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Show some love for two more OG celebrity activists: James "king of the That Guys" Cromwell and JG "Martok from DS9" Hertzler. Here they are proudly holding their subpoenas after an anti-fracking protest.

jane fonda got arrested the third week in a row at climate change protests. this time with ted danson

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my god it's so close to being a revelation but you know they're never going to grasp it

disco elysium heritage post

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"Once again. Do you think this is the fault of the ships themselves"

how people (re: radfems) continue to act like somehow the nature of the sex activities themselves are what make a sexual encounter violent baffles the mind. the idea that neil gaiman was allowed to rape so many women for so long because "liberals pressure women into being kinky for #Feminism" and not that he was rich and powerful and was taking advantage of very specifically poor women who were relying on him for housing, food, etc disgusts me in a way i cannot articulate. how is this relevant? how did "sex positivity" allow gaiman to do the same thing many many many men before him have done (leverage their higher social and economic class to coerce and silence victims)?

this is a disgusting attempt to drag very real victims experiencing the very real consequences of a world when men have the social and economic standing to control women and their bodies in the ways they please into the typical garbage radfem bullshit about how BDSM is evil and scary and bad and #normalizes violence. heres the thing you dipshit, sexual violence against women has been normalized for centuries and it certainly was not under the guise of Kink or Freedom of Speech! and had gaiman not had access to this language, he still would have sexually abused women because he was a rich man in a position of power to do so. that's it! it's a very simple material reality! no amount of "sex negativity" will do fucking anything to prevent sexual violence. god.

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"Food has no moral value" doesn't just apply to eating processed/"unhealthy" foods or disordered eating, it also means eating a vegetarian or vegan diet does not make you any more morally right than people who don't

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This is what happens when leftists learn the language before running the debugger

Just saw somebody use the phrase "indirect incest" and I think my brain melted.

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AI under capitalism

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I've seen it said that Donald Trump is the perfect reflection of American culture, the unflattering platonic ideal of the American character

I humbly suggest that it is in fact your average Disney Adult

of all the ways to word this they managed to pick the worst one

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Well said.

honestly reading the Neil Gaiman piece on Vulture I was just thinking about Bojack Horseman the whole time. like. he's got trauma and whatever else, maybe he even convinced himself it was all consensual, but at the end of the day he's empowered by a larger system to do this type of shit & it will always be easier to not change, to not grow, and to just indulge your worst possible impulses over and over again. because everyone around you wants you to do that. they want to enable you. they want you to either get away with it so they don't have to face consequences by extension, or they want you to do it so you're as bad as they are and you're less likely to challenge them when they do it.

Like no, he's not a monster; he's a human person who knew better but chose worse anyway. I don't totally believe he knew exactly what he was doing, or that he's doing it to maintain some kind of rich vs. poor, powerful vs. powerless dynamic.

I think he's a man with childhood trauma who has been told that he should not heal, he should not change, he should not challenge the system, and in fact it is better that he participate in it. That he can take the easy way out (not that it'll ever actually lead him anywhere close to "out"), and he should, and it'll be easy, and everyone around him will enable and protect him if he does. That if he decides to fight for real healing and real growth instead, he will have to fight hard against everything and everyone around him, and he will be alone in that fight.

That's the wrong choice. He's responsible for all of the hurt he caused every single time he made it. He deserves no sympathy from fucking anyone for any of it. The only way out is through, and that means facing all of the full consequences of his many, many fucked up and horrible choices.

And I think we need to reckon with the system that makes the horrible shit Gaiman did feel like the easiest option, or we're not gonna get anywhere.

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Whatever the opposite of art is, Netflix is it

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Call me a moral absolutist but restorative justice and rehabilitation apply to everyone and yes I mean everyone regardless of what crime they have committed

You can't call for prison abolition but only for crimes you don't deem icky

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Guy I knew did historical re-enactment as a Viking. While waiting on a train platform late at night coming home from a re-enactment he was threatened by a guy with a knife asking for his wallet.

He opened his coat and pulled out a four-foot sword.

Real

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the wildest derek dieworkwear series of events so far and that’s saying something

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I love it when gamers bang this drum because all they're doing is shouting extremely loudly that they've never actually known a woman

NVIDIA announced their 5000 series graphics card which are able to do something they’re calling Neural Faces. Neural Faces is a feature that uses Generative AI to create ‘photorealistic’ faces based off an initial 3D model.

Initial model on the left. ‘Upscaled’ model on the right.

To be clear, that’s supposed to be the same character. And Neural Faces has yassified the hell out of it - it’s smoothed out everything, changes the eyes, nose, lips into something distinctly more vaguely European.

I hate the term, but this is pretty problematic for a number of reasons.

Also NVIDIA have basically created the incel filter.

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A good (cishet) friend of mine calls me Captain AMAB and it's too funny for me to call him out on

captain afab is honestly a very relatable character because whomst among us does not have some great beast that has eluded us all our lives. mine, for instance, is a decent night's sleep.