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I told my little nephew that I'd wave at his airplane when it flew over my house today, and he very calmly and politely explained that it wouldn't be possible to see me due to the limitations of human vision. I said he just had to squint real hard, and he took a deep breath and went into the toddler version of "see, what you're not understanding–"

I hope my spider fucking book will hold universal appeal

the problem with employment is it gives you money to purchase video games but it takes away your time to play video games. Mao spoke of this

Give me less "being kind requires zero effort" and more "being kind is worth the effort it takes."

I love when you recognize junji ito’s style and you read on not knowing if it’s going to be horrific or just cute cat stuff

Junji Ito is not just a master of horror but tonal whiplash, apparently.

help I’m having ideas beyond my available free time

help I'm having ideas beyond my available energy levels

recipes be like step one heat oil

step two dump it over the edge of the ramparts to discourage ladder based climbing

“If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it, but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.” Ursula K. Le Guin "American SF and The Other" in Science-Fiction Studies 7, 1975.