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Motorism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be drivers whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside pedestrians and cyclists whom the law binds but does not protect.

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the GDQ deadline is coming up so I'm doing some speedruns! Starting with Galaxy Trucker "Crime%", then Number Munchers WR attempts

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There's a new version of ALttP Overworld and Door Randomizer! Which I may or may not be playing. It's a Mystery Mystery run

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OH WAIT I’ve also gotten six steps up the Stiff-O-Meter (I know) on Scared Stiff. But that’s not even in the top half of scores

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so this happened? this might be my first time** getting to a wizard mode* on a real machine and it’s heckin Munsters??

* as I understand it, Munster Madness is a pretty attainable mode if you play well, but there isn’t a bigger wizard, besides doing it again

** if mini-wizards count, I got Crank It Up on Metallica at SGDQ’s pinball arcade. I didn’t know what it was

Who is driving? Zut alors, cat is driving, how can this be

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the most important part of the history of Unicode is the time that a mouse fell out of a light fixture and got added to the count of members present

unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm

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"My least favourite word in the German language is Geduld. It means patience, and I hate it because it appears in nearly every response to me in the ticket I've had open with my university's IT department for an entire year, begging them to change their naming policy for Microsoft Teams."

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"What I feel is powerless. When states require that I tell them my name, my gender, my state of transness, I am now powerless to resist, simply because institutions like my university cannot bother to dignify me with an identity outside my state-given one. It is institutional policy to see me only in the ways I have institutional legitimacy, rather than to pose the question: why the fuck does my neural networks professor need to know my government name?"

dippedrusk.com/posts/2023-02-2

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“If one 84-year-old cis white shitposting novelist can become less transphobic on Twitter, then we are all endowed with the capacity for growth and change.”
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harry potter, transphobia, schadenfreude 

A transphobic troll who showed up to my stream (and got auto-modded) was mad that trans people are spoiling Hogwarts Legacy.

I don't even care about the other thing that troll was trying to say about trans people. That made my night. It's _working_!

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