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I have ADHD so I’m immune to podcast

#things that make me think I may be running an alternate OS

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my personal hc for ‘if you strike me down I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine’ isn’t bc obi wan can do anything particularly special as a force ghost, but instead he’s able to spend every spare moment verbally harassing darth vader. letting out twenty years of anger and hurt. stories from their shared time together. telling him about luke and leia, and how much they reminded him of their parents. that it’s not too late to change his path. but most of all? just absolutely annoying the shit out of him

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Once again randomly remembered this story about a couple who had a small parrot - pretty sure it was a budgie - who didn't talk but learned to communicate with people in its own way. Once it figured out that people always turn to check their phones when the notification sound comes on, it started making the text message notification sound to request human attention. The parrot also liked to follow people to the door whenever guests were leaving, and would use its wings to pantomime the motions of a person putting their coat on. A very clever, charming bird.

And every once in a while it just randomly hated some people. Not for any real reason, or even reason to suspect bad vibes, but by deciding "fuck this person in particular" for shits and giggles alone. And one time when the owners had invited a new friend to their home, the bird decided that it Did Not Like Her.

So in the middle of polite conversation, the bird - who was free to roam around the apartment at the time - hopped onto the living room coffee table, right in front of the unwanted guest. And in that moment, the owners put two and two together and understood that whatever mischief the bird had decided to do, it was now too late to stop it.

But instead of unleashing the absolute hell that even the tiniest displeased parrot could be capable of, the little budgie made its little "may I have your attention please" cell phone notification sound, and once the guest was focused on the bird, looked at her dead in the eye while doing the putting-my-coat-on wing motion.

The guest did not recognise the pantomime for what it was, but she was nonetheless delighted that the parrot would do a little wing-roll dance for her. And the host couple were at first too stunned and then too polite to tell her how impressive that gesture truly was. Their bird had shown both remarkable restraint and cleverness by using its entire vocabulary of human communication just to say

"I have an important announcement: I think you should leave."

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Chandra: Casting fireball wouldn't improve this situation. It might actually make it worse. But I think we should try doing that anyways.

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By existing as a citizen in and paying taxes to the imperial core, we automatically hold complicity in imperialist oppression because we are literally footing the bill for it. That is just the basic nature of being born to privilege in systems of oppression in general. We can be disadvantaged and marginalized in every single other consideration and we still have to understand and cope with this, and ensure we leverage it as effectively as possible.

Voting abstinence/sabotage does not absolve us of our responsibility to do everything in our power to lessen harm, but it DOES show that when our personal morals aren't satisfied, we retreat into (imperialist, this time) privilege to 'wash our hands' of the situation and declare it's not our fault and it's not our problem.

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#mood today

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I AM ABSOLUTELY LOSING MY MIND AFTER READING THIS PLEASE READ IT

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I don't know what that person was interviewing for but I hope they got it, because bullseye.

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This reminds me of the quote from Harold Washington, Chicago's first Black mayor:

“No one — but no one — in this city, no matter where they live, or how they live, is free from the fairness of our administration,” he would declare. “We’ll find you, and be fair to you, wherever you are!”

When I say “free water, free food, free shelter, free healthcare, free education for everyone” in that “everyone” I even include the people I hate. Too many people get surprised at the idea that I do wish for the people I hate to have better lives.

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My computer ran out of battery and turned *itself* off when I got to this post on my feed, so...there's that

Some of you need to hear this. And remember, a phone is just a tiny computer

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I must not explain the joke. Explaining the joke is the joke-killer. I will face my followers who did not get the joke. I will permit them to pass over me and through me

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Uh Oh, The One Other Guy Having The Same Problem As You Got Zero Replies To His Post On Reddit That He Made 5 Years Ago

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Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later