I regret nothing Brian

Give up what you love

[kevin-punt]

Eat glass smoke ass

[weaselknievel]

hump action frotgun

[felixcloud6288]

Workers should have the legal right to tell their boss to fuck off and refuse to come into work for an indefinite period of time to recover from burnout and then be able to come back to work 5 weeks later as if nothing happened.

[librarycards]

"girls could NeVeR!!1!1! beat '''''males''''''™ in athletics????? it's BiOlOgY!??!?!?"

idk bud have you tried um. feeding them

[librarycards]

these murderous idiots are teaching young girls and women to be afraid of calories when eating a LOT of calories is literally vital for performing well in competitive sports. and then claiming it's 'natural' to uphold sex segregation bc of this imposed malnutrition. it's fucking crazymaking.

[librarycards]

the mechanics here are truly horrific. systematically deny [cis] women athletes adequate nutrition and hydration, overwork and injure them. deprive them of the ability to realize the true extent of their strength and skill. segregate athletics based on false ideas of "sex" based on generations of malnourishment and poor training. blame trans woman athletes for the mere possibility that one might beat a cis woman, while claiming that the cis woman's defeat is inevitable. create emotionally stressful and often sexually humiliating tests to "purify" competitive athletics rather than foster the physical health of athletes. continue punishing all women for daring to play sports + have bodies.

[lagonegirl]

i’m speechless

This is how the system of white supremacy  operates. The media is used 2 create stereotypes like blk on blk crime.They need black men to fill jail cells for the Prison Indstrial complex

You know what? I’m tired of this. I do not know what exactly they are waiting for. I mean our government comes up with “reasons” to invade other countries, such as Syria, like their government is allegedly violating human rights or something like that. but… I mean for other countries, they do not even have to go deep to bomb the fuck out of this place, they can just look at our media. And this has been happening to people of color since the media has existed.

I’ll never forget this 👇🏾

[avd-justin-deactivated20180723]

Did a research project on this in undergrad and the results are extremely alarming because it’s not just in imagery, it’s in language used even in the law making process and within our own communities in a completely different way than expected.

[king-shango-the-great]

This ☝🏿

[anarchistmemedistro]

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a suggestion

[soup-mother]

Americans love asking "What's your countries' equivalent of the FBI and CIA?" as if that isn't an incredibly loaded worldview that implies every country operates in the same fucked way the yankees do. But also realistically much of the time the answer is "The CIA is our equivalent of the CIA"

[soup-mother]

They're either operating to overthrow the government or directly advising repressive intelligence agencies. The CIA is the foreign equivalent of the CIA.

[kevin-punt]

FUCK YOU

Get in line

[cosmonaut775]

Hey do y’all remember when Boeing fucking killed a guy last year. And we all said “huh I guess Boeing fucking killed a guy” and then went on with our lives. And everybody knew that Boeing had fully just fucking executed a guy and nothing came of it. Like there was no police investigation no justice no nothing. Like literally EVERYBODY knew that Boeing had full on murdered a guy to silence him and there wasn’t any consequences for them. Kinda crazy.

[flamie87]

and there was even less talk when openai did the exact same thing more recently

[flamie87]

So for those who are, very understandably uninitiated on this story:

On 23 October last year (2024) the New York Times published an interview with former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji who worked on organising and gathering data for OpenAI until 2022 when he begun thinking about the morality of it. He eventually came to the conclusion that what OpenAI is doing blatantly violates copyright law and decided to leave the company altogether in August 2024.

After he came out with this accusation he was set to appear in court to testify against OpenAI’s data-gathering practices, something which had the potential of being a complete disaster for the company and the generative AI industry as a whole.

That was until 26 November, just days before he was due to appear in court, when he suddenly and mysteriously was found dead inside his own apartment. Investigators concluded that the death was self-inflicted, something which his family has disputed.

There was also “sign of struggle in the bathroom and looks like someone hit him in the bathroom based on blood spots”, and his apartment showed signs of having been ransacked for evidence: “The pin drive is missing. His computer was messed up.”.

