#peak homo behavior

[masterpieceofunderstatement]

Nomad is Clearly Sapphic-Coded: in this essay, I will…

[adhd-as-my-personality]

So what you’re telling me is that John Winchesters move for Mary was to tell her he knew the words to every Zeppelin song, and Dean decided totally no homo to record a mixtape of his 13 favorite Zeppelin songs and give it to Cas. Peak besties behavior. Excuse me while I go cry in a corner.

[fireflysugarpie]

I think it would be funny if Shang Qinghua and Shen Qingqiu decided to get married, not for tax purposes per se, but for marriage/sex curse immunity. secretly, of course ;)

why would they do this, you may ask? why wouldn't they? excluding aphrodisiacs, there are plenty of curses and/or magical objects just laying around the SVSSS world just waiting for an unsuspecting Peak Lord to trip over them. And since Shen Qingqiu has decided to travel to see all the worldbuilding and cool flora/fauna he missed out on in the original PIDW, he's dragging Shang Qinghua along with him for the ride. Of course, they would need protection against the more serious afflictions they could catch or be caught by, and getting married was the perfectly logical solution!

and if they ended up getting sex-pollened and needed to rail each other anyway? if they both said no-homo after, then it didn't count! and if they had started to sleep in the same bed and woke up in each other's arms, that's because it's cheaper than getting separate rooms! Who cared that Shang Qinghua started to sleep over at Shen Qingqiu's peak when they were both back at the sect? And brought him gifts and food? And that he reciprocated? They were obviously just hanging out as friends.

And friends are supposed to be affectionate and show care towards each other! They're the only transmigrators in this world, so they need to stick together! Watching the other jerk off can be a bonding activity, you know!

And if Shen Qingqiu noticed one day that they stopped saying no-homo? They already know they aren't gay, so it would be redundant to keep saying it. Carding your fingers through your fake (real) husband's hair while he lays in your lap and complains about the merchant's trying to weasel out of a deal with the sect is completely straight behavior!

[m1ssunderstanding]

Get Back Rewatch 55 Years On: Day Two

Paul and Ringo cabaret duo au NOW!

Their collective bitter humor about the fan mag. I think George probably appreciates Paul getting into this sort of shit with him. Even if it is only on a surface-level. A reminder that the Beatles fame journey (something that's been hellish at times for George, enough to give him PTSD and other issues for the rest of his life) has not left Paul unscathed. That Paul actually does have feelings, however buried they may be.

Could even be that the appreciation comes out in the form of "I think your beard suits you. Man." Does the tacked-on 'man' mean a sort of "no homo" type qualifier? Or is it just an added endearment. I know we don't think of George as particularly inhibited, but it was the sixties. And of course Paul loves the compliment and has no idea what to do with it.

Can you all please thank Mal as he hands you your tea next time? Not that hard, guys.

Ringo's voice is so sexy. And I love how supportive Paul and George are of this very stupid song. If either of them had written it, they'd tear it to shreds, but it's Ringo, so we laugh along and enthuse about the sentiments behind the lyrics.

The communal bitching about EMI's treatment of them. As they should.

Oh goodness, it's the "Paul has an embarrassing crush" moment from that iconic post of @jeremy-hillary-boob He totally does and you should say it. "I never used to know what it meant". It's giving "girl pretends not to know how to hold her golf club so the hot guy will touch her".

I have a theory that some of their covers ~matter~ and "What do you want to make those eyes at me for?" Is the first one for me.

Okay this look right here that John is giving Paul? Not to, like, out myself as never having experienced pure love except from my own child or anything, but the only other place I've ever seen that look is on my one-year-old's face when I come get him from his nap. So ... "A lovely little baby, John was"

"If this boy dies, you're gonna cop it." Peak older brother behavior. He's joking, but he's also deadly serious.

In love with John trying to sing out of his range. He's trying so hard, you guys.

"Everybody had a hard year. 'well, I'm not sure, actually. Put [good year]." Same, John. Isn't it always that way? Hard. And good. He's such a genius lyricist. He just captures the human condition with such specificity.

Lol at Paul correcting John on the key of his own song (yeah, yeah, gimme some truth is secretly a colab but it's still a John song)

When they put a piano in front of Paul and John's instantly like "uh-oh, red-alert my beautiful boyfriend might not get captured perfectly from every angle" vs a year and a half later when he's bitching about Paul having too much screen-time in Let it Be. Well, you were part of the problem, babe.

I love George's way of teaching his songs. Whereas Paul was shouting key changes and counts between phrases, and John doesn't even bother to give any of that information, George is just softly singing "E, to F sharp minor. E to A." Beautiful. John and Paul, take notes.

Wonder if I'll get through a day without calling Paul a whore. Probably not.

John being instantly self-effacing after suggesting that genius little let's enhancement. "My mind can blow those clouds away" is actually much more original and thought-provoking, but John just makes fun of himself. Like. Just own it. You're John fucking Lennon!

