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first you see anthropomorphic cartoon animals and find them appealing, then the internet shits in your brain and makes you want to fuck them. after that you start pretending to be one. if somebody intervenes at this point or your remaining sense of shame kicks in you may be able to recover, otherwise your condition will deteriorate until you are found dead under a bodily fluid sodden pile of threadbare animal toys with holes cut in the crotches

If I have to ask, it’s lame

i don’t understand jokes and that’s your fault

The chart in the image was reproduced by the Washington Post from a 2009 study by I C McManus

The Post article makes a similar claim to the one in the screenshot

McManus theorizes that the late-Victorian dive in left-handedness reflects stigma against southpaws

https://archive.ph/y543P

But he actually said this is unlikely

One possibility, extensively discussed in the handedness literature, is that left-handers die earlier […] An alternative explanation of the lower rate of left-handedness suggests that the elderly are more likely, because of social pressure, either to have been forced to shift from writing with the left hand to writing with the right hand, or they prefer to call themselves right-handed, because of a taboo against left-handedness. Both this and the differential mortality explanation become unlikely when one looks at the entire Gilbert and Wysocki database […] The best account of the Gilbert and Wysocki data is that it directly reflects the actual rate of left-handedness in the population

(pdf): https://jhanley.biostat.mcgill.ca/bios601/CandHchapter06/HistoryGeographyHumanHandedness.pdf

A purply pinky pallette is often used for cosmic horror. I don’t know if this is because of magenta ‘not existing’ or if it’s just a coincidence but it’s a good choice anyway

https://leatriceeiseman.com/magenta/

This is a good take although I still prefer the sinister ending of the film over the redemptive one in the book. Later editions include a foreword by Burgess lamenting the omission of the 21st chapter in part because he wrote three acts of seven chapters for the symmetry of it and the symbolism of 21 being the age of majority

it’s not weird but it’s also not weird if he isn’t into it. amongst my own friend group there’s some with siblings or cousins who come along to the pub etc but there’s also others who keep their friends compartmentalised, who keep in touch with school friends, work friends, family members, whatever groups entirely seperately

so ask, you have nothing to lose, but don’t take it personally if he doesn’t like the idea

the osa was dreamed up by the tories and enthusiastically implemented by labour. even if proportional rep or whatever alternative to fptp was established before the act came into force, there is little chance that one of these main parties wouldn’t have had enough influence to push it through regardless