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One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work thatâs just. Devastating. Like youâre sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Letâs do it.
shane: i'm gay (i tried so hard, mom, i tried so hard to not be this way, i tried to like rose in the way i should but i can't and i'm not the golden boy everyone wants me to be)
ilya: hm. what makes you think that? (my brother in christ we have been having gay sex for close to a decade now. wtf are u on about)
shane: fuck you! you aren't gay! (you have the choice. you can be with a woman and it won't be a lie to yourself. you wouldn't be in agony every second of your life. you can live the way the world wants you to and it won't be a lie)
ilya: no, not completely (yeah, i'm attracted to men and women both, but what does it fucking matter? whether i am completely gay or not, the fact that i like men is enough to alienate me from the place that birthed me)
shane: well i think i am! completely. (i'm not perfect anymore. i've realised that i cannot be with a woman. i lie in bed with a woman and it feels like a punishment. i have to think of you to feel even the slightest pleasure despite having a girlfriend men would kill for.)
ilya: why are you telling me this? (why does your being gay or not gay matter? a label means nothing when it doesn't change the secrecy, the wrongness, the inevitability of this, of us both.)
shane: who else am i going to tell? (this is an important moment for me. i have to come out to someone. you're the only safe option. you already know this, you have the same secret. let me have this moment with someone who isn't literally the one telling me i'm gay.)
My latest cartoon for New Scientist
To be clear, this isn't a bit. This is what they actually did. "Its too late" is the new "Climate change isn't real"... And its still a lie!
Every serious climate scientist agrees that there is no such as thing as too late, just as there is no such thing as too early. We should have done a lot more than we have to fight climate change, and the world will suffer for our inaction, but there is no point of no return. We can always work to reduce the amount of suffering that occurs, and eventually turn things around to the point where our planet is healing once again. Do not believe anyone who says it's "too late".
Wait. So the Trump administration really cut funding to the program that would research and respond to the spread of New World Screwworm past the Darién Gap because they blamed it on climate change, and left the joint international program to Mexico and the Central American Countries... And are panicking now that it's reached Texas, and only now that the flies have already made it all the way from Panama to Texas are they building New facilities to produce the sterile male flies needed to eradicate the pest?
I'm sorry to everyone who lives on the entire continent.
America is Trump's pump and dump scheme. If he's not getting a third term then he'll break the country for whatever poor soul has to clean up his mess.
New World screwworm had been eradicated from the US since the 1960s, Elon Musk brought it back in a year.
Notably, DOGE cut the funding a few days before the US resumed imports of cattle from Mexico... the imports that had been suspended because of the screwworm outbreak in Mexico. So we've had a year of importing cattle from Mexico during a screwworm outbreak without monitoring the outbreak that we already knew about. Mexico's outbreak is pretty bad btw, and cases have been found not just in cattle and dogs but also humans. I assume the rest of Central America too. Not that many people seem to give a fuck about them ig.
In exactly the same vein, the department meant to deal with things like bedbugs...is now infested with bedbugs.
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itâs so hard for me to listen to heartbroken/angry breakup songs by straight men bc no matter how good the song is iâll be like iâm not sure if i fully believe you. letâs hear her side of the story.
I claimed you on my taxes, Shawn. Psych, S03E01
That comment is spot on AND sciatica stretches are legit. The best treatment for sciatica is get stretchy.
Signed: Willem Defoe fan with sciatica
For anyone who doesnât know, Sciatica is pain due to compression of the sciatic nerve, which runs from your buttocks down the back of your leg. The reason this stretch is helpful is because the sciatic nerve, after leaving your spinal cord, immediately runs just underneath - and may get compressed by - the Piriformis muscle deep in your buttcheek, which helps you externally rotate your hip. (If the muscle is super tight, your toes on that side might actually point further out when you lie down compared to the toes on your other foot, jsyk).
If the above stretch ainât compatible with you for reasons like having bitch ass knees, here are some alternative and amazing stretches for the muscle in order of easiest to hardest (but imo least to most helpful) to perform:
However, just keep in mind that none of these stretches will help you if you have a herniated disc, which compresses the nerve roots that protrude from the spine itself! For that youâll for sure need some different medical intervention.
Have fun!
the obsessive, religious fervor at work here also reduces Palestinians themselves to mere objects, Christlike martyrs with Israelis cast as the devils, the crucifiers. itâs effectively entrenching this belief into every social justice movement, and more than simply normalizing, it is uplifting and canonizing antisemitic ideology as righteous and sacrosanct. itâs nothing new, but it is dangerous, and there are thousands of years of evidence to show why.
i hate fatigueee its so stupid. ohh when im home i'll do this or that Nope. replacing all of your bones with pure titanium now. Goodbye
You really realize how rape and sexual assault is such a problem when you see how many supposed activists very clearly view rape and sexual assault as an acceptable form of punishment. They're not actually against rape and sexual assault, they're only against the "wrong people" being raped or sexually assaulted.
