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[xenosagaepisodeone]

they're making the omelas child go to therapy so it can learn about interpersonal accountability and realize the impact that its confusing and antisocial behavior has on the people around it

[xtec]

This is what the average YouTube thumbnail looks like now

[mynnthia]

seeing news about the fallout remaster announcement feels like cruel irony to me

microsoft games are a bds boycott target, and because both bethesda + obsidian are owned by microsoft, this includes the games published by them.

microsoft is gonna further profit from a new virtual playground of ~post-apocalyptic bombed out towns in the desert~ while contributing to creating bombed out apocalyptic conditions in gazan towns, by collaborating with israel on so many fronts that bds calls microsoft the most complicit company in palestinian genocide.

and nostalgia-baited fans will still buy it bc playing pretend in a virtual world thats a knockoff of what real life people are currently facing – a virtual world funded by that very suffering of those real life people – is more important to them than simply playing a different game

[mynnthia]

anyway, to make this rant productive – if you have the means to send donations to palestine, heres some community initiatives:

Mona’s community aid initiative – verified by el-shab-hussein

The Sameer Project – has a british partner org, so UK folks can donate with gift aid here with no transfer fees

Revive Gaza Farmlands – has a canadian partner org, so canadians can donate via direct bank transfers with no transfer fee

Crips for eSims for Gaza – canda-based, so canadian e-transfers saves on transaction fees

[tastefullyoffensive]

[federalbureauofislam]

this could be us

[celebrity-pharmacist]

but you’re (not) playing (trombone)

[radwolf76]

[radwolf76]

[smokingmalice]

[moneybytheton]

[t-u-i-t-c]

All Eyes On Me

↳ Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters - Hiromu Sakurada - Red Buster

[t-u-i-t-c]

The One You’ve Been Waiting For

↳ Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters - Beet J. Stag - Stag Buster

[t-u-i-t-c]

"Go-Busters, your machines are ready whenever you need them!"

[caspianhypno]

One persons body horror is another persons body horny.

[recreationaldivorce]

sex testing isn't making people discover that they're intersex, it's making people intersex. if someone's sex characteristics are imperceptibly different to what sex defines they should have, it wouldn't have placed them in a different social category until both the technology and the drive to test were there. ppl just don't really believe that sex categories are also socially constructed and fluid. things like hormone levels naturally wildly range between people before it gets to a point where someone looks noticeably "different" for their sex—a cafab person with testosterone levels deemed high today would not have been intersex 200 years ago unless they displayed noticeably masculinised features, because nobody would have known anyone's testosterone levels and therefore can't use that as a basis for treating someone differently!

[xalatath]

Everybody in the club Yield to my will

[jkottke]

Clipart Studio lets you cut up magazines sourced from the Internet Archive, images from Wikimedia Commons, & files you’ve uploaded, and create art collages from them. This is great — be sure to check out the gallery.

[seeingteacupsindragons]

Little life advice:

Everyone who says not to set your stove clock or microwave clock because you won't use them and don't look at them anyway is lying.

Set them.

Because sometimes, you will come come from a week away when no one was in your home, and see the stove and microwave clocks blinking and go, "Oh shit, the power went out while I was gone, even though it's clearly back, which means every single thing in my fridge and freezer might have gotten room temperature and refrozen, and will give me food poisoning."

And it will be the only indication whatsoever not to eat it.

Anyway, just got back from the grocery store, but at least I don't have botulism.

[pengychan]

I know this is a 'better safe than sorry' kind of scenario, but if you like me live in a place where power often goes off for a few minutes due to power grid failures in summer with all the A/C units going in the neighborhood, it's not going to help.

Put a glass full of water in the freezer. I use a shot glass to save space. Once the water is frozen, put a coin on top.

If when you're back the coin is under the ice, you know your shit has defrosted and should be thrown out.

[gaykamenriderdreams]

Kamen Rider (1971) episode 45 took me out back and deconstructed my bookshelf so I'm going to talk about it

SPECIFICALLY the opening scene, a press conference which sets up the macguffin Shocker will be trying to steal the rest of the episode

Although at first it seems ridiculous that something that big is considered a "miniature computer" it's actually REALLY IMPRESSIVE for the time. For context, this is a photo of a contemporary "miniature computer", the Kenbak-1.

