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How does anyone ever have time to play video games, I don't understand.

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A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

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Let’s fucking go

thenotoriousscuttlecliff

People used to complain that Amy Pond should've been a real cop and every year that goes by I get down on my knees and thank the TV gods that she wasn't.

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Today we have some absolutely incredible photos of a gossamer worm, Tomopteris sp.

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Not responding the the rage bait video where a trans masc looking person says it is racist for white trans mascs to look to black men as an example of how to be men. The person in the video is the one who is being racist and sees black culture as closer to manhood than femininity.

Trans men and mascs look to black men as examples because black men know what it is like to be a man and oppressed for it. Their masculinity feels more authentic to us because they face oppression. It is not a blindness to black oppression.

Obviously if you ask someone putting effort into appearing masc why they wore a certain outfit, they are going to say to be more masc. It doesn't mean they are ignoring racism if they are following black styles. It's because you don't have to write a dissertation to explain that you acknowledge everyone else's oppression before responding to a casual question.

When there are many other issues of racism (stuff that is actually affecting people of color and not just complaining about trans people flocking to a similar trend) that matters, why be dumb about something that doesn't matter.

#two cents #rant

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Designs i did at the beginning of the year for @/alice_designs_12's (ig) card game, Brew & Breaker :)

stealingpotatoes

i don't know what older adults were on about when they said being a teenager was good <3

punkitt-is-here

quirky fourth wall breaking character but theyre just fucking. wrong about the medium theyre in. they keep making references to cinematic techniques and directorial styles and the other fourth wall breaking character is like "dumbass we're in a fucking comic book" and they are in a video game.

totally-cis-offical

Well currently they’re in a tumblr post but I see your point

effloresensess

Hey, are you planning to put torture in your story? It is important to remember that torture does not work. There are a lot of reasons why torture happens, and some people do perform torture thinking that it is effective, but it is not. All the research says otherwise. People lie, make things up, dissociate, panic, become cognitively impaired, or resist out of spite, fear, loyalty, or trauma. Torture actively impairs memory and recall as it occurs, and torturers are typically not good at picking out lies from truths.

Also, don't underestimate the damage and trauma that 'clean' tortures can cause. If your story takes place in a modern setting, 'clean' tortures are much more common. You can still die from them. You will still likely have life-long complications, physical or mental, from them. This is also true for non-contact torture. People who have experienced torture are significantly more likely to go on to develop chronic illnesses and mental health conditions. Survivors do not all react the same way. Some become fearful and withdrawn; others become emotionally numb, angry, hypervigilant, dissociative, or outwardly functional.

Also, torture harms both the torturer and the person being tortured. Organizations that utilize torture are usually very dysfunctional within the unit(s) that it is being performed in. PTSD, moral injury, emotional dysregulation and damaged self-control, interpersonal violence, and mood disorders are common in torturers and the larger group they are typically operating in, whether that is as sanctioned and organized as the police or military or on a much smaller and less organized scale. Organizations using torture often become less trustworthy internally. Fear, secrecy, corruption, scapegoating, dehumanization, and normalization of abuse tend to spread beyond the interrogation room. Dominance, power, revenge, ideology, and poor emotional regulation are often the core drivers behind torture.

If you are writing a character and want an alternative to them using torture that actually is shown to work, rapport-building, patience, consistency, and offering safety or dignity are historically far more effective interrogation methods than coercion.

If torture works instantly and cleanly in a story, it can unintentionally reinforce myths that real governments and abusive groups have historically used to justify torture.

You can have torture in your stories! I do. But it is important to know whether and how torture apologia might accidentally be in your work, as it is very mainstream.

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nickyandmikey

when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳

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THIS IS NOT ABOUT ONE DIRECTION I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS “HARRY” PERSON IS GO WATCH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND CLARENCE CLEMONS KISS ON STAGE RIGHT NOW

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op is the only valid person i’ve ever met. everyone else needs to come to the light

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Okay, but this is really important: Bruce Springsteen occupied this really weird place in music history. His songs were all from this pessimistic, nihilistic view of an America that had let him down:

Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.

Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.

It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.

Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.

So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.

Passages from American Popular Music by Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman

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I used to think that Bruce and Clarence kissing onstage was exuberance, showmanship, and telling racist homophobes to fuck off. Like, they picked up a certain kind of audience and went “Racist homophobes? Not in our house!” And started the kissing then but then I actually looked it up and

https://www.gq.com/story/this-fucked-me-up-bruce-springsteen-singing-about-clarence-clemons

It was a story where… we remade the city. We remade the city, shaping it into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn’t have been such an exceptional thing. - Bruce Springsteen

It wasn’t about showmanship or rejecting bigots or anything it was just. Damn right that was one of the loves of his life and damn right he was going to kiss him onstage

It gets me a little that Bruce has had a divorce, that he’s been married twice, but he loved Clarence for the rest of Clarence’s life and will presumably love him the rest of his own

Clemons said in one interview. “Bruce and I looked at each other and didn’t say anything, we just knew. We knew we were the missing links in each other’s lives. He was what I’d been searching for.” In another version of the story, Clemons says “He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we fell in love.”

I’m having some emotions about it!

“He was elemental in my life,“ Springsteen adds, “and losing him was like losing the rain.”

Not just! I love you pure and deep and true but! I am going to love you like that in front of the whole damn world!

We have fewer narratives about taking risks and making statements for platonic love rather than romantic and supposedly it would be easier to downplay this onstage than romance and! They refused! They fucking refused! In front of hundreds of thousands of people, over the course of years! In the spotlight, in word and deed, I love you!

God I’m not okay about it

ramshacklefey

Now I’m mad that this is not among any of the things I was ever told about this artist.

jbbartram-illu

I knew about this in general (& via all those fabulous photos), but this just adds even more beautiful context <3

eregyrn-falls

Just to add to the pile: this was the cover of Springsteen’s break-through album Born to Run, in 1975:

I mean, will you LOOK at this:

This was the pic chosen for the album cover from an extensive photoshoot, too. A few others:

There’s a lot more online if you search. They’re all pretty amazing. But the photographer is right, the one chosen for the album cover just pops.

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dystopia au where we are all assigned one of two chosen genders at birth

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Thanks to ultrasounds, the genders can be assigned before birth. The people are so excited to conform they throw “Gender reveal parties” to make sure their offspring exist in a strict binary since before they can even form thoughts.