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Imagining a beautiful world where we can talk about systematic abuse of power without everyone immediately just going into "new world order" mode about it. Like no this isn't a secret shadow government this is just normal government. Cannot stress enough that this is normal government and they're doing it over fucking gmail
"X is a threat to Western civilization-" okay so first of all, your automatic conclusion that "the west" is fundamentally a force of good in the world that we should aim to protect and reinforce makes me wanna punch you
Not related to anything recent, but I wish when people critically discussed trends in m/m fiction (like the adherence to strict heteronormative gender roles) they didn't use "written by women" and "written by men" as shorthands for "written badly" and "written well". That irks me because it centers the issue with who is doing the writing rather than what is being written.
The inverse holds true, too. Men are perfectly capable of writing good f/f stories, just as women are perfectly capable of writing good m/m stories.
Ooh yes this is a very good flag, and is something I may be guilty of sometimes.
I think there are useful conversations about M/M being written by women (and F/F being written by men) especially in the context of the romance publishing ecosystem often shutting queer men out of the M/M romance space in favor of female authors and in the context of some women in fandom using their gender as a shield against criticism about some trends in slash fiction, and about F/F being written by men in the context of the history of fetishization by men of lesbians in pornography.
But totally agree that when talking about just the fiction itself we should focus on what is being written rather than who is writing it.
I'm not keyed into the romance publishing ecosystem. What's the mechanism by which queer men are shut out? Publishers?
The M/M romance space is overwhelmingly populated by female authors, and throughout the years queer men have talked about feeling unwelcome in the space, being told that their voices were unwelcome in romance publishing spaces about queer men, etc. I can't speak to whether agents/publishers are prioritizing female authors or if it's more the broader marketing/influencer/published media ecosystem as a whole prioritizing female authors.
I can only speak to what I've seen some queer male authors saying, so if anyone has firsthand experience on this, please chime in.
In terms of professional publishing I think it’s probably going to be more useful to look at the identities of GATEKEEPERS (agents, editors). If all your editors are cis, straight (white) women, they’re going to unconsciously prefer books that are written to appeal to their tastes in men rather than necessarily prioritizing people with experience in m/m real-life encounters. This is a real problem but I think discussing author identities is a little bit of a red herring. The authors as individuals don’t create the problem, it’s the aggregate effect of having a limited diversity of gatekeepers in the industry
okay i've come to appreciate seneca for his banger lines but wow already on the FIRST PAGE of his medea???
MEDEA: Bring death on this new wife, death on the father-in-law and the whole royal stock. For the bridegroom I have a worse prayer in store: may he live. May he wander through unknown cities in want, in exile, hated and homeless may he seek out other men's doors, by this time a notorious guest; may he long for me as his wife and—I can make no worse prayer—for children resembling their father and resembling their mother. My revenge is born, already born: I have given birth.
one of my favorite posts of all time
These pescatarian birds are directly exposed to PFAS contamination due to the island's position near the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Over fifty years of data show a peak in PFAS (also known as "forever chemicals") content in seabird eggs in the 90s, followed by a decrease as regulations went into effect. The most recent findings show a 70% decrease of most common PFAS.
While continued vigilance a regulation is needed, this data indicates that regulations are working to reduce PFAS concentrations in marine ecosystems.
Yes!!!! I did a review of literature on PFASs in human drinking water about half a year ago, and there is a lot of really good progress! Please celebrate this, please don't let this solution be forgotten (at least so quickly) as the ozone layer or acid rain.
We are making genuine progress! Producers are dramatically altering how much they use PFAS and how much gets released in effluent, but also there's a lot better understanding of how to remove PFAS from the environment!
Environmental problems CAN BE SOLVED.
Hey, did y'all see this?
I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today, we have 83 days left until Google rolls out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!
I'll share some of the info below:
Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.
What to do?
-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides
- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out the full resources list on their website as well!
To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements but we got this working together!
Share the link with your friends, family and anyone who will listen!
Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
If you're in the US, I created a petition to make it easier to contact senators and congressmen.
Join 1 people. Google is trying to make people hand over government id in order to make an Android app. If they don't, then that app can't b
If you're not in the US, see if your country is listed here for whom to contact.
everybody's got that one homie posting straight from the valley of the shadow of death
ME AND WHO
#why do they call it the little death if not to remind you to do a post mortem.
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no no @nogoodhorsethief, you have something here
unlike our more hard-line ML and anarchist friends (I'm being a centrist here!) I don't personally see the need to wed yourself to certain organizing tactics as a matter of principle. I think a lot of the tactical political decisions that our forebears made were not always out of devotion to a principle, they were made in a particular political context (that is often omitted when talking about it in the present, and the principle becomes a post-hoc rationalization), and I think it's bizarre and self-sabotaging to shoehorn all your activity through one narrow tactical lens. there are tradeoffs to leaderless organizations. there are tradeoffs to banning factions within your democratic centralist party. what are those tradeoffs, are they worth it, and do they help accomplish a political goal? why were these decisions made historically? to me there's just no sense in trying to constantly fit a square peg in a round hole. things are different now and nearly anything is on the table as far as I'm concerned, and it would be nice if we could figure out how to adapt to the moment
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you always see white americans talking about how they have "no culture" and it almost sounds like a harmless silly statement at first until you realize that leads into the very much harmful view of them being the default. the default character is a man who is white and lives in suburban america. and let me tell you you cant be thinking like that american baby
Lord Peter learns the connection between advertising and the working class
He had never realized the enormous commercial importance of the comparatively poor. Not on the wealthy, who buy only what they want when they want it, was the vast superstructure of industry founded and built up, but on those who, aching for a luxury beyond their reach and for a leisure for ever denied them, could be bullied or wheedled into spending their few hardly won shillings on whatever might give them, if only for a moment, a leisured and luxurious illusion.
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