What? I won't bite

HI, I don't know you and you don't know me and that's all right. Well, unless you're a creep. If you are, please creep somewhere else.

[sprinkledsalt]

I'll be a cringe lib woman: I miss Barbie summer. I love that there was a little moment in time when women and girls had fun dressing up and going to watch a fun, feminist movie together.

"B-b-but Barbie didn't have perfect feminism—“ girl (gender neutral) shut up, this site constantly makes posts like "NoT aLL MeN you mean, hysterical bitches!!!" while at least Barbie was consistent that the patriarchy is in fact bad and harmful to all women and beneficial to men lol

[sprinkledsalt]

In Barbie, all of the men/Kens directly benefited from the patriarchy they created, and all of the women/Barbies were oppressed and treated as second class citizens. The minute men/Kens got power, they planned to vote to strip women/Barbies of their rights. The patriarchy wasn’t simply about empowering the Kens, but subjugating the Barbies. Oh, and it was established that nobody had genitalia, so biology had nothing to do with a class of men oppressing a class of women.

Tumblr can’t handle Barbie-level feminism lol

[sprinkledsalt]

The fact that I made this post mere months before a majority of all male voters chose a serial rapist over a woman for president again...And the fact that tumblr has only gotten more anti-feminist since then...Take me back to Barbie summer, get me off this ride--

[mariacallous]

[dvar-trek]

if you are a regular degular person—while i expect you to generally know what you're talking about if you're gonna be involved in the conversation, i don't need you to be able to outline all the particulars of what was discussed at the 2000 camp david summit.

if you are CO-CHAIR OF THE DSA, a political party that has made palestine its ENTIRE PLATFORM for the past THREE YEARS—yes, i expect you to have knowledge of the stages of the peace process. if you want people to listen to your solutions, i expect you to know what has and has not already been tried, and to know why you would or wouldn't have been happy with the major proposals made at each major step. including at camp david in 2000.

you just demonstrated for the ten thousandth time to the israeli right wing that even the most politically-involved and aware pro-palestine voices can be utterly ignored because you don't know anything and have no meaningful ideas. you're making things worse. hope this helps.

[lord-kitschener]

[thedreadpiratecam]

Why he light skinned?

[yourladyindank]

Because Martin Luther was white and German.

[fancynewaddress]

did…

did someone confuse Luther with Jesus omg

[lookwhathappenedtomack]

I suspect they confused him with Martin Luther King

[lets-talk-about-sects]

Oh no

[the-golden-ghost]

I mean, I get mixing them up based on names alone, but I’m concerned about the people who think Martin Luther King Jr. routinely wrote with a quill or dressed like a Renaissance man.

[twofacetoo]

At that point it’s your own damn fault for making that kind of mistake

[janiedean]

but why is martin luther the fastest sold playmobil figurine

[protoindoeuropean]

Protestants be shoppin

[lucerei]

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[roboco-san]

optimus prime's famous catchphrase

[life-is-molasses]

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

I think my final disillusionment with the Glorious Violent Revolution (not that I was ever fond of it to begin with) was when the right wing tried it on January 6th and failed miserably, only to switch tactics to boring old electoralism and succeed.

[sprinkledsalt]

I mean......this is one of the most well-known ways AI fucks up! It makes shit up! It hallucinates! That's a big reason why it shouldn't be seen as acceptable to just read AI summaries instead of actually reading the sources themselves, because you can't trust whatever the AI shits back out at you. And the bluesky poster is what gets me, like, people go "oh well that's why you have to check AI in your research!" There's still option B: do this kind of research the way everyone did it up until 20-fucking-23 and don't use Claude or ShitGPT.

More takes from the replies:

(this last one gets down to so much AI discourse lmao)

[noneofthisisok]

"History's greatest thinkers… with AI"

[mysharona1987]

[beatrice-otter]

#i feel like this is also the stance of the movies#because lando spends approximately zero seconds redeeming himself#think of how black characters are usually treated for betrayals#even if it is an airquote betrayal#lando helps at the end of esb and is officially one of the heroes no redemption necessary#the whole choking thing is a misunderstanding really tags via cadesama

[hardcandyfilmclub]

#also note how Leia forgave him #real fast#this is a woman who does not do forgiveness easily #but she knew he was right#she was fully aware of that #she was angry because she loves Han#but she moved past it #because she knew he was right#the movie knows he’s right #the characters know he’s right#it isn’t even a question

[swimmingblue]

Lando is 100% right to do what he did. He was Responsible for everyone on Cloud City. Leia, who grew up as the Princess of an entire planet, 100% understood that. Lando is completely validated by the story, the characters, and everyone for what he did.

And we see that he did try to shoo off the “hero crew” when they arrived in Cloud City in such a way that a) they’d have a decent chance of escaping, and b) he’d have plausible deniability. We see him ribbing Han a lot, for example, in such a way that it would be entirely possible that Han, who’s very touchy, might well just … go off in a huff. Lando could then easily go “haha, sorry Darth Vader sir, didn’t realize that Han couldn’t take a joke.” Win-win.

I also really appreciate that Lando is depicted as a solid person. He’s in a position of trust and authority, and he acts like it. He might have a bit of a checkered past, but he’s trying his best to do the right thing - and he’s doing a better job than Han, who’s still in trouble with the law.

[dogpuppy]

[corgiss]

I’m sure it’s been done before but the new Spider-Man game made me think of this so

[toaarcan]

So someone's discovered an easter egg in the PC version of the original 2005 Star Wars Battlefront II that allows you to spawn as a Wampa if you play as the Imperial side on the Endor Hunt.

Wampas are usually only playable on Hoth's Hunt (And Rhen Var's if you have it), and they're hilariously overpowered. They're fast-moving bullet sponges with an OHK attack, and playing the mission as a Wampa means you get to kill everything and playing it as a Rebel means you're in a survival horror game for the next five minutes.

As far as I can tell, this easter egg's singular purpose is to allow you to kill masses of Ewoks as a giant murder yeti.

[benjaminbadger]

I think there's some medias that you just cannot meaningfully engage with if your main priority is shipping

[benjaminbadger]

(Tired aroace voice, metaphorical cigarette in hand) You don't have to make them kiss... they don't always have to kiss...

[bear-ylee-stable]

So many other kinds of human connection get put to the wayside with our current culture’s obsession with romantic love.

Don’t get me wrong it’s ok to ship romance but it doesn’t have to be the only type of relationship we celebrate in media, fandom space included.

[benjaminbadger]

[lostinhistory]

Solid life advice from Sue the T. Rex.

[friccahacked]

fuck it. kafcake

[kdinjenzen]

As of TODAY Twitch has quietly added the Generative Ai Training model into your account without your permission.

For the time being it is TOGGLEABLE and you can TURN IT OFF!

However, we do not know if Twitch will force this to be on at all times like some other platforms, like X/Twitter, have previously done.

Regardless of IF YOU STREAM OR NOT you should TURN THIS "TRAINING FOR GENERATIVE AI" SETTING OFF IMMEDIATELY!

To do so you must go to: https://www.twitch.tv/settings/security

And then scroll all the way down near the bottom.

There you'll find the "Training for Generative Ai" setting, toggle it to OFF!

Be sure to keep sending messages to Twitch that you do NOT want this to exist.

And another reminder that if you do stream on Twitch, like I do, you should start preparing you and your audiences to migrate elsewhere ASAP.

[mariacallous]