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From the Dallas-Worth NLG Chapter: On July 4th, a noise demonstration took place outside of the ICE Prairieland Detention Center in Texas. W
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happy anniversary to the funniest i have ever been in my life and happy one year of Lady Normalgirl and Her Eunuch!
it's so annoying when people complain Abt me drawing trans men as feminine which are a deep reflection of myself and not only that but play me off like a "gooner" artist good god man get over yourself.
"let trans men be masculine!!!" EVERY OTHER ARTIST DRAWS TRANSMASC PEOPLE AS MASCULINE, it's just annoying that when a few transmascs begin to express themselves differently then it's "oh why can't guys be masculine" the thing is masculinity is not everyone's goal and some guys should be allowed to express themselves however they want.
also really cool that my art gets labeled as gooner cuz the fem guys I draw aren't white twinks but in fact fat and black. I hate white queers.
sorry to complain Abt this early it's just extremely fucking discouraging art wise and dysphoria inducing that I can't express myself unless I shove myself into a box u don't want to make white men uncomfortable.
Hitch will get fatter And boobiful next year 👍🏾
Hello my friend,
My name is Mahmoud. I live in Gaza with my family, and we are going through a very difficult financial situation. I tried to create a donation link for my family, but I couldn't find someone to help organize and manage the campaign 🥺💔So my friend Ahmed decided to support me by sharing his own family’s donation link, and we agreed to split the donations between our two families.
Right now, we have almost no food, and the cost of living has become unbearable due to the siege, soaring prices, and the closure of all crossings.Everything has doubled in price in an unimaginable way 🥲🥺
We might be forced to flee to southern Gaza after the announcement of a full invasion of Gaza City 💔
The bombing and destruction never stop — not for a single moment. There is no longer any real life in Gaza. We are just struggling to survive, trying to secure the bare minimum: water and food.
Winter is coming, and we have no winter clothing after our home was destroyed and we were displaced multiple times 😭🥲Please, we urgently need financial help to buy food and store some in case the situation worsens.
This is our donation link.
Please remember: donations are shared between two families. So, for the sake of God, help us, my friend. Save our children, my younger siblings, my parents, and even my older siblings — we are all homeless and hungry 🥺🥲💔
My Story: From the Hell of War to the Search for Safety My name is Ahmed, a 20-year-old young man from Gaza. Since the war began, my life ha
Genuinely one of my favorite things about TNG is how often they're just doing art for fun. Riker's been playing trombone since he was a kid and he really enjoys it and also he is Not Good. Dr. Crusher is stalking the halls trying to rope all her friends and acquaintances into joining her community theater productions and musical reviews even if they've never been on stage before. They're constantly going to their crewmates' music recitals and poetry readings, and some of these people are impressively good at what they do but some of them are just getting started or content to stay at beginner level. They're having fun! They don't have to be prodigies in order to be involved with art because engaging with art on whatever level has value of its own! THIS is what I want to see in my post-scarcity socialist space future. Will Riker's bad trombone playing is load-bearing, actually.
“The key dialectical lesson is that technology is not a neutral tool. It is a class battleground that must be approached with scientific and strategic awareness. Science has never been purely objective progress. It has always depended on who controls it, how it is used, and for what purpose. The problem is not with artificial intelligence itself, but with its monopolization by capitalist powers and its redeployment to deepen class conflict.”
— Rezgar Akrawi
Glad this perspective is starting to proliferate! The problem with generative AI is first and foremost the violence of the act of enclosing the commons. Meanwhile, the way LLM assistants behave is one giant act of labor discipline by capitalists. (I wrote an essay arguing a similar position here.)
what you should take away from the current state of Mangione's trial isn't that he got away with it on technicalities, but that police and news media will conspire to fabricate evidence against whoever is a convenient scapegoat
DoJ says a group of protesters at an ICE detention center was part of a terror cell; legal experts say case is an effort to crack down on le
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tl;dr NK is sending 10% of net profit on resin items through December to go to the legal bills of trying to get a bunch of anti-ICE protestors, including a trans woman who I've been writing to in prison for months, off from the fucked up charges against them. If you don't know about the Prairieland case:
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And here's what you can buy to get a percentage donated:
All items included in the resin art category are made by Spider in our Portland, Oregon shop.
I just added a bunch of new one-of-a-kind resin pendants:
(Ignore the numbers; they only pertain to the listings themselves. I am just too tired to re-edit the images.)
Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it's kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.
They were us.
Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.
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Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not
A real life caveman though??? I think they'd be at least okay at it
This is actually really important and comes up in Anthropology classes all. The. Time.
As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.
There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.
Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.
We've been human for a long, long time, and we are not inherently better than all those who came before.
One the most profound experiences of my life was visiting Font de Gaume, which has 12 thousand year old paintings. They use a technique where the horses appeared to run across the wall when seen in flickering firelight. There was a bison the wall staring at us with such attitude, I could practically hear him. I had the most profound feeling of those ancient artists reaching forward to lay their hands on my shoulders. To say, "This was my world." It was a profoundly moving experience.
