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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️

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People on bluesky - follow @ap.brid.gy if you want me to be able to follow you back. :magus: I'm just a silly weirdo with way too many hobbies. I make creepy music […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://thecave.social/@pinkboi, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · 16h

"im not gay! im not gay!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and turn into a lesbian

Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · 1d

thecave.social has been updated. We also set authorized fetch to on because I think it's widely supported enough that it _shouldn't_ cause issues but let me know if it does.

Another thing that I'm seriously considering is putting this into allow list mode, which is actually what I was planning […]

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · 6d

And yes, it might sting that the larger society is cruel to you because capitalism, racism, transphobia, etc. then lefty spaces that are supposed to oppose these evils are cruel to you because, brain turned to mush from working three jobs, you worded something in a way considered unacceptable […]

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · 6d

Leftists invented whining about cancel/callout culture and it was a dumb idea from its inception. I have so many opinions that are unpopular on the left but I get away with it because the cancel culture narrative is simply inaccurate.

I do see other people not get away with having unpopular […]

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · 8d

I can't ignore the emotional aspect of how the current political moment affects me. It just makes me mad. To the degree I might do things out of anger more than anything else. So many people being so gullible, taking obvious liars at their word as they claw their way to the top, capitulating […]

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · 11d

Here's one really fucked up thing about the global anti-"woke" backlash. Authoritarians around the world have this paranoid idea that African American intellectuals are planting ideas in peoples' heads about wanting equal rights.

The thing is, there is a kernel of truth to it. People come from […]

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · 16d

Aaron Ross Powell wrote a good review that I relate a lot to and he quotes the above post. Yay!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/spending-time-139488318

Another thing I will add about what the movie means to me personally is that Spinal Tap quotes are just part of the language me and my dad, both […]

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · 23d

Most people on the left don't care much about these distinctions, though people would absolutely be reacting differently if it was a generic conservative who didn't just demand that Taylor Swift submit to her husband. Many liberals basically think that's what just happened though.

Kirk's early […]

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · 23d

I saw Spinal Tap II last night, despite mixed reviews from critics. Glad I did, it was hilarious!

It feels more like reunion bonus content for the original than a proper movie in its own right, but that's okay. Of course it's not as good as the original. How could it be? And one new character […]

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · Sep 6

I just made a followers-only, instance-only post and I realize probably almost no one can actually read it. So consider this an invitation to personal friends of mine who aren't already on the fediverse to join this instance! I'm a little afraid of federating that post because too personal (more […]

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · Sep 6

I'm not clear on what "poptimism" is but have a vague sense that it's probably an overcorrection of some sort that itself commits the same mistake as what it's correcting for by insisting on a heuristic instead of just liking what you like. Classic talking about entertainment in a hopelessly […]

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · Sep 2

One way that flat maps distorts our sense of reality is, even if it's not the Mercator projection, it usually makes the polar regions look more spread out than they are. Like obviously circling the globe is a much shorter journey the further you are from the equator. But that means that […]

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · Aug 31

Derogatory beliefs are so different depending on whether you hate and fear a group of people vs. when you actually know them or are one of them. Like "the transsexual menace hates children, bald eagles and God!" vs. "_Fucking Trans Women_ always canceling on me at the last minute because they're […]

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · Aug 30

Guns are an insidious presence in American politics. Because the thing about the right wing of mainstream US politics is it is more authoritarian than the left wing. And they have convinced conservative voters that 2a rights are a litmus test for civil liberties writ large. That creeping […]

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · Aug 25

_reads graphic depiction of a vampire unable to restrain themself from ending yet another life and the existential dread and guilt resulting from that_

wow, this is just like when I eat too much of the garlic bread that I made and realizing that my family won't be able to eat as much garlic […]

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · Aug 23

To be clear, there no contingency of people who want trans people to wait until 25 to transition. That isn't a position anyone sincerely holds. It's something people who want to ban _all_ transition across the board push for as a step toward their goal. And people who want to ban all transition […]

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · Aug 21

This morning, I was listening to Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain (album) for the first time in years, not knowing yet that Dobson had died. I especially was thinking about Rozz's big question mark after "love" in Romeo's Distress, to mock the idea that those racist Christian nationalists […]

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · Aug 14

In a world of edgelords, be a carelord

Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · Aug 10

If you're a cis man and don't understand why a trans man is a man, I'm not sure you really understand why _you_ are a man either. And similarly, I don't think someone understands trans people if they erase or misunderstand queer or gender-nonconforming trans people. If you're surprised that gay […]

Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · Jul 23

One thing that Ozzy's final concert illustrates is that, when your image is creepy and spooky, age and illness only enhance the aesthetic. It didn't seem sad at all that he was sitting down. It actually made him look _more_ like the prince of darkness than ever before.

Yes, it has a lot to do […]

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · Jul 17

(what I remember and can articulate of a bizarre dream I had that woke my jetlagged ass up at 2:20AM)

Someone was playing interesting music for me and emphasized something creepy - that the location it was recorded is too low an elevation for there to be people there. It was music emanating […]

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · Jul 16

small addendum: of course, at this point, Japanese dishes have integrated into _my food_. Because my wife is Japanese. We regularly have staples at home such as miso soup. I don't get tired of that stuff just like I don't tire of pasta or sandwiches. But I think me getting used to regularly […]

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · Jul 16

I think many people, maybe most people, have what could be considered _their food_ - things that they kind of need to eat on a semi-regular basis to feel normal. And my pet theory is that when people are in a foreign place, they're more adventurous with enjoying new things once they've convinced […]

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · Jul 8

Japan gets a lot of tourists yes, and many of those tourists might like Taiwan just as much (it even has its perks compared to Japan!) but as someone who spends most of my time away from the major tourist destinations, I think tourists are missing out on much of Japan!

There's so much beautiful […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · Sep 14

Wanting to live in the end times is kind of cowardly since it absolves of you of the burden of building a better future. Some great compelling force will come down from on hight and sort it all out.

Since you don't really know what times you face it's more responsible and brave to live as if […]

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