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Seriously who goes from "people with depression often lose their support group because their symptoms cause them to drift from social contact" to "depressed people are self selecting out of the gene pool cause their genes are defective" like wtf your reasoning doesn't make sense and your lack of a soul is showing.
Fighting Fake Anti-Trump News
In the interests of not spending the next four years fact-checking my own side, I would like very much if we could all exercise good judgment on what we reblog.
I’m pissed off about the trend of twitter screenshots posing as “news” with no source. I’m also pissed off about people posting their own unsourced, inaccurate summaries of something they heard somewhere. This makes us look no better than Trump supporters sharing lies on Facebook, and it often causes unnecessary fear. Here’s a guide on what I want people to do instead.
Easy Mode: If there’s no source, don’t reblog it. This requires no effort on your part, but it’s still helpful. Don’t disseminate information that could be inaccurate.
Regular Mode: Add a source. Google some key words. If it’s legitimate, you should find news stories about it. Reblog and add some source links. While I’m not a huge fan of how the mainstream media has been handling things lately, for this purpose I recommend sticking to established print media, because they have better fact-checking than Internet-only outlets and they’ve been firmer in their opposition than TV news.
If it’s not legitimate, reblog anyway and add sources refuting it. You don’t have to write up a whole explanation if you don’t want. Linking to a source with the note “This shit didn’t happen” will suffice.
Hard Mode: Question the source. If there is a source link, check it. If it’s from some outlet you never heard, of or one that you don’t feel is reputable (like, say, The Daily Mail), go see if they have sources to back themselves up. They may not. Google key words again. See if anyone else is reporting on their claims. If not, wait a bit. It’s possible they have an exclusive scoop. It’s also possible they’re fearmongering based on misunderstood or inadequate information, or they’re just flat making shit up. Don’t discount the possibility of fake “progressive” outlets run by the opposition to discredit us. And remember, The Onion is not the only parody news site out there – not by a long shot.
Again, though, if you do nothing else, stop reblogging unsourced stories. It’s already going to be a long, bad four years. We don’t need to make it worse.
we need to be better than this, people
a shitposter’s guide to political bias in major news outlets
as in, stop quoting the fucking daily caller, for the love of god. we are all gross liberals/progressives/socialists here, so if you see any political post on your dash that uses any news outlet in the first list as its source, then there is like an 80% chance you’re about to reblog hyperbolic conservative propaganda with very little basis in reality. don’t do it, guys. don’t do it. check sources. save a life.
WARNING: GONNA HAVE SOME CONSERVATIVE OPINIONS:
Fox News: should be obvious. don’t do it.
The Blaze: Glenn Beck’s personal news network. don’t do it.
The Drudge Report: mostly link aggregation, opinions section is some bad shit. don’t do it.
The Daily Caller: Tucker Carlson’s baby. you may remember Carlson as the human mouthfart that used to run Crossfire before Jon Stewart fucking eviscerated him ten years ago. don’t do it.
Hot Air: doesn’t vote the straight conservative opinion ticket, some columnists have more liberal social views, but still. on the top 10 list of popular conservative blogs. don’t do it.
Breitbart: conservative, neoreactionary, published an opinion this month calling for a limit to the number of women allowed into STEM fields. don’t do it.
National Review: tbh if you gotta cite a conservative news source, go with TNR. the print magazine and policy institute especially do some high quality pieces, but like as a rule, you’re probably not gonna like the conclusions they come up with. online-only content can be a bit more opinionated. maybe do it.
Wall Street Journal: so center-right the right has actually started to disown it. you’re not gonna like their economics, but they’re not scandal-mongering drivel like some of the blogs on this list. maybe do it.
The Washington Examiner: very good local D.C. reporting, actually, but like, the opinions section is still not gonna be anything you wanna read. maybe do it.
The New York Post: conservative AND a tabloid, do not look to for unbiased reporting or anything except like vile exploitation of tragedy. don’t do it.
Any British Paper That Isn’t The Guardian or The Independent: american newspapers tend towards center-left, british papers tend towards center-right. my sympathies to our cousins across the atlantic.
Special Mention: The Daily Mail: do not cite the Daily Mail for any goddamn reason, i will come to your house and rub your nose into your keyboard like an untrained dog.
GOOD HEARTY LIBERAL STOCK:
The New York Times (plus Magazine): american paper of record and probably deserves it. will surely be too white elite new york liberal center-left for most of your commie asses, but still excellent.
New Yorker: i mean it’s not breaking news and it’s frequently so pretentious you get sucked up your own ass turning the page, but they do know their investigative journalism.
The Washington Post: on average, best political/policy reporting of any paper in the country. their wonkblog, even after Ezra Klien &co’s mass exodus, does excellent daily roundups of domestic political news.
