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It’s funny how science fiction universes so often treat humans as a boring, default everyman species or even the weakest and dumbest.

I want to see a sci fi universe where we’re actually considered one of the more hideous and terrifying species.

How do we know our saliva and skin oils wouldn’t be ultra-corrosive to most other sapient races? What if we actually have the strongest vocal chords and can paralyze or kill the inhabitants of other worlds just by screaming at them? What if most sentient life in the universe turns out to be vegetable-like and lives in fear of us rare “animal” races who can move so quickly and chew shit up with our teeth?

Like that old story “they’re made of meat,” only we’re scarier.

For Boop-Badges Collectors

Rough estimate: It's possible to reach 1000 boops in less than 2 hours (took me 1:30h), if you got some people to spam it to.

If you are a blog where people can spam boop's to, reblog this.

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Business: Big Daddies of Helluva Hazbin

Lucifer: (squaring his shoulders as he stands outside his office/bedroom) Alright, Charlie. You know the drill. I have an important meeting today that might go through tomorrow. I'm trusting you to be a good girl while I'm gone.

Charlie: Daaaaaaad, I'm not a little girl anymore. I can manage myself and the hotel just fine. I did it before.

Lucifer: I know. I know. Just... want you to remember I love you more than anything. (Hugs Charlie and opens the door to his room) Off I go!

SLAM!!!

Vaggie: What was that all about?

Charlie: (sighs) Dad's been having an annual meeting with some of the princes of the other rings for a while now, and he always seems so depressed beforehand. This is the one he absolutely refuses to let me sit in on. (Deflates slightly) Honestly, it makes me a little worried.

Vaggie: (holds Charlie's hand) Hey, I'm sure everything is fine. Your dad is the King of Hell, after all. He can handle himself.

-Cut to the dark depths of Lucifer's bedroom. An apple themed calander is hanging on the wall with the day circled in thick, black marker and "Divorce Anniversary" written in the block-

Lucifer: (sitting on a plush, red love seat, wrapped in a cozy blanket, wearing apple pajamas with a face mask, and eating a bowl of Apple Jack's cereal pitifully as the glow of the TV illuminates the room)

TV: Ay! Why won't you love me, Alejandro?!

Lucifer: Preach it, sister. (Takes a bite of cereal as his phone rings, and he answers the video call)

Stolas: (in a similar situation only wearing a robe that's too big and eating Shooting Stars Lucky Charms) Gabriella is such a mood.

Lucifer: (through a mouth full of cereal) I know, right?! He doesn't deserve you, Gabriella! You can do so much better!

-Circus Fanfare plays-

Lucifer: Hold on, Stolas. I gotta patch someone in. (Presses a button)

Ozzy: (wearing a robe that's too small, wrapped in a blanket with his flame hair rolled in curlers, and eating Wheaties) Hey, guys! Still in the heartbreak phase?

Lucifer & Stolas: (nod with pitiful, kicked puppy eyes)

Ozzy: (puppy eyes as he wails with Lucifer and Stolas) Gabriella, no! Baby girl, he ain't worth your time!

Need a better breakdown? Tiktok attached below that explains Zoom's new Terms of Service:

What about folks who have therapy via Zoom? Court hearings? The list goes on. If you've got any Zoom alternatives, or maybe preference for one of the ones we listed with why, reblog please!

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[ID: Screenshot of a tweet by Ted Gioia @/tedgioia from 1 day ago. They write, "Zoom terms of service now require you to allow AI to train on ALL your data--audio, facial recognition, private conversations--unconditionally and irrevocably, with no opt out. Don't try to negotiate with our new overlords." Gioia then has as a screenshot attached highlighting different lines from Zoom's new Terms of Services. The text in the image is small but can be read to say:

10.2 Service Generated Data; Consent to Use. Customer Content does not include any telemetry data, product usage data, diagnostic data, and similar content or data that Zoom collects or generates in connection with your or your End Users’ use of the Services or Software (“Service Generated Data”). As between you and Zoom, all right, title, and interest in and to Service Generated Data, and all Proprietary Rights therein, belong to and are retained solely by Zoom. You agree that Zoom compiles and may compile Service Generated Data based on Customer Content and use of the Services and Software. You consent to Zoom’s access, use, collection, creation, modification, distribution, processing, sharing, maintenance, and storage of Service Generated Data for any purpose, to the extent and in the manner permitted under applicable Law, including for the purpose of product and service development, marketing, analytics, quality assurance, machine learning or artificial intelligence (including for the purposes of training and tuning of algorithms and models), training, testing, improvement of the Services, Software, or Zoom’s other products, services, and software, or any combination thereof, and as otherwise provided in this Agreement. In furtherance of the foregoing, if, for any reason, there are any rights in such Service Generated Data which do not accrue to Zoom under this Section 10.2 or as otherwise provided in this Agreement, you hereby unconditionally and irrevocably assign and agree to assign to Zoom on your behalf, and you shall cause your End Users to unconditionally and irrevocably assign and agree to assign to Zoom, all right, title, and interest in and to the Service Generated Data, including all Proprietary Rights relating thereto.

A tweet by John Rogers @/jonrog1 replies, "I ... don't think @/Zoom understands every single TV company and movie studio now has to drop them. Never mind the HIPAA issues. Yikes."

The youth volunteers of Better Future Program @/bfpnola write under these screenshots via Instagram, "We've been talking about this in our Discord server as of last night since we host our meetings in Zoom and we've been researching alternatives, especially ones that are end-to-end encrypted and we know other activists use, like Jitsi, Disroot, Matrix, and ofc Signal. Got any other ones?"

Finally there is an Instagram question sticker asking for Zoom alternatives. /End ID.]

Stan was not prepared

as someone with a bachelor’s degree in english, i am inexpressibly tired of people telling me to get highly specific jobs that often require highly specific degrees. “just go write for a magazine!” you need a journalism degree for that. “just teach!” you need a teaching certificate, and also fuck you. “just go work at a tutoring place!” tutoring children with learning disabilities, which make up the majority of the clientele at those places, requires not only a teaching certificate but a specialized master’s degree. “just go work at a library!” you need a master’s degree in library science to be a librarian. it is actually a highly skilled and extremely competitive field. you don’t just “go work at a library,” you train for years in the vain hope that you will get one of handful of available jobs. “just go work at a library.” the nerve. the unmitigated gall. “just go work at a library.” ugh.

If you live in the U.S and polls are still open where you are go fucking vote!