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As recently as the 1970s it was considered daring for women to wear pants. No wonder this country is having a crisis over where trans people can go peepee

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Sometimes the transphobia on social media feels like increasingly more elaborate ways for transphobes to avoid sounding like a 1960s square ranting about how they long for the days when girls were girls and men were men

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Americans back then just about lost their damn minds over men having slightly longer hair than a crewcut

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That great 60s tune by the Barbarians, "Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl"

non mathematicians: i hate math because i hate numbers

me, a mathematician: what the frick is a number

Considering that it's off of an album called The Hurting, do you need to make it more depressing?

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Ahhhhh we got this Christmas catalog in the mail, you can buy rotary phones and bad strawberry candy. There are 200 dollar hair brushes and Snoopy bath robes. This is where grandmothers get their powers.

RT @sannewman@twitter.com

THE SEVEN SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE

1. Private school
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family
5. Club memberships
6. Personal assistant, nanny, ghost writer
7. Journalists who ask, "What's your secret?" and uncritically publish the answer

hot take: logarithms are not that complicated and only seem that way because contemporary math education is obsessed with arithmetic and not the core essence of math which is understanding the relations between operations

humans think we are the most spiritually advanced species but its bears

Trans putting on makeup montage except it's me dressing up like Robert Smith

Anime character: *a strong, musclebound character who got their skills through years of training that loves their friends and is dedicated to justice throughout the universe*
Person who uses it as their avatar online: *rejected from the local planet fitness due to their obsessive sniffing of women's towels*

There are no unskilled workers only unvalued workers

people who go to movies early to watch the previews are perverts who love advertising

Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass had real reply guy energy

tired: seattle is too rainy and dark
wired: seattle is not rainy & dark enough

We already uproot homeless people by forcing them to choose between shelters in the middle of nowhere, or sleeping near where their friends and aid services are.

- dense housing is an environmental issue (greenfield development is bad)
- the talking point "empty house count exceeds homeless population" and its alleged solutions "repossess the houses and give them to the homeless" would uproot people from their community and move them out to the middle of nowhere where they have no access to services and the structures need repairs
- public housing has been underfunded since reagan at the federal level, so we need to enact local solutions as a patch.

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