The George/Paul convo (George talking, Paul hardly flinching) is so painful actually. Because from the outside, Paul's avoidance looks so condescending and unfeeling, but avoidance feels much more like 'Shit fuck shit dodge the fight, go around, don't react, don't engage, don't start something' and i really feel for both of them.

Let John do Help for gosh sakes!

"Not bad though. Good try, that. Johnny."

The part where Paul is looking just so exhausted, and he's actually letting it show, and then he sees the camera on him and hurries and tries to do a cheeky little Beatles head-shake and smile. But then he's really just too tired (and high) and he looks away and rubs his eyes. It was like watching an old circus bear. Those poor things.

And of course John's head snapping up like a little gopher when Paul says his name

[o-craven-canto]

This (from Wiki) is a graph of Earth’s temperature over the last 450,000 years. We are, in fact, in the middle of an ice age, the Quaternary Ice Age, defined by the year-round presence of ice at the poles (for now, *cough*). (For Earth’s history as a whole, permanent polar ice is in fact not the norm.)

The Quaternary Ice Age consists in a series of glacial periods, each about 50 to 100 thousand years long, in which glaciers may come down as far south as Paris and New York, separated by brief interglacials, each less than 20 thousand years, in which the polar ice withdraws behind the Polar Circles. That peak in temperature at the right edge of the graph is our own Holocene interglacial, which began 11,700 years ago. The whole of recorded history, everything from the development of agriculture onward, happened inside it, on the trail of a glacial period ten times longer. We could expect it to end, with the onset of another glacial period, some 10 or 20 thousand years from now, but the effects of anthropogenic climate change on this cycle are not yet predictable.

The last interglacial before ours is known as Eemian (in the European nomenclature) or Sangamon (in the American one). It was a very similar period of warming -- in fact, significantly hotter than our own times, with hippopotami wallowing in the Thames -- lasting from 130,000 to 115,000 years ago. Fifteen thousand years of mild weather, well long enough to fit a story as long and complex as the one from the first Levantine wheat farmers to us (and half again).

In that time, Homo sapiens was still a strictly African species, just making short-lived forays into the Near East; Eurasia belonged to our close cousins, Neandertals and Denisovans, and possibly to the last smatterings of Homo erectus in the southeastern jungles. Our dear brothers Neandertals, whose behavior is revealed ever more complex and imaginative, until their sudden disappearence in the middle of the next glacial period.

What were they up to, in the ice-free Europe of the long Eemian greenhouse, long enough for civilizations to rise and fall a dozen times, long enough to go from the stone sickle to the Mars rover? Most traces on the ground would have been erased when the glaciers came down again, the glaciers whose stupendous weight would carve giant lakes from Erie to Ladoga. What if they had already had better places to go to, when our conspecifics showed up in a land that was already depauperated by frost?

Why would anyone think the “little grey people” in UFOs are aliens? Have you any idea how many specific contingent events made up our evolutionary history, how vanishingly unlikely it would be for the human form to arise on another planet? Those are Neandertals, homesick after thirty thousand years of exile, and they’re coming home.

OK, fine, fine, a technological Neandertal civilization would have left massive evidence (intensive farming, driving out of megafauna, fossil fuel depletion, unusual metal concentrations) that we would have noticed, advancing glaciers would not have erased evidence so completely and in fact would not prevent us from seeing isotopic traces of technical activity, such a civilization would not have been confined to Europe and yet there is no trace whatsoever of pre-Homo sapiens human presence in the Americas or Australia, nor there is any trace of sapient activity in the Solar System older than the 20th century, and UFOs are most probably not real. Don’t take this too seriously, guys.

[nunuisancenewt]

Disclaimer: horny inspired worldbuiling, Inspired by. @random-thought-depository of-course,

I’ve thought about what a alternative evo-psych world catered to my sexual tastes, mainly with the thought that It would probably be a worse place in general , because Large alpha Males + Male bonding as an important social function is some sort of Hyper-patriarchal polygamy Hamadryas bullshit, but lets see where we go with this

You’ve done a polygamous take on the “ proud warrior race” before, but something I want to highlight is how ritualized and non lethal these “ fights” are most of the time. antlers ( and many horns, though some species have them more for fighting predators) are designed for shoving matches , not lethal blows, and the same goes for gorillas and chimps, it’s pretty much all performance, Saiga look like a weird exception, 10% mortality rate, but that’s them fighting each other to exhaustion not really “ killing” , and I think the open steppe and large herds with nowhere “ safe” to go contributes. Also many males ( generally younger) aren’t fighting in the first place, they are self segregated away into “ bachelor herds” (that can have a-lot of homosexual behavior)

But I still want size contrast, and thankfully there is a-lot of precedent ( collared lizards, Ruffs, Bluegills etc) for multiple distinct male phenotypes. One of these is the “ female mimicker” conventional wisdom is that they “ sneak” into the harem as females, but Male Ruffs actually “ mate” with female mimics more often than females, ( and are just as likely to bottom as to top ) so they probably can tell them apart.

