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just saw some usamericans on xiaohongshu mockingly say in US POC get leg up in job interviews etc by play race card for DEI. n bunch chinese people who probably never be to US not to mention live there say oh my god that awful, unqualified people get beat white people to job just because they POC?? n start believing it.

guess that must be true since local usamericans say it! they live it after all primary source after all!

… this how some you all sound when parroting “racism not exist in china” “homophobia & queerphobia & transphobia not exist in china” “disability very accepted in china” “autism very understood n accepted in china” as if it saintly haven for minorities (specifically. foreigner minorities) because some locals on xiaohongshu say it true

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"trans people deserve love respect and dignity" - sweet nothing, pablum, easy to co-opt into nonperformative statements, it's giving Labour Party

"Public Official X's specific decision to Y is completely unevidenced and is harming trans people. Public Official X should resign or face consequences." - unco-optable, focused on justice, deliciously angry

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I really don't think these early poll results are going to reflect Tumblr demographics at large, but what the hell.

Hey, you! Do you remember LiveJournal? Remember all the fun you had there? Remember all the cool fics and communities and stuff?

Dreamwidth is basically LiveJournal but better!

Yes, LJ was more work than Tumblr is! Yes, it was harder to share images! But damned if it wasn't still a helluva lot of fun, and I miss it dearly!

We can still have that kind of fun on Dreamwidth!

Join me, everyone, and together we can rebuild better than we ever had it at LJ!

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the pistachio food trend is soooo interesting because it's like. i've been following the californian pistachio water politics for years, as a californian with personal connections to agricultural workers but! basically there's been a big push in california agriculture over the last decade to pressure farmers to produce pistachios, because iran has dominated the global market in pistachios for decades, and the US government has been trying to weaken iran economically, so they want to make california pistachios a competitor. which is ridiculous, because california's agricultural infrastructure is suffering under a drought, and pistachios take insane amounts of water. so a ton of water is being redirected from the people in order to engage in a trade war with iran over fucking. pistachios.

anyway now that the US (i.e. california) is producing more pistachios than iran, the next step is to drive consumption of pistachios, so that the farmers who are producing these pistachios can continue to make money on them. ergo all the fancy pistachio coffees at starbucks and similar shit like suddenly being able to find pistachio butter in grocery stores when five years ago it was exclusively available at specialty stores and online, and the huge boom in pistachios foods in instagram and tiktok recipe content. like i watch a lot of instagram foodie reels (cooking/baking is one of my hobbies) and these get thrown onto everyone's feeds, to promote the purchasing of pistachios, so that the US can stick it to iran. it's. kind of incredible to watch this happen in real time, because it sounds like deranged conspiracy thought, but like. i've been watching this trend for the past decade and it's fucking real.

anyway one of the vegan recipe accounts i follow just posted like five pistachio-based recipes in a row and it makes me feel some kind of fucking way

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I made a community on here

My community is called All Disabilities are welcome.

With love, your friend Mariah

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Skyen, be honest with every League of Legends fan (be from Arcane, Star Guardian, Odyssey, etc) that sees this post *Do you trust/believe that Riot will be able to create a coherent storyline in the wake of Arcane's success? **Even if you ignore every attempt beforehand that says otherwise?

No

No

Arcane wasn't quite coherent by the end, crunched brutally into far too short a run-time, dropping several of its thematic threads on the floor, and I think it was warped in large part by Riot's mandate to make it the starting gun for a Cinematic Universe.

Which is the historic pattern with Riot. Creative people put their hearts and souls into making something brilliant, which Riot Games Inc. then seizes upon to ride it into the fucking ground and mismanage it to death.

It's the inevitable consequence of trying to do good art with four hundred Stakeholders™ breathing down your neck and god knows how many executives all interfering and "giving notes" so they can claim a producer credit. It's not so much too many cooks in the kitchen as it is trying to cook a gourmet meal in a pit of starving alligators.

None of this is to say I think the Noxus show will be bad. It'll be a decent show, probably. It's just to say that I don't think the thrill of Arcane season 1 is ever coming back, because the Eye of Sauron has cast its baleful gaze upon animated shows as Riot's Next Big Thing, and they will now be subject to the full force of games industry mismanagement.

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I think Tom Bloom should expand Goblin With a Fat Ass into a multi-game shared universe with several playable splats. Wizard With a Fat Ass. Werewolf With a Fat Ass. Dracula With a Fat Ass. Give them all very slightly incompatible ass mechanics that make crossover games a pain in the ass. It can't lose.

