for those who celebrate: it is the 20th anniversary of a funny dog eat a pepsi.
In both cases, the way repression changes the sexuality is to make it worse: shame, disgust, concealment, lies, binge-purge cycles — repression is what accounts for all of those. And relieving the repression allows it to become something more benign and compatible with oneself and everyone else.
“Trans acceptance” was a bunch of liberals playing along and going “sure, I’ll call you by whatever name you want” because they thought it was nice to humor us. Now we’re seeing that when standing up for us might inconvenience them, our “allies” are rescinding their niceties.
I do think there's something sus about this — things were already bad, circumstances were already straitened, it does not make sense that One Nation would suddenly surge to prominence
Sam@samd.bsky.social · last wk.what’s going on with the world man. why is the far right resurgent everywhere? it’s easy to blame whatever policy boogeyman (neoliberalism, housing shortage, immigration, etc etc) but I think it has to be something deeper. maybe lived memory is dying out of how evil fascism is
Kobold named Caesium-137 who is only half as tall as they were 30 years ago
Kobold Dragon Posts@kobolddragon.bsky.social · last wk.three kobolds named asbestos, lead, and microplastics
She truncated my icosahedron, so I guess you can say it's no longer platonic
The ABC is still enabling the Christian Brothers. They haven't "financially collapsed", they're literally phoenixing! You're just ignoring it because it's the church!
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · last wk.Christian Brothers' financial collapse has reopened old wounds for abuse survivors
please note how the claimed numbers re: THC rely on the implication that the presence of THC is directly, causally related to crashes. This is handwaving nonsense a journalist ought to be flagging. set the BAC to 0.00 for everyone or fuck off forever.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · last wk.Concerns raised over changes to drink and drug driving laws in Queensland
TBH a rule of thumb is that if a protest doesn't cause enough disruption to get noticed it's not a protest so much as a parade. We don't have friendly journalists on retainer at the telegraph so we probably ought to give them something to clutch pearls at.
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2w ago150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
Too late. I’ve already depicted you as the raging, screaming snow leopard and myself as the stoic, unbothered snow leopard
To create is truly wonderful. Being able to turn an intangible thought into physical form, and to bring into reality part of the psyche is a fundamental aspect of all life. To offload this faculty to a machine is an abandonment of one's ability to interact with the world, an apathy to the universe.
I thought this was a pretty interesting take from Codeberg's announcement of their anti-LLM policy They argue that many developers using LLMs are essentially heaven-banning themselves where they don't realize they're developing for a nonexistent community
The answer to "why does everything suck now" almost ALWAYS goes back to "venture capital." Which goes back to "a lot of people have too much money and don't know what to do with it." Which goes back to: "We need to tax rich people more." It's like it's the solution to 99% of our problems!!
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Science is not truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.
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Cool, can we get rid of the asinine social media age law next
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 2w agoAustralia is planning some of the world's toughest AI regulations • Water usage will be limited • AI data centers will be required to become net producers of energy • AI companies can't train on Australian creators' work without their permission • Proposals expected to be introduced in 2027
what radicalized me is just that when I can't justify something logically then it doesn't sit right with me and I constantly question why I would believe it
The thing about JKR and telling folks not to buy Harry Potter shit is it isn't because we think it can take away her fortune and platform. She's so rich she would still be rich if she never sold another book It is because it is literally the smallest possible hurdle to clear to value trans lives