Some years later, I went to the Orkney islands where we visited a tiny family run museum of artifacts from the chambered tomb at the other end of the farm. They handed me a pestle once held by some neolithci human.They'd worn groves where the thumb and forefinger would be for better grip.
One time, in a French history class, my teacher randomly at the end of the class had all of us draw a sketch of a horse. And we were all like ??? Okay???
At the beginning of the next class, my teacher showed us a cave painting of a horse. And then he showed all of our horses, which he had scanned and put into the presentation.
He then pointed out all the ways that our horses looked similar to the prehistoric horse. Same features, drawn from the same angle, etc.
And then he asked us, "Isn't it cool that you draw horses the same way as someone who lived 20,000 years ago?"
Yeah. That stuck with me for a while.
Since I happened to have it open in another tab, here's the source:
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
tumblr users, overall, have low financial literacy. and like, I get it. it’s not shocking that a majority user base of chronically broke-adjacent people are intimidated by and/or think it’s useless to learn about financial systems. I’m not surprised by this. but I do think it’s really really important to have an understanding of business and financial concepts, even when it’s dense and scary, because it’s fundamental to how the modern world works. this post is inspired by the notes on this post about the idea of bankification and is for an american audience.
when you deposit a paycheck in a traditional bank account, you go online and see the number in your balance. to you, it looks like there is a single account that quarantines your money away from everybody else’s. you may think that when you deposit money in the bank, the bank is just holding that money for you, but actually, by depositing money is a bank, you are lending the bank company your money.
a bank company’s core function is to make money by bundling together the deposits that many customers have lent it, and investing that money in the stock market. the bank’s investments earn interest, which is the bank’s profit. if you have a savings account, you’re essentially telling the bank “hey, I plan to have this money sitting here for a while without drawing on it.” a savings account is a more stable investment base than a checking account for the bank, which is why the company incentivizes you to have one. when you earn interest on a savings account, that is the bank giving you a tiny kickback of the money they are making through investing your (and others’ blended) deposits.
the traditional banking system is insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation (FDIC), which is a government agency. if you took all your money out of the bank and hid it under your mattress, if somebody broke into your house and stole it, you will lose all your money. but the government insures money in traditional banks, usually up to $250,000 per consumer account. this means that even if the bank company’s investments all fail and the bank company loses all your cash, the government will bail the bank out, and you will not lose your money.
by putting your money in a traditional bank, you ensure your money is protected, you get a small kickback of interest, and you get access to the convenience of the bank’s online platform to track your finances. you also get a debit card to easily make purchases by drawing directly from your accounts. for the bank company, they get billions of dollars of interest-free loans, in the form of their customer’s deposits, to invest in the stock market. at its core, ignoring fees and credit cards and mortgages, this is how the banking system works.
bankification is the idea that non-banking companies are trying to operate like banks. this includes tech companies like Apple offering credit cards, but an aspect of bankification that is less understood is companies incentivizing consumers to give them interest-free loans. while banks are regulated by the government in exactly when and how they can operate within this business model, other companies trying to profit through this model are not always beholden to these regulations because their activities are not technically considered banking. let’s look at an example: loyalty programs.
in 2025, starbucks has an estimated $2 billion in deferred revenue from their loyalty program. deferred revenue is like a gift card; the company receives money because the customer paid up-front for the gift card, but the company is beholden to discount a future purchase by the pre-paid amount. there are multiple advantages to receiving deferred revenue for a company.
when a customer loads money onto their starbucks loyalty account, they are essentially buying a digital gift card. remember how banks encourage consumers to put money into savings accounts because it is a long-term holding account, which makes it a more stable investment base? once you buy a gift card, you cannot convert it back into cash. the money cannot leave the company, making a very stable investment base. starbucks offers a lot of benefits and discounts for customers who load money onto their loyalty accounts because starbucks recognizes the value of a captive investment base of interest-free loans. when many customers prepay through the loyalty program, starbucks is using that pooled money the same way a bank does: investing it to make even more money.
as a side note, two other major advantages of this gift card model for companies is inflation and breakage. money loses value over time through inflation. when you buy a gift card, you pay the money upfront, and the company can invest that money sooner at its higher value. breakage is the idea that if a gift card is bought but never redeemed, then the company essentially got money for nothing.
now, does this bankification through loyalty programs directly hurt consumers? well, not really. consumers who participate in these sorts of loyalty programs get benefits like discounts. the problem is indirect harms: that this money is uninsured for the consumer, and the deferred revenue investment base is less regulated than traditional banks.
