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  Mythology involving sapphic love stories is really cool. Please give me $1 trillion to invest in the future of Lesbian Love Myths.

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  A trolley is rolling down a track. Every non-self-referential instance of the trolley problem is tied to the track and will be crushed. You can divert the trolley onto a different track, but it will instead crush every self-referential instance of the trolley problem. Which track is this trolley problem on? What do you do? #TrolleyProblem #RusselsParadox

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  Self-proclaimed centrists keep saying we need to "compromise" or accept "incremental progress" on the "trans sports issue," but it seems none of them know what a compromise or incremental progress are. To help them out, I present 2something's Ultimate Compromise on The Trans Sports Debate Get the government completely out of competitive sports. This means a) No interscholastic college sports (intermural sports are fine). b) No tax dollars for sports stadium...

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  Forget fediblock, try bettyflock! It's a bunch of creatures named Betty all teaming up.

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  A release-fediblocking bug

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  I'm going to make a fedi instance called "block," so if you federate with block you are automatically fediblocked.

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  My reread of Pandora's Tale comes to an end! Spoilers incoming. Chapter 8: Unbecoming Here it is: the first chapter that was never compiled into a book, along with the first chapter without a cavefish, the first chapter without Veronica, the first chapter without Con, and the second chapter (after 1) with an extended flashback. The cover is really nice. I wonder how many other adaptions of classic art of Pandora we would have gotten if the story had continued. I've never wished wage...

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  "If you're an adult who isn't really good at cooking then you're actually a spoiled child who depends on WOMEN to cook for you!" A hearty fuck you to everyone who says this. If I were to list my top 20 favorite foods, more than half of them would be foods that are best raw. The rest would be foods that are really simple to cook: boil water, put exactly 1 ingredient in the pot, wait a few minutes and take it out. Food is a necessity. Cooked food is a luxury. Meals that...

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  Wow, people are still making the "if a product makes money then it must be inherently good because no one would buy something if it was bad" argument. People gave Bernie Madoff $57 billion for a product that didn't even exist.

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  In A Series of Unfortunate Events book 5: The Austere Academy (published in 2000), the protagonists are worried that Count Olaf, the villain from the first four books, will try to find them at boarding school and kidnap or otherwise harm them. They share their concerns with Vice Principal Nero, the embodiment of bad school administrators. He assures the protagonists that they have nothing to worry about, because an advanced computer will alert him immediately if Count Olaf tries to enter sch...

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  I'm proposing a new law that any corporation and government agencies which make spyware must publish all of their internal emails, security camera footage, and other internal communication online, for free, visible to anyone without an account. They shall be allowed to redact names of people who are not their employees, but no other redactions are allowed. If they have nothing to hide, then they have nothing to fear.

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  Tim Rice implies the existence of Tim Potatoes, Tim Wheat, and Tim Soy. All Tim Grains must face off in a tournament to determine who can write the best musical about a board game. #Chess

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  Here's my spitball attempt at writing a real "online safety" law. Websites and online services may not ask you for Protected Personal Information (PPI) unless that information is necessary to perform their core functions. Any existing law which requires the collection of PPI is superseded and repealed by this act. PPI includes name, gender, age, income, race, nationality, location, operating system or operating system configuration, medical history, employment status, marital st...

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  Thinking about Cassandra and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology. Clytemnestra kills Cassandra as punishment for Cassandra being raped by Agamemnon. Cassandra must have known that in the future, what Clytemnestra did would be called "victim blaming" and will not be remembered fondly. #GreekMythology

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  Several years ago I coined the phrase "shadow prisons." I don't think I have a clear explanation on fedi of what the term means (I may have had one on my old account). I still occasionally use the term in my fedipostings, so I think I'll make one defining it now. The term "shadow prison" is inspired by the term "shadow bank." From Wikipedia,The shadow banking system is a term for the collection of non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFIs) that legally pr...

