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Contrapoints recently made a statement on Palestine, and I find this point the most interesting. That was really the only outcome of the outrage over Palestine over the last few years, nothing plus slightly hurting Kamala’s chances?

workers: so like us

'The Horrible Snow Cat' (1969) Albert Dumouchel

- LGBT health center - doctor is a trans guy - he's never heard of topical HRT or progesterone - he's uncomfortable prescribing either one - SIR, YOU ARE LITERALLY PART OF THIS COMMUNITY AND WENT TO SCHOOL FOR THIS. WHAT IS GOING ON

There’s this weird incongruity where support of Palestine is something only online leftists care about and therefore it’s not worth the Democratic Party adopting into their campaigning but also support of Palestine was a big enough roadblock to lose the election and that’s online leftists’ faults

"The labubu -- no, I will not say it. I will not legitimize this absurdity, not even in mockery. A rabbit in a suit, my god, and they sell for how much? I see, and -- no. No. What in the devil is a lafufu? Am I having some species of stroke?"

i think lauren is being rhetorical here but iirc there's some significant feminist thought on the way pre-"AI"/proto-"AI" "personal assistants" are always by default "women"

Free Palestine. That is all.

Linda Yaccarino quitting Twitter immediately after the MechaHitler debacle is encouraging, I guess -- a sign that there still exists either shame or professional consequences in this world. I was honestly really surprised that she did it

I’m glad now, of all times, Texas is using its emergency alert system on what’s really important: asking everyone in the state to hand over information about a random guy in a town over an hour away from here who caused some sort of incident at an ICE facility

We often conflate online discourse with leftism movements/action as a whole. Online left discourse - especially on corporate owned platforms - can be toxic, purity based & fractious. It’s why I highly encourage using online for education but push for IRL organizing and coalition building.

Boy with blue hair and pronouns assaults cop after being misgendered

the amount of money ppl are spending to make-believe revive extinct animals compared to the relative paucity of money going towards keeping existing endangered species alive is both wildly irrational & arguably immoral (IMHO)

States do not bleed. They do not cry out in pain. They do not cry or laugh. They do not make poetry or compose music or write sonnets. They do not love and they do not experience joy. Because they are legal fictions organized for the convenience of *people*. States don't have rights. People do.

The problem with the attitude of "yes genocide is bad but it's going to happen no matter what we do and demanding it stop will only make it worse, so we just have to accept it as a fact of life" that so many people have about Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Myanmar, is that no one is disposable.

Reminder, as it's the 20th anniversary, this was also true in Katrina, the Canadian ROYAL MOUNTIES were on the ground in New Orleans distributing aide before FEMA got there. This is an acceleration of a continuous fascist movement, not new but also REALLY BAD

I'm trying to finish the Beowulf PS3 game and it's so unrelentingly bad I just want to curl up and go back to bed, call the whole day a write off. Despite it being as linear as they come I've got a walkthrough open purely to give me an excuse to stop looking at it.

Let me at least share something wholesome. My fiancée just passed her final CPA test!! Took her several years - but now she can finally pursue fully her career in forensic accounting and her dream of actually working to fight corporations.

assert your dominance

Hey I don’t want to make a callout post or anything, don’t want to feel like you’re being put on blast, but in light of recent drama I just want to know, why weren’t you at elf practice?

Contrapoints is a great reminder that if you tie your economic future to Having Opinions, sooner or later you will find a way to incentivize yourself into shilling for the evil, soul-sucking system we live under.

Anyway, man tits Superman

Hot take: Star Trek Voyagers Borg storylines are actually good, people just dislike them because they centered on the Borg Queen whose existence, yes, does make the Borg less interesting - but that’s not Voyagers fault. That’s First Contacts. And with what it had to work with, Voyager tried stuff.

"Woah woah woah hold on a sec, Tee. Are you telling me i gotta flatline this svoluch over a few hundred creds? This gonk's connected and we don't wanna end up in the screamsheets. That ain't nova, Tee. It's straight baka, no disrespect."

In case you want a laugh, a landlord I'm suing because they discriminated against my client for having a disability called 911 and tried to file a police report against me because, this is true, they were served with a summons.

