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To any Baby ARMYs, know that BTS ARMY were the ones who started the "trend" of Korean fans and international fans respecting, liking and getting along with one another.

So, know that when you see open slander on the TL, it's very likely coming from the "kpop" mentality, which we, BTS & ARMY, have worked towards breaking for many years. This is a major aspect of why we are what we are and how we conduct ourselves.

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An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

It's intentional.

They're weaponizing pregnancy- keeping us under constant threat of forced, unsafe, financially burdensome pregnancy is a great way to roll back lots of women's (and anyone who can get pregnant) ability to be independent and not be trapped in unhealthy relationships for the sake of survival.

I want to be clear- I don't think that every single boots-on-the-ground prolifer is a raging misogynist. I *know* that a lot of them are well meaning, but uninformed people who have not been exposed to or educated on this issue in a nuanced and fact based way.

But the politicians and preachers who stand up on their podiums and push for their laws?

They *resent* women's lib and feminism. They resent the way that divorce laws and birth control and Title IX and increased education and career opportunities for women have led to a culture where it is possible and common for a woman to live a comfortable life without being married, where marriage is a choice among equals rather than an obligation and survival necessity. Where a woman can leave a relationship if she wants to with relative ease. Where being a mother is an option, not a duty. It takes away so much social power that men used to wield as a weapon. It used to be that a man just needed to be a better choice than homelessness and they could get a built in cook and maid and nurse, rather than having to be an actual viable partner. And abortion access is a big part of that.

(And you better believe that they absolutely see forced pregnancy as a way to prove that anyone who CAN get pregnant is obviously a woman and should be treated, poorly, as such. Their transphobia, misogyny, and bioessentialism are deeply entwined.)

I say this often, but the ability to get pregnant makes us a uniquely vulnerable class of people. It opens us up to a lot of potential abuse and risk, physically, financially, in our careers, in our relationships. And the tools we have to control our reproduction, if it happens, when it happens, ways to make it safer when we want it- birth control and abortion and prenatal care and safe c sections, paid parental leave, protections against work discrimination over pregnancy- help us manage and mitigate that.

So of course states with the states with the most horrific anti-abortion laws also have the least support for pregnant people. The *goal* is for people who CAN become pregnant to be increasingly reliant on their husbands (and oh, you better have one of those) by making a potential pregnancy something that is nearly impossible to get through alone with your quality of life in tact.

Yall don't know. You weren't alive in the pre-Roe world. You don't understand how pregnancy was used as a weapon. How at any time, an act of violence could ripple into 40 weeks of pregnancy and a lifetime of poverty. How a husband's demand for a son could leave you dead on a hospital bed. How a missed period could leave your children without a mother, or their mouths empty of food. How an indiscreet evening with a sweet boy could make you untouchable, could send any plans for your future off the tracks, How you better hope that boy will marry you, because you don't have any better options. And if he does marry you, pray he is kind and patient and stays away from the drink, because he legally owns your child and you have nowhere to run. And if he doesnt want to marry you and doesnt want a bastard with his face running around, you better pray you are faster than him or someone will protect you from the violence might be coming. What's the point of educating a woman when she'll inevitably get pregnant? What's the use in hiring one for anything more than maids work?

We have come so fucking far. We clawed so many rights out of the grip of men and laws written by men to make our futures wider than just housework and mothering. To give ourselves choices. Options. To be more than just one function of our biology. To be able to say that womanhood is not defined by motherhood, to decide when and if and with whom we will be mothers. To know that if a pregnancy fails, we can get help and try again, not just wait to see if the miscarriage ends in sepsis and infertility and death.

And the men who stand behind pulpits and podiums and scream about all the sluts using abortion as birth control for convenience- they want to take all that away again.