There is a teleological uplift/prosperity gospelish narrative to a lot of essay-style writing that I feel misses the generativity of sitting w/analyzing discomfort. And that sort of tidy narrativizing in many ways prevents the collective from even being able to engage with imagination differently.

Opinion: Everything hurts and no one knows when the pain will end

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Sending this around one last time as Pride winds down. This month was spent healing, settling into a WAY less pain-ridden body, and enjoying the gender euphoria of it all! #HelpSky #MutalAid #MutualAidRequest #PrideMonth #HelpFolksLive2026 cash.app/$sotreu2 venmo.com/sotreu paypal.com/rikiam

material interests are not enough to get people to organize or to be civically engaged. They can be a starting point but they are not sufficient.

cupid (blender study of fuuka from yotsuba!)

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It's OK to have a zero desire to launch a Substack.

Use your PTO. Use your Sick Leave. Use the floating holiday(s). Apply for that FMLA. Use the callout process. Get that work accommodation.

Pushing yourself to learn a song a little harder or faster than you think you can is always a good thing. The fun is in the trial and error 😋

Yes Clive Davis deserved to die, and I hope he burns in hell

🚨Carly Rae Jepsen announces new double album, ‘Day and Night.’ Out September 18th.

Getting older & having a deeper understanding of your parents as people & what they dealt with while raising you can have different outcomes Some situations, you appreciate your parents, some you give them grace, & others reaffirm the need to set strong boundaries or estrange yourself

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Deciding words mean whatever white people on the internet say they mean and mocking any resistance to this frictionless appropriation has led to our current discourse totally unmoored from context or history.

Fiona Apple released ‘The Idler Wheel...’ 14 years ago on June 18, 2012 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/FionaAppleTIW

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

make a wish! 🌠

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Sorry to keep you waiting! DELTARUNE Chapter 5 will be released on June 24th at 11:00AM EDT. Here's the trailer if you missed it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5y2...

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Every zombie movie that doesn't take this conceptualization of a zombie into implementation of its zombies is antiBlack drivel and is why the zombie genre is largely repetitive muck searching for a better story or framework for its horror

Unless you actively covering all of those game releases that are just jammed together due to job/work—you can definitely relax, and take your time playing the ones you are interested in. Let go from feeling of missing out. Art is not something to just be consumed rapidly, and move on to consume.

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wow you're so talented!!

Commissioned piece for @davesalt.bsky.social ❇️🔮⚔️✨

Happy 40th DQ! #art #dragonquest

LLMs won't be fixed with more scraped and stolen data, more processing power, more iterations. Because what it fundamentally IS is. Not. Fixable.

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Your job is the least interesting thing about you 💚

🌼cats still waiting for the flower shop owner

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My aunt, Priscilla Stephens Kruize, can no longer live on her own at age 87 & assisted living costs are huge. Our family launched a fundraiser to help fund her care until she gets financial aid. She is a civil rights HERO who has given so much to others - and now she needs us. gofund.me/8db8323e6

that time when Gelli got bonked 🫨🔨

I have reviewed Mixtape. This is the Hater Zone. Don't be surprised to find Hater Opinions here. I've warned you.

Koji Suzuki, the world-renowned novelist best-known for Ring, "Floating Water" (Dark Water), Spiral, and more horror stories, has died at age 68:

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Using the rules of linear perspective to combat ai slop can I get a hell yeah

hyn. gouache painting from way back in 2017

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We too deep in the game to be listening to anything white people have to say about the world at large. All this is their fault, they know it, and they are trying to disrupt your internal flow by distracting you with arguments about it because finally having to acknowledge it’s fucking up theirs.