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It's not even hidden. People openly admit to this. They've literally said openly "most of the deaths are people with disabilities so we shouldn't care".

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Art by Ami Thompson

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call me a luddite if you want but i genuinely hope all this metaverse shit, facebook or not, dies out and i never have to hear about it again. maybe its just my perspective as someone with dissociation and depersonalization issues but genuinely there is nothing more important in life than just being present and experiencing the world around you. we were just put on this earth to exist and to experience it and you can't replicate genuine experience with a vr headset. its a fun little technology for gaming and shit but if people start asking me to replace aspects of my everyday life with shitty vr replicas im gonna fucking car bomb a data center

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if you have Norton Antivirus or Norton VPN, delete the software ASAP.

Norton is automatically installing and running a cryptocurrency mining program in the backgrounds of their users. There is no text box asking to confirm the use of this program and is installed automatically, it runs during “downtime” on your computer . While the official announcement said that this program was exclusive to the US, international users are reporting it as well. We don’t know the exact scope yet.

To delete this program, must go into the files (Program Files/Norton) and delete the file NCrypt.exe. It will ask for the admin permission. (Some report having admin permissions on their computer but being unable to delete the program.) If the software is already downloaded to your computer, I would NOT recommend continuing to use Norton, as there is no guarantee that the .exe file won’t return in another update.

Tell your friends and family, reblog, spread this, please. It’s barely been getting any attention, and I worry that Norton is setting a precedent that other companies will repeat. However, if a large (or very vocal) part of the userbase continues to complain, it may make Norton or other companies think twice before mining crypto on your computer.

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I agree with the idea that most things boil down to “can you have compassion for others”, but I’d be more inclined to use: “can you treat others with humanity and dignity, and put their rights at the center of your convictions, even if you have nothing in common with them, and even if you cannot emotionally relate to every tragedy in the world.”

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Queuing this for January too.

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My girlfriend is bisexual, I adore her so much. What makes me sad is that I can’t call her my femme as a butch, even though I dote on her like I would dote on any femme and she dotes on me as a femme would a butch. The lesbian community is already so small. I don’t see why things can’t change to include bisexuals in butch femme culture if they truly understand the history and know it’s not just about appearances. It breaks my heart that bisexual women just want to be included in something beautiful and we exclude them from it. I don’t think it hurts lesbians for a bisexual woman to call herself femme or butch. I think that this is a change that is going to happen regardless, so instead of pushing back, we can include bisexual women with open arms and educate them on a history they were alienated from because of biphobia and bisexual erasure, I think lesbians can do better than the ones before us. And if we want to keep butch and femme culture alive, this could be a good thing to include bisexual women. These are my two cents, from a younger butch lesbian.

Hi. I understand this dilemma. I have been in love, deep love, with a bi woman who loved my butchness and made me feel handsome and loved. And I was honored to make her feel beautiful and listened to and safe. We had a wonderful dynamic and lots of passion. But being bi she did not have quite the same energy as a femme. Since she was able to have attraction to men, she was not a femme. A feminine woman? Yes. Powerful in her womanhood? For sure. Our chemistry was undeniable but, that did not make her a femme. 

There is a difference in the energy, the experience and the connection to loving women between the lesbians and bi women I have known.. Not bad or worse or better. Just different. I found it beautiful in its own way. 

Think of this. You love a woman who is capable of seeing the wonders of both men and women. She is unique and amazing in a way only bisexual woman can be. She deserves to be seen for just that. She deserves not to be erased by muddying the waters of her sexuality. She should be appreciated for who she is and using a word that that is not accurate for her will not honor her specific energy. 

I can say the woman i loved had her own special energy and way of taking up space. Of existing in a world that saw her as straight. None of that mattered when I looked in her eyes and it was just the two of us. Her power was unmistakable. 

There is not really a way I can speak about the history of butch and femme past my experience and the stories of my older friends. I have not read much theory or deeply studied much butch/femme history because I would rather speak from my own story, my own life. I don’t presume to know how others, through history, through different regions and through various socio-economic backgrounds felt or how they attached to the words butch and femme.  

