Speaking on this; there's a tumblr post that PERFECTLY explains why TERFs have 'so much reach', and folk need to see it. Stop engaging with TERFS, block them, and get them offline. Likewise, report *their* harmful comments. Organise and be smart.
A grouchy middle aged center left anarchist. He/him. Basically Heterosexual. I can nerd out about a lot of things. A fan of boring solutions. Shouldn't need to be said but... Trans rights are human rights.
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Speaking on this; there's a tumblr post that PERFECTLY explains why TERFs have 'so much reach', and folk need to see it. Stop engaging with TERFS, block them, and get them offline. Likewise, report *their* harmful comments. Organise and be smart.
A bullshit urban legend would have you believe that Golden Axe’s voice samples come from death row inmates. In reality, two come from Conan the Barbarian and two from Rambo: First Blood. I want to find the rest! www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/golden-...
“Without anger and without righteous indignation and without the deep, relentless demand for change, my feminism, YOUR feminism, everyone’s feminism will fail. It will be bullshit.” Flavia Dzodan, My feminism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit tigerbeatdown.com/2011/10/10/m...
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You're... stylish maybe even, dare I say, snazzy?
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It looks like she really really wants to. If she didn't get any natural candidates I'd probably volunteer. I can't let her down.
Why are there so many wildlife photographers following me?
That is a great trailer. I think there should be more villain led trailers in the world.
Genuinely, I can't remember the last time I was this hyped to share a project. I can't wait for y'all to see what we made. Also, if you're a fan of listening to me play evil and unhinged then this is the trailer for you!
all I care. No party can be for the people anyways. Their own power always has to come first. If they didn't they wouldn't survive. So fuck em, we won't be rid of them soon but we should not concern ourselves with which one is "good".
People seem to be too focused on the political parties involved and not enough on what needs to be accomplished. Sure we need to organize but I'm not supporting the liberal side of the democratic party. I wanna organize around people and not party. The party can die in white phosphorous for...
Amongst the pushers, probably. But the average American nobody just doesn't care. They believe at face value the old wives tales of their parent party. Care about their tribe than people in general. Incurious to an extreme degree. It's not the funnest thing to hate on but it's insidious as fuck.
Nobody walks around with their junk out in the men's room.
If you can call him "JD Vance," you can stop dead naming trans people.
The Minnesota shooter this week originally planned to shoot up a music venue that primarily catered to trans folks but they were worried that trans folks might b be carrying guns and wouldn't be an easy target.
This is scary as hell, but for news coverage? This is a GIFT. "You can be banned for *buying* Game of Thrones." Send emails to journalists and news sites and communities you're a part of and talk about the dangers here. People are going to care about this a lot more when it's not just creators.
I don't buy it but I'm straight as can be. I can see why someone would take it as kinda a win
I think that's on line communities in general.
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
Especially animation
peak
Instead of horshoe theory I see a rhombus with a hazy bottom. There's far more difference between early Voltarine De Cleyre and Benjamin Tucker than there is between Hitler and Stalin. Authoritarianism is Authoritarianism even if it wears the skin of communism or the free market. Or any skin...
As a straight guy Bring it on
When drunk, the room doesn't really spin. But the panning is hit with an LFO. A very low frequency sawtooth oscillator. Or a power to some, sometimes people see a sawtooth as what I would like to call a triangle wave. The "spinning" goes to a certain degree and resets. Right to left for me.
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when people claim that a governor is 'fighting back' against trump this is what that would look like. not posting AI slop memes and launching crypto scams.
Interpolation? Spacing out pre-recorded sound clips to make them sound more natural? You could do that with a smaller, less environmentally impactful language model. But yeah chatbots are such a bad idea that you're either evil or stupid to build them.
It's recreating things from a statistical model. There's nothing inherently evil about that, just the way it's used. The biggest issues are power consumption, using it to replace people and copyright theft. You can't create things from scratch and do that, but chroma key correction?
You can edit edge luminosity from your own photo/video collections to correct chroma key problems. Altering an existent picture takes less data than building a new one. Especially if you're smart about how it does it. And less power too.
Chatgpt is too many things on one model and database. Mostly things we don't need. Same goes for other LLMs. On top of the evil companies. Instead of building a new picture from statistical data stolen from artists while you boil away the billions of gallons of water.
Also the people who run the major llms suck too. But think about it, they're trying to exploit what they have instead of fixing the ethical problems surrounding it. We don't need chat bots. I wonder if it's more laziness and impatience than greed.
I am anti chatgpt as they come. But the technology itself is interesting. I honestly would like to see guided small language models that could be locally hosted and trained to do things like editing.
The best art makes an immediate difference in the world. The book banners are LOSING THEIR MINDS about these because they have no way to ban or stop them. So print and share away!
Whatever becomes of the EHRC's decision today, know this: No matter how hard the state pushes we will always resist, we will always find ways to live in love and rage. Civility is not working. The protests are not working. Use your rage and channel it into action. BASH BACK. BASHBACKinfo@proton.me
It's almost like how wealthy people are a class and not a number...
*You see it
The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
Throughout season 2 she starts growing into her own, third person by her experiences with Oliver and doing work with Farouk. Imo that makes her 2 and a half characters with one name. It might actually be completed in a scene that I don't want to spoil. But you'll know what I mean when I see it.
