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remember when u were like 11 and the only thing u wanted was a lava lamp

#this was just my college dorm

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Truck driver refuses to stop for Israeli settlers attempting to attack his vehicle and destroy the aid on its way to Gaza

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I don't trust anyone who hasn't acknowledged their capacity for evil.

#'you are a cruel woman who just happens to be small' #is burned into my brain

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It's awesome to see these sweet boys sharing a sensitive giggle

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Judson Huss

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Nomad esims are needed!!!!

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I know I'm a bit late to saying this but frankly if I found out a secret society of magic-users were just playing nonsense sports and making up slurs for the rest of us instead of helping us out with famines or leukemia I think I'd apply for a job with my local witch hunters

#like harry potter obviously #but also #kindof mage: the ascension

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one of the most enlightening realizations ive had was finding out that non-24 hour circadian rhythm people were a pretty large group and most of us have oddly similar cycles of usually around 28hr internal "days" and this masquerades as "insomnia" but if allowed to sleep and wake naturally we will just advance forward through time an extra 2-4 hours a day at a relatively stable pace. we can't go to school or jobs or even run errands on normal schedules without massive pharmacological and behavioral intervention. most of the people who have been diagnosed or figured it out themselves will report horrific, life-ruining disruption in their professional lives and terrible health from accrued lack of sleep. this disorder is most common in vision-impaired people which seems to suggest it's related to light cues. anyway just thinking about this as extremely loud yard work woke me up at 8am for the second day in a row

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still thinking about "decolonising" missionary work.

the way you decolonise missionary work is by not doing missionary work

the way you decolonise missionaries is like this:

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I'm aware of a slack server for a subset of forumites but they're kindof insular/secretive and *mostly* the massachusetts crowd. There's also a discord server for FAID (the unmoderated portion of the forum where I had no power) that I think is still active? Ngl, this conversation only just reminded me that I haven't checked it in a literal year.

as a Too Young To Have Usenetted, Too Old Not To Wish I Had, the xkcd forums are the closest I've ever seen. I know I should probably get IRC, but also, having yourself been xkcd forums, is there anywhere non-IRC that you can name them as having diaspora-ed to?

I'm honestly mostly an IRC denizen, I only briefly transited the forums whereas I'm a chanop on the IRC channel. I'm not sure what the forumites did after the breach, I think some of them moved to the subreddit but that already had its own uh, residents, in place. The IRC channel is only tangentially xkcd related anymore, as is the fate of all IRC channels that aren't dedicated to an actual project. It's moderately active, at least.

There was a discord that had spun off r/xkcd but it seems like it might have collapsed, I used to be in it and I can't see it in my server list. I never really spent much time there and I didn't like the mods very much. Every post about this on the subreddit links to an expired invite.

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Also not for nothing but every leftist org that tries to do the "democratic central leadership" thing immediately descends into being a cult of personality built around the leadership cadre's petty grievances and egos, and a *really significant* amount of the time they end up becoming a playground for sex pests (*cough* PSL *cough cough*) so like sure, ostensibly nonhierarchical orgs *can* become cliquish and petty if they develop an unofficial hierarchy, but an authority structure just formalizes that and makes it both worse and inevitable. There's a reason the famous easay "the Tyranny of Structurelessness" immediately drew a response essay entitled "The Tyranny of Tyranny"

Double-also, the feds love it when you choose leaders, because then they only have to subvert, co-opt, or destroy a much smaller number of people. You can read them fuming about how much they hate dealing with leaderless orgs. But yeah we should probably make their jobs easier just to be sporting.

"Non-hierarchical"/"horizontal"/"consensus-based" organizing/decision-making is a great way to go completely fucking insane

#it's even worse in leftist orgs #than in baseline democratic society #because your average centrally organized leftist org #has self-selected for being authoritarian follower personalities #anyone with an impulse to question authority #either drifts away or fucks off to hang with the anarchists #so you end up with a central leadership #reigning over an entire org filled with the most #mindless sops imaginable #and it goes super great every time

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#really thought he was just gonna #tongue kiss a reaper

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like actually it's wild to me as someone who mostly exists on the fringes of the D20 fandom, since CR is by far my main one, that a lot of the really popular voices there are popular fanartists who low-key hate like 99% of what D20 is and tend to fixate on like, ships between barely-seen side characters. Like okay, so you don't like D&D as a system and think it's inherently imperialist and violent; you don't like that they no longer do hour-long Adventuring Parties (which started when they were in full lockdown and quickly ended once the industry was back on fairly regular footing); you don't like that they joke around in the talkback show even though that's true of every AP talkback show and I listen to at least four of them; you don't like the D20 formula of ending with a big combat at the end; and you don't like that characters weren't redeemed because you feel as though the narrative didn't give them time to be redeemed and this season should have been longer despite it being standard length for an Intrepid Heroes season and "the narrative" is shaped by Brennan Lee Mulligan, DM, as well as the cast's choices.

Like, real talk, I watch/listen to a lot of actual play and at least four talkback shows (for CR, NADDPod, WBN, and sometimes D20) and when fans get mad that the talkback has too much joking around it's an almost flawless litmus test that person hates the show but their blorbo is on it or their fandom identity rests on it or some other sunk cost fallacy. And if they start talking about the story as if it is not driven by the DM and the cast, you know they're really mad about the DM-ing and the cast choices but are too cowardly to say "Hey, I disliked what Brennan did here." And if you add it to the fact that D20's fandom in particular has a real problem with "liking the right stories is activism :)" and this story doesn't spell out Capitalism is the BBEG (thought it does, hilariously, take some very good shots at Evangelical Christianity and the hypocrisy of the religious right) you get this. I really think a lot of these people don't like D20 much; they like some platonic ideal of D20 mixed in with no small dose of their own personal desires and it's like, if you want a more than 20 episode series that's low combat...why are you going to D20.

#christ #I've watched all of fantasy high #and somehow never got a whiff #of any of this #i highly suggest #just watching stuff #and ignoring the fandom entirely #except when it makes something neat #who are even the blorbo side characters? #i refuse to find out

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vulnerability is so important but I will not be partaking in it

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*except small LLCs consisting of the people who live in the house (these are both one of the best ways to do co-ops and also are technically corporations in some chunk of jurisdictions)

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belated museum day to the multiple little girls who I watched fall in love with a replica Egyptian mummy and tried to kiss him through the glass case he was kept in