I Imagine in something more human like these extra “ types” of male, would become something resembling the traditional third-genders of many human communities, particularly the female mimic type.

Ruff birds are interesting, so now I’ll tangent on them, 84% of Males are territorial, they have dark display feathers and compete with other territorial males for territory and mate with the females that wander in their territory. Most of the rest are satellite males, these have light display feathers and aren’t territorial, they are tolerated by the territorial males because sites with both male types are more attractive to females, about 1% are the smaller display-featherless female mimics or “faeders”,

I like this system where Males are fighting over territory instead of Harems , I think it would make for a less brutal society, for some closely related mammals to compare, we can look at the way horse and plain and mountain zebra stallions herd There females to keep them together, vs Asses and Grevy’s zebra, where the females wander in and out of the males territory. I imagine they had an earlier sexual revolution and lower preindustrial fertility rates without the patriarchy looming as much over them, or much demand for tiny hands to help with farm labor.

Female groups would be drawn to the best territories, those with the best and most plentiful food, larger males would compete for the best territories, resulting in a feedback loop where a large powerful male is a sign of a good territory, and in particular a fatter one, peak masculinity isn’t a lean “pursuit predator*”, It’s a big round blubbery “king” that could shove and wrestle their opponent. I imagine them a bit taller than a Homo Sapiens, and about two times as large compared to a Homo Sapien of similar height. Females and female-mimics will also be heftier but not as drastic as they will have stronger sexual dimorphism, and both have the extra height. In modern times being overweight ( because even for them There is such a thing as medically “ too fat” ), is viewed similar to tanning in the 90’s and 00’s , something people struggle to internalize is bad for them even if they know because it is considered attractive

I don’t think they ever hunted large animals, I think they eat more low calorie/high fiber plant food, including raw, and are a bit more “ gorilla like” than homo sapiens are, including a slightly longer digestive tract , I think they did discover cooking and fire though, and offering food ( especially higher calorie stuff) is even a more common courtship behavior than among us, Gardening/Agriculture is big, having a lush teaming garden/farm/orchard/vineyard? Being there equivalent of a bower bird’s bower. They discovered irrigation very early on compared to us, and made beautiful diverse agro-forestry systems of edible, textile, and medicinal plants with irrigation paths in geometric patterns, I think they were a little late to hop on mass monocultural grain/psuedograin/etc production, as it went against the aesthetics of gardening too much. Even in the Modern era I think gardening would be a “ Men’s thing” getting dirty, digging,

Maybe some younger “territorial males”. Would be allowed to stay, they’ll help with some of the tasks ( especially digging irrigation paths), not mess with the females, and in turn be allowed to stay around? The advantage being they get to feast on high quality land, and would be in ideal place to take the territory when he dies. These wouldn’t necessarily be his sons or even relatives , as females would travel frequently ( especially in areas with more extreme wet/dry seasons for food, but also just as a polyandrous thing, and in the “ modern” era they have an important function as Merchants and transmitters of information, ), and their could be some gay stuff happening there also ( besides the female mimics)

Initially I think female groups would have carried their own small tents, especially as they might wander on the territory without initially bumping into the male, the territorial males might have constructed small more permanent shelters themselves, not just for them but scattered throughout to encourage females to stay, pickling and fermenting probably caught on very early to preserve fruit when the males couldn’t migrate between spots, and so large underground food stores for jars of pickled fruit and wine were probably the first architectural innovation after the tent and the hut.

In the modern era I think the typical “ gorilla person” lives on something superficially resembling the grand estate houses of old, or the Commune palaces of the Minoans. A large apartment building sized complex with many layers of public/privateness and rooms for every purpose, with intricate gardens surrounding the area, extended families of women girls and young boys visiting, alongside the Dominant Man, a number of male apprentices, some third gender “female-mimic” boy toys, and maybe a couple old men past There prime that aren’t a threat, that may have been former Dominant men. A good chunk of the male population though would live alone in smaller huts on less prized land, though optimistcally with occasional female visits.

*yes I know the idea Homo Sapiens is a “ pursuit predator” in any meaningful way has been heavily questioned

[fuck-you-im-the-president]

peak hypocrite behavior.

being homophobic to your son while actively in a gay marriage and whatever homo relationship you had with Wilbur is a very real thing

if this makes no sense. Okay. Figure it out :/

not a hypocrite. 🖕

my husband isn't even technically a guy so it's not gay :/ then Wilbur was. in a bestie way.

[aboutanancientenquiry]

Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess

A Near Eastern Koine

Author: Nanno Marinatos

An illustrated guide to Minoan images and symbols

Publication Date

Paperback: 09/01/2013

ABOUT THE BOOK

Ancient Minoan culture has been typically viewed as an ancestor of classical Greek civilization, but this book shows that Minoan Crete was on the periphery of a powerfully dynamic cultural interchange with its neighbors. Rather than viewing Crete as the autochthonous ancestor of Greece's glory, Nanno Marinatos considers ancient Crete in the context of its powerful competitors to the east and south. Analyzing the symbols of the Minoan theocratic system and their similarities to those of Syria, Anatolia, and Egypt, Marinatos unlocks many Minoan visual riddles and establishes what she calls a "cultural koine," or standard set of cultural assumptions, that circulated throughout the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean at the time Minoan civilization reached its peak. With more than 150 illustrations, Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess delivers a comprehensive reading of Minoan art as a system of thought.

