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[star-angel-selkie]

with your help i cantake over the religiously appropriated land of utah and turn every mormon jesus statue intoe fat teto

[star-angel-selkie]

if this post gets 20,000 notes meet me in salt lake

[demi-shoggoth]

[imperfectfinch-blog]

Trees grow best beside the dead.

[phantomrose96]

When you meet Edward Elric he gives off the impression that he's the short-tempered hot-headed "violence is the answer to all life's questions" kind of protagonist, and it's in fact incredible character craft that he's actually the character who ends the series with a negative-3 kill count.

[phantomrose96]

people killed: 0

direct orders of "you really really need to kill this guy" ignored: 1

ongoing murders being committed by Ed's own friends/colleagues that Ed got in the way of to specifically stop that murder from happening: 2

[phantomrose96]

God's worst soldier Edward Elric. Showed up as the youngest member of the Amestrian army, took millions of dollars from them, never followed a single order, helped dismantle their fascist regime, left with a lower kill count than he arrived with, then fucked off to go be a house-husband. Character of all time.

[aka-blaa]

You know, when you said "negative-3 kill count," I, who haven't seen the anime, thought, "He resurrected 3 people?????" But I'm seeing here on the wiki that apparently resurrection in this anime is a terrible idea.

[phantomrose96]

Official addition to this post.

[courtesycalling]

Thompson's new outfit

[houndmother]

many of you just. genuinely don’t believe that people can grow and change.

[houndmother]

this is about the death penalty and its also about call out posts about people who have already apologized for things they did a long time ago and it’s also about using ‘toxic’ or ‘abuser’ as if its an immutable class of person, and its also about any other circumstance with permanent consequences or wherein you assume someone is still the same person they were.

[sailermoon]

all my life I’ve felt like this guy

[sophie-frm-mars]

Landlord update: They're getting really pissed off and becoming quite nasty

Yesterday the landlord's contractors came and cut down our "OUR HOMES ARE WORTH A FIGHT" banner from under the old rail bridge that runs next to the estate. We told them as they were doing it that it isn't the landlord's property and they don't have a legal right to do it, but they just did it anyway. They were smirking the whole time the way that men do to comfort each other emotionally when they know they're doing something that is clearly in the wrong.

I told them that I know they know what they're doing is wrong and the scale of the crisis they've created for vulnerable people is despicable, that I've had to work nonstop the last 3 months to help everyone here and haven't been able to do my own job. The head builder replied "you've never worked a day in your life". Lovely guy.

After more neighbours gathered to yell at them they all started saying they're just doing a job. I should probably be clear here that as well as cutting down protest banners, some of the contractors are living on site and have been intimidating residents as well as hand delivering eviction notices. The time for any argument that they're "just the workers" has long since passed. They may try and cut the banner down again today, but I don't think they want a repeat of the scene they caused yesterday. They know the neighbourhood hates them.

[puppygirllaika]

Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because they hated to be cruel, and some of them were cold because they had long ago found that one could not be an owner unless one were cold. And all of them were caught in something larger than themselves. Some of them hated the mathematics that drove them, and some were afraid, and some worshiped the mathematics because it provided a refuge from thought and from feeling. If a bank or a finance company owned the land, the owner man said, The Bank — the Company — needs — wants — insists — must have — as though the Bank or the Company were a monster, with thought and feeling, which had ensnared them. These last would take no responsibility for the banks or the companies because they were men and slaves, while the banks were machines and masters all at the same time. Some of the owner men were a little proud to be slaves to such cold and powerful masters.

