Algae - any/all

Algae - any/all

@algae-x.bsky.social

Geek connoisseur, amateur philosopher and creator of #SexyShelob. -Queer mess -Theistic Humanist

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Algae - any/all reposted

Re: Dawkins, it’s long past time for us to admit that “New Atheism” was always a way to launder reactionary bigotry into ostensibly progressive guise. Listening to the New Atheists talk about religion is like if I read one Stephen Hawking book and proclaimed myself a physicist.

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social

every now & then someone on the anti-trans side will get cold feet about how openly ugly it's all getting—they want to keep the image of a nice, sensible centrist but it's never enough for them to get off the train

Algae - any/all reposted

every now & then someone on the anti-trans side will get cold feet about how openly ugly it's all getting—they want to keep the image of a nice, sensible centrist but it's never enough for them to get off the train

Algae - any/all reposted

It's kind of bleakly funny how Lady Macbeth's entire character arc amounts to: 1: "I am a badass ruthless girlboss who can do murder as well a baby man! Are you a pussy?!" 2: "Oh dear, murder is hard." 3: "Actually murder is awful and I'm going mad with guilt, I wasn't badass at all." 4: *dies*

Imagine how fucking awful it would be to have the type of immortality where you don't age or get sick but can still be killed by conventional injuries? You'd spend eons having constant panic-attacks about when the statistically inevitable space-bus is gonna run you over.

HAAAAAAAAA!

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Conservative parents are now lamenting that the anti-trans ad blitz is teaching their children that transgender people exist. "We're practically talking the very things we don't want into existence." Read the reddit post and our story on it here. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Ngl. he should have let it all burn.

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Algae - any/all reposted

literally this comic except he apparently lives in Czechia instead of Nebraska

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

All Western Pop Culture basically...

Algae - any/all@algae-x.bsky.social

>at the Eastern philosophy store >ask the clerk if the Eastern philosophy is Zoroastrian dualism or Taoism >she laughs and says "it's a good Eastern philosophy, sir" >accepts offer >it's Zoroastrian dualism

>at the Eastern philosophy store >ask the clerk if the Eastern philosophy is Zoroastrian dualism or Taoism >she laughs and says "it's a good Eastern philosophy, sir" >accepts offer >it's Zoroastrian dualism

Algae - any/all reposted

I’m in my late 50s. I’m really glad we’re having discussions around consent. I don’t think resistance to it is about age. And of course it isn’t just about sex: if you don’t want me to boop your nose, I’ll be sure not to boop your nose Imagine continuing to boop…To make *yourself* comfortable?

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if Peadar Tóibín is suggesting that children need to get used to being touched without their consent, he should be asked why

The Journal@thejournal.ie

Adverts run by the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre looking at consensual hugs between children and their grandparents has been suspended after criticism. Aontú's Peader Tóibín called the ad "bonkers", as he urged a "need to build resilience" among children. www.thejournal.ie/grandparents...

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The popular monsters of the era reflect the cultural zeitgeist. In the 2000s, it was zombies. In the 2010s, it was vampires. And now, it's women!

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com

Nikki from OBSESSION joins FORTNITE tomorrow. You wished for this...

Please help if you can.

Micheeel@micheeel.bsky.social

I beg you to hear our cry for help. I am exhausted; I lost my husband and everything else. I am now homeless with my young daughter, suffering from severe malnutrition, and I have an injury to my leg. Plz,help us by providing a tent and food for my daughter😭🙏 Molly Shah ✅ chuffed.org/project/1730...

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ive come to realize that everyone trying to make stars wars anything has missed the point that it was always ever about "weird little dudes making weird little sounds"

it’s ben@yotsuben.bsky.social

you know, the voice actor for Biddy Blas has gotta be having the time of their life lmao

Please help if you can.

Cåråbine à Citron 🍋@carabinacitron.eurosky.social

Hammam’s voice from Gaza I swear to God, we are eating tree leaves. We are hungry & homeless ,living on dirty sand & diseases have afflicted us. My mother suffers from asthma & my brother suffers from epilepsy. They need treatment. Please help us to get food & medication chuffed.org/project/1844...

Literal thoughtcrime

LC von Hessen 𓆙 💀@lcvonhessen.bsky.social

So the "advice" doled out in this column makes me INCREDIBLY fucking angry as a former kid who was repeatedly taken to task by teachers for "inappropriate" drawings, culminating in a 9th-grade suspension spurred by Columbine paranoia and residual Satanic Panic. Arionne here says that was JUSTIFIED.

Algae - any/all reposted

All true, but on the other hand: ✅ Less likely to get killed by a cop ✅ Less likely to get killed by an incel with an AR-15 ✅ Less likely to get killed by an asshole in a giant truck ✅ Less likely to get killed by a wildfire ✅ Less likely to get killed by random stuff I bought at the grocery store

WIRED@wired.com

The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn’t free, and people can be really mean.

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I love hanging out with my parents because they are great parents: have these parents considered trying “not being terrible parents”

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

If we had the tech to colonize Mars, we wouldn't need to.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social

The greatest challenge of our time isn’t to figure out how to get to Mars or become interstellar, but to figure out how to live sustainably on Earth.

Algae - any/all reposted

The greatest challenge of our time isn’t to figure out how to get to Mars or become interstellar, but to figure out how to live sustainably on Earth.