tarot bird @morganmay@octodon.social

Unrelated: If anyone tells you that cassettes are better than digital you have my permission to lop off their highs and muddy their lows.

"The thing about being a kid in the American public school system is that every day at least five things are going to happen to you that, were you a grown adult, would result in criminal charges or at the very least a written warning from the human resources department, but as a kid you have to just sigh and go to algebra."

Before long we were expendable.

reading/reading about Emily Short's _Parrigues Tarot_ and I'm completely astounded, it's so good https://emshort.blog/2018/06/26/parrigues-tarot-draft/

#Discord re-set this flag automatically during the last update. If you don't want it scanning your computer and uploading that info to their servers, check your privacy settings.

This is awful.

https://social.coop/media/B0HHhnSRwKh9np9ET74

The next time someone decides to tell me that the reason things are the way they are is because of "The Free Market" I'm going to politely ask them if anyone paid them for this opinion.

And if the answer is "no" then I'm going to say "then why are you giving it to me for free, or is that precisely what it's worth: nothing".

@HTHR most problems only start when the goddess leaves your corporeal vessel

you really can't go wrong with the snake goddess

By Terence Eden...

They are hijacking your emotions. Nothing new here - the half-naked woman on a billboard trying to get you to buy car insurance, the catchy pop-song designed to make you pick one brand of cola over another, the ruggedly handsome man telling you how white your shirts can be...

But in the airline example, there is a sinister asymmetry. They know everything about you - and you know nothing about them.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/06/personalisation-is-asymmetric-psychological-warfare/

accidentally pressed "send" too early and sent a friend a message that said "big moo"

RT @weedlewobble@twitter.com The ICE employee database getting torn down fucking instantly by the same tech companies who've claimed for years that they're powerless to do anything about Nazis on their platform should give you a clue about which side they're on.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/weedlewobble/status/1009441820550590464

ours is a world of suffering
not worth the bother…
polishing my teeth

Cheap roomba!

@starbreaker it took me a while to figure out that "judged by a jury of their peers" is some kind of BS that just means white folks get away with anything.

Initiate Phase 1.
Power up the Streisand Cannon.

FIRE!

me: _links very leftist thing to a good friend_
friend: what's DBT, allosexual, enby... <more terms>. I could google but I'd rather chat to you.
me: _defines_
friend: okay, thanks. _reads article_

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That was so pleasant and lovely. Yes he put the labour of some education on me, but because he wanted to talk to me, not because he didn't wanna do it!