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Reminded again that <Trust and Safety> is a euphemism for <Power and Control>.

The pseudo-Aristotelian question either reveals your interlocutor isn't thinking straight or gives you important information you didn't already know.

They're speedrunning vibe deterioration over on bluesky.

Someone should archive it so we can examine the corpse to find the exact moment that it went sour.

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@tootkoTootarov There are rules to an Alice and Bob sketch.

I don't have them all written down, of course.

I don't usually delete tweets, but leaving that one up would have been a public nuisance.

I was going to wonder how this got mirrored to fedi, but of course the answer is that the person who can't read blocked me immediately, so it didn't look like a QT by the time the reposter found it.

(I don't mirror QTs.)

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Late breaking news implies that much of Shinkai's reuse of plot elements is driven by his advisors telling him to give the audience what they want.

Which put a different spin on things, TBH.

looper.com/1256895/makoto-shin

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There's an argument to be made that common boilerplate terms are more overreaching than they need to be but this is just bad reading skills. twitter.com/ashleygjovik/statu

Seeing everyone having babies reminds me that I'm a decade older than a bunch of my circle here.

(If you don't know what I'm parodying, consider yourself lucky.)

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There are several reasons for grouping them together as a single “bundle” of ideologies. First, all trace their lineage back to the first-wave Anglo-American eugenics tradition.

Second, they're all full of my enemies.

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Where did “ADVIL” come from? Answer: a paper that I coauthored with a machine elf I met while high, which is currently under review. It stands for “Atheists, Democrats, Villains, Independents, and Lesbians.”

Ancient sumerian fedi:

@gilgameshliker@bullofheav.en

Need me a hung bro to wrestle with. Nothing sexual

@templeeunuch69@ziggur.at

@gilgameshliker@bullofheav.en

You're always thirstposting and yet i never see you at the temple. Incel behavior tbh

@eanasir@sumer.social

Defending myself against Nanni's copper slander: what really happened🧵 (1/78)

Me: The water came down here, so I went upstairs to ask what they were doing, but the lady doesn't speak English very well and didn't understand what I was asking.

Maintenance Guy: Let me be racist at you for two minutes.

Me: I shall <um> noncommittally and hope this ends soon.

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