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Item: jimono

Beer before cider, scary spider

Cider before beer, spiders disappear

the power of a bowl of rice mixed with some fucking bullshit cannot be overstated

unrepentant tiktokers who haven't thought critically since 2019 will hear a criticism of tiktok and be like "how are you gonna hate a whole app 😂😂💯🤡" I do hate tiktok. yes all of it. I don't care about whether the content is good or bad, I hate the fundamental function of that app which is to get you addicted to the zero-effort dopamine hit you get from consuming shortform content algorithmically tailored to you, erode your attention span, and promote consumerism. this is true regardless of whether or not you "found your community" on tiktok or use it as an escape or a coping mechanism. this does not add nuance to the discussion the way you think it does. i do not care and i am not obligated to care and I hope that app one day gets class action lawsuited into oblivion

huuuughhhhh yahoo selling scraped data from tumblr to AI sloo probably uughhhwaaauuwghhhhhh

bwwaaaughhhhhhgggh enshittification continues

this is what you're looking for to opt out!!!

It's under Visibility, noy Privacy like I assumed at first.

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Art by Vadim Koval

I almost shit when I saw my electric bill. Last night, it was on the news, however, that companies, esp. Microsoft, will have to finance their own costs b/c they can't make the people pay for it.

How's you state?

New Jersey residents got some bad news earlier this year when the state's public utilities board warned that their electricity bills could surge up to 20% starting on June 1. A key driver in that rate hike: data centers. 

The spread of these large-scale computing facilities across the U.S. amid growing demand for artificial intelligence.

You make soup in a big bowl. You serve it in a smaller bowl. And then you convey it, using a spoon, to your mouth. But what is the spoon? Simply a smaller bowl still

Stop Using Effeminacy As Visual Shorthand For Decadence And Moral Decay 2025

Want to write a story about some perfumed eunuch who's actually really clever and solves crimes or something.

Listen, all of you people mentioning Hercule Poirot or Sherlock or the guy from London Spy: let me introduce you to what I'm calling "the Caracalla Threshold" after the depiction of the Roman Emperor Caracalla in the film Gladiator 2:

If he's not at least THIS effeminate, I don't want to hear about it.

This feels like a parallel to the post about how female protagonists are too masculine and we need more feminine women protagonists "to show girls that it's okay to be feminine"... and then the examples of "masculine women protagonists" were Black Widow, Rey, and Captain Marvel.

Why. Why are we doing this. Why is the bar for "gender nonconformity" on the floor.

Hercule Poirot is not an effeminate man. He is a conventionally masculine, gender-conforming man who is snobbish. Black Widow is not a masculine woman. She is a conventionally feminine, gender-conforming woman who fights. Stop this. Stop this. Stop this. Meet some actual feminine men and some actual masculine women and reset your baseline.

Commentary by my partner: "An interesting parallel here is 'a woman is masculine if she has a skill I associate with men' vs. 'a man is feminine if he has a negative personality trait I associate with women.'"

@lesbianlotties

i think some people are under the impression that if you weren't raised in an explicitly religious or sexual-purity-obsessed environment that you probably have a normal balanced cultural relationship to sex. & i am saying especially to my fellow usamericans. being Weird About Sex is not just a explicitly religious thing, sex negativity is deeply entrenched in our culture in a lot of ways, you have almost certainly internalized at least some of them especially as it relates to sex work and masturbation, You Are Not Immune To Propaganda etc etc

please read this story of a man accidentally discovering his wife is the world's best Tetris player

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“It’s funny,” I told Flewin. “We have an old Nintendo Game Boy floating around the house, and Tetris is the only game we own. My wife will sometimes dig it out to play on airplanes and long car rides. She’s weirdly good at it. She can get 500 or 600 lines, no problem.”

What Flewin said next I will never forget.

“Oh, my!”

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TL;DR on the article

The husband was writing an article on classic video game records, was surprised to find out that holding the Tetris record is a bit of a big deal, and mentions how good his wife is at it.

The guy he’s talking to mentions that the record is 327, way lower than his wifes usual scores of 500-600.

They travel to a tournament, and she goes to do her attempt. Just after she beats 327, and is climbing higher, a judge brings up to the husband that the specific version she’s playing actually has a different record of 545.

She overhears that she needs to beat 500-something, and keeps going, setting the record at 841.

which, they later find out, is her second-best record

There was a decent but ultimately forgettable fantasy novel I read a long time ago that had a single moment that stuck with me.

The protagonist has just won the world famous sword fighting competition in the big, rich capital and is talking to his mentor, and says something about being the best swordsman in the world. The mentor frowns and tells him that no, he isn't. He is the best swordsman out of the people that could afford to show up to this tournament. There could be a mercenary way out in the mountains, patrolling a snow encrusted fort's walls that could kick his ass and there was no way to know until he was already losing to the guy.

I think about that a lot, and how for every apparently dominant competitor, there might be a fucking ronin out there somewhere capable of destroying them.

Always reblog tetris ronin lady

ok this is gonna sound insane but when i was in high school we made a drink that we called a “fuck you” which was black coffee, crushed up adderall, and fireball whiskey. 

The fact that young people make it past their late teens/early twenties is a miracle

A “Fuck You”

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i found my switch