run away from me again, beloved one

happy fourth of july to the philippines ONLY

googling images of peter capaldi is crazy every third image is like okay please welcome miss pussy pussy cunt cunt glasgow 1993

we have to start hitting misogynistic trans men with hammers okay i don't care that you hated being a woman that doesn't give you the right to hate women you fucking loser

there's a certain rhetorical sleight-of-hand i often see on this website wherein the phrase "media literate" is deployed but what's meant is more along the lines of "sharing a specific interpretation of a text." the skills that make up media literacy have to do with the ability to understand what's being said in the text and how that message is conveyed mechanically. two people can be equally media literate and will still interpret the message radically differently if, say, one is a card-carrying marxist and the other votes tory. and that's not me saying that both are equally 'correct,' because i don't think that lol. but you can't resolve that type of disagreement by 'teaching more media literacy' (often a euphemism for economically inaccessible and culturally hegemonic university education) if you're ignoring the political and social interpretive frameworks and value systems that people are importing when they put their media literacy skills to use

the corollary is that some interpretations of a text ARE reactionary, but often that's not due to 'media illiteracy' and in fact, the assumption that the university functions as some kind of enlightening force is itself ALSO reactionary and doesn't engage with the political conflicts that are actually at hand

sometimes being a fan of something means not wanting them to make any more of it

I love redemption arcs but even more I love forgiveness arcs. Yeah, you did that awful thing and it was terrible. No, you can't undo it. But you can still be loved.

just found out i can enter buildings without asking if i just drive my maserati through the front door. weve never been so back

look. i don’t think my stretch marks are beautiful. i don’t think they’re tiger stripes or natural tattooos. i don’t think my acne is beautiful. i don’t think the bags under my eyes are beautiful. i just think they’re human. and i don’t think i have to be beautiful all of the time in order to be accepted and loved and sucessful. i don’t think every small detail of my outer appearence needs to be translated into prettiness.

fun fact: this POV is actually called “body neutrality” and it’s SO MUCH more accessible/realistic for a lot of people. it’s based on the idea that the way we look is the least interesting/important thing about who we are, and that our bodies are worthy of respect regardless if they fit the mold of the current beauty ideals.

Of course no heuristic is universally true, but I think if you're an american who considers themselves "progressive" this is a rule of thumb you should probably be considering more often: If the conversation you're currently participating in is only able to happen because someone is going out of their way to speak *your* language, that's probably not the person who's most in need of informing themselves about the other's country in this conversation.

Im sorry but there is a significant sector of the "pro palestinian" movement that move and act like liberal Zionists and we need to address this. People think that this is in opposition to addressing the right wing grift but I dont think it is. Call out the nazi accounts using nazi language online but theyre not significamt enough and not shifting the goalposts. The people diluting the militant politics of the palestinian movement are the ones tone policing palestinians who lived in palestine, the ones who are saying "you dont have to support hamas" which as a palestinian sounds to me like "you dont have to support the largest armed resistance against zionist invasion," the ones prioritizing mamdani and other "progressive" candidates, alot of the people who call themselves former zionist have not unlearned their zionism and should never have been accepted into antizionist circles. It is exhausting witnessing it and no one addressing the very real and damaging liberal grift

It deeply saddens me that "pdf file" has become slang for pedo. Don't you dare disrespect my wife the beautiful portable document format ever again

and to the children in the notes saying we need this fucking baby talk to get around censorship online; there's been no credible evidence that any site other that YouTube (which will only demonetize your video, ftr) will actually censor or hide content that include words like rape, pedophile, gun, terrorist, etc. etc. and even if we take as a given they were (which, again, they are not), do not fucking comply in advance, you absolute fucking coward. and ESPECIALLY do not comply by altering your real life fucking vocabulary. don't let the technocrats dictate what words you say holy fucking shit dude!!!!!!!!!!!!

every day it just concerns me how little compassion people have. no compassion for those living in the global south. no compassion for immigrants. no compassion for disabled ppl. no compassion for addicts. no compassion for prisoners. no compassion for children. like holy shit ...