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I have no water in the kitchen (plumbing repairs) and I'm about eat ribs. Pray for me.

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Good for you. 750K was an insult

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Uninspired Beige @charliencontext.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I swear this is why I need quest markers in my games. It's been sixteen weeks, I'm not going to remember to look for a small quill in the Ogre pen.

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He wanted to have a squint off

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Maybe she thinks he'll let her see her kids if she defends him here?

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You'd have beaten me, but neither of us is on his level. Sorry

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There are several non coders in that thread, who built apps. Really interesting.

Yes mens clothing absolutely evolved. And you don't have to go particularly far back! I had a pair of shoes very close to these:

That is a good point. I'd say "Socially imposed but personally adapted" describes more than a few things. Masculinity, attractiveness, success come to mind. You can feel attractive without strictly adhering to society's definition of attractiveness. I think the same is true of masculinity.

Oh yes, absolutely Bowie! Perhaps Marilyn Mason as well.

I've been on both sides. I was a slightly built nerd (hence the boxing), then had a huge growth spurt. Please don't take me as condoning (or even judging) any part of that. I'm just trying to identify it.

"Prince could show up at your party, in frills, and steal your girlfriend. Then steal her clothes, then steal someone else's girl in your girlfriends clothes.” 😊

That said, I realize there's going to be one "accepted" societal judgement, and I don't think long hair is at all disqualifying. A lot of metal bands had long hair. Prince was considered very masculine by many (although not all).

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This stuff is so complicated. personally I make a distinction between "What IS masculinity" and "How do you define YOUR masculinity?". I'm uncomfortable with any sort of externally imposed definition. I think there could be as many definitions of masculinity as there are men.

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U.S. Department of Labor @dol.gov · 16/01/2025

Tell me again how Dems just need better messaging

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Hi, Bluesky. Our friends from @cpsc.gov said we should join. Our memes are less unhinged but we try to be funny sometimes. What we really want to do is make sure workers know their rights and employers understand their responsibilities — and where they can go for help with a workplace issue.

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Yikes, *twice* the average is really saying something.

I thought it was an homage to Redd Foxx

So true. I briefly signed up with a “financial advisory” startup last year and the whole thing just oozed “least effort for greatest return”. I actually admired the business model (from a technocratic perspective), but it wasn’t terribly useful.

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No I get that 100%. I guess the question is, “who gets to validate your definition of yourself?” If I say “Men define themselves as having short hair”, is it fair to say “No, they cannot define themselves that way.”? I would say it’s not fair.

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In other words, is that trait now inaccessible as part of male definition?

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No argument their definitions are based on social expectations. But if we agree that men (and women) define themselves, how do we get to excluding any particular trait from that definition? If I say “Men define themselves as X”, and you say “X is universal”, does that change anything?

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Do you think men (or women) define themselves in any way?

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Definitely not. The proposition “Given that I am a man, kinetic action is important to me” isn’t the same as “Given that kinetic action is important to me, I am a man”. Mind you, even as a man my opinion on men could be wrong, I wouldn’t presume to define women.

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I’m saying that sense of being a protector *feels* manly. Is it possible to feel masculine , or feel feminine ? Are both illusory?

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That is the cutest “Have you submitted your slides?” face I have ever seen 🤗

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That mirrors my view. I’ll know AI tooling has arrived when we see a bunch of AAA games built for fractions of normal cost in fractions of normal time.

Fantastic article! Also: “[Big hype] reflects a pattern we’ve observed repeatedly in AI tooling. Social media excitement and company valuations have minimal relationship to real-world utility. We’ve found the most reliable signal comes from detailed stories of users shipping products and services”

Dems have *never* wavered from the message that the economy is strong, but the prevailing drumbeat was exactly the opposite. UNTIL Trump was elected, now the economy is a non-issue. I just don’t see that Dems have enough *clout* to drive coverage, esp now that Twitter has become a RW amplifier.

To be clear I’m saying that IMO men don’t define themselves as “not-women”. They define themselves as wielders of…let’s call it “strength” instead of “violence”. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that both Joe Rogan and Andrew Tate are MMA-adjacent, with large male followings. /2

I don’t necessarily disagree with “inherently toxic”, I just think violence is so baseline it’s a meaningless distinction. Superheroes, for example. Literally run around beating people up. I’m also a little concerned that you say “women can do all that”, because it implies I said they couldn’t. /1

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The media decides how or if a story propagates. Until the Dems have a pravda machine like Fox, that will remain true. Name a Republican who suffered anything like "But her emails". We can't just "message" our way out of press malfeasance.

I couldn't say. I learned to box when I was young, and then got into Aikido in college. Is that inherently toxic? You probably can't find a AAA game where you're not killing something. At some point it's just cultural. My main point was that it's not necessarily defined in opposition to femininity.

More context: "In aggregate, we find that gaming represents $5 billion per year in energy expenditures across the United States or 34 TWh/year (2.4% of residential electricity nationally), with 24 MT/year of associated carbon-dioxide emissions equivalent to over 5 million cars"

I picked it up looking for a super chill vibey game. Then I discovered the dark side:

Personally, I might have said most men model their masculinity around a core of real or implied violence. But that could just be the men I know. /3