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Ciderpunk

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  • What is your favorite kind of fidget toy/stim toy?

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  • I’m not sure what they are called but the spiky sensory finger rings are my go to for if I have to be out in public. They are subtle enough that people don’t seem to really notice and don’t get really get a lot of attention for it.

    At home I’m a big fan of all the squishy gel cubes and things like that. I have a whole bunch of them at various firmnesses at textures. They unfortunately like to break so I go through them quicker than I’d like.

  • Anyone feeling like this?

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  • I know some people say it as a joke, but the whole “my pronouns are ‘none’” thing really resonates with me because ideally to me, no one would refer to me at all. I get really uncomfortable when people remember facts about me, it just feels really weird. So thinking that people might talk about me when I’m not around is discomforting too.

  • Is this true for you?

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  • Yeah I’ve been getting shit my entire life for the fact that things like making a phone call or responding to a text message are insurmountable tasks for me, but I can tell you exactly what’s wrong with your car’s engine just by listening to it for a minute or two…

  • A wild downtown Minneapolis moment unfolds as a protester in a giant foam middle finger costume zooms away on a rolling office chair while ICE agents sprint after

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  • Would it be motivational to tell you to be the change you want to see in the world?

  • A wild downtown Minneapolis moment unfolds as a protester in a giant foam middle finger costume zooms away on a rolling office chair while ICE agents sprint after

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  • Who here is a bit different?

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  • I’m like, 2 peoples cup of tea. But I’d die for either of them and they’d do the same for me, and that’s all I really need tbh.

  • Danish Official Says No Breakthrough in Talks With US as Trump Intent on 'Conquering' Greenland | Common Dreams

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  • Canada.

    Canada is America’s Austria in this analogy. And Canada isn’t far off from potentially electing a government that would help, kinda like Austria did…

  • Is this you?

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  • I’m in this picture and I don’t like it have made peace with the fact that this will always be me.

  • Propaganda is a powerful thing, it is unfortunate so many believe the empire's.

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  • My guy, every definition of genocide is predicated on intentionality. Look it up.

    You can argue this all you want, but when does something become intentional when you know about it and do not act to stop it? The Soviets at best knew people were dying and did nothing. Is that affirmation of the outcome, and therefore intentionality?

    I knew you wouldn’t be able to resist biting the Xinjiang bait, but nice try citing a historical policy that is no longer in effect that has nothing to do with the very present low birth-rate situation.

  • Propaganda is a powerful thing, it is unfortunate so many believe the empire's.

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  • My guy, Douglas Tottle’s central thesis wasn’t that the genocide didn’t happen, it was that it was unintentional. He uses the exact same arguments holocaust deniers use of muddying facts and saying “well no one explicitly signed a document saying kill all these people so did it really happen?” You can do better. Unrelated but evidence he cites couldn’t have possibly have been obtained by him without working with the Soviets, which speaks to who was in control of the narrative in the book, because the Soviets sure as shit weren’t gonna work with anyone who was going to blame them.

    Also cool of you to insist that the EU somehow made Russia do this. And that the existence of some people who might be Nazis totally justifies killing indiscriminately inside another country. Do you think Russia’s treatment of LGBT people would justify someone invading them and killing indiscriminately to “solve” that situation?

    Not to mention that the literal Nazis used the exact same justification of “ethnic Germans are being mistreated in the Sudetenland, so we must invade and intervene” as the Russians are doing right now.

    I bet you think Xinjiang is just suffering from “abnormally low birth rates” too.

  • Propaganda is a powerful thing, it is unfortunate so many believe the empire's.

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  • And might those ethnic Russians have been there due to a sustained campaign on the part of the Soviets to depopulate the region of ethnic Ukrainians and replace them with ethnic Russians as part of a plan to increase loyalty of the region to the central Soviet authority?

    You can justify almost anything if you reach back in history far enough. It’s our responsibility to break the cycle and it’s pretty easy to stop believing the framing of a dictator who only wants to justify his territorial ambitions (and who has made noticeable overtures toward the recreation of the Russian Empire).

  • Propaganda is a powerful thing, it is unfortunate so many believe the empire's.

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  • Hey, quick question, were those votes held before or after Russian troops were occupying those regions?

