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Briefly a comedian • Streaming videogames every day • Or check me out on onlyfans • Trans woman (she/her)

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@aedison
Avery Edison
3 years
don't mind me, just reposting some old selfies to populate my media tab with proof that I am hot and have big naturals
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every time i drink milk i remember my roommate who used to put powdered milk in his milk so he could drink "more milk per milk"
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heads up this is THE way to memorize a bunch of text perfect. the first letter of every word gives your brain enough of a hint that it can recall the full thing but not TOO much of a hint that your brain doesn’t have to TRY to recall it. You don’t have to write it like zodiac tho
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beth | challengers spoilers
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Crying at everyone’s reactions to Pedro Pascal showing them how he memorises his lines 😭
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this royal photo stuff… funny how you all suddenly feel like you have a license to talk about women’s bodies… newsflash: some women have zippers in their hair. some women’s legs are too small and oddly bent in on themselves. some women don’t have reflections
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just realized I’m my cat’s rich friend
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I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications
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DEVIL: You shall stay forever young, but this picture of you will bear the marks of your sin! DORIAN: Can I hide it? DEVIL: Well, yes, but— DORIAN: And there are no other consequences? DEVIL: This… This picture will become so foul! DORIAN: Again, probably I’ll hide the picture.
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“no ethical consumption under capitalism” I totally get it I just feel like working at Lockheed Martin should be a hard line???
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Lachlan Phillips exo/acc 👾
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H O L Y S H I T
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“Get away from her, you bitch!” means the fight between Ripley and the Alien Queen passes the Bechdel Test.
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they love to tell us that q-tips are both incredibly dangerous *and* not even good at removing ear wax. hmmm interesting so you’re saying your enemy is both weak and strong at the same time??? where have I heard that before???
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this is a fun way to find out that many people do not consider Lockheed Martin a uniquely evil company, which it is
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recently met someone who does upwards of ten things per week, which doesn’t make sense because a week only has seven days. so they must have some days when they do more than one thing.
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I’ve been on HRT for over ten years, and grown large breasts. An attempt to forcibly detransition me would require a mastectomy of healthy breast tissue, something transphobes claim is barbaric mutilation.
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“There’s No Way I’m Projecting Sentience Onto This A.I. Chatbot” Claims Species That Pair-Bonded With Wolves
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One of my favorite, now lost, tweets.
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Krav maga is bullshit. The iof doesn't get in close quarters fights. They just bomb from a distance, raid homes and harass unarmed civilians. They pretend to be masters of hand to hand combat as part of their propaganda campaign to make colonization look like a fair fight.
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increasingly demoralized by the fact that over the past few decades the cost of living has skyrocketed but the wages have stayed the same and the classes of people most affected by this have been told they are entitled and ungrateful.
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really does feel like the culmination of something that there are a handful of bizarre antisocial figures using every possible argument they can think of to claim that offering food to your neighbor is an immoral act and the rest of us are holding strong with “no, it’s nice”
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watched three different pieces of media in the past week that referred to lockdown as “a boring time” and I think it sucks that by definition the people who tell the stories of our culture do not belong to the class that worked to keep the world going. deadliest job was line cook
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I wish she Margaret Atwouldn’t
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when I turned 18 it was an absolute given for me that I’d vote Labour every single time I could, for the rest of my life. if I slouched into a polling booth and put an “X” next to starmer’s party today I’d consider it a deep moral stain on my soul
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2 years
somewhere in an attic there’s a videotape of ricky gervais getting funnier and more relevant
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we need a queer cafe where there’s no alcohol, no drugs, and everyone thinks I’m cool. it serves snacks and small meals, and people come up to me and tell me they love my tweets. the music isn’t too loud, and the people I like kiss me and the people I don’t like aren’t there
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this bizarre re-writing of history to pretend public toilets have always been thought of like “ah, my one perfect sanctuary from male violence, because there’s a magic force field which stops penises from coming in”
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I thought that the worst thing about rewatching Parks and Rec would be its naive centrism, but it’s actually that the show becomes solely about people getting job offers, or needing to move out of town, or getting job offers that require them to move out of town
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once again we learn that if the majority of your online presence is based around scolding people, you should make sure your IRL life is, if not unimpeachable, at least defensible
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Before I went on estrogen, my hormone levels were already just barely at normal male levels. It’s likely a detransition would necessitate me going on testosterone for the rest of my life, something transphobes claim is an unnecessary burden on the NHS.
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Every single person I know refers to me as Avery, and every one of them uses she/her pronouns for me. Detransitioning me would mean all of those people having to relearn how to address me, something transphobes claim is an unfair expectation.
