Ryan Renolds MURDERED Stan Lee in cold blood

the thing about copyright abolition is that. what makes theft bad is that something is taken away from its rightful owner. in this sense, copyright infringement is literally not theft, because making a copy of something doesn't tangibly cause the original owner to lose anything that they would otherwise have. copyright enforcement, on the other hand, does take away people's access to what should be theirs. anyone who makes art while employed by a corporation and is unable to sell their work because it does not belong to them, anyone who's been sued by a pop musician for making music that sounds vaguely similar if you don't allow the jury to listen to the actual songs, these people have far more in common with victims of theft than anyone whose copyright has been infringed

like the thing with the film rights to MLK's speeches being owned by spielberg / dreamworks, that's not actually an instance where copyright law failed to protect artists. that's the system working as intended. MLK's speeches were his intellectual property. when he died the rights to that intellectual property transfered to his family, and his family decided to sell those rights to dreamworks, thereby functionally preventing anyone else from legally using those speeches in a film for the next several decades. no crime was committed, nobody was tricked into anything, that's just how intellectual property rights work

Frankly, I don't buy the theory that the repeated sweeping deletions of trans women's blogs have principally been the product of bad-faith mass reporting campaigns abusing automated moderation. I've been falsely mass-reported before, on multiple occasions, and nothing's ever come of it. Someone is pulling that trigger.

girl who is so so scared all the time. girl who once passed as 'smart' but now finds it hard to think. girl who's always half lost because of memory issues and dissociation and trouble with inhabiting a physical space. girl who is a failure in a way that is neither interesting nor endearing.

in theory, baseball is on the whole a pretty tightly ruled game with only a normal amount of ways you can really fuck it up, but it was also obviously built on the assumption that everyone playing would want to have a good time, and most people do not, so it's the trench warfare of sports in practice

driving my beat-to-fuck steam locomotor to work at the coal factory just watched some dandy gentleman turn on his fantabulous flying contraption and immediately full-palm slap the wrong brass tube removing all. mm. no. most of the skin

Dude living downstairs has been loudly rapping for like 10 minutes, then suddenly did a high pitched scream, and now its silent down there

he got raptured

people talk about how much it would suck to be a pawn in chess but at least you have the faint promise of something to look forward to, no matter how unlikely. something to hope for. imagine being a fucking knight and knowing that no matter what you do for the rest of your shitty life, every single move you make will be an L

a girl at the club spiked my drink with jasmine and a wave of tranquility washed over me

when it really started hitting she watched me gracefully compose myself and then pulled me off into a corner to touch on my thoughts and probe the depths of my insight

woke up the next day with a pounding sense of clarity and and wisdom

my cousin lorbish can photosynthesize