Contents

Preface [ix]1.

 Introduction [1]

2. The King and Queen in Art [12]

3. The King and Queen as High Priests [32]

4. Thrones of Gods—Thrones of Kings [50]

5. The House of God [66] 6. Who Sees the Gods Face to Face? [78]

7. Minoan Prophecy and Royal Power [86]

8. The Cosmic Mountain as a Frontier [103]

9. The Double Axe, the Ankh, and the Ox Head [114]

10. The Rosette, Half-Rosette, and “Incurved Altar” [131]

11. Minoan Afterlife Beliefs [140]

12. The Solar Goddess of Kingship [151]

13. The Storm God [167]

14. Translating the Gods of the Religious Koine [186]

15. Conclusions: A Tribute to Sir Arthur Evans [193]

Notes [197]

Bibliography [225]

Figures and Credits [247]

Index [255]

Nanno Ourania Marinatos (Oυρανία -Ναννώ- Μαρινάτου), PhD, Professor Emerita, Classics and Mediterranean Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanno_Marinatos )

According to the review of the book by British  classical archaeologist and art historian John Boardman (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/472181 ):

 “Of all ancient civilizations, the one we might most cheerfully assign to invasion from outer space is the Minoan. It had no obvious antecedents in Greece and no real following, except for the short period of Mycenaean takeover. Arthur Evans, who discovered the Minoans at Knossos, drew the more obvious comparisons with the arts and religions of the East and Egypt—none terribly close and wholly overworked by a culture that viewed its arts and their messages in a way quite unparalleled elsewhere, and intelligible to us only because its practitioners were not little green men but a rather special breed of Homo sapiens. Their religious apparatus was peculiar to them (double axes, horns), and the personnel humanoid, but for a demon that owes a little to Egypt. Religious scenes bear slight resemblance to those of southern or eastern neighbors, and the strongly individual style of figure and animal drawings as well as scene composition is particular to them. Nanno Marinatos, daughter of the most vigorous Greek explorer of the Minoans, has worked this area before, but her new book places them more persuasively in the context of their neighbors, as well as of their own idiosyncratic view of the world, than as forerunners of the classical—which is quite inconceivable. Yet to include them in a “Near Eastern koine” stretches the idea of a koine almost to bursting point. They were the children of their age, as were their neighbors, but more dependent on a strong individuality of approach and vision, perhaps promoted by their physical remoteness from the Levant and Egypt—a remoteness they bade to reduce by travel, as had all occupants of Greece’s relatively sterile land, and in this respect alone foreshadowing the behavior and achievement of their successors there.”

For other reviews of Pr. Marinatos book and thesis on the Minoans see:

https://www.aegeussociety.org/en/book_reviews/review-of-nanno-marinatos-2010-minoan-kingship-and-the-solar-goddess-a-near-eastern-koine-urbana-university-of-illinois-press/

https://www.academia.edu/1236290/Review_of_Nanno_Marinatos_Minoan_Kingship_and_the_Solar_Goddess_A_Near_Eastern_Koine._Urbana_and_Chicago_University_of_Illinois_Press_2010

[movedto-jewishbucke]

I know it's a TV show but like... what about TK made Carlos go "yeah this bitch is a homosexual"

[radio-charlie]

Peak socmed homo (all genders) behavior is taking everything personally then setting random things on fire during tantrum then blaming other ppl coz whole life burning. personally i am peak tak kisah at this point. u are like 0.000000000000000001% of my life. wanna know if im talking abt u then come ask. if dont have the guts then blame ur never knowing on the fact that u dont have the guts

[mysticalcoffeequeen]

Nah, Banks. The Bundys are a gratuitous collection of awful boomer humor & the men are extraordinarily gross to women particularly underaged girls.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Strength in numbers

Accountancy is more likely to be mocked than celebrated (or condemned), but accountants, far more than poets, are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Though "bean counters" are employed by firms, they are notionally bound by a professional code of ethics every bit as serious as the Hippocratic Oath: "count things honestly." Without an accurate accounting of quantities, you can't make good decisions on quality.

Though accountancy concerns itself with counting things, it is inextricably bound up with the realm of ideas, and accounting conventions (how you account for things) are philosophical matters, not empirical ones.

It's no coincidence that Modern Monetary Theory owes more to accountancy than it does to economics. Economic accounts of the economy have an unfortunate tendency to proceed from first principles, creating models based on pure reason, without checking in on the actual world.

For example, neoclassical econ's "homo economicus," the rational value-maximizing actor who populated so many models; or economists' insistence on targeting inflation with interest rates; or treating national "debts" like they were household debts.

