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[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

the ashtrays in airplane bathrooms are a fascinating harm reduction metaphor. yes it's illegal as hell to smoke in there. yes there's a smoke detector that will snitch on you the second you light up. so why is there an ashtray? because if there weren't, your single momentary dumbass crime could kill 300 people. it is fucking vital that if someone does have a lit cigarette on a plane, they have a place to safely put it out.

[leatherfag]

btw if you’re fat and your partner doesn’t love you wholeheartedly, if they’re attracted to you “despite” your body, if they avoid touching you, if they look away from certain parts of you, you’re allowed to break up with that person. look at me. you can do better. you are not unloveable and you don’t have to settle i fucking promise.

[leatherfag]

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[pocket-deer-belly]

the older i get the more it's terrifying to me how much child surveillance is normalized. scared for your child's mental health? here's more tools that will make them feel even more watched at all times. child is experimenting with their gender identity while away from you? we made it this other adult's job to surveil them for you. kid is "enjoying" their "free time" instead of doing homework? we've put parental controls on the things that they like so that you can monitor their private time. like can we fucking stop

[pocket-deer-belly]

it took me until 24 to realize that my parents don't deserve to just waltz into my room while i'm asleep and that me thinking this was fucking terrifying behavior wasn't actually unreasonable at all

[pocket-deer-belly]

unrestricted internet access is good for children because the alternative is that their parents are fucking inescapable. surveilling your child is abuse.

[the-quasar-hero]

Very many white LGBT people understand the idea that the societal concept that CisHet is the ‘standard’ or ‘default’ state of a human, at best, is a flattened look at the human experience, and worse a dangerous idea that leads to discrimination. Yet not very many of them seem to grasp the similar concept that thinking white people are the ‘default’ or ‘standard’ version of a person also leads to the same thing.

[the-quasar-hero]

Allowing myself to be perfectly blunt, this post is about racism. Specifically about how y’all can analyze and identify bigotry under the lens of sexual orientation and gender identity; but CANNOT or WILL NOT hear the criticisms of race and racism in the same regard. Please don’t get it twisted.

[bintro]

is anyone else their father’s female son

[mxjackparker]

some of you need to re-learn the word "selfish" and stop calling everyone a fucking narcissist

[shithowdy]

hey. if someone tries to smear you on the internet for something asinine, what you need to do is block every single person engaging with the post and remind yourself that absolutely under no circumstances are you obligated to draft a PR response defending some out-of-context screenshot or kink fanfiction or thing you said when you were 15 or whatever put your blood in the water. you are not a public figure or a brand. you do not have to respond to something if you know in your heart it is bullshit.

[towerologia-sideblog]

What to do if you get cancelled online.

Keep your cool, minimize the damage, and only make amends to those you owe it to.

[mikkeneko]

Lots of good advice in the link above, but the one line that really sticks out to me: Don’t try to satisfy a public that is setting out not to be satisfied.

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

you do not have to want to be a parent or caretaker. but you do have to see children as full human beings with an indisputable and universal right to a safe, healthy, and loving environment in which to grow up. and to be in all the public spaces you are. including the crying baby on the bus, and the toddler on the ipad in the restaurant, and the group of teenagers at the shops who may not be buying anything. and you have to be prepared to be a safe adult in whatever way you can. if you support any social-justice-oriented movement whatsoever—if you profess to be a feminist, or an environmentalist, or anti-carceral, or land back, or antiracist, or anything else—and then say you hate kids, your support for your cause has a great big hole at its center. and this is non-negotiable.

[hagiomoto]

Yeah, it’s incredibly annoying that the average American only seems to care about ICE now that it’s finally affecting white Americans. But we, non-Americans still have to pay attention, because the reality is that governments around the world are rolling out harsh, more reactionary policies against immigrants and refugees. They're watching this, taking notes and placing orders (with Israeli-linked firms) too. It is happening right now.

How your countries treat refugees? Did you know? You should know.

[queenfreakhudsonwilliams]

i keep seeing canadians say shit like "the only ice my government supports is hockey" not true! there are five ICE headquarters in canada. we are bringing in harsher anti trans and immigration laws. edmonton police killed someone this month. Starlight tours are still happening. 50% of kids in foster care are Indigenous. and im not even going to touch Danielle Smith and Doug Ford. we are on the same path, we just do it quieter. call your MP and tell them to stop bill c-15, divest from guardaworld and hootsuite, and fund aish and healthcare!

