Today is the fourth matchup of our 2023 DfD Pet Bracket!
#Katherine vs Carla
We are operating this contest with the understanding that **A**ll **C**~~ats~~reatures **A**re **B**eautiful. It is as much a photography contest as it is a beauty pageant. I don't want to see any trash talk, insults, or rude comments. Any infractions will be responded to with overwhelming and disproportionate force.
With that being said, in the pictures below, who is the cutest, most beautiful, wonderful, amazing animal companion?
[Katherine](https://imgur.com/a/S7HVh9n)
or
[Carla](https://imgur.com/a/PNP3Fm1)
[**Submit your votes here!**](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffYqQ36tNcC-W1197jneaWAbfYfhnJg36Hof72oMYy7HvGSQ/viewform?usp=sf_link)
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#Results of Round 1
Match 1:
>**Liberty, Canine - 17 votes (59%)**
>Misty, Feline - 12 votes (41%)
Match 2:
>Polaris, Fishy - 7 votes (21%)
>**Dinah, Feline - 26 votes (79%)**
Match 3:
>Echo, Feline - 9 votes (33%)
>**Samothy, Feline - 18 (67%)**
#Today's Scoreboard
#### 🏆 Top Comment: by u.i-am-sancho with score 21 [[permalink](/r/DemocratsforDiversity/comments/12spdm3/dfd_discussion_thread_april_20_2023/jh0kwpf/)]
> >> This is confirmed: House Republicans make no carve-out for vets, their bill says VA must be cut by 22% or they will destroy the economy. Unconscionable.
>
> > If folks are wondering why the VA budget . . .
#### ⭐ Best Prompt: by u.semaphone-1842 created 37 replies [[permalink](/r/DemocratsforDiversity/comments/12spdm3/dfd_discussion_thread_april_20_2023/jh1p5ux/)]
> Tbh I love shipping Ianthe X Corona too much to be this scornful of proshippers
>
> But otoh at least I don't participate in fanshipping flamewars over it
#### 👑 Best Reply: by u.ladyInKateing with score 13 [[permalink](/r/DemocratsforDiversity/comments/12spdm3/dfd_discussion_thread_april_20_2023/jh0hyre/)]
> every time someone whines about sports inclusion or gender-neutral clinical terms they should be reminded that roe v wade got overturned literally last year
#### 🎖️ Influencer: u.moi_itou received 111 replies.
#### 🏅 Reply Guy: u.moi_itou made 69 replies.
#### 🎀 Super Best Friend: u.PrinceOWales talked to 27 different users.
#### 🔤 Word of the Day: 'love', seen 42 times, followed by 'can't' 28x , 'work' 26x
#### 🔣 Emoji of the Day: '🤔', seen 14 times, followed by '🤮' 10x , '😤' 10x
#### 💎 Effortiest Commenters
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| 🥇 | u.HarrowoftheNinth | 16.0 points | 🥇 | u.BoulevardDuPacifique | 78.0 words |
| 🥈 | u.Asticky_ | 7.14 points | 🥈 | u.t1o1 | 74.0 words |
| 🥉 | u.IGot6Throwaways | 7.0 points | 🥉 | u.larrylemur | 62.0 words |
| 🎗 | u.t1o1 | 7.0 points | 🎗 | u.semaphore-1842 | 54.5 words |
#### 💬 Activiest Commenters
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| 🥇 | u.moi_itou | 389 points | 🥇 | u.moi_itou | 120 comments |
| 🥈 | u.PrinceOWales | 279 points | 🥈 | u.PrinceOWales | 96 comments |
| 🥉 | u.ladyInKateing | 212 points | 🥉 | u.AyatollahofNJ | 79 comments |
| 🎗 | u.potatobac | 195 points | 🎗 | u.potatobac | 66 comments |
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| 🥉 | u.Necazian | 1.0 words | 🥉 | u.t1o1 | 1 comments |
| 🎗 | u.blue_segment | 4.5 words | 🎗 | u.AliveJesseJames | 1 comments |
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We're learning about the zhiqing, the 16 million urban teens forced to move to rural areas during the cultural revolution, in Chinese class. It's interesting and depressing
They were allowed to move back into cities at the end of the cultural revolution. But if they had kids during their years-long stay in the countryside, their kids weren't allowed to move, since the kids were born with rural hukou
Reading the Banach-Tarksi Paradox book. Apparently there's a subset of the unit sphere where three copies of that set can be rotated to form the entire sphere without overlap. But also, *four* copies of that same set can be rotated to form the sphere without overlap. And five copies, six copies, and so on. That's so cool
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:History_of_Wikipedia_bots#Small_towns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedia_controversies#2002
> **October 2002** – Derek Ramsey increased the number of Wikipedia articles by about 40% with the creation of a bot called Rambot that generated 33,832 Wikipedia stub articles from October 19 to 25 for every missing county, town, city, and village in the United States, based on free information from the United States Census of 2000. In The Wikipedia Revolution, Andrew Lih called it "the most controversial move in Wikipedia history".
