#and staging environments.

[ganesh85465]

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[ominouspuff]

Clone Trooper Dogma, a face of your choosing in the palette color all star.

Thank you for playing!

[yuseirra]

I notice this every single time I listen to wiege,

You know how Luka always tried to dominate and outshine the other party when he had duets (Ruler of My Heart and Blink Gone)? Because he's literally made to win.

Whenever I listen to wiege, however, I can’t help but notice that, unlike other songs, Luka willingly takes on a supporting role. He's backing up Hyuna’s voice and laying the foundation for it. Doesn’t this say quite a lot about their relationship dynamic? It makes me think that, perhaps, when it came to Hyuna, Luka was more than willing to step back and let her shine while supporting her from behind.

He might have had the potential to be a really good partner for her, he does things he usually doesn't when it comes to her. He's ready to give her the spotlight and make amends. Their duet might have played out this way if they had one on stage.

This must be something others have pointed out as well, but another noticeable aspect is how different their voices sound compared to the songs they've sung before. Hyuna often used a husky, rough, and wild voice—something strong and intense—but here, she sings with a soft, gentle, and higher-pitched tone, almost as if she’s soothing Luka. As for Luka, who frequently used falsetto, in this song, he lowers his voice, singing in a way that supports rather than stands out, almost like he’s following behind Hyuna to let her voice shine. The entire song is structured with Hyuna leading and Luka following, which seems to reflect the nature of their relationship. Perhaps they could have lived showing only that side of themselves to each other in a world where everything's much more peaceful, like how it is in that happy imagery you see in the movie.

[dailyanarchistposts]

The way most people talk about climate change we are led to believe we all have an equal part in creating the capitalist nightmare we live in, but that’s a lie. The unsustainable and extractive nature of capitalism grew directly from the ideological and material foundations of European colonization. We cannot hold the entire human species responsible for that. It’s victim blaming.

The vast majority of waste is produced by the same people and institutions who hold power. Fighting for our planet, the health of our land, our food, our homes, our communities, is where the fight against capitalism and white supremacy collide. Any fight for environmental justice must also be a fight for racial justice because BI&POC are the ones who disproportionately bear the weight of climate change.

White Settler Colonialism Is Destroying the Planet, Not Poor BI&POC

Don’t believe the Malthusian and eco-fascist myth that there are too many people on the planet to care for. This is a lie peddled by capitalists, eugenicists, and people who advocate for genocide. We know that every landbase has its limit for how much life it can support (indigenous peoples have been saying this for hundreds of years), but “overpopulation” rhetoric is overwhelmingly used as a means to enforce colonial hierarchies where wealthy white people can maintain lives of access and privilege while poor BI&POC barely survive.

Instead of telling poor BI&POC to have less children or to stop wanting better lives, we should build a movement to fight climate change which centers racial justice, abolishes capitalism, and forces wealthy, predominately white populations to stop hoarding resources.

Here are some Earth Day facts for tomorrow so you don’t fall for the lies:

Just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions. (Source: the Guardian)

Black communities are exposed to 56% more pollution than is caused by their consumption. For Latinx communities, it is 63%. (Source: American Journal of Public Health)

97% of waste produced in the United States is corporate waste. 80% of businesses are owned & operated by white people. (Source: “The Story of Stuff” & US News)

Indigenous peoples make up less than 5% of the planet’s human population, yet they are protecting 80% of its biodiversity. (Source: National Geographic)

The world’s richest 10% produce half of carbon emissions while the poorest half contribute only 10%. (Source: Oxfam)

The world’s wealthiest 16% use 80% of the planet’s natural resources. (Source: CNN)

We are not all equally “responsible.” White settler colonialism and capitalism are destroying the planet, not poor BI&POC.

[sableeira]

“Allow me to introduce you to the original you.”

[voids-colourful-creations]

“Only memories about my cause of death disappear, right?” 💠 (Cosplay)

[ballsthatcheese]

posted this on twt but i think it deserves to be here too. thoughts abt the recent comic and how singing as an act of love persists in alnst 👍

[alt text: me when vivimeng writes the perfomance of singing as a rebellion against a world where humans are not brought up in an environment you would be familiar with and where singing itself is a form of sick entertainment yet they cant help themselves but go back to their instincts to love a song like how you would say loving is human nature. im not quite sure whats the case for it for hyuna just yet, but to me it reads like her rebellion against ANAKT, to make singing just as if its hers to give meaning to, to make singing an outlet, to forget, and to give that hope onto others, and to learn how to love that act again. for Till and Io, it shows how love perseveres through song even though youre in an environment that prevents you to. thats why Io wishes Till to be loved the way songs do]

[itsbansheebitch]

May 1st, 2028 - General Strike

Potential Demands (Still being worked on by unions):

Healthcare for All

Climate Action

Housing Issues

Contact your local unions and ask if they will be participating in the 2028 General Strike! Urge them to add Climate Action to their list of demands!

Talk to your neighbors about tenant unions!

I, myself will be talking with farmers in my area about pushing politicians to give cash to farmers who put carbon back in the ground. Farming isn't just harvesting crops, it's also carbon management. We'll also be pushing for industrial farms to be heavily fined based on their use of toxic chemicals, water waste, and carbon emissions. I'm calling it the Cash for Carbon Initiative. It literally funds itself. Feel free to talk to farmers in your area about it. We need to end corporate welfare and support our communities.

My targets with be Chevron and Bayer (Monsanto fused with them). It's time to get them out of our state.