Overall it feels pretty clear-cut what happened, that is to say that OpenAI had him killed because he was a legitimate threat to their business, indicating that they are fully aware that the way they’re gathering data is completely illegal.

Sources:

Alys Davies, 14.12.2024, OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment. BBC News

Barney Davis, 16.1.2025, Suchir Balaji’s family demand outside investigation into OpenAI whistleblower’s death. The Independent

Cade Metz, 23.11.2024, Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law. The New York Times

[ralfmaximus]

Boeing killed two whistleblowers, in March and May of 2024. Both were set to testify about safety violations.

[wolfertinger666]

i kinda giggle a bit when I see people drooling over the smallest bit of tummy on a character, but honestly it's a pipeline. i was like that too but soon they will appreciate the fat body for all its wonders. that's my agenda.

[wolfertinger666]

you are gonna look at body fat rolls AND LIKE IT!!!!

[molsno]

the way maids are depicted in most media is genuinely off-putting. like you know the vast majority of maids across the world are racial minorities right? the nature of domestic work makes it ripe for exploitation. why pay someone a fair amount to do all of your household chores when you can hire an undocumented immigrant and threaten them with homelessness and deportation if they don't accept every abuse you hurl at them without complaint? if they're not only dependent on you for housing, but also their right to be in your country at all is dependent on your whims, what choice do they have but to obey? it's sickening

[molsno]

Until 2012, household staff were granted visa terms similar to those for other migrant workers: they were allowed to change employer, but not job sector; they could be accompanied by their partner or children; and after five years in the UK they were permitted to apply for indefinite leave to ­remain, meaning they could settle in Britain permanently.

But five years ago, the coalition government introduced new regulations for overseas domestic workers (ODWs), ostensibly to try to reduce net migration. A 2012 Home Office impact-assessment document mooted the idea of abolishing the ODW visa altogether, so that visiting families would have to recruit household staff from within the UK.

Families might want to bring their domestic staff with them for benign reasons, such as their children being attached to their nanny. But sometimes employers choose to hire servants overseas because British workers would never accept the gruelling conditions under which they work. This, at least, was the conclusion drawn by one employment tribunal in 2015, which ruled in favour of an Indian maid who took legal action against her bosses over religious discrimination, unfair dismissal and illegal working conditions. The tribunal concluded that the only reason the employers had made no effort to recruit a maid in Britain was that they “wanted a servant in the Indian style. They wanted someone who would be not merely of service but servile, who would not be aware of United Kingdom employment rights . . .”

The ODW visa was not scrapped; the Home Office document expressed concern that doing so could “deter wealthy visitors” to the UK. (The US and a number of European countries also have special visa schemes for domestic workers accompanying visiting families, but the rules vary.) Instead, under a new system introduced in April 2012, ODWs were permitted to stay in the UK for no longer than six months. They could not be accompanied by their immediate family or apply for indefinite leave to remain. And, crucially, they were prevented from changing employer.

"The maid slaves: how wealthy visitors to Britain trap servants in their homes" by Sophie McBain, 14 February 2017

the fact that this system was not scrapped specifically because it could deter rich people who want servile racial minorities who are completely dependent on them and have no legal rights from visiting the uk is fucking vile

[artpigeons]

"ohh 00s diet culture isn't back because of ozempic, you're overreacting"

idk i keep seeing previously size-inclusive brands remove plus-sized versions of their clothes from their catalogues entirely, even lines specifically aimed at bigger sizes are cutting their size range down and chopping the bigger ones. i keep seeing mean skinny tiktokers get famous because they said something rude about fat people. when i ask my doctor about weight loss (which my country's gender treatment clinic requires before i can access even preliminary talks about hrt), i'm immediately offered drugs about it - drugs which, according to the doctor, we don't know the long-term effects of. but surely! surely it can't be worse than being fat!

like why are people acting surprised? we've made being extremely wealthy the aspirational aesthetic to strive for, made 'being skinny and having a lot of time and money to stay beautiful' a not only viable but lucrative carreer for people, and then released a drug that is wildly expensive and will make people thin.