Imagine if you can, the ENTIRE weight of the GOP's US federal government dedicated to smearing you, imprisoning you, and destroying your fucking life. And for what? Their racist white nationalism political football and a malignant narcissist who cannot and will not be shown to be wrong.

considering 1 in every 3 americans has a criminal record, that only 1 in 4 people sold and shipped to an el salvadorian death camp do is really quite fuckin something to see

The real genius of the often underappreciated first season of CHANNEL ZERO is that it manages to make you scared and nostalgic at the same time.

Learned recently that one of my grandmother's boyfriends, who was very kind to me when I was young, was a closeted trans woman. It's sad to think she never got to live her life, but it makes me ten times as determined to die scratching and biting to make sure the next generation gets to live theirs

It's sick and wrong for adblock to ask me to give them money. you owe ME

I'm so glad that women

Some are reading this as a defense of Contrapoints. I have my opinions but this wasn’t about her. All I will say on that for now is, I disagree with her characterization of a portion of online leftist as “all of the left”. That is kind of the point. Anyways, to be clear, Free Palestine.

so i had a 3 hour phone call with my sister (which means plenty of oversharing) and she looked through my bluesky and went "wait! are you some kind of pup?! ARE YOU A PUPPYGIRL? IS THAT WHAT YOU ARE, EMMA?! 💀 💀

One time on twitter I was talking about the Holocaust and mentioned some shit that went down in Poland like what is mentioned below. And like, out of nowhere, a shitload of Polish people showed up just going *batshit* on me, with some of the most wild revisionist history, it was staggering.

I've had it I'm going Bulworth on Harvard This is the email I just sent to the president and editorial board of my beloved, independent, NON-university-run Harvard Crimson:

litter of fresh potssss out the kiln

Better things are possible if you fight for them.

one of the most endearing things about gen z is legitimately a lot of them are bad at computer

If the IDF is still fighting Hamas after dropping more bombs on them than anyone can reasonably fathom and killing an untold number of civilians from Gaza *and* all over the world, I think either they're the worst armed forces on the planet or maybe they're just lying about their objectives.

“What he was really interested in, he said, was parlaying his wages as a deportation officer into buying Airbnbs.” What stage of capitalism is this.

Why would *that* be your statement on Palestine? Come on now. I try to be as diplomatic as I can but some online liberals have this idea that if they are uncomfortable by something that claims to be on their side then it's somehow not effective. It's the attitude of a person without any vision.

My top tip is to take boardgames to conferences and play them in the most atmospheric rooms you can get access to.

No Podquisition this week. Between Laura traveling and my spine borking, we ended up calling it. Sorry about that and for the short notice, that second point is entirely my fault. Back next week!

Fighting a crashout moment and losing

Similarly, there's no real set criteria for what makes a species "domesticated" or not, it's just, vibes

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A real panel at Seattle WorldCon. Lol. Lmao.

A royal royale doodle I did while watching Napoleon dynamite

things that didnt happen that people are yelling at me about...

I'm gonna give you all another one but you have to promise not to start a 20-woman pileup in my replies this time <3

See this is why I believe in violence against rich mayosapiens specifically :)

me: ok time to sleep brain: there’s a hair stuck to your face. you’ll never find it but…it’s there.

Worst part of being a passionate consumer of fiction is the fact that there will be some scene in a book, movie, comic, whatever, where a character presents a profound life lesson that alters your moral consciousness forever... and then years later the writer is outed as a moral monster of some kind

There ain't no Coupe DeVille hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box.

Life is full of amazing discoveries 🐁✨️

this place would have lost the clone wars and be as forgotten as Post dot app if not for sex workers and the trans community in its early days, and it has constantly told those communities to go fuck themselves from the moment it became clear that they were going to make it god damn it.

Someone you've never met asking you "you wanna see something cool?" can only end in a lifelong friendship or, much more often, the most deeply annoying night of your life.

this week's post is about the basics of flood preparedness and why in order to actually create a resilient society we will need to dramatically restructure our economic and decisionmaking models. if you want flood protection, we need a revolution margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/as-the-wat...

I genuinely do not understand why we have to discuss whether Israel, a nuclear armed vassal state of the global hegemon, has a purported right to exist. PALESTINIAN CHILDREN HAVE A RIGHT TO EXIST.

