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sure, doing a puzzle or playing chess or getting a massage also evokes emotion, even if only “mild pleasure” or “relaxation”. but the 3 possibilities you gave (coercion, sex work, bad comphet feelings) are not that kind of emotion. so if you acknowledge there are other possibilities now that’s great

or they may just be having a kind of sex you don’t like to have yourself. i’m an avid rollerskater, and to me skating is worthless if i’m not learning new tricks or pushing myself to the edge, but it would be silly to say that no one else on earth ever enjoys a leisurely, casual trip to the rink.

sorry, i can’t really parse that sentence. did you mean to reply to someone else?

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 30/09/2026

it may be hard to believe if the feeling is alien to you, but i promise it’s true. to some people sex is like gardening, or conversation, or sports, or massage, or a puzzle. sometimes sex means everthing, and sometimes it’s just another mundane activity. human psychology is shockingly diverse

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STOP STOP STOP YOU’re hurting her!!!

screenshot of automated hospital text messages:

MGB: The patient is in the operating room.
Reply STOP to opt out.
MGB: The patient's procedure has begun.
Reply STOP to opt out.

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 29/09/2026

god, i’m on my first watch (of DS9 and of any Trek) and i’ve similarly been blown away by every Jake & Benjamin episode. it’s just one of the most profoundly touching character relationships in anything i’ve seen, and not just because i kinda wish Benjamin were my dad lol

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 26/09/2026

he’s a youtuber who makes hundreds of very popular moralistic vids like “MILLIONAIRE is MEAN to janitor, then HE WINS the LOTTERY” or whatever. they’re extremely funny. anyway i realize my hatred for The Menu is outsized and it’s fine if other ppl like it. lol it just really hit me like an atom bomb

P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 25/09/2026

i could rant for an hour about The Menu but the gist is that, imo, it’s disgustingly insincere, lazy, and morally bankrupt to a degree that might be forgivable (in the way a lion’s meal is forgivable) if it were a Daily Wire film. have u seen any Dhar Mann videos? i think it’s a lot like those

Palim
The Menu 2022
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Reviewed Nov 18, 2023
If you pinned Dhar Mann's eyelids open, made him read the entire Everyday Feminism archive, then gave him 30 million dollars and said, "do what your heart tells you," he would make The Menu in a weekend and get back to union busting on Monday. My favorite epic clapback moment is when the evil Asian vulcan engages in bladed combat while intoning Al-generated exposition in broken English but the white girl wins because she's the ratatouille rat. God I fucking hate this movie

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one reason i feel confident in saying The Menu is the worst movie i’ve ever seen is that i was perfectly prepared to enjoy it (8hrs sleep, 1.25mg dexedrine, dinner t+ 1hr, had heard good things) and it made me want to hurt everyone involved in its production

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i’ve begun recording whether i was well-slept as part of my film reviews. so far i’ve disliked 100% of hashtag sleepy movies and liked most of the rest. i’m very dumb and bestial obviously,, but i think everyone else is too. they just don’t notice bc they’re not bugbrain enuf

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whenever i see a cynically contrarian take about the film du jour (schoenbrun’s latest or whatever) i assume they watched the movie on 6.5 hours of sleep. is that an insane way to view criticism? um maybe. but bad sleep is more likely than their having hit upon some revelatory vantage

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i admire your openmindedness. cheers

have you seen Deadwood? aside from being kinda irritable and highstrung from his PTSD and circumstances, his character (a brothel physician) is one of the the kindest & most normal on the show. it’s a powerfully humane role and he plays it sooo well

P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 23/09/2026

i think every vegan i’ve met would say it’s about reducing harm as much as they reasonably can, rather than achieving an impossible state of absolute harmlessness. since most crops are grown to feed livestock, going vegan is ostensibly a good way to reduce inadvertent rodent/insect crop deaths

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 20/09/2026

next year tgirl baseball's gonna look like the paralympics bc of all the injury-induced mobility impairments. we had a girl tear her actual hamstring in the first scrimmage and keep playing. the world says a lot of things about trans athletes but nobody's ever said we're not gluttons for punishment

