#im just pointing out the hypocrisy

[odinsblog]

“America first” indeed.

Bad when America does it, ❤️ when Russia does it.

I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve had to do a quick double take to see if it was a tankie or a rightwing Republican talking. If you examine it and listen closely, it’s really amazing how much their rhetoric overlaps. Sometimes the Venn diagram is just a big ole circle, which isn’t surprising because both parties care about the suffering of others ONLY if they like the people being harmed. Otherwise it’s cool indifference or worse, because they’re good with authoritarianism, imperialism and colonialism, because “communism” ☭ or some such bullshit. Completely morally and intellectually inconsistent with the beliefs they espouse.

Indistinguishable from conservative rhetoric.

[sararubin]

tumblr: NO SEXUAL IMAGERY ALLOWED!!!!

also tumblr: let's add live streams

[sadkachow]

You cannot claim to be anti-AI while still actively seeking out and using AI.

Once again.

You cannot claim to be anti-AI while still using generative AI, no matter the reason.

(Bold/italicized text: You cannot claim to be anti-AI while still using generative AI, no matter the reason.)

Even if you’re just using it to make fun of it or show how bad it is.

Even if it’s only for your personal use, and you don’t plan on sharing it with anyone.

Even if you’re “just” roleplaying on Character AI.

If you are willing to justify your usage of a system created and profiting off of stealing from artists and writers, a symstem that is destroying the Earth, then you were never as “against that system” as you think you were. Being anti-AI isn’t something that exists only in name. You can’t claim to be against AI if you are willing and able to use it as soon as it benefits you. You can’t say you’re for writers’ and artists’ rights if you’re using the very thing that is causing them harm. You can’t claim to care about climate change and saving the Earth if you are participating in the system that is destroying it.

There is no middle ground here.

There is no “Oh, but I-“.

If you have the knowledge of what generative AI is doing, of how it is hurting people, and you choose to use it anyway, you aren’t  against it. You aren’t fighting against that system, you’re upholding it.

You can say how much you hate AI and how horrible you think it is, if you choose to use it anyway, then your actions and your words are not lining up, and the former reveals so much more than the latter.

Stop pretending like AI is something you can condemn only in name, while using it to your heart’s content in your free time. All it does it tells writers and artists that you don’t really care about us, and that any actions you claim to be taking to protect us are performative at best and lies or even outright malicious at worst.

You are—and I mean this in the kindest way possible, even with the fury that generative AI invokes in me—a complete and utter hypocrite. AI is not your friend. It is a tool, and it is a tool that steals from writers and artists in order to function. It is a tool that is using levels of energy and emitting amounts of polution in order to be maintained that are actively damaging the Earth. No matter how much you try to justify using it to yourself, that doesn’t change.

Stop hiding under the guise of being anti-AI while continuing to use it yourself.

[cat-doggy]

I think a, not really new, but still new pet peeve of mine is when ppl say stuff like "mspec monos aren't valid", "lesboys/turigirls/gaybians aren't valid", etc, but then proceed to say stuff like- "You can just say you're (mspec)sexual (mono)romantic or (mspec)romantic (mono)sexual!", "But nonbinary lesbians are valid!", etc. Like- you know that is one of the reasons why someone uses the mspec mono label, right? And that not every nonbinary person is afab and that multigender people exist, right?

It annoys the hell out of me- and my system members too

- Fry/Chat

[seaweedstarshine]

Late to the game as I’ve kinda been kinda non-here for a minute but I scrolled through the Dot and Bubble tag, and thought I wanted to write this post into existence.

There's this part in Doctor Who Unleashed where RTD says this:

“What we can’t tell is how many people will have worked that out before the ending. Because they’ve seen white person after white person after white person, and television these days is very diverse. I wonder, will you be ten minutes into it, will you be fifteen, will you be twenty, before you start to think, everyone in this community is white. And if you don’t think that — why didn’t you? So, that’s gonna be interesting. I hope it’s one of those pieces of television you see, and always remember.”

