Space where I mostly reblog things, not much original content. He/him they/them le/lim/ler/lers/limself pronouns, born in the '90s. I'm really shitty at tagging stuff, so if you need specific warnings, let me know! Adulting for a decade+
the worst part of summer is that people get sooo comfortable expressing their disgust at having to see other peopleâs bodies. theyâre always complaining about wrinkly old men at the nude hot springs or fat women in bikinis at the beach. I hate that shit. if youâre not capable of being normal about bodies you personally donât find attractive, just turn your head to look at something else! and if youâre not smart enough to do that, then at least do the rest of us the courtesy of suffering in silence, because we donât wanna hear your weird comments. thanks.
Most characters Iâm like They Would Not Fucking Therapyspeak like that. But whenever a fic has Rocky being like âGrace name five things Grace can âseeâ.â Iâm like yeah I think he would do that. I think maybe the third thing he looked up on his laptop was how to fix an unhappy human and now has absorbed a bunch of mental health Instagram infographics.
â Does this ship make any sense whatsoever by any reasonable metric
â Does the thought of these characters standing next to each other make you want to chew concrete and then break apart a nearby automobile with your bare hands
Please call your representatives: VOTE NO on the FEDERAL BOOK BANNING BILLS HR 2616, HR 8705, and HR 7661!
Transcript below the cut.
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There are currently THREE FEDERAL BOOK BAN BILLS aiming to ban all TRANS BOOKS from U.S. public schools! HR 2616, HR 8705, HR 7661
June 2026 / Maia Kobabe (a trans author, for three years in a row the most challenged author in the U.S.)
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HR 2616 threatens to cut federal funding from public schools if they âteach or advance concepts related to gender ideology,â as defined by an Executive Order signed by Trump in Jan 2025. It would also cut funding from schools unless they require âparental consent before changing a minor's gender markers, pronouns, or preferred name on any school form.â HR 2616 HAS ALREADY PASSED IN THE HOUSE! Please call your Senators to say NO ON HR 2616!Â
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HR 8705 threatens to cut federal funding from public schools which teach âdiscriminatory equity ideology or gender ideology,â as defined by two Executive Orders aimed at suppressing âcritical race theoryâ and trans representation. This bill is named after the late far-right activist Charlie Kirk, âThe Charlie Act.â HR 8705 has passed out of committee, but has not yet been introduced in the House. Please call your House Reps to say NO ON HR 8705!
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HR 7661 threatens to cut federal funding from public schools which offer material deemed âsexually oriented," treating any LGBTQIA+ identity as sexual content. It specifically forbids âgender dysphoria or transgenderism,â and âlascivious dancingâ (drag). This bill, titled âStop the Sexualization of Children Act,â has 22 co-sponsors and has passed out of committee but has not yet been introduced to the House. Please call your House Reps to say NO ON HR 7661!Â
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CALL SCRIPTS
âMy name is [name] and Iâm calling from [city, state, zip code]. Iâm asking [Senator] to vote no on HR 2616. I oppose HR 2616 because it would restrict studentâs access to books and it would specifically harm trans, nonbinary, and intersex students. Please stand against book bans and protect queer students!â
âMy name is [name] and Iâm calling from [city, state, zip code]. Iâm asking [Rep] to vote no on HR 8705 and HR 7661. I oppose these bills because they would restrict studentâs access to books and accurate history, and would especially harm BIPOC, trans, nonbinary, and intersex students. Please stand against book bans and support public education funding!â
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Author Maia Kobabe: If HR 2616, HR 8705, or HR 7661 pass, it would be almost impossible for any public school in the U.S. to offer or teach my books, unless theyâre willing to risk their federal funding. Students would be even less likely to learn about trans stories or accurate U.S. history.Â
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Please call your representatives: VOTE NO on the FEDERAL BOOK BANNING BILLS HR 2616, HR 8705, and HR 7661!Â
Follow AUTHORS AGAINST BOOK BANS on insta & bluesky for updates on these bills!
insta / patreon / portfolio / etsy / my books / print store / bluesky
Maia always makes these actions clear and accessible and I so appreciate eir work.
If you don't know who your Senators or Representatives are, you can use Ballotpedia's Who Represents Me tool! (Note: there's a field for you to input your email address on their page, but it's not necessary to get your results. They just need a mailing address to confirm who your reps are.)
Once you've got names, you can look up and save your Reps' phone numbers in your phone. I find this makes it easier when I'm wavering about feeling brave enough to place a call. Just pressing a button instead of going and looking up the phone number all over again makes it just a liiiiittle easier, and sometimes that makes the difference between calling and not calling!
im going to be sick. Mississippi police shot and killed a 1 year old baby boy. Kohen Wiley. he and his mother were just playing.
"someone ended it all before it could even start." - Carlos, Kohen's grandfather.
