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Btw the strongest raw powerlifter Tamara Walcott started lifting at 34 and broke world records at 39. And is currently 43 and still beastmoding. So if I ever hear you guys whining about being too old to learn something new at 24 I say shut the HELL up #youcandoit

hail-dondus

Finding out Hans Zimmer is a transphobe genuinely had me falling to my knees

alpaca-clouds

You know what? No, actually, I have more to say about this.

See, here is the thing: Zimmer is one of those people who for YEARS NOW has been exploiting young musical creatives who go to Hollywood.

A lot of the soundtracks that you know him credited for have not been created by him and his synth board, but a bunch of other people who work under him and do not get credit. He often promises them industry contacts and what not.

Some people say - no way I can confirm this - that he has not composed anything he had been credited for in YEARS. He is just running an exploitation mill, basically.

This likely is also part of the reason why all of his stuff sounds so samey. Because the people under him know what is "safe" to compose, what he will like. So that is done. So you get a general framework of a "Hans Zimmer thriller", "Hans Zimmer Scifi/Fantasy", and "Hans Zimmer drama" soundtrack. Precisely because he isn't doing it himself.

But yeah, Hans Zimmer sucks. Has been sucking for years. Just fuck him.

yellow-cat

were--ralph

i dont need to tell anyone this but theres a White House App out and do not download it even as a joke

were--ralph

Literally do not. Like. if you already did then you may want to factory reset your device(s) and change any possibly affected credentials

pinkrangerv

According to people who work with code, this may actually be able to close a 911 call because Trump wants to send a fundraiser email through it.

It also seems like it will go off, sound and vibration, whenever someone posts. Trump is awake at 2 AM. You will not be able to shut off your phone or stop the noise until you handle this. It will also drain your battery by being a surprise 2 AM noisemaker.

Don't put it on your phone. It's actually stealing less data than I expected (I mean, yes, OBVIOUSLY it's tracking your location and sending that to any cop who's bored, but it isn't taking any credit card info, so hey, that's nice), but it still can access and fuck up anything saved on your phone, record any unlocking method you use including fingerprint and face, and seems to want to do so to force you to suddenly have an explosion of noise.

Again: this may extend to dropping a call for an ambulance.

Don't install it.

zeemczed

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some

pinkrangerv

NEW INFORMATION CAME OUT!

Based on this article and other discussions with tech people, the app:

Provides your location, every 4.5 and 9.5 minutes, to Trump and company;

Can copy, modify, or delete information on your phone;

Can alter webpages you visit through them;

Has multiple security flaws;

Is creating a personal profile on users;

Can, in fact, interrupt phone calls, no definite answer on 911 but very likely;

Is showing signs of being spyware in unstated ways.

DO NOT INSTALL THIS.

renthony

If I may go on a pissy little vent for a moment, I am really fucking tired of other Americans acting like Florida has already fallen totally to fascism, there are no Floridian leftists, and Florida can just be written off entirely as a "lost cause."

There are Black and brown and indigenous and Jewish and queer and disabled and countless otherwise marginalized Floridians, all fighting tooth and nail for our home and community. But everyone acts like we don't matter or should "just leave."

And it makes me so tired, y'all. I LOVE Florida. I love its people and its environments so, so fucking much. I want better for my beloved home, and I want people to stop treating it as a fucking joke.

I want people to stop acting like there's nothing here to love and protect. Your "Florida is a nasty swamp full of Republican rednecks and crazy Florida Men" stereotyping is HURTING PEOPLE. Do better!

renthony

Profoundly strange to me that there are people whose reaction to this post has been to call me a stupid liberal who doesn't know anything about the state of trans rights in Florida.

I am a loud & proud union organizer and a disabled trans person, which is fairly obvious from about three seconds spent on my blog. When I say that there are marginalized people here who are fighting tooth and nail, I'm not just blowing smoke up your ass. I am talking about myself, my friends, and my community.

We're going to keep fighting, regardless of whether you think we're stupid for doing so.

renthony

*grabs people by the shoulders*

If you leave a comment on this post about how climate change is inevitable and we can't stop Florida from sinking into the swamp, I am going to come to your house and force you to read all of the climate activism news reports I am subscribed to. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

People are fighting. People are helping each other. People are trying to preserve the vital and unique ecosystems of this state.