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 20/09/2026

the chicago tgirl baseball game had 4 game-stopping injuries, which makes sense bc we're a frail people. the boston team sucks at baseball but my ex has an in with the celtics' personal orthopedic surgeon, so i'm banking on us maxing out the injury rate and accruing micro-advantages in recovery time

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 19/09/2026

very funny that she was fragile enough to block me for this reply lmao

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 19/09/2026

that’s not true; the census doesn’t even collect data on trans/cis status. you may be thinking of a recent UCLA report, which found that 3.3% of american youth are trans, but that’s just youth. the same report found a figure of .8% for adults, and 1% for everyone over the age of 13.

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 18/09/2026

this is honestly crazy impressive. lmao i’m a very experienced FPS player and i think i died like 4 times before even completing a run

P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 15/09/2026

the etymology of “chatoyant” has surely never before been as vindicated as it is in this moment!!! beautiful work

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 13/09/2026

just visiting for a few days! ^-^ what an interesting city. so much vegetation, and enough trans women to fill a very large cube

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 13/09/2026

those shoes are so distinctive — i think i saw you at impact but didn’t recognize you lol

Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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"A Canyon of Blood for the Normalest Man Alive" by @wyrm.ing in EMBODIED EXEGEIS this story perfectly replicates the feeling of showing up online after a year away and having no fucking clue what anyone is even saying

A CANYON OF BLOOD FOR THE NORMALEST MAN ALIVE
Palimrya
you shuffle in for your daily shit and cringe like i’m a jumpscare. like i’m antique creepypasta, staining your senses for swiping a
sus link as you went for your fly. you thumb your gumline node to check if you’re up.
nope, you’re in color. this is your bathroom, sir, and i’m in it. you make to throttle me, but then you see what i’m holding. i’m gonna keep talking, okay? i’m gonna say some stuff.

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 26/08/2026

i was unsure of this when i published it. i wrote it from the depths of long covid in a year without music. the final paragraphs plagued me for months. i worried the themes and symbols were too many, too messy, too obvious or obscure. i finally read it again, and no. it goes so fucking hard!!! fuck

screenshot which reads: “seeds tinkle on through the balcony grate and down into nothing, down into dark. In her daze Madly sees some wretch of a tree, bruting up from the neon swamp at the bottom of all, burned and battered back in its rise but breaching ever on, its branches a bastard's panoply of radioactive light and dripping sick drupes of cadmium red, galena blue, all gorging up and out into the clemence of a pervert sky.”

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 23/08/2026

here are some of my fav names suggested so far for the boston tgirl baseball team. help us pick • Boston Bricks (bc Boston is famous for its ivy league architecture ofc!!) • Boston Bombers (just has a nice ring to it) • Mass[achusetts] Murderers • Red Stockings (maybe a lil too HBS but still cute)

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 20/08/2026

nothing makes people angrier than what they know deep down in their problematic little hearts to be true 😔

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 20/08/2026

agegapless relationships are kinda sus. like oh wow you have all the same generational touchstones? what are you, siblings? literally incest

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 12/08/2026

i did the same. it’s so fun to bring the jar out at parties and just set it down on a table and see how long it takes for someone to be like “um what the fuck are those???”

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 12/08/2026

this is a joke btw! it’s totally fine to wear deodorant. as long as you disclose on the first date

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 12/08/2026

the actually salient lesbian cultural dichotomy (not trans vs cis or tenderqueer vs dirtbag or radical vs homonationalist) is “wears deodorant vs enjoys life”

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 04/08/2026

(๑o̴̶̷̥᷅﹏o̴̶̷̥᷅๑)꒳ᵒ꒳ᵎᵎᵎ

wikipedia screenshot reading:

Species within the genus Tresus include:
• Tresus allomyax (Coan & Scott, 2000) - strange
gaper
• Tresus capax (Gould, 1850) - fat gaper
• Tresus keenae (Kuroda & Habe, 1950) - mirugai
clam
• Tresus nuttallii (Conrad, 1837) - Pacific gaper
• Tresus pajaroanus (Conrad, 1857) - lost gaper

wikipedia screenshot reading: The meat is good and makes excellent chowder. They tend to be ignored by sport diggers in Washington but not in Oregon.

