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....ok, the following quote is long, bear with me. it's a single sentence from Nobody, by Marc Lamont Hill, of which we were given a free copy

am I immature because I'm surrounded by people with the emotional intelligence of toddlers or am I surrounded by people with the emotional intelligence of toddlers because I am immature

Things I suspected but now experienced first-hand as a normally able-bodied young'in who has mobility issues due to medical boot and occasional crutches:

People assume medical devices meant to aid you make you just like them.

This is not true.

neg mh 

there are two moods: depression and empathic mimickry

Black drag queens maintain drag traditions which lampoon the destructive, violent femininity of bourgeois white women only to eventually be castigated along the lines that this school of drag lampoons... the Black trans women they share community (including drag) and a whole lot of material commonality with

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ah, yes, the bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb

this course on diversity literally does not account for the fact that the student body may include diversity

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Welcome to the fantastic and strange world of Dune, wherein the mysterious "Arabs" protect the vital "Crude Oil" which sustains the hegemony of the magestic imperium of "America".

A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO COMPUTER SECURITY

1. If at all possible, do not use the computer

ok im in a community for a game, & someone joins and is like "please ignore the name & appearance i made this account before i came out" and the first two people to respond, one of them is like "the devs have changed characters' genders before, here's how to get in touch with them" and the other is like "if that doesn't fix all the problems i can give you a chunk of [premium currency] to use for e.g. name change & such"

honestly who the frak put us in charge of our chassis we don't know the first thing about taking care of it

my keyboard died in the middle of writing this but. this is true too

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r/traa post, may contain sensitive content 

Remember when Rome had a trans Empress? Neither do straight historians redd.it/deq62u

for a neat sense of scale: 1 million seconds ago was 11 days. 1 billion seconds ago was 1987. 100 billion seconds ago was 1151 BCE.

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Holy crap, now I'm even more glad I didn't get on board the WoW Classic hype train.

Blizzard, in response to a Hearthstone grandmaster from Hong Kong using a slogan from the pro-democracy movement, pulls all his tournament winnings, bans him from competing for a year, *and* fires both casters who were hosting the event, who likely didn't even know he was going to say it.

Very bad look, and I can't see any reason to give them money.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

#gameing

also 5000 a day for 500 years is still short of a billion.

every billionaire deserves the guillotine.

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