So I was just rereading Dark Mirror and it just amused me that you mention 512 terabyte isolinear chips and we're really not far off that now in hard drive sizes... I just bought an 8 terabyte external for less than 200 bucks.
Life imitating art? Or is Geordi La Forge secretly working in Silicon Valley?
(snicker) Another reminder that it's wiser to make up measurements instead of assuming a Really Big Metric One you invent will be big enough to last until the work goes safely out of print. (As you see, I've already embarrassed myself this way once in a Trek novel. A harsh lesson...)
...But have I learned my lesson? Hmm. I mean, look at this, which goes back to 2009 or so. By quoting a storage size in yottabytes, I just skated by. And I think I may be safe with that for a while longer. But how much longer? Hard to say...
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The number of white, ostensibly liberal male political pundits insisting that elections in the Biden/post-Dobbs era are just Completely Unpredictable and Wild sure is something, huh.
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What does kin mean?
The meaning can tend to vary depending on who you ask, but it generally means (TLDR:) identifying with a character in some way. Although it originated from the term "otherkin", which means identifying with an animal/another species, the way it's typically used in this context refers to "fictionkin".
Many people use it to describe simply relating strongly to a character and don't really see themselves as the character in any way, but it was originally used to describe identifying as the character in a spiritual/psychological way. To clarify, it doesn't mean that you think you literally are that character right now, in a physical way etc. It's more of an identity thing. (I could go more in-depth on what that means, but I'm going to assume that's more information than you're looking for.)
It's kind of a Tumblr/internet culture thing, but I'm not very involved in the community or anything because it's more of a personal thing for me specifically, so. I really don't feel like the best person to ask if you have any more questions. I apologize if that's too much information for such a simple question; I guess it's a bit complicated to explain.
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Kiiinda unhappy w the fact that a mutual made a post essentially saying “if you support / interact with this proship neutral dont interact with me + DONT harass the account i mentioned” and then immediately got condescending/manipulative replies, asks, and Extreme dogpiling by the accounts friends/affiliates to the point of having to leave their account.
Personally I think if you can’t handle other people saying what you are, you maaybe should rethink identifying with that label.
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poinsettia season so close to being over..... just one week...... so close.... in other news, i am already thinking about next year and already did all the numbers for the 2024 order lmao
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A little attempt at research into queer history...
Put the year or rough time you first heard it in the tags!
If you heard it before the year 2010 please reply, reblog, or DM me directly to say when!
If you have sources of the word in print or online that can be definitively dated to earlier than or around 2010, please share!
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Now I get to research dances and music and what sort of filthy things high society people got up to in the 18th century.
Writing is fun, isn't it?
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“Just do me a favor? Try not to murder me like you did the other three Directors.” He winked.
I love that I had to pause to count out who he was talking about.
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*Panicked* Uh, heyyy, doc! So, uh, completely rhetorical question here, uh, what would happen if one of them, uh, Meem things got into a cloning machine? Huh? Oh god! Uh, gotta go!
it sounds like youre about to have an infestation on your hands
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Watching a video essay presented by an autistic woman and experiencing raw allurement in the way she lounges casually around her house; like seeing body positions, hand gestures, and other 'oddities' (at one point she sits holding a large bottle of laundry detergent balanced in her hand in a way that resonates so intensely i audibly screech) that not only cause intense "Self Recognition Through the Other" feelings in a very validating way but also untold amounts of "You're reminding me SO much of the friends I used to have as a kid"-esque attraction that i keep forgetting to pay attention to the actual crux of her essay because all i can think is "g-d i need to start meeting irl autistic people again"
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