CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@gwynnion Only they threw away all the stuff about social responsibility and working together under difficult circumstances in favour of god-king rulers and total obedience.

@Tattie The problem is that the concept of gender is so entirely arbitrary, that they need rigid boundaries to keep it in place. So much so that they will ignore the science of sex, just so as not to hurt their illusions.

It was the same with animal sexuality.

@alice I got bothered by the commercialism and the artificiality a long time ago, and the disconnect between amateur sport for peace and professional support for the other.

It's long been a showcasing of power, and the sooner it (and other professional entertainment sport stuff) dies the death so that we can find better ways of enjoying physciality as a society the better.

But I won't hold my breath.

@retrosponge
I don't know much about Bill Hicks, but many years ago a friend introduced me to his idea on advertisers and marketeers, and I couldn't agree more
@tezoatlipoca

@WeirdWriter Thank you. Just thank you.

@rhelune
I was almost expecting the Scotsmen.
@ariadne @th @mattblaze

@rhelune
Oh, no hotel will restrict access to a bar. They're always free floors.
@ariadne @th @mattblaze

@emily_rugburn
My fine motor coordination isn't great in either, but the left is probably naturally better. What you say makes perfect sense.

@emily_rugburn
I think it's probably stopped, at least in the West, but I know some who'd be happy to bring it back.
@futurebird

@emily_rugburn
Same, more or less. I can't write with the left, but each hand plays its part and I do do a lot of things backwards.
@futurebird

@emily_rugburn
Also I'm really sorry that happened to you, it really sucks.
@futurebird

@emily_rugburn
I was in my first year, with a Presbyterian teacher who held tightly on to the belief left handedness was of the devil. The 70s.
@futurebird

@futurebird
I do if it's important, but I'm an old so I can. It's appallingly bad, and I'm kinda phobic about it, having had it beaten into me as a kid.

On the other hand, if I take notes by hand, the action of writing embeds stuff in my brain better than a keyboard.

@taedryn
It's complicated. I try to avoid labels, but ...

I'm in my 50s, but in my 20s there were any number of occasions where someone expected things that I hadn't quite cottoned on to being in play.

That's not to say I've never participated, nor even never participated willingly in sex, but more often than not there has been no interest on my part, and all together too often I've not realised that there was in theirs.

That said I'm an incredibly tactile person, I hug lampposts ffs. And that's been known to generate confusion, and perhaps even conflict. There us a certain level of human contact I enjoy, but I generally prefer it without the sex. I find that martial arts fit that well for me, I used to box, wrestle, and fence, but that people got weird about it if I said anything about preferring fighting to the other "f".

I'd dance, but my brain refuses to hold on to a single rhythm, which isn't really helpful with a cooperative partner.

I'm not really romantic, but, when the lines of communication are clear, the game, the to, and fro, the intellectual challenge of flirting, and finding the just the right thing to say can be fun. But I've not always noticed that the game is being played.

I don't really have any answers for you, but I think the key is to find people with whom you can clearly communicate so that you have shared boundaries, within which you can play. I find that shared intersects and activities help, but even so, mistakes can be made.

There will be folk to dance with, but it's really important to maintain the communication, so you keep sharing the understanding.

@mbpaz @isol @GayDeceiver Ahh, yes. Saul the Apostate tax collector.

The Roman Era L. Ron Hubbard.

@xssfox A utility bill for every branch

@GayDeceiver
To be fair, a lot of the early followers apparently thought their boy Josh was coming back soon.

@litteracarolina
The more of these I see, the more I look back at those monks and scribes, and think how could you not bring cheer to the day like this.

I don't think I'm ever going to understand folks who believe, with the whole of their heart, that if they're told something from a place of knowledge, that it infringes upon their freedom.

@PermaSolarPotter
I was very happy with my beet soup recently. More borsht inspired than borsht actual, but, nevertheless tasty.