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help me identify this cactus 

for reasons, i developed a kind of hyperfixation on plants around half a year ago. as such, i'd like to take better care of this cactus i was gifted in 2017 or so.

the only love i gave it so far was a bit of water whenever it occurred to me that plants do in fact need that to live, which was every couple of months. can any of you botany enthusiasts out there tell me what species this is? also, why is one of the branches so brown and shriveled? should i repot it and, if yes, what pot size and substrate? feel free to infodump, i'd love to learn! :3

The Editor in Chief of a prestigious political magazine used the N-word on live TV yesterday to refer to Haitian immigrants, and somehow it's not even a blip in the national news cycle.

But there are like 5,000 stories about new Apple Watch features.

What even is happening.

im normal about magical girls being dark side corrupted. i'm not weird about it, don't worry.

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So many ppl I know have been badly affected by this attack. None of them have anything to do with Hezbollah. They’re in fact all anti-Hezbollah. Not that this ever mattered to Israel.

A close friend’s sister almost died just bcs some Hezbollah dude was near her and his pager blew up

#Lebanon #pagers #Hezbollah

Last year the NYPD spent $150 Million to catch people who weren't able to afford to pay the subway fare. They collectively owed just $104,000 in fares.

Instead of funding cops to shoot people, why not use the money to make public transport free for people who can't afford it?

hellgatenyc.com/the-nypd-spent

White dudes, particularly cis/hetero/non-disabled/christian, lived experiences are LIMITED which means that, on the majority of subjects that interest me, so are your opinions…WITHOUT intention and strategic effort, your ideas and behavior are curated to cause harm

saw an ad with an elevator full of people coughing, visualisation of viruses flying around, and the solution for it was some silly vitamin c thing

no no, the solution is you should be wearing a mask.

subtoot, cultural appropriation, slang 

when you hear "gen Z slang", your first thought should be "is this actually just appropriated AAVE that has been stripped of its cultural context and is now being used to enrich white people instead of those who coined it?"

like I'm pretty sure skibidi toilet is its own thing, for example, but "no cap" is an Atlanta hiphop thing, "slay" originated in Black/Latinx queer ball culture, "queen" is most likely a clipping of "drag queen" ... like, this is literally what cultural appropriation is: getting elevated for doing things that would get marginalized people punished.

ICYMI, my partner @nullagent was assaulted last night protesting at a #Seattle City Council member's home over the anti-homeless/anti-SW legislation that's underway.

He's heading over to urgent care now to get a full assessment, and possible stitches for the head wound.

We are getting some extra help at home this week, but he REALLY needs to rest up and take it easy while he recovers.

Update: we launched a fundraising page! Please donate + share.

shorturl.at/A5SQA

#mutualaid

Begpost for my fiancee's birthday today (18th), please reboost 

Hey friends,

Happy birthday to the love and light of my life 🧡

I'd like to raise more money for her birthday if possible, please, to get my fiancee gifts and send her the money, so she can buy what she wants. These last months have been awful for her too, so I want her to enjoy her day as much as possible. She'd need clothing.

Any donation is appreciated if you can. Thank you so much for your precious help!

paypal.me/VirgileMougin

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Back up your stuff, folks. I'm lucky I have enough backups to deal with my external drive having a head crash

it's wild to me that people will watch tiktok on the train on max volume speakerphone and not give it a second thought

a compute cluster is when a bunch of robotgirls form a cuddle pile

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windows install adventure 

Apparently you have to use a 3rd-party tool called Rufus that is Windows-only to create a 'Windows To Go' install on any non-MS approved external drive. The official windows install mediums themselves will all just refuse if they detect a drive attached over USB. Unfortunately this is a my passport drive so I can't just shuck it to get a SATA connection, so I had to setup a Windows VM just to use Rufus, to install Windows.

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