boy jungal

Comedians in the '70s and cartoons in the '90s: weird how your kids can watch violence and murder on TV but the FCC wants us dead if we say the word nipple.

Internet users in 2025: you didn't warn me that there would be erotic themes in the game you just mentioned which is fucked up because I thought it was going to be a normal "morally struggle with killing people" game but now it's gone too far :-/

A lot of you are playing into a lot more reactionary of hands than I think you would like when you act like tits are more shocking than gun violence.

We need to call people posers again. We gotta. We just gotta. No you aren't a countercultural weirdo because you made a battle jacket, you get tangibly viscerally uncomfortable if someone is breast feeding in public and that is incredibly square of you.

Oh no the fucking squares are gonna find me

Well it's too far gone now so let me just use this to say you're also massively fuckin square if you're a dick about women being angry, if you're ready at all turns to appeal to an authority for conflict resolution, if you're an asshole to people for smoking, if you get nervous because someone is talking to themselves in public, if you defend corporations from the right to the free spread of information by being sanctimonious about media piracy. You're a square ⬜ it's not the end of the world just embrace that you are a square and stop poisoning the well by calling yourself radical when you actually agree with almost every societal bias and cultural value.

I love that this idiot of a person thinks (or claims to think, i love a strawman!) the group of people who dislike the oversexualisation of women and pornography in video games is the same crowd of people who dislike women who breastfeed in public

what a fucking moron

garbage-empress

Something the AI text boom has made me realize is that "no information" is significantly better than "wrong information."

I just saw Doordash AI describe a gallon of blue cheese dressing as a "sweet and refreshing beverage concentrate."

enderwiggin

determinate-negation

The office of New York Mayor Eric Adams wrote a letter to Comptroller Brad Lander requesting a review into the divestment, claims public rec

the only sites reporting on this thus far are angry zionists but thank you brad! and fuck the police

oh brad lander i have nothing but good things to say about you

violetsandshrikes

kind of obsessed with this comment from the aoteaora nz subreddit….

It is not hard to not litter. I will be mad. I will still pick up litter. Both are good.

elbiotipo

It seems that your cheap phones are not a god given right but actually a luxury sustained by imperialist inequality after all. Mirá vos.

shatteredzydrateteacup

rifa

This is part of why planned obsolescence is so evil. We could all have a phone or laptop that is made ethically that could last 10-20 years without the cost of human life and without filling landfills with electronic waste. But instead since the world is built on Line Go Up we are forced into a position where our tech (which we increasingly need to participate in modern life) self destructs so we have to spend more money at the expense of human life and the environment.

lousyglitch

The wildest thing about Ben 10 is that it took until 2005 for someone to have the idea "what if a kid could turn into a bunch of aliens" like this isn't obviously the coolest and most marketable premise for anything ever. Each design is a new toy. A new powerset. Come on.

But to prove that it wasn't a fluke, they continued to have the best ideas for every aspect of it. How does he transform? A cool watch you can also sell as a toy. That watch's name? Omnitrix. Say it. It's so satisfying. How many aliens? Ten. Nice round number. The kid's name? Ben. The show's name? Ben Ten. His full name is Benjamin Tennyson, a normal, plausible name, but he also turns into 10 aliens.

Bigger brands dream about this synergy. Better writers would kill for this coherence. So holistic. So intuitive. The identity alone!!! The retro alien sound motif? Chilling. The green? Any other color would be wrong. The kirby krackle pattern? It seems so obvious in retrospect. The roadtrip format? Genius. Lesser writers would've done the spider-man high school thing. His arch nemesis being Cthulhu darth vader? Inspired, iconic, intimidating!

The execution has its highs and lows, but the idea??? Game changing. So self-evident that it seems inevitable. If Ben 10 didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

makingqueerhistory

Osh-Tisch, the Warrior

This week we will be looking at the incredible warrior Osh-Tisch, but before we start we must clarify some important things. In this article we will be referring to Osch-Tisch as baté which is a Crow word that means a person assigned male at birth who is actually a woman. We will be using this word because it is the word she used to refer to herself with and while we embrace giving new words to old experiences we are not here to strip away the words people used to describe themselves.

