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everyone really needs to stop calling folks narcissists/sociopaths when the people they're referring to aren't diagnosed and are really just known abusers.

abuse is not inherent with cluster b personality disorders.

"This is where the magic happens," I say, letting my date into the bedroom where I have an immense Snorlax pillow plush instead of a mattress

watching less TV and/or movies in a year than the average American does in a week + faceblindness == lmao who tf if this at many Incredibly Famous people

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It will never stop being funny that Cats the musical is based on poetry by TS Eliot

Bulbapedia'll be like, "The name Seel comes from the fact that it lives by the sea. It resembles a Eurasian musk otter. It might also be based on cows."

"This document was witten in 1987 and reflects the state of the art and my thinking at that time. Definitely a pre-Web report! I am making it available again to allow you to reflect on the extent to which the issues facing the WWW are similar to or different from the issues discussed in 1987."

nngroup.com/articles/trip-repo

Internally screaming as I try to come up with short synonyms to reduce the length of these titles

Sidescrollers are reactionary because you move from left to right

Idk it's just such a peculiar worldview, it's like a crystallization of thinking about things purely in terms of whether they are legal, and/or make money and/or spread a particular message. And it's applied so broadly that a Kick me sign taped to someone's back is equivalent to an abstract mural

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Wikipedia has a category called "Graffiti and unauthorized signage", which strikes me as very funny, because it presents a POV that 1. the most salient feature of street art is that it is not authorized and 2. it all amounts to signage, like an awning on a deli

It just seems very...stick up the ass...about it.

If you draw bubble letters in a notepad, it's art, but if you take that image and paint it on a brick wall it becomes (harumpf) an unauthorized sign.

Sometimes I think about how "Roadrunner" by the Modern Lovers is just the "Sister Ray" riff gone pop. The song exists because Jonathan Richman, a teen from Boston, decided he was going to visit NYC and hang out with the Velvet Underground. And somehow he did?

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I'm coming out as having a glasses fetish.

believe it or not but long long ago there was a time where the simpsons was considered counter culture

Ma'am, I'm just a ridiculous man in a two thousand dollar fringed leather poncho, but,

what if Jesus came back and he was a sloppy party bottom in a gay biker gang?

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The Japanese broadcast of Jersey Shore renamed the show to Macaroni Assholes

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corollary: the canon of stuff we read in queer/trans studies about transness is overwhelmingly white and doesn't have great racial politics; decolonizing and de-whitening our field is absolutely essential

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a lot of trans scholarship from 2015 forward actually whips ass and if a course doesn't want to cite anything recent regarding transness then they're almost certainly fucking up big time

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