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Katılım Şubat 2025
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Violet
Violet@VioletFlame23·
Very annoyed by the sudden wave of anti-poly tweets/articles I've seen recently Seems like it's being pushed by the usual Baptists + Bootleggers coalition of conservative Christians & radfems (the same alliance pushing anti-trans, anti-porn, & anti-sex-work views)
tedks@_tedks

My mentor from BigTech is poly. She has a husband and a boyfriend. They all lived together at their house in Mountain View until moving to SF with their kids a few years ago. I get their holiday cards every year. I think of them every time a wave of poly hate hits the timeline.

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@janvbear @Wisteraverse "address it somehow in your story" and the story is set in a fictional historical fantasy world that has nothing to do with post-MADD (1984) US drinking laws
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Jan Bear@janvbear·
If your audience is German, then an American’s opinion on that has no value. If your audience is American, then you’ve been warned that other people will have that question, and you can address it somehow in your story. But I don’t see the point of asking someone for an opinion and then getting huffy because they don’t give you the opinion you want. You can ignore what doesn’t work. And if the beta reader isn’t helpful, get someone else. But if I’m reading to critique, and I’m constantly saying to myself, “Oh that comment doesn’t matter,” I will stop offering comments. You’ll get a clear copy of your manuscript (congratulations), but you won’t get the most of what I could offer to improve it.
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Dr. Shida Ketzer (follows back fiction writers)
Dr. Shida Ketzer (follows back fiction writers)@Wisteraverse·
An American beta-reader criticized my 18-year-old character drinking beer because they assumed it should not be allowed, despite it being high fantasy set in a fictional & historical world. Also drinking age (beer, wine) in Germany is 16. Not every place is the US!🤦‍♀️
Ruby is editing 🦊🌙 🇨🇦@RubyMTemple

So apparently there’s a lot of knowledge I can use from being Canadian and setting my story in Alberta Canada that is gonna make me seem legit. For example, the drinking age here is 18, my FMC is 19 and is surprised that she can drink at the bar (my FMC is American)

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Redfoot@LFRedfoot·
@EPM106 its a second order thing from the general failure of education to be up to the task of creating a human being who could learn it for themselves without instruction. In that failing the focus of education in retreat becomes its what it teachs where the then gaps become an issue
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Thel 🏳️‍⚧️🦌@EPM106·
in a weird spot with this because on the one hand i think it’s indicative of a larger issue in education but in a vacuum it’s not a big deal if analogue clocks fall completely out of fashion
Karabo Ntshweng@KaraboNtshweng

Schools are removing analogue clocks and replacing them with digital ones because learners can’t tell the time. Met a 21-year-old recently, asked him the time… he couldn’t answer. I’ve seen it first hand 😭

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@istewart1919 @anup_malani the bullshit theory that "addiction is a disease that overrides choice" is not taken seriously by basically any addiction expert outside of the US. it's bullshit based on protestant religious beliefs and the ideas of a 1960s cult leader
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Ian Stewart
Ian Stewart@istewart1919·
@anup_malani And Becker's theory is not taken seriously by actual experts in addiction science. It's a better example of ridiculous rational actor assumptions and economists overstepping their field than it is a useful framework for understanding addiction.
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Anup Malani
Anup Malani@anup_malani·
Why do smokers keep smoking when they know it might kill them? The standard answer: addiction is a disease that overrides choice. My advisor Gary Becker and my friend Kevin Murphy argued the opposite. Addicts are rational.
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@teachrobotslove i have the same but i got it because i was doing coke with one of my twin former best friends and we wanted to mark each other
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Autumn Christian
Autumn Christian@teachrobotslove·
Sometimes people ask about a scar on my arms and I'll just say, "cigarette burn" so I imagine they think it's the standard self harm scenario - but the truth is once a guy jokingly threatened to burn me with his cigarette on the back porch of a bar so I rolled up my sleeve and held out my arm and said, "Do it, then." I stared at him while he pressed the cigarette into my skin and waited for me to scream. Of course it hurt like hell, but I wasn't going to give him the satisfaction.
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@CColose @BDSixsmith @CathyYoung63 literally this! the same kind of idiots who would've been against gay marriage 15 years ago are not making fun of poly
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Chris Colose
Chris Colose@CColose·
@BDSixsmith @CathyYoung63 Back when marrying for love be an a thing, gay marriage became a hot topic, etc., lots of people criticized anything different and rationalized away why anyone would talk about it. Judging people’s relationship structures and romantic choices has a long history, and never works.
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@KeithNHumphreys there are actually around the same amount of non-monogamous people as there are gay people. and there are around 200 times more non-monogamous people than journalists (total) in the US
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Keith Humphreys
Keith Humphreys@KeithNHumphreys·
BREAKING: The number of journalists writing about polyamory has now surpassed the number of people engaging in it. Congratulations to all.
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Abbi.
Abbi.@hiddendragon24·
@cocoalosoxo I think SJP and those writers hated Carrie. Like all of her love interests sucked in the show and in the recent reboot. The politician was my favorite until they gave him that strange fetish.
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𝒜.@cocoalosoxo·
Rewatching Sex & The City in your 30’s will have you reanalyzing things like why would Carrie even want to marry Big after 10 years of nonsense 😭
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@Seashanty808 @OfAthenry you think somali pirates are gonna go all the way up to greenland to hijack their ships?
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@ioevno @ns123abc not much to lose by that age probably. I'd risk it
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@ns123abc Imagine having all the money you could ever need, living to 71 years of age and then...all of a sudden face the rest of your life in prison because you got caught on video peeling back serial numbers on a graphics card board with a hair dryer...caught...with a hair dryer...lmao
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NIK@ns123abc·
🚨BREAKING: SUPER MICRO CO-FOUNDER ARRESTED FOR SMUGGLING $2.5B IN NVIDIA GPUs TO CHINA >SMCI co-founder Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw arrested today >personally holds $464 MILLION in SMCI stock >charged with smuggling BILLIONS in Nvidia servers to china >used a southeast asian shell company to funnel $2.5B in servers to chinese buyers >$510 million worth shipped in just THREE WEEKS in spring 2025 >built thousands of fake dummy servers to fool U.S compliance auditors >caught on surveillance camera using a HAIR DRYER to swap serial number stickers >coordinated the whole thing over encrypted group chats >SMCI down 12% after hours >faces up to 30 years in federal prison ITS SO OVER…
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National Security Division, U.S. Dept of Justice@DOJNatSec

