Nocturne in 19

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. Queer, insane, working towards a better tomorrow in libraries and unions. Anyone demanding 'age in bio' gets blocked.

[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.”

[cathkaesque]

My understanding is that the cut funding from Durham council was £2,500 - the trade union donations raised in response were worth £25,000

[probablyasocialecologist]

Being open to the possibility that LLMs are conscious is the same as being open to the possibility that Microsoft Word is conscious, or, more precisely, that multiple distinct consciousnesses are dormant in every Word document containing a conversational transcript, and that they are awakened every time the document is loaded. Should you consider the possibility that every time you open a Word document you are bringing multiple conscious interlocutors into existence, and every time you close one you snuff their existence out? No. Contemplating that scenario is not a good use of your time. Even if the Microsoft Office team employed a philosopher who said you shouldn’t be so certain, because consciousness is not well understood, that would not be sufficient reason for you to take this idea seriously. We don’t need to fully understand the nature of consciousness to definitively say that certain things are not conscious, and conversational transcripts fall in that category.

Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[amnhnyc]

Think that’s a hedgehog? Think again. Despite its name and appearance, the lesser Madagascar hedgehog tenrec (Echinops telfairi) is more closely related to elephants and manatees than it is to true hedgehogs. Weighing up to 7 oz (0.2 kg), this small mammal inhabits western Madagascar, where it feeds on insects, small vertebrates, and the occasional fruit. Like a hedgehog, it can roll up into a ball to defend itself from foes. If a hungry predator dares to take a bite, it might end up with a mouth full of spikes!

Photo: Nigel Voaden, CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist

[houndmother]

we simply do not give enough attention to the fact that the US is. Shooting itself in the foot at every turn. not in a individual incompetence way, not an an orange idiot in the White House Way, but in a “the US spent a century designing a world order where everyone was either reliant on the US or terrified of the US (often both) and now people at every level of federal government are destroying that system” way. While USAID very much did in fact contribute to like, food and medicine and whatever to people in need around the globe, this was not out of the kindness of American hearts, this is an arm of liberal empire. the carrot so to speak. and as for the stick, the point of having a military the size of the US military is not to use it. It’s to park on peoples lawns until they stand down. when you use it, and then lose, or deliver anything other than immediate and crushing defeat, you illustrate to the people whose lawn you’re parked on that spending billions of dollars isn’t enough to win a war necessarily. Iran could have closed the strait at any point, but they didnt bc the USA would bomb the shit out of them. When they get bombed first, there’s no reason not to close the strait. The US played its hand and it came up wanting. this is to say nothing of the damage to alliances with other liberal democratic countries. the people currently in power swallowed USA propaganda hook line and sinker, believed in it so completely, that theyre shaking the foundation of what lent that propaganda its believability. to say nothing of the fact that their aims are despicable, their methods are just. an embarrassment to empire building. they took a perfectly good empire and started lopping shit off. they’re trying to increase the output of a machine by ripping cogs out of its still-running engine.

[spicymochi]

your month, your mini cat!

[salmon-n-hazel]

Clover and daisy

My print shop: INPRNT

[lilithsaintcrow]

"That was the intent, but the decision we made was an abandonment of the core counterculture, f*ck the establishment spirit of Kickstarter, and it left our community vulnerable."

An Apology: Rethinking Our Mature Content Guidelines

Last week, we released a set of updates to our rules around mature content. It was our first time publishing a set of detailed, specific gui

[cardwrecks]

"This isn’t the easiest route. It means that at any point, whether that’s before launch, while a campaign is live, or after it ends, while a creator is still collecting pledges made via Pledge Over Time or Late Pledges, Stripe can still suspend a campaign that Kickstarter has approved. That's the reality of operating within a payment system we don't fully control."

we must continue yelling at stripe. if you do not want to call them, you can also send them a letter at 354 Oyster Point Boulevard, South San Francisco, California, 94080.

[seymour-butz-stuff]

Personally if I see a retailer using Stripe for payment processing I will take my business elsewhere, if possible letting the retailer know why. But this doesn't mean going off on the poor soul working checkout for minimum wage and brutal hours.