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queerasfact

It’s great to see Osh-Tisch’s story being shared, but I’d just like to add that this photo isn’t of Osh-Tisch. It is actually of a Shoshone person, Rabbit-Tail, and it can be found in the US National Archives collections. I’m not sure of how this mistake was originally made, but seeing Rabbit-Tail’s image associated with Osh-Tisch on the internet is not uncommon.

Happily, though, we do have two known photos of Osh-Tisch!

The first one (Osh-Tisch on the left) was taken around 1877 when they were in their early 20s, and the other in 1928, when they were in their mid 70s. Sources and more background for both pictures are provided in Will Roscoe’s Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America, on pages 33, and 28-9 respectively.

Hopefully this mistake can help remind us all when we’re talking about history to follow up sources, and question everything. This is especially important in queer history when so much has been lost, destroyed, obscured, and deliberately falsified. We deserve for stories like Osh-Tisch’s not just to be told, but to be told accurately and truthfully, and we have to actively work to make that happen.

uzzome

LipeScorpion

authenticstains

The Kiss of Life - A utility worker giving mouth-to-mouth to co-worker after he contacted a low voltage wire, 1967

brite-eyed

Taken in 1967 by Rocco Morabito, this photo called “The Kiss of Life” shows a utility worker named J.D. Thompson giving mouth-to-mouth to co-worker Randall G. Champion after he went unconscious following contact with a low voltage line. Thompson over 400 feet away recognized the critical situation and ran to the pole and scaled it to reach Champion. Realizing champion wasn’t breathing he delivered CPR and chest compression while supporting his friend; super impressive /difficult given the angle (if you get it wrong air goes into the stomach and inflates that instead).

This all happened oddly in Champions work anniversary. And weirder Rocco Morabito, a newspaper photographer who had been covering a strike down the road with eastern freight (this happened in Florida btw) happened to be nearby with his camera in a time that no one carried cameras daily. This photo won him the Pulitzer Prize for journalism photography.

maculategiraffe

the baby was using a magna tile as a cell phone and going "beep beep beep beep ... ring ring ring. mommy I am calling you on the phone" and having pretend magna tile phone conversations with his mom

and my dad was trying to distract the baby so my sister could finish her coffee and he goes "beep beep beep ... ring ring ring... [baby] I'm calling you on the phone!"

and the baby looked at his magna tile and said "it is a spam call" and swiped a finger at the "screen" before starting to dial his mom again

you could post just the word “bush” (kate? george w? hw? vegetation? pubic hair?) and someone will reply “well i shave because of sensory issues” regardless

audioandart

in response to prev tags

Cis men DO have sensory issues in relation to this. You don't hear about it because you haven't looked and you didn't listen. And plenty of cis men shave a bunch too. Have you SEEN swimmers??? The automatic assumption that a group goes not experience a thing because you 1. Haven't heard of it yet and 2. Assumed it only affected one group is a common issue in activism. Anyway, shaving isn't just something done so you "look nice". It's done in solidarity, it's done pre surgery, it's done by swimmers, pre tattoos, it's done for a plethora of reasons and I'm tired of pretending it's always just "I'm a girl so I have to shave". Get out of here with small minded perceptions like that

ok this i do have to point and laugh at sorry

pre tattoos :sob:

you could post just the word “bush” (kate? george w? hw? vegetation? pubic hair?) and someone will reply “well i shave because of sensory issues” regardless

audioandart

in response to prev tags

Cis men DO have sensory issues in relation to this. You don't hear about it because you haven't looked and you didn't listen. And plenty of cis men shave a bunch too. Have you SEEN swimmers??? The automatic assumption that a group goes not experience a thing because you 1. Haven't heard of it yet and 2. Assumed it only affected one group is a common issue in activism. Anyway, shaving isn't just something done so you "look nice". It's done in solidarity, it's done pre surgery, it's done by swimmers, pre tattoos, it's done for a plethora of reasons and I'm tired of pretending it's always just "I'm a girl so I have to shave". Get out of here with small minded perceptions like that