And I'm like. Yeah. But the reason this works even as well as it does is largely thanks to the work of the previous showrunner with the previous creative team, which was notably the first era to have any writers of color (amongst other firsts in terms of inclusivity in directors, composer, actors). While Chibnall fumbled whenever he tried to write about race himself, he did have the self-awareness to have Black and South Asian writers writing the episodes where race is the focus (and a female writer for the episode where sexism is a focus; my point is, he seemed to know his shortcomings).

I wonder what the current creative team looks like? (not really, but I wasn't 100% sure for all of them)

To quote RTD:

“...before you start to think, everyone in this community is white.”

This is pretty non-self-aware, right? It's pretty “It is said, and I understand this, there was a history of racism with the original Toymaker, the Celestial Toymaker, who had ‘celestial,’ and I did not know this, but ‘celestial’ can mean of Chinese origin, but in a derogatory way,” right? (from The Giggle Unleashed) It's pretty “and I had problems with that, and a lot of us on the production team had problems with that: associating disability with evil,” right? (from Destination Skaro Unleashed)

—none of which are issues that should be overlooked, but think how much exponentially better they might’ve been addressed if he’d consulted with Chinese writers and wheelchair-using writers before going straight to giving the Toymaker weird fake accents and making Davros walk?

How many Black or non-white people do we think saw the Dot and Bubble script before it landed in Ncuti’s hands?

And this just keeps happening.

And like, from some of the shocked responses I've seen from white viewers to the ending of Dot and Bubble, maybe the episode's unsubtlety was needed? From the way RTD talks about it in Unleashed, the episode was written with a white audience in mind, Baby's First Microaggressions (where of course the microaggressions come from people who are pretty self-admittedly white supremacists). Ricky September, a more seemingly normal depiction of someone in the racist bubble of Finetime, seemed like an interesting element, up until the way he died.

The ending worked for me, because I do think the Doctor's reaction is true to how the Doctor would react. I just keep thinking of how much better the core themes could've been handled by someone with actual lived experience on the subject matter.

[reignof-fyre]

Team Green: I stan 1 greasy boy aka aegon and the poor little bullied uwu boy aka aemond and Daemon Targaryen is the biggest monster eveerrrrrr

Daemon Targaryen, not a rapist, kiddie fiddler, genocidal maniac, woman abuser, usurper, or watcher of children's fighting pits: uhhhh

Team greenies: you had jaehaerys killed! Utter MONSTER

Daemon; I only did that because of your uwu bullied baby boy aemond....if he had left Luke alone it never would have happened....so u only have yourself to blame fr

Greens: 😟🤡😟

[moon-brain-90]

Due to last weekend I've seen even more comments related to sainz and Ferrari treating him unfairly. The word I see most often is cruel, that Ferrari was cruel to "fire" sainz. Because for some reason getting a contract and choosing not to sign it because you want a better deal (which is fine) and they happen to sign another driver in the meantime, let alone a 7x WDC, is cruel...

If we want to look at cruel we can look at 2019 Red Bull when they got rid of Gasly halfway through the season and replaced him. Or this year in Indy car where McLaren has switched drivers 3 times so far, and Pourchaire was posting about the next race till like the day before they announced signing Siegel.

The point I'm making is Ferrari and all the F1 teams are a business. They aren't going to keep drivers just because they like their team or they've been here for 4 years. Hell it's pretty rare for drivers to stay with 1 team for their career (Lando,Yuki, and maybe Max depending on how you view RB's connection to Red Bull, is really it on the current grid, and they have a long career to go)(also I didn't include Zhou, Oscar, and Logan cause they're on their first contract basically and idk if I count Oscars time as a reserve driver). Anyway, Carlos didn't resign a contract that's it, he wasn't fired or thrown away in the trash by Ferrari, his contract was up and they didn't renew it.