As an aside, the image of the Kenbak-1 above has a file size of 39293 bytes- over 153 times the memory that the device itself had.

[gaykamenriderdreams]

Alright, so we've got a miniature computer! How neat! But hey what's that rabbit doing ther-

OH NO. OH GOD

Whoever was responsible for the camera direction in this episode I am shaking their hand I am laying flowers at their feet I am bursting into tears because what does the camera go to after this??? Does it go to the reporters, who are all talking over one another at how exciting this development is, the next logical place to put the camera because they're the next speaking lines??

NO. IT GOES TO A CLOSE-UP OF HAYATO'S FACE.

The way this is framed... direct center of the shot. Under a spotlight. Lines in the background pointing towards him. Everyone else talking in a rabble of voices while Hayato stays absolutely silent.

Listen if they didn't want me to think they were comparing Hayato to that rabbit then maybe they shouldn't have cut the camera directly from a scientist describing how they cut up and cybernetically enhanced an animal to the nonconsensually cybernetically enchanced protagonist.

And the parallels don't stop there!!!

Oh what's that??? One of the effects of the modification is to increase the jump height of the subject??? WHERE HAVE I HEARD THAT BEFORE (screaming)

[gaykamenriderdreams]

The crowd starts cheering for a demonstration and I just

THE RABBIT CAN UNDERSTAND YOU. It can HEAR them all clamoring for "an experiment" and I just. What connotation does that word have, for this rabbit? How does it feel, in that moment?

It leaps across the room into Goro's arms and you can just SEE those questions ROILING in Hayato's head. He's dissociating like no tomorrow just absolutely checked out of the situation

Meanwhile the reporters are VERY excited about this and

MAYBE LET'S NOT DO THAT.

Hayato just stares off into space after that. He only has a reaction when he hears the word "Shocker" and just this JOLT runs through him and his eyes SNAP back into focus. It's like he's trying hold everything that's happening at arms-length, but as soon as Shocker's brought up, he puts himself right back in the thick of it, because he has a duty to fulfill. He can't just pull himself away, even when it's upsetting and it hurts.

[gaykamenriderdreams]

I cannot and will not shut up about the rabbit-Hayato comparison this scene is framing because ok. In comparing this rabbit to Hayato. What the hell are they saying about Hayato?

Both the rabbit and Hayato are silent this entire scene. Despite the rabbit's ability to understand human language, it cannot speak.

The cyborg surgery "made it capable of understanding human speech"... but it can't be understood by others.

We don't know anything about Hayato's life before he was taken and modified by Shocker. We know his profession as a photographer, we know he was skilled in martial arts, but. We never meet anyone that he knew from Before.

The unintended implication here, is that he didn't HAVE anyone Before.

Is this??? Is this trying to say that this is what Hayato feels like? That he felt like an animal, unable to understand human beings, and now, after he was taken and changed and suddenly surrounded by other people who know him and care about him, now he feels like he can finally start to understand others, but he still doesn't understand how to express his own feelings to them?

When you're really and truly alone, for a long time. It starts to feel easier if you rationalize it to yourself. "Well, it's ok that everyone ignores me- I can't really understand them anyway." "It's okay that no one wants to talk to me like they do other people. I'm not really like other people, so it makes sense that they feel that way." "Since I'm not really the same as other people are, I must be something else."

It's so easy to dehumanize yourself, when no one is there to remind you you're human.

And when that changes, and you find people who DO care about you, it's hard to break that! You keep thinking that to yourself, like "Oh, these are people that care about me. I must be something that they can love."

It takes time and it takes patience to ease out of that, and it takes people that are willing to really truly listen and try to understand you for the person that you are, even when you can't put it to words yourself.

And hey. Good thing Hayato's got just those kind of people in his corner, huh.

[orteil42]

how does something like Pokemon evolve over thousands of years? once the construct of capitalism wears off, what's left of an omnipresent world-spanning franchise? personally i think it's gonna get religious. it's gonna get syncretic

[validblogname]

one fight at a time

[lizardlicks]

Black Hills drilling project canceled after backlash from tribes

A South Dakota mining company has canceled a drilling project in the Black Hills after opposition from Native American tribes and local grou

[wizxrdpendrxgon]

The backlash was a major lawsuit from 9 tribes alongside other lawsuits from advocacy groups like NDN Collective. You can support NDN Collective by donating to them here.