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what's weird about the cthulhu mythos is that the concept of an utterly alien entity or horror we are fundamentally incapable of understanding -- it may be an intelligent agent, even an intelligent moral agent, but without "intelligence", "morality", or "agency" as we know them -- is a really interesting idea that's relevant to a lot of domains, particularly when trying to think outside The Box in a strong sense.

but the actual unknowably alien entity and horror lovecraft was writing about was "people who aren't white", "white people who don't think it's important to be racist", and "biracial marriage". like, to lovecraft, white people voting for obama would have been exactly humans worshipping cthulhu.

affection subtoot 

a certain pink kitten is very cute

oh fuck me i missed actually a huge spot

hopefully this is the last time i have to fix this picture

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Ban furries that dress as cops. If I have to see another dog dressed in combat gear looking shit so help me god.

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As it happens, payment from one of the projects I'm in will be very delayed, so I'm opening commission slots to make up for it.
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autists be literally biologically hardwired to prefer anime

  • cartoon faces less stressful to look at than 3D ones
  • subtitles easier to read than picking speech out of noise (subs v. dubs proxy debate on whether anime club has more auditory processing d/o vs. dyslexia.)
  • highly stylized (if not necessarily shallow) character archetypes allow easier understanding of character motivations, transferable from series to series.
  • japanese customs no less alien than the weird shit irl people expect you to magically know
  • ayanami rei

y'all if you're following me and you have problems with people using it/its pronouns please either deeply reconsider your predilections or stop following me thanks

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"What we should stop doing is automatically accepting anything called social skills as desirable, merely because they are generally regarded as desirable by the socially skilled."

benjaminrosshoffman.com/engine

ahh this gives me life

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nearly everything having tails but humans is one of this reality's cruelest twists 😿

"bitcoin is converting capitalism directly into climate change" - Harald Lesch

Piracy discourse 

Read a thread about how piracy hurts small creators and Got Angry.

In my experience, piracy *doesn't* hurt small creators, because I've never met *anyone* whose thought process was "pirate instead of buying" rather than "pirate because you can't buy". It's always been the latter, and the evidence of Netflix backs this idea up; piracy dropped when people could experience movies affordably, and picked back up when the proliferation of exclusive streaming services destroyed that.

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