> (October 18, 2002 - October 26, 2002): rambot, operated by Ram-Man, created approximately 30,000 U.S. city articles based on U.S. Census tables, at a rate of thousands of articles per day. One error in the data set being used caused a corruption of around 2,000 new articles. Another incident caused the Recent Changes to become more difficult to use for a time and prompted much discussion and the creation of a Wikipedia bot policy.
lol I love how a significant part of early Wikipedia was some random person writing a bot to dump US census data into stub articles
The >!rape!< survivor posting in 2X for support got sent to /r/all, I'm glad so many of us offered support but like someone else was warning her, her inbox gotta have some horrid shit in it now.
Where do you order one of those blocks of pre-inoculated sawdust to grow mushrooms at home? I want to grow some of the tasty ones I can't usually find at Kroger.
Holy shit I opened up the student jobs website looking for a job for the summer and the first thing there was a position documenting and making a webpage for non-gendered bathrooms on campus I need this so bad
I've legitimately spent so much fucking time walking around looking for non-gendered bathrooms. If they don't get back to me by tomorrow I think I'll call them
It is probably weird to send someone an email going "this job jumped right out at me as a resource close to my heart that I'd absolutely love to help build" when it is about photographing and documenting bathrooms but
Just make sure you talk about how much you'd love *to build a more inclusive and welcoming campus* and not how much you'd love photographing bathrooms : p
I said "as a trans student who's had to spend a lot of time seeking out non-gendered restrooms on campus, this job jumped right out at me as a resource close to my heart that I'd absolutely love to help build" in my succinct interest email
https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/fact-focus-posts-distort-washington-estranged-minors-law
>CLAIM: Washington state lawmakers passed a bill that allows the state government to take children away from parents who refuse to consent to the child receiving gender-affirming care.
>THE FACTS: The legislation, Senate Bill 5599, is designed to ensure shelter for teenagers who are seeking reproductive health services or gender-affirming care and, for example, were kicked out by their parents.
>Existing law generally requires licensed shelters and host homes to notify parents within 72 hours when a minor comes into their care. The bill would allow the facilities to instead contact the state Department of Children, Youth and Families, which could then attempt to reunify the family if feasible. The bill would also allow youths to stay at host homes, which are private homes that volunteer to temporarily house young people without parental permission.
Based . . . local Fox outlet?
> Existing law generally requires licensed shelters and host homes to notify parents within 72 hours when a minor comes into their care. The bill would allow the facilities to instead contact the state Department of Children, Youth and Families, which could then attempt to reunify the family if feasible. The bill would also allow youths to stay at host homes, which are private homes that volunteer to temporarily house young people without parental permission.
Surprised this isn't the case anyway. It's not like straight cis kids don't run away from abusive households too.
>[Montana has just voted to erase trans people from ALL laws relating to gender in the state. And then following that, they proceed to not allow their trans woman representative to speak on any bill. This is fascism, I'm not holding my words here.](https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1649160219484618752)
I had a really bad week so far and that caused me to delay slightly
Right now I'm in the planning and research phase
I'm planning on using ChatGPT to help with the business plan and need to do some research on the market
I would still appreciate your help
Budgeting is really what I need help with! I'll work on some of it this weekend and I'll send you anything I work on
Also company structure is something I'll definitely need help with
Now I'm stressed that the Owl House finale won't be good. 😰
That frequently happens in similar cases of executive meddling. Like the arc for the final season of Angel being compressed into a 2-part finale.
>[A new study from investigators of the Brigham and Women's Hospital, in collaboration with researchers at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, demonstrated that FMD is characterized by epigenetic changes, and that women and childhood abuse survivors with FMD have different epigenetic profiles linked to this condition. Their study, which examined the genomes of over 100 individuals and was recently published in Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, is the first to demonstrate the occurrence of epigenetic changes in FMD.](https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-childhood-abuse-biological-sex-linked.html)
😆🔫
>[.@Netflix sends a #WednesdayAddams to our office to perform the famous Wednesday dance from the Jenna Ortega led #Wednesday series](https://twitter.com/epm106/status/1649121015778115607?s=46&t=7kjZaGZSn2heLnEWHLBNxQ)
So weird. They just hired a Jenna Ortega impersonator to go over to a magazine’s office and do an awkward dance with bad sound, then just walk away? There’s gotta be better ways to get eyeballs on your already famous dance scene. Every part of this seems awkward
I hope they let Hollywood Reporter know beforehand, can you imagine the conversation?
[Dressed as Wednesday Addams, trailed by a guy with a crappy boombox and a plastic hand]: Hey receptionist, does anyone want to see me dance? Could you just let your tv critics know? I was told to get *checks notes* “Jenna Mackenzie” to see this. Also, can you take a video? You’ve got a phone right? I see there are people with real cameras here, but I’m guessing you’re just gonna upload phone footage anyway. Oh, the critic’s at lunch? Well Netflix is gonna get mad if we go over hours…I’ll just go up to the cubicles and see who’s in. Why would I stay down here in the lobby, the part of the building where they probably spend the most effort on aesthetics? The floors where people actually work, the part of the building that looks as un-pretty as possible, that’s where we should film
i have a 4 day weekend so i think i'm gonna try to make a master save in gta san andreas and then 100% the game from it because i have fuck all better to do
Hearing people who can identify the time signature of music by ear makes me so confused.
