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This is not Twitter. This is not Tumblr. You have power here, but it isn't through mob power like it has historically had to be.

I promise we *will* listen and take you seriously if you have a problem and bring it to us. If we disagree that it is a problem- at least we will have had a conversation instead of "After reviewing this message, Twitter decided fuck you".

Thank you very much for being here. I appreciate it.

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Actionably useful test: if you say something and the only possible responses are to comfort you or sound like a gigantic asshole, you're asking for emotional labor.

It's something I for one need to be a lot more conscious of, especially with the people closest to me.

(this is not a subtoot of anyone or anything, promise)

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Weed. 

Ah, yes, I'll be spending the next couple hours relaxing in Hydroponics Bay Δ9.

surely there are better ways to advocate for queer liberation than peddling biological essentialism (e.g. "we were born this way!"). this type of argument seems to imply "we can't help that we're like this, so leave us alone" as if it would be acceptable to deny us our humanity if it WAS a choice

Hey.

Hey, listen to that.

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It's the sound of SEO marketers not randomly favoriting your intimate confessionals because you hit a keyword.

speculative lewd 

Sex is a fucking ocean and most of the time we're just splashing around in the tide pools.

On an adventurous day, maybe we put on a snorkel.

But there's *so much* depth that is for the most part barely explored.

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Every safe space is tuned for specific people. Some people's safety is explicitly unsafe for others. That doesn't mean your safety, desires, or needs are inherently bad, but it DOES mean you need to consider your audience and platform.

Is "carbon-based organic" an identity?
Is "human" an identity?

If these are, then we must allow for people who possess either, neither, or both in our dialogues. Whether or not they are capable of being the things with which they identify, we must accept that they exist and are part of our worldview.
If these are not, then aren't we tacitly asserting that self-aware existences outside of these are not possible, or at least, not worthy of consideration as people?

Keet’s current is:

DrJavi, a Spanish genet with a friendly, toony art style that somehow complements his keen sense of the trans- and post-human, no punches pulled. Fellow types, definitely look into these:

Ask Coppercog (an MLP:FIM comic featuring cybernetic ponies and the changelings who love them): askcoppercog.tumblr.com/
Misbegotten Kittens (a mature furry comic involving radical future tech and society): misbegottenkittens.tumblr.com/

What the heck is a anyway?

This is a concept known to every SubGenius (Yes, I paid my $30 to “Bob”!) but anyone can adopt it regardless of faith, creed, race, species, endianness, or sentience.

The SHORt DURation PERsonal SAViour can be any-one, any-place, or any-thing that’s making your life more awesome at this moment. A musician whose work fills you with hope, a particularly helpful store clerk, a pair of audaciously-patterned leggings – they can all be ShorDurPerSavs!

I'm in that lovely gap between waking up and being coherent enough to escape my bed.

The Matra & Hachette Alice looks like a super rad 1983 computer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matra_Al
It was a French version of the TRS-80 MC-10, a super-low-end computer meant to compete in the ~$100 price point. 3K of available ram to write your own BASIC programs in! awoo.space/media/gDjcdsP2euGnT awoo.space/media/aHJ-L576K6BlL awoo.space/media/4WtYGw4gG37jv

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