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Grieve AND organize.

Good article by David Hunter on how to survive the Trump presidency, both on the personal and on the political plane.

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it’s crazy that we have to pretend people are oppressed for being skinny now or everyone gets mad at you and says “woooowwww it’s all body positivity until it’s a skinny person”. does anyone else think this. just saw someone saying they’re making a “skinny positive community” and everyone is hyping her . is this real life

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Hey, do y’all remember how Tencent said they were developing faceID AI to identify people in riots, and then they suddenly created an AI art generator to turn your selfies into anime?

Do y’all remember that time that someone discovered facial recognition cameras couldn't see through Juggalo makeup, then Facebook had a fun “see what you'd look like with Juggalo makeup” thing, and then facial recognition cameras could suddenly see through Juggalo makeup?

Do y’all remember how, on Twitter, Elon started a tirade against artists who ask for credit when their art is reposted, and he suddenly he created one of the first big art AI programs?

Do y’all remember how AI destroyed the field of freelance translation, despite the inferiority of the machine translations, because companies didn’t care about the quality of the translations? They just wanted it done for free?

Do y’all know how companies will see a lot of money going into a New Tech Thing (like, say, AI art apps) and will jump to try and implement that New Tech Thing into their tech? For example, how it felt like every big company and celebrity had an NFT to sell?

Just wondering.

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➤ "I have been away far too long." ➤ "Loki will go. Atreus... Atreus remains."

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and light of stars was in her hair, and in her raiment glimmering

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Reminder that Angrboda haters and racists are not welcome here

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tbh im really tired of us making light of straight women feeling compelled to marry men they don't like due to the combo of robbed agency and the idea that women should naturally be expected to compromise on their own wants and needs. like this is an element of patriarchy but you're still logging into twitter talking about "straight women can date ANYONE and they pick men who hate them". can we practice some critical thought and (more importantly) compassion?

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- cherry wine is about domestic abuse. it’s now called a cute proposal song.

- too sweet is about seizing the day and ignoring healthy habits in favor of having more fun with unhealthy ones. he’s actively critical of himself in the song. it’s now called a song about thinking you’re superior for drinking black coffee.

- take me to church is about worship as a metaphor for sex. it’s called a religious song.

- eat your young is a song about war and political greed. it’s called a song about sex.

- now, the strongly political message of nobody’s soldier is being ignored in favor of calling it a metaphor for hozier’s relationship with his fans.

when are we going to stop simplifying hozier’s music down to cute little cottagecore bogman forest music? maybe you dont want to hear this but i don’t care. quit listening to hozier for the aesthetic. there’s a reason why empire now, foreigner’s god, butchered tongue, etc. songs with unignorable political messages are among his least popular songs.

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I cannot emphasize enough that however insecure you feel about being skinny, for every superficially negative “eat a burger!” /concern trolling comment you receive, there are an additional 10, 20, 30 cultural messages from the past 200 years of european colonial beauty standards that are telling you you’re perfect. that you’re the ideal. fatphobia is so ubiquitous the mere existence of a fat celebrity doing anything other than self flagellating sparks controversy across the political spectrum. read what we don’t talk about when we talk about fat or a fat girls manifesto or fearing the black body or im going to fucking Get you

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why is "mummies are so rare bc the british ate them" always presented as like a morbid fun fact and not an example of heinous racism and dehumanization of people of colour to the point of cannibalism. a little bit odd if im honest.

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hi all………wanted to draw your attention to an urgent campaign that absolutely needs to reach its short term goal of 30k usd by sunday in order to evacuate all 10 children from this gazan family. these are the children of wafaa’s (@wafans-blog) brother, muhammad, and sister, shaima, respectively, their youngest being just a newborn. the conditions they are living in are deplorable, and they have been displaced multiple times since october.

wafaa, who evacuated to egypt for medical treatment late last year, has been forced to put off her own much-needed treatment in order to help her family financially and is struggling greatly with her health. there is no reason this should be the case when so many of us have a few dollars to spare.

her campaign has seen some stagnation unless it’s consistently being pushed, something she should not have to worry about.

these campaign has been vetted by @/el-shab-hussein and appears on line 260 of the spreadsheet.

the campaign is currently at $26,511/$30,000 and needs to reach that amount by this sunday, 8/11. i have given $15 tonight and plan on making another donation later in the week.

i invite anyone who is able to match me to do so — but truly no amount is too small. please, i urge you to give whatever you can, and please help share wafaa’s campaign. she should not have to shoulder this weight alone.

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Oh apparently badjokesbyjeff and writing-prompt-s is doubling down on the slander and also talking to genocidal zionist prismatic-bell at the same time.

He made a pinned post where he just 'doubts' my methods and attempts to call me a liar. Then he anachronistically accuses me of being incorrect with my vetting. His logic? He was looking at the result of updated information from a day ago and then accusing it of being wrong because I had been alerted to and discussed the suspicious behaviour back on the 2nd of August. The entire timeline is in the red link on my pinned post but this fucker will do anything but admit he was wrong.

If Basel clicked on a weird link on a website he's not familiar with and got hacked and his blog acted out and put me in a difficult situation where I had to revet his cousin and then him; well that's apparently too hard to believe he's actually a porn bot guys!!!

I haven't told him to kill himself like he accused me of doing in the pinned post and I'm fairly certain you can all see that on my blog lmao. But anything to play the victim of a hate campaign YOU started against Palestinians.

