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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 3h

The joyless edgelords of the left always have and always will miss the point:

The world, humanity, life: those things are worth fighting for so that they can be enjoyed.

Kill that of you which cringes, mute or block those who would tell you to kill your hope, and dance, motherfucker, dance.

I became alive once more. At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha, a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. Certainly not with such reckless abandon, anyway. It was undignified for one who was on the way to become a force in the anarchist movement. My frivolity would only hurt the Cause.

I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I told him to mind his own business. I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. "I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things." Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal

Emma Goldman, Living My Life

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The Impossible Dream @transladyknight.bsky.social · 2h

(It was a shitpost about how Charles Guiteau, guy who killed President Garfield, was at a free love commune but nobody would have sex with him and they named him Charles Gitout they hated him so much)

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 1d

Please help Mahmoud and his daughter

gofund.me/1d6d0c8b0

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 6h

Please help if you can

chuffed.org/project/1426...

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The Impossible Dream @transladyknight.bsky.social · 16h

The Impossible Dream
I’ll Make a Man Out of You
Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
Holy Diver

Lily Alexandre @lily-is.online · 18h

deadly serious question for transgender women: what are your go-to karaoke songs

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The Impossible Dream @transladyknight.bsky.social · 1d

In all my years playing DnD and pathfinder, the only people playing devil-worshipping slavers were right wing assholes

Dan Arndt Is Budgeting For PAXU @danarndtwrites.bsky.social · 1d

D&D is satanic again let's go

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The Impossible Dream @transladyknight.bsky.social · 1d

Consider this example in other areas of your life as well. Games can be great teachers!

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The Impossible Dream @transladyknight.bsky.social · 1d

Thus, when considering the capabilities of a powerful and versatile opponent, it’s worthwhile to always ask how many things they are capable of *at one time*. As someone who has fought a lot of wizards and played with them, it’s often a lot less than you think

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The Impossible Dream @transladyknight.bsky.social · 1d

In discussions though, this distinction is often lost. Any potential threat can be disputed because “oh I just prepare air bubble that day” or “wall of force makes that irrelevant” and so forth. While each of these facts is true in isolation, their predictive power is weak

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The Impossible Dream @transladyknight.bsky.social · 1d

That may seem like a minor distinction, but it’s an important one when talking about what could threaten a wizard. There is a wide gap between their theoretical capability and what they are actually capable of doing at any moment

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The Impossible Dream @transladyknight.bsky.social · 1d

Because the wizard spell list is massive and includes spells anywhere from flavoring and coloring objects to genie wishes, they can theoretically do just everything at any time. But, and this is important, they can’t do *everything* *all the time*

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The Impossible Dream @transladyknight.bsky.social · 1d

When discussing class balance in DnD, one of the most common mistakes people make is the Schrödinger’s Wizard. Basically, the wizard can have a massive list of spells in their spellbook, but they can only actually prepare and be able to use a certain number each day

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The Impossible Dream @transladyknight.bsky.social · 1d

Save me, that fried chicken at Popeyes, you are my only hope

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The Impossible Dream @transladyknight.bsky.social · 1d

My argument would more be that reality exhibits qualities and we associate with simulation and the hand of a writer because—consciously or not—people primarily communicate and understand the world through narratives, and this reproduces their qualities

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chelsea bridge 🏳️‍⚧️ @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 1d

1. do not interact. they want you to engage. that is how they spread their shit. deny them oxygen.
2. block & move on:

eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 1d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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The Impossible Dream @transladyknight.bsky.social · 2d

Ian McKellan is a great actor for many reasons, but one of the most under-appreciated is how he plays every character as gay whether he’s “supposed to” or not

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The Impossible Dream @transladyknight.bsky.social · 2d

I’m a millennial lesbian and I followed for the good politics posting so you may have our demographic covered already

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The Impossible Dream @transladyknight.bsky.social · 2d

I was just saying to Jess that basically every dangerous boy and normal girl hetslop YA is just chasing the high of seeing the birthday invitation and thinking it’s the coolest most dramatic thing ever

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The Impossible Dream @transladyknight.bsky.social · 2d

(The origin of this conversation was whether Frankenstein could become a vampire by getting bitten. I have already admitted defeat on the point that it would be more interesting thematically for it to work as it would for any human)

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 2d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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The Impossible Dream @transladyknight.bsky.social · 2d

One of my beliefs is that humans are not inherently evil, but inherently tend to fall into laziness and inertia, which is what tends to lead to evil in practice

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The Impossible Dream @transladyknight.bsky.social · 2d

War of the Monsters!

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disvain @disvain.bsky.social · Jun 17

I'VE FOUND IT AT LAST

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The Impossible Dream @transladyknight.bsky.social · 3d

Often thinking of Yeats’ “the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity”

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The Impossible Dream @transladyknight.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like our current moment has a definite lack of vision and ambition from anyone but the people least qualified for both

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