(Please Take My Hand)

I'm addicted to ice tea flavoured chewing gum

[nyancrimew]

Neue Kolumne: Die Lösung für alles

Ich sinniere im Zürcher Ausgang über den AI-Hype: Warum AI gar nicht so viel Energie verbraucht, weshalb die Copyright-Debatte ins Leere läuft – und wieso das Ende der AI-Bubble naht.

Die Lösung für alles

Unsere Kolumnistin maia arson crimew sinniert im Zürcher Ausgang über den AI-Hype: Warum AI gar nicht so viel Energie verbraucht, weshalb di

[nyancrimew]

a column somewhere between boomer rock and ai hype

[frottinq]

society and makeup companies to women at all times: you have to wear makeup, like you literally have to or else you look like a corpse, so wear it you fucking corpse. aren't you terrified of getting old? aren't you insecure about your little blemishes? we have the $80 solution.

someone online: you don't have to wear makeup

someone else in response, without fail, every single time: yeah but it's okay if you want to wear makeup :). I mean, it's a personal choice, which involves no coercion from the constant social pressures that dictate how women should present themselves, so go ahead! Don't let mean people bully you into thinking it's okay to have flaws in your skin.

[thunderstruck9]

Hans Op de Beeck (Belgian, 1969), One Fish, 2021. Black and white watercolour on Arches paper, framed, 49.6 x 59.2 x 3 cm.

[ceruleana]

arguing against ai is always like. im not sure how to explain to you. that you need to think for yourself with your own thoughts. . maybe this would be easier to understand if idk, you were practiced in thinking for yourself

[stuckinapril]

Goodnight

[pluralrendog]

"never kill yourself" is perhaps my favourite meme these days. there will always be joy in your future and you just need to stick it out to find it

[camelidae]

A little sunset walk is a perfect opportunity to stretch your legs and greet the neighbors.

(another custom request from last year’s Kickstarter)

[segramati]

[witchrealms]

(x)

[saeta-obscura]

Gustave Moreau – Study of Salome for "Salome Dancing before Herod"

[lostfunzones]

Illustration by Seiichi Hiyashi, 1981, from “A Japan Woman,” published by Sanrio.

[dappledwithshadow]

Chen Yuping, Chinese, born 1947

[pneumaturgo]

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), Tarot, Major Arcana.

[punishedgwyndolin]

can you imagine a world where being trans and trans womanhood was actually accepted and respected as an option and reality of being such that a boy deciding to actually just stay a boy despite his comfort and interest in femininity really was the kind of radical gender expression representation in media that transmisogynistic ppl like to imagine it as

[punishedgwyndolin]

like this is why it’s so frustrating to me seeing this come from other trans people because we’re all well aware how much pressure there is on trans guys & transmascs to just stay gnc women and not transition and the whole irreversible damage narrative, but somehow they just throw all sense of empathy out the window when the topic turns to trans girls and we have to be careful not to soil the sanctity of manhood

[louandthemonsterlady]

I guess this ties into the phenomenon that I've seen over and over again in various contexts, where the subversion of social norms/the rebellion against social norms becomes somewhat normalized in a smaller often online community, and then a part of that commuity circling back to "normalize" the social norm that had been dominant this entire time. Often times this also coincides with some kind of conspiracy theory of the right (feminism is making all women ugly → it's ok to shave and wear makeup; the trans/gay agenda turns everyone trans/gay → it's ok to be cis/straight).

[enchantedbook]

'Lilla Weneda' illustration by Michael Elwiro Andrioli inspired by Juliusz Slowacki 's Romantic tragedy Lilla Weneda, 1879.

[kermitlesbian]

fuck i can’t believe i wasted my entire life being moved by art and beauty and the indomitable human spirit ugh i should’ve been making money through internet scams

[elbiotipo]

Also I've said this before but advertising is an industry that should be considered as pointless and harmful as fossil fuels.

[elbiotipo]

"as harmful as fossil fuels? don't you think you're exaggerating a bit?" the world's largest and most sophisticated surveillance networks that gather incomprehensible amounts of personal data to make profits technological companies who are the largest corporations on the world and shapers of public opinion often for the worse, all do it for advertising.

Cut the head, just ban advertising.

[elbiotipo]

Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising?

From protecting privacy to saving the free press, it may be the single best way to fix the internet.

[anarchistmemedistro]