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Every time i see a cute picture of sheep in the briddish countryside I'm like aww but then the nasty little commie in the back of my head goes "sheep herds like this were the commodity responsible for the enclosure of the commons/highland clearances as well as the destruction of native woodlands and uplands"

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Why do you hate straight people

heres my paypal

i’ll answer your question when i recieve payment :) thank you so much!

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tweets from owen dennis (infinity train's creator) on the amphibia mess

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Jack Kirby, 1971

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I have a story about the anti-homeless ronald mcdonald bench sculpture. 

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1. Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins // “'Moonlight’ Has One of the Best Food Scenes of the Year,” Bon Appétit (December 21, 2016)

2. Salt Fat Acid Heat ep. 4 - “Heat” (2018) // “Samin Nosrat Wants Us to Make Lasagna Together,” The New York Times (April 27, 2020)

3. The Farewell (2019) dir. Lulu Wang // “How ‘The Farewell’ Director Lulu Wang Stayed True to Herself,” GQ (July 11, 2019)

4. Chef’s Table 6.01 - “Mashama Bailey” (2019) // “Chef Mashama Bailey on Getting Her Seat at the Table,” Harper’s Bazaar (November 25, 2020)

5. The Half of It (2020) dir. Alice Wu // “What Alice Wu Wants To Say In ‘The Half Of It’,” NPR Code Switch (May 1, 2020)

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VALUE STAMPS ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 16

VALUE STAMPS ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 16

Quite a frightening stamp today. Sorry!

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people who complain about dinosaurs “not being scary anymore” because its been discovered they have feathers and are closely related to/ancestors of birds are so bizarre like

its not about how scary they are, they are/were real life animals and what matters is learning more about them, not how well they fit into your science fiction horror film lol

can you imagine a 13 foot chicken running at you with full intent to eat you??? thats fucking terrifying holy shit

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contrary to popular belief not everyone has an innate sense of internal gender or care to have one or seek a name for it, some people go their whole lives without questioning their occupation in one of two gender roles, but for some people, if pressed, they don't feel that internal sense of 'i am a woman' or 'i am a man', and in that case i feel the switch over to transgender vs cisgender relies on active identification of a gender other than the one they were assigned. if someone's like 'idk dude I just work here' then that's valid

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thinking about whale falls

(inspired by the work of @catadromously )

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“It’s anecdotal, but I regularly see Frankenstein’s monster described as a warning against scientific hubris, an alarum about Tampering With Things That Should Be Left Alone™. This I think is quite wrong: I think it is a story about what happens when one fails the (still at the time of writing) radical enlightenment by failing to take social responsibility for one’s actions and interventions. If it’s a warning, it’s a warning about turning one’s back, out of cowardice, on what one creates, not about creating it in the first place.”

— China Mieville

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To address an objection that folks raise literally every time I propose a slightly oddball tabletop RPG premise: if your main difficulty running tabletop RPGs is that you can’t use any premise that requires creative buy-in from your players because they treat the game as an exercise in intellectual combat and will gleefully seize on any incidental plot hole or tiny semantic ambiguity to derail and destroy any semblance of a coherent narrative, the issue isn’t some fundamental flaw of the medium – the issue is that you’re playing with jerks.

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Do you ever lie awake wondering how the heck Gimli knows what a nervous system is

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The Sun Will Swallow

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“But what have the neoliberal technocrats of our society replaced this total erasure of the language we need to understand power dynamics and systemic oppression with? An obsession with people’s surface behavior. This is not really a coincidence. By defining racism or sexism as merely an embodiment of personal bigotry, we’re able to believe in the monuments of our great myth of cultural growth like Obama, while still simultaneously maintaining systems that continue to brutally oppress and kill people. Our popular culture has become so steeped in a deeply cynical sort of practicality, where many of us are able recognize the contradictions and hypocrisies of modern society, but we also cynically accept that we can’t really do much of anything about them. The awareness of this incremental progress being largely the result of a long-term collective struggle becomes completely erased and co-opted. By making displays of bigoted behavior as the ultimate embodiment of evil we have a built-in justification for moving selfishly within the system because we’ve displaced our shame of our own cultural complicity with the destruction our way of life causes onto a convenient scapegoat. This, it turns out, opens the door for people to use bigoted language we have deemed “too far” as a show of power and dominance. People like Milo Yiannopoulos are the end point realization of this thinking — a reality that sustains itself off of a fantasy world completely insulated from any awareness or understanding of the collective struggles of the past. A reality completely nurtured by the self-fulfilling fantasies of hyper-rational objectivism. Instead of technocratic liberals being motivated by some faint glimmer of empathy or awareness for the power struggles of the past and present, the alt-right has come to understand them as simply weak and submissive “beta cucks”, controlled by the irrational manipulations of the deficient. In this view, that’s the only reason the privileged technocrats can’t stay true to the principles of their hyper-rationalist reality. The point here is that if we accept society is a true perfectly balanced meritocracy, the end result will always be fascism. But we cannot really demonstrate that Trump, Bannon, or Milo have an actual substantive vision for how to further realize the reality they purport to push. They’re merely more opportunists rebranding old neo-Nazi rhetoric and echoing self-interested cynical capitalism taken to its logical conclusion. Even if the people who supported Trump are aware and don’t care that this manipulation will inevitably effect them negatively as well, they still have a vocabulary and mainstream visibility with which to air their beliefs within now. And we cannot ignore how the rhetoric of and conditions created by technocratic neoliberal capitalism supplied them with this. Maybe the biggest shock of our current reality is to accept that there is no benevolent parental figure in power that we can appeal to the moral goodness of — that our government has become a horrific carnivalesque smash and grab for the super-rich because it was always oriented towards that direction. The real shock in losing what we thought was a solid underlying narrative governing our society is coming to the acceptance that the horrors that seemed so far away from us were actually there all around us the whole time, being incubated and stoked from within our well-intentioned, well-meaning ranks. The real shock is in accepting that a deftly composed, eloquent and friendly murderer is still a murderer, and only opens the door for bigger, grosser murderers.”

— “How Technocratic Hyper-Rationalism Has Birthed Right-Wing Extremism”, Liz Ryerson, Medium, 2017.

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“One common therapeutic strategy [when working with suicidal patients] is to talk about how much the patient’s parents/friends/girlfriend/pet hamster love them, how heartbroken they would be if they killed themselves. In the absence of better alternatives, I have used this strategy. I have used it very grudgingly, and I’ve always felt dirty afterwards. It always feels like the worst sort of emotional blackmail. Not helping them want to live, just making them feel really guilty about dying. “Sure, you’re a burden if you live, but if you kill yourself, that would make you an even bigger burden!” A++ best psychiatrist. There is something else I’ve never said, because it’s too deeply tied in with my own politics, and not something I would expect anybody else to understand. And that is: humans don’t owe society anything. We were here first.”

— Burdens | Slate Star Codex (via brutereason)