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New video! We're looking at how YouTube linquistically disarms us all in the false name of safety. Social media policies are explicitly designed to protect the worst actors while punishing only those who speak up against them. YouTube is the online predator's best friend. youtu.be/40uR9nV4C9A

If you’re using a plugin that rewords “clickbait” I want to make it very clear - this video is called “YouTube: The Online Predator’s Best Friend.” I called it that for a reason. The wording is precise. For some of us, headlines aren’t merely functional, they’re part of the work.

The original Star Wars trilogy, possibly the best film triptych ever, is not about spaceships shooting lasers at each other; it's about two gay robots who have been enslaved their entire lives getting shunted into a war for liberty where they are pivotal players, yet never achieve their own freedom

Accepting people who aren't hurting anybody for who they are is really simple once you learn to mind your own fucking business.

Yknow its really interesting how people trying the whole death of the author argument to defend the wizardslop always cite long dead artists as examples. Its always “oh can you still enjoy Picasso?! Or Wagner??” Never can you still enjoy Neil Gaiman. Almost like They Know hmmmm

Yeah they’re far worse than the media reports eyyoo Also John this is your agent we advise you to keep posting through it king

if you see someone stealing food, no you didn't

The aesthetic of making trucks look tough and muscular has made them so dangerous for pedestrians. The taller front-ends are more likely to hit internal organs (rather than legs) and an additional 1,500 pounds means a lot more damage inflicted on pedestrians.

Gooooood god. I'm not familiar with the underlying defamation allegations, but if you ever get this settlement offer, you take it and run (and then maybe hide in a hole for the rest of your life). Also, lol to anyone who said Ai would make lawyers unnecessary.

The face of a wandering podcaster encountering a troubling Indiana Santa

okay so i read this whole thing and what i am getting is he made a bot to essentially vandalize wikipedia because it was easier than learning markdown. have we considered maybe these people are just really fucking stupid

Lithgow claims JKR is misunderstood. Lithgow is now on my do not watch. This breaks my heart a little.

Replaying Resident Evil 4 after replaying Resident Evil 5 is like going to a gourmet steakhouse after eating a McRib

People truly seem to forget that trans communities have long had a very antagonistic relationship with WPATH, whom we have seen and continue to see as a major force of gatekeeping.

Spent half an hour changing the church clock, then a volunteer burst into the church, horrified that they're an hour late for the service... And that's how we discovered the electronic box in the clock stops it overnight to make it accurate for daylight savings, and we just made it very very wrong.

You might delight a Morgana by offering her a snake 🥰🐍

i live in a city that would vote against rahm for literally any position so hard enough that he would be bounced off the face of the earth and end up in orbit. nobody wants this piece of shit except a loose assortment of the most useless dipshits around

Well that explains a great deal (derogatory)

It is impossible to be a bigot against AI because AI is not alive. You can't even be speciesist against AI because, again, it is not alive. It doesn't experience anything.

Laypeople, keep asking legal questions of ChatGPT. Don't worry that your chat logs are discoverable!

One of favorite online things is that the artist who made Kawaii Potato primarily posts art of thick girls with motivational text next to them

Watching people bend over backward to explain that no no bro *this* use of LLMs is good ignore all those other uses and the horrible ethical lapses and illegal activities by the companies that developed them *this* use is good I promise no stop blocking Attie no

FUN FACT: Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire were BFFs who called their group the "Pussy Posse." They also collaborated on a movie that was so misogynistic they had to cancel its release because they realized after watching it that they would get cancelled. faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-bizarre-...

There’s no way around this: people who “just want to share HP with their kids” are teaching them that standing up for others isn’t important. Nostalgia for childhood isn’t more important than actual children.

once again, it should be enough that trans people are being harmed without bringing everyone else into it. we are more than canaries in the coalmine, and you should be able to care about our rights even if they don’t affect yrs personally. this is a human rights issue, period

I have gotten to a point where I will make a video that gets like 900k views, and like nobody new will subscribe to my channel because it's mostly my consistent audience watching, and I feel I must accept that I may never have one million subscribers on youtube dot com and that this is ok

I work with a lot of newly out trans people, and this is by far the most common thing I have to talk them through. The saddest part is that how many of them report that the community itself has been the source of their fears. You cannot overestimate how much harm and hurt community gatekeeping does.

