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why not simply hire a guy who looks like him to do a cute cameo in the background (like he did in the old movies) so you can avoid the entire problem of defiling a dead corpse by possessing it with electric sand that wears Stan Lee's likeness as a skin suit

Again: this nation was founded by genocidaires, slavers, rapists, pirates, spendthrifts, tacky nouveau riche, smugglers, land speculators and Freemasons. The revolution’s aim was to line their pockets, not grant liberty to the common man, let alone women or POC. Trump is a fitting end to this farce.

I am noticing that when push comes to shove even the people who tell me there is a double standard on the left about Ukraine and Palestine are willing to throw Ukraine under the bus to stay pro-Israel

yeah you gotta willie horton ken paxton. have the party committees and super pacs run ads explicitly accusing paxton of covering up for a child abuser. “you love your children and would do anything to protect them. so why would you vote for a man who lets child abusers run free”

Time for my weekly "Every DOJ lawyer who worked under this admin must be disbarred" post

filing the Johnny Kitagawa sex abuse scandal under the “actual cognitohazard” folder in my brain I’m hardly even into J-idol music aside from stray anime OPs/EDs over my decades as a weeb, but…goddamn it’s utterly bleak and awful absolutely horrific stuff

In general I am an experienced lurker because I like seeing how people, even those whose tastes and behaviours feel alien to me, operate, in order to broaden my horizons and perspective. There's nothing to be gained with doing so with right wingers! They just fucking hate you!!!

As someone who's spent some time (way too much) lurking on right wing places to try and understand what makes me tick, lemme summarize it: They just fucking hate you. There, saved you the trouble of ever having to see their bullshit again

this is the thing about people who say they need to be exposed to more perspectives: no you don’t right wing perspectives are dogshit, especially these days - it’s either vicious, preening meanness or it’s the most obvious bad faith trolling you’ve ever seen there is nothing to be gained from it

I have very little patience for people who cannot accept that sometimes the best thing you can do is make a choice that means living with grief & guilt, maybe forever. That responsibility is a burden. This isn't a good thing but it's not something you can flinch from either.

radfems will look at you in the eye and tell you trans people are upholding the patriarchy and gender roles and then vote for republicans

because I did BlueSky I may as well do Xwitter, albeit via Nitter, though even using a mirror to view that wretched hive feels corrosive to my soul this will take a while, so here it goes

And listen, I am not anti-streaming! I haven't bought a CD since probably 2004. But I am under no illusions about what we are giving up, and the ways in which we are screwing both creators (who never see a penny) and end-users (who pay to own nothing) in this 'superior' system.

It's not about which is 'superior.' It's about the multitude of ways in which large corporations have normalized rent-seeking. When you have to maintain a subscription to operate everything from your music library to your fridge to your farm equipment, there's a problem. nfu.org/wp-content/u...

False equivalence. This is a convo about ownership. Spend $10.99/mo on CDs and in a year you've got 12 CDs. Yours forever even if you go broke and can't buy more. Spend $10.99/mo on streaming and then have to cancel? You've spent the same $ and you have...nothing. These are not equivalent systems.

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

yeah this is just lying like, this isn’t fudging, “we’ve only used this projection that’s favorable to us” type statistics manipulation like we’re used to, this is just flat out up is down black is white lying in the service of pushing nazi policy and it should be treated as such

22. Yeah I’m not forgiving people because “no foul play” is gonna be the tagline when we all know the rising transphobia was the cause

good on senator kim for standing in harm’s way. i said it in 2020 and it’s truer every day: i don’t want to vote for a politician who won’t get pepper sprayed for our rights. get out there and try. try something. stand in their way. make them move you.

