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elexuscal · 6 months ago

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so. June. Pride Month.

listen, i love pride month. obviously. but partly as a consequence of being Terminally Online, partly because my country's pride month is in July which means all the actual in-person events don't start for another 30 days, often my first association with it is All The Discourse Posts

which means every year i have to physically restrain myself from making in-universe Pride discourse for different fictional universes

#pride month #this year it's Temeraire #i can see it so clearly #'just a reminder that while dragons can attend pride events they need to be making room for actual queer people'#'uhh dragons can be gay karen'#'while they can technically be homosexual they've never had any systemic or cultural discrimination on that front so it doesn't count'#'uhhh well the same can be said for human queer people in plenty of countries and cultures around the world??#are you saying they don't count either?'#'wow great way to erase the vital contributions dragons made in repealing sodomy laws in Europe'#'weird way to describe Iskierka literally setting the Dover courthouse on fire'#'so everyone is Be Gay Do Crimes until the crime is arson and the person's a dragon?'

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nebuladreamz · 5 months ago

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A little different than last year's, but here we are again. To say that this past year hasn't been absolutely wild would be a lie, cause HOLY SHIT MAN

This year's birthday is. A little different for me, but you already have the silly comic to show that so I won't make like a broken record oops

But, despite the changes and hills that life's decided I should climb or throw at, it hasn't changed the fact that I'm so genuinely fucking thankful to the people that I've known since joining this fandom. I'm not even kidding when I say that being here has actually changed my life for the better. I know I said something similar last year, but this time, hoo boy it sure turned up the AMP and test how far I could go.

So, to everyone, both new and old; thank you for being here :D

@garbagechocolate @darkxsoulzyx @smoljeanius @bunmuffin @skizabaa

@tuzesdays @sleepykas @fernzwing @kandidandi @starsketchez

@just-a-drawing-bean @notdysfunk @ilsole @amberluvsbugs @cloudyvoid

@nomsthecat @alfinefalf @nosleepygay @theblog-with-thestuff

@cacaocheri

(Edit: ty kibbits for informing me of the. Fuck ass tagging system)

AND TAGGING OTHERS BECAUSE. POINTS. BONKS WITH HEAD. GETTING TO EITHER INTERACT OR TALK OR WHATEVER IS ALWAYS A DELIGHT

@ohno-the-sun @kibbits @ink-yy @saltyfryz @kaprisvn

@hierba-picante @sunny-sophies-garden @cookiiemancer @sneeblbop @justaduckarts

@pepethehumanz @crystalmagpie447 @woolysstuff @mocha-illustrates @duhsty1

@sanchensky @pillowspace @victarin @witherfide

[I DEFINITELY GOT SONAS WRONG AND THESE AREN'T ALL THE SILLY PEOPLE I KNOW BUT IM SITTING HERE AT 2:30 IN THE MORNING JUST KNOW YOU'RE THERE IN SPIRIT HANDING YOU ALL POPTARTS WAUGH]

#nebula art and doodles #should. i even count it as that-#nebula birthday time #fuck it birthday tag go brrr #also if i. didnt tag you it is 100% because i'm. a fucking coward <33 and am not sure if you'd like to be tagged in a silly thing like this #(or i don't. know you. that also but shaky thumbs up)#god. this year has been. insane dawg #my goofy ass going through canon events like it's a buffet /silly #jokes aside #the fact that im still like. here. right here #posting or reblogging goofy shit #still in the process of making my fic (i prommy im working on it)#and just. managing to make friends with people despite shit happening #it's so wild to me #i know for some people i've tagged we either haven't talked that much or haven't talked in awhile #and to that i say #fuck it we ball /j #but seriously it's. honestly bc getting to interact with you guys at all makes or has made my day that much brighter #even if it's been awhile like i mentioned or for whatever reason #this is. getting long as hell and i need to go to bed oops #anywhooooo #gotta go fast or some shit #OH- and thank you all so much for. almost 3k. holy shit #where the fuck did you all COME FROM HOW DID WE GET HERE #big heart emojis and sending love to you all #thank you so much

