An episode where action doesn't happen isn't filler. An episode that's focused on character relationships isn't filler. An episode that feels "Slice of Life" isn't filler. Filler. Is when. There is anime-unique content. Because they caught up to the manga too damn fast. That's it. That's Filler.

Hey I'm thinking about doing prisoner penpal stuff but most of the information I've been able to find on it seems pretty surface level. Has anyone else ever used the 'black and pink penpals' website/service? What was your experience with it like?

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

...apparently he tweeted about it several days ago. it seems weird that The Economist purposely hid his name from readers. unless of course they knew that readers might already be aware of Jəsse's long history of bias on this issue...

...knowing Jəsse's the author (& that gender-affirming care practitioners are well aware of his biases & tactics) utterly changes the meaning of the last paragraph. without attribution, it makes it sound like the authors are suspiciously dodging the question. in actuality they know he's a bad actor!

ok no here's how we do it we set up an insurance company offering rapture insurance, with the promise that if the rapture happens and they get left behind, insurance claimants get a big payout.

my "how was I supposed to know that the tranny porn stars I was following were transgender" campaign t-shirt has a lot of people asking me questions that should really be answered by the t-shirt

just thought of the best grift ever: rapture insurance

me: "I need to get back into writing" mastercard: "nothing horny I hope" me: "... well now I HAVE to make it horny."

Gianmarco doing some risky free speech here

"Hello, it's me, Kamala Harris. Here is my book where I demonstrate I am completely unfit as a leader because I can't take any accountability for the decisions I made and in fact would have done worse and in fact some minor lies anyone watching the campaign even in a cursory fashion could name."

one of the most frustrating things about being trans is seeing how public backlash can absolutely force reactionaries into submission, but how this sort of public backlash is only ever utilized for the benefit of old white cis men with established careers in comedy.

if LLMs end up being the final contradiction that leads to the total collapse of global neoliberal capitalism I will ugly laugh, just saying.

the funniest thing about fascists talking about their fantasies is that they're all liars. every single one will be like 'oh I'm torn between wanting a happy family and wanting to die in glorious battle,' but that's not what they all secretly desire.

Ok so I’m going to need to move by the end of October and have no prospects or savings or social circles.

listen we're violently forcing those transphobes to murder us by existing in their presence. can't you have some empathy for them, the truest victims of trans violence?

After sleeping on this statement I think I disagree with it. If we say 'the problem with religion is actually just a problem with christianity' then we're erasing those religious fascist movements which are non christian; we ignore Hindutva, Zionists, Islamic fascists, etc.

the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky

also boosting for today, also stolen yesterday during the car break ins by powderhorn park in Minneapolis

the problem with focusing in on christianity as the problem is that a whole bunch of people are super christian about the ways they aren't christian, if you know what I mean

"Sometimes I wonder how I taste." "You ever have a nosebleed?" "... yeah?" "I'd imagine it's probably a little like that."

Alright now that it's been a bit, what value did having D-Rex provide that could not have been replicated by using Ember in its place? What purpose did it serve that Ember could not have?

"The US is majority Democrat!" "The US is majority Republican!" Both sides are wrong. The US is majority 'guy who doesn't vote', actually, and those guys get super mad when you try to get them invested in politics.

"What are you wearing?" "Just some stuff I threw on out of the closet, why?" "... well, it's out of your closet now, huh?" "??????????"

And the tend is always big enough to include literally anyone on the right but somehow still too small to allow in anyone to the left of the Clintons.

Ah you're right, how could I forget, I totally forgot about the time the entire German state apparatus collapsed spontaneously following the implementation of Nazis policies, circumventing a costly world war to overthrow Fascist regimes.

What was the political affiliation of the white moderates in the 1960s? Who was it trying to "moderate" the timetable of African-American's freedoms? It wasn't the Socialists, Communists, and Anarchists. It's not explicit white supremacists because he directly contrasts the two. So who could it be?

Sophia in 2020: Joe Biden is the accelerationist candidate, he will push the Fascizing logics and policies morally laundered through your misguided "Antifascist" antipraxis which will be repurposed when liberals fail to address the underlying conditions and Fascists seize power. Idiots: You're crazy

all else aside, who the fuck actually believes 'yeah you can't get fat by eating fried potatoes,' that just comes off as delulu

You are losing them because even under a "good democrat" presidency they watch their communities get older and older while quality of life gets worse and Democrats offer no counter-narrative or plan of action to resolve this while saying everything is fine because the NASDAQ is going up.

Wow it's almost like LLMs are just statistical prediction engines and not actually intelligent or capable of reasoning

I mean anyone who understood even the generalities of how LLMs work already knew this, but I guess it's good for the LLM company to finally admit the obvious?

"ShE rAn A pErFeCt CaMpAiGn, AbSoLuTeLy FlAwLeSs"

Actual thing just said in my Discord: "Art that makes you patriotic to be a hyena even though you're not a hyena"

The thought of McQueen having to deal with Rudolf's dad jokes during a family dinner is hilarious girl gonna be fighting for her life taking everything she says literally 😂 but at the same time she is gonna crack so many unintentional jokes like this meme.

carl dirt has completed his final mission... he created the turning point

I love the future

it's so funny seeing stuff like this like people think $10 a day is a small food budget

dumb idea- full body tribal tattoo but it's all got the same aesthetic as one of those super weeby womb tattoos

if bluesky is irrelevant why is everyone in the news always fucking complaining about it

Free meme for others to use as they please

in honor of Charlie Kirk, I will be going to Starbucks and ordering a single shot, which I will take straight down my neck

my read on that new bluesky rule is that the intent is to ban non-consensual sharing of nudes etc, even if those nudes are 'created' by some means other than taking a photograph- that is to say, computer generated revenge porn or whatever.

unfortunately for anyone who wants to get one of these so they can show people their bed hole in real life, the optical illusion used here really only works in the context of the photoshopped picture. I'm pretty sure there's no way to get this same visual effect of this on a real 3d object.

I am increasingly coming around to the idea that most self-professed liberals, in much the same way most self-professed socialists, communists, and anarchists aren't, aren't even liberals. I would have my critiques but a militant Neo-Jacobin liberal current would be preferable to what we see now:

me, kneeling on the ground, bag just ripped off my head, staring directly at the camera with a transphobe visibly standing behind me loading a gun: "Hey, it's me! I bet you're wondering how I got here. Well, freedom of expression requires that I tolerate the free expression of people I loathe, so-"

I'm not going to pretend to be surprised a white supremacist liberal uses tankie as an anti-communist slur against non-Leninists.

Funny, I’ve seen what you deny.

He supported extrajudicial killings of us just for existing and many of your sisters are dead because of his advocacy. Don't tell me you care about the mountains of your sisters' bodies if you're squeemish about harm being done to the people who erected the piles.

There are very few things the Baeddels universally agreed upon as a heterodox transfeminist group. That said you should take "Baeddel" out of your bio if you can't actually handle the one position they all agreed upon regarding transfemicidal Fascists, lib.