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WoW stuff 

of all the places for me to repeatedly forget that I'm playing an Alliance toon and go wandering into Horde territory, Dalaran is probably the best, since all they do is stun me and kick me out. >____<

ugh, there are Things I should Do but uuugggghhhh. I think I'm going to crawl back into bed instead. ;_____;

I see there's another round of #introductions going on!
I have a #machinelearning humor blog at aiweirdness.com where I train #neuralnetworks for comedic effect. It's gotten me thinking about how #AI interacts with our world and #scifi - hopefully I'll be writing more about this in the future!

negative emotions & weakness (+) 

it is okay to be weak
it is okay to vent about your problems
it is okay to cry
it is okay to admit you don't have the strength
you should be given space to feel these things
you are allowed here to be weak, to have support from the community, and to be shielded from those who would take advantage of your weakness

this is something i have not done a good job of affirming ever since I posted it maybe once a long time ago

it's okay to be weak

I'm happy that we have all these new people join. It makes me hopeful that the landscape of the web can yet change for the better.

Slowly but surely a decentralized, non-commercial, and open-source platform is gaining a foothold.

Transgender discrimination ruling 

Federal Appeals court in Cincinnati rules that discrimination on the basis of #transgender status is sex discrimination, and therefore in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights act, denies any religious exemption nytimes.com/2018/03/24/us/poli

did I just successfully bait a TERF? yes, I believe I did. /preen

aaahahahahah the dying fan in my computer sounds like an angrily buzzing *really big* wasp in there. :|

Trying to figure out how Mastodon works. Is there a way to identify like-minded folks? Sourdough baker, gardener, orchardist, dog lover, sarcoma survivor, neurodivergent / Aspergers, gay man in honest and open marriage.

capitalism, errands, food 

okay--time to go do a last bit of grocery-buying before returning the rental car. also I'VE HAD COFFEE so I'm maybe a bit more hyper than usual (if by "a bit" you mean "all of it").

sudden burst of nostalgia 

I had one of these as a kid and I *adored* it. carted it around, played with it constantly... it was so simple and silly, but it was a very good friend to small me. awoo.space/media/gIGVDuxf4BIcg

request for donations 

We're struggling to afford groceries for the whole week, any donations (even very small ones) would be greatly appreciated

ko-fi.com/charlotte (my partner's kofi)

birdsite 

I don't doubt that your snide remark, your screencapped dunk, your quote tweet, whatever, is totally earnest, from a good place, or whatever you say, like, I don't doubt that.

It's not about the behavior of exactly one actor (like say, you), but the systemic effect of all of these people all doing something at once.

It's weirdly violent, and neither the participants nor the target benefit from it. It's just _designed_ to suck the life out your eyeballs and that's it. So, cool it.

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how dare a band instruct me to imagine dragons. I was browsing deviantart in the early '00s, I can't STOP imagining dragons

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