Hey I know we’re taking a walk and having fun and all that but this one cluster of grass smells really interesting right now. Do you mind if we stop and stand here for 7 minutes or so while I sniff this grass over and over again? Thanks man

I am not trying to neglect this feed at all but the doomscroll is getting to me. I'll admit I'm spiraling when there's that inundation of Bad News. Spending a lot of time on the shop account distracting myself with rocks has been good for my headspace. Still here though. Just hanging on.

The irony of "I just want to watch Romulans and the Federation shoot at each other" is that the very first time we ever saw this, in "Balance of Terror" in Season 1 of TOS, the episode concluded with [checks notes] the lesson that Kirk and the Romulan commander were more alike than different.

The so-called "wall" between "news" and "editorial" at newspapers hasn't existed in any meaningful way since at least the Iraq War, if it ever existed

Every other week someplace is announcing like "We're recalling Bob's Onion Rings because they might contain lead, plutonium and gasoline."

sorry I don't make the rules

been looking into the royal game of Ur, the most popular board game in ancient times, and besides backgammon, I wonder if our closest equivalent to it now is actually Sorry

went on an outing and met a scheming vizir

these days the Venn diagram between "young Republican", "pure evil", & "dumb as fuck" is a perfect circle

'Dune' (1984) dir: David Lynch 📽️

It should be acceptable to wear swords again

this Andy Weir comment & Elissa Slotkin's recent comment about how "what works in the middle of the country will work on the coasts, but not in reverse" are the same picture: people who belong to unmarked majority groups view their perspectives as universal and untainted by politics, bias, etc...

New episode about a series of misleading stories from LGBT news outlets going viral and flooding the zone with doom. This panic-inducing clickbait is making it harder to accurately assess risk and dedicate resources to fight real pressing threats.

For all the cis people imagine me looking like this and shaking my head at you if you go on and consume Harry Potter

it will never stop being funny that, despite getting dragged relentlessly by other social media and political narratives, nobody hates bluesky more than its most loyal users

'Solaris' (1972) Andrei Tarkovsky 📽️

when someone is wrong, Online

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Anyone who actually wants a leadership position in a community org or nonprofit should be actively, aggressively kept away from it.

Liberal Zionists keep saying that we antizionists need to learn to coexist with Jabotinskyites because we're all one people and I'm sorry but I don't care how Jewish we both are, if you're wearing a noose pin and salivating for mass hangings, you are NOT my people. You are my enemy.

If you sit at a table with a Nazi, there are two Nazis at the table. If you sit at a table with a segregationist, there are two segregationists at the table. I urge my fellow Jews to remember that this Passover Seder. Palestinians are dying. What does who you're sitting with say about you?

Jerry is actually really good at posting

Girlguiding facing mass exodus after setting deadline for trans girls to quit The organisation is battling a backlash over new rules that will exclude trans girls from the organisation observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Everything is terrible and so help me if you mess with that tiny little ball of sunshine no one will ever find what's left of you.

It's hard to talk about "the science" of the show when Netflix's The Dinosaurs is so misogynistic. I rip into it in my latest newsletter.

It’s impossible to imagine the terror the people filming this must be feeling. The video ends abruptly as an explosion happens right near them. The dust and debris in the air alone will be lethal.

This is how stupid Labour think their voters are...

these are the kinds of senseless deaths that can be avoided by not voluntarily joining a foreign army that is carrying out an illegal war

I’m sorry I proposed to you in the bathroom at the gas station. But given the state of the floor, you have to admit I was pretty brave to get down on one knee

Hello, we're a company you're stuck with. Listen, I know we have taught you that everything new is "AI" and we call like twenty different technologies "AI" but not understanding why they're distinct and separate is clearly your fault. We're waiting for our apology.

I had to withdraw from a panel tomorrow because the topic is 'trans joy' and I just can't speak on that topic without getting really angry. I wasn't aware this was the topic, I thought it was about visibility. I wish the rest of the panel well.