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Transphobes, of course, wouldn’t care about any of this, because for them no cost is too great if it means removing trans people from public life.
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“People ask me, how can you have written a book about the trans debate, given that you’re not transgender, you didn’t speak to any trans people, and you’ve never previously researched, reported on, or written about trans issues? And the answer is: I’ve lost my fucking mind.”
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ironically, working at a defense contractor is, uh, not defensible
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“why are people so weird about doordash?” because it is exploitation. the business model does not function without massively underpaying workers, most of whom live in poverty. habituating yourself to using doordash is a moral sickness.
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there are few jobs that have as direct a line from “I need to live” to “other people must die”
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I completely understand the reasons why, but it’s very tough for me personally that there’s no way for anyone to watch the almost-a-decade-old BBC Comedy Feeds pilot PEOPLE TIME, because I *need* everyone to have seen this sketch.
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every out trans person was, at one point, in the closet, and thus knows the importance of the closet and the reasons to stay in it. that said: it is so important as a trans person to at some point be trans in a way that is not solely “on the computer”
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2 years
you don’t have to walk away from omelas if you’re a smol bean
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“I know you love your soda but make sure to drink some water, too!” I am, it’s in the soda. It’s the main ingredient of the soda. It’s what makes it drinkable. There’s like a ton of water in there. Why do you think I drink eight glasses of soda every day
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yes, the onlyfans change is fucking terrifying, but at least the new rules are intentionally vague in a way that will leave sex workers constantly terrified that they’re about to lose a huge chunk of income for doing something they didn’t know wasn’t allowed!!!
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honestly feels like a prank that if you’re part of the ruling class and you break the law, the court simply “finds” that you broke the law, and then there are no consequences?????? like truly are they doing this to fuck with us????
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“the cruelty is the point” is so obvious and probably overused at this point but. there’s no other point but cruelty. the supposed economic cost is a fucking rounding error. this is motivated purely by the vile british instinct that other people are getting something they aren’t
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GP’s will soon be stripped of the ability to sign people off work as part of a major government inititive to crack down on ‘sick note culture’ Rishi Sunak says people should stop 'over-medicalising the everyday challenges and worries of life'
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Whenever I see shit like this arguing for smaller living spaces I think about the fact that every human being could fit in Texas, with 1,200 square feet of space each. We have the room and resources for everyone to live comfortably!
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Space/building efficiency are keys to climate change. Got a first hand look at the exciting innovation coming out of Brooklyn at @ori_living . Ceiling beds, expandable closets and offices. Watch a studio becomes a 1 bedroom!
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so sick of dating right now, how is this kind of toxic behaviour anything close to acceptable
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also I wish someone had told me about this method in high school, I would not have forgotten every single line in my a-level drama assessment performance and been responsible for my entire group’s bad grades
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I’m the trans person who doesn’t think the matrix is about trans stuff. I think it’s about computers
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a lockdown that didn’t include support for *everyone* to stay sheltered and fed, and relied on working class people being put in danger staffing shops and restaurants, was bad public health policy, and we’re gonna be dealing with the effects of it longer than we are covid itself
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please stop talking to me about your ears, this is a joke about fascism
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🚨 BREAKING: Labour pledges to implement the recommendations of the "Cass Review" into trans healthcare. The recommendations include barring under-25s from using gender clinics. Wes Streeting said Labour will "work to implement the expert recommendations of the Cass Review".
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it’s easy, just work 100 hours a week to get the lifestyle your parents got by working 40. and then in ten years work 120 hours a week. and then in twenty years work 150 hours a week. WHAT ARE YOU, AFRAID OF A BIT OF HARD WORK????????
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that community bit where jeff demonstrates humans will feel bad for a pencil if you give it a name
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been very wary of using ableist terms in recent years but I will not shy away from the simple truth that if your reaction to the original chilli tweet was one of anger, you are insane
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TERFs adding the signatures of long-dead authors to their open letters is some real alliance of magicians “we demand to be taken seriously” shit
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@JohnRentoul C’mon man I don’t think it’s insanely out of bounds to prioritise *drinkable water*
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got a rude response to this, so: I’ve been an out trans woman for 15 years. I’ve lost jobs, been assaulted in the street, literally been sent to a men’s prison. I have little time for anyone whose primary concern with regard to their trans identity is vague online “validity”
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not trying to be a gatekeeping elder queer or something but I really think the “trans” part of the word “trans” is important. like sorry but for a lot of us being trans and living in that truth means *becoming marked as an enemy of society*
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Did you know the woman who claims she was fired for her transphobic beliefs wasn’t even fired? Her employers simply didn’t extend her contract as she’d expected they would. And *they* accuse *us* of demanding that reality fit our desires.
