Aesthetically Pleased

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I love books, queer culture, musical theatre, comics, and am occasionally brave enough to write.

Obsessed with rainbow-coloured things.

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I wanted rather badly to try to actually write a novel this November, but instead my mental capacity is roughly able to manage texting 1.5 people a day, reading one book every 2 months, answering 2 vague questions a day, and occasionally half-pretending to be someone else (in a TTRPG way).

So am I jealous of all the NaNoWriMo authors gnashing their teeth in my feed, and wailing about how reality is meaningless and it's all about The Daily Count Of The Words?

...yes, yes I am.

Because these billboards are just monitors rotated 90 degrees, they’re invisible to polarized sunglasses. It’s like a real-life ad blocker!
My doctor says it’s not depression, it’s a “remarkably accurate world-view”
I recently updated my name on Linkdin. This was a good decision

So there's a certain mindset I've begun to notice in vegans on some forums. (I know vegans IRL and this isn't all vegans, please don't attack me for slander.) There's this dichotomy of:

-Killing animals is WRONG and EVIL under ALL circumstances;
-Humans that kill animals deserve death.

And I don't really grasp how the second point isn't ALSO killing an animal? Is it different because humans are able to make moral judgements? Someone help me here.

#vegan #noimnotvegan #imtaggingtosendupthe #veganbatsignal

"The problem with these chat AIs is that they give an answer, but there's no guarantee it's true."
"Yes. So I developed one that always tells the truth. Try it."
- Who killed JFK?
- I don't know.
"I guess that's true."
- What is 1+1?
- I don't know.
- What do you know?
- Nothing.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

ABSURD POLITICS

It was *the* picture from #CrossBorderRail 2022 - the bridge across the Neiße between Zgorzelec 🇵🇱 and Görlitz 🇩🇪. The countries agreed to electrify this line in 2003. Poland did its job - and electrified to the middle of the bridge (pictured), but Germany… well nothing has happened!

And that’s why #CrossBorderRail matters as a project - to highlight things like this!

/ends

❌ Eli Lilly lowers the cost of insulin in U.S.
✅ Eli Lilly reluctantly complies with Democratic law that caps out-of-pocket cost of insulin

Eli Lilly is a global corporation that actively participates and defends its role in the insulin oligopoly. Eli Lilly isn't capping the cost of jack squat. Eli Lilly was forced to stop exploiting patients- that's the story, and the headline. Do better, editors.

#insulin

Just finished up The Globe, a beautiful set that manages to surprise me with the fact it SPINS. I hadn’t even realised it does that. #lego #boardgames #tabletop #afol