It's telling that the greatest economics revolution of my lifetime was "behavioral economics," which could also be called "checking to see whether real people act like we've assumed they acted."

If it seems weird that economists would spend generations operating on the incorrect assumption that people behave in a certain way without ever checking, consider that Aristotle assumed women had fewer teeth than men, - and never bothered to count.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/aristotles-error/

Accountants check, and what they find is…gnarly. In "An Accounting Model of the UK Exchequer," Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson offer a mindbending account (heh) of where money comes from (hint: not taxes), and where it goes ("poof").

https://gimms.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/An-Accounting-Model-of-the-UK-Exchequer-Google-Docs.pdf

The authors did a two-part MMT Podcast interview describing the paper's findings, and it is the most extraordinary 2.5h audio you're likely to find: not just the realities of money, but the deliberate obfuscation thereof.

https://pileusmmt.libsyn.com/84-andrew-berkeley-richard-tye-neil-wilson-an-accounting-model-of-the-uk-exchequer-part-1

https://pileusmmt.libsyn.com/86-andrew-berkeley-richard-tye-neil-wilson-an-accounting-model-of-the-uk-exchequer-part-2

One thing the Exchequer paper reveals is that accountants bat for both teams: team clarity and team obscurity. As many finance scandals and finance dramas have reminded us, accounting can be turned to obscuring and dazzling rather than revelation.

After all, somewhere in HM Exchequer is a team of accountants who know *exactly* how money works - and know that it's nothing like the account produced by economists or politicians. They know it because they are in charge of it. They do money, all day long.

When accountants go rogue, things get bad. And thanks to neoclassical economics - and its emphasis on the "efficiency" of monopolies - we are living through a golden age of ghastly accounting fraud.

Just four companies - EY, KPMG, PWC and Deloitte - audit the books of 97% of the 350 largest UK companies; but they make far more selling these companies consulting services, and have made a habit of lying about those books in order to boost their consulting income.

Accountancy is meant to be a profession that understands that conflicts of interest are a moral hazard. But just as doctors convince themselves they won't get addicted to their own painkillers, accountants talk themselves into believing that conflicts won't corrupt them.

That's how the Big Four accounting companies came to sign off Carillion's fraudulent books. The company hid £7b worth of debts, took on management of vital government services up and down the country, then collapsed, leaving the nation stranded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carillion#Financial_difficulties

For the Big Four, Carillion's collapse was a feature, not a bug. After all, the only accounting firms large enough to oversee its bankruptcy were...the Big Four, who billed millions for cleaning up the mess left behind by their own fraud.

Accounting fraud is a fascinating potential fracture line in economic reform. After all, fraudulent accountants may help *some* plutes get rich - like, say Bernie Madoff, or Donald Trump - but they often do so at the expense of *other* plutes.

Like Exxon, which lied to its investors for 11 years about the value of its shale-gas holdings, which it purchased at the peak of the fracking bubble and whose revenues and liabilities it has buried in its financial statements ever since.

https://www.desmogblog.com/2021/02/02/whistleblower-sec-complaint-alleges-exxon-fraud-overvalue-fracking-assets

The company is finally writing down $19.3b worth of those assets, but the true figure is more like $50b. And yes, Exxon's big investors include a lot of passive funds that invest pension savings, meaning this hurts Main Street as well as Wall Street.

But as ever, those pension-savers are the Lucky Duckies here, because - joke's on us - Americans have basically no pension savings, thanks to the wage stagnation and asset inflation that left almost all working Americans facing penury in old age.

Hey, at least they're not getting ripped off by Exxon! The real victims of this decade-long, multibillion-dollar fraud are the same people who got snookered into buying into shitty Trump casinos and luxury buildings: rich people.

By definition, rich people deal in quantities that exceed their ability to personally count so they are especially vulnerable to scam accounting. It's only when the frauds tank a company we all suffer, as jobs and businesses disappear, screwing workers  and cities.

The absence of a neutral ref and scorekeeper is a really big deal in online business and policy circles. The ad-tech duopoly isn't merely content to price-gouge advertisers - they also lie about what those sky-high prices are paying for:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/florida-man/#wannamakers-ghost

But each member of the duopoly has a different scam. Google's frauds are complex, behind-the-scenes market manipulations, an abstruse, mathematical grift that leverages complexity and monopoly to fleece its customers.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3500919

Facebook is much more straightforward. It just lies. Back in 2016, FB lied about how many people were watching videos, and encouraged hundreds of media company to beggar themselves to chase fraudulent video dollars:

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-lawsuit-pivot-to-video-mistake/

Accounting fraud is in Facebook's DNA. After all, this is a company whose primary sales-pitch is, "We will count everything you do and then charge people to help them sell you stuff."

This proposition is intrinsically hard to evaluate. How can a customer know if their FB ad generated a sale, or whether it was an ad elsewhere, or random chance, or even that elusive beast, customer loyalty?

