Ksamcantdraw

Can't draw that well but can paint . @ksam_cant_draw on IG 2001 RJ

[zmpl]

has anyone noticed that after the porn ban of 2018 tumblr was essentially killed from the mainstream and everyone flocked to other social media sites like twitter and meta. then those sites got enshittified to where twitter became Nazi Central and meta sites had an entire meme around getting “zucced” aka mark zuckerberg himself would ban you for saying a no-no word like fuck. and then the mainstream shifted to tiktok where infamous toddlerspeak sentences like “he got unalived by a pew pew” were born because if you once again say a no-no word like kill or gun or any other word that isn’t corporate i mean kid friendly then the algorithm will bury your post into the ground. and somehow we’ve come full circle and tumblr is now the most bearable social media site because although we can’t have female presenting nipples we can at least talk to each other like adults. has anyone noticed that at all or is it just me and the flaming skull

[cutecipher]

science has always been political. what gets studied. what doesnt. who gets to do the studying. on and on and on.

[cutecipher]

scientists on this post: yuuuup 👍

people who aren't scientists: um actually ☝️

[cutecipher]

This is both one of the issues that radicalized me into fully being a leftist and one of the reasons I've been so harsh on AI, around the time that first started coming to light is when I was heavily involved in studying AI and it has always irked me how we encode bigotry into tech

[assortedinsanities]

Please don't rely on blatant misinformation when making a good point!

Automatic sinks and dispensors do not have an algorithm. There is nothing being trained there, because there is nothing there to be trained.

They are just photoelectric sensors, specifically proximity sensing photoelectric sensors. There is a light being emittetd and a sensor right next to it to receive that light when it's being reflected by a nearby object in this case someone's hand. And obviously darker skin reflects way less light, so it fails to trigger the sensor, unless it is specifically calibrated.

The fact that this is the technology we use and that it often is not calibrated correctly is obviously caused by racism, or rather colorism. Allthough it is important to note that this specific no-touch sensor technology is also the cheapest out there, which is the actual reason it's the default, colorism just enables it to stay that way, rather than there being upgrades that work for everyone.

So please don't go around and claim that a technology that started to be used in some form in the 19th century is somehow being influenced by racist AI training that has been happening in the last few years. I know there is probably just some honest confusion about the technology going on here, but this kind of claim is the exact kinda misinformation that makes it easy to dismiss the entire and very important point that racism is present everywhere.

[dragongirlsweetie]

you don't understand the only way to keep children safe is to isolate them from everyone except the people who are statistically most likely to abuse them

[blackvoidspace]

I still can't recover from this part.

The last thing he saw and thought of was his two favorite people in the world.

Victor Alli as John Stirling was such an amazing cast, hes such a sweetheart and lovely person. Never cried while reading their book but good i was sobbing watching the episode.

[magehand]

i think about these tweets a lot and honestly just hearing it from someone else has helped me a lot in even less than a month

[mikkeneko]

I don’t usually see content relating to NPD unless it’s “here’s how to spot a narcissist! [4000 word essay about their abusive family member]” so I thought this was worth a boost

[soratayuya]

I read through this entire tweet chain and was like “wow this is so helpful and informative and useful and wise, what is this person’s username-“ and it was Excellent Travis McElroy the legendary Magnus

And I got SO excited lol

[northern-punk-lad]

Check the hard drive of every single politician from mps to councillors and of every royal including those who lost their titles

[tomboyjessie13]

Don't forget law makers who think ruining online privacy is a good idea.

[northern-punk-lad]

Yes 100% them to

[tomboyjessie13]

If they're not going to respect the UK people's privacy, then neither should the people, it's fair game.

[furrypowerurbandope]

[ksamcantdraw]

This is so adorable and envy inducing

I want one

[shamebats]

Gendered parenting is so weird. As a little kid I was a total daddy's girl, I was told I would always try to sneak into the garage, I was always very interested in everything he was doing and would follow him around while he was working, but while my family was never the type to outright say "you can't do that because you're a girl", they simply didn't entertain the idea that I could possibly be interested in cars. Then when my little brother was born, it was just assumed he would become a mechanic like our dad because he was a boy. Even though he, unlike me, didn't like being in the garage much and wasn't all that interested in what dad was doing. Once he got to a certain age, dad started making him help and would drag him away from his actual interests for it, which lead to a lot of arguing and not much actual learning.

