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apropos of nothing: i am so, so very proud of you. yes, all of you. and specifically you, the one reading this.

"but--"

yes. even if. you've been through a lot (and yes, that counts, quit interrupting me) and i'm glad you've made it this far.

@JulieSqveakaroo @001zlnv I would be very interested in your report of what is actually entailed!

TIL There are mini truck garden contests in Japan

The “kei” trucks are barely larger than city cars. The goal is to build the most aesthetically pleasing garden in the truck bed

thisiscolossal.com/2018/06/jap

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@001zlnv @zebratron2084 I just giggled for about two minutes straight because of this story, thank you. XD

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@zebratron2084 and also fwiw HPMOR delves specifically into a lot of the ways in which the original HP universe is fucked the fuck up.

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@zebratron2084 fwiw I don't actually like it much--I don't hate it, but I'm definitely not a fan. I'm just re-reading HPMOR and it's bringing up thoughts again. XD

@kara@occult.camp I suspect Very Well, with just a smidge of bickering about how to properly organize the library. ;)

What will your Animagus form be?
"a dragon."
It can't be a magical creature.
"a velociraptor."
It also can't be an extinct creature.
*siiigh* "CROW."

that's... pretty much exactly how it would run in my head.

and not related to anything in particular but heres another sabertoothed animal and hes really pretty. Critter is gorgonopsid a stem mammal from the permian ( i think)

Art Source

weasyl.com/~ashryn/submissions

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mastodon users: if you want to scrape off all followers from an ill-behaved instance, go to settings > authorized followers. select the badly behaved domain, and click "remove followers." just a little toot tip

A debate on IRC got me wondering: how is "guys" perceived, as in "you guys" or "guys" as the leading word in a sentence...

to me it's gender neutral but to many it addresses a group of men

so, to make a poll: strawpoll.me/15847774/

Also, this kinda came up, but not everyone using Masto/masto-like sites are tech savvy. Telling me to build my own instance or do _______ as someone who barely understand what it means and entails isn't useful.

Masto discourse is not accessible and some of yall are just hostile and annoying and condescending for no reason whatsoever.

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@Elizafox Transphobic Evil Republican Gender Essentialists (TERGEs)? can't quite come up with a single F word to cover "gender essentialist"...

The pro of all of these new instances popping up is that you can build your own communities where you feel safe with people you trust.

The con is that there is less quality control. People of color, women, trans folks, and folks with disabilities and illnesses are constantly harassed when we post on public, a lot of (newer) instances don't have codes of conducts, and we don't have all damn day to keep blocking instances (bc there are so many).

Art Nouveau commission from @givealexahand@birdsite !

Xe are in a pretty shitty situation right now, so if you want to get a commission like this, you could really help xem out! twitter.com/givealexahand/stat

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