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Hypothesis: the Victorian establishment of Good Manners was an attempt to cast the upper class as supernatural, along the lines of the Sidhe, by eliding every outward signal of human biological existence and thus making them appear inhuman.

Question for people not in the Pacific Northwest: do you have bikini barista places where you are? I don't recall seeing them before moving here.

*lies on belly with paws stretched out*

mew! am flat :3

Hot take: the American fascination with the concept of superheroes lies at the intersection of enlightenment individualism and american exceptionalism.

Listened to TAZ: Commitment on the drive today.

Clint has some really fun ideas, but it's painfully obvious that Griffin wants to be in the driver's seat.

masto culture is occasionally checking your friends' bios in case their pronouns have changed since you last looked

Standing across the street from ur instance login page, hawking maps to celebrities' masto accounts.

I am so thrilled right now. One of the SkyKnit test-knitters sent me a dishcloth she knitted from a neural network generated pattern called "diamond diamonds". It is amazing to hold an artifact like this in my own hands. Up close I can see all the weird organic asymmetries that the SkyKnit folks say are so mind bending.
Thank you so much, SylviaTX!

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so some undergrad just approached me with a survey on smartphone behaviors. from the demographic info at the end:

q: and are you male or female?
a: [smiles] good question
q: fair enough, would you like to pick one?
a: [grins] i definitely would not
q: ok, the next question is: would you consider yourself "extremely feminine," "average feminine," "gender neutral," "average masculine," or "extremely masculine"?
a: [right away] average feminine
[to self:] new D&D alignment chart acquired

English could really do with having clusivity in its first person plural pronouns

I re-watched Arrival for the first time since I saw it in theaters, and yeah it's still one of the best films I've ever seen.

I'm increasingly starting to think that "justice" might be a fake idea.

"Reciprocity" and "exchange" are two different concepts, and I think capitalism has poisoned us to think of the former in terms of the latter.

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