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[velvetboyette]

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[wolfertinger666]

I am very passionate about art, that said I absolutely hate how art in the animation industry is just consumed mindlessly and forced to be produced en masse, often forcing artists to homogenize their work into something that's safe and acceptable, removing any nuanced themes that reflects the artists themselves.

[pansyfemme]

what they dont tell you about being loudly transgender is sooner or later someone will say you helped/were the reason they transitioned and you just have to. sit with that for a while and how wonderful it is that a person can inspire others to take better care of themselves like that. the louder you are the better, you help strangers more than you know

[nyancrimew]

so i guess today i disrupted the UN "ai for good" summit and got arrested with a friend

[nyancrimew]

our statement that was published shortly after explains more of the specific motivations (we have since been released and are both exhausted on our way home)

(i can't add a second video to a post so a twitter link is the best i can do)

[nyancrimew]

statement transcript:

Hi, we are maia arson crimew and freya. If you are seeing this video, we have most likely been arrested protesting the UN AI for Good summit in Geneva, the birthplace of the Geneva Conventions.

With this event hosted by Switzerland and the UN, Big Tech and AI companies — such as Google, Amazon, Palantir and Microsoft — are invited to whitewash their complicity in the AI-powered genocide in Palestine.

While the US and Europe provide the financial backing, Big Tech infrastructure actively enables the surveillance, the targeting and strategic erasure of the Palestinian people. This would not be possible without their assistance.

With this hypocritical event, the UN not only contradicts its own reports, but actively enables violations of international law. Just half a year ago, Switzerland was appointed by the UN to host a conference to uphold the Geneva Conventions on the Protection of Civilians in the occupied Palestinian territory. Because of so-called "stakeholder disagreements", the event was cancelled. By now hosting and platforming parties that are complicit in the Palestinian genocide, Switzerland is actively positioning itself contradicting its neutrality position.

We will not be silent in a genocide. You cannot be neutral in a genocide.

[nudityandnerdery]

[beardedmrbean]

[socialistexan]

I want y'all to understand, if birthright citizenship is dead, and the Trump administration can revoke citizenship, and anyone they declare to be a non-citizen can be sent to a foreign concentration camps without trial or even verification, then shits fully fucked y'all.

[diaryofandnwoman]

[scienceraccoon]

[tangent101]

Welcome to the Protestant Work Ethic where if you are not working for 16 hours a day you are a Sinner that will Burn In Hell. Unless of course you are rich in which case you are Blessed by God and can go to Heaven without lifting a finger.

[reginaldqueribundus]

heard a story on a podcast that some Christian missionaries showed these rural Cambodian farmers how to double their crop yields. the missionaries came back a year later and were surprised the Cambodians had grown basically the same amount of crops but the farmers were like “yeah this is great, we got everything we need for the year and only had to do half as much work”

and if that doesn't tell you everything you need to know about the current North American work environment I don't know what will

[charlesoberonn]

[nealashitposts]

So I've got this friend whose nervous because she's trans and dating this guy who she hasn't told yet because they've only been on a two dates. For this story let's call the friend Jane and the guy she was dating Jason. Happy ending don't worry. So I tell Jane to bring her boy over to a bbq I'm having and she can tell him she's trans at my place surrounded by queer and trans people who love her and will support her if he ends up being awful. She waits till the end of the bbq to tell him the news, by which point the rest of us have learned that Jason is a kind, friendly, empathetic, hard working, dummy. So we sit down, all of us a little worried about this gym bro's reaction when she tells him she's trans, and that she understands if he doesn't want to keep dating her it's no big deal. He's baffled, so we explain what trans is, and after the disclosure that she hasn't had bottom surgery yet... "Oh you have a dick?" "... yeah." He look's around at the room full of people with baited breath, his clearly a little afraid girl friend says "Oooohhhh! I get it! You think- don't worry Babe! Watch this!"

And ya'll this man jumps up, runs into the kitchen and returns with one of the bratwurst we had for grilling and proceeds to tilt his head back, put it down his throat, hold it in his mouth for a moment, and spit it up without even a whisper of a gag and then looks around at the group absolutely beaming with pride. My mans saw his worried girlfriend and her support network and thought to him self "Oh they don't think I can please my girl but I'll show them!"

[innerchildabortionclinic]

interesting choice of photos. no clarification that before things escalated ICE was cruising around in military vehicles firing warning shots at people literally just walking by and hit protesters with vehicles. the protests turned violent when the national guard showed up.

here is a video from two days ago I screen recorded from a news report:

to be clear i'm not denouncing violent protests. just pointing out the narrative is already being twisted.

[aboutoriginality]

[ferrousferrule]

For those of you who dont get to see fireflies. Yes they are real and yes they are gentle

[pretty-prince-lulu]

absolutely fucking wild to me that there's a bug that glows. like it's a real thing that is just Outside.

if you live somewhere where they're a thing, maybe it's unremarkable, but the concept is mindblowing to me lol

[naamahdarling]

The wonderful thing is that even if you live where they are a thing, they're still magical. They really are that wonderful. I promise we do appreciate them so so much!

[inatungulates]

Baird's tapir Tapirus bairdii

With yellow-headed caracara Daptrius chimachima

Observed by infinitaselva, CC BY-NC

[pangur-and-grim]

this is such a funny photograph to me because the posing and composition is exactly like every paleoart reconstruction of an animal ever

[adobe-outdesign]

[ladiablesse]

white supremacists one day decided to frame woke as a bad thing and use it as a perjorative and y’all just immediately went along with it posing absolutely no resistance now i gotta hear ppl say “it’s not woke to be antiracist”

[ladiablesse]

i was on here in 2015 when the michael brown ferguson uprisings were happening and i remember as a 14 year old in all my rage i completely changed my blog to focus exclusively on the protests and i remember using the hashtag stay woke and knowing what it meant even then and its crazy to see how 10 years later all it took was a bunch of nazis on fox news and inflammatory engagement bait twitter bots for your average liberal to adopt this whitewashed interpretation of the term

[ladiablesse]

and if we really wanna go there i could talk about how yall doing this shit time and time again especially with terminology originating from the Black community that has historically been used to describe the various systems of oppressive violence we have been subjected to operates as a sort of collective gaslighting effort that genuinely makes me and other black folks feel like we're going insane all the fucking time. like genuinely think about how disturbing it is that so many words which for the longest time have held very specific significances to this particular community can just in the blink of an eye be bastardized and made essentially unusable in its original context just bc yall say so. yall force(d) this language into our mouths under threat of the most unimaginable violence and when we put our own spin on it, infuse our own localized dialects and slang, you reach into our mouths and pull the word from our throats and take it for yourself and turn it into something so ugly and despicable and utterly unrecognizable. if i really wanted to go there i could say that y'all do this shit for fun and revel in distressing black folks through the evisceration of our lexicon. i truly think y'all get a fucking kick out of this and i want yall to kill the ironypilled colonizer in your head that finds this shit so easy and even enjoyable to do

[earthmovers]

always thinking about this

[customcreatures]

liked this design so much I had to use it again!

[specialagentartemis]

“whatever the fuck these two characters had going on” is a vastly underrated character dynamic

[sdwolfpup]

“Weird about each other” is how I’ve always put it. It’s my favorite thing.

[secondlina]