Inside I am doubled over with laughter

No dealing with the ethical shitstorm that is creating a version of yourself that’s just a work slave. We can blame that all on the evil company and remove the main character of any personal responsibility whatsoever. The same main character who heard his innie being tortured and still went to work the next day. The same main character that consistently scoffed at ethical concerns about severance posed to him throughout the show.

Oh and also, the innies that you’ve been following for the whole show? Yeah they don’t exist anymore. Well Mark S technically exists through reintegration but he’s perfectly content being absorbed into his’s outie’s life so he doesn’t really have an identity of his own. They only mattered because they served as a tool to help get Gemma free, so ending their existences is completely fine and ethical.

Wait actually, Helena Bad so we’re going to have Helly somehow figure out how to take over her body full time. Never mind that Helly longs to remember her childhood and wept at not remembering the colour of her mother’s eyes. Never mind that we spent the first half of season two establishing that Helena would like to be more like Helly. Never mind that being deprogrammed from a cult by your own inner child is the most interesting character journey I’ve ever heard of.

Let’s just abandon all the most interesting parts of the show so that the character who won the oppression olympics gets a fairytale ending. She’s my favourite so naturally I don’t want anything interesting to happen to her ever again. And if you do want anything interesting to happen to her other than a fairytale ending you actually hate her.

One of the only asexual activists is Yasmin Benoit, a Black woman. She has raised so much awareness for the community. She was the first asexual person to lead Pride in London, she started the #thisiswhatasexuallookslike movement and is THE leading voice for the community.

And you all will celebrate international asexuality day on April 6th but we wouldn't even have that if she hadn't cofounded it.

Edit: why are you all too scared to repost this. Cmon. Be vocal about being against racism

Edit 2: if you feel the need to announce in the comments that you're not reblogging for whatever reason just know that I genuinely do not care.

SUPPORT POC

SUPPORT PEOPLE ON THE ACESPEC

Manager during team meeting: So I want everyone to do as much work as mini-wants is doing, if she can do it anyone can.

Me:

Me: It’s true, I feel like dying every day.

Inspired by my wonderful friends under the cut

"There's a saying that a hair dragged across your palm would feel like a hair across the eye for a buddha.

The idea is that with realization one is completely accepting of all experience. So something like burning your hand would be felt intensely. The pain is real enough. But with no attachment to self there's no panic; no sense of existential threat.

In the line you quoted, pain is referring to actual pain, such as toothaches, death of loved ones, lost wallets, etc. Suffering is referring to the self-clinging, existential anxiety associated with those things.

To some extent, anyone can experience the difference. For example, you develop a great pain in your body. Egoic mind begins to panic about the possibility that life could be cut short; plans might have to be cancelled... there's an existential threat to self. You're overwhelmed with ominous fear. Then you find out that the pain was caused by, say, a treatable abscess, and you're given antibiotics or whatever. Once you have the diagnosis and treatment, the pain hasn't actually changed, but now it's a mere sensation rather than an existential threat.

The internet’s largest stockpile of free knowledge is under threat from MAGA, A.I. and foreign autocrats. A bibliophile ex-ambassador is here to help.

"Wikipedia is in peril.

In a world where trust in truth is crumbling, the grande dame of collective online fact-gathering is under threat on every front. The MAGA right, with Elon Musk at the fore, is slinging accusations of political bias and antisemitism and has even questioned the site’s nonprofit status. Artificial intelligence is raiding the encyclopedia’s resources and draining attention. Repressive governments have hauled its volunteer editors into penal colonies.

In Wikipedia’s 25-year history, it has never had to fight this hard." -----

Interesting, alarming article.

tl;dr: If you use Wikipedia every day, like your sobsister, or even regularly, and you have a few bucks to spare, think about a donation to help it fight off MAGA/Musk, AI, and authoritarian governments around the world.