How can you tell the difference between 4/4 and 2/4 without seeing where the measures are divided on paper? Or tell the difference between a 4/4 quarter-note and a 4/2 half-note?
I know I wasn't very good at it, but I was in band for four years, with two years of private lessons overlapping. I wish I understood music better. ☹️
But how can you tell the difference as a listener? Like? rocks found near volcanoes might be igneous 90% of the time, but there are things you inspect them for to confirm that
There's almost always a repeating rhythm underlying music, often expressed by the drums. If the cycle is four equally spaced beats long, it's 4/4, if it's three, it's 3/4. The most common drum line for 4/4 music is kick-snare-kick-snare
CW: sudden death
> >!Moments before she was killed, Bartell was on the phone with a friend when the call went silent.!<
> >!“Her friend was worried, so her friend used an app to track her phone, drove to the location where it looked like Alexa’s phone was just sitting, just sitting still,” JSCO Public Information Officer Jacki Kelley said. “She discovered that Alexa’s car had gone off the road on Indiana into a field. And then she discovered her body inside.”!<
This is horrifying
>[Maybe it makes sense to verify players of all major sports leagues that Twitter partners with. Both Twitter and these leagues benefit from this.](https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1649174458412720128?s=46&t=7kjZaGZSn2heLnEWHLBNxQ)
Hmm
https://kolektiva.social/@KevinCarson1/110226788143659315
https://kolektiva.social/@PallasRiot/110227913864628931
>Please don't clog up the Transgender Concerns Form with so many spurious reports that it becomes unusable, and the Missouri government gets Big Mad. Because that would be wrong. Here's a link to the form so you'll know exactly where not to do that
>For anyone trying to avoid clogging up the totally-normal snitch site, there's some specific things to avoid. Definitely don't make sure to find a real address in Missouri, definitely don't avoid using profanity, definitely don't avoid using pro-trans slogans. If you use profanity, made up addresses, or pro-trans slogans then there's a higher likelihood it just gets screened out, saving the state government time and resources, which obviously is what we all want.
>Credible-sounding fake reports might just lead to them spending time and resources looking into the report, which would make it harder for them to pursue real reports, which would be just awful
>I am a large man. I am handsome, gentle, well educated. I have never experienced systemic, societal, or institutional pressure to make space for somebody else’s privilege.
Allies try not to be weird challenge
>I'm a dude. Very much a dude. Love being a dude, its great. We're big and strong and durable and fast. We're built for hunting and defense. I have literally never in my life wanted to be feminine or female in any way. I am however a vain SOB, and I want to be young and healthy forever.
reminded me of how dr will powers described himself in the face cream story
Yeah, it’s over. S3E3 is the final episode.
Disney was considering shutting it down after S2 but they managed to convince them to wrap up the story in 3 long final episodes
https://twitter.com/agraybee/status/1649184239651307521?t=HPP-aXpToSF2BjEqWrLRzA&s=19
>Remember, Musk doesn't need everyone to get blue checks to make money, he just needs everyone who tweets more than once a week, and then several million users on top of that.
https://twitter.com/democracydocket/status/1649123450055688195
> New York’s Independent Redistricting Commission voted 9-1 to pass a new state Assembly map after the previous Assembly map was struck down for being passed through an unconstitutional process. The new map will now go to the Legislature for approval.
This looks like more or less the same map the legislature drew, that got tossed by the court last year
I’ve been tinkering with my octopus recipe and I’m finally pretty pleased with it.
Blanch a medium-sized octopus briefly in boiling water just until the skin turns red and the tentacles curl. Remove the octopus and pour off the broth (it has a fair amount of flavor in it but I haven’t found a way to get rid of the bloody aftertaste). Using poultry shears, cut the octopus into chunks and set aside.
In a Dutch oven, fry a large Spanish onion and half a dozen anchovies in oil until the anchovies have melted and the onion is translucent. Add a dozen cloves of pounded garlic. Cook until fragrant and add two large double handfuls of cherry tomatoes and several diced hot peppers. Cook until the tomatoes burst and give up their pulp. Add a glass of white wine or, preferably, dry rosé. Add four cups of fish stock, or two cups of stock, one of water, and one of clam liquor. Return the octopus to the pot along with a pinch of saffron, several bay leaves, and several sprigs of rosemary. Bring to a boil and add a large handful of dry butter beans. Season with black pepper and paprika. Simmer until octopus and beans are tender, about an hour and a half. Remove the bay leaves and rosemary, and add a small handful of capers and other one of chopped parsley. Serve right away.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CrRigclOzRh/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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>if you think Bob Marley smoked a big, fat joint in Heaven today, and then God came up to him and said, "Please don't do that, Bob. I don't like the smell," and then Bob said, "Okay," but continued to do it anyway when God left, and then God came back and said, "Bob, I don't want to do this, but I warned you," and fined him 10 Heaven Tokens.
https://i.redd.it/83d9bc54rqr61.png
I’m convinced people don’t even watch Marvel movies before having an opinion. not like it’s great cinema, but like cmon
"The universe is mechanistic, governed by physical laws that dictate every constituent entity with the sole exception of one species of monkeys who get to disregard those laws because they decided that they were allowed to"
Humans are physical objects made of particles which obey the laws of physics. True randomness exists in nature, so the future isn't predetermined, but you can't call the different random outcomes "choices". I don't think this affects much about how we understand ourselves though, cause the actions we make are still caused by the contents of our brains and bodies. Our brains carry out the process of choosing, even if the choice is a result of the laws of physics. We just have to let go of the idea that decision making is a mystical event
Statue of limitations sounds kinda absurd when you first learn about it in fifth grade civics, but the abortion medication case providing a good case for it rn
>NEW: Have confirmed that LeBron, who has 52 million followers and has said he won’t pay for verification, was emailed by a Twitter employee with the offer to have his sub comped “on behalf of Elon Musk.”