if starbucks’ investments failed and the company died, any money those customers had paid into the loyalty program but had not yet used on purchases would disappear. the money is not insured, so the customer wouldn’t get it back. the same is true for keeping your money in any non-FDIC insured company, including companies like PayPal and Cashapp*. (*some services from those platforms, usually the credit cards, are insured because they have a backing partner bank. but a sitting balance in a free account is usually not FDIC-insured. don’t leave your money sitting in these accounts.)
because companies investing their deferred revenue is regulated and taxed differently than traditional banks’ investments, not only if there less protection for the consumer, but there is less protection for the wider economy. If a bankified company with significant investments into other bankified company fails, this can cause a shockwave effect similar to the 2008-9 financial crisis wherein all the interconnected bankified companies are destabilized. banks are heavily regulated to avoid that happening again, but bankified companies are not beholden to that legislation.
just cause it’s worth a mention, the predatory opposite-twin of the loyalty-program type bankification is buy-now pay-later bankification. buy now pay later is a more approachable way of saying financing. a mortgage is a type of financing; the bank pays for your house up-front, and you need to repay them over a period of years with interest and potential fees. again, traditional banks are heavily regulated in what they can do with financing. bankified companies offer financing on their purchases because they aren’t beholden to the same strict regulation, and they can set the time period, fees, and interest on their financing to whatever they want. bankified financing is often much more directly predatory to the consumer.
ANNOUNCEMENT | Reopening and application timeline:
Hello everyone! We apologize for the extended silence, but we have decided to do a soft revival of this charity project with an expansion to our artist roster!
After last year, we’ve learned that we need some more management to avoid overloading our current managerial staff and as such are currently looking to onboard more moderators. We're hoping to make the onboarding experience as smooth as possible as we seek out new artists and staff.
While we are still deep in working on our forms, spreadsheets, and plans, you can expect Moderator applications to open by December 8th and new artist applications by December 15th!
We will also be compiling questions into a FAQ soon, so if you have any questions, comments, or concerns please feel free to shoot us an ask!
Again, we sincerely apologize for our silence and delays, and hope to make this next round smoother and more efficient while upscaling.
Thank you for reading, and please look forwards to more information from us soon!
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the rise of conservatism and gen z puritanism while still simultaneously trying to be hip and woke is so annoying because you have these people saying "match my freak" and then they get mad at ageplay and petplay and cnc and somno and anything raunchier than a pair of fuzzy handcuffs. you're not a "freak" if you think having a fetish is synonymous with being evil
Briefly poking my head back in on the "realistic fantasy creature" rabbit hole before tapping back out.
The thing about the real universe and Earth biology is that all of it is generally more fucked up and weird than our imaginations. Realistic version of fantasy settings forget that evolution is a fuck you and ecology is a double fuck you and they get so wrapped up in forward facing predator eyes the completely space out on jumping spiders. And like sure maybe you can say XYZ happens but they're never out there like adding the details that make it interesting like growing tusks that curve around into the skull, eyes set on giant elongated stalks, freaky sacs that inflate and deflate, special noise features, and all the other weird shit that gets carried along in the evolutionary process. Not because it was better or more useful but because it was a trait of things that lived long enough to fuck.
The take home true realistic fact of biology isn't "these traits are a necessary part of this skill or behavior" it's that biology does not give a fuck and evolution will grab literally anything if it succeeded in reproduction a couple times, anything.
People will be like realistic dragons can only fly if they're really light with big wingspans and a lot of buoyancy or something. Yeah maybe so, or maybe they're like fucked up whale vulture squid mantis hybrids. Maybe their wings are just fucking packed with organ jets using the venturi effect to ram themselves full of air on a foreward swing and blast it out of anterior exhausts, and it gets superheated because pressure increase equals heat so the wing underside combined with the jet propulsion gets lift and thrust, and they've got like massive furnaces of digestive systems amped up a million percent from animals like heyenas and vultutes that let them eat more or less anything, which allows them to stay alive from internally breaking down a one ton gutload of garbage and they pretty much just spend the majority of their time in high altitude flight as adults based on having some weird unforseen celluar biology where they just live on sunlight and digestion and the atmosphere has less drag and their body is so huge because it holds in the heat that helps the jet wings work. And then every so often they dive bomb into normal atmosphere at like terminal velocity and use a diamond hard shovel jaw plow through whatever is in their pathway to get just enough energy to blast back up into the upperatmospher, like, they never stop flying, but they are huge and terrifying and they defend themselves with bile. Like what about that, huh?
Be throwing the inverse square law around how giants would collapse under their own weight and it's not a survivable size as if human spines don't collapse under the strees of walking upright in the actual living world. Stupid shit thrives all the time.
Ngl the panic around HRT happening at the same time as the GLP-1 weight loss craze is some incredible worldbuilding.
You have all these people just freaking out about the safety of sex hormones being used for the same purpose they have been for decades, meanwhile the same people who didn't even know what GLP-1 was until a few years ago are now eager to get on these medications and nobody cares about possible long-term effects or regret.
