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Hilly - 4000 yrs old and counting- she/her - - Dune, TVC and Stranger things - Please talk to me about Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen I am begging you 🙏

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Don’t Spend It All In One Place Big Man

Come on man, couldn’t even manage a whole fiver? Those adult performers work hard and you’re out here waving barely enough cash to buy less than one gram of weed? Shameful.

[ID: Tweet by Joe Biggs (@Rambobiggs): Ok. Just bought a gay flag to burn. Let’s test the selective free speech shit the left keeps pushing.

Reply by Matt Ripley (@mripley): Literally lighting your money on fire to own the libs.

Biggs replies: Yeah. All 4 dollars. Like I’ve never been to Strip club or bought drugs before.

Reply by cell phone/self-own (@g3thaunted): Big spender here rolling up to the strip club with four dollars. end ID.]

if were all catpeople there would be trans catboy forums devoted to how to dye over calico markings so you can pass better and another group of trans catboys who insisted that the only way to deal with it is to normalize catboys having calico markings. the discourse would be insane

meanwhile all the far right commentary catboy youtube channels would have videos titled ‘HAS “MALE CALICO” ACCEPTANCE GONE TOO FAR?’ with the thumbnail of some random calico catboy who was shown in 0.001 second of a popular clothing brand’s pride month ad

there would be a whole other discourse over why we should stop talking about calico catboys when no one knows the struggle of transitioning from a girl orange cat (cute) to a male orange cat (stupid)

sorry for injecting discourse into your escapism fantasy again.. unfortunatly the rituals of pointless transmasc infighting would probably transcend realities im ngl

I think we should have a turn of phrase for "I'm not in the right, but I AM annoyed with this situation, so I just need to go bitch to a friend about this before I suck it up and go do the right thing" because more and more I'm finding this is a critical element of functional adulthood.

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laptop overheating?? pour water on it to cool it down!

i trusted you

Do not trust people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people

Hi! My mum and I had a conversation in the car where I mentioned how funny I found this bit, because I had read it as Anathema thinking that she had, in fact, just been run over by a very campy gay couple, and a campy gay couple wouldn't harm her. But my mum read this as Anathema, who she thought could feel that Crowley was a demon, realizing that she was also in the presence of an angel, and an angel wouldn't harm her. And I guess I just wanted to know which was the intended message?

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The version that Terry and I had in mind when we wrote it was the former.

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Reading the comments I realize that things that were perfectly obvious to readers in the UK 33 years ago don't land the same way now.

If anyone has been in any doubt about what Anathema was thinking the line that would have made it utterly clear would have been..

...the "two consenting cycle repairmen".

In the UK the 1957 Wolfenden Report recommended that 'homosexual behaviour between consenting adults in private should be no longer a criminal offence'. And the phrase "consenting adults" became a euphemism for gay men once the recommendations of the report were put into action and male homosexual acts were decriminalized. (It took a decade and happened in 1967.)

So, yes. She thinks they're gay. And she was safe.

That's because in older generations, milk was framed as a stupid children's drink for children, so teens and adults didn't drink it. After all, a cool 17-year-old doesn't want to look like a BABY in front of her even cooler friends! This was especially true for girls and women of the time, who might also stop drinking milk in an attempt to lose weight.

As a result, practically an entire generation developed osteoporosis and other health problems due to a lifelong lack of Vitamin D and calcium. Ask any woman you know over 50 and she'll probably have a story like "oh yeah no one drank milk and I really regret it because a light breeze will break all my bones." For one example, my mother-in-law has a calcium deficiency that is affecting her health. But because she hasn't drank milk in like 60 years, it's both hard to get in the habit of having a glass, plus the texture is kind of gross to her since she's not used to it. Which in turn makes it harder to fix the deficiency.

So go back to the early 90s, and combine public health officials desperate to prevent another generation of vitamin-deprived kids, 90s parents looking for alternatives to soda to give their kids, and dairy farmers around the US concerned with their low sales, and you get the Got Milk campaign.