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

I figure I should give a sampling of how JPN users have been reacting on BlueSky while their reactions may not be as vulgar here as they would be on Xwitter, the disappointment and anger are still palpable

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

like im not saying willpower isnt important. just that ... like, sometimes a mental illness isnt curable and you have to live around and with it and despite it. and it sucks.

its pretty annoying when people just like. cant wrap their minds around the idea that disabilities (even mental illness ones) cannot be conquered by Willpower

Are there going to be 100 opinion pieces about Republicans and political violence now or is that just for when somebody says something critical of Trump

One-Punch Man manga artist Yūsuke Murata comments on a contentious post about Pakistani Britons:

「ドン引き」『ワンパンマン』漫画家に国内外から批判殺到。 イギリスの移民ヘイト投稿に対し、村田雄介さんが外見的特徴でくくる返信をしたことが発端。 国内外のファンから「人種差別的」「ヒーローを描いているのに残念」と落胆の声が。詳しくは👇 www.huffingtonpost.jp/entry/story_...

now both HuffPost Japan and ANN have picked up and run the story this will only get worse the longer Murata doesn’t address the harm he’s caused with his racist remarks www.huffingtonpost.jp/entry/story_... www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/202...

The arc of history is long and it bends to me being right somehow which is pretty embarrassing

An Ainu group in Hokkaido has filed Japan's first lawsuit demanding the government return 279 ancestral remains held at the state-run Upopoy memorial. They argue that under Ainu tradition the community, not the state, holds the right to care for its dead.

Right-wingers pretend that they care about birthrates and the "future of their country" or whatever, but literally every time they have to make a decision between fostering an environment in which people actually can have children and capitalism, they choose the latter.

others seemed to have noticed this, but might framing it in a “wow, even the Japanese aren’t this racist” way and well…yeah? right-wing racists and xenophobes exist everywhere as right-slanted as Japan’s political class is, you’ll still find plenty of regular Japanese who oppose those beliefs

No actually they're making fools of you specifically because you oppose any consequences being imposed onto them for their behavior. They know they can do whatever they want and the West won't do anything about it. That's on you.

972 does great work and this is a really thorough breakdown of the many, MANY tactics Israeli media are using to sell this story, including taking Arab correspondents off air and reputation-laundering.

What really grinds my gears about this is how essential investigative journalism is to a free and just society, and when the organizations you think are watchdogs are actually lapdogs, it sucks for everyone, including investigators who ARE doing the work and aren't getting the airtime.

"The number of investigations devoted to innocent Palestinians killed by the Israeli army was precisely zero. The omission is so complete that viewers could be forgiven for thinking the Israeli army’s only innocent victims in this war were Israelis."

as upset as I was yesterday—and still am—over this, it’s very reassuring that the reaction to Murata’s comments from JPN users on Xwitter and BlueSky have been mostly negative probably more so than with his Western fans (a sizeable portion of which are right-wing chuds themselves)

'No offense' and 'with all due respect' are two phrases that send me into the stratosphere. Just say whatever it is you want to say.

I need everyone to remember, all the time, that the Nuzlocke challenge is called this because the author of the original comics started naming his pokemon after Lost characters and Seedot was John Locke He looked like this

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

we were as human when we were teens as we are as adults and a lot of why that self-criticism happens is because our perspectives get bigger. but like. that's great. it proves we can learn and are capable of growing. liking the flower now doesn't mean you have to hate the bud or blooming

the other thing is that especially for the adults who hate their teen selves, i wish they'd love their younger selves more. because like. that's you. that's still you. it's so normal to be stupid and make mistakes when you're young. it's so normal to learn and grow. but you gotta start somewhere

Everyone has their own circumstances, but this is why people keep saying y'all needed to get off the bird app yesterday--because marinating in Elon's Neo-Nazi melting pot *will* cook your brain no how progressive you are. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41708846/ For shame, Murata.

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I do think Murata has "lost his mind" but not in the "he suddenly became racist" way. More in the, he started believing in Facebook Boomer conspiracy / pseudoscience slop. He's regularly posted about Ancient Aliens, Simulation Hypothesis and "Secrets of Higher Dimensions" in the past:

remember when the TERFs tried to claim Pratchett and his daughter and everyone who knew him and a bunch of trans fans who'd interacted with him and a bunch of other fans who have basic reading comprehension were like "you're so fucking stupid it's embarrassing," that was a fun week online

if you have never heard the name Helen Lewis before this is the correct response, just read Terry Pratchett and save yourself the trouble

helen lewis has an article in the atlantic today begging everyone to read discworld and I am going to suggest she start by rereading monstrous regiment and think about how that might apply to trans issues