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Running an epic year-long Exalted 3rd Edition campaign culminating in a confrontation with the Bishop of the Chalcedony Thurible purely to see the dawning horror in my players eyes as debate breaks down, blades are drawn, and as I cue up the music for the final battle they hear the opening notes of Megalovania.

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Hey so apparently the Trump administration is trying to include Natives in his unconstitutional birthright citizenship end order. They haven't been non citizens since 1924. He trying to fucking reverse the Snyder Act.

A lot, if not all, of his plans impact natives in some way. Remember to keep advocating for native rights.

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THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION. Censorship affects all of us, and if Project 2025 gets its way, the entire trans publishing industry is at a significant risk of criminalization. In this article, I lay out the problem and the stakes, and suggest a broad action plan with dozens of potential response ✊

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Running an epic year-long Exalted 3rd Edition campaign culminating in a confrontation with the Bishop of the Chalcedony Thurible purely to see the dawning horror in my players eyes as debate breaks down, blades are drawn, and as I cue up the music for the final battle they hear the opening notes of Megalovania.

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police and trumpers are starting to hate each other almost as much as they hate everybody else.

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i would cannibalize god's rotting corpse. if the opportunity arose

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if you ever catch yourself implying that the patriarchy encourages transmasculinity in any way, you not only fundamentally misunderstand transphobia but also apparently have selective memory when it comes to basic aspects of misogyny

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For some reason I have more followers than usual lately, even after weeding out porn blogs.

Well, it's 4am and I'm not getting any sleep because my cat is unwell, so followers: did you know i make ttrpg games in my spare time?

Because i do.

Here's my latest one: it's built on @titanrpg 's CALTROP CORE system. It's called HYPERSPEED PANTHER. Fuck about on a chessboard trying to steer a half built mecha around.

Here's a download link. It has 2 pages of rules and some printouts.

anyway go play this and tell me how it is.

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Just noticed that there hasn’t been much, if any, coverage on the mangione trial in like a month. Like since he plead not guilty, there hasn’t been any major coverage on the proceedings. I just tried to look up anything about the past month and I genuinely cannot find anything. Nothing about it they’re still in jury selection, nothing about any rulings, nothing about the defending attorney or even opinion pieces. Like I know why there’s not much coverage, but nothing at all? Like we got CONSTANT updates about the depp/heard case when it was happening, but now that it’s something about an important issue that would have been the case of the decade in times past, it’s radio silence.

It’s so incredibly disturbing that they’ve filtered it out of the media and that people don’t care enough to demand it be covered. People treated it like a trend and aesthetified it to the point that an actual act of resistance means nothing now.

Also there’s like no concrete evidence in this case. It’s all circumstantial. I feel that everyone forgot that, and because of it, the idea that “innocent until proven guilty” as a precedent is very much in the process of being undermined

Edit: Putting this here again because I keep getting people misinterpreting what I’m trying to say: You guys, I know there’s nothing new to report on. What I’m saying is that when something like this happens, everyone talks about it. Every talk show and opinion columnist and political analyst will talk give speculation and reaction and opinion on it. Like when columbine happened, every news outlet talked about it for months before the trial ever happened. It happened in 99 and the rulings didn’t come out til 01 or something. And even if they never directly mentioned columbine, they would talk about gun violence and bullying and how police weren’t trained for situations like that. They talked about the surrounding issues. Like yeah there’s nothing new that the media has access to rn, but no one is making opinion pieces about the judges conflict of interest, no talk show is having a 20 min segment about gun violence or the state of healthcare. Twenty years ago, it would have stayed in the news cycle at least passively until the case moved forward. But now it’s been phased out almost completely. And I know coverage will pick up when the trial starts. I know courts move slowly. I’m not trying to push conspiracy. I was simply making an observation that it was strange that there was almost no talk about it, that it’s been phased out of news cycles, and how there’s no widespread conversation about the issues surrounding the shooting.

Also, I only used depp/heard in the original because it was the most recent case I could think of. And because I was tired and thought this post would be seen by like 20 people max, so I didn’t bother wording it as precisely as I could have. Columbine and the OJ Simpson case are better examples to work off of.

I just wanted to clarify what I meant so I stop getting comments that misinterpret what I’m trying to say and people being rude about it