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Trying to find a campground to watch the eclipse from and everything is mega-booked.I should have planned this like, a year ago. :|

Okay Awoo and Residents of the Distributed Territories:

What kinds of places should I look to find a floppy witchy hat?

Okay but can we agree that all dick pics on this platform should be tagged

I... get this weird worry that my speech patterns in online spaces make me sound like a boy? Especially when meeting new people? Is that completely ridiculous?

food 

Favorite local pizza place has some interesting ideas about what counts as a vegetable: awoo.space/media/MsfIRwWzfZkav

(Usual approach that seems to work pretty well: show enthusiasm and not wryness, find something specific to compliment.)

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Useful skills learned through spending time hanging out in queer spaces online: how to compliment sexy photos of friends without being creepy.

Is there an important email you've been meaning to write, but left off so long it feels like you can no longer reasonably send it? April 30 is Email Debt Forgiveness Day.
email.gimletmedia.com

Is anyone else having issues with amazon dot com tonight?

(please tell me I'm not the first person to have made that joke)

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Common gender-related surgical procedures:
Top Surgery
Bottom Surgery
Up Surgery
Down Surgery
Charm Surgery
Strange Surgery

I'm also of the opinion that this spectrum of​ internal experiences is /vastly/ more common than almost anyone acknowledges, and that cultural models and narratives play a large part in how it's understood and expressed a lot of the time. Mental metaphors play a huge part in how we understand our experiences, and it's easy for people to dismiss or ignore feelings they don't have a social context for.

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Programming note: I'm putting plural stuff behind CWs not because I think it necessarily needs a content warning, but because I'm still kinda shy about it.

Plural stuff 

Have I mentioned that two of my partners clocked me so hard they were apparently referring to us as "noted singlet Katt Lastname" behind our back? :D

...okay I actually kind of seriously want a necker cube tattoo now. @indi

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an Objective Reality might exist, but that's not the world we as people actually live in. The universe we experience is built inside our heads, out of mental language and implicit metaphor resulting from eons of evolution.

Our stories and narratives are important. Our metaphors shape our reality. Subjectivity matters.

And, if we want, our reality can be sculpted.

One of the best pieces of advice I've ever read is "trust your future self".

It's easy to worry about future decisions you might have to make. It's /really/ easy to worry about your goals or desires changing sometime down the road.

It's okay. Future You will probably make reasonable decisions based on what feels right at the time, using the information then present. Trust them to handle things when the time comes, if it does.

usualerror.com/e-book/trust-yo

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