Mainstream media stop being absurdly ableist challenge level: impossible

to add: it speaks also to how the aesthetics of fascism are always stolen or appropriated. the swastika is from euroasian religions like hinduism or buddhism. the fedora was originally women's fashion. gAI being popular among fascists makes sense when its entire function is to steal aesthetics

It's not that I won't vote for Gavin Newsom if he's the presidential candidate. It's that if the Democratic Party chooses him, then they are communicating to me that they actively do not want my vote, and believe they don't need it. I will simply honor their wishes

you have to examine the politics of everything you consume, even and especially media that you enjoy you have to try to understand what is said by everything, because everything has a politics, for better, for worse, and for, uh. "for more complicated"

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Libs of Tiktok, Elon Musk, and Robbie Starbuck put everything they had into trying to push a boycott of Netflix over LGBTQ characters in their shows. Netflix ignored them and the stock is back up. Turns out bots don't actually cancel accounts.

"corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and antifa are a cancer on our culture" they're gonna treat you like a socialist or anarchist anyway, so if you haven't yet you may as well at least consider ditching that whole capitalism thing

reblog to make something good happen, ignore to continue in the nightmare

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people should be made to feel more shame over their views

Oh I'm sure

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

This is something I wish my AI-cheerleading colleagues in archives and libraries fully understood: all the work we've done in the past 25+ years, all of it, is now actively being used to putting us out of business in the most dire fashion imaginable by the wealthiest people on the planet

related, when the president is invading our own country, waging war on our own people, i don't wanna see dems give the GOP shit they ask for, don't wanna hear shit bout 'we hope our friends across the aisle will work with us on bipartisan solutions to the problems they cause' i don't want none of it

Things are getting desperate for Onyx-- Please help.

as the person who kicked off a lot of the modern "civil war 2" discourse i don't think we're past the point where that can be avoided. i do think we are already in a state of mass civil conflict. but many nations (see: Italy) have been through similar upheavals without war.

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

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the fuck is this shit

I NEED to shove this dude into a locker

i'm on a million of the most hateful lists you can imagine, but sure, let's draw the line here

This website absolutely feels like the Liberal version of Twitter and I mean that in a "advertises itself as the socially progressive option without addressing the fundamental issues" kind of way

Everyone should go buy trans books before I get disappeared for bringing up the Trust and Safety gooning incident.

man I’m too young to have lived through this many “once in a lifetime” financial crises

like!!! we KNOW that it is a small number of weirdos with outsized influence who want to ban books, but it's always nice to get a confirmation

i would love to drive this on 101 blasting party rock anthem and have it roll 2000 times and explode after a Ford f150 raptor drives past me

I am once again asking us all to recognize that the Luddites were not anti-technology but anti-exploitation. If they were around today they would have joined you in a call for technology that serves everyone’s, not just the bosses. You *are* a Luddite Bernie, and you should be proud to be one

can you even imagine the level of petty internet fighting that would happen if the 2002 dreamworks spirit horse movie came out today, a movie where the explicit villians are the US army and they get repeatedly kicked and humiliated by horses

“Develop slurs for rich people” see the thing is I don’t think that’s possible because I think a slur has a basis in being backed up by systemic harm.

It’s Banned Books Week, and I don’t need you to buy my book as a solve for it (but buy it if you want to! That’s still extremely cool of you)—I need you to show up for your public libraries and your schools!

I get frustrated with best-selling authors being like “It’s banned books week, buy my book” because one major portion of the project of book bans is administrative overload! It’s to make the job of being a public librarian or teacher feel exceedingly difficult and not worth the trouble!

The number of parents who gasped when we told them no, we could not tell them what their kids checked out because their kids have a right to privacy! We offered “one book cards” to kids whose parents wouldn’t agree to let them have a card. They could take out a book at a time. The FURY.

there's a reason why half the out and out racists online have AI generated Ghibli profile pics and it's because being pro-ai in and of itself has become a dogwhistle

It's also the natural extension of mega-corporations wielding this kind of rhetoric on their side. 'You HAVE to watch this Disney IP to [insert progressive cause]!!' Consumerism is the great terror of our times.

this entire thing was so unnecessary once again: hire a comms person and save your bitching about the userbase for the group chat

I'm doing comms! If you want a flash fic, hit me up! I will write basically anything just ask and I'll say yes ninety nine times out of ten to whatever weird or fun or fucked up thing you want to see ko-fi.com/c/acdf368666

"They're the TROOPS!" Screw them. If you're taking part in this fascist photo op, you're a piece of shit.

this post has 7k likes now and nobody except me just now opting to push back against this wording, so just to reiterate: psychotic is a medical term that suggests scared, confused, cognitively struggling, experiencing delusions and hallucinations. not evil, dangerous, cruel, sadistic, or organized

guys, she’s just still pissed about this

people who built bsky: -trans women (bsky protects jesse singal) -Black users (bsky allows rampant antiBlack racism) -SWers (bsky to implement hostile age verification in UK) -organizers and activists (bsky autodeletes anyone in gaza with a pulse) -artists (bsky dev says AI has rights lmao)

the same goes for art, movies, music, any sort of thing really looking to the past, there were discussion forums or magazines that released often that clued people in to new releases, much like how 'game showcases' exist now. fans can't seek out what they don't know exists

The White House is blatantly violating the Constitution, ignoring Congressionally-allocated spending. Approving any budget would put a stamp of approval on the end of checks and balances. It'll hurt, yes, but it's time for opposition. The political costs will mostly fall on the people in charge.

every time there's a long running transcript thread of a trump rally speech it both produces intense pain and also makes me wish just one paper, one news show, anyone would show the entire transcript or clip in full context instead of condensing it down to normal human words and extracting "meaning"

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Comics/graphic novels aren’t recognized or taken seriously as literature in the publishing industry, despite taking twice as much work to create as prose novels, and it just breaks my heart. That’s it, that’s the take. Please read more comics.

I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life

Even in a ruthless capitalistic context this is weird behaviour. It really disincentivizes me from using the platform. I already get an equal amount of transphobic harassment on here. On Twitter it's Nazis and here it's liberal cryptonazis