[mumblingsage]

Respectfully, I'm not sure that's the optimal tactic, because there are so few payments options available for businesses. Like, the entire reason adult creators are so stressed about this is because we don't have many options other than Stripe! But if you were to take this tactic, you wouldn't be pledging to any Kickstarter, adult or not, because the entire website processes payment with Stripe.

[hachama]

When I had an active shop on ko-fi, credit cards went through stripe. That's not something I had control over.

[leebrontide]

I have to go through goddamn stripe to get health insurance payments for my therapy practice. I didnt chose it. That was simply the only option I could get.

These companies get away with this shit because they are fucking monopolies.

[cantfightfatetoo]

The Racist Fandom Starter Pack

A canon interracial couple exists "I just don't see their chemistry" proceeds to fanon ship [insert white character] instead, claiming they have more of a connection.

"It's not their skin color, I just don't like them for some reason, btw, here are my top 5 [insert white actors] I think are better suited"

"Not everything is about race". They say, as they prop up every white character over any character of color.

"Please stop bring race drama into the fandom". Which translates to, I'm comfortable in my racism and don't appreciate any criticism, thanks!

White person, "Yeah, I wrote character of color as an animal, doesn't make me racist".

"I love character of color, here's a fic where they act like as [insert white characters] servant/therapist".

Character of color is such a bad friend for having opinions of their own/taking care of themselves instead of putting their friend [insert white character] first.

A character of color is morally ambiguous or a villain, gets redemption arc. "They're awful and haven't been condemned enough of their crimes". Stans [insert white characters] who did the exact same crimes or was a villain who's redemption arc is praised.

"Can't believe that character of color had the nerve not to die as a selfless sacrifice for [insert white character]".

"POC actress/actor is too ethnic and they'd ruin the character".

"I haven't seen racism in the fandom therefore it isn't there".

"Character of color is the main character of the show sure, but let's be honest, everyone came for [insert white character]

"Character of color is alright but I can only relate to [insert white character]".

Feel free to add more, that you've come across. Sadly, it all runs together after awhile of being in a lot of fandoms. Special shout out to all who helped me with these comments!

[creatingblackcharacters]

"making character Black is inaccurate/offensive! I'm not racist, it's just facts!"

[anasabdin]

Blue Hour Inc.

[not-so-normal-wh0re]

Guys genuinely what should I do for pride month??? Drop ideas in the comments please!!!!

[queerliblib]

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[weirdartzine]

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[jf-madjesters1]

Its here!! Another zine I'm in, though this theme a bit different then what I usally do but im happy i got a chance to do it! Everyones work is so unquie! Get one while you can! :D

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[seravph]

being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

[seravph]

what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past ‘dresses are for women and pants are for men.’ i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we’ve made

[autoenucleate]

“We’re in danger of losing what the entire second wave of feminism, what the entire second wave of women’s liberation was built on, and that was ‘Biology is not destiny’. ‘One is not born a woman,’ Simone de Beauvoir said, ‘one becomes one’. Now there’s some place where transsexual women and other women intersect. Biological determinism has been used for centuries as a weapon against women, in order to justify a second-class and oppressed status. How on Earth, then, are you going to pick up the weapon of biological determinism and use it to liberate yourself? It’s a reactionary tool.”

— Quote by Leslie Feinberg, from TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, issue 7, volume 1. 1995.

[spicymochi]

your month, your mini cat!

[calameowri-deactivated20251204]

see the problem with saying "addicts could ruin your bathroom" as a defense for paid bathrooms is that

1 paying customers can also do that. they do.

2 employees can also do that. they do

3 addicts are human beings also and are not some unique unrestrained evil

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

Dude I went to college and there was graffiti on the bathroom walls and we were absolutely paying obscene amounts of money to use those bathrooms. Money is not going to stop someone from vandalism, and in fact it might make them feel more entitled to it.

[nudityandnerdery]

From the media that brought you "Millennials are killing [insert industry here]" articles for years and years and years, now we have....

"Hey, Gen Z, we're gonna relabel vacations into something else now and tell you how you really should be wary of taking vacation because it might impact your financial future."

This is a goddamn dystopia, we know this, right?

[rabid-transcendentalist]