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Today IS a good day to listen to Trouble Funk.Seriously, their 80s stuff is some of the greatest...

Today IS a good day to listen to Trouble Funk.

Seriously, their 80s stuff is some of the greatest music ever recorded.

"Up until very recently, it was easier to imagine the end of the internet than it was to imagine the..."

“Up until very recently, it was easier to imagine the end of the internet than it was to imagine the end of the tech giants. The problems of living under a system dominated by unaccountable, vast corporations seemed inescapable. But growth has stagnated for these centralized platforms, and Twitter is in the midst of an ugly meltdown. It won’t be the last service to disintegrate into a thrashing mess.”

- The Fediverse Could Be Awesome (If We Don’t Screw It Up)

It’s the time of year to start obsessively listening to t...

It’s the time of year to start obsessively listening to the best party album of all time, Booty Collins ’ Christmas record. It slaps so hard 🤘🤘🤘

aroaessidhe:Queerplatonic book recs, that actually have QPRs, inspired by me seeing someone...

aroaessidhe:

Queerplatonic book recs, that actually have QPRs, inspired by me seeing someone listing qpr books that were literally just queer people being friends 🤦‍♀️

These all have the main characters in queerplatonic relationships,  explicitly and/or unambiguously in most cases.

The Thread That Binds

solarpunk-fantasy about queer bookbinding witches, 2/3 MCs are an aroace & an ace in a QPR

Baker Thief

superhero fantasy with a bigender aromantic superhero / demisexual woman QPR 

Not Even Bones

YA supernatural trilogy where the main characters initially seem to be developing a romantic relationship, but eventually realise neither actually feel that way, and settle into more or less a QPR (without labels, but it’s pretty clear)

Two Dark Moons

YA fantasy where an arospec girl & ace lizard kid accidentally get fantasy-married & develop a friendship/qpr

The Wolf Among The Wild Hunt

dark fantasy novella with an aroace wolfman & nonbinary knight qpr

Our Bloody Pearl

NA fantasy with a siren & ace pirate, originally marketed as a romance, but it is pretty much a qpr and that’s what the author intended!

The Reckless Kind

historical YA with an aspec girl becoming a family with her best friend and his boyfriend

Fire Becomes Her

YA, 1920s inspired fantasy world, demiro girl breaks free of her relationship and instead ends up in a QPR with a nonbinary transmasc ace.

If It Makes You Happy

YA contemporary about a girl navigating her queerplatonic relationship with her best friend, and a possible new romantic relationship.

Archivist Wasp / Firebreak

honorable mention because it’s not explicitly a qpr - but all of the author’s works focus on platonic m/f relationships in a very aspec way, and have absolutely no romance anywhere. one of the central relationships is very much platonic soulmates/ qpr vibes (postapoc ghosty sci-fi/fantasy YA & dystopian anticapitalism)

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I just reinstalled Tumblr on my phone. Gonna post on here...

I just reinstalled Tumblr on my phone. Gonna post on here way more going forward

Very good boi worshipping the sun

Very good boi worshipping the sun

"The fact is, you can meet internet trolls in real life, and they will be just as trollish in person..."

“The fact is, you can meet internet trolls in real life, and they will be just as trollish in person as they are on the internet. It’s just that, when someone starts screaming at you on the street about their crazy conspiracy theories, you can walk away. Also, most of us who are over the age of 21 don’t make a point of hunting down random 14-year-olds and asking them what they think about stuff — unless we’re related to them, in which case it’s a self-selecting group. Most of us who live in city centers also probably don’t venture out to suburban malls and ask people what they think about politics or cultural issues, or vice versa.”

- Reality Check: Most Internet trolls are probably trolls in real life, too

We need to outlaw leveraged buyouts immediately. They’re antisocial and destructive and never should...

We need to outlaw leveraged buyouts immediately. They’re antisocial and destructive and never should have been allowed.

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