Sleepy Through The Storm

Happy 250th Birthday America! Happy Independence Day! Happy 4th of July!

they're not super common but i really do appreciate characters who are introduced as one gender and later revealed to be closeted trans. i like that it challenges the audience to really think about how they perceive trans people because realistically not every trans person you meet is going to be out to you at first. yes we introduced this character as a man and now we're asking you to reframe her as a woman after you've already gotten to know her. can you be normal about that? can you be normal when it happens to people you know in real life? i hope you can.

the dsmp is worse than homestuck because its less thoroughly archived. right now i have basically the entirety of homestuck and related medias accessible to me at any time. i could get into homestuck in 2025 and probably enjoy it a decent amount with the knowledge of its original cultural context. the dsmp is like lost fucking media compared to homestuck. can you imagine someone right now in 2025 hearing about the dsmp and finally deciding to get into it. the source material is fucking gone. one of the creators is dead (fly high technoblade) and many other significant contributors either actively try to avoid being brought back to That Time or are such assholes that it tarnishes the name. wtf how do you even explain that to someone. i could get a buddy into homestuck easy. i could not do so with the dsmp.s save me

SECONDING BLUEBERRY TV YALL it's a life saver if you ever want to digest the undigestible

not using AI genuinely feels like the rest of the world is experiencing some kind of mass amnesia. if someone says they never use it, the immediate response is that can't be true because "everyone" uses it to write their emails or answer their questions. saw a comment suggesting that not using chatgpt to write an essay is "like the 90s". girl I graduated in 2021 and we weren't doing that! how is it that everyone has suddenly forgotten that they were entirely capable of doing these things all by themselves for their entire lives up until the past few years!! am I going crazy!!!

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On the flip side, this is also a good case study in how using technical terms in casual settings can alienate laymen, and why explaining those technical terms is going to be more helpful than scolding laymen for raising an eyebrow at them.

Sea snake Jamil!!!!

I feel like ppl get bogged down in semantics so let me make it real simple for you. A zionist is someone who supports the state of Israel. Zionism is the belief that a Jewish ethnostate called Israel should be developed in the Levant region (Palestine and Lebanon and Syria) regardless of the existence of Palestine, Syria and Lebanon and their people. When any pro-Palestine person says someone is a Zionist, that's not a synonym for Jewish, nor is another word for "person I don't like". When we call someone a zionist it's because they support the existence of Israel as a colony. And just so we're clear: it does not matter if a zionist says they're sad about Palestinian suffering or they want to "live in peace" with Palestinians because as long as they support the existence of a colonial ethnostate called Israel then they're still doing Zionism. If I came to your house and just started living there and tried to starve you out and torture you so you would leave your house, it wouldn't matter that I felt "sorry" for you because I'm the reason you're suffering at all. That's why when you try and say "well, Neil Druckman says he wants the war to stop" that doesn't matter. He's still a zionist. He still wants Israel to exist as a colonial state which will always be at the expense of Palestinians. Do not fall for liberal Zionists. Get it in your fucking head that there's no "progressive" Zionism because there's no "progressive" way to support a state that necessitates the elimination of whole peoples.

it's really funny how the entire world basically just blew the fuck up six short years ago and nobody wants to admit that that may have had some lasting consequences lmao