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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
trying on a metaphor
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Product Placement
shark vs the universe
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cherry valley forever
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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we're not kids anymore.
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@aleman245
What do you mean “chat” is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?
When I address chat I am speaking to a presumed Greek chorus of real human people shitposting on their lunch break, not a machine that devours lakes to covert electricity into slop.
I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.
He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense
Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.
My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.
Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.
He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM
I love The Golden Girls.
Ya’ll don’t have any idea how fucking brave and needed these plot lines were.
This was before Ellen came out.
This was before civil unions.
This was before Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
This was when your ass could be fired, blacklisted, and shunned with no legal protections for even being hinted at being gay.
And the Golden Girls said “Fuck you, Fuck this, we’re doing it anyway.”
I think it should be noted that Blanche’s quote about AIDS is also “It is not god punishing people for their sins” and that the episode also deals with slutshaming.
I don’t know if people realize how much activism these women did for gay right and during the aids crisis. If you think about it they were all long established in Hollywood and Broadway. They had tons of friends personally affected and dealing with the aids crisis. Estelle Getty lost a nephew. I think they helped plant seeds in people who watched Golden Girls that helped make things a little more normalized and mainstream.
is jake gyllenhaal gay??
why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this
happy pride month to this post specifically
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly
reading an article about the guy who owns the Knicks and Madison Square Garden and they used facial recognition to track every move of a trans Knicks fan to try to make sure she didn't end up on game broadcasts and eventually just banned her from the arena.
I think this tweet is wrong on multiple accounts
The main fault is the use of "natural". It does not make sense to qualify any process of urbanization as natural or unnatural. The fact that cities show a spatial segregation of wealth, rent and services is the product of a history of capital accumulation and land valorization in a class-based economic system. Calling any result of this natural does the bidding of those who have an interest in manipulating land value to their favor, it is a political process created by a certain set of agents in a set of concrete conditions.
There is also not much water in the European-US city duology. European cities have historically not had exclusively rich centers "naturally". Haussmann bulldozed the tens or hundreds of thousands of homes in the city center of Paris to rebuild it according to bourgeois aesthetic and class criteria, and many European city centers maintained worker's housing districts in their centers well into the 20th century. Milan itself saw a process of post-war industrial worker suburbanization and later gentrification from the 80s onwards. Generally speaking, gentrification and touristification is an ongoing process that is revalorizing the city centers right now, and one that isn't very old in the historical perspective of the city, even just the capitalist city.
The US city is the product of the process of racial segregation on top of the capitalist urban dynamics. More specifically, the product of some specific federal and municipal policy instruments: redlining, racially selective FHA mortgage access, the Interstate Highway Act subsidizing white suburban flight, exclusionary zoning, to name a few that aimed to produce a white propertied class. Even in US urbanism there is no settled urban model. Burgess' very well known 1925 concentric zone model of the Chicago School of Human Ecology introduced the concept of the Central Business District, but it was also immediately contested. The model of the poor inner city pattern itself is mostly concentrated historically in the second half of the 20th century and in the Rust and Sun Belt cities. This is changing still, and gentrification has also hit US cities like New York, San Francisco, Washington DC or Chicago with dramatic restructurings of their centers. The capitalist city is not spatially stable.
Calling this "social engineering" is bizarre and to me sounds more like a right libertarian talking point than anything else. It perpetuates the naturalization of the political-economic urban spatial segregation but in the other way (posing the US as being anti-natural, the wrong kind of segregated), and places the blame of spatial segregation on government policy rather than the historical push for that white propertied class to remain after the 13th amendment and after the Civil Rights Act.
The "wealthy city center" is not a stable category and it spatially shifts along with capital accumulation. Many US and European cities are seeing secondary CBDs, peripheral business parks, and Europe specifically is seeing the valuable center being stretched along transport corridors now. And this is just on Europe and the US. This all diversifies greatly when the rest of the world (the majority of cities) are taken into account with their own historical processes of spatial configuration. To name a good example, La Paz in Bolivia sees its poorer districts pushed to the periphery because the city is built on a valley and its peripheral urban growth is on the sides of its surrounding mountains; capital accumulated in the lower elevated center, and the working populations were pushed to the mountainsides. This is opposite to many European cities where higher elevation often (though not always) concentrates higher rents.
guy: it sucks that the train back is such a long ride
his friend who is trying to get him to wear foot shaped shoes with toes but is taking it slow: it does
how much simpler can I possibly make it
Hey what's outside the bounds of that screenshot
the image contains only the information inside of it
but where do these other lines lead to?
to the edge of the image
so. not to doxx myself (i've talked about this here before though) but i live in Kansas. and my license was just revoked very suddenly and immediately because i'm trans and had changed my gender marker.
so now i cannot legally drive or vote until/unless i let them force me to carry around a card that misgenders me and outs me as trans, because i certainly don't look female anymore.
so hey if you have the means and want to help with any of this, please consider donating to the ACLU of Kansas because they are at least going to try to do something to push back against this, and i'm such a panicky wreck that the only thing i can do to get through my immediate gut reaction to having my license revoked tonight (i cannot stress enough that i received the letter today saying that my license is no longer valid tomorrow) is focus on the fact that there's at least one entity trying to protect me and my fellow trans kansans.
More info on what's been happening in Kansas:
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
Internal documents highlight the use of creators to grow ICE's ranks.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is spending millions to turn the chronically online into deportation agents, according to internal communications reviewed exclusively by the Washington Post.
The agency's $100 million marketing strategy, detailed in a 30-page document distributed to ICE officials this summer, includes a massive push to flood the digital market with geo-targeted and content-based advertising. The plan even names specific platforms, like Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Substack, and Rumble, a popular "alt-tech" video platform frequented by conservatives.
"We're building the panopticon to look for lost dogs!" is such perfect pig-baiting I almost admire it, evil kudos to whatever skinhead Don Draper at Amazon came up with that
the grinch is fucked up right. he was created specifically as a critique of the commercialization of christmas, but now all his edge has been sanded off. now he's a generic mascot for "hates christmas," which is great to have because the commercialization of christmas has become so overbearing that that's a demographic you can market to! and now he's just part of the Christmas Fold. he's santa's edgier joker counterpart. he has become the very thing he sought to destroy. back in november i checked out a customer with a $1100 order and most of it was grinch merchandise
Tiktok post by @ wynunlimited.
Just like a Nazi.
So any americans reading this, please call your reps. You do not need to call for each individual bill, just give them a list of bills you want them to say no to, which should be:
KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act)
IODA (Interstate Obscenity Definition Act)
SCREEN act
Find your members of Congress by typing in your address on Congress.gov.
Censorship?
FUCK NO!!
HELL NO!!
ABSOLUTLY NO!!
