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"The late Greek Erôtes ("Loves", "Forms of Desire", "Affairs of the Heart"), preserved with manuscripts by Lucian, contains a debate "between two men, Charicles and Callicratidas, over the relative merits of women and boys as vehicles of male sexual pleasure." Callicratidas, "far from being effeminised by his sexual predilection for boys... Callicratidas's inclination renders him hypervirile... Callicratidas's sexual desire for boys, then, makes him more of a man; it does not weaken or subvert his male gender identity but rather consolidates it." In contrast, "Charicles' erotic preference for women seems to have had the corresponding effect of effeminising him: when the reader first encounters him, for example, Charicles is described as exhibiting 'a skillful use of cosmetics, so as to be attractive to women.'""

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I had an inkling about this. Is the CEO #birdsite job an #ElonMuck scapegoat set-up?

What you need to know about a glass cliff and why it could put Twitter's new CEO in danger

apnews.com/article/233e5eada04

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Inara Pey ☑️ 🖖🏽

Blogged:

2023 #SL viewer release summaries week #19 - wp.me/pxezy-xQq - #SecondLife

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Two cats on the patio 😻😻 #CatsOfMastodon

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World Newsdesk :verified_gold:

Top economist regrets urging people to accept they are poorer trib.al/4QKMJaq #news #worldnews

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I gotta say it. With the help of RW media and Big Tech, Republican parents are raising a generation of sociopaths. All of the leaders in their movement - political, religious & otherwise - are teaching them that absolutely nothing matters except gaining & preserving power for Republicans.

Touchstones like citizenship, service, honor, tradition, facts, truth, faith, and family are malleable or disposable without consequence *if & when* they are in conflict with the pursuit of power. #politics

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sapient pearwood

look at this queen (housesitting again)

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Toby

My earliest memories are of being a puppy

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Sorry I can't hang out tonight, I'm naming my pet leeches after rare constellations.

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potentate hawtshot

I saw a rubber chicken in the middle of the street this morning.
We'll never know for sure why it tried to cross the road, but I bet it was for a laugh

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Mark Tisdale Art 🏳️‍🌈

As some of you may recall, I started offering mobile wallpaper as a win-win way to get something fun and support what I do in lieu of a Ko-Fi and all that. The first two haven't been runaway hits per se but there's been enough interest to think it's a fair idea to continue to add more options. ❤️

So I hope you might enjoy seeing the latest choice!

Etsy Link: etsy.com/shop/MarkTisdaleArt

#ThankYou

#MushroomMonday #Mushrooms #fungus #MastoArt #CreativeToots #ArtMatters #MarkOnArt

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Rabbit Cohen

I believe in trans unity. Trans women and transfems have been almost universally kind to me, and I believe that we are natural allies with a lot in common. #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #transgender #trans #TransUnity

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Rabbit Cohen

Tankies love to say shit like "yaoi will be banned under socialism" and then act all confused when other leftists don't like them.

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God :verified:

Found a lost pair of socks that have been missing since the dawn of time. They were stuck in a cosmic wormhole behind the dryer.

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On The Canals #midjourney #AIArt
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Robert McNees

Astronomer Williamina Fleming was born #OTD in 1857. She developed a system to classify stars according to their spectra; cataloged over 10k stars; and discovered numerous novae, nebulae, and variable stars.

Image: Harvard College Observatory

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@jeffjarvis
Photographers don't depend on the work of illustrators to produce their photos.

Camera phones don't work by leeching off of the existing work of professional photographers.

AI Art tools are absolutely trained on the prior work of humans, including many creative humans whose livelihoods they may be endangering.

This is a big difference.

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@liminalfiction

I think, as with the obvious and in a way correct complaints about human-shaped robots etc, this is because that's what lets the author tell the story they want to tell, whether or not it's technically maximally sensible.

Obviously people could end up visiting possible alternative worlds where basically everything is different, and those are in some sense much more likely than ones where it's the same people but in different relationships (say), but for many purposes the latter make for the best story.

In a possible-worlds scenario, after all, there's a world where ANY given thing happens, so we might as well tell the stories of the most interesting ones! :)

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A Fool And His Fuji

Sunny morning lakeside, Loweswater is another of our local spots.

Some nice spots to wander and the woods up to Holme Force waterfall are great, but can not walk along the shore completely due to landownership so you have to follow the road in places.

Still worth it for the bits you can walk along 😀

#photography #landscapephotography #thelakedistrict #loweswater #forest #mountains #landscape #lakeshore #lakedistrict #lake #spring #viltrox #fujifilm #sunshine

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@Liesbeth_Smit

I find that following a bunch of hashtags (including "introduction"), and regularly reading the Local and Federated streams, finds lots of new people for me.

(The people that Twitter suggested that I follow were rarely people that I wanted to follow, fwiw...)

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