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project hail mary is a touching and poignant film that leaves you asking questions about humanity like, "wow what if all mainstream media was genuinely good" and "what if book adaptions actually gave a shit about the book in question" and "what if studios hired actors that could actually act, and then let them get a lil wacky with it"

astriiformes

#Don’t forget ‘what if puppetry was treated as a serious artform’ (via @specialagentartemis)

bug-the-chicken-nug

a lot of anti-ai stuff claims to not be ableist, and like. i can agree that that's often too strong and accusatory of a word, especially if the goal is to actually get someone to listen to you, but it does often feel like... negligent of, or naive about disability. like it kills me every time someone shoots down AI as totally unnecessary and pointless and deserving of a complete ban, but then practically never says anything about how else they expect to create a society where disabled people can do the things it could've potentially helped them with, if further improved towards such ends. or if they do (and this is often something carried out by disabled people themselves), they'll do it in a way that comes off like disability porn mixed with hustle culture, where it essentially becomes a chance to boost your ego by proclaiming your willingness to Struggle and a general No Excuses mindset, mixed with resentment towards anyone who wants to get there with less Struggle, because you've come to view it as Noble or Necessary as part of how you cope with it. and like. at the root of this mindset is a defensiveness of your ego and status that is fundamentally incompatible with long-term progress and equity. because it is basically saying "things should never change in a way that makes me feel uncomfortable", ignoring that people's needs conflict all the time, and that this desire is therefore fundamentally unrealistic. there's also the other option peddled, the vague appeal to "community", in the sense that once we just build a "better community", it will emergently fix everything, and we'll all be strumming banjos in a big meadow full of native wildflowers. and it's like. idk man i LIKE the idea that I could someday delegate certain things to an unfeeling, impersonal machine that can never judge me or start to covertly desire/expect things i'm not able to give in return. like. nobody said it HAS to be controlled by some scary corporation that's spying on you and constantly charging ever-increasing subscription fees. those are not inherent features of AI. maybe i don't always WANT all my business handled by a "community" who I am then implicitly at the total mercy of, and who can then begin setting various demands and restrictions based on whatever's convenient for them, because they know there's nothing I can really do about it, and because it likely doesn't even register as "cruel" or "unfair" in their minds. so, they'll use their leverage to keep arguing for why my desires and boundaries are dramatic and unrealistic, and why I should just grin and bear it.

asterosian

This is useful and silly: I think we should use “/kink” as a tone tag for some things

Not only does it clarify things for people who might be out of the loop on what you find hot but there’s something objectively funny about it in practice to me

“I love beating people” concerning statement out of context

“I love beating people /kink” same lmao

“I want to tear your flesh off your bones with my teeth and eat it /kink” thank you for clarifying, but also please don’t do that

“I want to sit on a cake bare-assed /not kink” now that you’ve eliminated the option I was going to assume, you’ve raised more questions

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feralratbitesu

#okay but next ingredient is onion #aka not safe for dog #why google?

mewvore

steddie-island

This is about the sexiness of The Golden Girls but I really feel the need to remind the world of how fucking progressive this show was.

In the episode 72 hours, we find out Rose may have contracted AIDs during an emergency gallbladder surgery.

Rose: Why me, Blanche? I'm tired of pretending I feel okay so you won't say, 'Take it easy', and I'm tired of you saying 'Take it easy' because you're afraid I'm going to fall apart. Dammit, why is this happening to me? I mean, this isn't supposed to happen to people like me. You must've gone to bed with hundreds of men. All I had was one innocent operation. Blanche: Hey, wait a minute! Are you saying this should be me and not you? Rose: No! No, I'm just saying that I am a good person. Hell, I'm a goody-two-shoes! Blanche: AIDS is not a bad person's disease, Rose, it is not God punishin' people for their sins!

In Isn't it romantic? we find out Dorothy's childhood best friend is a lesbian who recently lost her partner. She confesses she has feelings for Rose. Rose turns her down but makes it clear that she still wants to be friends even though she doesn't return those feelings.

Sophia: Jean is a nice person. She happens to like girls instead of guys. Some people like cats instead of dogs.

Jean: Rose, about last night. I should never have said anything. Rose: You only said what you were feeling. Jean: It's just that this last year has been so difficult for me. Pat was the person I planned to spend the rest of my life with. And when she died, I just felt so terribly alone. Empty. I thought I could never care for anyone again. Until I met you. I just got very confused. I hope I didn't make you uncomfortable. Rose: Well, I have to admit that I don't understand these kinds of feelings. But if I did understand, if I were, you know, like you, I'd be very flattered and proud that you thought of me that way.

Ebbtide's Revenge gives us Phil's funeral, and Sophia addressing him wearing women's clothes.

Rose: So what if he was different? It's okay that you loved him. Sophia: I did love him. He was my son, my little boy. But every time I saw him I wondered what I did, what I said, when was the day I did whatever I did to make him the way he was. Angela Petrillo: What he was Sophia, was a good man.

Sister of the Bride, where Blanche's brother Clayton brings his boyfriend to town, because they're planning on getting married.

Blanche: Oh, look, I can accept the fact that he's gay, but why does he have to slip a ring on this guy's finger so the whole world will know? Sophia: Why did you marry George? Blanche: We loved each other. We wanted to make a lifetime commitment. Wanted everybody to know. Sophia: That's what Doug and Clayton want, too. Everyone wants someone to grow old with. And shouldn't everyone have that chance?