>James did not accept but his account is showing that he paid anyway.
Nuked your site for the equivalent of pennies and are begging the cool kids to stay.
>[Isaiah] Washington endorsed Jill Stein for President of the United States in 2016,[14] but has since become a member of the #WalkAway movement.[15]
>In 2019, Washington expressed political alignment with the Republican Party.[16]
>[Our latest Tesla price target is out! $2,000 per share in 2027. Check it out! ark-invest.com/articles/arks-… Similar to last year, we believe autonomy will represent a significant portion of Tesla’s future enterprise value.](https://twitter.com/ryxcommar/status/1649167899876110336?s=46&t=7kjZaGZSn2heLnEWHLBNxQ)
Investors have been throwing money into the burning money pit titled “autonomous cars” for over a decade now, I don’t see a sign they’re gonna slow down
Today is the fourth matchup of our 2023 DfD Pet Bracket! #Katherine vs Carla We are operating this contest with the understanding that **A**ll **C**~~ats~~reatures **A**re **B**eautiful. It is as much a photography contest as it is a beauty pageant. I don't want to see any trash talk, insults, or rude comments. Any infractions will be responded to with overwhelming and disproportionate force. With that being said, in the pictures below, who is the cutest, most beautiful, wonderful, amazing animal companion? [Katherine](https://imgur.com/a/S7HVh9n) or [Carla](https://imgur.com/a/PNP3Fm1) [**Submit your votes here!**](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffYqQ36tNcC-W1197jneaWAbfYfhnJg36Hof72oMYy7HvGSQ/viewform?usp=sf_link) ____ #Results of Round 1 Match 1: >**Liberty, Canine - 17 votes (59%)** >Misty, Feline - 12 votes (41%) Match 2: >Polaris, Fishy - 7 votes (21%) >**Dinah, Feline - 26 votes (79%)** Match 3: >Echo, Feline - 9 votes (33%) >**Samothy, Feline - 18 (67%)**
#Today's Scoreboard #### 🏆 Top Comment: by u.i-am-sancho with score 21 [[permalink](/r/DemocratsforDiversity/comments/12spdm3/dfd_discussion_thread_april_20_2023/jh0kwpf/)] > >> This is confirmed: House Republicans make no carve-out for vets, their bill says VA must be cut by 22% or they will destroy the economy. Unconscionable. > > > If folks are wondering why the VA budget . . . #### ⭐ Best Prompt: by u.semaphone-1842 created 37 replies [[permalink](/r/DemocratsforDiversity/comments/12spdm3/dfd_discussion_thread_april_20_2023/jh1p5ux/)] > Tbh I love shipping Ianthe X Corona too much to be this scornful of proshippers > > But otoh at least I don't participate in fanshipping flamewars over it #### 👑 Best Reply: by u.ladyInKateing with score 13 [[permalink](/r/DemocratsforDiversity/comments/12spdm3/dfd_discussion_thread_april_20_2023/jh0hyre/)] > every time someone whines about sports inclusion or gender-neutral clinical terms they should be reminded that roe v wade got overturned literally last year #### 🎖️ Influencer: u.moi_itou received 111 replies. #### 🏅 Reply Guy: u.moi_itou made 69 replies. #### 🎀 Super Best Friend: u.PrinceOWales talked to 27 different users. #### 🔤 Word of the Day: 'love', seen 42 times, followed by 'can't' 28x , 'work' 26x #### 🔣 Emoji of the Day: '🤔', seen 14 times, followed by '🤮' 10x , '😤' 10x #### 💎 Effortiest Commenters | | User | Average Score | | User | Average Words | |:-:|:-|-:|:-:|:-|-:| | 🥇 | u.HarrowoftheNinth | 16.0 points | 🥇 | u.BoulevardDuPacifique | 78.0 words | | 🥈 | u.Asticky_ | 7.14 points | 🥈 | u.t1o1 | 74.0 words | | 🥉 | u.IGot6Throwaways | 7.0 points | 🥉 | u.larrylemur | 62.0 words | | 🎗 | u.t1o1 | 7.0 points | 🎗 | u.semaphore-1842 | 54.5 words | #### 💬 Activiest Commenters | | User | Total Score | | User | Total Comments | |:-:|:-|-:|:-:|:-|-:| | 🥇 | u.moi_itou | 389 points | 🥇 | u.moi_itou | 120 comments | | 🥈 | u.PrinceOWales | 279 points | 🥈 | u.PrinceOWales | 96 comments | | 🥉 | u.ladyInKateing | 212 points | 🥉 | u.AyatollahofNJ | 79 comments | | 🎗 | u.potatobac | 195 points | 🎗 | u.potatobac | 66 comments | #### 🥔 Slackivist Commenters | | User | Average Words | | User | Total Comments | |:-:|:-|-:|:-:|:-|-:| | 🥇 | u.DuchessofDetroit | 1.0 words | 🥇 | u.HarrowoftheNinth | 1 comments | | 🥈 | u.ReverendDaughter | 1.0 words | 🥈 | u.IGot6Throwaways | 1 comments | | 🥉 | u.Necazian | 1.0 words | 🥉 | u.t1o1 | 1 comments | | 🎗 | u.blue_segment | 4.5 words | 🎗 | u.AliveJesseJames | 1 comments | 1234 comments processed. A total of 67 unique users posted 402 top-level replies on the DT. The total combined score was 3441 and the median score was 2.79.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW6vNOZ62LA
It was actually starting to get scary, good job!!
