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That is why no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party... ...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
I agree with Nye
things that would exist if intellectual property wasn't a thing
so much cheap generic medication. reverse engineering compounds would be even more financially profitable.
fewer people dead of vaccine preventable illnesses in the global south bc the greatest barrier to distributing some vaccines like hpv is their ip
plant seeds and grafts that come from the plants instead of licensing them. don't invest so much in preventing cross contamination. more localised experimental breeding.
library of the world: every book and journal article in the world could be digitised and be searchable for every person in the world to read regardless of where they live. cheap reprint runs and local translations everywhere.
an online interface where every citation could actually lead to the text in question
freedom from the hell that is DRM software
everytime someone reverse engineered your shitty proprietary software we would all be freed from it instead of them getting DMCA'd
so much hardware would be opened up & therefore made so much cooler.
so many more songs that riff off and sample and interpolate shit from this decade instead of like 70 years ago and more analysis of music that didn't keep getting nuked off the internet
preserving movies and tv shows and games as long as someone, somewhere has the desire to host them
just go publish your fanfic/art/vid as is instead of all us pretending it isn't fanwork or begging the corporation for mercy / licensing
a world without ip lawyers. im getting chills just imagining it.
However, we'd also be subjected to a never ending stream of derivative gen ai slop and fake drop shipped versions of anything and everything with absolutely no recourse or possiblity of stopping any of it.....
My entire life…
Life in an Autism World
Green party leader shared picture of man wearing T-shirt with words ‘we’re only making plans for Nigel’ alongside a guillotine
the party of "free speech" strikes again....
A thought occurred to me earlier, which is how the current Political situation in the US can be used as a parallel for so many failed states, revolutions and wider societal collapse throughout history.
I mean, Trumpty Poopypants Dementia Face Mcgee Dumpty (and his cronies) are blatantly committing huge amounts of corruption and other illegal shit, and the vast majority of the USian public now openly oppose the spray-tanned shitstain, but nothings happening to even try and stop any of it or get rid of him. And the reason is exactly the same as why almost all the big revolutions in history (collapse of the roman empire, the USian revolution, the French Revolution, the independence campaigns in South America, decolonisation independence movements etc.) have been instigated and led by the bourgeoisie (or at least people towards the top end of the social scale, but outside the elite).
Most people are focused on their day to day lives and the concerns associated with that (like, do they have enough money to last until payday? What are they going to do at the weekend? Or, further back in time, will there be a good harvest this year? Should I buy another cow?) which obviously aren't going to dissappear no matter who's in charge. The people who have the time to actually dedicate to politics and those questions around how the world should be run, are the people who don't have to worry about those day to day concerns (they have people to do all of that for them). That's where change is likeliest to come from, and how long term change is actually going to be achieved.
I liked this post, scrolled for like another minute before I went “SHIT FUCK SHIT” and scrolled back to reblog it
I always reblog this one when I see it on my dash. When someone posts their own art, writing, or music here they are really hoping you will share it.
Kids sitcom about a group of friends where all of them are a part of secret magical or superhero based underground society that don’t know about each other and they all think that the others are ignorant normies that they have to protect from their magical shenanigans.
The witch kid, the superhero sidekick, the cryptid hunter, and the half fairy kid are all unknowingly trying to hide the same talking cat from the principal of their school and the talking cat doesn’t tell any of them about each other because it’s currently getting many extra helpings of treats in exchange for its silence.
During the episode where they all find out about each other’s secret lives there’s obviously a slow look over to the cat who’s like “well you never asked. Anyways, completely unrelated but I’ve gotta go.”
As more seasons pass, it's eventually revealed the rich kid who bullies the main cast is secretly child of some dark lord all the societies fear and eventually the bully works with the main cast to defeat them in the series finale or movie
Yeah I’m down for some 8th graders taking down the devil that’s good tv
Really important. You cannot make one of the secret societies the "real" one that all other magic systems are derived from in some way.
The sci-fi explanations of super powers cannot fully explain the fairy magic, nor can the sci-fi superpowers tap into fairy magic energy cores. The witch's arcane knowledge cannot fully explain the existence of the cryptids. The fairy magic and the witch magic are fundamentally incompatible but both demonstrably effective.
After they all know each other, trying to decipher and/or argue about whose domain the monster of the week belongs to (and therefore whose foreknowledge about its strengths and weaknesses is most accurate) is a not irregular occurrence. Sometimes the monster is known in multiple domains and the conflicting information is somehow both correct. Sometimes the monster is definitively one aspect, and another appears to be, but there are errors or circumstances evidence. Sometimes the monster is a secret third thing that doesn't properly fit any of them.
Yes. Also whenever you ask the talking cat why he can talk he gives you a completely different explanation.
TIL about the Blue Fugates of Kentucky and suddenly the state of the US makes sense....
Ok, so in case you've never heard of these folks, they were a particular family who settled in Kentucky around 1820, and who had a genetic condition affecting their haemoglobin which made it much less effective at carrying oxygen and therefore left them with blue looking skin...
However, being genetic, the preservation of this trait requires at least some degree of incest/serious lack of genetic diversity within the local community. Which, you know, in the early 19th century Southern US isn't that remarkable (if you're living in a rural community your marriage options are going to be understandably limited)...
However, the inbreeding continued well into the 20th century (they were discussed in medical journals and their condition diagnosed in 1964), and the last known family member with blue skin was born in 1975 (and is possibly still alive). I'll repeat that THE LAST KNOWN INHERITOR OF THIS TRAIT WAS BORN IN NINETEEN SEVENTY FUCKING FIVE!!!!