There are so many episodes I could sit here and quote but this show is still so important. It isn't perfect, there are jokes that definitely don't land that I will not sit here and defend, but in the context of when it was created? This show is a fucking masterpiece and deserves respect for that.

aqueerkettleofish

And this was during the Reagan/Bush years.

optimysticals

I think that this show hit as hard as it did because it was during Reagan/Bush

daniel-oneiroi

Season 3, "Dorothy's New Friend."

Her cool, cultured, interesting friend starts to show who she really is when she wants to take Dorothy out to a nice place... but no Jews allowed. This was not uncommon IRL. Perfectly acceptable, even.

I never in my life want to hear about Boomers not being "progressive" ever again.

robertreich

Wondering why grocery prices are so high? One reason is that minimal competition means maximized price gouging. And now some of the biggest egg producers in the country are getting a mere slap on the wrist after years of ripping us off.

just-tea-and-dragons

From the private nightmares s2 decompression session

godlessondheimite

jeff goldblum is the type of guy who gets mistaken for gay because he’s jewish. nathan lane is the type of guy who gets mistaken for jewish because he’s gay. stanley tucci is the type of guy who gets mistaken for gay because he’s a mild-mannered italian, which is jewish. seth meyers gets mistaken for jewish because of everything about him. zachary levi gets mistaken for jewish because everyone wants him dead. tom cruise gets mistaken for gay because he is.

godlessondheimite

wow really good addition here

queer-riot-dragon

One problem: Seth Meyers is ethnically Jewish. Just on his father's side so orthodox can be squeamish but he'd be welcome at a reform synagogue no problem.

godlessondheimite

he explicitly doesn’t consider himself jewish

queer-riot-dragon

Honestly didn't even know the name and am generally interested in when celebrities have mistaken identity. In this case it's definitely heritage even if he's not Jewish himself. His identity is mistaken because he has common physical traits associated with Ashki Jews, his wife is Jewish, and his kids are being raised Jewish. It... kinda makes the joke fall flat.

I even looked up Zachary Levi (because his stage name is why he gets mistaken as Jewish) because I never heard of him but would have assumed because Levi is an extremely common Jewish last name. It also happened to be his middle name (original last name Pugh).

I basically do at least a shallow dive if it's someone I'm passively hearing about and might do a deeper dive if I actually give a shit.

godlessondheimite

wow really good addition here

queer-riot-dragon

One problem: Seth Meyers is ethnically Jewish. Just on his father's side so orthodox can be squeamish but he'd be welcome at a reform synagogue no problem.

anti-capitalistlesbianwitch

This Doonesbury abortion cartoon was originally written by Gary Trudeau in 2012, in response to a Texas law requiring women to have an ultrasound before an abortion. It was banned from many major newspapers, and they ran syndicated cartoons in its place.

Now seems like an appropriate time to bring these cartoons back, with the passing of Texas’ new law requiring the burial or cremation of miscarried or aborted fetal remains. I guess we’ll have to wait and see if Trudeau decides to write the sequel.

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sophie-frm-mars

whether american leftists should get guns is such a boring discourse (yes, obviously) why aren't you all talking about how to feed each other your economy is about to turn to liquid shit

yankee you cannot just have gun to have freedom! you must also have burger!!! what about burger!!!!

oncce-againn

Oh! The intimacy of adopting each other’s vocabulary.

vetchtibbles

funny how normal human rights don’t have to apply to you if your parents don’t want them to

vetchtibbles

I was going to say “if you’re a child” but remembered when I turned 18 and realised I was still stuck at home and nothing was going to change if my parents didn’t want it to

sluglover666

Hot take, but even if you ARE punching up (instead of punching sideways at a group that is in the same boat as you), there's a limit to what you can say without sounding like a violent facist but woke this time.

Making fun of a group of people that are privileged over you is one thing, but wishing non-cartoonish violence and death on them ("they should fall off a cliff" vs. "they should be wiped out"), wishing sexual violence on them, dehumanising them, claiming that they're less capable of creating art or living meaningful lives, saying that their relationships are inherently shallow and fake - these things are fucked up. I understand venting and saying extreme things when in pain, but when you find yourself regularly posting about wanting certain people tortured and killed, you need to examine that.

When the only thing stopping you from completely dehumanising someone is your own judgement regarding their privilege level relative to yours, you are not a safe person to be around.

darkladynyara

emfrots

"convince your followers that their Oppressor Class (whether real or imagined) is less deserving of human rights" is the oldest and most reliable trick in the book to incite mass violence, and you're not immune to it because you're a Good Person with Correct Opinions. you will continue to be a potential breeding ground for fascist thought until you stop dehumanizing people in any context, regardless of whether they deserve it or not, or how serious you are. there can be no acceptable targets.

natalieironside

The reaction against fake news and misinformation went too hard in the other direction and now the populace are becoming utterly snopesbrained, unable to distinguish between an anecdotal source and a primary witness. The people think "I was there when it happened and I saw it happen with my eyes" is a less reliable source than an infotainment website.

alagaisia

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

alagaisia

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

alagaisia

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

watermelon-converse

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

emi--rose

Hell yeah moon holiday

hello-delicious-tea

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

ariaste

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)