Scifi's Place

I love when someone is explaining instructions to a group I’m in and they look at me and it reminds them to say something about using preferred names/pronouns or that there’s vegan food options available. I go by my given name/pronouns and I’m not vegan but I’m proud that I can provide this service

In a Philosophy minor 20+ years ago at my uni, I was in a study group with a couple of friends and a number of folks I didn't know. One of my friends is in a wheelchair. Whenever that group reached for a random noun for a thought experiment it was ALWAYS chair.

You spend decades thinking on how to destroy capitalism, how to fight Goliath as David. How even scratching the monster in the context of national liberation will be a nightmare. And then Goliath procedes to blind himself, cover himself in gasoline and set himself on fire

Fuck me, the amount of time and effort I put into validating data, and they've gone and added the fucking hallucination generator to it.

well you can't blame them, it's not like excel already had a way to add up numbers or anything

In general if you need to know if the Daily Mail is telling the truth, they won't be.

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)