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Or, maybe another way of phrasing it: I think it succeeds as a book, but I'm not sure I'm entirely on board with what it succeeds at.

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I have complicated feelings about The Magicians (book) because it does pretty well with a couple of the core themes but also is kind of a mess and has a whole lot of gross stuff even beyond what the author included deliberately.

Just to weigh in, if _any_ system you're using has "private" messages and they're not end-to-end encrypted (few are, and even fewer are competently), _someone_ has access to all of those messages.

The way I see it, knowing your admin on a Mastodon instance is a win. You don't get that option with any commercial social network.

Gender; Birdsite link; +++ 

These are really cool gender-neutral swimsuits based on 1920s styles, and is a queer-run company!

beefcakeswimwear.com/

(Link found via birdsite:
twitter.com/HarleighDog/status )

Hey furries, it can be really fun to ask non-furry friends what their fursona would be! At the same time, please don't try and conscript people because that's kind of icky.

If you put someone in goggles that flip their entire view upside-down, within a day the brain gets used to it and everything seems perfectly normal.

Neuroplasticity is some cool shit.

Okay I really dig some of the UI changes in this Mastodon update :D

I'm listening to some folks play Monster of the Week the next room over. Heck, Apocalypse World really is such a good game foundation.

A rare shot of the dreaded glitchwyrm as he lurks through the error fields, his form blending in perfectly amidst the artifacts of the 'net.

Not many have seen m∅rr1s, but the wyrm's name spreads far and wide.

A commission from @irisjaycomics, who did a *spectacular* job of bringing this character to life!

HECK if you stuffed a bunch of fiber optic strands inside bits of thin rubber tube with translucent plastic on the ends, you could totally make passable bioluminescent tendrils.

I uhh might have to try this.

Seriously though it's kind of cool I live in a subculture where I can say "sexy benthic monstrosities" and people are like "yeah I get you."

Subnautica :o 

I built a Seamoth, and then 30 seconds later the Sunbeam arrived, and my poor feels are overloaded.

help i've been doing some deep diving in Subnautica and now I'm afraid if I don't reflexively scroll to the top of the timeline every minute or so then Bad Things will happen.

Longer review: basically this piece of film criticism from 2016: "The epidemic of passable movies" [7 minutes]
youtu.be/Ukk5TJL27pE

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Pacific Rim Uprising mini-review:

A squel that doesn't understand the love the first film had for its material, and doesn't understand that the first film had creative vision and wasn't just written to form. Also, not enough sexy monsters.

Verdict: unremarkable 2010s action film.

this is not my beautiful pizza hut
this is not my beautiful taco bell
this is not my beautiful combination pizza hut and taco bell

I'm watching SG-1 and O'Neil really is a knob most of the time.

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