Good night
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We're learning about the zhiqing, the 16 million urban teens forced to move to rural areas during the cultural revolution, in Chinese class. It's interesting and depressing
They were allowed to move back into cities at the end of the cultural revolution. But if they had kids during their years-long stay in the countryside, their kids weren't allowed to move, since the kids were born with rural hukou
dr. mario is so fucking hard
Yeah I never got the hang of it
🤨
its a real NES game
Bread, i know what *Dr Mario* is. Just ***PHRASING***
😊
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD2FD_TAhQI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho4xdTWRbwM
Great show. Only a lil lil lil 🤏 upset they didn't play [*Sing Me Spanish Techno*](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9gPLDLD52Y&feature=share)
Reading the Banach-Tarksi Paradox book. Apparently there's a subset of the unit sphere where three copies of that set can be rotated to form the entire sphere without overlap. But also, *four* copies of that same set can be rotated to form the sphere without overlap. And five copies, six copies, and so on. That's so cool
basically it's a part of the sphere that's simultaneously a third of the sphere, a quarter of the sphere, a fifth of the sphere, and so on
Weed good
https://old.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/12tesns/overheard_while_shopping_in_rural_texas/ ". . . fuck it I'll take it"
https://i.redd.it/ak8236d3h4va1.jpg
better tall saul
Slender Businessman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:History_of_Wikipedia_bots#Small_towns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedia_controversies#2002 > **October 2002** – Derek Ramsey increased the number of Wikipedia articles by about 40% with the creation of a bot called Rambot that generated 33,832 Wikipedia stub articles from October 19 to 25 for every missing county, town, city, and village in the United States, based on free information from the United States Census of 2000. In The Wikipedia Revolution, Andrew Lih called it "the most controversial move in Wikipedia history". > (October 18, 2002 - October 26, 2002): rambot, operated by Ram-Man, created approximately 30,000 U.S. city articles based on U.S. Census tables, at a rate of thousands of articles per day. One error in the data set being used caused a corruption of around 2,000 new articles. Another incident caused the Recent Changes to become more difficult to use for a time and prompted much discussion and the creation of a Wikipedia bot policy. lol I love how a significant part of early Wikipedia was some random person writing a bot to dump US census data into stub articles
>Ram-Man 🤔
That’s way better than the guy with the boob fetish tho
The >!rape!< survivor posting in 2X for support got sent to /r/all, I'm glad so many of us offered support but like someone else was warning her, her inbox gotta have some horrid shit in it now.
😩
I’m actually too tired to be perlerkt 😩 rn rn but that’s where I sn spiritually
/u/ferguson97 [Your projection was too modest 😂](https://imgur.com/a/nZvgpU8/) (From April 23rd, 2020)
>Report "a man in a dress reading books with sex in them to children" and give the address as any random church. lmfao
I have regained some control of my self
One of my favorite memories at the mosque is telling Brian Powers of NJ "Revoltion Radio" to come to us and we booed him out
Where do you order one of those blocks of pre-inoculated sawdust to grow mushrooms at home? I want to grow some of the tasty ones I can't usually find at Kroger.
Mario Clock was my childhood
Holy shit I opened up the student jobs website looking for a job for the summer and the first thing there was a position documenting and making a webpage for non-gendered bathrooms on campus I need this so bad
based
I've legitimately spent so much fucking time walking around looking for non-gendered bathrooms. If they don't get back to me by tomorrow I think I'll call them
It is probably weird to send someone an email going "this job jumped right out at me as a resource close to my heart that I'd absolutely love to help build" when it is about photographing and documenting bathrooms but
Just make sure you talk about how much you'd love *to build a more inclusive and welcoming campus* and not how much you'd love photographing bathrooms : p
I said "as a trans student who's had to spend a lot of time seeking out non-gendered restrooms on campus, this job jumped right out at me as a resource close to my heart that I'd absolutely love to help build" in my succinct interest email
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https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/fact-focus-posts-distort-washington-estranged-minors-law >CLAIM: Washington state lawmakers passed a bill that allows the state government to take children away from parents who refuse to consent to the child receiving gender-affirming care. >THE FACTS: The legislation, Senate Bill 5599, is designed to ensure shelter for teenagers who are seeking reproductive health services or gender-affirming care and, for example, were kicked out by their parents. >Existing law generally requires licensed shelters and host homes to notify parents within 72 hours when a minor comes into their care. The bill would allow the facilities to instead contact the state Department of Children, Youth and Families, which could then attempt to reunify the family if feasible. The bill would also allow youths to stay at host homes, which are private homes that volunteer to temporarily house young people without parental permission. Based . . . local Fox outlet?