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foxstens · 3 months ago

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so when will we stop forgetting that the first and only time we see sober!andrew smile

it's because of kevin

#my posts #my aftg posts #aftg #kandrew #kevin day #andrew minyard #yes im vagueing #but this is something that happens so often #either people completely forget about that scene #or forget that it's because of kevin #because a lot of things just don't seem to count when it's kevin you know #i could say so much. i could say so much!!!!!! but ugh

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cisthoughtcrime · 1 month ago

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#ok but fr marking undergrad essays is such a rollercoaster #i gave two very high marks today and was genuinely impressed and then the next three i marked were practically incoherent #one just copy and pasted their intro instead of writing a conclusion. like it's verbatim the same paragraph #i dont mark down for minor grammar and syntax errors because there's a high rate of ESL students...#... but some of the papers from native english speakers have me more concerned about functional illiteracy than I've ever been #these are 19-20yos in a humanities field at a top university! even the highest scoring essay had basic basic grammar errors and vocab misuse #at least i could tell what the student was trying to say there but some of the others...#if your punctuation and spelling and syntax are all so bad that i literally cant tell what you're trying to say there is a serious problem #even setting aside how many errors like these there were there's the flip side of the issue: actually writing an essay #the last one i marked yesterday had no structure or thesis or secondary sources #everything between the intro and conclusion was the same claim phrased in different ways with some irrelevant non sequitur quotes thrown in #no analysis other than the words 'analysis of this shows' which is *gasp* not a substitute for analysis #OH AND OMG #one made a direct claim about a figure's political stance and attached a footnote. i went to see what the student's source was.#the footnote literally said something like 'i know i should have a source here but it's only context and i don't want to waste my word count #like what???? do you think claims about relevant context don't need evidence??? and the audacity to not give a citation...#... and claim it's because it would take too many words away from your main argument??#just providing the actual citation for the claim would have been 3-5 words max but the footnote about not having room was 30 words #kid do you think i can't tell that you dont have that citation? do you think anyone's buying that you didn't include it to save space?#it's the very first footnote and most of the others are full-length bibliography entries jammed into the footnotes (which we don't require)#so either you were 'worried about space' at the first footnote then changed your mind as you wasted 250 words on unnecessary formatting #or you were over the word limit and were like 'gotta cut something!' and the only footnote you 'simplified for space' was a short basic one #^assuming i believed you. which i dont. because why would you think that would fool anyone.#i still have half the essays left. im tired and so disappointed in how little we're told we should expect from them

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sukibenders · 9 months ago

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When it comes to Penelope I feel like a lot of her fans take any valid criticism towards her and turn it into hate, which does her character a disservice. While some people do hate on her, a lot of it holds valid reasons. Admitting that she has hurt many people isn't wrong because she has, it's been shown on throughout the show and the impacts it can have. From labeling Daphne as "unmarriageable" during her first season and events that followed, her labeling Eloise as being part of a group of rebels, the terms she used to describe Kate [and Simon]-- which carried racial undertones no matter how you try to spin it, who didn't even know personally at that point, what she did Marina. All of these were very harmful and to say that none of these characters should feel angry, that they should just forgive Penelope without any work put into it is very laughable (especially because she's still writing as Whistledown and put many, namely women, at risk during a time where reputation is everything--something in which Penelope herself faces). With this being said, criticizing her actions, at least for me, doesn't come from a complete place of hate but more so from believing that she can be better if she puts in the work. By ignoring all that she's done and having her get her happily ever after so easily in the end, to be honest, would ultimately feel lackluster. I feel like she still has room to grow, but it will take a lot of work and, I personally, think seeing her renavigate who she is with who she wants to be outside of Lady Whistledown would be very interesting.