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I’m not a sexist, because when I hear “doctor” I picture a *woman* doctor. but I am a sexist, because the woman doctor I picture has huuuuuuuuge jugs
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SHŌGUN isn’t just a dramatic and compelling show, it’s also incredibly relatable (this user thinks if they were dropped into feudal Japan they, too, would be almost immediately recognized as excellent samurai material).
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DUNE, by John Dune, is a novel about a boy called Dune who rides the Duneworms to try and become King (or "High Dune") of Dune.
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the fact that transphobes recognized that they can’t just call themselves transphobes but then picked the name “gender critical” is so funny
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my partner, never having seen the show, asked me “Is Doctor Who human?” and I think it was about ten minutes before she was able to finally interrupt with a “I don’t care about any of this”
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yes any “gender apocalypse” shit written by cis people is gonna have some problems but at least the production of this show involved tearing down a homeless encampment in Toronto to get a shooting location!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The world will be one of a kind. #YTheLastMan premieres September 13. Streaming Exclusively #FXonHulu .
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it is NEVER too early to COMPLETELY write-off the year, if you suffer even the TINIEST inconvenience today then NOTHING you do wrong for the next twelve months is your fault AT ALL
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video game writing is so subtle and deep! I just stumbled on two corpses with notes attached “my husband is gone too much, he must be cheating on me, I am suiciding” and “I hope I don’t overwork myself to death taking all these extra shifts at the not cheating on my wife factory”
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this is what so much of media people defending each other on twitter comes down to—“you don’t understand, I met them at a party once!”
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i've only met Jesse once in real life but given the circumstances of that meeting—which was a birthday party with every woke firebrand in the world in like 2015 or something—im pretty sure he doesn't hate trans people.
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it’s so funny that Tesla cars are shitty death traps made by one of the dumbest men alive and all their fans are like “I informed my dealership that all the tires fell off as soon as I opened the door and they told me that’s actually good. best car I’ve ever owned”
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I think about this man so much. “I earn eighty grand… I’m not in the top 5%.” It just says so much about what’s so wrong with class consciousness in this country. And the obliviousness of those at the top. He has no idea the poverty most of this country suffers in. I hate him.
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“I’d like to call out Labour as liars. I am one of the people he will tax more” This audience member, who earns over £80,000, criticises the taxation promises in the Labour Party manifesto. #bbcqt
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the thing about all the awful twitter blue replies coming up first is you think “oh I can just scroll past them to get to any good conversation below” but then 1) there are always so many more than you expect and 2) they’re *so bad* that you can’t even bear fleeting glimpses
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“maybe heat up some frozen food instead of getting delivery” being met with “so you want me to die???” (which is a real thing people said this week) should indicate which side of this “debate” has the seriousness and clarity here
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“I used to be a normal person with basically no opinion on the topic, but then I saw a post on the Internet hinting at a bizarre conspiracy, and I followed that post down the rabbit hole and now my brain properly doesn’t work anymore.”
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don’t know what you can call labour’s plans to follow the cass review other than an attempt to enact a systematic elimination of transgender people in this blighted country. true evil. I’m honestly in shock at how cruel and depraved they’re willing to be
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A lot of people are dunking this take, but I think we’re all big enough to admit when one of our intellectual betters points out something we missed, namely that The Sopranos is a show about how toxic masculinity is good and has no ill effects on individuals or society at large.
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being told to work more to afford a worse standard of living. but at least we have 24/7 access to a communications technology that destroys our brains. and the planet is on fire
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one of the “experts” “debunking” the guardian landlord article was all “the government could never afford to buy out all the landlords at market rate” and that’s true! no, stop smiling, expert. I’m saying… it is true… that landlords… will not be paid… market rate.
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“And now I get to say stuff like, ‘Things are so bad that even I, a regular person, must speak out,’ because the casual observer has no idea that this is now literally all I think about, all the time, and so do all my friends, and all we do is obsess over our shared bigotry.”
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@JohnRentoul If you don’t see how we get from where we are now to a situation where access to drinkable water is less and less likely, you are incredibly shortsighted
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people saying “wolves are sentient though” what are you even talking about, as far as I’m aware other humans aren’t even sentient
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this doesn’t mean you have to transition medically or some other truscum nonsense. what it means is that if you do not exist as a trans person in the real world *you will not understand what it’s like to be a trans person in the real world* and you will say stupid shit
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Write your book, if you must, but it should come with a disclaimer such as, “WARNING: IF YOU ARE BUYING THIS BECAUSE YOU THINK, BASED ON MY PREVIOUS WORK, THAT I’M A SMART AND RATIONAL PERSON WITH NO HORSE IN THIS RACE, YOU SHOULD KNOW THE SITUATION IS, IN FACT, THE OPPOSITE.”