Just like most of us, my opinion is formed some from what I see, hear and read on the internet or at festivals or other events. The majority of my feelings about butch/femme come from my life and the lives of my friends and community, that community being women I know in real life. They are formed from Campfire stories, drunken nights at the bar sharing past exploits and potlucks where I heard about dating, love and social interaction from before I was out. 

My opinion, and, it is my opinion, is very much based on my experience and interaction with women. Lesbians and bi women share many things but we are different. Bi women don’t have the same energy as a femme to me. It is just not the same. Different does not make it worse, or better, The difference, for me, did not make it harder for me to love, feel passion for or truly be honored by the way she loved and treated me, as a butch, as the woman she loved.

It is always ok for a specific minority to have words that belong to their culture, their unique way of existing in the world.  Butch and Femme belong to lesbian culture, both now and when I was coming out and long before was born. Sometimes we love someone so much that we want to share certain things with them, but not every one gets to fit in every where. And bi women are not butch or femme.  

 Butch and femme will not die because we don’t share. We are born and live whether others like it for not. If everyone can used the words and they become meaningless as ways to define a specific type of lesbian then the words will surely be in danger,  Love your girlfriend with all you’ve got. Revel in the way she makes you feel and be honored she loves and trusts you for who you are, for your butchness. And love her for how she is. A bi woman.  

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"Ge’ez, or Classical Ethiopic, is one of the ancient world’s major literary languages, with two millennia of history in the Horn of Africa and Arabia. The language appears in many ancient inscriptions and in Jewish and Christian writings, even shaping the language of the Qur’an and early Muslim religious texts. It continues to live on today as the liturgical language of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox churches.

And yet hardly anyone outside East Africa can read or understand it today."

Ge'ez is a classical language too.

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Richard Savoie.

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“if no art makes you feel anything, make your own art and feel something” is too raw of a line to have come from a jenna marbles video of her painting a rainbow/polka dot seahorse saying “it’s seahorse time” on a denim jacket

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A gibbon walks amid models of vehicles at a zoo in the park of miniatures in Bakhchisaray, Crimea.   REUTERS/Alexey Pavlishak

https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/top-photos-of-the-day-idUSRTXCKJR8

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HOLY SHIT OH MY GOD THERE’S JOROGUMO IN AMERICA AND PROBABLY FOREVER We already had a species of golden silk spider but THIS golden silk spider is so big and so fabulous that it’s also a type of youkai in Japanese culture, the same way tanuki are both a youkai and an actual animal!! Now North America has a BOOMING population in Georgia which will likely continue to spread through the warmer states! News is sensationalizing an “invasive giant spider” but they’re harmless to humans and foreign species are actually not inherently invasive, in fact they can quite often just fill an empty niche in a changing ecosystem. In this article, Agricultural agent Greg Pittman discusses how their webs are filling up with invasive stink bugs more than any other prey.

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‘x is the original girlboss!’ ‘y is the original girlboss!’ wrong. there’s one definitive answer to who the original girlboss is

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“Crime stories are a fundamentally conservative way of looking at the world. Republicans bleat about high crime rates in lawless liberal cities because someone stole a toothbrush from a CVS. Suburban crime paranoia is as old as the suburbs themselves — hell, it’s why they exist to begin with. The reactionary basis of true crime is how you end up with ostensibly liberal podcast hosts defending the death penalty and arguing against double jeopardy protections. It’s easy and correct to condemn Fox News for increasing our grandparents’ blood pressure, keeping them in a perpetual state of fear about roving gangs of MS-13 coming to their gated communities, but we should also consider that other demographics might be susceptible to fear-stoking propaganda. How can we listen to story after story of women being abducted or murdered and expect it to not have an effect on our psyche? A study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania found that fear of crime and violence on television have both increased over time, despite crime rates declining, and that women reported more fear of crime on surveys than men. True crime runs on heightened emotion and fear, convincing people, and especially women, that every stranger is a possible murderer. I see women on Twitter questioning whether it’s safe to let a plumber into their house, or instructing others to rip out strands of hair to leave in cabs for DNA evidence in case the driver murders you. These are not sensible reactions, they are the thoughts of someone who has been deeply traumatized. So many true crime shows advise women to trust their instincts, but how can we trust instincts that have been hijacked by induced anxiety?”

— Emma Berquist, True Crime Is Rotting Our Brains (via probablyasocialecologist)