#bridgerton #penelope featherington #idk if this counts as anti but I'll label it as such too #anti penelope featherington #bc some people don't see it her referring to kate as a “beast” was wrong as hell and definitely side eye worthy coming from this yte woman #like she didn't even know kate and wrote that about her #and her ableist comments towards george were absolutely unnecessary as well #so deny that none of these things holds impact would be highly untrue and make the story very flat #i do think pen provides valuable insight to a different perspective of the ton and was helpful in eloise seeing a different view #so that's one [of very few] reasons that i think she should have a chance of redeeming herself #but that also doesn't mean that any of these characters should forgive her either #penelope stans and/or polin stans do not interact if you can't be respectful!#(also bc some people like to say “but the bridgertons are privileged and got their happy endings”#one just bc they got their happy endings in the end doesn't mean that what pen wrote didn't put them in difficult situations or that she #should be thanked as if she helped them [with daphne that was mainly her and her own mother's doing]#[for eloise that different bc it puts her and her family under political scrutiny as well bc do you honestly think being labeled as associat #-ing with rebels would be a good thing?]

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nostalgia-tblr · 22 days ago

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"people never complain that m/f ships should be 'just friends'!"

yeah they'll complain that they're clearly siblings instead.

#pro tip: if you call them siblings that means NOBODY ELSE is allowed to ship them either! yay victory at last!#hah! yes! i am really sticking it to the hets and the bisexuals now! that'll show them!#i have blocked a dozen people today and it's only lunch time #but srsly the reason you never see people say that is just that you have no m/f ships so you don't see the angry posts about them either.#or the cute little dismissive comments people make about pairings based on the combination of genders involved. tee hee! :)#also does whatever 'queerplatonic soulmates' are count as 'they should just be friends!' because in that case...

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em-exceeds-change-zearu · 1 month ago

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dw about it. he's just like that.

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#pokemon #pokeani #ash ketchum #trainer alain #gale shitposting #y'all can tag this as #megabondshipping #if you want. i won't stop you. but this is mostly just a joke about how alan is immediately ride or die the moment he decides he likes you #are you a friend? are you someone he cares about? have you reached social link level 2? alan will now die for you.#no you do not have a say in the matter #i saw this knight shitpost and immediately thought of alan tbh #ash is just the funniest option for the first person because it isn't a season of pokeani if he doesn't die at least five times #if you don't need more than one hand to count his almost deaths or actual deaths it's not pokeani #pikachu is giving ash the stinkeye because he damn well knows that 90% of those almost deaths are ash's fault.#he does not stop running headfirst into danger the moment he thinks someone needs help #pikachu is also giving alan the stinkeye because he knows alan isn't any better and/or is worse #you are both going to get yourselves in trouble for each other and then he has to bail both of you out. you are both giving him more work.#you're both horrible and give him heart attacks every day and he doesn't know why he likes either of you.#(it's because you'll run headfirst into danger for anyone regardless of whether they deserve it or not. and give him heart attacks)#this is pikachu's life this is the life he chose and he just has to deal with it now. alas.#fanart

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steelthroat · 14 days ago

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I'd always thought I preferred the messiest, most chaotic and fucked up people but with a grain of wil and spark that makes them do something over passive people that do nothing wrong, that don't care about anything but themselves and that never help...

AND I WAS RIGHT

People who are willing to try, that give a shit, that MEAN IT when they try to do something, smuah smuah come here here’s your smooches smuah.

#steel rambles #even if they are not good at it at least they are trying #at least they are PROPOSING stuff #they are trying their best #they are genuine #look i am genuine when i say #the messiest person i know now the stereotypical person the parents don't want you to become #is genuinely a lot more lovely and respectable imo than some of the more kept together peopel i knew before #but they never did anything #“hey guys there is this thing that should change becajse it's not right bla bla bla”#“why bother when people will fuck it up either way”#like #this is what i am talking about #first to complain last to do something about it #and like i am not talking about depressed people or people who have too much stuff foing on #that counts as something #okay #i am talking about amoebas #you have all met them #like GOD IT'S SO REFRESHING #being surrounded by people that CARE #AND GENUINE #and not hiding behind layers and layers of wittiness and sarcasm that gives them a free pass over their not doing anything #because they believe they are so superior that they don't do anything to help others because others don't deserve itwill fuck it up anyway #idk I'm happy #I'm happy to be surrounded by so many different and occasionally messy people but that no matter all the shit they went through #they are still [human]#idk these are.messy thoughs but i am just overjoyed