John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath

[hkdmz]

(Xユーザーのshio manekiさん: 「https://t.co/TxnC2ofJMy」 / Xから)

[1-900-usa-nails]

my takeaway three episodes into the new Ghost in the Shell

[kiburebuc]

that is a fucking insane amount of donuts, theres like 6 people in this room

it looks like an edit or something bit irs just in the show like this

[kiburebuc]

this has to be a joke, theyre all double stacked

[kiburebuc]

[kiburebuc]

cooper dissociates while albert is absolutely flabbergasted by the insurmountable quantity of donuts

[captain-price-returns]

[solarprominence]

I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up

[jadedpreschooler]

i could fuck up a yummy rn

[jadedpreschooler]

kind of feeling like yummies r the vibe

[jadedpreschooler]

no yummies until dinnertime

[jadedpreschooler]

[thememedaddy]

[mamoru]

🇺🇸december 26, 2025🇺🇸: oreos distributed by gold star distribution inc. recalled in 3 states for insanitary storage and contamination with general filth including rodent piss and shit, bird shit, insects, and possibly salmonella and leptospira

[juniper776]

if you tell a trans woman she is "enforcing passing culture" by wanting to pass and expressing it i honestly hope nothing good happens in your life ever after that

[foxxxighost]

Crazy that once I'm passing and starting to feel good about myself, fake allies are trying to tell me that being bricked tf out is actually the best.

[kayla-denker]

This is why I'll never shut up about the part of Whipping Girl where Serano says we gotta stop calling it "passing." It pretty directly accuses us of 'hiding' or 'fooling people into thinking we're women.' We aren't "passing as women," we are women, we're being correctly gendered as women. When people deride us for "passing", they're blatantly saying that they don't think we're women. Afterall, nobody says cis women "pass as women" when they're correctly gendered as women.

[lurker-at-thresholds]

Thinking about a new bit where i start using “workers of the world” as my go-to second person plural pronoun. Like “chat”.

[lurker-at-thresholds]

Workers of the world what do we think of this. Is it funny.

[lurker-at-thresholds]

Workers of the world please like and reblog my post

[toast1862]

like it just doesnt make any economic sense. replacing human labor with ai only makes sense if the output is as good or better and cheap as free. but just the fact that you have to build the massive data centers at all-- especially that gpus go bad in just a few years, but even if they didn't, the facility itself is going to be a big expense-- means it cant be cheap as free. they were banking on an uber type situation where they could crank up the prices once people switched to their business model, but the trade is literally "this will be cheaper than using human labor" so if it's not cheaper than human labor then people will just hire people again. and it's not even as good or reliable as a person. so while ai is "here to stay" in the sense that the technology exists and will find its niches, probably people are going to be sexting with them forever just maybe on local models, the current business model cannot survive and never possibly could.

it's all desperation. i do really believe ed zitron's rot economy idea, that the tech sector has been searching for a new internet or iphone or whatever that blows up and changes the world and they get to keep the profits so they'll uplift any garbage (hence nfts and the metaverse) to try and astroturf that. and relatedly, i think nvidia and the cloud compute companies and the ai companies are just passing the same dollar back and forth to create big numbers that paper over how bad the economy really is. it's all an attempt to keep the infinite growth hack going.

like i actually think all of the problems with ai are problems that already existed that are just getting a huge spotlight on them because of the massive reckless expansion and apocalyptic marketing. like people are cheating on essay assignments? no shit, they used to use fiver and other cheating services. higher ups are devaluing and trying to get rid of creatives? yeah, we've been talking about how vfx artists need to unionize for over a decade, especially people working on marvel movies. people with mental health problems are turning to the internet instead of getting support or medical assistance and end up hurting themselves as a result? yup, especially when it comes to like eating disorders, there are some really awful places that will validate you into the grave. data centers use a lot of energy and water? yeah, they also did that before they were used for ai, they do that for youtube and twitch, and tech in general is a massive source of pollution. politicians arent listening to their constituents' needs and demands, instead handing money and special privileges to corporations that wont keep up their end of the bargain? yeah, i remember the public transit proposals cancelled to hand money instead to elon and his terrible tunnels. like it all already existed, they're just doing it so much so quickly that people can actually see it in front of them