A doodle of my dnd character Whitney tremors that I did while watching game changer

The reason you didn't hear about happy gays in history is, yes, closeting, but also they were too busy living their lives to write about it. There's this thing in customer service where satisfied people won't put in feedback but miserable people do every time. Social media proves this out, tbh.

this guy was telling me how if the soccer team loses, they burn the city down, and if the soccer team wins, they burn the city down, and I was like “wow Paris is just like Philadelphia!” and now this guy is asking me for travel tips for Philadelphia and he’s fuckin stoked about it lol

My family members cannot understand why I won't shrink myself to be more palatable to a wider audience. I can't fake it, tbh. I've tried. And. I shouldn't have to.

Went dress shopping on Monday!

Wtf how is this allowed at all

so like, what was in these binders?

anyone arguing this law is good or moral or necessary is a literal demon

The world truly needs more copies of Adam Sandler's"The Longest Yard" on DVD

My electric company also jacks rates during the hottest months if you use electricity during key hours, which are the hottest hours of the day.

One more thing about Contrapoints. She acts like the Israeli response to 10/7 and the American response to 9/11 could not be stopped. They were a fait accompli. But neither 10/7 nor 9/11 happened in a vacuum, and the genocide in Gaza, like the so-called "War on Terror," is a CHOICE.

having more than 10 lawyers in a single day say they won't take your case because "the jury won't care" is such a painful reminder of something that should not be

dude wakes up every morning with a fresh idea on how to piss off every person who ever thought well of him

You can simply choose not to participate in the public shaming of a trans woman in a world that so often gives us zero grace no matter what we do or say.

One of my oldhead opinions is that it is fucking weird that there is a whole ass occupation where people get paid to livestream their lives 24/7. I don’t think it is good or healthy to monetize daily life in such a transparently commodified way.

I'm a big fan of calling it "Trump Concentration Camp 001"

you're literally buttholecore. you should work on nicepersonmaxxing

the face i'm submitting to bluesky for verification

i guess it'd be good to get to a point, mentally and emotionally, where you simply no longer expect bsky to do the 'right' thing. watching them casually nuke every palestinian into the sun while letting spammy hate speech and follow farming blue wave accts flourish is a good indication of that.

Shooting at people who were running away, loading up buses. People spoke up last night in the town council. They feel this was retaliation. Tear gas and rubber bullets for people just working their jobs.

Bristol being good again ❤️ www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Among the many stupid aspects of this is it's just a tantrum. Trump never stands by anything for more than five minutes, so no one will take this as motivation to affect any kind of change because he's an unreliable actor. So it's useless to achieve his own aims. He's just being a pissbaby.

World Con. Doing that thing they fucking do. Trashfires.

"AI chatbots consume power faster than new plants can be built… Electricity bills are projected to surge by more than 20% this summer"

cowards

yesterday i got really stoned and asked my husband if he thought charles darwin was autistic

it is a horrible time to be able to read people’s thoughts online

Can we just somehow get them to believe they have to cut the high power lines by hand? Some problems could solve themselves.

If you’re the President of the United States and everyone thinks you’re a pedophile, and you’ve got proof you’re not, why wouldn’t you release it? Unless, of course, you are one

enough people have asked us for the direct link to this that we are taking it off the secret menu and just making it public thank you for liking our shit

The fact that any car has an "AI" voice assistant is ridiculous. If you're the kind of douchecanoe using ChatGPT in your car, you absolutely are not doing anything of worth or value.

Had to have some scar tissue in my intestine biopsied, so that's why I haven't been around much. I apologize! Relatedly, Crohn's Disease is a pain in the ass.

sorry it used to be extremely taboo to say free palestine and everyone would freak the fuck out and she’s trying to say nothing changed?

For my next video, so I can finally break my current writers block, I will scrap my current script and instead have it be a 3 hour oral rendition of BEOWULF in old English

Wicked Clothes has a t-shirt I might need...

Guys are just mad monsters are hotter.

Name a Comedy Film that is actually Funny.

Gator Gulag has alliteration without being gross about what happened to Jews at Auschwitz.