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« The tomboy exists in real life and is a common character archetype found in media as well. »

they really will just let you publish anything in this paper

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no, opinion writer and media critic, phenotypical features are not what have bound together peoples and cultures across the vast annals of history, and using them as a clunky shorthand for actual cultural heritage is demeaning to everybody involved

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you ever just read a really racist take in the opinion section of the New York Times

feels a bit like leaving Louis ⅩⅤⅠ for Napoleon but whatever

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i am being informed that their issue was not, in fact, with structural dynamics vis‐à‐vis private companies and their lack of oversight; they just really didn’t like Elon Musk in particular

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disappointing that some people who left mastodon for twitter have now decided that a privately‐run company with no oversight cannot possibly be reasonably expected to ethically manage social media, and so have responded by jumping on another platform run by a private company with no oversight (cohost)

when you click on an instance to check it out and it still has the old logo

look, it was the most interesting option, i'm not going to not take it

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i set out to write an easy and accessible pulp story which riffs on current trends in the fanfiction and it already has a complex and unconventional structure and is narrated in a voice unlike anything i have read

@aescling if there is one thing rich people lack it is self-knowledge

@aescling NYT agrees: « Amid layoff fears, some Twitter employees were instructed to print out copies of the code they had written recently as possible proof of work, said two people with knowledge of the situation. »

@aescling libgen has basically no queer theory but i can get some texts through my work

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📟🐱 GlitchCat

A small, community‐oriented Mastodon‐compatible Fediverse (GlitchSoc) instance managed as a joint venture between the cat and KIBI families.