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who wants to shoot up chlorophyll and telomerase with me?

(telomerase is the stuff they put in the lobsters to make them immortal)

to people complaining about defederation

we have a right to kick out people from our friend groups

we have a right to kick out people from other, more physical, communities

so why is it a problem NOW? is it because you can't spread your toxic garbage to people who don't want it - unlike on twitter where moderation is so garbage you might just avoid detected and get the other person banned instead?

you have no power here. go be a dick somewhere else.

not that i think anyone here is particularly excited for this film, but if you still have any interest in Adam (adaptation of the book of the same name), this article is worth a browse - https://www.themarysue.com/adam-movie-ariel-schrag-book-not-lgbtqa-friendly/

massive, massive cw for explicit transphobia, homophobia, etc. - the article contains a cw that has more details.

the treatment of trans extras - being lied to about what film, etc. - is new information that is pretty important, and also incredibly depressing. :(

if your theory of how learned gender roles or innate preferences or w/e is why there're fewer women programmers than men doesn't explain why there used to be *more* women then men doing programming -- why software used to be "women's work" -- your theory is wrong.

did you know: "computer" used to be a *profession,* and it was women's work. The Manhattan Project had rooms full of computers sitting at desks working out the differential equations that nuclear physics needed to work. The computers wore dresses.

Because, somehow, everybody just knew that it was totally okay for girls to do calculus but physics? that was a man's job.

Sculpture created with reclaimed materials

coming up with some kind of unscrupulous scientist character just so I can call her Helvetica Scenario

We talk about Keanu Reeves not aging, but Will Smith has really barely aged at all.

meow