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Wow, I thought no one would see this, and this would just be one of many helpful things that just dissappear into the aether, good that more people know about this now

My fiancé knows a bit of Japanese and Korean, so she likes to watch videos in those languages. Naturally, she got ambushed by an AI dub. I told her about this, and it worked. Many thanks for this!

I went into the settings on YouTube and made all, ALL languages my preferred language, nothing auto translates for me no more

any discussion of city transit improvement online ever

Its not sex with an underage girl. It's rape.

Thank you. So many people keep saying "women" and "sex." It's pedophilia. It's rape. It's raping children. Call it what it is.

These fucking people.

Whenever someone starts a sentence with "Why don't you just...." they are 100% about to suggest a course of action that is either extremely difficult or completely unhelpful.

Stop telling disabled people to “just find a care home” It’s not easy or affordable Most homes won’t take young people who are severely chronically ill and/or medically unstable It’s also cruel We deserve to remain in our communities Institutionalization isn’t the answer

The thing that remains confusing to me about this MTG discourse is that SHE HERSELF IS NOT FUCKING ASKING FOR INCLUSION IN YOUR IMAGINARY TENT WHICH ACTUALLY DOESN'T EVEN EXIST FOR MOST PEOPLE ON HERE BEYOND VOTING. 😂 sorry for the caps.

Again it’s fascinating that so many “centrists” and “leftists” and “unionists” feel the need to be seen telling us not to have boundaries Not just because I find it condescending and annoying but because the republicans who believe this ? Do not do this

the "pro-democracy movement," you say? abcnews.go.com/Politics/mar...

Let me repeat I actually believe the best in a lot of people and people in general…. and that’s why I believe Bad people cause so much damn damage And why I find these “but we have to accept them” No because I don’t think they are doing us favors

Survivors of domestic violence who went to prison for crimes related to their abuse have for years asked California lawmakers to make courts take that abuse into consideration. For the third year, California killed such a reform.

Affordability keeps getting dismissed as a “hoax,” yet more people are worried about food, housing, and basic survival than ever. This piece looks honestly at how we got here and what real community care can look like when the safety net is under attack. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/affordabilit...

Also I’d like people to start reading stuff like this like it’s the threat it is meant to be “ I need you to explain to me why you want to withdraw from someone who is openly attacking your craft and identities. Don’t you know other people are looking” She feels entitled to other folks power

There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments

They are able to buy medical debt for just over 1.5¢ per dollar. They spent 10 mil to relieve 642 mil of debt. Every state should be doing this and maxing it out within the debt relief org’s normal rules.

Oh, look! Something good happened!

Arizona cancels medical debt for almost half-a-million residents www.knau.org/knau-and-ari...

The musician worked with the Kennedy Center for 20 yrs. Now they are suing him, while complaining of bullying. "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

Good news.

My beautiful friend, a nurse, died at 31 last night. Her cancer treatment was delayed because a visitor did not wear a mask and she became terribly ill for weeks with the flu or COVID and following infections. If you're wearing a mask, thank you.

This person has done something racist and is jumping in front of it by swearing any accountability is “dogpiling” This is part of the abusive toxic patterns in “left” spaces and even if it’s in response to a yoxic religious entity/ childhood It’s manipulative bullshit

We’re at the point where we have concentration camps and slave patrols and the people with the most safety think a mean joke is the pinnacle of resistance

Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience. Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense. They admitted it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Using an unwillingness to mask to score cheap “I’m not afraid” points in fact highlights their cowardice.

I am very tired of claims that maskers or covid cautious people are all just antisocial weirdos who wanted an excuse to hide forever. Many of us had active, full social lives that we would still have - if you would agree to help make the environment safe. You won’t, so we’re trapped.

Viruses do not appear spontaneously in the air. They are breathed out by an infected person. It is not abstract, it is concrete. Every high risk person who gets severely ill or dies does so because someone sick did not avoid infecting them.It is not logical to put that burden entirely on the victim.

This man lived a long and fruitful life within an iron lung and some careless people visited him without masking, giving him covid. He was an author, a lawyer. He died. The most vulnerable should not be something you’re willing to sacrifice because you refuse to mask www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Truly. I have so many polite ways to say, “You have got to be fucking kidding me with this bullshit you just dropped.” Even some looks of skepticism when we’re doing FaceTime or in person. (and some even barely polite ones. My practice is a no bullshit zone.)

A therapist has to reality-check your delusions, to say "no, this is harmful" An llm just yesses everything

This👇.

Mamdani’s appointment for FDNY Commissioner, Lillian Bonsignore, has 30 years experience at EMS, which addresses approximately 70% of all calls that come into the NYFD. You would be hard pressed to find a candidate with a better background for the job.

“The dead wood of overextended empires, elite corruption, and institutional bloat is never burned away. Instead the kinetic energy of decline is funneled inward, turning into polarization and civil strife.” Worth reading on the present phenomenon that I too have described as “hegemonic suicide”:

thinking of that James Baldwin quote about "blame" vs "responsibility" & how many white people utterly fail to get that distinction bc they're so defensively attached to whiteness (for better & for worse) as a personal identity

None of them have ever done any such thing. I think what they object to is that other white people have started talking publicly about how whiteness as a concept creates inequality, and they feel the social pressure that truth creates, which they experience exclusively in terms of blame management.

Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.

So slave trade is legal again?

Still unreported, should be investigated: ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”

I hate that we’re having to think in these terms, but the evidence seems to be bearing out that steep fare hikes are less damaging to ridership than service cuts.

Lots of things to fix out there but a decent argument that a real fix (if such a thing existed) for what can reasonably be called “elite impunity” would cascade out fixes for like 90 percent of the rest of it

And that's the elephant in the room: when these "too big to fail" corporations are so intertwined with institutions, how would you bring accountability and justice without having quacks sow mistrust of all institutions?

What these people are doing to the power of calling out real antisemitism, in an incredibly dangerous time of surging global antisemitism….man, it is just so worrisome

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

let’s send some love to Nurse Hammam 🖤

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

Tesla doesn't recongise Trade Unions. Apple doesn't recognise unions. Amazon is anti-union. McDonald's is anti-union. Starbucks is anti-union. Google is anti-union. Walmart is anti-union. The big corporations are not on your side.