(Please note this is just me giving historical context to weird retro ads. I'm aware that there's other ways to get nutrients in your diet, and I'm not saying anyone HAS to drink cow milk specifically)

Tony Hawk's secret weapon.

this is literally not true, the idea that milk is super good for you and necessary for good bone health was a lie created to sell you milk, and it apparently worked

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This post is such a good example of how effective advertising can be. There was no epidemic of osteoporosis in the 1990′s caused by decreased dairy consumption. This is categorically untrue.

What did happen in the 1990′s however, was a continuing decline in milk sales as a result of the increasing popularity of soft drinks. So the advertising agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners stepped in with the Got Milk campaign in 1993, funded by California's major milk processors (not public health officials) with three cents from each gallon of milk sold going toward the campaign—which amounted to approximately $23 million annually. In 1994, at the height of the campaign, 755 million gallons were sold in the state, up from 740 million gallons in 1993. Due to that success, Got Milk was later rolled out nationally, while osteoporosis rates in the US continued to climb.

So no, this large conglomerate of dairy corporations certainly didn’t fund this ubiquitous and extremely expensive advertising campaign because they were worried about your bone health. It was solely about profit. This was money well spent though, since people are still spouting this kind of industry propaganda 30 years later, and apparently they’re doing it for free.

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Kind of crazy how much more interesting and beautiful real life caves are than most caves in video games. Never really seen em capture the diversity and composition it’s always just rock tubes connecting rock rooms with Sum glowing ass crystals

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Join me in appreciating some Random ass caves I have seen

reverse call out post

i have noticed that SOMETIMES it really bothers folks to discover i am sincere and not playing a character. that tinglers are deep artistic expression. i think it  because these few buckaroos are often kind and even politically left but had problematic ways just a few years back

these buckaroos are forced to confront their previous assumptions about neurodivergence and queerness, which is bound to happen as time trots on and cultural landscape evolves. but this sudden realization they have about themselves apparently MUST be ignored and pushed away

theres BIG TIME buckaroos on this very platform who publicly made fun of and gatekept my autism. these posts are STILL THERE. folks questioning my bisexuality. and these are buds who at one time worked with chuck and were pretending to ‘like me’ in way that i now see was irony

these are a previous generation of liberal ‘comedy forum’ buds who laugh and laugh at ‘ridiculous bad erotica’ and wrote as a money scheme. those who would later say with concern ‘chuck tingle is homophobic for making fun of queer erotica’. the same THEY might gleefully write

and i think their reaction is a way to deal with truth that THEY were doing these things ironically and have ABSOLUTELY NO CONCEPT that someone else couldve been creating joyful queer neurodivergent art during the same timeline with sincerity instead of irony.

so now as chuck gets taken more seriously they have to confront something. question of ‘wait, was i laughing at a real person the whole time? was i calling someone homophobic when in reality it is much more homophobic to MAKE that accusation, because queerness is not a monolith?’

old posts calling out chuck as fake, dehumanizing me, gatekeeping my place on spectrum of autism AND sexuality are still up. they wont be addressed because these folks cannot ever acknowledge they treated someones very existence as a joke. they will not admit THEY needed to grow

and honestly buckaroos, I FORGIVE THEM. nobody is dang perfect and the internet is swirling with irony poisoning. those folks on old forums were BATHING IN IT DAILY. it does not bother me because it is the past, but pondering on it during moments like this i am compelled to write

i do not bring this up to punish for past, but to hope buckaroos remember lesson in the future: you do not need to gatekeep. you do not need to make yourself the arbiter of others lifestyle and identity. you do not need to score online points as a way of proving your goodness.

proving love is complicated sometimes, and a big part or that complicated journey is accepting there are some unique buckaroos out there, buds who actually ENJOY making neurodivergent art and expressing their queerness in unique ways. who need time to learn THEMSELVES through art

it is my belief and suggestion that buds allow others this space. to accept them as they come. to TROT WITH THEM INTO THE FUTURE. thats a heck of a way to prove love is real. i think we can make this trot of sincerity together and DANG am i looking forward to it. LOVE IS REAL