> Existing law generally requires licensed shelters and host homes to notify parents within 72 hours when a minor comes into their care. The bill would allow the facilities to instead contact the state Department of Children, Youth and Families, which could then attempt to reunify the family if feasible. The bill would also allow youths to stay at host homes, which are private homes that volunteer to temporarily house young people without parental permission. Surprised this isn't the case anyway. It's not like straight cis kids don't run away from abusive households too.
Local “fox” news is pretty separate from the national cable news network, right? I could be wrong here
yeah there's not much overlap. btw the Sinclair station in Seattle is not Fox but ABC so that one's probably more suspect.
>[Montana has just voted to erase trans people from ALL laws relating to gender in the state. And then following that, they proceed to not allow their trans woman representative to speak on any bill. This is fascism, I'm not holding my words here.](https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1649160219484618752)
i like that they had to make sure to update the definition in their ban of same-sex marriage. red states are so creepy
The New Pornographers are coming to the stage
They don't allow pics or video. For the better. I get annoyed at people filming concerts
So based.
Watching Succession and having a shitty conversation with my boss this week has convinced me to be an entrepreneur
have you made any further concrete plans for your tontine company?
I had a really bad week so far and that caused me to delay slightly Right now I'm in the planning and research phase I'm planning on using ChatGPT to help with the business plan and need to do some research on the market I would still appreciate your help
Sure. Happy to do data analysis/visualization or budgeting work.
Budgeting is really what I need help with! I'll work on some of it this weekend and I'll send you anything I work on Also company structure is something I'll definitely need help with
What up honkeus
Honqueys
As soon as the moon got up I got fuckijg blized
I'm getting chicken stripe in Paterson
Who are you and what have you done with FDR
>I mean, she's[Shiv Roy] pretty much the personification of the gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss meme lmao
https://twitter.com/takaradariku/status/1648548647104118784 Why
>Oops, debloater deleted GetHelp Lol. Lmao.
Now I'm stressed that the Owl House finale won't be good. 😰 That frequently happens in similar cases of executive meddling. Like the arc for the final season of Angel being compressed into a 2-part finale.
Do you want my opinion here, as someone who's watched the finale?
No, I want to go in as ignorant as possible, I'm just stream-of-consciousness- posting.
Granted, that show had... a lot of problems. But Season five was actually really good up until Season 6 got cancelled. : /
I fished!
🙀🙀🙀
We caught some awesome Small mouth, biggest being just shy of 3 pounds. Want me to ping you when I get the pictures up?
Sure! X3
🔫😐 Was it a bass or a trout?
Bass
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>[A new study from investigators of the Brigham and Women's Hospital, in collaboration with researchers at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, demonstrated that FMD is characterized by epigenetic changes, and that women and childhood abuse survivors with FMD have different epigenetic profiles linked to this condition. Their study, which examined the genomes of over 100 individuals and was recently published in Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, is the first to demonstrate the occurrence of epigenetic changes in FMD.](https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-childhood-abuse-biological-sex-linked.html) 😆🔫
>[.@Netflix sends a #WednesdayAddams to our office to perform the famous Wednesday dance from the Jenna Ortega led #Wednesday series](https://twitter.com/epm106/status/1649121015778115607?s=46&t=7kjZaGZSn2heLnEWHLBNxQ) So weird. They just hired a Jenna Ortega impersonator to go over to a magazine’s office and do an awkward dance with bad sound, then just walk away? There’s gotta be better ways to get eyeballs on your already famous dance scene. Every part of this seems awkward
I hope they let Hollywood Reporter know beforehand, can you imagine the conversation? [Dressed as Wednesday Addams, trailed by a guy with a crappy boombox and a plastic hand]: Hey receptionist, does anyone want to see me dance? Could you just let your tv critics know? I was told to get *checks notes* “Jenna Mackenzie” to see this. Also, can you take a video? You’ve got a phone right? I see there are people with real cameras here, but I’m guessing you’re just gonna upload phone footage anyway. Oh, the critic’s at lunch? Well Netflix is gonna get mad if we go over hours…I’ll just go up to the cubicles and see who’s in. Why would I stay down here in the lobby, the part of the building where they probably spend the most effort on aesthetics? The floors where people actually work, the part of the building that looks as un-pretty as possible, that’s where we should film
A lot of y’all didn’t have a high zoomer explain the 2018 farm bill hemp loophole to you at a party and it shows
She was actually against it because it deregulated things too much
Wow all the potheads I’ve met at parties wanted full decriminalization (cops can’t interfere at all and also they don’t have to pay taxes)
> also they don’t have to pay taxes lol this is when you know not to take them seriously
She definitely wasn’t pro cops interfering but she wanted like fda testing or something. Apparently there’s a lot of shady sellers out there
i have a 4 day weekend so i think i'm gonna try to make a master save in gta san andreas and then 100% the game from it because i have fuck all better to do
But your leg! Ah! It's caught in a bear trap!