Theory about Lenny in Legion: The lady from clockworks is more the material for Lenny than a manifestation of Lenny herself. Think the investigator from The Expanse. To an extent it was what David or Farouk absorbed from her but with Farouk patching her personality with his impression of her.
worrying about hurting their feelings is what got them in power.
Did a big thread about this on Twitter a few years back, about how the Columbine shooters were steeped in nazi rhetoric, including eugenicist beliefs about killing disabled people, and just how much their neo-nazism wasn't just downplayed but omitted. Text from: schoolshooters.info/sites/defaul...
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shit like this cannot be ignored and is everyone's problem. there is real evil and danger happening and you will start seeing friends and family disappear if people dont step up. this is not just some guy talking shit. do your research outinstl.com/republican-c...
Someone also mentioned fashion police, but any social cops (as opposed to literal ones) can fit. Rigidity in social structures as opposed to spirit of functions. Rules lawyers in ttrpgs could be called a kind of police.
I remember people who HATED cops back in the day go full "back the blue".
That was common knowledge growing up. Some of it was seen as hypocritical but most of us used to agree. But my generation has a high rate of maga types these days.
Trump's use of red state National Guards in DC is really about viciously turning Americans against each other, about stoking hate and violence *among Americans.* JB Pritzker's response is so good because it lays *this* bare. Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1997...
Hell yeah! Go goose!
I remember when Columbine happened. There was a lot being said about it. Hard to keep up
I remember when Roz was killed in the show just as her arc was actually going somewhere. d&d said they didn't know where to go with her. I was extremely disappointed and a little dumbfounded. She was becoming a bit part favorite of mine.
Yeah, shock value but also just references. I think the "Do you believe in god?" is a Xavier Renegade Angel reference which has nothing to do with anything if you actually watch the episode it came from.
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PSA: Strange Days is on Hulu/Disney+ right now in the US
A movie I haven't seen in a while... Strange Days A young Angela Basset who's right at the borderline between fit and jacked. A scrappier, grittier 90s take on cyberpunk. An extremely sleazy main character. I need to sit down and re watch that again. #90sMovies
Begging people to listen to experts on this. Many shooters are lost in this world of nihilistic trolling and so it’s important to be careful about what conclusions you come to. Often, they’re deliberately messing with your assumptions. Anyway, listen to the experts.
"Do you believe in God" could very well be a Xavier renegade angel reference
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey condemns anti-trans hate in wake of school shooting, calls for unity: “Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity” #NOH8
definitely wanna see this
they can't use those guns. they might still help fight facism by getting robbed
barbies dream gun, I remember hearing, is a joke around shooting ranges.
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lmao that's wild
I wish I had something more to say, but all I can do is a supportive "people are gross".
lol yeah especially solo poly. When I get back into dating, it's going to be easy for me to settle as an relatively unimportant member of someone else's polycule.
If any of them are blue I personally like Blu and earth tones like brown.
Fashion statement?
No it's fine. Just normal fast food stuff
I could I don't Want to But I could
I'm going back to linux...
fucking notepad? Seriously? What next, copilot for the command prompt?
Me I just kinda figured it out early. It's put a wrench in dating though do to my location.
1. This is a very good sign that speaking out against KOSA is working! Dont assume it's dead though, continue calling your reps until further notice. 2. "Sammy's Law" is still in the draft stage but is worth keeping an eye on as imo i think trying to pass ANY kind of surveillance bill is bad
3 things I don't drink for. 1. Pain 2. Grief and recently 3. Frustration really regretting that last one
"If the choice is to vote for Hitler or Hitler with a skateboard, you need to vote for Skate Hitler every time" What every "lesser evil" reply guy sounds like
Played the shit out of some nes Roger Rabbit
Yeah, honestly it's something I miss a little. Learning to like games that weren't quite "there"
Yeah it's important to distinguish between "this will be a devastating event for many individuals" from "literally everyone will be dead or enslaved." The US is quite simply too small of a country to successfully occupy a country as large as the US.
you're 100% right I don't know what they are thinking with being so direct so quickly in a big country filled with guns. But this still isn't going to end well.
it's still fascist and doomy. Like the slow lead up to the worlds shortest, saddest civil war. I honestly wish they'd quit trying to salvage the damn thing and just cock block them on everything. Cut funding? Our state no longer has to pay federal taxes.
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slow dancing to this song in my room soundcloud.com/alvin-thechi...
wwyd if gu da did this to your oc/wol???
I just wanted to see how bad it really was. perfect, adobe. no notes. great tech.
Yeah, I won't quit but, starting today, it will only be A. Instructional B. Funny C. Showing a clear and present danger that is new to me.
I have a problem with reposting but it's hard not to do with everything that's happening. I try to be a little bit discerning but I don't blame anyone for muting me.
baby fight
not a worse one. 2ch is a million times better. But you can make the argument that goes instead.
A little accidental reference to an inside joke for me... I don't like calling candidates by the first name so I always call her "Miss A". And "Mr A" was one of the inspirations for Rorschach.
1. The problem with communist countries was/is authoritarianism. Not communism as a model or philosophy. 2. Don't fucking argue with tankies.
It doesn't matter if those who're hurting others systematically are rewarded or punished. Or how good or bad they have it. I'm indifferent to their suffering or joy. The point is they stop.
Some of it is just the character design itself. You can't do a non stripperific version of Voldo's primary design.
You could just skip the trials. They were largely a failure anyway. Let them all hang out at the gas station.
Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward. Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything. www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...