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We’re wildly overdue for a Mae West biopic and I nominate Sabrina Carpenter for the lead role

Extremely Me Problem: getting taken out of a book because it has a character named Taniesha who’s an adult in 1975 even though that name didn’t start being used until about the time the story takes place

ME PRE TRANSITION: lava is so cool THE LADS: hehe yeah bro ME POST TRANSITION: lava is so cool THE LADS: aha easy mistake to make but actually it's very hot

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

I have been wondering when this would start to be a problem, as more people who aren’t dudes in their 20s start using image gen and realize that the default woman it spits out looks like this.

Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.

African American plight will be at the center of why it will come to fruition in the end.

The Truth that all are created equal and deserve recognition in the full sense of the word. It’s hard to wrap my mind around the strides made that the current illegitimate admin and its supporters have so violently reacted against. The Open Society can’t be stopped and story of the

160 years ain’t shit man. Less than 100 years spent as actual citizens. Only a couple of generations separate me from a social environment of abject cruelty, its rearing its head again. Despite it all, I really do love this country. In those 160 years the real Truth of America emerged.

160 years of struggle, of us asserting our right to proper recognition, many amazing strides in that time and yet the scourge that would see us back in chains rises once again. Today, I feel like I just need to sit somewhere and reflect on all this. The fight continues, may God have mercy on us.

It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

Naturally trusting Nordics are helpless against the inherent pirate nature of Somalis! Rufo is no better than Himmler

(vape hit) we can't cargo cult militant liberalism into existence any more than the tankie can bring about the glorious proletarian revolution by posting.

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Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.

I do sometimes wonder if I'm losing my mind. thecritic.co.uk/full...

This goes for the R+10 or more senate seats too. Run some third party, run some anti-woke, run some socialists, run some pro-business like stop pretending there are discernible laws ruling the unruly process that is the collective decision making of millions upon millions of people.

I am willing to acknowledge they are good movies. I've watched both of them, and they are technically impressive. where I draw the line is "they totally do have cultural impact" revisionism. the first time I watched Avatar I forgot the main character's name by the time I got home.

in one sense, computers and related technology are obviously not magic. in another, often just as real sense, they are absolutely a kind of magic. gosh I love computer

A movie star vehicle that nails it on every level. A fish-out-of-water musical crime comedy tailored to Whoopi's strengths with laser precision. The irresistible musical numbers & witty comic performances delivered by the entire cast make this one of the true comedy classics of the early 90s for me.

in the '90s you could go, "What if we did Witness, but a musical-comedy where Harrison Ford is actually Whoopi Goldberg, and she plays a Reno lounge act who goes undercover and teaches nuns how to sing R&B?" and laugh your way to $200 million, and rightly so!

America is extraordinarily radical in that there are tons of different ethnic groups here, and we not only generally get along with each other, but the law treats us all equal equally, and we all do the same shit like eat fried butter. What MAGA dares to ask is: what if we didn’t

That's right... Harrison Ford

Casual sexual harassment of women and femmes is so common that it’s often difficult to convince people that it even is harassment

Broke: "I want justice." Woke: "I want justice, but I'll settle for revenge." Bespoke: "I want revenge. If we accidentally get justice along the way as a byproduct, fine."

Reactionaries are not usually very smart, but the most developed of them have something like an instinct for preemptive defense of hierarchies. They can’t tell you what “woke” actually means, or how transition works, or what drives international migration. But they identify these things as threats.

I’ll admit it’s kind of funny to have a Student Feedback button that leads to a 404 error when the feedback I want to give is “your website sucks shit”

This piece does a good job breaking down how the actual process of boys’ gender anxiety actually gets triggered in academic settings. There’s a tendency to treat “provide & protect” masculinity as positive, but to be maintained it requires a femininity that needs protecting.

"All my classmates are all just conforming to the same opinion, unlike me, the nonconformist freethinker" "So what's your opinion?" "That nonconformity is bad and that everyone should conform"

I regret every joke I’ve made about how our elected officials were so old they didn’t know how to use a computer. I would give anything for another administration that doesn’t know how to use a computer

Today is the anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Not only did the law literally open doors to countless students with disabilities (myself included), it also had the unintended consequence of creating the moral panic around an autism "epidemic." 🧵 1/

and if you didn’t know, Vinay Prasad is one of the most prolific medical grifters of our time. the man is lying through his teeth. he doesn’t care if your children die, as long as he comes out on top. he will tell whatever lies necessary to secure his own social, political, and financial standing.

I cannot even begin to express my rage at this lie reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony

The Holy Father heard you had some objections to the filioque clause and he just wants to discuss them

Charlie Kirk getting snuffed really made me really wonder if the GOP was too successful with saying gun violence is just The Price of Freedom

None of which should be taken as optimistic, because they don't actually realize that there's a difference between killing a lot of people and spouting off on Joe Rogan, so they're going to do the former whether it makes any sense or not.

The regime punishes those most willing to sacrifice for their neighbor, the ones most willing to be the hero, often made necessary by the regime itself. What a senseless loss. She deserved better, and it sounds like living by her example would be a good start.

When people leave their homes out of necessity, but choose to stay here even when it’s safe to return, we should feel fucking honoured

Abraham Lincoln, 1855. www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...

I’m gonna become the fucking joker

I shouldn't be surprised that LaRoucheites have no idea how hospitals work, since LaRoucheites don't work lol

the shooter was ~five years old when the United States invaded Afghanistan. One of his victims was one. the other one hadn't been born.

this should go without saying but if you were one of the lucky few we did get out of Afghanistan during the withdrawal and we got you out because you'd been working with us, deportation back is likely a death sentence.

Union forces had suffered some 5,800 casualties but inflicted twice that on the rebels. When a chaplain asked General Thomas whether the dead should be sorted and buried by state in the new military cemetery, the Virginian who stayed loyal replied "Mix 'em up. I'm tired of states' rights.” (21