"Family say the aunt was driving the car and the mother was in the front passenger seat holding her child when the shooting happened."
a mother went to the grocery store with her 1 year old child and. the cops. murdered her baby boy. he was in her arms. in her arms. in her arms.
the cop who did this does not deserve to live. Kohen should still be alive. despicable. beyond words. there are no words anymore. the hatred of Black people is a plague on the world.
may Kohen's spirit find peace and be reborn to his mothers arms in another life. may his family grieve together in peace. fuck the colonial entity known as the United States.
please spread the word about the murder of this baby and the injuring of his family. if anyone can find the name of the officer, add it in a reblog please. same with the mother and aunt, and their current condition. i will update this post if i find it first.
Child was fatally shot and his motherâs friend is wounded after Senatobia police responded to shoplifting call
Kohen Wiley, the slain child, was in the car at the center of the shooting on Sunday alongside his mother and her friend, said Marquell Bridges, a local community advocate who is helping the family find legal representation.
Kohenâs mother was physically unharmed, but her friend was seriously injured, said Bridges, the president and founder of an advocacy group called the Building Bridges Coalition.
Apparently a community rally was organized in Senatobia (video of protest included at that link) & the family has legal council.
The community gathered outside Senatobia City Hall on Tuesday evening as they remained concerned after a police officer shot and killed a 1-year-old over the weekend.
Dozens of Senatobia natives were present at the rally, calling for justice for Kohen Kartier Wiley.
âToday itâs in their community, tomorrow itâs in mine, tomorrow it might be on my doorstep. I have a child. I have grandchildren too,â Aretha Lester said. [...]
Wileyâs family has retained prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump to represent them.
âA 1-year-old child is dead because police officers in Mississippi opened fire on a car in a crowded Walmart parking lot,â Crump said in a statement. âKohen Wiley was a baby. His mother, who has not been charged with any crime, says she was trying to communicate to officers that there was a baby in the car. They fired anyway, leading to the death of an innocent 1-year-old. We intend to seek justice for baby Kohen and the life that was stolen from him.â
Also gonna add that Marquell Bridges livestreamed the protest on Facebook, and the cops fucking tear gassed the protestors (seen around 17:20, or see here).
They tear gassed protestors, at a protest over the murder of a 1-year old and the potentially fatal injuring of another woman, and the traumatizing of an entire family.
And the police department has the gall to ask for "patience." There is no saving the United States.
Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says âno eyes⌠no nose⌠no face. Donât trust.â To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.
i will personally never understand that thing people do when theyre like "i thought this was a good piece of art until i realised its fetish/pornographic" like why does art lose value if the artist was a little horny when they made it. why is that so scary. im sure a lot of the old masters were doing portraits of their lovers slightly bricked up & theyre still displayed in museums. why is sexual arousal not an acceptable source of inspiration when like every other emotion is. well i mean i know why sadly but i do not like it so i'll continue to complain about it
For those who don't know, this piece is titled 'Unfinished Painting', by Keith Haring. He painted it about a year before his death of AIDs. I believe he actually finished other pieces between this one and his death. He left the majority of the canvas blank to represent his life and art career cut short due to HIV/AIDs. This was a deliberate choice and commentary about all that we lose (both personally and culturally) by ignoring the AIDs crisis at the time (1989). He was devastated he didn't have time to make more art. 'Finishing' Unfinished Painting is straight up spitting on Haring's grave and shows no understanding to the meaning behind the art. The AI interpretation doesn't even follow his extremely recognizable shape language and symbols. This is why people are angry about AI art. All commerce images and no meaning or humanity
Satire which is indistinguishable from that which it intends to satirize is shitty satire.
If the "ragebait" post is indeed intentional ragebait and not just another instance of AI dipshittery, it's not "masterful," it's just... shitty. In order to be understood as satirizing completionist slop, it has to be able to be distinguished from it.
The original âWeâve invented the Torment Nexus from the famous novel Donât Invent the Torment Nexusâ joke wasnât punctuated by the poster actually inventing the Torment Nexus, the joke ended on the obviously satirical punchline.
In this case, it doesnât matter if the original poster did or didnât understand how outrageously fucking disrespectful it would be to âfinishâ Unfinished Painting with AI, because regardless of their knowledge, and to all appearances, they have literally done so.
You canât claim to be satirizing cannabalism while munching on somebodyâs severed calf. If they wanted to make the joke, it should have stopped at âWith the power of AI, we can even complete works such as Unfinished Painting by Keith Harring!â
Even that would likely be an irresponsible joke to make towards general audience due to the fact that most AI bros, upon reading it, wouldnât take a second to do some research and figure out why trying to complete the work with AI is worthy of mockery, theyâd just respond with â@Grok generate a completed version of Unfinished Painting by Keith Harringâ or some shit.
Also, Iâm damn near sure that the post with the âfinishedâ painting is AI anyways, so any interpretation as satire falls dramatically flat regardless.
Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.
Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).
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