do you remember, remember?? REMEMBER

Idk, I just be vibing on here; one piece blog @gawdusopp

[json-derulo]

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[gravebiscuit]

Kendrick Lamar once said that freaky ass niggas need to stay they ass inside, and that's what's so valuable about the manga and anime industry- it keeps them inside!

[gravebiscuit]

*on knees, with clasped hands and teary eyes, begging earnestly* PLEASE get of my dick PLEASE hop off IT HURTS IT HURTS

[proxima-bee]

can you imagine how good shows would be if writers thought of women as human beings

[quasi-normalcy]

Mel Brooks on taking studio notes:

[langernameohnebedeutung]

Schism? Schism today?

[langernameohnebedeutung]

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[turuin]

Wow, I didn't have "catholic schism" on my 2026 bingo card

[mygogglesdosomething]

Schism today

[gatheringbones]

and yeah, how to relate to the helplessness and impulsiveness of perpetrators, the really vulnerable fragmented ones who compulsively abuse and who will keep compulsively abusing as long as there’s no awake aware adults in the room to put themselves in the way.

where are the awake aware adults?

what’s it going to take for you to finally choose to become one of those?

[bats-online]

Ideas in the 1890s: What if cocaine was a health drink

Ideas in the 1920s: We should make a new kind of plastic you can eat

Ideas in the 1960s: We should invent a new and more civil racism

Ideas in the 1980s: What if you could have sex with Hello World

Ideas in the 1990s: What if cars had TVs in them

Ideas in the 2000s: Is it gay to wash your hair?

Ideas in the 2010s: What if a refrigerator was made of goo

Ideas in the 2020s: What if there was a website where you could talk to Pepsi

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[fluoresensitives]

I fuck with prison abolition in theory, and I don't think prisons should exist but when you ask an abolitionist what we should do about rapists and violent abusers (and I know...we just reward them, they're hardly in prison ever), the reaction always seems to be a shrug, some vague hand wavey talk about rehabilitation, and absolutely nothing done for the victim... like oh...

[gravebiscuit]

Good King Wince, the Lez

[witchofanguish]

[mahead-ithurt]

Always remember that the EU did a study in 2013 about the effects of piracy on media publishers and found that there is no correlation between piracy and sales! (And then they tried to hide that study bc that's not the result they wanted)

So piracy is at worst not even a problem, and at best it's free advertisement.

Source: (the link to the actual study is in the article)

EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales - Engadget

In 2013, the European Commission ordered a €360,000 ($430,000) study on how piracy affects sales of music, books, movies and games in the EU

[rabbitindisguise]

Plus this one:

Study Again Shows 'Pirates' Tend to Be The Biggest Buyers of Legal Content

A new report out of the UK once again deflates the common narrative that pirates are exclusively looking to obtain free stuff.

[probuccalfat]

the highest recorded wet bulb temperatures in the world occur in india, jsyk. in odisha, they’ve hit 34.6 degrees celsius. the human survivability limit is 35 degrees celsius but the body faces significant risks, potentially fatal risks, even at 30 degrees as it starts failing to cool itself, like i’m talking organ failure levels of risk. climate change isn’t coming to peak, it’s been in the global south where you can’t see it or feel it.

[probuccalfat]

imagine temperatures that high and humidity as high as 75%—you make more heat than you can ever cool. your sweat cannot evaporate fast enough. you literally boil alive. heat deaths in india are underreported and they already hit the thousands. there is no plan, for a nation of almost 2 billion people. no plan. nothing.

[covid-safer-hotties]

"Masking has been politicized" doesn't capture the full truth of what's going on.

Masks have been identified as the visual trigger for a problem, not the solution to multiple pressing public health issues.

To please right wing elements in the desperate hope of stealing *checks notes* fascist support for an openly fascist party, the center-right Democrats in the US with Joe Biden as their figurehead worked to downplay the continued necessity of masking even as studies on viral genetics find that vax-only methods for controlling covid cause more rapid and effective viral immune escape to become dominant, does little to actually prevent spread of the illness (especially in enclosed spaces), and has showed that doctors are willing to toe a political line instead of following scientific and medical best practices for halting the spread of a communicable disease which is still killing more Americans than breast and prostate cancer combined.

People who refuse to mask in public spaces, stay home when sick, use tests, or otherwise refuse to take covid seriously as a public health threat have shifted politically to the right.

People who mock and belittle those still taking precautions have adopted political positions identical to the "cough in my mouth" pandemic deniers of 2020 and are pushing full blown eugenics about who should be allowed to safely navigate public life.

"Has been" implies a past tense, an end to the pattern. Masking *contines* to be politicized. A public health tool has been narratively relegated to the bin of "public health tools that don't work" as it continues to be roped in with ideas like enforced distancing and face shields to prevent the spread of airborne illness.

Public health agencies refuse to take the scientifically confirmed threat of aerosols spread just by breathing seriously, pushing handwashing as the number one prevention for illnesses that can linger on poorly ventilated indoor air for dozens of minutes to dozens of hours given the right conditions.

This is a global effort to deny responsibility for a continuing crisis as covid continues to spread and long covid rates have skyrocketed, especially in children where the condition has surpassed asthma as the leading chronic illness in children. This is a failure by medicine to keep up with science and remain apolitical. This is a failure of public health to act in the defense of all. This is the normalization of fascist eugenics in daily life.

"Masks have been politicized" is trying to say ^ all of that ^

Mask up. Keep us safe. Keep you safe.

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

[alianoralacanta]

5. If the words are Google's, this solidifies the position of universities who demand that all answers from AI are fully cited. If all the in-line citations now have to be (Google, 2026), that's going to make it obvious when someone's trying to use Google as a source. There's still the difficulty with people who are academically dishonest by trying to pass off the AI writing as their own. 6. 91% accuracy is officially too low to use as a source of references, which means the AI can't be used as a source of references either. This makes it less legitimate for such purposes than Wikipedia of all places (Wikipedia might need date/time proof of when it was accessed for the reference to be valid, but at least it is possible to prove the link existed at a particular date and time). 7. This will help encourage the rollout of courses on how to avoid AI search for students who need academic accuracy, because it's statistically not good enough to use. 8. This strengthens the case intellectual property authors have against Google in the EU, as this is proof that an intellectual property transfer took place.

[gravebiscuit]

I like chia seeds. I like basil seeds. I like coriander seeds. I like onion seeds (or nigella seeds, or black seeds). I like sesame seeds. I like pumpkin seeds. I like other squash seeds which can be roasted and peeled and eaten similarly to pumpkin seeds, like egusi seeds or spaghetti squash seeds. I like sunflower seeds. I like the seeds of change, rising among the downtrodden. I like fenugreek seeds. I like celery seeds. I like anise seeds. I like cumin seeds. I like fennel seeds. I like caraway seeds. I like peppercorns. I like allspice. If I were around when the big meteor hit earth or whatever, I would've been able to survive on seeds just like birds at large.

[gravebiscuit]

Bob the Drag Queen: What's the most unhinged way that I could teach people a little bit of history?