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kashilascorner · 22 days ago

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Okay!! Done with The Count of Monte Cristo. That was a ride. I did not enjoy the ending in itself much. The final chapter felt a bit disjointed and while I can understand Edmond was trying to teach Morrel and Valentine a lesson that's more important than any treasure, I think keeping them apart was unnecessarily convoluted and, frankly, cruel, especially keeping Valentine in the dark about her family's demise.

That being said, compared to the 2024 movie, which was my gateway into the book (spoilers for the movie ahead):

I still think it was very well adapted and I generally enjoy the changes made.

In particular, Benedetto/Cavalcanti's storyline in the movie works wonderfully and his relationship to both Eugénie and Haydée was cute. I do prefer this Cavalcanti over book!Cavalcanti because he feels more rounded. However, the movie cannot top Villefort's demise in the book. It's extremely good and heart wrenching.

The movie utilizes Albert and Haydée in the end in a vaguely similar way to Morrels and Valentine in the book, which was appreciated. They close the circle their literal or adoptive parents started and Edmond sails off on his own and I think there's a lot of beauty in that too.

I disagree that the changes made to Haydée's character in the movie reinforce the orientalism. The movie did not even try suppressing (or addressing) the orientalism, I do agree with that, and believe things could have been handled better. But Haydée's seduction game is entirely premeditated. She's not alluring as a walking oriental femme fatale, she is rather explicitly made to look that way. She and the count play with that as part of the trap they are laying for Albert. This mirrors Cavalcanti's trap too. It is similar to the way "Sinbad the Sailor" metaphorically seduces Franz d'Épinay in the book when they first met. I'm not saying it was perfect though. I'd say the orientalism in regards to Haydee has more to do with casting choices, costumes and treatment of her background than with the narrative use made of her in the movie. Sorry, but revenge-seeking willing to seduce her way to her goals movie!Haydée that still has a filialish role to the Count is definitely more appealing to me than submissive (literally a slave), love-sick book!Haydée who most of the time only waits and pines. She does testify against Fernando on her own accord and free will and shows an absolutely amazing strength and I love book!Haydée for that but it's not often that she gets to shine like she deserves.

Making Edmond and Fernando childhood friends is actually good, I loved that! But making the Mondegos an already affluent and well positioned family by the beginning and making Mercedes/Edmond lowkey forbidden because of class difference was not so good. One of the most interesting things in the book is getting to see just how much their status improves -with Edmond being the price to pay.

The movie does go much easier on Mercedes, WHICH SHE DESERVES. The aspect of her being "unfaithful" is moderately prominent in Edmond's discourse in the book, even if Edmond tells her to her face she's a saint. Given her ending, I think the book narratively does punish her for that so-called infidelity which I personally believe to be absolutely unfair but. 19th century right.

Other book things I prefer over the movie: Fernando's ending. The final battle was super fun to watch but sorry. Fernando offing himself because his family left him adds a whole other layer of tragedy and gives him a sort of redeeming quality (even if in the book they don't really put it this way). In the movie he has no redeeming quality lol

Also. I get why Noirtier was not much there. Same happens with the Morrels and Valentine. But Noirtier is one of the characters from the book that fascinate me the most so I'll miss him

#laura reads #the count of monte cristo #what. a. ride. some parts were ok and a few were even a bit dull or felt overlong (seriously too many poisonings) but the good moments #were GREAT and the overall arc ties very well together and of course it's very long so a lot of tkme to breathe #tbh it was like reading/listening to a telenovela #dumas. had you been born like 150 years later... he'd be making either prestige tv or longest melodramas you can think of but #any of them would blow your mind away. that man was born to be a movie director how can i make this point better understood #also. book edmond was comparatively softer on fcking DANGLARS than on Mercedes. like I don't think he meant to but he's always quoting her #infidelity like dude. I'm not saying this to be mean but FOURTEEN YEARS AWAY edmond with no news that you were even alive!!! be serious

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albonium · 23 days ago

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wild to me that it takes hours for people in the usa to vote. it's never taken me more than 10 minutes and that's including the inevitable chit chat with the people there because they're either my parents' neighbours or the parents of people i went to school with.