If you can't see it, you need to fucking look harder, because plenty of people love this place and are giving EVERYTHING to protect it.

Go subscribe to the Earth to Florida newsletter. Read the back issues and catch up on what Florida environmental activists are doing. Look at all the ways to get involved. Then do some of them, and shut the fuck up with your ecofascist doomerism.

renthony

I spent ten years living out-of-state. The day we moved back to Florida, once we finished unloading all the moving boxes from the Uhaul, I got overwhelmed and broke down sobbing because I looked at a lizard on a palm tree for too long and couldn't stop thinking about how good it was to finally be Home.

I. Love. Florida.

It is beautiful. It is full of life, and love, and communities that are fighting tooth and nail to fix the problems hurting us. It is our home. If you can't respect that, shut up and block me instead of ranting in my notes about how stupid I am. Thanks.

theelectricfrog

This applies to the entire South, honestly. People in more privileged areas will see white supremacists violently oppressing visible minorities, then just... pretend the minorities don't exist? Or even worse, say that everybody here that's oppressed should just move somewhere else? As if economic oppression and disenfranchisement doesn't exist? And even if it didn't, their argument would still equate to saying any marginalized community should uproot their entire lives and give the oppressors what they want by leaving.

And then they'll hold up New York City as a shining example of diversity and talk about how it has the highest black population in the country, but then like it's only 16% of the population. You look at the list of large cities with over 1/3 of the population being black and they're all in the South. Looking at states and territories with a higher percentage of African-American residents than the national average and it's the US Virgin Islands, DC, and the entirety of the South except for Texas (which has a Hispanic plurality population), then it's New York, Illinois, Michigan, and New Jersey stapled on at the very bottom.

Not to mention that the queer population is pretty consistently 3-5% in every state polled (with the exception of DC having nearly 10%, but also with the acknowledgement that the people of DC have far fewer rights than anywhere else in the mainland). By extension, this means Texas and Florida have two of the highest queer populations by raw count in the country.

Anybody engaging in this kind of rhetoric is explicitly viewing all of these people as either acceptable sacrifices or at fault for their own oppression, if they acknowledge we exist at all. It's disgusting.

infizero

bringing back my too woke opinion that you should be allowed to change labels without the previous one being incorrect

infizero

i think you should be allowed to identify as trans without retroactively saying you were also trans in the past. i think the "born this way" rhetoric is limiting and you should be able say stuff like "i was fully a girl when i was a kid and now im a boy" without it invalidating your current identity but maybe that's just me

frederickchiltonsdivacup

On one hand, Riff Raff is mean to Rocky and taunts him and scares the shit out of him, which is horrible because Rocky was literally born ten seconds ago and the only crime he committed was that haircut. I love Rocky too much and seeing him get mistreated by Riff Raff always makes me feel like I'm getting staked in the heart.

ON THE OTHER HAND, RAÚL ESPARZA'S VERSION OF RIFF RAFF.....

ARF ARF ARF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK AWOOOOOOO

quantifiablybtchy

I am *fully* convinced the world would be a better place if men dressed a little sluttier.

kokokino

moooore strahd yw

excusethequality

While watching a DVD from the library my TV popped up a message saying to press a button if I wanted to watch this from additional providers.

It's never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked.

One of which being they take screenshots from what you're watching and send them to third parties to identify it.

Fucking hell! Remember when every fucking device in your life wasn't a spy implanted in your home and working against your interests to try and sell your data? Remember how nice that was??

Remember when the TV was just a tool that would play the things you plugged into it?

