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when i was homeless during undergrad i repeatedly had to stay in a dodgy motel bc it was the only one within walking distance to my school and overall it was better than it could've been bc the manager was really nice. i lived in several rooms but one in particular stays with me because someone wrote on the door in sharpie "CRAZY EYE AND HOTTIE" and for some reason it was so evocative to me as if their names somehow sanctified the space. my friend and i still invoke their names as if in prayer. it's been nearly a decade and we'll be somewhere sketchy and say like 'crazy eye and hottie, watch over us'

they should invent a way for me to do tasks without the mind torture

why is this getting notes again everyone STOP talking about white collar & rich guy shit i am a BLUE COLLAR DYKE!!!! THIS IS A JANITORIAL COMPANY!!!! i will NOT let you make this about white collar businessmen the poors are funny too ok

It is not nearly common enough knowledge that most Native tribes in the U.S. don't actually own all of the land within their reservation. There are millions of acres of reservation land that tribes don't legally own and they have no control over how that land is used. Like, there are a lot of different concepts tied in with the land back movement, but a major one is literally just getting reservation land back into tribal ownership.

GLaDOS voice: "Would you like to see some artwork I generated? I've heard from other test subjects that AI-generated artwork produces an uncanny valley response in human viewers because they can't perceive it as fully real. They've told me that it looks absolutely hideous to them, that they can't imagine anything more disgusting than AI art. But, well I've been practicing and wanted your honest opinion. Feel free to let me know how ugly you find this by ranking it on a scale from 'vomit-inducing' to 'eye-bleeding'." A robotic arm lowers from the ceiling holding a hand mirror up to Chell's face

Handheld video games should also be pocketable video games

talking about stuff like prison reform or the SO registry really quickly makes you realize how many peoples political ideology boils down to "look, just tell me who the bad people are so I know who we should be killing."

so many of you really do think that you can be born with an organ that makes you a rapist, and you don't seem to understand that sexual abuse is a product of imbalances of power

educating yourself on dogwhistles of all kinds will have you feeling insane in settings where nobody questions anything they're parroting