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  Beth's Extended Bechdel Test for movies: Right before a film's release, a government says "You aren't allowed to release this movie if it has two female characters who talk about something other than a man." There's no time or money to reshoot, rerecord, or create new special effects. The only tool the filmmakers have to try to get into compliance is to cut stuff. The film passes Beth's Extended Bechdel Test if it is impossible for the filmmakers or producers to...

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  Darths and Droids has ended after 19 years. https://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/2831.html #DarthsAndDroids #Webcomics

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  So many political arguments are just variations of Leftists: If you're a member of minority X, then the government shouldn't own your body! Conservatives: But what about someone who is both minority X and minority Y? Sure, we've always been okay with minority X people who are not also minority Y having rights, but the radical minority X activists are pushing their dangerous ideology onto minority Y too! The only way to stop them is to ban all minority X. Centrists: Wow, those to...

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  https://crumbles.blog/posts/2026-09-04-r7rs-wtf.html Well fuck. I had been curios about more seriously learning Scheme.

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  It's been over two years since the last update to Pandora's Tale by @comicsbyxan . That means it's time for me to do a reread with live commentary! Spoilers incoming! If you've read any of my previous rambling reread commentaries, you might notice something a bit different this time. In the past, in addition to my opinions on the comic, I include lots of notes of what's happening in the story. I make those notes as reminders of things I expect I'll want to reference...

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  Did you know that if you buy DRM-free "digital" media, you can copy it onto a blank "physical" CD/DVD/USB drive? The "digital vs physical" distinction is a lie.

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  Some people are confused about the terminology, so let me help try to clear things up a bit. "Male" and "female" are adjectives that refer to people of particular "genders". "Man" and "woman" are nouns that refer to people of particular genders. "200 pg/mL estrogen, 20 ng/dL testosterone" is an example of a sex. Or rather, it's a summary of the part of sex that has the most relevance to the most areas of medicine. Note that no...

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  Professional sports leagues: It might hurt men's feelings to lose to women, so we segregated women into separate and unequal leagues. Sports fans: We don't care, we're going to watch anyways and give you more money. Professional sports leagues: It might hurt cis men's feelings to lose to trans men, so we're banning trans men completely. Sports fans: We don't care, we're going to watch anyways and give you more money. Professional sports leagues: It might hurt cis...

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  Young Adult Markup Language

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  Transphobes: What if someone lies about being trans, huh? There's no way you'd ever be able to tell. In fact, I think I'll lie about being trans now. I'm trans! Ha ha no I'm not. You totally believed me didn't you? I'm such a highly skilled liar. LLM bros: You can't ban LLM usage. What if someone lies? There's no way you could ever tell. In fact, I think I'm going to use an LLM right now and then lie about it. There, in the past three seconds si...

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  Is this question rhetorical?

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  Holy shit, I stopped paying attention several years ago to the Computer Chess Rating List because Stockfish was dominant for too long. Now Stockfish is still in first place, but by a mere 2 elo points, well within the margin of error. Second place is Pawnocchio, written in Zig by just three people. #Chess #Stockfish #Pawnocchio

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  For independence day, here's a reminder that the Founding Fathers did not grant slaves 3/5ths of a vote. They gave slaves 0 votes. The Virginia delegates to the Constitutional Convention wanted to give slave-owners an extra vote for every human they owned. They knew that would sound bad, so they concocted the House of Representatives. The House gives states a number of representatives in proportion to the state's population: not the number of eligible voters in the state! Slaves, f...

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  https://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=4491 Is Batman really the best bat-themed protagonist? There's also the legend of Batboy, the half-human half-bat supposedly living in West Virginia. Danille Corsetto (author of Girls With Slingshots) wrote a print comic series about Batboy, so arguably Batman isn't even the best bat-themed comic protagonist. Batboy also wins in terms of who makes the best musical theater protagonist. Starkid's *Holy Musical B@man is* is good, but Laurence O&#...

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  I don't trust any humans with my internet traffic so I have subscribed to the VPN run by a duck. This duck even drinks milkshakes. Surely the duck won't do anything bad with my money or data.