The main source for the belief in Facebook's efficacy is...Facebook. It's not a neutral party, and the accountants who sign off on its books have repeatedly shown themselves to be untrustworthy.

Here's the latest scandal: since 2018, FB's been defending a class-action suit brought by its customers who claim that FB lied about "potential reach" - that is, how many users would see their ads.

https://www.ft.com/content/c144b3e0-a502-440b-8565-53a4ce5470a5

And while FB strenuously denies that the inaccuracies in "potential reach" metrics were just normal, unpredictable variations in user behaviors, a whistleblowing FB product manager has produced emails in which they warn execs that they're committing fraud.

The execs who got these memos rejected them, telling the product manager that acting on them would have "significant revenue impact" - that is, "Our customers wouldn't buy our products if we were truthful about them."

The fraudulent reach figures begat fraudulent revenues, and those revenues were fraudulently reported to investors. Those investors will now take a haircut if FB loses in court.

Accounting fraud's pathology is bimodal: it abets the wage-theft and austerity that harms the poorest and most vulnerable - but also the reporting scams that harpoon finance's biggest whales.

It's a curious alliance of interests. For now, it seems like Big Tech is going to be antitrust and anti-corruption's harbinger, but I wouldn't count accountancy out - it's got exactly the right kinds of enemies to fire sustained political will.

[mullets]

Can u stop posting. I don't like gay people on my dash

you have my post notifications on thats peak homo behavior . btw wanna see cute pics of haech

hes so cute i love these glasses sm

[gaycrpg]

me airing out the entirety of my brain damage out in the open in form of a fanmix but having to constantly no-homo my art is peak hdb behavior imo

[gnostic-heretic]

FUCKING THANK YOU!! I swear I've read so many fics where Russia out right calls people f*gs and tr*nnies given the current laws in Russia. It's disgusting and kinda spits in the face of the lgbtq+ of Russia. My wife put it best in saying that it'd make more sense and be less insulting for Russia to be closeted gay/trans. Same goes for period pieces. Lgbtq+ folk have always existed and I'm certain there were gay couples in the middle ages who wed in secret.

you’re preaching to the choir tbh this is a Good take... i have to admit i don’t read a lot of fanfiction with aph russia as a pov character BUT i can only imagine... ew

if you wanna know more about lgbt people in medieval times. this is so long so it’s going under the cut

tbh the persecution of lgbt people hit peak during the inquisition which means that we’re already at reformation vs counter-reformation times sooo post-medieval. and yes MANY people died. i’m not trying to deny it. however. first of all we only have trial records of those who were FOUND OUT and ACCUSED. so there’s a whole world we don’t know about (especially when it comes to lesbians since sodomy was seen as more of a men problem)honestly just because we are missing records of something it doesn’t mean it’s something that didn’t exist.secondly even if one was accused of sodomy... pal... at a certain point in the late middle ages more than half of the men of florence had been accused of “sodomy”. most of them got away with it or paid a fee and that was it. otherwise they would have burned like half of the city... not cool huhmost accusations were a smarmy power-move and not made out of moral outrage (unless someone was personally involved/someone’s family member was involved, then it became a matter of “it’s easier to get away with it if i say it was forced by the other person”). in other cases, someone could be completely str8 and yet be accused of sodomy- it was kinda like accusations of witchcraft really- and it wasn’t really as easy to prove as we might assume.

thirdly... as i said... especially in specific environments (especially in the upper classes, but also in some cases not- example from the records we have, “crossdressing” was more common with lower class people, possibly because it was easier to hide your identity/birth when you were not the son of the duke of the county of ‘stocazz) “sodomy” just like other “punishable sexual acts” (adultery, masturbation, sex before marriage) was... pretty much seen as not a big deal. like what people need to get about human history is that when a behavior is part of normal human sexuality you can condemn it as much as you want but it won’t go away. and people will just eventually think like... “yeah, this sure is happening”

tldr people knew that lgbt people existed- and more or less tolerated it, if they were not lgbt themselves. just like... at most points in post-xtian history i would say, lol. the victorian era was known for sexual repression: does it mean that people didn’t have sex? no, then i don’t see why we do not apply the same logic to lgbt people in the middle ages (oh wait i do know. it’s homo/transphobia)***by this i absolutely don’t mean to diminish historical homo/transphobia, i just mean ... to make a modern comparison, most homophobes are the “anyone can do what they want in their own bed as long as i don’t see it/think of the children/casually says a slur and thinks it’s funny” type of homophobes, not the “today i’m committing my fourth hate crime because all gays go to hell” type of homophobes... both bad, both make our lives hell not denying that, but you get my point4 and most important there’s also some p relevant records (though comparatively few) of people who, even back then, lived openly as lgbt and YES i am including the T. (i didn’t read shit tons of books about “””female crossdressers””” in history to endure people who deny that trans people existed even back then. in a book i read recently about a “crossdresser” called Giovanni/Caterina Vizzani there was the story of a trans man who managed to live his whole life as a monk and even get his gender recognized by authorities so if people could jot that down :^) when i say lgbt i mean lgbT)

but since history is full of these “exceptions” after a certain point it makes you wonder like... were they really that exceptional? or maybe medieval people were less... anal (lol) about these things than we think they were? more at 11 (i’m sorry if i’m not super coherent, it’s like half past midnight and i’m sick jdfhgjf)

