[medievaljournalist]

every bad thing in the entire world is due to the dark sorcerer if we just kill the dark sorcerer i bet everything will be amazing something amazing will happen

[modogoblin]

[feylingblooms]

there are many ways to hold a fae! just uhhhh maybe not the 3rd one

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

Free Gender-Affirming Kits & Resources | The Queer Trans Project

Get free gender-affirming kits and flight assistance. The Queer Trans Project is a Black & Trans-led nonprofit supporting the trans and nonb

[bebewrites]

genAI companies are now buying up rare and antique books so they can scan them and use them to train their AI. then they're destroying the books afterward.

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almos

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

they've had to face settlements against stealing from current authors, so they'll just go for the old books now. they're also doing this so they have the only copies of rare books.

they're taking water, power, natural resources for their data centers. they steal. they're book burning, essentially. i'm just so angry, i'm at a loss right now.

[rosieofcorona]

sometimes you can tell how much someone loves dragon age by how much they hate dragon age

[shittysorcerer]

[witchsteria]

i do think what gets ignored about carrie as a character is that she’s an incredibly easy target to bully; she’s a chubby, sheltered acne ridden teenage girl who wears frumpy grandma clothes and regurgitates the jesus freak shit her violently abusive mother tells her. she has violent thoughts about her classmates and is uncomfortable to be around. she’s far more interesting being a victim that’s somewhat uncomfortable to be in the head of than a tragic waif. she’s not a martyr, she’s a child and a child who’s been victimised her whole life shouldn’t have to be kind and angelic to be recognised as a victim. suffering teenage girls shouldn’t just be presented on screen as toned down glamorous thin ophelias, suffering teenage girls can be fat and poor and think violently. i do think we need to examine why culturally we need teenage girls to be beautiful and kind to valorise their suffering and treat it as bad

[dogpuppy]

[quadriceps-deactivated20171230]

why is muriel from courage the cowardly dog with that ugly beast he don’t even got teeth she need to get with a real man like me

[urie]

ICE killed another person in maine today, just days after the murder of lorenzo salgado araujo in houston

the maine immigrants rights coalition has released a statement confirming he was a 26 year old columbian man who was authorized to work in the US and had a valid social security number

will update this post with a gofundme link if/when one becomes available

[urie]

his name was joan sebastian guerrero. his 3 yr old daughter was in the backseat of the car in her bluey pajamas. after he was shot, witnesses saw ICE agents pull him from the car and cuff him as he died

[urie]

here is his gofundme. their original goal has been reached in just 16 hours, but i still encourage people to spread and donate if they can

[varnishke]

If you can’t donate to the gofundme for any reason, you may also consider supporting Presente, which supports Latin American and Afro-Latin people in Maine: https://www.presentemaine.org/

Presente! Maine

Presente! Maine

Or the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP): https://ilapmaine.org/

ILAP Maine

ILAP Maine

[soup-mother]

It's very frustrating watching people make the "people should be compensated for their labour, so you shouldn't pirate things/should buy from my etsy" argument over and over again as if it'll somehow remove the difference between labour you did to make a product to sell for yourself and the labour you did for someone else in exchange for a wage.

One of these is you selling your labour to someone, which you wouldn't do if you weren't compensated, and the other is you putting labour into making something and hoping you'll be able to sell it at some point, with no guarantee that you actually will.

It's not a labour rights issue for someone to not buy the thing you made, it is a labour rights issue for someone to not pay you for the work they hired you to do.

These are fundamentally different things, and if you insist you're being exploited because people won't buy your things you indeed going to be accused of being ignorant and entitled.

(Incidentally many authors for example actually effectively are in the situation where they're being paid to make something for someone who will then go and reap all the profits from it and might even get the intellectual rights to it. But still direct their ire at people not buying stuff/unable to buy stuff rather than the people not paying them.)

[rubbergloves]

FaT GiRL issue #4 (October 1995)

[curiositysavesthecat]

If you could restart your life from age 15 with all the knowledge you possessed now, so that you COULD go back and fix all your regrets/mistakes, would you do it?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 5 days 9 hours

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[muffinpines]

Guess what I just finished

[mousidy]

sorry, but you were socialized christian. I just can't trust you in a trans space

[mousidy]

they literally taught you that trans people were subhuman and that you were better than them. I don't know if you can be trusted around other trans people

[mousidy]

they scapegoated and abused you for showing signs of transness? uh... no? christianity is the most privileged religion there is. stop whining

[mousidy]

gotta say I was not expecting people to go to bat for my strawman

[mousidy]

me: "lol wouldn't it be crazy if trans communities treated ex-christian trans people who survived religious abuse the same way they treat trans women who they call 'male socialized'"

some of you, for some reason: "wait hold on that's a great idea"

[mousidy]

lotta people on this post going "ok well male socialization is fake and gay but christian socialization is Real and we should discriminate based on it" and I just think it's interesting how badly some people want to exclude others from queer community based on background

a lot of you clearly still believe socialization is an immutably tainting force, and you wanna be able to punish people for things you imagine they'll do because of it. can you at least wait for our hypothetical traumatized ex-christian to do something worthy of the punishment you're eager to inflict? can we wait for them to express a harmful belief instead of assuming they hold them? no? we just gotta bar them entirely? ok

[mousidy]

I actually don't believe you're normal to trans women if you believe there's such a thing as being eternally tainted by one's upbringing

[mousidy]

[mousidy]

yup that's exactly what I'm proposing

[mousidy]

we can create a perfect queer community if only we remove all queers who may be Tainted by the dangerous ideologies of their upbringings. I will be allowed in because I grew up in a sealed chamber with a monitor on the wall feeding me progressive ideologies at all hours

[creekfiend]

I identify the most with the woman who has a green velvet ribbon around her neck and keeps being like "DONT untie my neck ribbon or something really bad will happen" and then her husband unties the ribbon and her head falls off. this is extremely real to me. spent my whole life like "please don't do this thing to me or really bad stuff will happen" and everyone around me being like "that sounds fake" and doing it anyway. and then my head fell off!

[c-53]

Please take my white ass to anor londo

[shadowysiren]

*grabs you with my long gargoyle-like arms and flies off witj you*

[c-53]

Oh thank god hold me tight you scary motherfucker