[peupeugunn]

thinking about the xicheng venom au collecting dust in my wips folder.

no, it's not a modern setting au, it's set after the first siege of the burial mounds. yes it's also an svsss crossover (or well, technically it's a pidw crossover).

no, lan xichen is not going to exorcise this immensely powerful goo-being no matter how unhappy he is about sharing his own body with it. yes, he definitely agrees with the goo-being (apparently a former demon emperor???) that jiang wanyin is a peerless beauty but we cannot dishonour him and marriage is not a possibility here, we're both sect leaders!

(no, jiang cheng is not going to stop trying to exorcise your brother, hanguang-jun, he literally admitted to being possessed by a demon five minutes ago!)

[deepseasmetro]

so, here's the thing: eating meat in 2024 is just… embarrassing. like, i’m sorry, but it is. i get that some of you are super attached to your steaks or whatever, but can we stop pretending it’s some kind of heroic act? “oh, but humans have always eaten meat!” okay, and humans used to do a lot of things we’ve learned to stop doing. maybe it's time to evolve a little?

the whole "but i need protein" excuse is tired. it’s literally the same energy as people who insist on using outdated tech because they’re "purists." we have plant proteins, legumes, nuts, and, i don’t know, a little thing called science that’s made it easier than ever to get all your nutrients without, you know, killing animals. but sure, keep acting like you’re the pinnacle of health because you eat a burger.

and let’s talk about the environmental impact for a second. factory farming is a nightmare. it’s one of the biggest contributors to climate change, deforestation, and water pollution. if you’re still choosing to eat meat, you’re literally saying, “yeah, i know it’s destroying the planet, but i just really like bacon, okay?” that’s not just lazy—it’s selfish.

like, i hate to be blunt, but if you’re still eating meat, you’re just a bad person. there’s no excuse for it anymore. we have all the info, all the resources, all the alternatives, and yet you’re still choosing to support an industry that causes immense suffering, pollutes the planet, and wastes resources. it’s not ignorance at this point; it’s a choice, and it’s a bad one.

(written with chatgpt (^_−)☆)

[mx-paint]

there's something both extremely sad and funny about a self proclaimed fan of a series drawing a whole comic about how much the characters would hate the fanart of them in wedding dresses and how much the Lord above has left the earth in the 30 years when the creator of it has been saying since the nineties they're in gay-love (even having them as his wedding topping for his real life actual wedding to his real life actual wife)

[toytulini]

i know doctor who has never been Perfect, and i love capaldi, i love twelve, but christ alive its a hard watch sometimes

[arsonists-oatmeal]

I swear some of yall only say "ACAB" because you think its trendy to be anti authority. You need to understand that that acronym was born out of actual pain that people have experienced by the police. And im not just talking about getting speeding or parking tickets (though im not saying that tickets can not be a source of great pain for people), im talking about things that have brought about personal risk of life. Things like police brutality, being arrested, getting a "mental health check" via police. People say ACAB because they have been hurt by police, and see the problems with the police, and how they are all bastards via how they systematically protect the bad ones and encourage violence. They don't say it just to be rebellious or something. So like, if you say ACAB, you better believe it, because I see a lot of the (usually white) liberal crowd shout it at the top of their lungs, and then turn around and call the cops on their marginalized peers the moment they act weird

[britneyshakespeare]

The gaslighting Duke of Vienna

[mythicalmyles]

Ur average tiktok white girl on her way to get ready to yell at someone over starbucks while being decked out in dollskill/shien/killstar and getting a fresh new child slavery haul every week & their man only wears hugo boss(he literally joined the nazi party and made their uniforms also fun fact hugo boss clothes back then were literally made by imprisoned pols, french and jews(he also sent the workers to aushwitz/concentration camps in general to be executed(they film on a kodak camera, made by another nazi):

[calvinandhobbes]

my dad just sat me down and said i just want to say that what you’re going to do to your body is a serious mistake that you’re going to regret (me getting a tattoo that ive wanted for 4 years) & im just like….. ok cool! thanks for the input im still gonna do it :)

[crayonverse]

i do find it funny how in trying to make ein's writing less weird they made zack a less interesting character