  • Do you ever feel like a lot of conflict and controversy could be avoided if everyone was more clear about what they mean?

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  • We have a mandatory approval system for our GitHub at work, but literally no one ever actually looks at PRs, they just blindly approve them. When I first joined the team I tried to actually read them, not knowing this was just formality and got shit on for pointing out errors and stuff like… why the hell are reviews mandatory if everyone just clicks approve without looking? As far as I can tell this system only exists so management can blame the entire team when something goes wrong instead of one person by saying "well someone else should've noticed". And god forbid I am doing something I'm not super familiar with and would like someone else to take a look…

  • what is your clothes quirks?

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  • I am in sweat pants or pj pants every second I am not required to be in public. Also denim sucks but I find it more tolerable if I get the jeans that have a decent percentage of elastic, those are just way more comfortable but still look the part.

    Also nothing can touch my forearms. I don’t like wearing short sleeve shirts because they are too breezy, but I absolutely must roll up the sleeves of any long sleeve shirts so they aren’t touching my forearms. I live in a place where 0°F (-18°C) isn’t uncommon during the winter, so I will tolerate a coat because it’s more painful to be cold but if I’m shoveling snow or whatever, you bet you’re gonna see some weirdo with his coat sleeves mashed up over his elbows but also wearing gloves… I’ve gotten more than a few comments about that look.

  • How do you try eating healthier foods when they cause me sensory-issues?

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  • Some tricks I’ve picked up over the years:

    Frozen veggies tend to cook into a more consistent texture, which can help with dealing with them. Fresh vegetables seem to just vary weirdly in both taste and texture and that can be a lot to deal with, so going frozen means I have to deal with less variance.

    Freeze dried stuff for seasoning, to me anyway, feels much easier to control the flavor levels. I hate onion when there’s too much, and hoo boy is it easy to overdo the onion. But freeze dried onion seems to be less dominant so I can still get some onion without overdoing it.

    There’s no shame in having a handful of easy recipes you know are good, healthy, and easy to make (in case it’s a low energy kind of day) and for me the routine of knowing a meal I’ve prepared a thousand times in the same way every time makes it easier to tackle. Then I can feel alright about a healthy meal without it being overwhelming.

    Hopefully some of this information is helpful, it’s what I’ve found that gets me through dinner time.

  • No socks please

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  • Socks are required at all times, especially indoors, unless showering or in bed. No socks in bed. Socks may be taken off if my feet get too hot but the socks must be left nearby to put back on, and also feet cannot touch floor. Socks nearby can only be then used to retrieve new socks as socks should never be put back on once removed unless in an emergency such as getting too hot.

    Ideally said socks are then inside slippers to provide additional insulation from evil floor textures, but no slippers without socks. Also socks can never be pure white, that is disgusting, socks must be ideally black, but dark is fine as long as not majority white fabric. Socks must be tight enough to not move, but also not too tight as to cause discomfort. Also that inside seam near the toes must never be noticeable. If it is, those are coming off immediately and getting thrown away.

    Boy this sounds insane when I type out all my rules…

  • Hegseth Orders Rare, Urgent Meeting of Hundreds of Generals and Admirals

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  • Everyone knows optimal strategic planning is to gather all your high ranking folks in one place but then also make sure you tell everyone ahead of time that all your leadership will be in that specific place and when they will be there.

  • Goodbye foreign investments

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  • Hyundai isn’t pulling billions though. In fact, they announced they are going to expand the plant that got raided and invest MORE in the US. Of course Trump isn’t going to change anything when the people he is harming constantly apologize for getting in his way and immediately cede everything to him.

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    https://www.chosun.com/english/world-en/2025/09/19/H5OCRIZEWJAIFCCVOHVK5TXELM/

  • ‘Russia is targeting us deliberately’: how attacks on maternity hospitals fuelled a birth-rate crisis in Ukraine

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  • Two great assumptions here; that I don’t already read “non-western news sources” and that any different narrative is somehow more true?

    Just because Putin says he’s “liberating” Ukraine doesn’t make it any more true than when the Nazis said they were “liberating” Poland. Non-western sources have exactly as much reason to lie to you as western sources do, and it’s kinda up to you to figure that out instead of slavishly consuming state media but it’s a different state so it must be more gooder!