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Sorry, my what? My pronouns? Oh, yeah I'm between genders at the moment. No, it's cool, I quit my last gender a little while ago because it really wasn't working out. I don't know if I even have a dream gender anymore.

Oh yeah, it did come with benefits, but they weren't really worth it. The culture was really toxic. To be honest I think I'd prefer a part-time gender so I can just be self-described in my spare time.

I mean, in a perfect world we wouldn't need gender, you know? We could just voluntarily be perceived as much as we're able, as much as makes us feel fulfilled. Having a full-time gender shouldn't be a prerequisite for food, shelter, and healthcare.

once I snorted a fat line of nuance and everything started depending. watch out

I’m genuinely surprised at the lack of Internet based AUs on this site so I came up with some

“lets think of AU’s together AU”

oh my GOD

I’ve been told to post about my niche stuff so:

Today I’ve been updating my Liaden Universe Index. It’s like, a concordance. For finding everything in the Liaden Universe series. (We’re at 27 novels and 6 story collections.)

The short story collection Liaden Universe Constellation Volume 6 came out in May and I’m finally reading it and entering it into the spreadsheets (note: almost every sheet has multiple tabs. You can scroll through them at the bottom).

Books: contains a list of all the books and their chapters. For the Constellations this is especially handy because I have a list of which short story is where in the six volumes.

Characters: a list of all the characters, by book. Really handy when I remember a scene with a side character but can’t remember which book it was in. (Major characters each have their own spreadsheet listing their scenes sorted by book.)

Locations: a list of all the places, by book. Really handy when I want to check if the place name is spelled right.

Timeline: This is everyone else’s favourite. Based on the timeline the authors made over 20 years ago, I’ve slotted in all the new books and stories since then in my best guess of the order they happened in Universe.

Yes, this was a covid project. Yes, I’m autistic.

Enjoy!

YES HELLO THANK YOU FOR SHARING I AM THE TARGET AUDIENCE FOR THIS NICHE STUFF AND I LOVE IT WITH ALL MY HEART

Yayyyyyyy I’m so glad you found it/it found you!!!

"History's greatest thinkers… with AI"

Everyone go watch The Court Jester (1955) right now. You can thank me later

getting kicked off love island for just swimming in the pool and not talking to anyone

So fun fact from when I worked on multiple reality shows, names redacted for NDA purposes.

Gay people are INCREDIBLY ANNOYING for production when they are on reality shows cause they always do shit like this. Reality shows pick their cast specifically for people who will create drama, so it tracks that bringing in some gay people (in the era that I worked, 2013-2018, this was considered to be new and interesting) would diversify people enough to create some conflict. To a degree, this was true.

But what actually happened was that the gay person, or worse, people, would end up estranged from the other people because Straight People Who Are Fucking Nuts in a way that would be ideal for a reality show are very different from Gay People Who Are Fucking Nuts.

There's one particular instance I remember in which our Gay Person tm wasn't getting into drama and no one could figure out why. Any time anything happened it would just defuse almost instantly. Eventually we prodded during a solo interview and one of the guys said something along the lines of "Mayn gay marriage just got legalized n shit if I yell at this guy I'm being a homophobe". This meant that our gay was COASTING along in this reality show cause no one would vote him out!!

But you know what the PINNACLE of this was?

DATING SHOWS.

One... Very popular dating show I worked on (you know the one) has an unofficial, unwritten rule: you can only have 1 queer woman in the cast of ladies. This is because for a solid few years, if ever there were two bisexual women in the show, they would ALWAYS abandon the man and run off together instead. You can't have contestants saying shit like "this guy has no personality and sucks ass. I prefer this girl I met who actually listens to me". Like this was an actual epidemic in the casting. It happened over and over for YEARS and they couldn't find a way to stop it without literally separating the women from each other, which obviously wouldn't be good for the show. They also couldn't show this was happening because that. Uh. Would be pretty bad to reveal to audiences.

Eventually they just decided to subtly prod and see if women who were going on the show were gay and then avoid having two on the same season at the same time. To my knowledge they still do it this way.

Anyways the summary is that gay people are fucking crazy in a way that heterosexual tv just does not know how to handle

I love(hate) how their first solution was to be blatantly biphobic

instead of getting men that don't suck

Here's a little video of my cord tool or "cordsmith". This one has 3 latch hooks with a polymer clay handle. I happened to have glow in the dark clay when I was making these, so the light part of the marbling glows 😂

I actually have three of these, with 2, 3 and 4 hooks. I don't have the 4 hook one with me right now, but here's a photo of the other two

the german word for villain, Bösewicht, is so great. like not only are you evil, you're also some sort of gnome about it

there was a great study a few years that went into the whole "ppl online are bigger jerks than irl cuz theres a virtual wall and no repercussions" and the researchers were expecting to see that be the case but it turns out that people who were really angry or argumentative online were also found to just be assholes in person and people who were pretty patient and nice online were found to be patient and nice in real person as well

and it just debunked that whole cynical idea that people will naturally be mean if theres no punishment for it

source another source

the researchers found that being online didnt make people more hostile, but that being online allowed already hostile people to dominate forum conversations, and the less aggressive people were much less likely to reply or engage, ending in just the aggressive people bickering at eachother

Thereby disproving Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.

Never Learned - Gator Days

...the alt text?

whenever someone calls me and says they're from my bank or car loan company or whatever and asks me security questions, I always tell them "excuse me, you called me, how can you prove who you are" and every single time they act like it's the first time anyone's ever asked that, which absolutely boggles my mind. for the love of fuck please do not answer "security questions" when you didn't initiate the call, at least without making them answer a few first

Never give them your info!

I agree, never give your info in a call you didn't initiate. Phone numbers can be spoofed. They may actually sound like your bank or credit card company.

If you receive a call, hang up and call back using the phone number on their website. Explain that you received a call about X and if it's legit, they'll be able to tell you so. They're also not usually going to get mad if you say "I'm going to hang up and call you back." Scams will though. Because you won't be calling THEM back, you'll be alerting the bank someone is committing fraud in their name. So they'll get urgent about it. Ignore them and hang up. Call back on an actual line.