I'm a disabled refugee saving up for gender-affirming surgery. It's scheduled for July, and as of this moment, I'm 2.6k short of my goal. Any donation is appreciated 🙏
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WHO says it has verified 13 attacks on health sites in Iran reut.rs/4rP5zlx
Also you all should read A Little Vice by @shadell.itch.io
It is very very very good.
Sure, let’s do this!
Like, holy shit. Obviously the Atlantic was always going to win the Who can have the worst Omelas take contest; it's an award (the only one) that The Atlantic is engineered to deserve from the ground up, but I didn't know it was so decisive or so long settled.
I realize this is years old, but I learned today that The Atlantic once wrote an article arguing that the UK is basically Omelas (Utopic monarchy, secretly built on the suffering of Prince Harry).
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
PLEASE HELP
I need to pay my rent tonight but I am 500 short because my car took a shit on me.
Please please please help me close the gap.
#mutualaid
#queer
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The trick here is that if you have the literacy of the average CEO, LLM writing may actually be indistinguishable from human!
It’s, sadly, a relatively minor bit of the 4.0 main story that wraps up immediately.
I have until July to raise 3k more, please help if you're able!
I'm pleased at punch that we're at 20% already but I definitely need to keep pushing this to be ready in early April. If you're able to help, consider tossing a bit my way to ensure I'm able to get the surgery I need and recover safely? ko-fi.com/vyriadurav/g...
9. Completely arbitrary milestones for progress that involve complex and expensive individual challenges, the doing of which will consume your life for way too long? I too took qualifying exams.
8. Small teams working together surrounded by rivals and one of your teammates randomly decides to sabotage everything for personal gain/petty malice/etc? Depends on the program, honestly, but yeah. Pretty normal for many.
7. Wait, you got embroiled in doing one of those tasks full time for weeks/months/years/decades and everyone kinda forgets this was a school setting to the point that it feels actively uncanny when you return to campus and the ‘status quo’? Yeah. That’s research.
6. You are often given strange tasks you are utterly unqualified to perform and where no one seems interested in explaining anything? Yeah, all the time. That’s research.
5. Half of the students who started with you vanish from the plot halfway through? Only half drop out?!?!?
4. Eccentric mentor who provides detailed one on one education? Yes. Is it often borderline unethical? Yeah. You improve at these things through overcoming great physical and mental adversity? Yeah. Usually.
3. Despite being students, no one attends class? Yeah. Duh.
2. Yes, the best-regarded will randomly be assigned to travel halfway across the world for no clear reason on short notice to compete in very public arenas where you must be constantly wary. We call those conferences.
1. Like, yes, at least one professor in your department is evil. They do prey on students, all the students do know near-immediately and the institution will do nothing to change this. Ever.
Battle school is a dumb genre, but it is a remarkably less dumb genre if you shift it to a PhD from high school.
Consider:
tl;dr it looks like Amazon is demonetizing erotica (not just queer erotica, even cishet ones like 50 Shades, but F/F ones seem to be especially targeted even if not erotica) from their *affiliate program*, which is not a great sign.
iheartsapphfic.com/2026/02/17/h...
TBH, if you're curious, wait a few weeks then try to find the 4.0 story section on Youtube.
Yes.
The main story antagonist is very definitely trying to force fem people as part of their broader plot.
Did not expect a force fem plot from HSR, but I guess here we are.
Cover image for "To Own the Libs" by Zoe Storm. A young woman with red hair looks at her reflection in a shattered mirror on a wall.
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It’s great tbh. If you like quieter character dramas, this one is memorably good so far.
Scene from Journal with Witch, a currently airing anime featuring Makio, an adult, looking through her DVD collection and saying "I'm not sure if you'll like it," as she selects a DVD to give to one of her ward's friends.
Same as before, but handing the girl the dvd saying "I may be completely off the mark, but here."
Screen now showing that the DVD is of Fried Green Tomatoes, with Makio explaining "No matter who you fall in love with, or who you don't..."
"This teenager gives me gay vibes. Hey girl, try watching Fried Green Tomatoes" is a scene of all time.
