I think you’re pushing your personal kinks a little too hard.

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You’ve spent the past two weeks being yelled at by a user for not getting their external partner’s incoming connection to work

and you’ve had a tcpdump running for an entire week showing that no connection attempts have been made from the IP addresses the partner provided

and they schedule a conference call at a time that’s convenient for the partner’s third-world contractors

and they confirm their IP addresses in the chat but the test fails again

and your tcpdump shows them coming in from a completely different IP address

and they start to wrap up the meeting saying they’ll contact their network team who hadn’t been invited and reschedule for the next day

and you have to yell into the microphone to tell them to try again right now since you’ve just added their real IP address to the firewall

and they confirm that it works but continue talking about who’s going to do what and how they will communicate the results and who will be responsible for the next step and oh fuck who cares you stopped listening two minutes ago

and you close the multiple tickets created by the user who doesn’t understand that CC’ing the helpdesk on every email keeps creating new tickets

and the partner emails a list of 26 possible IP addresses that does not include the two they originally claimed were the only ones they use

and then they try to schedule another meeting anyway and you reject the invite twice

and you go back to bed.

…and reach for earplugs because the neighbor puts his dog out when he goes to work and it barks and whines all day long and sounds remarkably like one of your users.

That is, “when you hear these words, you know it’s safe to stop taking someone seriously”. In no particular order:

• Cis
• Male Gaze
• Intersectional
• Misgendering
• (qualifier) Justice
• Gender Binary
• Cultural Appropriation
• Woke
• Mansplaining
• Misogyny
• Heteropatriarchy
• Diversity
• Rape Culture
• Zionist
• Manspreading
• (whatever) Is A Social Construct
• Whitewashing
• Triggering
• (made-up personal pronoun)
• Privilege
• (whatever) Denier
• Disparate Impact
• Heteronormative
• Patriarchy
• Fascist
• Structural (whatever)
• Homophobia
• Inclusive
• Gender Identity
• Nazi
• Transphobia

What did I leave out?

(note that it is possible to use some of these words and phrases in a way that is not meaningless blather, but that’s not the way to bet)

Updates

• Sustainable
• Organic
• Vegan
• Fair Trade
• GMO-Free
• Gluten-Free
• (insert latest virtue-signaling buzzword here)
• Agency
• Problematic
• No True Scotsman (fallacy most often committed by people who are accusing others of committing it…)
• Ally
• (whatever) Traitor
• Toxic (whatever)
• Voting Against Their Interests (which always means “voting against my interests”)
• The Right/Wrong Side Of History

How could I have forgotten?!?

• Dogwhistle

…and from the reliably-fucked-up virtue-signalers at boingboing

• Heterosexism
• Chauvinist

(linking to an article on an “SF” site that must come with a built-in fainting couch; seriously, the brief excerpt starts with this hilariously nonsensical statement: “the heterosexism goggles, which derange content via chauvinist interpretive paradigms”)

…so here’s a nice pair of melons.

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I need to order these for me and my sister, for our next trip to Japan…

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“​…sittin’ way up high”

Never mind the general babehood and the token mod-black-chick amazon in the background, check out the uplifting fashions our heroes and their captor are sporting. Paradise Island’s lingerie shops clearly feature Sufficiently Advanced Technology, enough so that I wonder if the Invisible Plane was just a spinoff product.

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A lot of the pictures that accumulate in the leftovers folder after I do a theme search on Gelbooru are rejected for facial expressions, excessively complex backgrounds, or not really being cheesecake. In general, I bias the posts toward “happy-sexy anime-style girls with simple backgrounds”, but that doesn’t mean the others aren’t any good…

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