orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es
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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
Seriously, tho, emo from that period is so particular you can practically timestamp it and provide lat/long coordinates to where the songwriter came up with the lyrics.
October 23, 1997, 2:38 am, sitting on a couch smoking up in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Brad had an idea for a song about how sad he is now that summer is over and he won't see his unrequited crush anymore. He had recently been reading "The Martian Chronicles" and wishes to weave in references to the first chapter for pathos.
Actually I'm listening to Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown Christmas album because I'm basic as fuck
Listening to early 2000s emo in order to understand the white middle class cismale suburban experience.
Seems like it's a lot about missing your girlfriend/ex-girlfriend.
Oh, damn, sheesh, that's cold. Maybe that's why she's gone?
And now we're off to the football game...
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The vast majority of Americans do not have a college degree so if a "diverse" organization doesnt represent that, it is being disingenuous.
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getting real tired of the language people use to refer to nonbinary people versus binary trans people
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@BestGirlGrace ok now I want a bot that posts all the famous computer rants and replaces the important words with random garbage phrases
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If you're interested in animorphs because it's A. Great and B. Not made by a shitsucker, check out an officially endorsed free ebook collection. You have to signup, sadly, but it's worht it for 65 books of goodness.
Now if you excuse me, I need to re-read Everworlds.
@eightbitsamurai@elekk.xyz Same, tho
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i call this new pokemon team, the "Who Let Me Name Pokemon Unsupervised" team #pokemonswordshield
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Time to play "Is this the thing that will finally get liberals to stop trying to tell me about how great JK Rowling is" or "Is this the thing that will mass convert legions of liberals into a transmisogynistic cult because they identify too strongly with wizard cop books for kids".
Misgendering
I'm the "Oh yeah we stopped talking but I think I heard she's a guy now and working at a tech company" for a lot of people, and I frankly feel proud of my plot twist heavy personal narrative
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after seriously considering the text, wherein the titular subject is named both as a "dandy" and said to call his feathered hat "macaroni" - a term that at the time meant fashionable, perhaps equivalent to modern slang of "on fleek", while being commended for being "handy" with women, i am inexorably drawn to one single conclusion:
yankee doodle is a fuccboi
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cool fact: until last year, the bank of montreal only allowed you to have six character long passwords, and they could only use alphanumeric characters (0-9 and a-z), and on top of that, all letters were saved as their T9 equivalent (e.g. "ABC" became "111" because those are the corresponding digits on a phone keypad), meaning that there were a grand total of one million different possible passwords, for a bank with several million users
https://blog.keigher.ca/2016/01/bank-of-montreal-has-horrible-password.html
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Disrupting the industry by funneling even more profit to even fewer people
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@melissasage @salameleon apparently I’m sid_meiers_iexplore_centauri
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not that we should talk about cisgenderism and heterosexuality the way we talk about bisexuality. it's just nonsense to act like something can stop being real if for one person it was an unstable or temporary identity.
we should instead talk about cisgenderism asn heterosexuality as norms which are imposed nonconsensually to universal harm, tied up with other ideological justifications for violence and exploitation, and an instrument for especial harm against those who cannot fit within them.
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It's okay to enjoy something that's problematic; it is not okay to shut down critique because you enjoy it. :3
@pexl And I did feel the same way about other fantasy series I was reading at the time.
I guess it feels more egregious in Redwall, because the animals aren't just walking talking metaphors (like in Aesop's fables), or mindless drones (like orcs/goblins/demons in a million different series). They have their own personalities, and seem like they should have the free will to choose to be good or bad. But that's not how it works.
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cisgender and heterosexual are transitional identities for many people that they later end up abandoning, but for some reason only identity shifts out of bisexuality get talked about this way, and trans, gay, bi, etc. experiences get accused of being 'a phase' instead of... cishet, which more or less everyone is forced to pretend to be from birth
@pexl I was reading it when I was in my early to mid-teens, so that aspect ran thin very quickly. I really enjoyed "Martin the Warrior" because it was a ripping yarn, but the black and white morality combined with "all [x] are born evil" turned me off when I tried reading other books. I knew it was for a younger audience and didn't expect deep philosophical discussions, but it definitely made things less fun.
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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
