RIP Baudrillard you would've loved this episode of imperial decline

i love my biological son so much 🥰

bigots are always demanding accountabiity from all queer and trans folk for some imaginary issue that is almost always based on the posts of one or two chronically online weirdos. so why do people always fall for it 💀

This is insanity. The "threat" was that our "ally" was going to get our troops killed by attacking another country that would then attack us because of that alliance, so we attacked that country ourselves to - what, ensure that they had a reason to attack us? What the fuck is this logic???

It might just be me but I would wait until the aggressor has made the legal and ethical case for their actions before giving it my nation's full support.

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Where is the lie?

probably should have waited a bit at least before being an absolute moron

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

"The Corporations don't intrinsically have souls, but they've got rights. The only corpo that contained a soul was Costco - the only one born with a soul. The Chamber of Commerce was empty, you see. These things are just vessels. That's why I'm going to destroy them. Because I hate them."

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I gotta say, being like "I support trans rights, BUT" while the government is making it impossible for trans people to *survive* is actively helping the government get what they want. And I don't think I've ever seen a legitimate critique follow, it's just repeating more anti-trans propaganda

gonna have to start carrying this around during fringe and womad

seven weeks and three 'this is URGENT' e-mails later, and still nothing

Unfashionable to say but the evidence consistently suggests that about a quarter of the population in white countries are unvarnished racists and another quarter are casually racist until circumstances cause them to feel less casual about it

the one thing i am *dreading* about teaching again is having to grade this slop and being forced to pass obvious cheating students. universities everywhere seem to be petrified of enforcing academic integrity rules in these cases unless the student writes "PS i generated this with AI, also fuck you"

ugh it must be so frustrating to have your data being used for training without your consent

i still don't know what clavicular is and for once instead of feeling old and out of touch I feel free 🕊️

sometimes i throw batteries into the sea because i think they might like a swim :)

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

Everyone using a text based app thinking it's the "commons" could use some perspective. Most of America is watching videos, all of us reading text are in small echo chambers and personally I don't see the need to be in one with a bunch of Nazis.

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You chose booksmaxxing, I chose looksmaxxing

what is the social protocol around disabling other people's AI meeting notetakers in large meetings? they *never* ask for permission before recording other people's conversations but at the same time it feels socially inappropriate to be the one person who commands it to stop in the chat 🥴

Conservative and reactionary centrist media is trying to set up a narrative in which GLP-1s are some kind of existential threat to body positivity and fat activism. It's bullshit. If you want to lose weight, go for it. But not everyone can or wants to — and they deserve equal treatment regardless.

Shit-for-brains takes like this should disqualify you from having any kind of presence in public life, and yet for 30 years our media establishment has facilitated her rhetoric and has actively rehabilitated her image over and over and over. Why?

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the Black Panthers were right

Finished 'Half His Age' in a day, which is pretty rare for me. A deeply uncomfortable read, but compelling all the same. I rate it!

Some people are calling it the flag of Woke 2

Topiary served up a delicious vegan tasting menu for Valentine's Day yesterday 🥰

over on x the everything app some Chicago high school kid named Danny Spud tried to disrupt his school's anti-ICE protest by yelling about how much he loves ICE and then filmed himself getting walloped by a fellow student lmao the quote tweet making fun of him has 3x the likes

Big Wank

The Internet didn't miss though. I absolutely love it when everyone understands the assignment

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there is something uniquely infuriating about being forced to 'lodge a service ticket' into the void and wait for several weeks for something that should be able to be solved on the spot with an e-mail or a phone call

sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young

america is fake lol

I am looking for postdoctoral positions that would allow me to continue researching LGBTQ+ health and wellness. I specifically study how trans folks flourish and care for themselves in the face of sociopolitical constraint. My PhD is in Psych and WGS. Any leads would be greatly appreciated! 🌈🎓

how good will it be when all these archconservative losers defect to one nation, fail to win any of their seats, and cause a national lurch back to the centre? woke 2 is on

bucket of piss is ready

That was hands down the best halftime show ever. It was filled with so many references to Puerto Rican culture and history. The sugarcane fields, the casita, the streets of NYC, and the power lines. All of it resonated so much. Boricua por siempre. Seguimos aquí. 🇵🇷

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absolutely no concept of personal space 😩

ok as sociologists can we all agree to chill with the completely inscrutable titles. tired of staring at "(under)taking the (un)doings of pre/post temporal (im)possibilities and the (un)becomings" and wondering what the fuck you're talking about