A white woman on instagram told me i need to "educate myself" because I said SJM's character writing in Throne of Glass was abysmal. Mind you she didn't know about SJM's racism and zionism. Truly just saying words for the sake of it.

Something simple

Your regular reminder that normal, mainstream, pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform

#diida-e-namnaak means tearful eyes.

Gaza Sunbirds has a mobile cinema where they move between camps providing much needed joy for the children of Gaza by showing kids films such as Ratatouille. This is a much needed respite for all of the kids in Gaza, and with our help, we can make a difference. Donation link is in the comments.

This was about my short story in this incredible collection of holiday inspired fiction edited by @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com — I’ve never said yes to an anthology so quickly and I hope you’ll pick FOR THE REST OF US up. It’s an amazing book!

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

You’ve heard me talk about it 1000 times, I already canceled my sub for school so frankly I don’t need to say any more lol. Go find my old threads I guess idk

it all comes down to people will bend over backwards and find any excuse for the bigotry of white people but will immediately villainise queer people of colour merely wanting their harms to be addressed. you do this bc you have internalised white supremacy, you see us not as people but as annoyances

ao3 has historically been a terrible website and not only do they allow NSFW works of real children but they are complicit in their support of Israel and have history of other deplorable racism.

i was working on something but i got distracted

all the wols i’m seeing rn are just people recreating this

okay in the interest of combating the orientalism they've released, if you have made clothing mods for west asian, north african, and central asian cultures, please drop them down below! let's boost respectful and accurate representation!

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

Also im using this as a thread to throw down my middle eastern inspired mashups (also middle east, MENA, SWANA, whatever u use most people are familiar w middle east)

I’m so sick of orientalism in fiction. I’m so sick of the blatantly sexualised and fetishised amalgams of a dozen cultures into one homogenous “exotic” blob. I’m so sick of White people saying I’m “reading too much into it” or “being performative” when it’s MY culture being bastardised.

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and this is why it is so beyond important that we do not take that fucking bait. do not, ever, ever ever go in on this. This business model cannot be rewarded. Do not ever do remote computing. I'm so serious. Do not do it! use a fucking potato computer if you have to! DON'T REMOTE COMPUTE EVER

the "analog trend" on titktok is such a perfect example of how capitalism is so insidious it will even cannibalize the very concept of anticapitalism and try to sell it back to you

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

Yes, please keep this in mind. Some people cannot "just leave." They are caring for elderly relatives, have child custody situations, jobs where communities depend on them, etc. It's not so simple.

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Iron Circus Animation blew through about ~$425,000 to make the 27-minute Lackadaisy pilot, and industry folks marvel at how cheaply we got it done.

memories are short. reminder of this crushing statement from (one) woman: "I dropped my dream of being a comic artist shortly after and fell into a depression while I tried to figure out how I could have my future still be art related. I’ve hardly read a comic since.” www.tcj.com/the-2020-rep...

Yeah this is what they mentioned:

a gentle greeting. #diida-e-namnaak

Just a reminder while this is a victory, it's not over yet until Discord completely gives up on the age verification nonsense. Don't resubcribe to Nitro immediately.

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

BTW if you ever wanna commission an artist you don't have to have OC's or fandom characters- you can literally just be like "dang I'd like to have some more lesbian art exist" or "wow it would be real nice to see some trans rep in my culture" or "wouldn't a yellow centric painting look nice here"

The indie game industry is not thriving like a lot of people seem to think. There's always gonna be hits like Silksong or Deltarune, but nearly every indie dev I personally know is constantly stressed about marketing and money and whether they'll be able to keep going

what trying to write smut feels like:

*saul goodman's your dragon* #worldofwarcraft #wrathion #wowart #art

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learning neuroanatomy when you have a mental illness or are neurodivergent is funny bc it'll be like "ah, yes. That's the jackass whose ruining my life"

this post is about ttrpgs, but it feels especially relevant in light of discussions on the wol’s actions in later expansions in ff14, and the narrative’s increasing unwillingness to cast their actions in any kind of morally questionable light

Unfortunately the best way to kill corporations and billionaires is to just not use their stuff, hence they are all fighting to be integrated into society via government spending and absolute necessities for people.

Despite how excellent the news may seem, do not get comfortable just yet One key word to take this away from; "Halted," which means, the Age Verification junk is very much alive and there's a possibility they'll be trying this again Keep the pressure going, do not let them get away with this

They incarcerated a white, retired British grandmother with a valid visa. For 2 months. I'm glad this article gets into what most don't: Even if you manage to get released, that's 2 months of not paying your bills. Her credit was wrecked. She's retired - younger folks would have lost their jobs.

Degenerative AI doesn’t do anything competently, isn’t in real demand, and requires an expensive network of support that was never needed by anything it’s replacing, but at least its forced adoption has made the things we actually want impossible to get!

This is intentionally choosing to expose Black babies in one of the poorest countries in the world to a very transmissible virus that can cause long term liver damage for no reason, but to appease a cohort of white anti-vaxxers.

"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

Discord: You'll need to supply to age verification if you want access to certain features. Users: Hang on, wasn't there a thing in October where user ID data was leaked? Discord: Ok, yes, but the chances of that happening again are-- **one week later**

"Nazis were just regular people" is not a statement meant to evoke empathy or to excuse their crimes. It is a statement of warning. The capacity to be part of and perpetrate atrocities is not limited to "monsters," it is wholly human. It is what we must always be aware of.

「90's fine」 #thexteramods | #aura | #gpose | #oc:kalliope

I become more and more convinced that the AI is just right wing class war and the lack of white collar worker organisation due having been flattered for years as geniuses and fed like farm geese has just led to a colossal lack of awareness of the class interests going on.