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Leaning against coming back here now...
...because comment pages look like this. What kind of Tumblr bullshit is this? Apparently it's deliberate irritation for free users, you have to pay to see entries in the old style.
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Might start this up again
Who can say, who can say
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Old rant, rehosting here, do not read
Wrote this in 2014, at the height of "rape culture" marketing. Funny how things change, and how they don't.Q: What do you think of the male privilege of agency? What do you think of the female privilege of protection ( Read more... ) -
Selective Serotonin Retraction Enhancer
OK maybe I was trolling the audience a tiny bit there. Or myself. Mostly I found the prospect of duelling inhibitors and enhancers to be hilarious, but reality is never so neat, as several interlocutors of fine taste and discernment quite rightly commented.
In fact, while the SSRIs do inhibit serotonin reuptake, this is probably not how they ( Read more... ) -
Selective Serotonin Rewait what
The SSRIs--selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors--are a class of drugs commonly used as antidepressants. They 'work' by keeping neurons from absorbing serotonin from the synaptic cleft back into the cell, increasing the amount of available serotonin. This is good because serotonin is made of tiny pixies who want to be free, so keeping it out of ( Read more... ) -
T. Rev and Random's Guide to Lovecraftian Drinking
rfrancis informs me that this essential document from ancient days is in the process of falling off the edge of the Internet. For posterity's sake, then:
T. Rev and Random's Guide to Lovecraftian Drinking
THE CTHULHU- 1 part kahlua
- 1 part vermouth
- 1 part Yoo-Hoo
THE AZATHOTH- 9 parts ( Read more... )
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Understanding Zhuangzi
Want to write this down while it's on my mind.
Some very smart and insightful people I know have bounced off Zhuangzi with the impression that the book is full of self-contradictory nonsense. This is in some sense true, but misleading ( Read more... ) -
Rev's Law
This seems like it ought to be a well-known principle, but I can't find it set down anywhere, so I am claiming it for myself.
Rev's Law: Given sufficient inferential distance, wrong and confident is more convincing than correct and hedged. -
Goodbye Tumblr
Made a Tumblr account about a week ago.
Using Tumblr was like eating a cake and slowly realizing it had been made with spoiled eggs.
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Upside Down
On one fateful day in 1986, Army veteran Steven Down’s (Matthew Tompkins) life was turned upside down, when an assignment in Nicaragua led to his capture at the hands of a paramilitary unit who beat and tortured him within inches of his life.When Eva (Thora Birch) secretly adopts a mischievous capuchin monkey, her life turns upside down in this ( Read more... )