Why must the future suck SO much?

excusethequality

TVs collect a huge amount of data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit the surveillance on TVs from LG, Samsung, TCL, and every othe

A good rundown on what each brand of TV is up to and which settings you should turn off.

draconym

I have a gen X coworker who uses AI for everything. Everything. I watched her use it to generate an answer to an email from a parent asking if she could accommodate a child with disabilities in her program. When I told her that I, personally, would be offended if she used AI to write an email to me, she was surprised. She could not understand why.

draconym

My mom got me an "AI birdfeeder" that sends photos of birds to your phone and tries to identify them. Putting aside the fact that I am not going to give my wifi password and photos of my street to a spyware app--why would I want a computer to identify birds for me? My mom got me this gift because she knows I enjoy identifying birds. Do people want AI to eat their food and fuck their wives for them too?

justbreakonme

You know what I fucking eat up every time? The thing where one character is an optimist and the other is a pessimist, and something happens that just, snuffs the hope right out of the optimist, and the pessimist has to desperately try to do what the other has always done for them, cheer them up. I live for that shit omg.

sacredwrath

This is so good! I love this and then as things keep getting worse the pessimist just has to keep getting more and more optimistic.

Optimist out of desperation

Ooo now I'm thinking about that

Ok hear me out, when one character is an optimist and everyone thinks they're just naive so they keep like mentioning things to try and get them to "see the world more realistically" but then there's a reveal and they realize whatever happened to the optimist is so bad they're just an optimist because they literally have to be. Optimist out of desperation.

This is also so good because of the layers. Like maybe the optimist isnt really an optimist deep down, but they preform that for everyone else. They just want to see a little less pain in the word. Optimist out of self sacrifice

Or maybe the optimist is an optimist because deep down they know nothing could be as bad as what they've already gone through so they just approach everything with an assumption that it'll "work out".

Or maybe they just need to let themself feel something other than pain and dispair. Optimist out if stubbornness

Or if they're just a little bit toxic they do it because they find their friends pessimism annoying and want to prove "I've been through worse than you, but I won't complain." That could lead to some really interesting whumpers actually if you dial up the toxic and make them think pessimism is a weakness. Optimist out of toxic positivity

#... this might just be me whoops

feriowind

Nausicaa in the Toxic Jungle.

Drew this for a Ghibli zine last year and am finally posting! Always wanted to draw a large piece for Nausicaa :)

ouroborosorder

this is such a profoundly stupid thing to be mad about but. i periodically think about how banksy made one of my single favorite pieces of art of all time, and everything else he's ever done has sucked. man, how did you nail it once

ouroborosorder

It's this piece, titled The Banality of the Banality of Evil. Because on first glance, you're like. Yeah, okay, it's obvious what it's saying. Even nazis, even evil people can appreciate beauty, too. But then you learn its name, and suddenly the interpretation shifts a bit. The idea that evil is banal has in itself become banal. my first response to seeing a nazi on a bench is "oh it's about the banality of evil" and not "jesus christ there's a nazi on the bench."

and like. i dunno i think that's a really interesting way for a title to recontextualize a piece. it's finding nuance by tearing out the nuance you want to project onto it. it's not the greatest piece of art ever made, but i'd be lying if i said i didn't have a huge soft spot for it

manwhorewednesdays

Okay but I have to add to this

what I find really interesting is how the way this is drawn (especially considering who drew it) the art style seems extremely deliberate. This type of nostalgic landscape painting is very reminiscent of nazi art and specifically, Hitler's art.

Nazis were extremely judgmental of "entartete Kunst" (degenerate art). Bansky's usual work very well fall into this category! So for him to go for this style of painting in particular is another choice I find very interesting, because I can see some people react to this painting with some variation of "oh, I didn't know he could actually draw! I thought he is a hack but he is a real artist!" - and that is where they would agree with the Nazis.

I dunno I just find this piece very compelling

ouroborosorder

oh that is actually fascinating. in fact, to add on- a detail I omitted because I just kinda forgot to mention it. The reason there’s two signatures in the corner is because it was a painting in a thrift shop, Banksy adding the Nazi, and then returning it to the shop.

I think there’s something interesting about recognizing the lineage of this type of art and wanting to mess with it, subvert the intent, and explore the topic and legacy. It’s potent. I really like this piece

earhartsease

this is really great post to wander through

zannolin

oh blorbo from my shows? haha yeah man i love that guy. i hope something terrible happens to him in front of his loved ones that he barely survives and i get to watch.