Gendered expectations sort of create doubles of children. There's the real child with their actual personality, interests and behaviors, and then there's the Gender Child.

My real brother hated soccer and team sports. The Gender Child that existed only the minds of the adults in his life needed to play soccer because that's what a Boy Child does.

Growing up, I always felt like adults didn't actually know me as a person and they weren't interested in getting to know me. Because they felt they'd already learned everything there was to know about me when they were told "it's a girl".

When I talk about how I never got gifts I actually liked from my relatives (to this day I still don't like getting gifts that aren't something I picked out myself), it isn't actually about the gifts themselves. I don't even remember them. What I do remember is the feeling of being given gifts that were seemingly not bought with the real me in mind. They were for the Girl Child™️ version of me. The me that adults wanted me to be, not who I actually was.

[olicrosse]

[cephalopodvictorious]

fixed it

[star-thief]

[industrial-meat]

[covid-safer-hotties]

Masks, air filters, and other airborne mitigations help to combat the spread of the flu, RSV, seasonal coronavirus, rhinovirus, and more! Not addressing this pressing public health issue is literally costing them money, but no one wants to foot the bill for the necessary updates and changes either.

[shewhowillrise]

[oneiric-wanderlust]

Sinners (2025) │ Directed by Ryan Coogler.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

I don't think the ultra rich are uniquely depraved, but rather have the right amount of resources and audacity to act on depravity without consequence

Plus they're always going to receive more public attention when they are exposed because they have so many connections

Epstein for the middle class in the US is sex tourism, Epstein for the lower class in the US is the foster care system

[innerchildabortionclinic]

Most important. Even wealthy celebrities will sell out their kids to continue getting ahead.

[bijoumikhawal]

Two things I've also noted about the public reaction

1) multiple countries have a sex trafficker that mainly focused on minors and had wealthy clients, sometimes called "the Epstein of the Philippines/Jamaica/etc". Most people do not know who they are unless they're from those countries, and as such the idea that this is unique or unprecedented comes from lack of familiarity.

2) a lot of the fucked up things Epstein did and believed are things white Americans have been doing since the days when they were born in Europe. Grotesque sex trafficking and violence was integral to first contact in 1492. Sex crimes were regular occurances during the Trans Atlantic slave rrade. People thinking this is unprecedented and the result of the US being "controlled" or "corrupted" straight up don't listen to Black or Indigenous people. Epstein was your regular rich American white supremacist sex offender. (And because it must be said apparent fucking ly: he was not basing his supremacist attitudes or crimes on the Talmud. His own emails have him showing he doesn't understand why pigs aren't kosher, a question a child should be able to answer from even the most basic Jewish education. He probably never read the Talmud).

3) people commit sexual violence when they have power. People thinking that clients had to be blackmailed into committing sex crimes or later taking actions to preserve their power, wealth, and the current world system don't understand how abuse works or how people with extreme systemic privilege think. The royal family members that were clients would have found other ways to rape people (some of them did!), and still would have made reactionary political decisions to preserve power even if they'd never met Epstein. The American politicians are much the same.

[robsdiary]

STILL not over this. [tt post by cawlmepretty]

[blueiscoool]

A Roman Mosaic Depicting a Red Mullet Fish 1st century CE The State Historical Museum in Moscow.

[occidentalist]

There’s only one trait that everyone named in the files shares—and it isn't that they're all republicans, or all 'progressives', or all jewish, or whatever—it's that they're all rich. They are the rich and powerful of the world; across racial, national, political, and religious lines. they are western-aligned, capitalist men(and women!) who used the same depravity and disregard for human life that is now on full display to accrue the wealth that put them in the position to commit those mass crimes first by exploiting the working class.

And anyone who is trying to obfuscate that simple fact is trying to steer you away from letting this moment radicalise you into developing class consciousness and seeking out information about what is to be done to change the system that created them in the first place.

[occidentalist]

And the fact this operation was run by a rabid, ethnosupremacist zionazi is not ‘proof’ that it is a Jewish plot for world domination, it’s proof that Palestinians and their principled allies were right to ascertain that zionism is a continuation and parcel of western imperialism and a core component of fascism in the 21st century. Every-body lock in.

[northern-punk-lad]

Violence is the only option when every legal system is protecting pedos