[socialistexan]

French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies of 'sadness' at 56

French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her

This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.

May her memory be a blessing

[suncasted]

the thirteenth aspect of white supremacy culture should be insisting that the cold is (objectively) better than the heat

[suncasted]

i think I've been too hard on lit students, calling them academic vibes but no substance, media literacy is awesome actually and we need more of it

[sforzzz]

[noxidae]

[ID: A tweet and a reply. First is by @.Vickcantmiss, with an image of a Black man behind text reading, “iCarly was right. Live life… breathe air… I know somehow we’re gonna get there”. @.eurydicejones replies, “this is my least favorite kind of meme/joke because the humor is entirely reliant upon a juxtaposition with blackness itself”. End ID.]

[bisforbutch]

Do you know that the "gotta be one of my favorite genders" meme is just a truly random black man's selfie that some transphobic white gays shared in a group chat a ton? I think about it alot.

[mediummarketpaperback]

i didn't know the backstory behind the favorite genders meme. it's fucked.

here's the KYM page if anyone else was curious.

Gotta Be One Of My Favorite Genders | Know Your Meme

Gotta Be One Of My Favorite Genders refers to an image of a Black man posing in front of a car with his hands folded in front of him and an

genuinely just some random guy's instagram pic.

[thewarmvoid]

There is a type of very normalized popular humor that is quite literally just Black people existing “juxtaposed” with something that’s meant to be contradictory to…a Black person existing. Many will pretend that’s not the joke, but it is. The contrast between the Black man and shouting out a “favorite gender” being seen as conflicting is the joke. And it’s not funny. This is in the same vein as the running gag where some white people will go to a rap/hip hop show and do something like play chess in the crowd. The joke is “haha look at the juxtaposition between this Very Black thing and this Very White thing! Isn’t that hilarious? We’re so different this doesn’t even make sense xD” and these jokes suck, especially in the context of this meme in particular where the “very White thing” is….appreciating other genders. and the fact that when Black people try to talk about anything like this we are usually met with “it’s not that deep” is also a part of the problem. Anyways!!!!!

[suncasted]

i think more sane people on the left need to be louder about how our supposed comrades are turning to conspiracy, this shit has gone out of hand

[jodyhighkey]

[suncasted]

the tabernacle

[suncasted]

Hot take but the reason Jax comes off as misogynistic, targeting the more feminine members of the cast, but doesn't actually do blatantly misogynistic acts is because instead of hating women he's rejecting the ethics that Ragatha and Gangle specifically are operating under with the goal of showing that they're fatal in the circus in favor of a more 'masculine' approach... which is why he's much more favorable to Pomni when she starts actually 'playing the game' he's playing.

I should note that as goose said he's got a lot of shit he needs to work through, but this is could be an interpretation of his internal justification. I think a lot of people who have had trauma similar to Ragatha and Gangle would probably not distinguish the two but I would especially because as we see, Ragatha's way of dealing with life in the circus is problematic in its own ways and it's clear they're foils meant to show the flaw in both approaches.

[argumate]

— Giles Turnbull, AI and the human voice

lol true

[rampagingpoet]

Related: that post going around about the scriptwriting class saying to never use AI for your script but AI illustration is fine, while at the same time the professor of the illustration class was saying to never use AI in your illustrations but it's fine to illustrate an AI script.

The anti-AI crowd's takeaway from this was apparently "Neither one respects the other's contributions!"

The neutral response is probably "Hey, this class is teaching Skill X, so please actually practice Skill X. Feel free to automate Skill Y."

And my takeaway is that for any creative process there will be parts that you care about spending a lot of time on to improve at or get "just right" and parts that you don't; using a tool to make things easier on yourself is a perfectly valid choice! Even without AI not all scriptwriters are illustrators and vice-versa. It's fine to decide something is out of the scope of what you want to practice.

[rampagingpoet]

Also, there's nothing about this that's specific to AI!

People who lose their jobs to automation are of course in danger, but that danger is caused by wealth inequality and a lack of safety nets. Kitchen appliances have drastically reduced the number of domestic servants hired by the upper and middle classes, yet everyone loves how much time their dishwasher saves them.

And similarly automation sometimes creates jobs. One one hand with the industrial dishwasher each individual restaurant needs fewer people dedicated to keeping the plates clean. On the other hand, that helps drive costs down enough that more restaurants can exist in the first place! Sometimes automation takes something from "prohibitively expensive" to "worth trying".

[argumate]

the counterpoint to the Butlerian jihad ("thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind") might be "thou shalt not make a human toil in the manner of a machine".

[imjunebitch]

u gotta get less misanthropic I'm not kidding

[imjunebitch]

especially now with all the bullshit going on in Kansas, in Texas, in Iran, with Israel and Palestine, this ICE shit, this Epstein shit, it is essential to remember that evil and violence is not the natural state of humanity. this is not what humanity is like. if it was, there would be no reason to be disgusted or fight against it. most people are good and decent, and are victims of this, and by reducing it to a "carte blanche humanity is fucked anyway" you are casting aside the good, decent, loving people with rich inner lives who these cowardly fucks think are disposable

[scarecrowbutch]

[hagiomoto]

[jingerpi]

Our oppression comes from sex assignment. It starts at sex assignment and rises up out of it. while gender may be possible in a society without sex assignment, in our current society it is the root of the gender structure. everyone is violently shoved into one class or the other, and this boundary is policed by force. if you dare challenge it or break out of this boundary you are thrown away. Sometimes, people will push you out intentionally so you have no recourse against them, so you lose all societal legitimacy. sometimes, this categorization will be so at odds with who you are, you chose to step out freely, either way, you will be punished, and they will deny your existence. transgender people are not the ones who are constructed, or furthering gender ideology. cis people are the construct, gender ideology comes from cisness, thats what the cis means, it means upholding the gender you were assigned at birth. gender by in large is something society does to us, not the other way around. people are Gendered, sometimes they're Misgendered, sometimes they're Disgendered, or sometimes Regendered, but always Gendered, declaring your own gender is an act of rebellion, upholding a gender outside what society genders you as is rebellion.