#literally have your voting card and some kind of id ready #if you don't have your voting car then you just have to look up what desk you're supposed to go to usually it's split alphabetically so #for albonium it would be desk 1 #get there give id (either my id my passport my social security card my driving license or a hunting permit (💀))))))))#pick up the little papers and an envelop #get in the booth #put the little paper in the envelop #that's if you haven't done it at home already #get out #put it in the box #the person there says “ HAS VOTED”#you sign next to your name #take your id #and fuck off #before your cousin's neighbours' grandma asks how your aunt is doing and if you've heard about the bakery being closed because the baker's #wife cheated on him and now he's got to take care of the kids and aetstdfhgfsgjgthj #you get what i mean #10 minutes tops #even in big cities #also it's always by paper like this if you want you can vote for someone else but you have to file papers at the police station #people empty the boxes and count them all together #if you want you're allowed to stay and watch as they count #or you can ask beforehand to participate in the counting #kids are automatically signed up on the voting lists when they turn 18 if they've done their mandatory 'defense and citizenship" day #ok this one is kind of propaganda-y for the army the cops etc but at the same time it allows to test the entire population to see if they'r #illeterate (there's grammar spelling etc tests)#do some driving rules lessons #cpr training #reminder about blood donations etc #which imo is important

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violentlydefending · 4 months ago

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what the actual fuck is wrong with whoever it is running @/writing-prompt-s. why are they calling an actual palestinian blogger "shady" and using their massive platform on this site to accuse palestinian families and users of being bots and scammers?

#.....like.#if. IF you are right. do you not think the damage being done if you are WRONG is significantly worse?#also you literally aren't right 90-ghost is a real person. it does not take all that much research to find that out.#and if you so strongly believe that you're right (with shoddy self-justification to boot) you don't need to #like. make a whole thing about it either. yknow. to your (again) massive platform. does the block feature not exist for a reason.#because. again. the damage done if you are wrong and proceed to call them out or report them is so much worse.#it's fine if you're worried about being scammed. if anything that's a good thing. but if you aren't gonna do research on your end #then baseless accusations help nobody.#and you /don't/ need to report them!! a block will suffice. again. if you're really /so/ sure!!#sorry i don't usually wanna. uh.#i guess this counts as vagueposting?#i don't usually wanna vaguepost but reading what they're saying is so disheartening and infuriating #i'm not following them and haven't been or anything the post i'm talking about just showed up #contra.txt

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problemnyatic · 1 year ago

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so does putting "men dni" in your shit actually reduce the number of shitheads you get or does it just filter out the dudes who actually care about boundaries in the first place

#also what are the fucking polygender people supposed to do #do you just not want to have to deal with complicated genders?? or does my being a woman sufficiently ''invalidate'' my masculinity enough #because if that's how it is go fuck yourself all the way to hell #do you think men are just born nasty? or universally raised to be no exceptions? what do you think about trans men #look. you're allowed to curate your online experience however you want. I can't stop you #but the ways in which you do so say a lot about how you think about others #i understand that a lot of men get real fuckin nasty in asks and dms and whatever. I'm compassionate to that.#but do those kinds of men even give a shit about dnis???#have you never been sexually harassed by a woman? i sure fucking have #I just don't fucking get it #i'm extremely nonbinary and deeply frustrated #thanks for letting me know i'm either inherently nasty to you or that pieces of me ''don't count'' for you to hate me. how fucking kind.#problemnyatic discourse #problemnyatic thoughts

