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I've realized there are several words that, if I see them used as an insult, just make me want to avoid the person entirely, but if I see them used in a positive light, I become much more comfortable around the person using them.

Words like "SJW" or "gay" or "communist", that sort of thing.

mh 

Anxiety's being a pain today. Anyone want to hug and/or cuddle a pile of dragon pieces? -.-

today is apparently "be super worried about politics" day.

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I've been a librarian for a while now, but I still sometimes take a moment to be amazed that I can find some random very gay book and fill out a form and it'll just show up for me in a week, free of charge.

Libraries are seriously amazing, go use your local library to death, use their ILL services and read and learn everything.

EVERYTHING

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You have been creating an alien encyclopedia for your son filled with imaginary drawings and detailed descriptions of each race. Today the ambassador for the galatic alien alliance is at your door demanding to know where you got such detailed information of every alien species in the alliance.
#writingprompts #writing

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seriously what the hell is wrong with people. I try to point out that hey this isn't a word that I'm comfortable with people using and would you please use some other term and then I get ridiculed, told that no one cares about me, and invited to leave the chatroom.

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I really hate that f-list has the word baked into the interface. it encourages people to use it and makes them think it's acceptable

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Ughhh. I mention that I'm uncomfortable with the term 'sh*male' in a chat room and people get upset at me. Why are people so insistent on using slurs?

oh dear, sudden burst of self-conscious anxiety over whether I'm being annoying

I kind of miss multi-disc games because they were almost like having two or three or four games in one, with a climactic event at the end of each disc. Like, in a lot of games, the end of disc 1 could be the end of the entire game, but the developers wanted to have more story so there's a plot twist or something similar and it turns out the bad guy you just killed was actually only trying to protect the world from an even worse guy or something

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Is it just me or does unicode character U+21EB UPWARDS WHITE ARROW ON PEDESTAL look kinda like a poorly-drawn dick?

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reminder that the woman who designed the ARM processor in your smartphone is transgender

I am curious, so casting out a question for everyone! How dark (in percentage) do you like your chocolate?

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Being social is too hard, life needs a rebalance

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Dear every UI designer: You know those new, super-cool disappearing scroll bars that only magically appear when you hover the mouse over JUST THE RIGHT INVISIBLE SPOT? And vanish again if you're one pixel out? So you can never tell where you are in the scroll and, in fact, they completely don't fulfil their purpose for existence as a scroll indicator?

I know you love them but they're trash, sorry.

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