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Beware those who will do Anything to avoid feeling shame, especially if the shame they should be feeling is healthy for them.

A reminder that Unicorn Riot has been doing excellent on-the-ground journalism work in Minneapolis.

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We as a civilization have grown so good at advertising, marketing, and sales that we can no longer use sales data to determine whether something has intrinsic value to the buyer or to humanity as a whole.

Kerithe gets back recently having come to grips with her nature in a weird but sensible way.

We'd wondered why she didn't really fit the pattern the rest of us have going, where we're Both traditional binary things at the same time.

She was wrestling with the Fae concepts of Summer and Winter. Another Binary. She finally realized that she's a Fae of New England.

Here, Summer and Winter are nominal notions at Best, and a given Day can have some of Both in.

see how the gaslighting works? people are being told they're suffering ‘re-entry anxiety’

Put another way, we're memes.

We're all just really complex memes.

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We are all our own idea of ourselves, reiterated to ourselves, every day.

Excuse me I am not a "soy boi" i am an almond milk something

RT @The_Red_Nation
The origin of police in the US is rooted in systemic racism, slavery, and land dispossession. Volunteer militias composed of white settlers hunted & captured enslaved Africans attempting to escape bondage. They slaughtered Indigenous people to clear the land for more plantations

My job can either involve huge amounts of math and number crunching and programming and deep machine lore, or it can be a whole day where I press a button and stand around for ten minutes at a time.

CNC machining is a bunch of Wizards in a workshop using complicated magic boxes to turn big pieces of metal into smaller, complicated pieces of metal.

Was looking for something else and was reminded:

Every Queen song is a queer anthem! 🎶 :better_pride: 🎶

Why can't the boomers just accept that they bought into a pyramid scheme?

Being a Hermaphrodite means "Oh, what's your Preference?" comes right after "Oh, what are your pronouns?"

...I fucking wish I was kidding. It's just easier for us in here if we're Your preferred gender.

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