point has anyone considered shooting him
June 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Korean gangster movie: nobody has gun
American gangster movie: even the plants have guns
Indian gangster movie: hero is shot with gun and spits the bullets back at the shooters and kills them and then walks off
American gangster movie: even the plants have guns
Indian gangster movie: hero is shot with gun and spits the bullets back at the shooters and kills them and then walks off
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all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard
June 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard
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me: haha how could anyone be so gullible that they'd buy magic beans
tech industry: the next big thing is a Money Algorithm that you run on a billion GPUs all at once to get Even Richer. Venture capital has given us infinity money for this concept. We have no business model.
me: ah.
tech industry: the next big thing is a Money Algorithm that you run on a billion GPUs all at once to get Even Richer. Venture capital has given us infinity money for this concept. We have no business model.
me: ah.
June 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
me: haha how could anyone be so gullible that they'd buy magic beans
tech industry: the next big thing is a Money Algorithm that you run on a billion GPUs all at once to get Even Richer. Venture capital has given us infinity money for this concept. We have no business model.
me: ah.
tech industry: the next big thing is a Money Algorithm that you run on a billion GPUs all at once to get Even Richer. Venture capital has given us infinity money for this concept. We have no business model.
me: ah.
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
June 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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I think more of the “it’s a distraction” people need to actually get out and protest.
Because, there you are, a crowd of people, and NOBODY has the same sign, and there’s NINETEEN separate chants and which one is the “real issue” and who “messages” and…
AND YOU’RE ALL THERE TOGETHER.
Because, there you are, a crowd of people, and NOBODY has the same sign, and there’s NINETEEN separate chants and which one is the “real issue” and who “messages” and…
AND YOU’RE ALL THERE TOGETHER.
June 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I think more of the “it’s a distraction” people need to actually get out and protest.
Because, there you are, a crowd of people, and NOBODY has the same sign, and there’s NINETEEN separate chants and which one is the “real issue” and who “messages” and…
AND YOU’RE ALL THERE TOGETHER.
Because, there you are, a crowd of people, and NOBODY has the same sign, and there’s NINETEEN separate chants and which one is the “real issue” and who “messages” and…
AND YOU’RE ALL THERE TOGETHER.
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happy Pride month specifically to the artist and writer duo from page 148 of Scott McCloud's Making Comics (2006)
June 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
happy Pride month specifically to the artist and writer duo from page 148 of Scott McCloud's Making Comics (2006)
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Asking for a ten year ban on AI regulation is an admission from these companies (through their powerful lobby) that they are knowingly committing crimes that they should and would otherwise be facing hefty legal challenges and penalties for.
June 6, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Asking for a ten year ban on AI regulation is an admission from these companies (through their powerful lobby) that they are knowingly committing crimes that they should and would otherwise be facing hefty legal challenges and penalties for.
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another hidden/externalized cost and form of theft in AI is the bots for Meta etc are blowing up site hosting charges of pages they're looting for information to take credit for. profits go to meta and others, made possible by costs spread to all the operators of sites they're crawling to steal from
Last month AI crawlers generated 90% of my site's traffic, forcing me to pay penalties
Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking.
Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors
Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking.
Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors
June 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
another hidden/externalized cost and form of theft in AI is the bots for Meta etc are blowing up site hosting charges of pages they're looting for information to take credit for. profits go to meta and others, made possible by costs spread to all the operators of sites they're crawling to steal from
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“why is new york always electing crappy and insane mayors.” the mayoral sash, regardless of city, is an object that causes madness in its wearer. it’s like you’re asking why someone grasping the palantir with both hands is talking to sauron
June 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
“why is new york always electing crappy and insane mayors.” the mayoral sash, regardless of city, is an object that causes madness in its wearer. it’s like you’re asking why someone grasping the palantir with both hands is talking to sauron
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is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.
January 20, 2024 at 4:21 PM
is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.
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try not to be annoying about this because it is a super special interest but one of the things i have learned from my decades of "look at animals>know stuff about animals>make animal art" loop is that a lot of people, broadly, have no idea what animals look like
is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.
June 3, 2025 at 1:41 AM
try not to be annoying about this because it is a super special interest but one of the things i have learned from my decades of "look at animals>know stuff about animals>make animal art" loop is that a lot of people, broadly, have no idea what animals look like
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I adore Mensah in #Murderbot . Noma Dumezweni is doing SUCH a fantastic job with her. One thing I particularly love is how she 1. has badass instincts 2. is not trained or prepared to be a badass at all 3. is scared as hell 4. works through panic 5. is a badass anyway.
May 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I adore Mensah in #Murderbot . Noma Dumezweni is doing SUCH a fantastic job with her. One thing I particularly love is how she 1. has badass instincts 2. is not trained or prepared to be a badass at all 3. is scared as hell 4. works through panic 5. is a badass anyway.