Hell yeah

You captured his flattop hair perfectly!

Just remember that no matter what gender(s) you are (or aren't!), whether you're at the start of your transition or you've been at it for years, whether you're medically or socially transitioning, both, or neither, whether you're trans, enby, or gnc, or all of the above...I love you and you matter.

That ear floof is positively magnificent. I hope it grew in proportion to everything else.

An evening scene in Lisbon. In the foreground a staircase leads up to a cobbled terrace. There are narrow streets winding between buildings in the rear, and a tree rises above patio tables where people are seated.

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Plus, the number of delegates to the Electoral College each state gets = # of Senators + # of House Reps, and so land ALSO gets to vote for President.

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A rust-coloured butterfly with white and black concentric rings in the corner of each wing suns itself among grass and jagged green dandelion leaves.

I had a peacock in my garden the other day! Not the bird, the butterfly. Was a delightful addition for as long as it was around.

A paragraph from a review of Titanium Court: "Titanium Court throws a lot at you. Even when it’s just teaching you how to play, it’s doing so through a laugh-a-second clown routine where every new system it introduces doubles as a fresh bit. Have you ever seen one of those viral videos of a Turkish ice cream vendor trolling a customer by constantly pulling the treat out of their hand through quick sleight of hand tricks? That’s how Thomson approaches game design. He keeps putting the cone within your reach and yanking it back in some way you’re not expecting. To grasp the systems well enough to complete a run of battles is to conquer the dastardly ice cream man."

If you're hoping to go into Titanium Court blind but just want to understand the vibe of it, this is the most succinct way I could find to describe what it's doing. Good shit.

I was overthinking it. “Or” is gold is Au…

Yeah, I’m on at least one of those. Probably both.

Autistic woman prefers direct communication unless she has to do it An autistic woman who would prefer for others to deliver difficult truths to her without any ambiguity would also rather die than say a single stressful thing directly into another person’s face, it…

Beth Hapworth, 38, who needs clear and direct communication from others in order to avoid misunderstandings, has reportedly become an expert in dancing around, pussyfooting and eggshell-treading.

Btw I think the reason we are all so mad at the beds in sheds stuff is not just because it's a bad thing per se (though it certainly is), but because it is a symptom of decades of catastrophically failed policy that is now being presented as a solution

BTW, for all those liberal types who said "the Irish far right don't do well in elections", here's a bit of a wake-up for you -
these lads have 24 councillors, four TDs and an MEP.
Start taking the far right seriously - the calls are, in this case literally, coming from inside the House.

Not the …. Birders.

There is something so satisfying about these kinds of restorations and deep cleans.

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Did a Clearsky check and the only one that bugs me is one that labels me a transphobe.

I did laugh at the one which includes blocking “people who look up which blocklists they’re on”. Honestly, fair.

There was a great piece years ago by a device user about profanity being needed for her to shout off strangers on the subway, and systems often don’t come programmed with it stock

I was in court once about a teenager who couldn’t report sexual abuse bc no genitalia in system

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flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

People forget when it was first proposed Prop 50 was WILDLY UNPOPULAR and by the time of the vote we could have banned the GOP from California and it would have passed.

Congratulations, John!

we all know I have no life, so:

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i have to underline the reason WHY people think crime is high is because there's a massive propaganda machine dedicated to making them think that.

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They’re heeeeeeeeeeere

that most conversations about race never touch: what the myth of white supremacy actually stole from you.

Not from Black people. From you.

You were taught that joy has to be earned. That play is for children. That pleasure requires justification.

Joy without competition does not need to dominate anyone. Joy without control does not need to take anything from anyone. Joy without entitlement does not need to be protected at someone else's expense.

The myth could not afford for you to have that.

Drivers are also just very bad at judging space & safety.

I nearly hit someone at a pinch point in Dublin despite seeing him and trying to pull as far to the middle of the road as I thought I could, because the rental car was wider than I was used to. I should have just waited/gone at his speed.