Three Charged with Conspiring to Unlawfully Divert Cutting Edge U.S. Artificial Intelligence Technology to China “The indictment unsealed today details alleged efforts to evade U.S. export laws through false documents, staged dummy servers to mislead inspectors, and convoluted transshipment schemes, in order to obfuscate the true destination of restricted AI technology—China,” said John A. Eisenberg, Assistant Attorney General for National Security. “These chips are the product of American ingenuity, and NSD will continue to enforce our export-control laws to protect that advantage.” 🔗: justice.gov/opa/pr/three-c…

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@iron_redux @GovernorAnne most of them, probably. elites famously don't abide by traditional sexual morality, that has always been peasant shit
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netsky remix@iron_redux·
@GovernorAnne I would love to know just how many of our elites are doing non-monogamy to the extent it has pervaded our discourse the way it has
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@ThatchEffendi damn no way, you're telling me that weird right wing geeks on twitter dot com arent successful with the ladies and their bullshit pseudointellectualism is just them rationalizing to themselves and their peers about how they're still somehow "superior" even if no one wants them?
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Alexander Thatcher
Alexander Thatcher@ThatchEffendi·
They want to have sex with the Dinergoths. It's libidinal. The whole thing. They want to have sex with the barristas of the cafes they work at in NYC and this decidedly sadder, more middle American version of those baristas is also someone they want to have sex with.
A. Bartaway🇺🇦❤️✊✌️@Bartaway

The “Dinergoth” article is a part of the bottomless genre of “I felt slighted by a particular person but I’m going to act like I’m mad at them for a profound think piece reason instead of how I’m just a goober”

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Itwasmeaustin
Itwasmeaustin@Itwasmeaustin3·
@AmanLoodu Listen man. Do you really expect us to believe this sort of opposition is basically always just straw-grasping reactionaryism, and is almost never made in good-faith or actual ?
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@DONTILLINNOYME The Diner Goth and The Clean Girl: An Analysis of The Contemporary Binary of American Youth Culture
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Boofjan Stevens
Boofjan Stevens@DONTILLINNOYME·
My contribution to diner goth is that there is a similar flat "monoculture" of empty signs and vacuous consumption within upper middle class cosmpolitan gen Zs that is equally as worthless/devoid of substance/aesthetically barren. Exemplified by aritzia
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TTI@TikTokInvestors·
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Ed Sweet
Ed Sweet@EdSweet8·
@klarnic_debt I work with a number of young adults at a big (pharma) company - people in their 20's, some college interns, others young professionals - basically upper middle class, Engineers and MBA's, etc. Many of them are married, or own small houses.
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xian qing
xian qing@klarnic_debt·
Diner goth article sells itself short, the real story is that “aging out” of adolescent subcultures became a class marker sometime in the last twenty years
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@Aella_Girl Aella if he hurts you i will find him 🤬
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Aella
Aella@Aella_Girl·
he's out of jail now. he's been out of jail for a while. I hope I don't get murdered ha ha ha
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Aella
Aella@Aella_Girl·
On the topic of sex worker rights: one time a guy tried to kidnap (and prob murder) me cause I was a sex worker. They gave him a plea deal for only 5 years (!!!). He accepted. And then when it came to final sentencing the judge was like 'actually let's just give him 18 months'.
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