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i love the sonic the hedgehog naming convention:

Sonic: named in honor of his speed
Eggman: named after his round, egg-like body
Knuckles: named after his large notable knuckles
Amy: Amy is a girl's name (Amy is a Girl)

"I'm obsessed with an 1990 Lucasfilm Games point and click adventure"

OK Loomer

Privilege = private + law = one law for group A, one law for everyone else

Privilege =/= all advantages

Being able-bodied is privilege. The built environment was built FOR YOU.

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I've been looking into it, and I'm pretty sure that all programming languages are terrible, though some of them for different reasons than others.

I can never forgive my second ex for taking me to see Clone Wars. I wake up at night and think about sand

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It's not that I hate Star Wars, it's that I hate being forced to watch movies and I especially hate hearing about my partner getting into online arguments where they "own" a "n00b" who doesn't even know who Raygun Spielbergus is or some bullshit

I've said it before and I'll say it again: The best part of not dating a Star Wars fan is not having to watch Stars Wars

My body isn't designed for procreation. My body isn't designed to do anything. My body is just a bizarre collection of carbon and oxygen that can walk around and think.

[dj herman comes on at 2 am, talks at length about the latest whale news, starts describing a childhood memory, and puts on a tom waits record before returning with a small story about the cabin boy aboard a ship he once crewed]

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I started listening to an audio recording of Moby-Dick, as read by an old style radio DJ, and it's actually fantastic. Melville's lengthy sentences and weird digressions are a perfect fit for the rhythmns of free form radio.

imagining the kind of person who deeply believes there are only two genders but instead of genders it's that cats and dogs are the only 4-legged mammals

These two ex-Pinterest interns want to replace non-profits with supercomputers

[i]Hey!
You're always wearing skin tight pants and boys wear pants
But in your skin tight pants you look like a girl[/i]

The dilemmas of being straight and cis in 1960s America (or arguably early 2000s America before skinny jeans took off)

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So a lot of people like TV and sports. A lot of people actually like conforming to their assigned gender. A lot of people want kids. A lot of people are straights. A lot of people are right-leaning-moderates. MUCH fewer people are actually gender conforming and straight and right-leaning-moderates who want kids and like TV and sports?

But this 25% is so is made out to seem like 98% of everyone, and it feels worse when you're a kid and not conforming is hours of isolation and persecution. Years.

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