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Being a BoJack Horseman fan is so hard because the show explores themes of trauma, addiction, mental illness, the dark side of fame, suicidal ideation, cycles of harm, and redemption in honest and nuanced ways better than much other media I've seen. But if you get really into it and want to talk about that, you have to have serious discussions about characters with names like Mr. Peanutbutter and Cutie Cutie Cupcake

It's not just rude to make me read something you didn't want to write. It is that you expect me to respond to your email written by Claude. You don't even want me to talk to you. You want me to talk to Claude so that you can make Claude respond for you. It is rude to expect me to talk to a chatbot when I wanted to talk to you.

It is also rude for you to receive correspondence or documents from me and have your chatbot of choice determine what to do with them without them ever being examined by a person, whether the chatbot also writes a response for you or not.

stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation with the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.

i really like this thing where websites will have separate "log in" & "sign up" buttons and if you click "log in" it takes you to a sign-up screen anyway so you have to click "i already have an account" and then it will ask if you want to sign in with your facebook account or with instagram or linkedin or deviantart or whatever, and if you choose "username & password" it asks if you want to put in your username or use your thumbprint, and once you put your username & password it emails you a confirmation code, and once you put in the code it says "do you want to give us your phone number for future sign-ins? do you want to sign up for facial recognition? do you want to give us your bones? give us your fucking bones?

Happy "Renfield stabs his doctor in the hand and licks his blood off the fucking floor" day to all who celebrate (me)

The Guardian’s article about Daniel Raab saying he didn’t understand why a Palestinian boy would run to his brother’s body and didn’t even care as he shot both him and their father dead has triggered a nausea that I haven’t been able to shake off since this morning. Literal Nazi mentality.

This is one of the most important articles I’ve read as of late. It’s vile, it’s disgusting. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.

the internet policies "to protect kids" that involve collecting more data from users are being pushed by companies that profit from access to said data. people are talking about the puritan aspect or whatever but the reality is a restructuring of our society--massive increase in surveillance--to benefit specific tech companies, and more attention should be on that...politicians bankrolled by these companies just need some sort of moral outrage to sell this to the public successfully

The Guardian’s article about Daniel Raab saying he didn’t understand why a Palestinian boy would run to his brother’s body and didn’t even care as he shot both him and their father dead has triggered a nausea that I haven’t been able to shake off since this morning. Literal Nazi mentality.

This is one of the most important articles I’ve read as of late. It’s vile, it’s disgusting. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.

Okay, so apparently other people associate black gloves with normal jobs and I accidentally hosted my own impromptu Pervert Reveal Party in front of god and everybody via Beanie Baby post. Awesome.