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I now want to buy some sort of horn, even if it's a cheap plastic bugle, just so I can post it here.

Ya know, toot my own horn

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cw your cis content nobody wants to see that

mh? probably adhd stuff (well, probably nothing. it's almost definitely adhd stuff) 

nothing quite like asking if I turned on the oven; checking and finding out that no, I didn't; debating whether I actually want to use the oven; deciding that yes, I do; turning it on; then, some time later, forgetting whether I turned on the oven and asking if I turned on the oven. oh, how I love my brain /s

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Politics meta, shitpost 

Broke : "The left is making me move further right."

Woke : "The left has a lot of problems it needs to work on, primarily thanks to the liberal mind trap of being raised in an oppressive imperialist society."

Bespoke : "White leftism is not that much different to the systems of abuse that conservatives take part in. To fight this, I need to move further left, and free myself from western imperialism, in mind, body and spirit."

So, uh, off that demon shit. Well, not off the demon shit. It was a worthwhile venture in showing not just that we are *not* agender, but also in that we are kind of a demon. But, back to Kat, with a fun pun of a name to boot!

(is it a pun? play on words? silly portmanteau? not really sure)

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/etc/hosts fun 

add

127.0.0.1 xn--s78h

to your /etc/hosts then all your dev servers can be accessed at http://🚽

It's your loo-pback address

(inspired by
twitter.com/rfreebern/status/1
over on :birdsite: )

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firearms 

Anybody know any good leftist/communist/anarchist gun & gear reviewers? They’ve gotta be out there, right?

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Fuck the United States of America and fuck the United States military

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If you're not supportive of non-binary folk, you're not supportive of trans rights, do better.

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What is 'a lot of work?'" (cw: late state capitalism) [1/4] 

A burned out friend of mine said, after listing a huge list of accomplishments, "I have no concept of what is 'a lot of work'" - so I thought I'd help explain. :blobowo:

"a lot of work" is what happens when you stop and think about the past 3 years of your life and you realize a lot of them are a blur because you spent so much of them furiously working the problems of multiple conflicting deadlines that a lot of it looks the same.

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Bumper sticker: "If it ain't a cat, it's a dog."

Well, bumper stickers don't lie. Guess I'm a dog now. So are many (though definitely not all) of you!

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Nonbinary people EXSIST and are RAD as FUCK

Meds 

On the bright side, 30 150's are about $12, compared to 60 75's (an equivalent amount) at about $26. Plus, it's only one large pill instead of two kinda big pills. So, net positive?

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Meds 

So, when I started Effexor (XR), I was on a 37.5 mg ramp-up dose. I'm now on 150 mg. Let me show you the size of these pills. To the left, you can see Effexor, 37.5, 75, and 150 respectively. To the right, an Exedrin Migraine, a 325 mg round of paracetamol, and a Benadryl. Note how large the Effexor 150 is in comparison to everything else. These are fucking *huge*.

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What happens when a person of color talking about racism says, "Don't tell me to CW this," and a white person does, in fact, tell them to CW it? Well, there's the obvious: A white person is disrespecting a person of color's boundaries in order to talk down to them.

But let's go subtler. What's happening in the mind of the white person who feels themself to be well-intentioned?

A collision of community norms. Many — not all!— people of color online feel that there is a tradeoff to be made between the urgency of a message and its potential triggers. When they and other people operating under those conventions interact, passing along information they may find upsetting because they judge it urgent, the system works as intended.

When someone whose etiquette system is CW-if-in-doubt sees this, it looks different. Perhaps like a violation! There's a clash of norms between different informal communities of use. For a really basic analogy, this is like seeing a photograph of a British car,

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