[rudemaidenswrite]

Sweet Revenge Kisses

Part 3

Fandom: Detroit Become Human

RK800 Connor x Reader

By: @pusantheamazonian                        not beta’d

Part 1 Part 2

It’s been five days since were arrested and you have not contacted Connor at all. He also has not tried to contact you. Not that you have been counting the days. You don't know whether to feel embarrassed or angry that he hasn't said anything about your behavior, and that is why he can no longer pursue a relationship with you. But it was nice while it lasted.

“Andrew make sure the grease trap is empty.” You wipe off the outside bar.

“Got it.”

“Y/N?”

Speak of the devil. “Connor? What are you doing here?” Startled, he’s standing a few feet away dressed like he’s homeless.

“I came to check on you and Andrew.” Connor remains calm and monotone.

“Well I'm doing okay. Andrew’s inside if you wanna talk to him.” You point to the door.

“Thank you.” Connor nods and walks around to the side. “Hello Andrew.”

“Oh hello Detective Connor. What can I do for you?” Andrew sets the dishes down to face Connor.

“I’m not a detective, I work as an advisor for the DPD on human-android relations and assist Lutueinate Anderson.”

“Oh well…” Confused Andrew pauses trying to figure out what to say.

“You can just call me Connor. I came to check on how you are adjusting after the incident.”

“I’m doing...okay. Y/N explained that some people would not understand and would cause problems. But I never thought that it would happen to me.... It was an experience to learn from once i got over the shock.”

“Very insightful Andrew.”

“Yes Y/N has been very helpful adjusting in my deviancy.” Andrew smiles with his response.

“How did you become defiant?”

“I don't really know. Y/N says I was attacked by the feels one day.”

“The feels?” Connor asks specifically. No one has yet used words like that.

“Feelings. One of our regulars was an elderly lady, from Rhode Island. It was just the kindness she showed me and the overbearing sadness I felt when she passed.”

“I see how that would active deviancy.” With a slight nod Connor agrees. Feelings such as that would activate deviancy.

“Have you talked to Y/N?”

“I asked her how she doing before coming in here. Why?” Connor is surprised at this question.

“You were the one she went on a date with right?” Andrew asks as if he knows the answer already.

“How did you know that?”

“She said there was an impromptu date with an android. She likes him enough to carry on the relationship but doesn't know how to address it because he works with Gavin. And Gavin is well Gavin.”

“Detective Reed hates you?”

“I don't think so, I know he tolerates me. We haven't reached that level of friendship. But Y/N said she would beat him up if he doesn't treat me like a decent human being.” Andrew shrugs.

“She threatened him into behaving?”

“Yes, but you didn't hear it from me.”

“Thank you Andrew for your time. It was a pleasure speaking with you.”

“Likewise.” Andrew nods while returning to work.

Connor smiles and exits. Rounding the corner he is surprised to hear you singing.

Singing you finish closing up outside. “Naneun seuwiseue geonneo gassda. Modeun Yodellersgaissneun gos yodeul-ege baeulyeogohagi. Nae yodel-oh-ee-deewa hamkke naneun keun nop-eun san-eul ollassda. Malg-go hwachanghan nal-e geuligo yodellin 'gal-eul mannassseubnida. Jag-eun seuwiseu syalleeseo ollawa. Geunyeoneun na-ege yodeul-ege galeuchyeo jwoss-eo. Yodeul-o-i-di. Diddly-odel-oh-ee-dee Diddly-odel-oh-ee-dee.”

“You speak Korean?” Connor asks loudly.

“What? No, I barely speak English.” Jumping from his sudden appearance, you quickly process his question.

“But that song-”

“Was from a movie I like, it’s in Korean.” Interrupting you clarify yourself.

“What movie?”

“I'm a cyborg but that's Ok.” You’re a little embarrassed to say it because Connor is an android.

“Excuse me?”

“The movie is called, I'm a Cyborg but that's Ok. A young woman believes she's a cyborg, is hospitalized in a mental institution where she eats nothing and talks to inanimate objects. She comes to the attention of a ping-pong playing patient who steals other people souls, makes it his goal to get her to eat.”

“Oh, that explains a few things.” Connor makes a face that seems like the light bulb has gone off.

“Explains what?” That comment made you slightly angry. Sounding as if he came to the conclusion you are crazy.

“Nothing, you have an interesting menu.” Realizing his mistake Connor points at the menu board.

“.... Thanks. Everyone has to bring their own creativity to this business.”

“You have vegetarian options.”

“Um yeah many of my neighbors are vegans. I've learned that even if you're not vegan many people prefer to have the option.” “Very considerate.”

