Stuff I See Around The old Interweb

Just storing all my anxious screenshots of news stuff that I see. Posts and reblogs are not endorsement. This is my archive of the news as I saw it.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[apolladay]

[mckitterick]

ever since the early 2000s when a couple brain-dead frat boys on campus said "Cute skirt" at me and giggled, I've worn kilts pretty much every day

because to hell with the delicate gender-enforcing losers who don't understand the origins of kilts, to hell with people sticking their noses into other people's choices, and to hell with the whole notion of gendered clothing

[fox-bright]

Everyone on AO3 better brace for an absolute deluge of people who have no clue how to fucking behave

[lonestarcupcake]

It's a real banger...

[realmarysue]

Me outside my doctor's office with this on the boombox .

[manicpixiesdreamdragon]

@thebibliosphere

[gothiccharmschool]

I love this. LOVE.

[nedlittle]

if i were a respected british actor with any principles at all i would simply not agree to a project whose earnings will have material consequences for trans people but maybe i'm built differently

[nedlittle]

another one bites the dust

[boomvagynamite]

List of other people who also suck for this reason:

Bill Nighy

Hugh Laurie

James McAvoy

John Lithgow

Katherine Parkinson

Keira Knightley

Kit Harrington

Leo Woodall

Mackenzie Crook

Mathew MacFadyen

Matt Berry

Nick Frost

Paul Whitehouse

Peter Serafinowicz

Riz Ahmed

Shirley Bassey

Simon Armitage

Simon Pegg

Stephen Fry

Stephen Mangan

Warwick Davis

[traycakes]

'Black Mirror' director turns down offer to work on 'Harry Potter' series: "Absolutely fucking not"

Black Mirror director Ally Pankiw rejected an opportunity to work on HBO's Harry Potter series because of J.K. Rowling's views on gender. 

"It simply is this easy to say no to funding transphobia"

[newsandstuffisee]

The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact

Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies

[fansplaining]

Lanterns: Are You Afraid?

In episode 1, Hal Jordan and his protégé, John Stewart, investigate a shooting in small-town Nebraska.

We're very lucky to have @hellotailor back to recap another show already: HBO's Lanterns! In her episode 1 breakdown, she assesses our character introductions, gives us some Green Lantern backstory, and suggests we temper any True Detective expectations:

As for the True Detective connection, the similarities are obvious—including the time jump I’m about to discuss in this episode’s final scene. But I’m not sure it was a smart idea to encourage direct comparisons to one of HBO’s most popular titles. Lanterns and True Detective share a lot of DNA as crime dramas about rural Americana, masculinity, and the fallibility of law enforcement. Both revolve around difficult partnerships between two (kind of) cops on a (kind of) murder investigation, and HBO even attempted to cast Matthew McConaughey as Hal Jordan.  But Lanterns features far less sophisticated characterization and direction than the iconic debut season of True Detective, centering on relatively straightforward reimaginings of John Stewart and Hal Jordan. That doesn’t mean Lanterns is a bad show, but it definitely plays into the inside-baseball media commentary about HBO embracing mainstream franchise material.

Read or listen to an audio version via the link above—this first recap is totally in front of the paywall! 🌟

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[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

i don’t think i’m exaggerating when i say that the average height for women in the US would increase by at least an inch if teen girls were allowed to eat as much as teen boys are

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

and not to bring my own clocky bitch ass into this but if cis women weren’t so consistently starved their entire lives you’d see a lot more cis women with the kind of bodies that we currently associate closely with trans women. the amount that the standards of feminine presentation are culturally defined by malnutrition is crazy

[escuerzoresucitado]

being escorted out of town

[wizardshark]

The criminal has been apprehended

[transmechanicus]

Grond! Grond! Grond! Grond!

[tanoraqui]

GROND! GROND! GROND! GROND!

[thedoctorandclaraforeverandever]

GROND‼️ GROND‼️ GROND‼️ GROND‼️

[deathstars]

I enjoy soulmate aus as much as the next person but I don’t think they really reckon as much as they should with how the existence of soulmates would change nearly everything about human history and society.

[deathstars]

You have to understand that if there were mysteriously ordained soulmate marks on all of us it would change the structure of religion. Divinity would be evidenced through it, correct or not. Sacred texts would change. If soulmate marks appeared on people of the same sex we would have completely different interpretations of sexuality and gender. About what it meant to have children! If the mark appears at a certain age, coming-of-age/adulthood ceremonies and traditions would be only about that!

[deathstars]

And if the soulmarks are names, naming conventions would be wild to ensure the certainty of that person being your soulmate. Writing would be less an invention than an evolution of the base marks seen on the first homo sapiens. We would have had writing first!

[deathstars]

Politically, wouldn’t a majority of people be nomadic in order to seek out their soulmate, if indeed they could be born anywhere? And maybe seeking out your soulmate could be seen as going against destiny, intervening “too early”? Family ties and inheritance would be altered by a vast amount of people leaving or coming based on a population which sought partners through soulmate-bonds. War would have to consider not just economies and borders and resources, but an attack on a population that could be and likely are the soulmates of your own. If soulmarks don’t recognize borders, what would nations even be?

[deathstars]

In the contemporary age there would be agencies dedicated to uniting soulmates and scientific disciplines dedicated to them. There would be movements against them; there would be inquiries into their removal; there would be arguments against this based on their being sacred and/or natural. The entire philosophical debate over free will would begin and end with them. And what about legislation? Are crimes against soulmates punished more severely? Are crimes committed for them, less? When would marriage be allowed between non-soulmates, if at all? What would grief look like? The cemeteries? Would cremation be even considered if the marks are of the flesh?

[deathstars]

Anyway it's just. Soulmarks would change everything.

[huffylemon]

[mariacallous]

[what-even-is-thiss]

I know that optics aren’t the worst thing about President 47 but I wanna talk about the optics anyways and his insistence on personally supergluing gold to stuff is kind of a perfect encapsulation of why he’s such a weird phenomenon in presidential history.