orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

@avi actually kill comes from dutch! and murder also i think comes from dutch, by way of "mudder". the murderkill river's name is entirely unrelated to violence!

Kids are callin' it Fear Cocktail. She set a dumpster on fire behind a Benihana and huffed the fumes until she thought she was surrounded by a bunch of labradoodles wearin' cowboy hats.

Even worse game idea: bullet hell as a text adventure

You are at position 5,28. There are incoming bullets at 3,5, 6,9 and 12,7.

> east

You are at position 6,28. There are incoming bullets at 4,6, 6,10, 11,8, and 23,7.

"Scientists give cuttlefish 3D glasses and shrimp films for vision study" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/08/scientists-play-shrimp-films-to-cuttlefish-in-3d-vision-study (there's a cute photo of a cuttlefish wearing red/blue stereo glasses, which turns out to work)

Quote: « “A lot of people said it wasn’t going to work,” Wardill said. “They said they’d rip the glasses off. They said there’d be ink in the tank.” »

Translation: "Fools! We showed them all!"

be the monster you want to fuck in the world

But why is homonationalism wrong?

Well, imperialism bad; I think everyone who's read this thread up to this point probably agrees with that. The more insidious thing about homonationalism is the way that it erodes solidarity between people. The capitalist class loves it when we fight amongst ourselves, and setting gays against ethnic minorities is a favored tactic. During the marriage equality debate here in the USA conservatives would often talk about the black community as though it were uniquely homophobic. This wasn't true, but that's not the point: the point is pitting white gays against black straights and getting the chaos you cause to question their coalition just enough that you can pass some legislation that'll fuck over them both.