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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Ben’s heart is in the right place. But he is an idiot.

    I know he doesn’t bill himself as a journalist, but I was taught to not make someone else’s story about yourself. Once he inserted himself into the mix and started doing antics he crossed a line, imo, and his legal troubles got magnified and he arguably made the legal issues for the Mansell’s worse.

    The video where AFPD is fucking with him and he gets arrested and then talks to the detective instead of lawyering up immediately had me shouting at the screen. Don’t talk to the cops, people. Never talk to the cops, jfc.

    I know lawyers are unpopular and expensive, but this is actually a case that needed them.


  • TipRing@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldPride month
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    1 month ago

    Certainly coming as no surprise to any queer person over the age of, say, 35 or so. Old enough to remember when gays were social pariahs and our only sponsors were like lube companies and condom manufacturers. Then as it became less acceptable to shit on LGBT people companies started ‘supporting’ pride. Bravely speaking out only once it risked nothing. And predictably when the fascists decide to punish companies for providing their support all these ‘trailblazers’ muzzle themselves with the least surprising amount of alacrity. They were never allies and never interested in anything but our dollars. Fuck the lot of them. We can see who our friends are.



  • TipRing@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldSay it ain't so
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    I grew up with a computer in the 80s and for years i would stare at the keyboard while mentally keeping track of what I was typing.

    I took keyboarding in middle school and learned to touch type but it took years of practice to break the habits I formed as a child.

    Now I’ll be typing something and my husband will walk in so I’ll pause and look over to see what he needs. One time he said “don’t stop on my account” so I started typing again while staring at him.

    I can hold a full conversation while doing this but have to slow down to around 60wpm to avoid transcribing the conversation.









  • TipRing@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    It’s been decades since I’ve read it, so I wasn’t sure if I remembered that part correctly or I would have mentioned it. I recall another part where one of the princes gets raped that was really messed up as well. And just a lot of rape in general in that book that I thought was gross. I recall really being disturbed by it more than I was by The Clan of the Cave Bear because the latter presented the rape of Ayla (as a child) in an intentionally gross, traumatic and disturbing way, while Anne Rice wrote the rape of Beauty in an erotic way.

    Anyway, both books frequent banned books lists. I read many banned books during my time at the bookstore.