I'm serious. Block him and his 2 blogs.

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I think dudes who say shit like “I couldn’t love a child that wasn’t mine” shouldn’t have kids

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Although I'm generally not fond of the idea of Cinderella meeting the Prince (even in disguise) before the ball in various adaptations, especially if this plot point is used to highlight how supposedly "progressive" she is compared to her other counterparts (the one put down most frequently is Disney's animated Cinderella who didn't even know the attentive and kind gentleman she met at the ball was the Prince himself; and yet she is called a "shallow dreamer" and/or a "gold digger" by canon twisting armchair critics), I have to say that Disney's 1997 Live Action with Brandy handled said plot point near perfectly. It was a subversion of the Frozen narrative long before the latter movie came out and before the company conformed to pseudo-"feminist" media trends.

When Brandy's Cinderella stumbles upon the Prince disguised as a commoner she is nice and polite with him and even has a brief but honest conversation with him about how a man should treat a woman (not like a princess but like a "person"). But she does not fall in love with him nor does she go on to dream about him.

From the get go the two of them are shown as two complete strangers who have similar experiences with wanting to find a like-minded person yet have vastly different social backgrounds making it unlikely for them to have a future. We learn of their shared values and longings from the song they sing synchronized in the very beginning. Whereas the difference in their backgrounds is revealed as we, the audience, see the "commoner" reveal himself as a royal person boarding his carriage after his encounter with Cinderella.

The encounter was sweet and pleasant but neither gave it much of a thought and Cinderella in particular went on to live her life as it was (no matter how difficult) and dream not about the Nice Guy she met at the market but about her freedom, the ball and the Prince. And the narrative framed it as being absolutely fine.

At no point did the writing imply Cinderella was superficial, naive or silly to want to break free from her restrictive environment, wish for a better life or aspire to meet someone who would fall in love with her at first sight and vice versa.

The movie went even further subverting the notion that a woman wanting any of that makes her shallow when it had Fairy Godmother introduce the audience - in the opening musical number, no less - to the deliberate misdirect as she sang her "impossible" song; supposedly admonishing the dreamers and, especially, girls who believe in fairy tales. It almost looked like it was going to be another Frozen-esque cautionary tale with woman's dreams shattered, her being "put in place" and the all knowing society being "right all along" and yet it was nothing of the sort.

When Cinderella sings her bittersweet song about enjoying being "in her own little corner, in her own little chair" after the exploitation she has to endure at the hands of her step family the narrative frames it as the only way for her to express herself. Not as a demonstration of her being a "perfect inexperienced and wide-eyed victim" for an unscrupulous man to take advantage of. In that vein, when her Fairy Godmother shows up to - seemingly - deconstruct her dreams with "cold harsh reality" that dreams do not ever come true and are pointless Cinderella outright tells her this is a "terrible" kind of thinking.

While Fairy Godmother insists it's up to a person to pursue their goals because miracles do not happen and, therefore, it's meaningless to waste your time dreaming of them Cinderella stands her ground. She explains why, in her position, dreaming is the only solace and motivation she can afford in order to have mental strength to even consider pursuing those goals.

And the movie once again sides with Cinderella - moreover, it has Fairy Godmother sing along with her about how dreams coming true and miracles happening is actually "possible". It has Cinderella go to that ball, dance with that Prince and fall in love at first sight - and no one belittles her for wanting to be with a "man she just met".

No anti-social sisters (only the step sisters shown not necessarily as cruel but misguided and being under the toxic influence of their disillusioned - in this version - stepmother), no equally anti-social men who "know better" and definitely no mansplaining Snowmen to teach that "poor little silly thing a lesson". A woman remains within her right to handle life's challenges as best she can and go about choosing a partner the way she sees fit.

"Do I want you because you're wonderful or are you wonderful because I want you" - this is the line both Cinderella and the Prince sing to one another in their duet. Now, one needs only to imagine such a line to come out of the mouth of any modern female protagonist, especially in the woke pandering new Disney projects. Then to realize they cannot even imagine that because it would not happen, ever again, at any point anymore.

It is not until the very final of the movie that Cinderella and the Prince learn they are the "commoner" and the "country girl" that stumbled upon one another in the beginning. Once they realize that there are no patronizing conclusions ensuing (no word about how you "can't marry a guy/girl you just met" and how your true love cannot be the person you only knew for a day but can totally be the person you knew for two whole days). They merely smile and playfully tease each other by making references to their first meeting. But neither judges the other for preferring the Prince over the "Nice Guy" or for being desperate to find the "ball girl" instead of the "market girl".

Rather sad that we're not going to get a movie like this again from Disney in the coming decade or even century.

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Don't you dare swipe that finger . Don't even think about it . 🤚🚨

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Angrboda and Atreus

Based on the scene in Tangled, where Eugene gazes at Rapunzel.

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body neutrality is NOT, "so long as you're happy and healthy, your body is a good body". it's about getting rid of the idea of a "good body" at all. it's saying that your body is A BODY, and having a body is a neutral feature of all humans. it's saying that specific bodies shouldn't be focussed on more than others, because all bodies are bodies

when you say "so long as you're happy and healthy", you're not actually helping. because. unless you've put in the hard work of deconstructing what you think "happiness" and "healthiness" look like, I can guarantee "happy and healthy" is just going to loop back to ableism and fatphobia