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Pronouns PSA 

Daily reminder that if you refuse to use someone's pronouns because you find them 'silly' or 'dehumanizing', you're playing into respectability politics.

Denying someone the agency to tell you who they are and how they wish to be addressed is dehumanizing and demeaning in a very -real- way.

[mortal kombat voice] the inevitable passage of time wins. causality

daylight savings more like baylight blavings amirite gamers

the greatest joke music theory ever played on musicians is the syntonic comma

today you're going to see the quote "well-behaved women seldom make history" misattributed to a million different people.

the actual originator of the quote was laurel thatcher ulrich, a historian who actually wrote about the aforementioned women often overlooked by history

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_T

wholesome pokémon idea: enby nidorino/a struggling with dysphoria unwittingly leads to a new pokémon discovery upon evolving

Saw this in a Solarpunk group and someone said it could be the seed to start an epic saga. I present it here as an offering to the writers: please take it and make a Solarpunk masterpiece.

i was thinking earlier about how hard it is for me to imagine that starbucks will ever go away, likely just because it's been around since a few decades before i was born - a long time from my perspective, but not particularly long at all in terms of human culture. then i thought about the concept of minecraft nostalgia and i realized that time is a spiral

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there are adults now who regard minecraft (especially its soundtrack if youtube is anything to go by) as a cherished, nostalgic childhood memory the same way i think of tony hawk's underground

there are kids who were born after minecraft, who will spend their whole youth in a culture suffused with the background radiation of its influence, and who will grow up regarding it as some kind of cultural eigenvalue

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going by the date of its initial release as a dev prototype, minecraft will turn ten years old on May 17 this year

now it is the day after ash wednesday, or as christians refer to it, thirsty thursday

weird cutesy woo-ish concept, food 

ritually sacrificing a burger at a little shrine in your room so your incorporeal spirit gf can eat dinner with you

Even dragons, perfect as we may be, can get a little sad sometimes. Remember to give your dragons a hug and an ear if they need it.

If you are a sad dragon, don't stress, it happens to the best of us.

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