I can't skate, but I'll replace your ball bearings

[captain-price-returns]

[toxicmp3]

if he has abs he doesnt care about you

[toxicmp3]

men with abs aren’t capable of love

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[dancinbutterfly]

#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic

[angelsaxis]

i went to queer history and signaling and i didnt see taylor swift

[ralfmaximus]

Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify

Meta has quietly embedded face-recognition technology for its smart glasses into an app downloaded to millions of phones, according to a WIRED analysis of the company's software. Code discreetly added to Meta’s AI app over multiple updates this year shows that the feature, internally called “NameTag,” identifies people captured by the glasses’ camera and, when activated, alerts the wearer when it recognizes someone.

Note that this is system wide, for ANYONE Meta can identify via facial recognition. Users could theoretically walk down the street and learn the names of complete strangers.

The feature's not yet activated but has been quietly downloaded to 50 million devices in preparation for... something. Meta isn't saying.

Unpaywalled Wired article here.

[lakemojave]

People are unfazed if you hate women but if you dislike dogs they assume you're a bad person

[lakemojave]

Tumblr users will read a post complaining about normalized misogyny and hyperfocus on your claim that it's ok to dislike dogs

[depsidase]

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

[feminist-space]

The above is a video shared by smrchildsadness on Twitter, showing a person participating in a pride parade exchanging a pride flag with a person standing on his (am using his pronoun based on the TikToks/Tweets of what happened) doorway who had a Portuguese flag. There are sounds of cheers and crying and the two people hug each other as they exchange the flags. The man at the doorway then waved kisses to the crowd within the pride parade.

The Tweet says: "NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HE WAS WAVING THE PORTUGUESE FLAG BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE A PRIDE FLAG AND THEY TRADED FLAGS AND HE'S SO EMOTIONAL TO GET HIS OWN PRIDE FLAG I'M EMOTIONALLY RUINED"

For context, apparently they were worried that maybe he's a nationalist because he was waving the Portuguese flag and some nationalists opposing the pride march were waving that flag. But upon interacting with him, it turns out he didn't have have a pride flag and he wanted to wave *a* flag in support of the pride march. So they had an exchange and now he has his own pride flag 😭🥹.

The image above is a Tweet by kunwara_ladkaa that says "I'm crying so much right now (Image taken by Manuel Fernando Araújo/Lusa)". The image shows the same man from the pride parade crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

The above image is a Tweet by dudz_zZzz that says "ainda não parei de pensar nele," which according to Google translate from Portuguese to English is "I still haven't stopped thinking about him." The image is a drawing of the person from the pride parade, crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

Posts were made on July 1, 2024.

[captain-price-returns]

"You're fucking crazy": Trump fumes at Netanyahu in call on Lebanon

"You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass."

Trump reportedly lashed out at Netanyahu on their call earlier today, calling the Israeli PM "fucking crazy" -Axios

Per one source, Trump at one point yelled at Netanyahu: "What the fuck are you doing?"

[doctorslippery]

[dogpuppy]

[apple-boy-111]

This is what tumblr feels like

[papasmoke]

How To Sell A Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza – book review

Adam Johnson’s How to Sell a Genocide powerfully critiques the US media’s flagrant bias in its reporting on Gaza, which has done real harm,

Johnson’s target is what he describes as the ‘center-left’ media, in other words those outlets closest, politically speaking, to Joe Biden, the occupant of the White House during the period of his sample, the twelve months following 7 October 2023. Largely ignoring the Maga media who were ‘openly genocidal against Palestinians’ (p.3), Johnson evaluates the content produced by more ‘liberal’ newspapers, broadcasters and platforms precisely because they paved the way for the justification by a Democratic president to arm and back Israel in its war on Gaza.

[...]

Genocide, he states at the outset, was ‘enabled, facilitated, and cheerled by establishment US media providing cover for months of a nihilistic campaign of starvation, bombing, arbitrary detention, shooting, and sexual violence’ (p.2). The rest of the book maps out in great detail the various frames that US journalists used to justify, normalise and excuse the genocide (though of course that is not what they called it, nor were they allowed to call it that).

[dduane]

If you don't want LinkTree putting your imagery into AI... get out now

Just canceled my account (not that I used it that much). But I won’t permit this. Via @unaminh.bsky.social:

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI.

…Just so you know.

[ralfmaximus]

Heads up: LinkTree starts feeding the plagiarism machine in July 2026.

[captain-price-returns]

waow based

[nolaplantdaddy]

I love when people ask "how did you learn this skill?" I just started, there's no secret. that's it. a vast majority of the time the only thing holding you back is your trepidation to start.

[noegrets]

[gorevidalchukander]

these are great points and I want to add that skills build upon each other. The skills, design acumen and even some muscle memory between practical endeavors like woodworking, sewing, leather craft, construction trades, etc all relate to each other in your brain and hands and after a while you become fluent in making and repairing things. A person becomes handier as they try more things, and you can reach a critical mass of experience and have good results even with something you've never done before.

[dryiffsrevitalizingtailholetonic]

the shitstains at youtube memoryhole’d propane genesis evangelion but I had already downloaded it because I know youtube is full of absolute cunts so here it is