[jingerpi]

Why gender people in the first place? to create a group of haves and have nots. Anyone who is a woman is classed into being a have-not, if you challenge this, you will be attacked vehemently. Sometimes, people will try to challenge their assignment as women, and break into the class of maleness, sometimes, people just dislike the class assignment in general and try to push away from their womanhood, both of these groups are attacked for breaking this boundary, for self exercising gender in conflict with the hegemony, but the first, if successful, can at certain times be allowed to be one of the haves. he will still be punished for rebelling against his assignment, but he will be paid more, and respected more in conversation, he will find employment more easily. but these privileges are tenuous, he will be assaulted, harassed, and raped in an attempt to put him back into the class he was assigned, to take what he has, and make him a have not again. Some chose to stand up to this violence, others get around it by joining the brawl and violently taking from others to assert themselves. because if you fall, you will be treated as a have not

What then of the have nots? and further then, of those who rebel from the haves? who are treated poorly despite their assignment? What does it mean for someone to reject their gender assignment, when it was supposed to be one of great power? It means shes rebelling against both gender assignment, and the power of manhood itself, she says she isn't one of the haves, maybe she was never treated like one, maybe the identity that came along with it felt so wrong to her she willingly stepped out, but either way, she becomes a have not against what is supposed to be recognized. She must bear the full brunt of oppression, with no recourse but to except it, or deny herself. If she denies herself, she may be allowed to retain a modicum of privilege, and yet she will be miserable, and still subjected to sexual oppression, fetishization, and exploitation. and if she says no, i will not conform, this is what I am, and fully truly steps out? Her existence will be denied, the very act of rebellion hidden, covered up, shown as a great act of deception, for she is still a man, and her oppression is imagined. anything she does then becomes a secret plot to trick and deceive, she is coming for the very ground work of all that this is based on, she is coming for your wife, for your children, for your very nation. she must be met with swift and harsh action, exiled from public life, used only as less-than woman, an entire other. some, may say they recognize her, see her suffering, that she is being punished for rebelling and declaring her own gender, and yet, they too will oppress her, because her status is lower than theirs. they will attack her and deny it, after all, she was once a have, how could they hurt her? and if she says that she still deserves to be treated well even after all this? that this whole classification is nonsense anyway? she will be thrown away by them too. she will once again be called a deceiver, a predator, a danger to her community, and she must be ousted, to live in exile, as she is clearly delusional, and angry at their very way of life, their holy way of life, which must not ever be challenged, lest we all fall to chaos.

[padawan-historian]

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[plavoptice]

Community demands accountability at vigil for father of 2 killed by off-duty ICE agent in Northridge

Advocates say that before Keith Porter was shot and killed by an off-duty ICE agent, he fired gunshots as part of a New Year's Eve celebrati

[itslenagain]

If you're not filled with unfathomable rage over the fact that "the most Christian pro-life president ever" drowned a newborn baby to cover up the fact that he raped the child's 13 year old mother never speak to me again.

And the people who are *just now* realizing how bad Trump really is, we fucking told you so.

[suncasted]

Non Schizo-spec Autistics: Sometimes if someone isn't being "straightforward" it's not because they're some NT social butterfly, they could just as easily also be neurodivergent and disabled.

...and in either circumstance learning how to read conversational context ameliorates confusion better than MERELY expecting everyone to use the same precise vocabulary which will vary by culture and exposure.

[canidykes]

fundamentally all transfeminism not based on dismantling the binary entirely is flawed. so much of trans discourse is treating nonbinary people as childish, simply "playing around" while the Real Serious Transgenders experience all the violence and suffering and pain in the whole entire world. if you only care about "trans women" in the specific narrow lens of women AMAB who have socially and medically transitioned into the Opposite Sex and you only care about "trans men" in the specific narrow lense of men AFAB who have socially and medically transitioned into the Opposite Sex you have done a disservice to your queer siblings. ohh but the weird gender faggots will never be understood by broader cishet society so its basically not worth trying. I have the god given right to uphold the binary as hard as I possibly can as long as I can fit on whatever side of it I want. fuck you, I want mine. and thats the thing, you dont even HAVE yours. you just want to kick us out of the door so you have a chance to close it behind you. but youre never getting in without us baby!! stop centering your identity around acceptance from people who hate us all the same. sorry to say, but transphobes literally do not take your strict binary transition any more seriously than a genderfuck queer dykefag. they literally think we are all ridiculous and disgusting so you better fucking ride with us or you won't have anybody left. I am sick of these two deeply specific categories of identity being treated with utmost care and seriousness and everyone else being expected to just sit there and be quiet because the Real Trannies are speaking. "i dont feel safe around anyone except my specific group of similarly identifying people" yeah, you and every other reactionary. I am sick and tired of this "community" that fucking hates us and themselves. get it together.

[gooseworx]

Guys, if I ever reblog fanart, don't ask tadc questions in the comments because I will not answer them. It's also just disrespectful to the artist.