Celene is in Seattle!

@goblinodds @FireEyes66 @Romy_Holland Oh no

@FireEyes66 @Romy_Holland giving @toasterlighting ideas for next year's manifest

one time i had a tow truck driver who told me he was formerly a WWE wrestler whose schtick was stapling ppl with a staple gun. he said it looked really fucked up but that it actually only caused minor flesh wounds and that he’d mostly staple their backs, which doesn’t hurt much.

@ApriiSR @Eelektrossfan "Frisk should be referred to as themselves" would be a hilarious take

@Eelektrossfan i think deltarune has a singular "themselves" in it personally i firmly believe that the correct standard is that "themself/themselves" should work exactly like "yourself/yourselves"

Cis guy toby ‘radiation’ fox surprises audience by speaking pretty fluent they/them singular pronouns in 2015

@AnniePosting There is no justice

every few months an mf posts about getting banned from somewhere for no reason and then I look at their profile and the reason is they're supposed to be in middle school

@toasterlighting thats pretty cool someone should pay you for that

well! it looks like i am the new explainxkcd now

@princess_worms already exists explainsmbc.com

@toasterlighting so when are you going to make explainsmbc

@princess_worms yeah it's kind of crazy

@toasterlighting me now whenever i visit explainxkcd: "that's oomf!"

funnily enough i have never done sysadmin work before now and this is a hell of an undertaking for someone's first sysadmin experience

luckily i figured out a good way to block impolite bots (even if they're a botnet with residential ips) without blocking polite bots

i should've realized this was going to be my fate

I am in Seattle btw if anybody wants to hang out

"I sure hope this doesn't have unforeseen lifelong consequences" thought the adolescent, doing their best to poison their brain into the higher social approval probability shape

@ohabryka @NathanpmYoung @GiveWell That makes sense, thanks

@toasterlighting @NathanpmYoung @GiveWell She spent a huge amount of money on pretty crazy and radicalized advocacy groups. A few things I remembered was a bunch of pretty radical tenant-rights stuff, a bunch of labor rights advocacy, a huge pile of pretty radicalized social justice advocacy, etc.

Comparing McKenzie Scott’s giving to if the money had gone to @GiveWell. Her donations bought about 1500x less improvement per $ than the marginal GiveWell $

@ohabryka @NathanpmYoung @GiveWell I'm unfamiliar with her donations; why have they caused net harm?

@NathanpmYoung @GiveWell I am confused, it seems very unlikely from my perspective for her donations to not have caused enormous amount of net harm. How does this calculation arrive at a positive number at all?

@xsphi you may have the courage to blame supply, but do you have the courage to blame demand?

I'm not like other girls. I think anthropic's erratic product decisions are bad *because* they make everyone mad, which worsens the companies longterm prospects as a respected voice in norms and policy

@agitbackprop @transkatgirl In my defense it was very entertaining

@transkatgirl can't tell if this is some double reverse psychology thing

when i say “do whatever you want with my body~”, my expectation is cuddles and sex, not playing with me as if i’m a ragdoll in a fucking video game

@ApriiSR @YosarianTwo I think it's less morally wrong than eating animals probably but still somewhat

...i am not sure i think this is morally wrong rather than disgusting and distressing. like come on we can have multiple different categories here

The fundamental problem with divine command theory of morality is that even if tomorrow you discovered that the Bible explicitly says it's OK to fuck roadkill, you still wouldn't feel good about it, right? (Also can we please use a less weird example in this discorse?)

@ApriiSR @flowflow_2slow - toby self insert - pirate - green ????

@flowflow_2slow i can't tell if i should think this has deep ralsei lore implications or not. this being the origin of ralsei is surely going to at least be like, vaguely thematically resonant?

Plot twist: Ralsei is Toby's transfem self-insert he's been cooking up for 14 years and Toby will come out one day after chapter 7 featuring the Ralsei coming out scene

I have enough followers now that it might actually work for me to ask here—does anyone have or know of a place I could crash in New York for the first week of August?