The LA Times (and most other city papers): LA’s great, p much everything is center-left, some of them are gonna be better at covering national issues than others (looks pointedly at SF Gate). good for local, double-check for national.
Huffington Post: PROCEED W/ CAUTION, their news reporting is fine enough but the sheer number of bloggers attached to the site means there’s not always so much quality control. double-check that shit.
BuzzFeed: PROCEED W/ SLIGHTLY LESS CAUTION: be on the watch for bloggers here too, but tbh their staff reporting is some real good shit. they have a white house correspondent now and everything.
Slate: some good liberal shit.
The Atlantic: some good liberal shit. older than you. follow ta-nehisi coates on twitter.
NPR: some generally decent liberal shit. please donate to them.
Politico: some good liberal shit.
Mother Jones: some good liberal shit. older than you.
The Guardian: actually does some great US reporting, had reporters in Ferguson last summer.
Al Jazeera: also has an american bureau, good stuff, and, of course, international coverage unlike almost anything in the US.
BBC: doesn’t care as much about the US, but more foreign policy coverage worth reading.
Vox: where Ezra Klien and his crew all ran off to. unfortunate tendency for clickbait headlines, but their explainer cards do an excellent job of breaking complex news stories into easily digestible parts. i’m biased, but i love them.
SORTA INBETWEEN, THIS IS A SLIDING SCALE AFTER ALL (look, a graph):
The Economist: technically has a majority center-left readership, but you’re not gonna like their economics. they love themselves some free markets.
AP/Reuters: about as neutral as it possibly gets. all facts, no opinion. (pronounced roi-terz btw, impress your friends)
USA Today: well i guess making every hotel guest in the country step over it on their way to breakfast qualifies it as the most popular print paper in the country.
CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc.: all technically left of center (by maybe a milimeter), but watch out for sensationalism. they are 24-hour networks after all.
The Daily News: i have no opinion on the daily news and i doubt any of you do either.
TIME magazine: i mean like, not objectively unreliable, but you could be making better choices.
LITERALLY SATIRE, THESE ARE LITERALLY SATIRE:
The National Report: it’s satire.
The Onion: it’s satire.
Empire News: it’s satire.
I’m so glad there’s a link to that Jon Stewart tears into Crossfire video my soul needed that
A note on the BBC: they bust their asses trying to be neutral. If you need a source with little bias, the BBC is usually a good place to go, especially if you’re a UK person. I usually use it as a barometer of ‘this is story actually a thing’.
Reblogging mostly for the comment on the Daily Mail, but also to suggest ProPublica as another good liberal source, primarily for long form reporting.
NPR relies on public funding, and will sometimes be so aggressively neutral to protect it that they wind up on the wrong side in weird little ways that add up (see: refusal to refer to Barak Obama as President Obama, refusal to call the bloviating yam a liar). Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t listen to them, as they can do excellent work, but be aware of the weakness in the system.
ProPublica does do excellent long-form investigative journalism! They don’t cover as much, but what they do cover, they drill down to the core.
Extra warning about Breitbart: pretty much all Trump’s WH stable of Nazis are Breitbart veterans. Do not read any of their articles, and if one of their contributors is standing near you and spontaneously combusts, don’t put them out. New York Post is so aggressively pro-Trump that he probably masturbates to it late at night- DON’T mix them up with the NYT!
Also not to mix up: do NOT mistake the Washington Times for the Washington Post! WaPo is a paper of record with excellent reporting. Washington Times is the paper owned by the Moonies (google it) and is aggressively far-right. Verrrrrry different things.
That little roundup at the end is very weird to me! AP and Reuters are very neutral sources. AP is bigger in the US (it’s us-based) and Reuters in Europe, but they both get contributions from reporters around the world and most newspapers will run at least some content licensed from them- particularly if the paper isn’t big enough to have reporters stationed around the world. The Economist is okay, if annoyingly capitalist, but it’s reasonably respectable. USA Today isn’t really partial, just bland. It is the shredded wheat of newspapers. (Also, they don’t publish on weekends and they LOVE infographics.)
Time magazine is what I call “brain candy.” It has shiny pages, color pictures, and seems to only cover anything of importance when they think it will scare people into buying it. They run a lot of “trend” articles, shit like “Why Millenials Aren’t Buying Houses.”