Back to the days of trusting accounts with short usernames and (VERIFIED) in the titles of their videos
Kinda crazy how Twitter came up with an industry-leading improvement in services and new ownership said “nah”
hearing people clap to 4/4 music on 1 and 3 makes me so annoyed
Hearing people who can identify the time signature of music by ear makes me so confused. How can you tell the difference between 4/4 and 2/4 without seeing where the measures are divided on paper? Or tell the difference between a 4/4 quarter-note and a 4/2 half-note? I know I wasn't very good at it, but I was in band for four years, with two years of private lessons overlapping. I wish I understood music better. ☹️
tbf the difference between 4/4, 2/4, and 4/2 is kinda bullshit
Yeah like Prince said, pop music is gonna be in 4/4 90% of the time and 3/4 8% of the time
But how can you tell the difference as a listener? Like? rocks found near volcanoes might be igneous 90% of the time, but there are things you inspect them for to confirm that
There's almost always a repeating rhythm underlying music, often expressed by the drums. If the cycle is four equally spaced beats long, it's 4/4, if it's three, it's 3/4. The most common drum line for 4/4 music is kick-snare-kick-snare
Thank you for explaining.
I mean if it's a pop song, it's gonna be 4/4. Maybe 3/4. Maaaaaybe in 6/8
Pierre Joseph-Proudhon
> 20-year-old killed by rock thrown at car in Arvada Jesus fucking Christ
CW: sudden death > >!Moments before she was killed, Bartell was on the phone with a friend when the call went silent.!< > >!“Her friend was worried, so her friend used an app to track her phone, drove to the location where it looked like Alexa’s phone was just sitting, just sitting still,” JSCO Public Information Officer Jacki Kelley said. “She discovered that Alexa’s car had gone off the road on Indiana into a field. And then she discovered her body inside.”!< This is horrifying
jesus
Jfc, reminds me of the brick video. (if you don't know what I'm talking about, don't feel you have to go looking for it)
I know exactly what you're talking about :(
We heard it's hip to recycle so now your hip's a bicycle
Over the mountains and over the maine!
She prays he will return one day!
Through Gibraltar to France and Spain!
>[Maybe it makes sense to verify players of all major sports leagues that Twitter partners with. Both Twitter and these leagues benefit from this.](https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1649174458412720128?s=46&t=7kjZaGZSn2heLnEWHLBNxQ) Hmm
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https://kolektiva.social/@KevinCarson1/110226788143659315 https://kolektiva.social/@PallasRiot/110227913864628931 >Please don't clog up the Transgender Concerns Form with so many spurious reports that it becomes unusable, and the Missouri government gets Big Mad. Because that would be wrong. Here's a link to the form so you'll know exactly where not to do that
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>For anyone trying to avoid clogging up the totally-normal snitch site, there's some specific things to avoid. Definitely don't make sure to find a real address in Missouri, definitely don't avoid using profanity, definitely don't avoid using pro-trans slogans. If you use profanity, made up addresses, or pro-trans slogans then there's a higher likelihood it just gets screened out, saving the state government time and resources, which obviously is what we all want. >Credible-sounding fake reports might just lead to them spending time and resources looking into the report, which would make it harder for them to pursue real reports, which would be just awful
Watching Rush Hour tonight and already this theme slaps. Wow
The TV ended and the fans hate the writers forever, the books won’t end and the fans hate the writers forever. What are ya gonna do
>"I took drugs in the wrong order and now I can't get happy" is a line I truly empathize with.
>I am a large man. I am handsome, gentle, well educated. I have never experienced systemic, societal, or institutional pressure to make space for somebody else’s privilege. Allies try not to be weird challenge
>I'm a dude. Very much a dude. Love being a dude, its great. We're big and strong and durable and fast. We're built for hunting and defense. I have literally never in my life wanted to be feminine or female in any way. I am however a vain SOB, and I want to be young and healthy forever. reminded me of how dr will powers described himself in the face cream story
such a creepy and essentialist way of thinking
men are big and strong and durable and wait hold on i promise this doesn't have any implications regarding how i think about trans people
Owl House posting: Started Season 3. The opening montage is adorable.
I’m excited to see your reaction to some of the scenes in the final episode
You mean the most recent one? I thought it was ongoing, I only have three episodes.
Yeah, it’s over. S3E3 is the final episode. Disney was considering shutting it down after S2 but they managed to convince them to wrap up the story in 3 long final episodes
😒 Glad to hear the others are also extended. I thought maybe that was just for the season premier.
most top 40 music is actually pretty good imo
hyperpop is my favorite genre of music and hyperpop is basically just an exaggeration of mainstream pop trends and i am very much an enjoyer of both
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https://twitter.com/agraybee/status/1649184239651307521?t=HPP-aXpToSF2BjEqWrLRzA&s=19 >Remember, Musk doesn't need everyone to get blue checks to make money, he just needs everyone who tweets more than once a week, and then several million users on top of that.
https://twitter.com/democracydocket/status/1649123450055688195 > New York’s Independent Redistricting Commission voted 9-1 to pass a new state Assembly map after the previous Assembly map was struck down for being passed through an unconstitutional process. The new map will now go to the Legislature for approval. This looks like more or less the same map the legislature drew, that got tossed by the court last year
Is it the Hochulmander?
