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on Brave browser:

should probably tweak/tighten settings there

i just found out tumblr was storing over three GIGABYTES of cookies on my device without me knowing and that's why it's been running so fucking slow recently... incredible. anyways everyone go clear your fucking cookies. don't let this website run a goddamn video game's worth of disc space in the background for no good reason.

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william gibson: the future is already here-

maybe this is a fundamental difference in moral views because i think oppression isn't bad because it harms certain groups, it's bad because it harms people. it DOES harm specific groups, and that's a necessary part of understanding it, but the mistreatment is the problem, not the fact that that mistreatment is unfairly distributed

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Bluey's goal is relatable, not realistic, but yeah, the creek episode, we're supposed to imagine it, but i felt it called for different art, should've been ghibli maximalist nature porn

anime gets a lot of mileage out of the fact that Japan is super green and super compact, lots of tiny rice paddies and tiny mountains and tiny forests and tiny rivers allowing plucky tweens to wander off and find adventure within minutes.

it’s hard to do that in Australia as you’re either stuck in suburbia or lost in an infinite brown scrub that stretches thousands of miles in every direction, and that’s just like one cattle station. 

#bluey

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from the lotr lampoon, "kierkegaard" sounds kinda orcish

collecting a list of fake names that were made up for a dnd campaign:

noam chomsky (gnome)

warner herzog (half-orc)

willem dafoe (human, but european)

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Bluey: Bandit is indifferent, but Chili's secret shame is reading trashy tabloid stories of the royals

I don't know what paddington is doing on that list, but it made me think of the time someone drew a picture of the queen with paddington after she died, and we had scores of people losing their minds at the idea that paddington bear wasn't the same kind of communist as them

#currently watching #headcanon #in the blueyverse the royals are corgis of course #bluey

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confused, thought someone's pole dancing on a unicorn horn, like yea that makes sense for tumblr

trying to figure out this wip of a unicorn goring an insufficiently pure maiden not sure this painting is going to work out.

it turns out people look pretty goofy being gored by a unicorn. something to keep in mind when you go out in nature

#unseelie strip club

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guessing the slur was "gook"

was learning about the history of a racial slur used by US soldiers against enemy combatants first in the Philippines and then in Korea and then in Vietnam and I had a moment where I was like "wait that doesn't make any sense, those are three wildly different ethnicities" before realizing I was doing this tweet unironically

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good addendum to sturgeon's law. easier to gain general but not perfect consensus on what's shit, but the 1% to 10% that's good certainly does vary a lot from person to person

ykno the thing about poetry is that 99% of it is bullshit and the other 1% will cut you like a material knife, and for every person that 1% is a different section of the whole. this is probably true about all art.

#sturgeon's law

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postle. tweetle? "tweetstorm" feels so pretentious.

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andreia: bip bum!

me: wut

ahh, lip balm

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Hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn

"Come in," she said

"I'll give you shelter from the storm"

" The Gatekeeper Patrolling " //© Jen City

Music: Danger Twins - Thing of Beauty

#bob dylan #shelter from the storm

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Rushdie has a book coming out tomorrow about his attack, simply titled "Knife." I'm reminded of the bit: "the ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr," which TIL is a weak hadith

#salman rushdie #to read #Youtube #free speech

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writing challenge: a gamefaqs-style textfile walkthrough for an rpg that doesn't exist. ascii art, table of contents with random alphanumerics to "jump" to sections. of course, digressions, commentary, suggestions etc.

#writing prompt #Youtube

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sarek and amanda grayson

The Logical Couple

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how crowley and aziraphale met

based on something I saw a bit back

#good omens

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Would you mind adding an image ID to that Asimov excerpt?

done

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-asimov, Beginnings: The Story of Origins

the 20th century is crazy what do you mean that airplanes didnt exist in 1900 and by 1999 Futurama was airing

#isaac asimov