If you are getting your news from network tv, stop. Just…stop. It is all sensationalist, rarely complete or correct, and will usually make you less informed and possibly strip some iq points. CNN is still regarded as a more neutral/reliable network, in some circles, but I gave up on them in disgust after their 2000 election night coverage, and have never been given a reason to change my mind. They have SEVERE problems with sensationalism because they are a 24-hour network, and they are one of the biggest offenders when it comes to legitimizing dumb bullshit by giving it equal time with facts (they like to kill time by bringing on talking heads to argue about things like vaccines and global warming as if these are legitimate discussions we should be having). They also have a history of employing far-right douchebags like Glenn Beck and human dumpster fire Don Lemon in the interest of “objectivity” (notably, CNN was the broadcaster of the execrable Crossfire with Tucker “Jizzrag” Carlson).
Anyone who loathes the Daily Mail is my friend, now and forever.
I need to add as a scot that the BBC is 100% willing to warp and twist the narrative of a story to their (read: the current government’s) needs. So while they are respected for a reason, they definitely aren’t unbiased.
The National so far has had their anti-fascist/anti-racism sentiments right on their front pages and I would point to them for a different take on both UK politics and some world stuff.
I’m going to be a quiet, biased voice suggesting that as far as tabloids go, NY Post actually has some minor value. It’s basically the conservative mirror image of the Daily News, and while yes, SUCH CONSERVATIVE VERY GOP WOW, it’s useful in that it takes the conservative viewpoint and boils it down to its basest element. Like, if you’re ever reading about an issue thinking, how could conservatives POSSIBLY be against/for this???? Pick up a Post and you’ll have your answer, and it will have taken you all of five minutes to get it because, well, tabloid. Small words, lotsa pictures. It also does surprisingly well hounding local politicians (NY is infamously corrupt and the Post has broken a solid corruption story in its time) if you can weed through all the nonsense. It and the News in theory play off each other nicely (conservative tabloid vs liberal tabloid picking at each other’s blind spots), but nowadays the News is staffed by three people and a stray pigeon…
TLDR: yes very conservative very tabloid but there is a reason it’s survived so long in a liberal city like NYC. Avoid the letter section you’ll go blind.
For anybody who is trying to figure out how to read reliably in these times of ‘fake news’.
The Darkest Part of the Forest (2015)
Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her brother and believe they’re destined to be a knight and a bard who battle evil. She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for.
★★★★★ GENRE(S): Young Adult, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Paranormal YEAR: 2015
content warning: negligence, violence (mild spoilers)
What???? A young adult fantasy novel with a diverse cast of action heroes that is not overwhelmingly about the struggles they face as members of these Diverse Groups TM???? SHOCK! GASP! SUCH A THING CAN HAPPEN???
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not hating on narratives about oppression – they are very valuable and often allow us to be better-equipped to deal with the real-world oppression that surrounds us. What I dislike, though, is that narratives about confronting and overcoming oppression are the only narratives that we get to see about ourselves in mainstream media, as if the only thing about being a teenager of colour, for example, is the racism they face, or if the only thing a queer teen can do is to star in a narrative about how miserable their lives are made by society. What fiction does, what it should do, is allow us multiple reflections of ourselves, so we can see ourselves in a variety of different roles, see ourselves in different lights, see a world of possibilities for ourselves. What it should not do is confine us into a single narrative, a single story of suffering. Our identities are important parts of our lives, but they are not the only parts of it, not the only stories about us that are worth telling.
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sunday nights can be hard but just know that everything will turn out alright. this is gonna be your week. you’re gonna own it. you’ll get what you need done and something great is gonna happen. just u see. you got this.
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Reviewing stats before class... hopefully I'll get a better grasp on it after seeing it three times 😧
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First study date of the semester! My bf and I both need to study so why not do it together?
i arrive at the library
phone: out brain: distracted homework: unfinished
shout out to mentally ill students who are still trying their hardest to get amazing grades despite dealing with symptoms
shout out to mentally ill students are are just going through the motions and even though they know they want good grades they can’t bring themselves to care
shout out to mentally ill students who take time off and skip homework because they need to put their mental health first
shout out to mentally ill students who don’t want to get a diagnosis because they’re afraid it will impact their future careers
shout out to mentally ill students who have to juggle homework with therapy sessions and any other extracurriculars they do
shout out to mentally ill students. you rock my world.
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Pic one: beginning of study week Pic two: middle of study week I need to avoid stress somehow
in other news today i found out that eddie redmayne has a degree in art history and for his diploma he wrote a 12k words analysis of a picture that’s basically a blue square on a black background; the thing was it was a very unique shade of blue, actually used there for the first time ever; however, being colorblind, i quote, he had no idea what the colour was but well, it looked very pretty to him
and somehow i find this very uplifting i mean if you can pull sth like that off, write a 12k words thesis on a colour you don’t even recognize properly, anything is possible and this is the story of how eddie redmayne officially became my saint patron of high level academic bullshitting