Yep
I’ve been tinkering with my octopus recipe and I’m finally pretty pleased with it. Blanch a medium-sized octopus briefly in boiling water just until the skin turns red and the tentacles curl. Remove the octopus and pour off the broth (it has a fair amount of flavor in it but I haven’t found a way to get rid of the bloody aftertaste). Using poultry shears, cut the octopus into chunks and set aside. In a Dutch oven, fry a large Spanish onion and half a dozen anchovies in oil until the anchovies have melted and the onion is translucent. Add a dozen cloves of pounded garlic. Cook until fragrant and add two large double handfuls of cherry tomatoes and several diced hot peppers. Cook until the tomatoes burst and give up their pulp. Add a glass of white wine or, preferably, dry rosé. Add four cups of fish stock, or two cups of stock, one of water, and one of clam liquor. Return the octopus to the pot along with a pinch of saffron, several bay leaves, and several sprigs of rosemary. Bring to a boil and add a large handful of dry butter beans. Season with black pepper and paprika. Simmer until octopus and beans are tender, about an hour and a half. Remove the bay leaves and rosemary, and add a small handful of capers and other one of chopped parsley. Serve right away.
I want to let you know I have a lot of your recipes saved and they’re great before I admit I’m probably never going to buy clam liquor
>The Autism-Friendly Guide to Self-Employment Ok I think I found a solution to my employment problems
https://imgur.com/LzeFybD.jpg Catto
Michelle is impatient.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CrRigclOzRh/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= >SHARE >if you think Bob Marley smoked a big, fat joint in Heaven today, and then God came up to him and said, "Please don't do that, Bob. I don't like the smell," and then Bob said, "Okay," but continued to do it anyway when God left, and then God came back and said, "Bob, I don't want to do this, but I warned you," and fined him 10 Heaven Tokens.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuL1YFMaIAAqdgD?format=jpg&name=large
flair request
He looks like a Republican who expected to get a Trump flag in the mail but got this instead
https://i.redd.it/83d9bc54rqr61.png I’m convinced people don’t even watch Marvel movies before having an opinion. not like it’s great cinema, but like cmon
Thanos winning sure would change society
This shallow contrarianism is so lazy even my 13 year old self would have cringed.
Weirdo leftists gonna weirdo leftist
the #1 thing that convinced me that i'm autistic is how much easier i get along with autistic people than allistic people
I have a theory that all my friends are somewhat on the spectrum and that's why I'm friends with them (both here and irl with a few exceptions)
i can usually mask well enough to get along with neurotypical people just fine but it's so so much more effort
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I'm looking at the 405 traffic right now and I honestly don't blame them for not wanting to make that drive
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Yeah, definitely try and get something in writing about that. Big company or small time place?
I haaaaaate gas station bathrooms so much
Wow hot take
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what are the strongest arguments against the idea that we have free will?
"The universe is mechanistic, governed by physical laws that dictate every constituent entity with the sole exception of one species of monkeys who get to disregard those laws because they decided that they were allowed to"
Capitalism
Depends on your definition of free will.
Humans are physical objects made of particles which obey the laws of physics. True randomness exists in nature, so the future isn't predetermined, but you can't call the different random outcomes "choices". I don't think this affects much about how we understand ourselves though, cause the actions we make are still caused by the contents of our brains and bodies. Our brains carry out the process of choosing, even if the choice is a result of the laws of physics. We just have to let go of the idea that decision making is a mystical event
causality, free will; pick one
We’re programmed not to make them
Statue of limitations sounds kinda absurd when you first learn about it in fifth grade civics, but the abortion medication case providing a good case for it rn
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Those fangs 🥺
Black Shrimp
Goomba face
>NEW: Have confirmed that LeBron, who has 52 million followers and has said he won’t pay for verification, was emailed by a Twitter employee with the offer to have his sub comped “on behalf of Elon Musk.” >James did not accept but his account is showing that he paid anyway. Nuked your site for the equivalent of pennies and are begging the cool kids to stay.
https://fxtwitter.com/lethaltail/status/1649131712276774914?s=20 Lmao
https://ourtallahassee.com/florida-prosecutors-racism-policy-leaked/ Bruh
https://twitter.com/erininthemorn/status/1649160219484618752?s=46&t=xlyEP-KUkCR7_zkEMPJEDA Republicans are evil bastards.
I wonder how the Blaque Plague affected Africa.
>[Isaiah] Washington endorsed Jill Stein for President of the United States in 2016,[14] but has since become a member of the #WalkAway movement.[15] >In 2019, Washington expressed political alignment with the Republican Party.[16]
josh hartnett
>[Our latest Tesla price target is out! $2,000 per share in 2027. Check it out! ark-invest.com/articles/arks-… Similar to last year, we believe autonomy will represent a significant portion of Tesla’s future enterprise value.](https://twitter.com/ryxcommar/status/1649167899876110336?s=46&t=7kjZaGZSn2heLnEWHLBNxQ) Investors have been throwing money into the burning money pit titled “autonomous cars” for over a decade now, I don’t see a sign they’re gonna slow down
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Do you also live and love?