of course people are gonna make being thin the ultimate status symbol again - it more than ever before signals wealth and leisure-time.

like, do you think it's a coincidence that people are back to constantly spouting 'nothing tastes as good as skinny feels' again? and pretending being fat is a matter of lacking self-control around cake or whatever? as if people haven't spent decades trying to get these fucks to understand that actually healthy produce and the time to maintain your body are extreme luxuries in our society?

anyway my broke fat ass can't find pants i like and can afford because the size-inclusive lines i'd have shopped at previously have axed anything over a size xl

and like. i'm not even that fat. what the fuck do people bigger than me do. it's really heinous right now for fat peeps.

[tuckedinbugw]

Nothing like holding my love

[storyweavingspider]

Sometimes I think about the fact that there’s a subset of transfeminists that think trans people can be liberated without Black liberation as well and it truly boggles my mind. Like. White supremacy is what oppresses YOU too!

Like. How you gonna abolish white supremacy to liberate yourselves without actually abolishing white supremacy completely? They will not let you simply Blair White your way into Elite Crackerdom if you betray enough people of color, you can’t fucking save yourself by sacrificing us.

[storyweavingspider]

Thats the secret, many of them don’t want BIPOC liberated, what they actually want (whether they realize it or not) is them and their friends to get to experience the full benefits of white supremacy without being considered a “lesser/failed white”, including the full benefits that come with the systemic oppression of BIPOC instead of a neutered version.

Marginalized whites like to say “they want us all dead the same” (#AllLivesMatter) but the kicker here is that (often through horrific torture and conversion practices) marginalized whites are still viewed as at best a disgraced white who might be “fixable” and at worst useful tools for the subjugation of nonwhites and benefit of “good” whites, to be eliminated once no longer usable.

They will never recognize you as their equal without you giving up everything that makes you, you. Stop sacrificing us to them and rip out their throats for daring to try and make you.

[marxistcalvinisthobbesist]

and this is an active leg up that transmisogynoir offers to non-Black trans women. "be racist, itll be easier for you", and so many people actively take that offer, and its fucking vile of them

[dragongirlbunny]

the way that the fact that the united states has overthrown dozens of governments to set up facist dictatorships is treated as "neat trivia" and not one of the greatest crimes against humanity in the last century is sickening

[irl-loading-screens]

State terrorism charges have been dropped against Luigi Mangione. He is still on trial for the lesser charge of 2nd-degree murder.

[corwen]

source

[daysleftofsecondterm]

WONDERFUL to hear on 1,221 days left

[galacticcrash]

reminder: keep up with saying he IS NOT THE UHC SHOOTER, they haven't proven that he is, keep insisting he and the UHC shooter are separate entities.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

Important reminder- thank you

[bundibird]

I mentioned this to my mother the other day, that i dont think he even did it, and she pulled a "wtf" face and was like "how did you come to that conclusion" so I laid out the various things that don't add up and the glaring procedural fuck ups and the targetted campaign to make everyone think he's guilty.

At one point she goes "ok, but hold on - if he didnt do it then why did he confess?" She was FLOORED when I told her that he hadn't. That he has maintained his innocence since the start.

And this is my mother, who is usually across this kind of thing. She had no idea about the missing bodycam footage that happens to align with the time they took his backpack out of sight before bringing it back and opening it for the """"""first""""" time and finding the supposed evidence inside.

She straight up thought that HE was the one who called himself in. Thought he'd gone to Macca's for a last burger then called the cops on himself and confessed. When she learned that wasnt true, she was SHOCKED.

Keep talking to people about this. Keep reiterating that they havent found him guilty of anything yet, and that they've breached his rights in several different ways since arresting him, and that he and the UHC shooter are almost certainly different people.

Too many people think that he confessed. Too many think that he's guilty, when the odds are good that he VERY MUCH IS NOT.

[funstyle]

Yall know when they film pornos the erections arent real right. Its just someone below a stage moving it on a wire like the muppets

[our-queer-experience]

she just turned 71! remember that the civil rights movement is not ancient history.