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not everything in life exists on a binary of rationality 🆚 absurdity

not everything true is serious or important and not everything false is innocuous or for pleasure

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americans really will be like “are they serious or is this a joke” as though those are the only two options

« claims it promotes incest due to being incest »

it's one thing to say love is dead and another entirely to wage a war against it

companies be like, how many dollars will you spend for us not to misgender you

« This specific toy example was created due to image licensing concerns and the author’s inability to design good iconography. »

Start a blog. Don't amplify stuff you disagree with. Mute stuff that bugs you. Focus; veer occasionally. Add context to links. Consider waiting a day after writing something before posting it. Write for yourself first. Expect to not know what you have to say until you've written.

this in a conversation where i said “labour and no money works but money with no labour gets nothing done” and he called that “idealistic”

lmao

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my dad was like “but if someone with mega billions is spending a bunch of money to trash the union then you need someone with mega billions to counter that” and i was just like “amazon workers literally did not”

« Though the heels she is wearing are short, they make her almost as tall as Link is. » zelda is taller than link

i think contemporary english readers generally do not realize how many of what we today consider classics were originally written for cheap and published in a serialized fashion in some magazine

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pulp fiction has always been an industry, and the only reason why china is powering ahead right now is because historic anglosphere publishing corporations are all conservative, racist, and pretentious

restofworld.org/2022/china-rom

what concerns me the most about these new platforms is ⓐ globalization making it difficult for workers to organize, and ⓑ DRM and the complete lack of archival copies for even the most popular and significant works

i had a dream that fedi was obsessed with a fifteen-minute-long as-seen-on-tv advertisement for a frosted cupcake that you smash against the wall to hang things called "stickies"

honestly punlishers should just make the introductions to translations all free to read on their website

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i would like to thank apple books previews for letting me see if i vibe with this translator's thoughts before spending thirty dollars on the first volume of their work

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