The last tear I'll ever shed over disinformation will be for the poor software developers BUT the reason all anyone hears about AI is hype or hate is the same reason no one understands anything abt anything: Our information environment is fucked.

Love you, sassface.

yusssss keep it goin', gang

Want to know why misinformation is dangerous? Because whilst trolls were saying ben-Gvir and Netanyahu were dead based on nothing but internet rumors and calling anyone who disagreed a Zionist, ben-Gvir and Netanyahu were pushing their evil Jim Crow mass death bill that passed today.

my husband loves me so much im starting to also love me

im glad i never really got interested in this guy's books since he's apparently an illiterate dipshit

Once again Caelan smashes it out of the park. (This trope (Joke? Conspiracy? Whatever it is) has annoyed me for a WHILE)

Make no mistake, this is a world war spiraling out of control.

forgot how often old novels & stories are booby trapped with antisemitic jumpscares, you're reading along having a fine time then BAM, some pure undiluted bigotry straight from the source

My wife is hilarious But hot damn this giant AppleTV remote is the shit

guy who is totally cool with hating trans people but cares deeply about the cause of scottish independence

Whenever my info gets leaked in a data breach, I remind myself that there’s no such thing as bad publicity

I continue to grip onto this website for dear life because, if you prune your feed properly, it's the last wellspring of online writing that is the *correct* kind of insane

WE FINISHED THE KH2 RANDOMIZER RUN and holy shit that was some of the most fun I’ve had playing a game in a while. Really cool way to experience a fav. Can’t believe the game was about the struggle tournament the whole time…

It's very, very, very bad and will be used for mass extermination

Hi! Another source request: are you an NWSL fan who has had accessibility issues at games due to strobes/light shows? Please get in touch: DM or email frankie at britnidlc dot com

Everything else aside, they're allowed to cover their faces now as well? Fucking mini US wannabes.

Just occurred to me that if instead of becoming a terf jk spoke out against white supremacy a greater portion of her fanbase would have canceled her and now I'm sad.

"trans women aren't real. also I'm really into trans women"

thawing out chilis to make a sauce

Thank you so so much for all of the birthday love, you guys! Way to make this elder millesbian feel special :)

We playing more Warhammer 40k Boltgun on stream Come hangout! It's my first playthrough twitch.tv/catgirlfingies & youtube.com/@catgirlfingies

From 2 years ago: “It is 12 hours after I emerged from my second gender-affirming surgery. Like a lot of people, my impulse to accelerate transition goals has escalated over the past year as a growing unease fills my body every day that one day, my body and the care it needs, will soon be outlawed.”

Speculative sci fi used to imagine that low gravity would actually be HEALTHY for humans, all that stress off your joints and back The big problem is we're a big squishy ball mostly of water. And our ENTIRE biology is designed to moving all that slosh around, under Earth's gravity at mostly sea lvl

Beware the terf/chaser hybrid.

I'm tired of these litmus tests. Purity politics is holding us back. We need to welcome imperfect messengers. And THAT, ladies and gentlemen of the Advisory Board, is why I pissed all over the lab equipment,,

Ngl, I'm very happy with the posters I've made for St Nicks this Holy Week

Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.

You know you’re with your soulmate when they save the curliest of their curly fries to share with you

Child rapist wants you to think he cares about kids.

"you look so transgender" Thank you

People hate on AI, but sometimes AI is just faster at things. Here we see how much faster AI is at enshitification! notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edit...

The thing about separating the art from the artist, for me, is that it rarely works if the person is an out-and-out rapist/murderer/fascist I throw away my love for their works not because I have strong willpower or superior morals, but rather because being inside their minds disgusts me?

The new EHRC Chair made a point of including “belief” (obviously thinking of covering her ‘gender critical’ transphobe friends) but not a peep about gender! 🤔🤔🤔

No episode today, but it's actually because the info in it isn't allowed to be public for a few days yet 🤭 hold tight tho cus it'll be this week

He wouldn't eat his pill pocket tonight so Sarah had to force him but he *is* seeming like he's eating the rest of his dinner, so there's that.

Nobody snitch but I’m giving this handmade gift tomorrow.

Name your fav line from a film