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now that trump has tiktok, twitter, facebook and insta in his pocket, get ready for a massive wave of internet censorship. one of trump's greatest weapons has always been misinformation; it's going to become harder and harder to spread facts and criticism going forward. posts that aren't made invisible will be magically ignored by the algorithm. dissidents will have their accounts deleted and voices erased.

this is a suppression tactic. this is another stage of fascism.

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Doing research for my Arcane Season 2 fix-it-fic and OH MY GOD WHY WAS URGOT NOT THERE???

One of my big criticisms of Season 2 was how much planting was done in Season 1 for the chembarons to be an important factor in the relations between Zaun and Piltover (since they'd be taking over the shitshow that is Zaun post-Silco) only to be completely irrelevant after three episodes (if that).

One of my other big criticisms of Season 2 is how irrelevant Noxus is to everything. The show is supposed to be about these two sisters and these two cities and while I liked Ambessa coming in near the end of Season 1 as a third, foreign player, I feel like Season 2 overly relied on her as a villain when I don't feel like that's the role for her. She always felt like a well-meaning yet fundamentally misguided mother figure to Mel who also had the strength and power to do as she pleased. She was actually a REALLY complex character in Season 1 in spite of having only 3 episodes of screen time and, despite her antagonistic presence in the story, she was never a "villain".

But do you know what would've tied these two plot points together?? Urgot!! A former Noxian warlord betrayed by his nation and is now a chembaron???? Holy shit, how did they not utilize him????? He and Singed could have 100% had some kind of business arrangement.

Plus! If they really needed Mel out of the picture for a while, make Urgot kidnap her, not The Black Rose. Give her an Iroh-esque training arc where she learns new strength and deception from being imprisoned. It'd also reflect Vi's imprisonment in Stillwater. When she gets out, she can see firsthand the kind of place Zaun is the same way as Caitlyn and Heimerdinger.

This is such a huge missed opportunity how did they not do this 😭

Also his bane-looking as would've been cool as hell to see onscreen.

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God I really hope this country stops falling down around me long enough for me to post about art and intellectual stuff that isn't just "USA bad, propaganda bad, workers good, riots necessary!" Like, the college I want to go to is probably going to see this blog and I'd like to be able to show some stuff off please 😭 😭

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2 completely different messages around 20 minutes apart. The felon is trying to buy back the youth.

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"Make CEO's scared"

Spotted in Portland, Oregon

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The tragedy of my life is that I keep acquiring and displaying fetish art and having to be corrected by my friends.

Most recently, a friend came over my house and saw my computer background and went, "Wow, um, I didn't know you were into that." To which I look at the picture of the well drawn muscular female minotaur in historically accurate Greek clothing and I start geeking out about how I love the detail the artist did with the clothing and I point out the period appropriate folds and pins, how the artist even inserted the native plant that was used to dye the clothing this particular shade in the background, and even how the belt has technology AND historically accurate weaving patterns on it.

Then I start explaining how I love the muscular choices of the minotaur, that I was so impressed with the artist's anatomically correct depiction of the muscles converging into the neck. That many people get an upright cow's neck wrong because cow's don't have collarbones, so it can be very difficult to merge the upper arms and a chest of a human with a cow's body. I draw her attention to the beautiful way they've merged the pectoralis major so smoothly while also staying true to how muscular they've depicted the rest of the body.

I finish up with my thoughts on the artist's bold choice to depict the minotaur as a female, and despite the underlying themes of a minotaur being violence, child murder, strength, and muscles. I segue into how unlike bulls, cow are perceived as mothers. That they are the major source of milk in human culture, and that idyllic depictions of them in a field usually depict calves frolicking nearby, yet the minotaur kills and eats children.

I finish and there is a long pause.

"Urban, this is fetish art." and she takes me to the artist's twitter and god dammit it's fetish art, not a bold statement on cultural perceptions of women and violence throughout history. I have been tricked again.

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Girls will be boys

Boys will be girls

Fascists will 💖 be shot💖

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"Fight the State, Not it's Wars"

Sticker spotted in Portland, Oregon

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"Your Boss is Your Enemy, Not Your Migrant Co-Worker"

Seen in Vancouver

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I can't believe we're not getting the cool cyberpunk future we deserve because our government won't let us modify our bodies 😔

"you don't have to transition to be trans": overdone, dull, runs cover for taking away medical care from those who need it

"you don't have to be trans to transition": exciting, poignant, radical perspective on the right to bodily autonomy

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I think some of you forgot that autistic people sometimes act strange and say things that are poorly worded and speak with incorrect tone and misunderstand or miss social cues because they are autistic

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"The Trans agenda is an average life expectancy"

Sticker spotted in Kingston, NY

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"No War but Class War"

Billboard spotted in Inland Empire, California

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A narcissist taking something away and then giving it back is a common manipulative tactic used to control their victim[s] by creating a cycle of dependence & uncertainty.

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Exploiting every MAGA misstep should be a journalists dream job. Where are they?

Now is the time to lend your voice.

Voters are inundated by the sheer volume of MAGA disinformation/misinformation.

The Left has to counter. Fight fire with fire.