“I guess, but it's more like knowing your target consumer.”

“Good rule to follow.”

“Do you need something? Or are you just killing time?” Crossing your arms you address the issue head on.

“I do have a question for you.”

“And?”

“Oh.. when would you like to go out on another date?”

“What? You want to go out again?” You’re floored by the question.

“Yes. Was that not the general consensus?”

“I-I thought that after me being arrested you wouldn't want to be associated with a possible felon.”

“No. I admit it was confusing and concerning how the day's events went. But I find your company… enjoyable.”  Connor’s blush returns, turning his ears a deep blue.

“Okay... well do you wanna help me tamper with Gavin's desk tonight. So that it's all set for tomorrow?”

“Are you sure you're not trying to lead me down a criminal path?”

“Noooooo.”

“Okay.”

“Good, well why don't I meet you outside the police station in an hour?”

“I will be waiting.” Connor smiles.

That he did. It took some convincing before Connor actually helped with the tampering but he got you inside easily and was the look out. Then that was it, you didn't hear from him until late afternoon when he sent you a video. Watching the video you almost peed yourself. Connor had recorded Gavin opening his desk for you. Unaware Gavin just casually opened his drawer and the confetti shooted out causing him to spill his coffee. Then Gavin's angry texts made it the best day ever!

Angry Homo: You bitch 😠

Y/N: Happy Birthday!!!!!! 😆

Angry Homo: I hate you. You're never allowed at my desk again.

Y/N: You loved it don't deny it!

Angry Homo: …….

~

*KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK*

“Y/N! Y/N! Open up!” The words are slurred as you approach the door.

“Good damn it Gavin! Your drunk.” Moving to the side he stumbles past you slumping on the couch. “What the hell are you doing her? It's 2AM. You should be sleeping, you have work.”

“Fuck work.”

“Gavin we are not doing this again. You can't quit your job because you're resentful.”

“Fuck you.”

“Yeah yeah move over you can't take up the whole couch.”  You shove his legs off the couch, sitting on the arm rest.

“Ugh…”

“Why are you drunk on my couch this time?”

“You fucking the tin can or what?” He shouts loud enough to wake the neighbors.

“Gavin! That's none of your business but no we are not. We are not dating either, we've only been on two dates.”

“Shocker… seeing that my own sis is conspiring against me.”

“Oh my god. Stop being an angry closet homo. Connor is not Geoff nor that sex android.”

“Still programmable... for evil… all should….die.” The slurring becomes worse.

“This is bullshit. We both know it.  You're my brother, I know you. You're a submissive tsundere who loves animals and never forgets a birthday. This projected persona of assholeness. Is really annoying. So what is really going on?”

No response just angry grumbles, annoyed you go to bed. Slamming the door shut.

“They're getting married.” The whisper fades into the cushion.

~

Making a cup of coffee you sit at the table and sort yesterday's mail. A certain envelope peaks your interest and name of the sender is what concerns you.

You storm past Connor and Hank, aiming directly for Gavin.

“Mutherfucker!” You slam the envelope down.

Gavin jumps. “What the hell?”

“This is why you've been extra bitchy? They sent you an invitation.” You glare at him.

“How did you-”

“They sent me one too.” Gavin looks off to the side indicating a yes. “Fuck it. I'm going to kill him.” Gavin bolts up dragging you out the back door. Opting for privacy.

Connor walks to Gavin’s desk to see what has started this fight. “Connor I wouldn't do that.” Hank calls.

“I'm only collecting data.” Connor picks up the opened envelope. “It's a wedding invitation from Geoffrey Sprouse and Adam. There's no other last name.”

“Connor, l would leave it alone. Gavin will shoot you.”

“Why? If wedding invitations are being sent, then this public knowledge.” Connor returns to his desk.

“Fuck.Why me?” Hank sighs. “Connor did you listen to anything Y/N just said?”

“Mutherfucker. Gavin's being extra bitchy because of the wedding invitation. Y/N is going to kill him.” Connor recites everything back.

“You're supposed to be an RK800 prototype. How is none of this connecting?” Silence from Connor. Hank looks around quickly before leaning closer. “Don't tell anyone and you did not hear it from me. Geoffrey from the invitation is Gavin's ex boyfriend. Y/N dubs Gavin as a angry closet homo. We just called it gay rage.”

Connor's LED light is spinning back and forth between hello and red.

“You okay Connor?”

“Yes...just processing.” Connor nods slowly.

Outside Gavin lights a cigarette. “Fine. Yes they sent me a wedding invitation a week ago. That's why I've been bitchy!”

“They are not worth it. Well Geoff needs a good beating.” Aggravated you rub your forehead angrily.

“He needs to suffer and die.”

“He's not the only one who needs to go….” Shrugging you agree but that’s not topic right now.

“What?” Gavin stares questionly at you.

“You wanna crash it?” Smirking you glance back at him. Gavin just lets out an annoyed sigh. “Well?”