Our machines are disturbingly lively

and we ourselves frighteningly inert | ☭ | not American | Historian | fake artist | she/they | tme | Sophie

[ouroborosmoons]

It’s a beautiful day to have a heart full of revolutionary hope

[nobrashfestivity]

Jacob Lawrence Pool Parlor

[eccedeus]

I just got a tattoo of a rooster with dinosaur bones for feet because I love birds, which reminded me that as a kid I had a budgie called Peanut that could perfectly mimic the sound of the microwave going off. Fooled me every time

[hagiomoto]

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[hagiomoto]

Please increase your donation if possible because Israel just attacked a community kitchen in Gaza killing three volunteers but I'm not sure which community kitchen they attacked but increase your donation anyway. This is a dire time.

[hagiomoto]

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[ellipsus-writes]

Pope Leo XIV wrote 42.3K words on human dignity in the age of AI. (But Ellipsus has written over 65K words on the topic since 2023. 💪)

Solidarity is a weird thing… all of a sudden you’re seeing the Pope on your dash and the tea is… piping hot? (To offset the Vatican.va link, here's a tl;dr from The Onion.) ... Look at him go!

(Disagreements with his Holiness aside, it’s great to see a powerful figure power taking the side of the people.) ... EDIT: Wake up babe, a new Inquisition just dropped - apparently, not even the Pope can escape being wrongly accused by AI "verifiers."

[fus-mar-hoz]

the catholic church covers up child sexual abuse, lobbies for clemency toward abusive priests, bans gender-affirming care in its hospitals, blocks divorce access across entire countries, and tightens its position on abortion while hundreds of thousands of people are affected by those positions in ways that are immediate and material. these translate into denied healthcare, into legal systems shaped by ecclesiastical lobbying, into abuse survivors who were systematically failed and then watched their institution ask for mercy on behalf of the people who harmed them.

filing all of that under mere "disagreements" signals how unprincipled this reaction you perform is. this framing only holds if you've already decided that opposition to AI is the only relevant axis, and the actual politics, the actual institutional record, the actual people on the receiving end of church policy, gets brushed aside because it's inconvenient to the posts you want to make.

a position that evaluates institutions by whether they've said something useful about your issue, and brackets everything else as secondary, has no mechanism for discerning if praising what is among the most reactionary institution of our time making one statement that aligns with your interests while continuing to cause serious harm in every direction its power reaches is a good choice. the reflex of single-issue politics ends up celebrating an institution with a documented record of what it does with the dignity of people actually vulnerable to it, on the basis that it produced however many words useful to the discourse.

the only progressive thing a pope can do is resign, and that holds regardless of who occupies the position, because the institution is what causes the harm. no encyclical changes what the institution does with its hospitals, its political influence, or its internal handling of abuse. celebrating it because it produced 42,000 words that give the anti-AI discourse more ammunition treats the people harmed by church policy as acceptable collateral in a masturbatory culture war about technology.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Not just the US: India to Brazil, 51 nations armed Israel amid Gaza war

Despite ICJ genocide warnings, 51 nations kept arming Israel, even after pledging to halt support.

A months-long Al Jazeera investigation has found that military-related goods originating from at least 51 countries and self-governing territories continued entering Israel after the ICJ’s warning of a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza. Based primarily on an analysis of Israeli Tax Authority (ITA) import data between 2022 and 2025, and supported by customs records and freedom of information requests, the investigation traced military supply chains linked to countries across Europe, Asia, North America and South America. All named countries are signatories to the Genocide Convention. In some cases, the military-related goods originated from countries that had formally imposed arms embargoes on Israel or had partially suspended arms supplies to the country. In fact, according to the ITA data, arms imports increased after the ICJ ruling, with the largest share falling under the category of munitions. The five largest countries of origin for military-related goods entering Israel - the United States, India, Romania, Taiwan and the Czech Republic - all recorded increased shipments during the war.

[...]

Patrick Wilken, a researcher at Amnesty International, said the scale of Israel’s military campaign made such international support indispensable. “There is no way that Israel alone could have sustained the intensity of its massive bombardment across the Gaza Strip,” he said. “Israel has relied on a global supply chain of arms, munitions and support services, primarily supplied by the United States but supported by many other states.” As the war continued, weapons-related imports to Israel increased. The data appears to bear that out.

[...]

Neve Gordon, an Israeli professor of international law and human rights at Queen Mary University of London, told Al Jazeera that “country after country has contributed to the evisceration of the international legal order by feigning blindness and refusing to abide by their legal obligations". “This is myopic. The very states that helped build this legal order, and invoke it constantly, are now playing a central role in its dismantlement.”

23 May 2026

[sunburnt-brian]

[pjackk]

Dont be very woried about me since i deserve all of this

[dozydawn]

amy winehouse by court artist priscilla coleman, 2009.

[aletheyass]

Marx did not say that you have to 'jerk it'

were you there?

[eccedeus]

Baru remembered her fathers flirting on the beach, fearless and beautiful. The whole world had not been against them, no matter what the Empire said. And that was the beginning of hope: if the world had not always been as the Empire demanded, then it might not always be as the Empire demanded.

Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant

[badassdemonsword]

If i was a british schoolgirl in the 60s i absolutely would have been picking fights with Beatles fangirls constantly. The kinks are better BITCH! and cuter too!

[eccedeus]

Best nuts? Anyone got a nut tier list?

[vedurnan-archive]

[eccedeus]

My face when nyantara is back on my dash board

[eccedeus]

A long-standing passion of mine is spending a whole day downloading 30 gigs easily of tv shows to watch on a long trip and then not watching any of it