I've been binge watching YouTube videos about how cops are awful, and one that came up was about how the Arkansas State Police constantly cause car crashes on purpose and claim they have to because speeding makes you a deadly threat to the public. The presenter, John Lang, does comparisons...

Exposing One of the Most Dangerous Police Forces in America!

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Cofnas supporters are not sending their best

Mx. Dizzy — Human Generated Em Dash@emexdizzy.bsky.social · 4d ago

Man who two posts earlier called someone a name has strong feelings that name calling is very bad.

This Cofnas tweet is horrifyingly bigoted, but also, I'm having a really hard time of not laughing my ass off at the idea "the evolutionary selection pressures of Talmudic study". Man thinks he smart 'cause his great-great-great gran got horny watching men stare at a book, oh my god, I am DYING.

Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 5d ago

Patrick I am an Ashkenazi Jew. You are correct when you say that I am not prepared to engage with Cofnas' "empirical claims" below. Perhaps you'd explain why that makes me an opponent of academic freedom.

Gay littol horsy & his plampts,

Imma just repost this because people are still not getting it. Said people probably don't follow me, but it's still so frustrating that "Black man did bad interpersonal thing" and "racist points at Black man to claim all Black folk are like this" are fundamentally different in terms of scale.

Mx. Dizzy — Human Generated Em Dash@emexdizzy.bsky.social · last wk.

See, one of the issues with Jason Arday is that while he was a habitual fabulist seeking undeserved attention, *because* of his minority status, even though plenty of white folks who do the same and get away with it, the moment a Black man is caught, it's treated as indicative of Black academics.

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The reason for this is likely due to all the ways 20th century racism ended up entrenched in our infrastructure. It's a good reminder that you don't have to actively try to fuck a racial minority over to have racial inequity linger in America. It'll happen if you don't affirmative action the grid.

TizzyWoman@tizzywoman.bsky.social · 6d ago

Nearly 2 weeks after severe storms hit Gary, IN (a 80% Black city), 22,000 residents are still without power. Schools are closed & grocery shelves are empty. Food critic Keith Lee is heading there this weekend to help recovery & amplify their voices. #GaryIndiana

It's not actually a problem that an industry dominated by cis men in ways that harm lots of women people isn't seen as the pinnacle of patriarchal masculinity. Only a skidmark of a man cares if Elon Musk cries about his tiny balls while he makes money off a tool that generates revenge porn.

Waffle 🧇@wafflecut.bsky.social · 6d ago

I’ve seen other people make this point to you several times but I didn’t say they weren’t male coded. They’re coded as less manly. If you graduated in 2010 I’m sure you remember that there was a whole subgenre of movies with the theme of office work being emasculating

Okay, so, apparently I might have mild sleep apnea, and I know that I've needed to see a sleep specialist for awhile because I've been punching the wall in my sleep, but apparently, if you have fibro, low oxygen while asleep can REALLY mess with your rest and leave you fatigued? So that's good news.

There actually is a reason this happens, and it's because a lot of concept work was/is done via a process called "photobashing". Basically, the concept artist takes a bunch of photos that include pieces of what they're after and mash them together into a larger whole. Because this process...

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 6d ago

The art book for ‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’ reveals that generative AI was used in concept design of NYC for the film. (Source: thedirect.com/article/spid...)

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“I know this is going to sound extremely radical, or crazy,” she recounted telling the woman, “but ICE is there at the gate, and they're looking for you."

ICE Is Asking Gate Agents To Help Arrest Passengers. Some Are Pushing Back

An airline manager warned a passenger that ICE agents were waiting at her gate, helping her avoid a possible arrest.

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Aggressively typing to my friend as they go to bed about how pretty women with curly hair are.

The whole "woke 1.0" conversation seems fraught with toxic viewpoints and conservatism, but I will say that a few things can be true at once: 1) The social justice movement of the 2010s had core premises that were correct, namely that various types of injustice form the core of our social world 1/4

One thing that bothers me is when people will criticize the derisives we use for fascist imbeciles like CEOs and cops because, yes, the language is ableist, but the do it in a way that willfully refuses to understand what the insults intended to say and provide better options. For instance...

if you're not a UK citizen, download and/or spread this report from amensty international! this is the one that JK rowling abused the UK legal system to hide, as well as the reason amnesty international was forced to issue their undue apology to her as an american it's my duty to do what they can't

Train Gal@traingalart.bsky.social · 2w ago

It would be a shame if somebody were to have already downloaded it on multiple devices and also share a link for others to download it :) drive.proton.me/urls/18WJXSR...

In the universe Miles Morales is from, for the clone saga, they clone Peter but make the clone female and she has Peter's memories but is just like "yeah, alright, I'm a girl, this is fine" and we really need to stop beating around this bush already.

Legally Jen ("what, like it's hard?") 🩵🩷👻🩷🩵@transducer.bsky.social · last wk.

holy crap. I hadn’t read this Ultimate Spider-Man but this is some very-barely-subtextual trans subtext 🤯 kinda vexing how both versions of Ultimate Spider-Man captured the “closeted transfem” experience of different ages *at the same ages in my own life* when I, personally, was experiencing that 🫠

hold onto these. they'll be the only currency we'll have after the collapse

Rocco Botte@roccobotte.bsky.social · 2w ago

Lost amidst all the D23 news was that Disneyland now has a machine dispensing Jar Jar medallions in Tomorrowland

See, one of the issues with Jason Arday is that while he was a habitual fabulist seeking undeserved attention, *because* of his minority status, even though plenty of white folks who do the same and get away with it, the moment a Black man is caught, it's treated as indicative of Black academics.

Dog/catpetter 🍉🇵🇸@tomboyrespect.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Nathan Cofnas the disgustingly racist eugenicist who created a harassment campaign against a black professor which led to his death" fixed it for you!

Me and my sister, also a transgender, pulling up our dad's Facebook account after he's gone to bed and blocking all the chud pages from his Facebook follows because we're tired of overhearing Benny Shaps and his soft-handed ilk screed about trans women in sports.

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Might as well post it here! A magical girl animation I've been slowly chipping at over the weekends for ages.

"I like catbirds." "Oh, like Ailuroedus crassirostris?" "I meant fantasy catbirds." "A gryphon?" "No, a catbird." "..." "A gryphon is just a regular eagle with the back half of a lion Frankensteined onto its ass. I want a critter that looks like a cat and a bird shagged and had a weird kid."

They seemingly don't want sex because they grew up with the sexless MCU and Game of Thrones making every sex scene about rape. They've never seen a movie that would teach them how to engage with a sex scene.

This is what is happening in America.

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I hate writing in first person. I don't want to spend all my time in one character's head and have to filter everything through their POV. Sometimes, when they do something really dumb, I want to make passive aggressive judgments about them in the narration.