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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 2h

*sigh* You know what this is about. I would really like to believe the allegations are untrue. I also know that they are statistically highly unlikely to be false. Holding my breath. Hoping/wishing to be wrong. No heroes. No pedestals. NO. GODDAMNED. RAPISTS. Is it THAT fucking difficult?

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 2h

Why is it that everyone between a 4 and a 6 thinks they're a 9 or a 10? If you're worried about gay men hitting on you, just tell them no. Or is there a reason you think your no might not be respected by another man? I wonder.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 4h

No fewer than five times a day, I find myself about to reply to something someone says, then catching myself and deleting whatever I'd typed. It's just not worth it.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 5h

Seen on a recent FB ad. To me, this fairly screams that you smell like patchouli, body odor, and a painful lack of critical thinking skills.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 5h

If you tout a medical treatment without being able to point to an actual biological mechanism of action, then you're a charlatan and you deserve to be tarred and feathered. And yes, I know just how hideously painful that would be.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 5h

It sure would be awesome to read the future's anthropological essays dissecting the phenomenon of the smartphone and how it reshaped the world. Too bad no one will be around to write or read them.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 6h

Never read the comments. NEVER. READ. THE COMMENTS! One of these days, I'll fucking learn.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 11h

POP QUIZ! Whenever I try to remember things, I always draw a ______.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 21h

I don't know how the folks at Chef Boyardee's manage to make meatballs somehow feel simultaneously dry AND soggy, but they did it. Kudos, I guess...?

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I swear, to the end of my days, I will never get how backgammon works.

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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social

“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page headline of The National, Scotland

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James Beckett @kickthebeckett.com · 29/09/2026

No, SungWon is absolutely correct here. The insistence on sticking with the Japanese title when there is already a perfectly acceptable English one is utterly asinine. Nobody does this in Japanese literature, or film, or any other art form. It's just the anime nerds who insist on being obtuse.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just an FYI, I made a completely-handmade webpage with comprehensive retranslations of the entirety of The Last Blade and its sequel. If that intrigues you... moriyamug.neocities.org/lblade/1/

moriyamug.neocities.org

The Last Blade

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sometimes, one is forced to reckon with the fact that online connections are not what we, as humans, evolved with... and as a result, they do not and cannot envelop all that real, in-person face-to-face connections do. Online is not real life. It can never be,

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Crowdsourced comprehension is not the same thing as understanding.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Some day, there will be seismic doctoral theses about how TV Tropes and fan wikis completely poisoned the well for media discussion by causing countless simple idiots to think they not only understood, but were perfectly qualified to comment on media.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

*extremely inappropriate comment about sticky-tit summer*

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

STAND. WITH. THE. VICTIMS. No rapist deserves a successful or happy life. Ever. EVER.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

The former Marine David J. Morris, author of a book on post-
traumatic stress disorder, notes that the disorder is far more com-
mon and far more rarely addressed among rape survivors than
combat veterans. He wrote me, “The science on the subject is pretty
clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about
four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat.
Think about that for a moment— being raped is four times more psy-
chologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and
blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural nar-
ratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow he-
roic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.”

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This makes me feel several things, none of which I feel capable of expressing in words.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I asked a girl out by giving her a bottle of tonic water. She was so taken aback that she said yes immediately. I guess you could say I Schweppe'd her off her feet.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Who would you be fighting if you weren't fighting me?

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"I knew you would come," said Dahlia Gillespie, "It was foretold by Gyromancy." Harry had to take a moment to wonder at how someone could read the future with a tasty Greek meat wrap. Then he shot her.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I long for all the cool peeps to achieve a paradise I will never see, much less experience.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Do not ingest the mold. "FUCK YOU I WILL NOT GIVE UP MY BLEU CHEESE" *possessed*

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, she makes herself up to enhance her self-image. When you stop sucking in your stomach every time an attractive woman glances at you, then you can talk.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Control Resonant is destined to be my GOTY for 2026, just as Alan Wake II was for 2023. Some devs just cater very specifically to one's tastes, and Remedy does that for me. I never expected it to be THIS good, and yet it is. Happy and proud to support real art in my games.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just did Teddy Swims (The Door) at karaoke. Tough song, but I did it. Hit all the highs.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Some people have a natural proclivity for a particular task, but it only carries one a bit of the way. The overwhelming majority is just practice, practice, practice. Talent can fail. Skill and diligence can only suffer temporary setbacks.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I swear, I want to open up every TV/Roku remote I have and sever the circuit traces for all the "convenient" buttons that immediately switch to another application/streaming service. What idiot thought these up?

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Remember, exclaiming "whee" without the H is just you expressing your love for urine. No judgment if that's your thing, but best you were aware.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It is a small, yet massive, boon to my life that I have a surly fuzzybeast who tolerates all of the indignities I foist upon her in the name of affection.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Should the need arise, I have hundreds of hours on physical media and local repair shops prepared to keep my devices functional for the foreseeable future. I'll be fine.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Honestly, if your voice doesn't have the sex-syrup quality of Raycevick or the calm and commanding quality of Whitelight, should you even be allowed to speak in your own videos?!

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a startlingly-excellent analogy.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck anti-vaxxers. May each and every one of you suffer the diseases you deny and spare your children and friends/neighbors your idiocy. To be clear: YOU DESERVE TO SUFFER. Everyone else deserves to be spared the consequences of your flagrant and willful stupidity. No exceptions.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Many do not understand the difference between "having ideals" and "being an idealist." The former stands a chance of having those ideals realized. The latter will die unfulfilled, because strategy is the only way to achieve an ideal.

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