[queeranarchism]

Europe has been deliberately drowning refugees and 'pushing them back' to regimes paid to imprison refugees so they don't reach the EU for DECADES now and it's only getting worse. Our cops murder and face no consequences. Our refugee centers serve moldy food and don't provide basic hygiene, beds and blankets. We imprison kids. What you're seeing in the US is all here, just better hidden.

[dykepuffs]

Oh god, I have possibly realised that the reason that people think of Europe as "Not having ICE" is because ours doesn't have a single snappy name, because in each individual EU country (And also EFTA countries and the UK) calls their border screws a different name, and then the very American idea of interdepartmental rivalry assumes that they don't work together hand in glove...

[queeranarchism]

idk, Europe is also just better at the propaganda and at hiding their cruelty from view. The name 'Frontex' should be well known and should inspire the same rage and revulsion as 'ICE' but most people don't know who they are and what they do.

[brickytheprocrastinator]

Europe is able to hide the fact that it is also succumbing to the global rise of fascism by doing what it has done for decades, lie about its progressiveness. Yeah, the UK has socialized healthcare to a degree, but it’s also a colonial empire that still has unatoned crimes, including genocide in multiple nations, it’s becoming more and more of a surveillance state, the so called “progressive” labor party is become increasingly transphobic, and they are entirely apathetic towards and even exacerbate the struggles and suffering migrants face France, too, has some light reforms that do nothing to actually address their immigration issues, colonialism, or the fact that they are literally trying to take back Burkina Faso. Germany has many of the same problems, with the added fact that police brutality is an escalating problem and that denazification did nothing to actually address fascist parties, leading to the AfD today and the Nordics, OH THE NORDICS, all of them have engaged in settler-colonialism against their indigenous populations and are built on foreign extractionism and imperialism, not to mention the employer blackmailing All of this gets ignored by apathetic liberals who try to uwuify Europe so that a specifically Republican United States looks bad in comparison. Their criticism of brutality and repression is fake, and their glorification of European states proves it.

[queeranarchism]

The Netherlands feels like a bingo card of all of these - clear rising fascism: yes - brutal to migrants: yes - massive unatoned colonial crimes: yes - police brutality off the scale: yes

But we have socialized healthcare (unless you are trans, mentally ill, chronically ill, disabled, too poor, or need care that we've arbitrarily decided not to include. )

[c3rvida3]

True Statement: "When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

Truer Statement: "When you mixed too much two-part epoxy that's rapidly setting and you have 300 blank pin backs burning a hole in your craft drawer, everything in your house looks like it might make a cool pin."

[c3rvida3]

What I Set Out to Make:

What I Made Once I Had Elected Myself Mayor of Glue York City:

[conversation16]

hey so it’s march now aka the beginning of endometriosis awareness month and i feel obligated to remind you that debilitatingly painful periods are not normal. if you or someone you know is ending up sick or bedridden every month, you are not crazy and deserve medical attention from someone who will take you seriously

[conversation16]

hey it’s march again let’s get this post circulating again

[vaspider]

If you respond to every single bit of positive news with why it is bad or the people involved are bad, you will not only mentally kill yourself but everyone around you.

Especially if we're dealing with country-level shit. There's not one totally good country on the planet. Not one. Okay? So if you respond to a victory in the US or something cool that Norway did or positive news out of Germany with "yeah but [country] is a nightmare actually because [things that are happening]," you are not doing anybody any favors.

You're just being a tar pit.

And don't fucking turn this into apologia for the bad shit countries do. That's not what I'm fucking saying.

Y'all need to learn to take a goddamned W every so often, and to let other people enjoy the occasional W, or we will all mentally fucking die.

[zinaanqar16]

I SWEAR TO YOU, BETRAYAL HURTS MORE THAN WAR. If you’re scrolling, please share. It’s only one share.

[zinaanqar16]

My sister may die because Israel has closed all crossings to Gaza. Skip today’s coffee and leave a small donation to help save her life.

Gofundme – Vetted #213

[zinaanqar16]

Guys, my sister is dying. Please don’t let her die. Don’t leave us alone. I am begging you. Share.

[theysaiditwillbefun]

Black people deserve positive endings, fairy tales, feel good stories.

[fellahimedia]

[firewirecompatible]

everyone say thank you to black trans women and black trans men

[ghostboyravenight-deactivated20]

i’d also like to say thank you to black non-binary people and black intersex people