The press normalising GC linguistic framing is insidious.

I have two thoughts when I see "regret" posts about dystopian shit like this. 1) The fact they always start by declaring allegiance and framing it as a methodology problem, not a wrong goal to start 2) Never do they go back and re-examine their stance through the light of the people who warned.

Genuinely evil shit Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

(This is also why radical acceptances and support of your Jewish neighbours and aggressive rejection of antisemitism are a crucial aspect of anti-zionism)

This is the entire purpose of Israel. Not just the US but also all of Europe is using it to commit genocide and police the border, using Jewish people as a shield. Pushing them towards a genocide as a way to wash our hands of all of ours cultural culpability for the holocaust.

(builds a mechanism) hey i think this might be god???

This thing honestly worries and upsets me more than Gmail trying to slop up all my emails or Google Search being dead and replaced by a chatbot. It’s much easier to go somewhere else for those. There isn’t a viable alternative for YouTube. I can’t find all the same creators elsewhere.

Possum jar in the works

Hey YouTube, how about a feature where you take channels that people are subscribed to and put new videos by those channels in the subscribers' homepage? Seems a radical idea I know but it might just work.

"In YouTube Shorts, a new “Remix” option will let users write a prompt to remix a creator’s video by changing its style or even adding themselves into the video, without changing the basic context of the video." Only fascists will use this feature and only fascists will enjoy watching.

"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not

something I firmly believe but can never prove is that a lot of the time when people complain about taco bell or chipotle or chinese food making them shit they're complaining about what happens when you give beans or broccoli into a body that is absolutely starved of fiber

People forgot about being more willing to die on their feet than live on their knees and that’s evident in the responses you get when you say that rather than endlessly playing a game of Catch 22 you’re down to just flip the board.

This is the entire purpose of Israel. Not just the US but also all of Europe is using it to commit genocide and police the border, using Jewish people as a shield. Pushing them towards a genocide as a way to wash our hands of all of ours cultural culpability for the holocaust.

Occupied people are victims. We're not victims. We're enablers. There's a HUGE difference.

This is not a defense of Israel. This is an indictment of the United States. Israel hasn't conquered us, occupied us, or anything else. And frankly I DESPISE that term, BECAUSE OUR MATERIAL CONDITIONS ARE NOTHING LIKE THE PEOPLE IN LEBANON AND PALESTINE THAT ISRAEL ACTUALLY *IS* OCCUPYING.

WE ARE USING ISRAEL TO COMMIT GENOCIDE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT OUR GOVERNMENT WANTS.

And this idea that we'd be as pure as the driven snow if not for Israeli kompromat is an ahistorical farce that manufactures consent for future atrocities. The United States of America, the most powerful military empire in the history of the world, cannot be forced to do something against its will.

Why we're in material breach of 500 treaties with Indigenous Nations? Why Black women keep dying giving birth? Israel is committing genocide ON OUR BEHALF. We don't commit genocide on theirs. Israel can't use our trillion dollar imperial war machine unless we already have one.

The problem with Maureen Galindo is that this "Israel controls our government" talk is, frankly, genocide apologia. Is Israel why we're starving Cuba? Why we kidnapped the president of Venezuela? Why the US is escalating genocide against trans people?

As long as we depend on lifestyles & policies that decimate the global south, elevate the temperature of the earth, manifest war, make water scarce, make replenishable resources finite, rob resource rich continents blind as their people starve… immigrants are going to come. And they should.

I think a lot of people who obsess over Disco Elysium should spend less time litigating its legacy and play another game, like Norco, which is a masterpiece that not enough people played.

An element I’ve been considering about the Insurrection Bailout Fund is that serves as a signal that if The People do manage to win back control of the government through non-violent democratic processes despite the current game-rigging, this admin will support new insurrectionists in the future.

Bluntly, the current patriarchal order has made it explicit that it would welcome the annihilation of humanity before the annihilation of the order.

"People treat characters like they're real people and real people like they're characters." Whew.

Paying $750 to keep insisting that switching to Jellyfin would confuse your non technical relatives and friends.

This can’t be said enough. Liberals seem to genuinely believe this kind of manipulation only comes in the form of random leftists criticizing Democrats even though it’s a confirmed fact prominent “influencers” like Tim Pool and BrooklynDad are bought and paid for.

What struck me most from the conversations I had with multiple Palestinian devs for the unpublished piece how they spoke about how Palestine was portrayed in media, and how we so rarely get depictions of it as a place where people just like you and I have just...lived lives. Whole, beautiful lives.

Over a year ago, I spoke with @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social about Dreams on a Pillow for a piece that was killed before it could be published. I am honored that he was willing to take the time to speak with me again in spite of that and tell me about his beautiful homeland: kotaku.com/upcoming-ste...

“missed the ai wave”? motherfucker what are you talking about? these dipshits were in on the ground floor. so tired of moving goalposts so that corporations don’t seem completely idiotic and useless while also being extremely harmful/destructive in myriad ways.

Vibes. 🫠

losing youtube annotations was a minor burning library of alexandria

too soon

lol any way 💅

Some of the worst political influencers and people who get paid to shill pseudo journalistic political content online got their start smearing women like Amber Heard and Blake Lively and were largely ignored by mainstream media as they built massive audiences off misogyny. Pop culture matters!

If you see this, post a pic from your device without context

lhb appreciation post. let’s hear it for long haired butches

I noticed during the pandemic that people most likely to mask, distance, etc. were those people who were already comfortable with discomfort. They'd learned to grieve, or live with a disability, or been marginalised in some way. The people who didn't know how to process discomfort screamed.

This summer is going to be long and hot. Remember kids when youre out there abolishing the state, wear a mask and cover any and all identifying tattoos, use the buddy system/go with a group of friends, and have fun out there.

just instantly uncritically believe that's it's true. It's just absolutely baffling shit like I get that people want to believe that it's true and that in the absence of any kind of knowledge about situation you just default to what you see but come fucking on Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

It's really baffling to me that the same people who are perfectly capable and even adept at understanding that for example the American constitution banning cruel and unusual punishment doesn't mean the US doesn't torture people will read something about China and Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Since it took a bit to get the hardcover internationally I got the ebook in the time it took the physical version to arrive. But now it’s here it’s a sign it’s Discord Friends Book Club time. Just to streamline all the conversations where the book keeps being relevant.

I really love it when an artist I follow gets insanity levels of obsessed with [thing they like] and will not stop drawing it. It's so very charming. Go girl give us one billion drawings of that little freak in your head who I know nothing about. He's my blorbo in law now

The thing about this dream, as with most anarchist politics, is that we don’t have to wait. We don’t need to hope someone cares about us and vote for them. We don’t need to overthrow any governments. We just bring the world we want to see into existence through our actions.

Mia, anarchistly: the state cannot be trusted to produce estrogen every neighborhood should have a trans workers council that distributes hrt to the free piles and will walk it to your door, no cis person will be involved with any point of the process Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

It is important for us to remember that at all times all over the world & perpetrated, funded or aided by governments that market themselves as magnanimous, there are Black people being fed to the machine. This is not something that is considered anything other than normal.