Like, damn, we really are living in a rape culture and you're part of it.
âThe day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program. The reporter had been assigned a theory and was seeking sound bites to support it. âWouldnât you say,â she asked, âthat killings like this are influenced by violent movies?â No, I said, I wouldnât say that. âBut what about Basketball Diaries?â she asked. âDoesnât that have a scene of a boy walking into a school with a machine gun?â The obscure 1995 Leonardo Di Caprio movie did indeed have a brief fantasy scene of that nature, I said, but the movie failed at the box office (it grossed only $2.5 million), and itâs unlikely the Columbine killers saw it. The reporter looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory. âEvents like this,â I said, âif they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; these two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. The kids and teachers at school will see they shouldnât have messed with me. Iâll go out in a blaze of glory.â In short, I said, events like Columbine are influenced far less by violent movies than by CNN, the NBC Nightly News and all the other news media, who glorify the killers in the guise of âexplainingâ them. I commended the policy at the Sun-Times, where our editor said the paper would no longer feature school killings on Page 1. The reporter thanked me and turned off the camera. Of course the interview was never used. They found plenty of talking heads to condemn violent movies, and everybody was happy.â
â Roger Ebert (via flowersofthecity)
Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.
It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.
It's rude.
It's not just rude to make me read something you didn't want to write. It is that you expect me to respond to your email written by Claude. You don't even want me to talk to you. You want me to talk to Claude so that you can make Claude respond for you. It is rude to expect me to talk to a chatbot when I wanted to talk to you.
Shout out to the Microsoft employees who were doing a Q&A via Teams about the new Copilot AI functionality and how wonderful it was... and any time somebody asked them a question in the chat they would put the question into copilot and copy-paste the response.
They cheerfully and proudly said they were doing this.
If you can't be assed to actually respond to our questions in this Q&A, why are you even hosting this meeting as if its a meaningful use of an hour of our time if apparently we could get the same experience by asking the chatbot ourselves?
Iâm was watching a video about a Jewish custom, and the entire comment section was like this
Itâs about anti Zionism my ass.
This is the case whenever a post has Hebrew/ Jewish symbols/ etc. itâs obviously not about Israel.
Itâs been a while and this just happened again so here are the comments under a video about traditional clothing for orthodox Jewish men
Dozens of hateful antisemitic comments & so many âfree Palestineâ
Is this antisemitism? Yes.
But these people don't think they're being antisemitic, they think they're arguing for a group of people being oppressed by an apartheid regime, which they are. The main issue at play is that the genocide in Gaza fosters antisemitism in people who are not antisemitic, because Zionists are belligerently intent on inextricably tying Israel to Judaism.
When the Zionist propaganda says Jews = Israel, and the news shows us that Israel = genocide, people will inevitably think Jews = genocide.
The only way to fix this is to stop the genocide and teach people not to conflate the Jewish faith with the actions of the Israeli government.
I love how it's always the fault of those darn Zionists who are tricking the hapless masses into being antisemitic, so those same people never have to take respinbility for their own bigotry
I love how even in your mealy-mouthed lukewarm defense of Jews you can't conceive that the people accusing random Jews of killing children aren't actually trying to innocently criticize Israel, and they're not only being antisemitic by accident
newsflash, dumbfuck, the people who come onto a post about Jewish customs and ask them how many babies they've killed don't "think they're arguing for a group of people being oppressed by an apartheid regime." they think they're attacking Jews whom they view as responsible for Israel's actions, not because of "Zionist propaganda" but because they're racist assholes who are looking for simple explanations to the world's problems. same as always
we know they donât think theyâre being bigoted. thatâs how bigotry works.
these bigots arenât unique.
very few if any bigots sit there and say to themselves âmy hatred is baseless and Iâm a bad bad hateful bigotâ. literally everyone who is bigoted thinks theyâre standing up for whatâs right by being bigoted, and then balks when itâs called bigotry.
they have all sorts of ad hoc arguments and reasons, whether nonsensical or polished, for why theyâre actually just a âtruth-tellerâ âon the right side of historyâ or why itâs everybody and anybodyâs fault but their ownâthe people they hate are the real problem.
which is literally exactly what this âdefenseâ is doing. it is in itself a form of bigotry.
Yeah that comment still makes me laughâŠ
always an angel, never a god // shane hollander + "not strong" enough by boygenius
this is like a renaissance painting