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thedrotter · 6 months ago

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I have a gift for y'all today !!! �� Ever wanted to find a line in Re:Kinder in a single place for the sake of reference?? How about multiple chunks of lines. how about all the little variations that arise in the text with it's many endings, item descriptions, text that comes from interacting with the enviroment, and character info from the menu without having to boot up the game and go through it at long minutes!!???

well i sure did😊 Since I do a lot of fanart and think up my own silly theories and thoughts that need me to reference the game lines a lot, i have made a transcript for it for convenience's sake. A weirdly thorough transcript handwritten and proofread by me including all character lines available in-game. And I'm sharing it with you all today for anyone that wants it !!! :3 To use as a reference for creative fanworks or a quick search for a line in-game, whatever you wish to use it for!!

It uses the english translation of the game by vgperson. So naturally all credit for the game lines available in here is to her and Parun who made the game.

I did my best to organize it in a way easy to digest. Do note that I'm still human, and there's still the chance for mistake in it no matter how much I've proofread it, since I'm not even an english native speaker ^^. But I hope it serves you well nonetheless if you wish to use it.

That's my gift for today!!! Not the usual art, but still a project I'm proud of. Enjoy!!! 😊

#re:kinder #rekinder #not art #now goofy commentary for those who read my tags #i may have spent at the very minimum around 35 hours on it 😁 because thats what my pomodoro timer got to count in sum #but then again i spent more time without timing it as well so. we'll never know how many hours in total I've put into this #no regrets it was fun because shocking fact of all i enjoy this game🫣 (/s)#you could say but michael there are long playthroughs available on YouTube #couldnt you reference that instead of making a transcript #to that i say... they don't play the game like i do im picky as hell they dont show me every nook and cranny possible #and also i dont like scrubbing through those i thought just pressing ctrlF on a script would be easier. AND IT IS JAJSJSJSJSJS #but thats personal preference all in all #and im used to using transcripts for fanworks coming from earthbound. like there's one for the main game dialogue online and i love it a lot #for this game to not have any felt like some sort of crime considering how cool the story and the lines it has are #its also plenty useful for a game you're writing the spanish wiki for #yes i am doing that apparently my hobby became community work since i got into this game #gotta put that free time before turning 18 and getting a job onto something why not make resources just because i can #anyway fun fact while proofreading i noticed that everytime yuuichi was on scene there was a typo because i got too excited or emotional #either i was laughing because of how evil he is or i was getting unreasonably angry at the treatment he recieved in the past #in section 9 which is true end confrontation i was doing mistakes left and right until the fabled princess line scene #there i was bawling like a baby but THE ERRORS STOPPED ABRUPTLY LIKE I WAS FIGHTING FOR MY LIFE ALL UNTIL THE SCENE ENDED #THEN THERE WERE A BUTLOAD OF MISTAKES ITS INCREDIBLY FUNNY😭 i was fighting for my life holding in all those typos because i couldnt see #so this transcript was made with a lot of emotion laugh and tears and now you know #now i can get bagk to drawing this is the thing i mentioned i was doing fot a while #content feeding schedule crazy rn

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maeamian · 3 months ago

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That prisons vs colleges map that's going around and went around other sites like three months ago is absolutely dog shit data visualization that over-constrains its definitions in order to exaggerate a problem.

#Basically it's counting anything even remotely prison-like #While counting almost nothing college-like #And as a result ending up with a way more pessimistic map than exists in reality #'but are you saying there isn't a problem with the prison industrial complex?'#no I'm saying you shouldn't lie with data to prove a case that's already well proved with the evidence that isn't fake #Very hard to see the specific choices being made to make that map and not feel like it's deliberately bad data communication #Rather than simply passive poor choice making #I don't like it when people on my side lie about shit because it hurts our credibility #And ends up weakening your case when people find out you lied to them #tbc: reposting it isn't the problem making it is although reposting it doesn't help so maybe don't do that either #But I'm not mad at you if you did just if you made that map

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supes9 · 7 months ago

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