that the financial barriers to music production (or any career in the arts) can be very high is a problem that AI generators cannot actually solve

SOLID SNAKE: alright, Otacon. I don’t like you, and you don’t like me OTACON: I like you SOLID SNAKE: well. Alright. But I don’t like you: OTACON: maybe you’d like me if you got to know me

SOLID SNAKE: hrm. Twenty dollars… I wanted a peanut. CODEC ‼️ THE COLONEL PLAYED BY BEN 10s GRAMPA: Snake! Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts. SNAKE: many peanuts? Explain how.

It is legitimately so ridiculous that there is a category called “rude” here where the mods decide which grown ass adults are too rude- it’s so silly

Man I do not know how to feel about tonight’s Panorama because it is putting a lot of the burden on the reporting and not on the Polis

Trans rights are not negotiable. Trans rights will not be sidelined in political seasons to make transphobic voters more comfortable.

I always say that if you want to be viewed as the toughest person known to humankind, just transition. If you are a trans woman, suddenly people will discover you are aggressive and masculine, when they never did before!

People act like "the social construction of knowledge" is some kind of academic bafflegab but it's pretty fucking obvious actually.

Not stamping out just treating as if it's a dangerous sign of mental illness that needs to be discouraged.

the most galling kind of art to me at this stage of my life is the gutless deconstruction. entries into seminal genres or franchises that do not have the balls to commit to the ideas they're gesturing at, and so use the deconstructive elements to reinforce the status quo

it's pretty great (terrible) that the only options for messaging 4/5ths of my social circles these days are "facebook in browser" (broken to fuck because i run a tight adblocker) or "facebook on computer app" (broken to fuck because everything is a hideous billboard)

“I want my art to be apolitical” lmao that is all I need to know about your politics bro byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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hey 👋🏾. made a new poster cause a lot of stuff happened since the last one, financially and life-wise. not good unfortunately. with less than half of the last goal filled, i unfortunately need a lot of help this month. thank you all for the support you have no idea what it means to me 🫶🏾

Hey, i really need help ♥️ I owe 750 to car, 400 to car insurance, 450 to rent and an additonal 50 from last week. 1650 all together I'm out of groceries and things like soap www.paypal.me/marlahsmith Venmo: @Marla-Smith-79 cash.app/$marlahsmith #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #TransCrowdfund #HelpSky

the misogyny coming out of cis women lately would make a lot of 90's men chauvinistic chuds blush.

Like, I’m not going “I called it” here. Hawking was an emotionally abusive misogynist asshole with the political views of your average LessWrong user and I think there is something to be said about how the dehumanisation of disabled people prevented the public from perceiving that

Pretty bleak that a lot of the broad strokes online audience reaction I’ve been seeing to Wuthering Heights is “but isn’t the real feminism having a cheeky thrill and enjoying a sexy man”

i'm actually half afab, on my mother's side

Adding just for people who see this and don’t know me or what I’m about: this is not in any way an endorsement of or a capitulation to KOSA in its current form. As a librarian/archivist I know better than to believe that this legislation is actually about protecting minors from online predation.

I have big nostalgia goggles about the early Internet too, but man is there a ton of survivorship bias from people who, frankly, were not underage girls during that time

Who up portraying the artist as a young man

send me real pictures, real art, stick figure drawing. if you generate anything you are banned for life from these halls

I just heard someone say on TV that use of the term "concentration camps" to describe ICE facilities was "very strong language." I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.

You know what’s always funny to me is slasher fans who say that XYZ franchise was “””betrayed””” by a particularly weird or silly or offbeat entry. I don’t think the series about Greg Murderlegs, the guy who cuts off people’s legs and beats them to death with them, has principles to be betrayed

Folks when conservatives make a big deal about how they're gonna give pedos the death penalty that means they're wanting to put people like some older gay dude who's mentoring a closeted kid or those who wear drag in public to death and don't give a shit about the people who actually molest kids.

Someday someone’s gonna try to remake Big Trouble in Little China and it’s gonna be the worst thing you’ve ever seen.

Is she an expert in gender and transition? No. Has she ever read a lick of the extensive research about social media? No. Will your thick relatives listen to her? Yes

A BIG ADORABLE BABY: buh. buh. ME, WATCHING INTENTLY: go on THE BABY: bofa

guy from an alternate universe where fictional violence is treated with the same squeamishness as fictional sex: ew what's up with trans women being into shows where they fight?

an alarming number of you act like you're on 4chan despite claiming to have never had a '''4chan phase''', and that's all i really have to say about it

if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"

The effects of the UK Establishment buying into Cass’s lies are inevitable. She used the term “shroud waving” to describe people raising the alarm about what these policies are doing. That’s what she thinks is toxic. Not the consequences of her work, but objections to them.

It’s truly amazing how I can explain over and over again that the BBCs coverage of trans issues is institutionally rotten and serves the interests of the state but my parents will treat every single incidence as mandatory viewing

Stumped for a 4k player for my folks cuz they’ve had a rough couple months and they got a 4k teevee over the Yuletide. Got ‘em a few films too.

there is an employment crisis among trans women and there always has been, but good luck getting people to see it

It’s been a year and I’m still kinda speechless about this

Friends fear she’s spending Valentines Nite watching ZSJL

What is the ACTUAL root of transphobia, patriarchy, and sex binaries in the colonizing cultures? Who introduced it to them? For what purpose? Why did it take root so strongly that they were compelled to spread to the cultures they colonized? And then, why did the colonized cultures accept it?

Thinking more about the bizarre non-logic deployed in things like "transphobia began with colonization" (wife showed me an annoying TikTok video when I got back from the bar). And like, so let's assume the genesis of transphobia was, say, British colonization in non-Western nations. Fine.

Doesn't that mean that the colonizing culture, British in this case, was already transphobic? So what was the genesis of transphobia in British culture? Which would have to predate colonization? What caused that? What made patriarchy and transphobia so core to British culture that they spread it?

Doing arithmetic with a calculator frees you to do a lot of useful things quickly. But writing a poem or a song or a novel isn't like doing arithmetic in any way whatsoever. It's a message in a bottle to some unknown stranger. You've got to write it and throw it into the sea your own self.

Shaggy in the middle of a steaming Mekong Delta when he sneezes. A tree says “gesundheit”

Roses are red, My gaze Prussian blue Nice to meet you Relena, Omae o korosu

“Like, they promised me a parade, Scoob! But they spat on me!!!”

MY FRIEND, FOOLISH: sex words sound like stuff Jabba the Hutt would say ME, EVIL BEYOND MEASURE:

IDK y'all, I hear a term like "shitprogs" and all I can think is "only if you don't time it right"

Day 45 of camping outside the Skywalker Ranch with my little placard asking if a droid can be a Shabbos goy