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aspen ✨ || they/them || spoonie 😴 || tkd 1st dan 🥋 || linguistics, spanish, arabic, & education & social justice 📚

[a 🌱 @smolaspen]

hm. have been wanting to ~ officially ~ say this for a while, and now feels like as good a time as any! so hi. my name is Aspen. i'm nonbinary and my pronouns are they/them 🏳️‍⚧️💛🤍💜🖤

[madiiiii ⋆.˚⟡ ࣪ ˖ @madsdanae]

everyone wants a baddie until she opens her mouth and starts talking about how American imperialism is perpetuated by both parties

[Mark MacKillop @mark_mackillop]

THEIRS?!?! #nonbinary

[ᴘᴏᴛᴀᴛᴜᴍ @pot8um]

at the risk of being called "dumb" again for "not understanding" taylor's ai use, why are we running futile experiments on planet-broiling nightmare machines when the search bar and letters "hex code finder" are rigHT THERE

it's already been determined that GenAI sucks 50 flavors of ass. posting shit like this with a huge platform just emboldens people to run their own little bullshit experiments, hence the incoming 200° summers.

so can we please! just! not!

[delanie @redwinebrina]

when people ask why i’m gay i pull out this picture of chappell

[Clean Air Dyke @FullLaneFemme]

**SCREAMS**

[ᴘᴏᴛᴀᴛᴜᴍ @pot8um]

unfortunately i'm not being hyperbolic when i say we're sacrificing our kids to a virus proven to have numerous severe incurable long-term health consequences

death is far from the only outcome of a covid infection but y'all don't care at all

for fuck's sake, people

[『sam』mostly ia 📌 @s1sterdaniel]

this is basically the phandom in a screenshot

[san ✵ @kyung_smol]

If I was doing a degree in linguistics I would do my thesis on how Dan and Phil's accents have converged as a case study. The crazy part is we have so many audio samples of both before and after they started living together so it would be such good data

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

If you play Dungeons & Dragons, this object probably stops you in your tracks. It looks exactly like the "d20" you’d roll for a critical hit in a Saturday night gaming session. But this isn't a modern plastic prop. It’s nearly 2,000 years old, made of faience—a crushed quartz ceramic that (in certain techniques) self-glazes to create that vivid turquoise color.⁣
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While the Romans loved gambling with six-sided bone dice, this specific icosahedron was likely a tool for something much more serious: divination.⁣
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In the Roman world, people used "alphabet oracles" to solve their problems. This was essentially an ancient Magic 8-Ball. The system was simple: you would roll a die or draw a letter lot, note the Greek letter that landed face up, and then consult a public inscription or a guidebook to read your fortune. Each letter corresponded to a specific verse.⁣
One famous key to these letter-oracles, carved on a pillar in Olympos (modern Turkey), lists a prophecy for each letter. For instance, if you rolled or drew an Alpha (Α), the text reassured you: "The God says you will do everything successfully." But if you rolled or drew a Zeta (Ζ), the advice was grim: "Flee the very great storm, lest you be disabled in some way."⁣

[salem ⍳ void ☿ ⌜angelbear⌟ @tfempinkiepie]

one really frustrating thing about being immunocompromised in a never ending pandemic is that if ppl would just wear a mask in grocery stores + doctors offices I could attend shows + fun events. but bc most are doing neither guess which one I have to do, & which I have to forsake

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

A $20 box of KN95s can keep you and your family off of GoFundMe trying to pass around a collection plate to pay for your $75,000 ventilator that your insurance doesn’t cover and the weeklong hospital stay that will bankrupt your entire family

[ᴘᴏᴛᴀᴛᴜᴍ @pot8um]

If your first response to learning about the longterm effects of covid is "so how long are we supposed to mask?", you're emotionally stuck in 2019 and haven't yet made it past the foot-stomping "but it's not fair!" phase.

we get it, pandemics are unfair. but that's not the fault of anyone who's trying to warn your stubborn ass about it. grow the hell up and pay the fuck attention.

[Masked Rogue 😷 🇵🇸 @unMaskedRogue]

If your friend is masking around you but you’re not masking around them, you’re not a very good friend. They shouldn’t even have to ask. You know better.

[victoria ♀️ @fatfabfeminist]

I will say when you are never ever allowed to criticize an artist for fear of offending their fan base and them trying to ruin ur life, then you can’t be shocked when the content they put out is mediocre bc there’s no challenge and they know that they’ll profit regardless

[mimi ⸆⸉ ❤️‍🔥 @watchinwisteria]

Taylor Swift using generative AI to create videos after being staunchly for artists owning the right to their own work is the most hyprocritical/tone deaf thing ive seen her do in a LONG time.

[abe @stubbornsticks]

i feel comfortable saying this is one of the most fucking disgusting and anti-art practices any artist could make and it’s terrible that the one doing it is one of the most popular artists in the world. the utter greediness is just shameful. this should shouldn’t be acceptable.