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there was a movie this year which came to the conclusion that you’re allowed to treat your family abominably if it’s a result of generational trauma and if you saw that movie and thought “uhhhh fuck that???” YOU’RE the bad guy
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EMPEROR PALPATINE: I assure you, my feminism is, in fact, fully intersectional
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there’s a dull, grinding repetition to the show’s concept of “stakes”. also the fact that ron swanson exists even as just a character in a tv show is a psychic crime against us all
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@BrandyLJensen My take on this (and the financially-comfortable-enough-to-ride-out-quar-in-luxury angle) is that yeah, he has a loving partner, material wealth, no responsibilities, and spent years working on his mental health, and *still* the pandemic fucked him up, what chance did *we* have?
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if you’re a british politician weighing in on trans issues, this should be the only thing you’re talking about: the absolute, total failure of our nhs to support trans patients in anything even close to a timely manner. it’s a disgrace
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I think one of the scariest things about being trans in the U.K. is the knowledge that every news org seems to have at least one person on staff who focuses solely on pushing anti-trans stories. Even/especially the “progressive” newspapers. It’s terrifying and it’s draining.
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just had a couple days of people yelling at me that I have to vote for Labour. sincerely: fuck off do I
@LeftieStats
Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️
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🚨 BREAKING: Labour will ban trans women from female hospital wards, says Wes Streeting. Labour would ban all trans patients from "single-sex" wards, instead putting them in separate wards solely for trans people. Streeting says this is a "priority" for Labour. (Via Sky News)
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in 2007 I babysat for a couple whose 8-year-old daughter was on hormone blockers because she had begun puberty at six months old. that family stopped talking to me when I came out and, crucially, started taking estrogen, which they stated was “not natural”. I’ll never forget it
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I like following lawyers because they’ll tweet something like “oh shit the judge went OFF on this one, he was PISSED” above a screenshot which reads “prosecution claims to be unaware of any memo”
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“They’re saying if you’re not a front-line worker providing an essential service, you have to go home.” [EVERYONE LOOKS TO WILL.] “Then I guess we’re not going home.”
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I can’t believe you’re against parasocial relationships, I’ve been a fan of yours for years and this feels contrary to everything I know about you
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@altmadaf v. weird that “don’t talk about women’ bodies!” has turned into “we as a culture must ignore and talk around eating disorders, essentially pretending they don’t exist”. I don’t think it’s anti-feminist to say “heads up, this woman is unwell and you shouldn’t aim to look like her”
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woke up a year older today
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“cognitive behavioral therapy is great, you simply use your brain to fix your brain” “but my brain is broken. that’s why it needs to be fixed. if I’m honest I was hoping *your* brain would be pitching in”
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sorry to be so doompilled, it’s just that [gestures to the all-encompassing doom]
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a thing I love about contemporary media criticism is that you can literally call your movie THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD and some people will still say “I didn’t agree with the actions of the protagonist so this film sucks”
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sorry but my position from day one has been that no matter how good the dick is, it is an immoral act to voluntarily join one of the most evil institutions on earth
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this is what I look like today
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FRASIER: If you must know, Dad, I’ve decided to run the game glitchless. MARTIN: Aw, c’mon, Son—at least take some shortcuts by going out of bounds! NILES: Maris always says 100% doesn’t count unless you get the true ending. FRASIER: Wise words from the living end, herself(!)
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@EmilyGorcenski disgusting false equivalency
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I don’t believe in a soul but every single time I see something generated by A.I. I think “yeah so the reason this looks so bad is because you can tell the thing that made it doesn’t have a soul”
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Avery Edison
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not trying to be a gatekeeping elder queer or something but I really think the “trans” part of the word “trans” is important. like sorry but for a lot of us being trans and living in that truth means *becoming marked as an enemy of society*
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Avery Edison
2 years
people replying “really? If it’s that or starve?” yeah. that’s what a hard line means. I would starve rather than work at a company as profoundly evil as LM
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Avery Edison
2 years
“no ethical consumption under capitalism” I totally get it I just feel like working at Lockheed Martin should be a hard line???
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Avery Edison
1 year
“15 minutes cities” are such an obvious *good* thing that any opposition to them is purely a sign of a deeply ill mind. And how do you hope to walk someone back from thinking “going to the shops should be easier” is an evil plot to control them?
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