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The cinematography on the Group Stage Recap is amazing and it kind of makes me hope they followed every single team around with cameras all day because my unhealthy passion for reality TV show drama sees so much potential here.

@salameleon Watch it live, the filler and production disasters and delays and hideously awkward SirActionSlacks performances are totally part of the experience. There’s going to be a minimum of 8 games and up to 10 today, so it’s difficult to catch up afterward anyway

ReDeYe is very caffeinated this year and his necktie is amazing

why yes, I did just put on an N95 filter mask to step outside my front door and bring in a grocery order. I’m sorry that unsettled you, random dog-walking lady, but you should have one too. and your dog.

The International 2018 should be starting in a few minutes on www.twitch.tv/dota2ti and I will probably be tooting excitedly about it even though I am a terrible player. Anyone else here watching?

I’m kind of glad for Seattle Smokemageddon, it gives me a reason to stay home and watch with my media center here rather than an iPad in the office. Yeah, boss, working from home today, I have asthma, I can’t wait for a bus during 193 AQI

(that last part is totally 100% true, I swear)

Wario Land 4 deserves an enhanced remake for the Switch.

Having spent the entire day feeling headachey and unwell, I am now feeling better now that I am running out of day

To put into perspective what is happening, here is 6 month of history of the processing required to run mastodon.social:

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@ugarles Honestly just follow @catstar, once you have cats what else does anybody need

@WalkoffHomer There is a large backlog of reports right now due to various trolls having signed up. We want to have time to go through them to ensure our users feel safe before letting anyone else in who might be a troll.

I have temporarily closed new registrations on mastodon.social 👀

@LexYeen @Kyresti FYI: I have a box of N95 filter masks, I’ll share.

geopolitics, tech 

another day at work, another online argument with co-workers about whether the Chinese government is bad

(spoiler: it’s bad)

Mutant Standard Principle #3 

## Challenging normativity, embracing uncertainty

If we live in a society where people are valued based on what is considered 'normal' or what the prevailing trends are, then we can never have a truly civilised or decent society.

Mutant Standard Principle #3 

We need to break past this by embracing uncertainty and radical personal choice at it's very foundations as much as we can. We should be striving for communicative tools and forms of expression that disrupt this state as much as possible.

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Mutant Standard Principle #3 

We currently seem to be living in a state of seemingly-endless incrementalism, where people have to affix themselves to norms, and ostracise and villify a particular state of experience or expression, until that moves a little and there are new norms and new dangerous deviants. In this context, every 'success' in this system isn't really a success - it implies there is something deeper within our society that is wrong.

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Thinkin’ about tails
Thinkin’ about how they swish and sway around.
Thinkin’ about the balance. The gait.
Thinkin’ about how it feels to have my tail pet, gently and lovingly
Mmhmmmm~

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