So, okay. This needs to be said and understood:
KiwiFarms, Encyclopedia Dramatica, and 4chan are NOT reliable sources.
They're not.
Their entire reason for being is to manufacture reasons to ostracize people. They are, by any definition, hate machines.
You know the saying "trust but verify"? I am telling you: you can't trust these sources.
If you're going to attack and harass someone, find a better source than KiwiFarms, Encyclopedia Dramatica, and 4chan. Please.
Do you ever think about sprite comics/ flash animations and how there's like, a whole art form that's already died out and will never get appreciation in our lifetime. Like you're not gonna take an art class and hear about the stuff I grew up watching online, because it was all unlicensed, and now most of its already gone. And it's not that I'm saying it was good, because you don't measure art by "good". There's a whole generation of artistry people poured over and it's gone or soon to be.
this is 2018's "recording is killing the music industry, we left this side of the tape blank so you can help" and I'm hella here for it
https://kotaku.com/streamers-turn-off-ads-to-protest-twitch-prime-dropping-1828503585
Empty Movement will be streaming the new Utena musical with English subs in a few minutes!
https://www.twitch.tv/emptymovement
Friendly reminder: this isn't Twitter.
If you're mad about something? Use a content warning.
If you want to write a long post? Use a content warning.
Don't share screenshots of toots that make you mad, and don't follow people that make you mad.
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Aww man a super weird unfolding drama in the physics community, as yet unresolved and involving :
* very surprising claims of room temperature superconductivity!
* datasets that look super faked!!
* some hacker spoofing emails from respected scientists telling investigators to lay off investigating the research group with the super dodgy looking data!!!
You want cyberpunk? Here's cyberpunk!
https://mobile.twitter.com/gravity_levity/status/1027717419400392705
a reminder that some CD drives in the early 2000s reached high read speeds by just spinning CDs so fast they would sometimes shatter in the drive, and some manufacturers compensated for this with reinforced fronts
http://www.qedata.se/e_js_n-cdrom.htm and these magnificent people ran an experiment on when various media would shatter
tl;dr, if you want shards of plastic fired at you at half the speed of sound, old 50+-speed CD drives are where it's at
One cool thing about how fast memes and slang come and go these days is how easy it’s gonna be to date texts. The English subtitles for Yakuza 0 contain the word “butthurt,” so in the absence of any other context I can date the translation to between 2014 and 2016.
#linguistics #gameing
question for nb folks (boosting is ok)
do you feel that the word "trans" applies comfortably to you? if not, are there other people who identify as NB that you mentally consider to fit that label?
i don't necessarily mean in a self-gatekeeping way or anything, but the conflation of those two terms seems to vary from person to person
i've been sort of iffy about where i fit into the whole "cis"/"trans" dichotomy but i've also still felt aimless about pretty much everything about the NB identity
relationships, plurality, advice requested
Even if she has access, in some sense, to my partner's experiences and memories, and has access, literally, to the discord account they share, it felt like an invasion of privacy, or at least it disrupted the polite fiction that the space was private.
Is there something I'm missing? Is there a different way of looking at things that I should be aware of?
And what should I do? Should I confront her, and if so, what should I say?
relationships, plurality, advice requested
So, I'm not intimately experienced with plurality, but I have a partner who is plural, and I am friends—but not romantic—with one of their alters. I also have a group chat specifically for my partners, which is a very relaxed, intimate space where I can let my guard down around people I love and trust.
I posted something there, and my partner's alter replied to it, and that made me uncomfortable.
Small fairy from Neptune. Bad decision maker. Pro translator. Won't shut up about magical girls, robots, lesbian romances, and wedding dresses. Eats, sleeps, and breathes. Ⓥ
I’m also on twitter: @atinyfaerie