Now, no shame to these folks, but 150 years is more than enough time to notice something strange is going on, and the 1960s is FAR too late to realise that you shouldn't be having kids with your own relatives (or at the very least that marriages between certain families generally produce weird offspring).
This fucker is at it again...
Possibly terrible fanfic idea
A modern version of Dante's The Divine Comedy (or at least Inferno), or the greek legends of tormented souls in Tartarus where all of the callouts are modern scumbags....
I mean like JKR, being punished by desperately needing a piss, but every toilet is occupied by people demanding she prove she's a woman before she can enter, but she can't undress. The Elongated Muskrat (and other assorted techbros) being compelled to follow the instructions of a hallucinating LLM to perform every task. Bezos being forced to work in an infinite amazon warehouse without end and if he slows down or stops the conditions get worse (e.g. the temperature rises 5⁰, he starts getting whipped, the items he needs to collect move further away). Trump being forced to stand in a pit of his own faeces whilst watching Obama accept every personal and professional accolade possible. Fhurage endlessly being forced to sign an agreement to fully merge the UK with the EU (any attempt to refuse is immediately curtailed by a referendum).
A historian's rant about repatritation
Ok, since I keep seeing ill informed people on my social media wanging on about the repatritation of historical artefacts (in so much as their logic is: European colonialism/imperialism was bad. Ergo: any form of redress is good and should happen) and don't show any kind of awareness around the actual issues surrounding them I need to rant about it.
Still here? Then good, I'll begin....
The debate around repatriation is a whole lot more nunanced than these 'the British Museum is a crime scene' fuckers are willing to acknowledge (colour me shocked, whilst I stand here in my nuance t-shirt) and there are multiple things that need to be considered:
Who actually owns the object? A lot of the most controversial pieces in these debates (e.g. The Parthenon marbles, Benin Bronzes, the potrait bust of Nefertiti) have a complicated providence. In some cases there's a legal question mark over how they were acquired. But in other cases there are huge gaps in the paper trail (we know when and where they were made, and sometimes by whom, and we know how the institution got them. But have absolutely no information in between).
Who wants it back? Now this might seem simple, but populations, identity and borders are not fixed monoliths. The people who made a specific object may well have viewed their identity in a completely different way to the people currently living somewhere and or who are saying it's theirs (see Mesopatamia, the Indus Valley Civilisation, multiple indigenous american cultures etc.)
Why do they want it back? This in a way continues on from the previous point. In some cases, it's because the object has religious/spiritual/cultural significance to them. BUT, in some cases it's because they want to destroy it. Either as a middle finger to a specific group, or to supress the information it provides, usually because it doesn't fit the narrative they want to present (see aforementioned indigenous americans, Papua New Guinea or the Bhuddas of Banyan)
What's going to happen to it if it is returned? Again this links into the previous point. A lot of the time, the people asking for it back plan to stick in their own museum/gallery, or use it for the specific and special religious/spiritual/cultural purpose it was made for. But, that's not guaranteed, which brings us to...
Is it going to be safe if its returned? A lot of places in the global south have serious problems with political and or economic insecurity and therefore the protections they're able to provide may not be adequate, either because of a lack of funding and or corruption by public officials (see the National Musuem of Baghdad in 2003, Palmyra, 19th century Egypt et al.).
I hope you've learned something....
here's two articles about how JK Rowling just posted on X an upskirt photo of Freda Wallace, a transgender woman, after deadnaming her and misgendering her repeatedly online.
The wealthy author escalated a social media spat that resulted in posting a photo from a 2023 event at the Institute of Economic Affairs in
Rowling posted the picture taken from below because the trans woman, she said, was "refusing to debate me."
Thank you for posting without the fucking destiel meme
So in summation; Rowling demanded access to a woman’s time and when she couldn’t get it she retaliated by posting an upskirt image of her and called her fat, and some of her fans even went “I think I can see her genitals”.
She literally went “debate me! Debate me!” Over and over like the grifter she is and when she couldn’t get what she wanted and when “no” wasn’t enough she resorted to retaliatory sex-pestery, posting an image of somebody’s body with intention to shame and embarrass and spawn more waspish tittering from her internet followers.
Rowling is trash and this is disgraceful behavior, in case anyone has forgotten.
She had also claimed Freda "deserved" this sexual harassment because of what she was wearing... You know... The same excuse used over and over to try and justify rape.
TERFs insist that they're fighting for women's rights and then Rowling's out here proving the venn diagram of FARTs and right wing extremists is a circle....
Wishing all amab nb people who don't perform the femininity or androgyny that people expect from non-cis amab people a very nice Friday.
Honestly, I'd say the stabbing was not only justified, but an understated reaction
Allow me to summarise the state of social media in 2026
This could honestly just be my greyromantic asexuality talking, but I keep seeing people talking about their relationships online (primarily on terms of 'horrible ex' stories, but also in terms of the moral panic around conservative influencers) and I really do think a lot more people need to learn that you can just end a relationship if its not working out without needing any specific reason or justification (ok it's a dick move to just up and leave with no notice, but you can do it). And what's (potentially) more important, an emotionally mature, well adjusted partner isn't going to stop you
Potentially a controversial take, but, I honestly don't think it's unreasonable to say that;
If you (as an employer/recruiter) expect me (as a potential employee/applicant) to actually give a shit about the opening you're advertising (and not just submit a generic covering letter), then you should actually give a shit about how you're coming across and not just give me the middle finger.
