Just this guy, you know?

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Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

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It's extremely important to know that many period tracker apps are created and run by evangelical extremist anti-abortion groups as an attempt to eliminate birth control use and there's every likelihood they'll utilize data from these apps to help prosecute people who get abortions.

Aaron Schwartz committed suicide because interrogators convinced him he would spend decades in prison for copyright violations.

Penalties can be up to five years and fines of up to $250,000 per offense.

Push that on executives who approve large scale infringement because they think it’s cheaper.

I feel like “problematic” is for when someone has like old tweets fat-shaming Adele, you can call him a pedophile

The Klunker car on the ice in Wisconsin, which inspired its counterpart in American Gods, didn't go out on the ice this year. For the first time since they started doing it, decades ago. There wasn't enough ice. volumeone.org/sites/menomo...

Non-profit rebranding Jesus for Gen Z also funds hate group The Servant Foundation, known for its He Gets Us ad campaign, is the main funder for Alliance Defending Freedom

Your reminder the organization behind those Christian "He Gets Us" ads you'll see during the Super Bowl also gives tens of millions of dollars to the Alliance Defending Freedom, the far-right lawyers who overturned Roe and write most of the anti-trans laws in the country

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Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato

the gradual replacement of “exchanging money for goods” with “exchanging money for a license to use goods as a service” has been one low key one of the worst changes of the 21st century

Scoop: Inside the Biden White House's aggressive back-to-office push The White House chief of staff wants to inject more urgency into the effort.

Remote work has made employment more accessible than ever, and increased the number of disabled people with jobs.

Working from home can also cut the carbon footprint of employees in half.

Forcing people back to the office goes against workers' rights, disability justice, and climate justice.

If you cannot make money on the most entertaining animation of the medium's entire history you are probably very bad at your job.

Love Factory Showroom but Apollo 18 has to be my favorite. Strong nostalgic vibes on top of being a great album.

Reminder that if you see disturbing or traumatic images, playing Tetris as soon as possible afterwards can help the brain cleanse itself, and lessen the impacts of it longer term.

No, I'm not kidding. And no one knows how or why it works. But it DOES work, and I encourage you to remember it.

20 years ago.

There is no justification for this. None.

I was a poor kid, and every year my mom would give me enough money for one faire book. You’d have thought it was all the gold in the world, it was so special to me, getting to choose a new book. They’re now ruining the warm fuzzy feeling I’ve always had for the Scholastic book faire

Wait you're saying not every idea I have off the top of my head to fix the writer's draft isn't pure solid gold?!

I am, for one, very offensed.

...ok, you might have a point.

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I love this Radiohead song

Fair enough. There's a lot of stuff I enjoyed in the time 15+ years ago that I look at now and give serious side-eye and wonder why it didn't set off more alarms when I read it back then. But we all live and learn and grow, I suppose. Or at least, we try.

I stopped after Serpentwar. Anything in later books I'm ignorant of. While I found quality to decline through what I read, I didn't find anything fundamentally offensive. Just wondered. While not perfect, I've a strong nostalgic tie to the Riftwar and wondered if I'd missed something egregious. TY.

Sorry I'm sort of reaching back on a two-week old post, but may I ask what you found problematic about Feist? I can see allegations of his work being derivative and tropey, but - at least as far as Riftwar is concerned - I remember nothing warranting comparison to Goodkind's Rayndian fetishism.

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Told myself that I didn't need them until the last minute, but nah. I'm gettin' them.

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Intermission of my work day.

Article showing BioWare firing contractors who unionized.

Fuck BioWare.

Screenshot of a NYT article by David French titled "The Hidden Moral Injury of 'OK Boomer'"

tell you what, David, call me to complain about this when people under 40 can afford a place to live and the planet isn't burning to death, ok?

Screenshot of fox business story with first three words of the headline crossed out. ECONOMY • Updated on October 2, 2023 11:45am EDT UAW Strike against Ford, GM, Stellantis cost US economy nearly $4B so far Labor union's strike against Detroit's Big Three enters third week as losses mount By Breck Dumas | FOXBusiness It now reads: “Ford, GM, Stellantis cost US economy nearly $4B so far”

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