P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 03/08/2026

if anyone has experience working with indie RPG publishers (beyond just posting on itch), i’d love some advice, bc i’m a little daunted by the social/industry aspect. here’s a cute lil snippet

screenshot that reads:

Your body is a SQUISHY thing whose see-through flesh flexes to fit through glittering vugs and crooked chasms underneath the world. Its sputtering palms are hot enough to melt stone, so you flux and fillet its foes with dripping fingers.

Your body is a GALLANT thing whose armor sports nine gay coats of magic paint.
With its beam glaive and somatic spells you cast glows onto café awnings and sear wounds into ruined clock towers, crushing lost kids under clunky sabatons.

Your body is a TOXIC thing whose filthy holes leak teratogens into glowy rivers and sweat out smog into melting villages. With its helltongue and sarcoma spray you morph its enemies—and the fucked landscape—into worse or weirder shapes.

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 03/08/2026

i should get around to publishing my little guromech RPG. playtesters have started referring to it as “mechsploitation”, a genre that didn’t exist back when i designed it (seems really cool though!), & i feel like i’m missing the moment. i’m usually good at finishing projects, but games are hard

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 03/08/2026

having lived in a couple of queer nightmare co-ops i’m so hyped to read this lol

Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

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listen, I've read QUIET HOURS and it is SO GOOD, so I need you to go fund the stretch goal for this Have you ever had a bad roommate? what if the nasty tenderqueer and the abusive muscle mommy lesbian weren't the worst thing waiting for you in this incredibly incisive queer co-op housing horror?

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P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 24/07/2026

omggg lol that wasn’t a hypothetical on my part either. i guess all the surgeons’ offices give out little fusilli MREs

P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 24/07/2026

literally!! i’m over here working through al dente fusilli like one of those guys who competitively tows firetrucks with his jaw on tv

P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 22/07/2026

i don’t remember but i assume i’m the friend who told u this. i love yapping about environmental neurotoxins uwu

P A L I M R Y A 𓃏 @wyrm.ing · 22/07/2026

it’s worldwide! rice is a hyperaccumulator of arsenic (@ ~10x the rate of other cereal grains), and soil is contaminated with arsenic pretty much everywhere these days. ironically california sushi rice is one of the lowest-arsenic varietals www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

bumbled into a cabinet door last night, which instead of bruising somehow set an orchid petal on my collarbone so delicately that i don’t dare to bend

photo of my collarbone & a bruise that looks like an orchid petal

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as someone who never experienced the feeling called “relaxation” for 3+ decades and now sometimes does, i keep having these dumb moments where i’m like “huh, it’s weird that food can taste really good” or “wow, people are so nice to me…” every good thing in my life feels like this pic

photo of a 1-year-old stag beetle wearing a birthday hat, about to eat a banana with a lit candle stuck in it

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for sure. also, a correction: 0.01% is the lowest i’ve seen claimed (in an Atlantic article, but i’m not sure what study they were referring to). i added an extra zero a couple replies ago by accident!

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correction: 0.01% is the lowest i’ve seen claimed. added an extra zero by accident! lol

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totally! i agree. if anecdotes are the standard, it will definitely be hard to determine the truth

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my point is more general than that though: this standard isn’t being applied broadly. many editors entrust the privacy of our work to Gmail, Microsoft Word, Moksha, their Android phones, etc. without censure from colleagues. some of those may be provably secure, but surely not all of them, right?

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this UChicago study found that the false positive rate was less than half a percent for the multi-genre corpus they fed it. (it may have even been significantly less than that — that was just the cap they set for “policy requirements”). bfi.uchicago.edu/insights/art...