My ghost won't associate with your ghost

Ash, she/her, minor, Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[oifaaa]

I think itd be funny if people in the dc universe started calling for Batman in the same why they call on mayor Mandani any time theres an inconvenience in Gotham from the local villian of the week to the city needs more dumpsters they just make and upload a video saying "Batman can you come deal with this"

[flowgeeksout]

You know ball they should call Mandani AND BATMAN (Gotham used to be Canonically New York sooo 👀)

[oifaaa]

If Mandani was mayor of Gotham Batman would be too busy investigating how this man has somehow overcome 17 different evil curses to start actually improving things in Gotham

[indicadyke]

they weren't fucking lying that history can repeating itself

[indicadyke]

"but our society is so progressive! theres so much more lgbt representation in movies!" *grabs you by the shoulders* this happened in post ww1 pre ww2 germany. things SEEMED to be getting more progressive then too. and YET we see the exact same thing happening with the rise of open and violent antisemitism and homo/transphobia. it's just happening AGAIN. and so many people aren't paying ATTENTION because sometimes characters are bisexual or nonbinary in cartoons or whatever. explodes.

[indicadyke]

anyway. here's a video by a jewish lesbian about lgbt history in weimar germany

[crazy-brazilian]

[akajustmerry]

the idea AI and technology more broadly should NOT be used to “predict” criminality used to be such a mainstream and accepted position that it was literally the plot of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. I know people may not remember this, since the popular memory of that film is mostly that Sebastian Stan as The Winter Soldier looks hot and sad and looks cool as fuck when he kills people. However, I really need people to remember this because it's making me insane when I remember that the main plot of that movie is Steve Rogers discovering that a group of fascists are behind an AI program that is going to be used by the US government to “predict” if a crime is going to occur and eliminate the potential perpetrators before the crime even happens. And in response to that discovery, the heroes of that movie, as in the people you the audience are meant to align with, choose to become enemies of the state over allegiance to a government that would use fascist-designed predictive technology. Again, that was such a mainstream and accepted position that even Captain America himself was against it. But now…but now...ha. Just over 10 years later, you have Palatir, Stargate LLC, Oracle, Open AI - all these massive software companies run by some of the richest, most openly fascist fuckers on Earth - and they're all being awarded massive government and military contracts around the world to further develop generative tech to weaponise on mass populations. In places like Palestine, that's already been a reality for many years. But there's no meaningful resistance to the rise in power of these companies or this tech. In fact, most people are giddily feeding this tech their data in exchange for a perceived convenience. Motherfuckers use chatgpt to ask whether they should scratch their ass, and to think for them at higher and higher rates and we know how that data will be used because those tech companies openly brag about it with the president of United States. And….. please, please, can anyone hear me??? it used to be so agreed upon that all this was bad that a CAPTAIN AMERICA MOVIE funded by the US military no less told you it was bad. How far things come, huh (derogatory)

[risrambles]

if 2024 sam wilson met 2014 sam wilson i fear it would be one of the funniest things ever

2024 sam: “so yeah, we help save the world and overcome many challenges as well as become captain america and go on to inspire millions despite the odds. also steve is lowkey dead and nat sacrificed herself”

2014 sam:

2014 sam: and the guy who ripped out the steering wheel on the highway?

2024 sam: congress

[alfafacose]

~ Let's go home ~

Another piece from my patreon

[alissabatt]

*Winter Soldier theme playing in the background*

[is9vhl]

quick rendering study / metal arm study i did in class yesterday :)

[senatortedcruz]

Wonderful photo

[quietwingsinthesky]

look, i work at a morgue, i get to see every day how withered and small bodies can get when someone was sick. it’s awful. do you know how bone-thin a leg can get. or how a stomach really looks beneath the ribs when it’s wasted away. the way people’s eyes and cheeks press in to their skull like they’re clinging on for dear life. they died like that, and you want to try and sell me a lie, a pill, a miracle cure that’ll make me live in that state? that’ll make my friends look like that, my family, the people i love? to see corpses in them?

this job makes me appreciate all the more bodies lived in and well-loved. please eat that second serving. please give yourself treats as much as you want. life is not long enough to suffer through it. you’ll be plenty skinny when you’re dead.

[yardsards]

was doing a first aid course and it kept talking about how when applying first aid to a child you have to ask the PARENT for consent and how the child's consent is not enough unless you cannot reach the parent. and then immediately after there was a unit on shaken baby syndrome, and then mentioned abuse as a common source of children getting injured. and they didn't see the irony there. i later asked the instructor what to do about parental consent if the medical emergency was from the parent abusing the child and she was like "you still need to obtain parental consent. you can report the abuse though" not even acknowledging how fucked the whole system is. i hate it here. youth rights now

[jayjay-thejet-plane]

Bucky is a professional paperback ruiner and Bob plays stardew valley :P

wintersentry dates mostly involve them sharing space while doing their own thing (bucky is kinda intrigued by bob’s game tho😌)

[megamindsupremacy]

surely this is a sign that there’s nothing in particular wrong with the atmosphere right now

[sailermoon]

this is how new yorkers @ mamdani

[sailermoon]

[excitedrainbow]

IT’S LITERALLY HAPPENING LMAOOOOO

[partywithponies]

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

[thehoneycrypt]

*somewhere in new york immediately after the void*

a teenager watching the press conference about the new avengers: hey dad, isn't that our congressman?

the dad, peeking inside the living room: hm? our con- *sees bucky fucking barnes on screen* oh my lord, that's our congressman

[iheardyourprayer]

Bucky as a congressman quickly finds how incredibly slow and quite ineffective bureaucracy and diplomacy can be to getting things done and if i remember right bucky says in frustration that everything is closed at 4oclock on friday (that day?) and nothing will happen until monday. so I love the idea that hes like in the congress trenches all week trying to represent brooklyn well and also get slime bag val removed for unauthorized and unethical human experimentation (with which he is personally quite well acquainted) and then the weekend comes around and hes like well. ive got 2 days to smash some skulls and get the dirt i need to come back monday with a laundry list of evidence and witnesses of val's corruption to tie this up nicely!