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faggothankhill

I didn't see anyone adding this in the notes, but it does the same thing if you send a post to someone

unashamedly-enthusiastic

Unfortunately, I do love you now that you can dance

mishafletcher

ok, but honestly, it is unfortunate. you know how we’re always passing around that ‘you are not immune to propaganda’ meme? this is the propaganda it’s talking about.

it’s cute dancing robots! they have a cute robot dog! it’s cute! it’s friendly!

well, the robot dog friend? cute little jumpy guy, does some careful ballet-esque steps, often between the humanoid robots? so far, both the boston police and the nypd (heads up: autoplaying video, with sound) have ‘deployed’ the cute dog friend. both departments say that the robots are being used as ‘observation devices’, sent into buildings with lights and a camera that sends a videofeed back to the cops.

part of why i think this video (and others like it) is so interesting is because boston dynamics has defended police use of the robots, saying that there’s a clause that the robots can’t be used in a way that would ‘physically harm or intimidate people’. i don’t know about you, but if i were at, say, a protest, or honestly literally anywhere, and a robot dog started running towards me, i’d be pretty fucking intimidated. i’d assume that it was going to hurt me. if one of the humanoid robots were running towards me, i’d assume it was straight-up about to kill me.

but these videos do a lot of work to erode that assumption. how can anyone claim that they’re intimidated by, say, a line of robot dogs at a protest? the robot dogs do funny dances online! the video above has been live for about two months, and it has thirty million views. people love them! they can dance!

so when they start being used as mobile security cameras, or when they start being used to maintain a perimeter or for crowd control or whatever, it’s not really a violation of the contract. the robots are friendly! my bet is that when they start setting them out to do security or whatever—and i don’t doubt that they’ll be used for security, etc—they might even do funny little dances and interact with people who stop to gawk at them. anything to normalize increasingly autonomous roboticized policing. get one of the humanoid ones out in the field, and it’s a remarkably short step to autonomous, mobile cctv—that can also detain you if it doesn’t like what you’re doing, or if there was a crime and you’re in the area, or if your face looks like someone from a database, or—

and all that assumes, of course, that the no-harm clause stays there forever, and that police departments, so famous for their love of doing things by the book, adhere to it. but just for fun, watch that video again, and imagine even one of those robots weaponized, outfitted with even ‘nonlethal’ crowd control.

i’m not arguing that the robots are inherently bad, or that there’s no reasonable use for them, even by cops. but the time to get critical of them is now, not in five or ten years when their use has been largely normalized. this is cute propaganda, but it’s still propaganda, and we should acknowledge it for what it is.

reptilia2003

people really love to say “no one is pro abortion” and I’d like to clarify that I’m very pro-abortion. I think abortion is good and we should make it super accesible and easy.

anarcho-skeletonism

“Abortion is good actually” is a take we don’t see often enough. It’s not a tragic-but-necessary procedure, nothing is being lost, abortion is a good thing and we should absolutely stop treating it like somethinge we have to put up with

doubleca5t

believe it or not i got my dick sucked because of that one tweet you did today

OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOD

doubleca5t

Got some more asks after this one saying the same thing. Suck her dick sunday strikes again.

funkdracula

I wish all she/hers and she/theys a very suck her dick sunday

guerrillatech

daethnotes

Incredibles 2 (2018) dir. Brad Bird

occasionaloranges

Incredibles 2 did not have to go this hard but it did

occasionaloranges

They really just went and DID THAT

(gifs from @baawri)

carcinisized-deactivated2021112

im completely fine w/ criticizing how commercialize valentines day is but its so fucking obvious when ppl r using that as a justification for hating the holiday bc theyre bitter

carcinisized-deactivated2021112

"valentines day was invented by cooperations to sell more chocolate" You Made Like 15 Posts About How Excited You Were For Halloween 5 Months Ago

mysharona1987

Wtf???

polaehhh

ah yes, the string part of a tampon

the most suggestive image

liberalsarecool

$2000. Monthly.

milf-adjacent

Gee I sure wish a certian party had a legislative majority and a sitting president so that this could just happen as promised! Wouldn't that be lovely?

milf-adjacent

Gee it sure would be swell if the party which vocally opposes the republicans would stop trying to make deals with them while they hold a legislative majority

milf-adjacent

Gee willikers, Democrats! It sure would be swell if you could do something for the starving children and the covid response with your legislative majority and your shiny new president!

tiktoksthataregood-ish

zephlampeee

my god i’ve been to so many panels where half of the white gays are just like this. like i knew people who spoke just like that.

ultimatebottom69

Also yeah.

library-mermaid-blog

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, this twitter account is posting the names and photos (when available) of refugees turned away from America who became victims of Naziism. #NoBanNoWall #RefugeesWelcome

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no-passaran

2019 what a great year for

the British Museum to return all the pieces they stole to their respective countries of origin that are asking to get them back

no-passaran

2020 what a great year for

the British Museum to return all the pieces they stole to their respective countries of origin that are asking to get them back

no-passaran

2021 what a great year for

the British Museum to return all the pieces they stole to their respective countries of origin that are asking to get them back

mavisbeaconofficial

the-beehive

Ru Paul hasn't done anything wrong y'all

ace-pervert

Aside from fracking, being transphobic, being racist, continueing harmfull stereotypes about gay men, fracking, treating pearl like he did, fracking, etc

the-beehive

He's not transphobic, there's no reason to have trans women in a drag show, because then it isn't drag.

grandpayaoi

saying 'trans women in drag shows aren't doing drag' is, in fact, inherently transphobic. drag is NOT 'men dressing as women on stage' but rather a stage performance deliberately exaggerating the performance of gender. drag is gender as a farce, and it's open to anyone.

assuming youre going off of the logic that all trans women medically transition or are gender conforming, it's easy to see where a cis drag queen might see a trans woman in drag as having an advantage (yikes,) but her being a woman doesn't mean she can't still exaggerate femininity via drag. if the style and intent is there, it's still drag. gnc women and afab nb people performing femme drag? still drag. drag kings, cis and trans? they're not femme at all, but that's still drag. and let's not forget how many young trans people get to experiment with gender expression even before they realize they're trans while in the drag community; how can you feel justified kicking someone out of their hobby, career, or passion because they decided to transition? or do you think that's a miniscule number, so they don't matter?

drag isn't men in dresses, it's making a mockery of gender stereotypes and gender expectations as a stage performance, and if you think being trans makes you exempt from mocking gender, you must not know or care a lot about trans people.

quasi-normalcy

'Star Wars' and 'Harry Potter' are two franchises that try to claim, textually, that it doesn't really matter who your family is whilst showing subtextually that it unequivocally does matter who your family is.