[nottoonedin]

Someone needs to take away my drawing long hair privileges

WIP

[russell-crowe]

The Comedy Roast for SU2C (2023)

[chronurgy]

“The world exists as it does because of Solas,” Epler says. “He shaped the world because of the kind of character he was. That’s, to me, what makes Dragon Age so interesting. Everything can tie back to a person who to some degree thought they were doing the right thing.”

(Quote from the new Edge article on Dragon Age)

Look I know that this is a niche complaint but noooooooo not my favorite game series giving in to great man theory of history 😩

[dailyanarchistposts]

From September 20 to 27, tens of thousands will take to the streets to denounce the causes of climate change and call on governments to address what may be the most drastic crisis facing humanity in the 21st century. These mass actions will showcase the growing anger of a new generation that has known nothing but crisis, war, and the threat of environmental collapse. We have prepared the following text as a flier encouraging climate activists to consider how to interrupt the causes of climate change via direct action rather than petitioning the state to solve the problem for us. Please print these out and distribute them at climate protests and everywhere else you can.

Finally, people are filling the streets to call on governments to address the climate crisis, the most serious threat facing humanity in the 21st century. This is long overdue. But what good will it do to petition the same sector of society that created this problem? Time and again, we have learned that the state does not exist to serve our needs but to protect those who are profiting on the causes of this crisis.

The most effective way to pressure politicians and executives to address the climate crisis is to show that whatever they fail to do, we will do ourselves. This means moving beyond symbolic displays of “non-violence” to build the capacity to shut down the fossil fuel economy ourselves. No amount of media attention or progressive rhetoric can substitute for this. If we fail to build this capacity, we can be sure that the timeline for the transition to less destructive technologies will be set by those who profit on the fossil fuel economy.

Several examples from recent social movements show that we have the power to shut down the economy ourselves.

In 2011–2012, the Occupy Movement demonstrated that tens of thousands of people could make decisions without top-down organization, meeting their needs collectively and carrying out massive demonstrations. On one day of action, participants shut down ports up and down the West Coast, confirming that coordinated blockades can disrupt the global supply chain of energy and commodities.

In 2016, people converged to fight the Dakota Access Pipeline, a corporate project threatening Native land and water. Tens of thousands established a network of camps to block construction, demonstrating a new way to live and fight together. The Obama administration canceled the pipeline, causing many occupiers to go home, but the Trump administration reinstated it—confirming that we must never count on the government to do anything for us.

In France, occupiers blocked the construction of a new airport at la ZAD, the “Zone to Defend.” Farmers teamed up with anarchists and environmentalists, establishing an autonomous village that provided infrastructure for the struggle. After years of struggle, the French government gave up and canceled the airport.

We have seen train blockades in a variety of struggles. In Olympia, Washington, anarchists blocked trains carrying fracking proppants in 2016 and in 2017, forcing the company to stop transporting the commodity. In Harlan County, Kentucky, coal miners have blocked a coal-carrying train after the Black Jewel company refused to pay wages they owed to workers. It only takes a few dozen people to shut down a key node in the supply chains of the global fossil fuel economy. Imagine what we could do on a bigger scale!

Governments serve to protect the economy from those it exploits. The state exists to evict, to police, to wage war, to oppress, and above all to defend the property of the wealthy few. The perils of climate change have been known for years, but governments have done little in response, focusing instead on fighting wars for oil, militarizing their borders to keep out climate refugees, and attacking the social movements that could bring about the sort of systemic change that is our only hope of survival.

The capitalist economy is literally killing us. Let’s begin the process of shutting it down.

Another end of the world is possible!

[postmodern-blues]

OOHHH Jon M. Chu, who directed Wicked, also directed In the Heights and Crazy Rich Asians. Now it makes sense to me why Wicked looks Like That.

[honetii]

every time someone tells me my zines are house of leaves esque I lean into it even harder

[just-my-insufferable-existance]

The Internet was once a great source of information, now

- It's cluttered with AI regurgitation. (This is particularly infuriating to me. If anyone is interested, I could make a post about my thoughts.)

- Old sites are dead and gone.

- Reddit destroyed itself. (I can go on a rant about this too.)

- Too much marketing bullshit.

- Ads! Ads! Ads! Ads! Ads!

- Stupid paywalls.

- Search engines suck at getting you what you want. SEO is a cancer.

- People trying to make a quick buck. I don't mind paying for some things, I'm talking about the 0 effort get-rich-quick crap.

- Propaganda, psyops, scammers, etc.

See enshitification and dead internet theory.

It's hard to filter all this crap out! It's particularly worse for people with conditions like ADHD, Depression, Autism, etc.

It also makes it harder for me to do my job. Sometimes I need specific, slightly in depth information. Due to SEO, I get surface level AI regurgitated crap. Multiple websites, all the same. They also come with a torrent of adverts. It's a user hostile experience. (Maybe I could write my own, better search engine. One that might allow me to blacklist and greenlist certain websites for certain searches. Or one that detects AI generated content and filters. Actually, a browser extension that detects AI generated content might be pretty helpful.)

I think I've run into webpages that just have AI generated recipes. It's awful. I'm at the point where I just want to use physical cookbooks. Those also don't have a novel about some irrelevant backstory and 69,000,000 ads obscuring the recipe. (Now that I think of it, maybe it would be useful to write an app that can convert a physical recipe into a digital one ...)

I don't know what I want, what really needs to change, or how to fix things. All I know is that I am passionately upset.

[queerbrownvegan]

No war but the class war. -qbv