human sacrifice is good actually

It's fun when the robot character in the sci-fi show gets cut in half because nobody working on this type of media knows anything about robotics and you never know what you're going to find inside. Green printed circuit boards? Meat and viscera, but like in a weird colour? Just a shitload of goo?

(Also, I'm not gonna put any particular person in the notes on the spot, but don't act so gobsmacked – your favourite fantasy media is probably doing a lot of the same shit, and you just haven't spotted it because it's slightly more subtle about it. "Sword Hero Cleanses The Undesirables" is a meme for a reason. There's a tendency in the tabletop roleplaying fandom to treat Dungeons & Dragons as a sort of sin-eater that soaked up all the bad influences of its contemporary fantasy media and gave everything else a clean break, which is simply not the case. Like, do you really think D&D is the only tabletop roleplaying game – let alone the only piece of modern fantasy media – that's in conversation with mid 20th Century sword and sorcery literature in a troublesomely unexamined way? Really?)

imo the state monitoring your private messages is basically on the same level as opening and reading physical mail or perhaps breaking into your house to install bugs and cameras

do nuns have pockets

If my page suddenly stops posting one day, know that my baby Qais has died. I will never forget the people who saw my child bleeding, suffering, and begging for help, yet chose silence and continued scrolling.

I feel completely broken and deeply ashamed begging strangers for help every day, because this suffering has turned me into a mother forced to sacrifice even her dignity just to keep her child alive.

Every day, I fear opening my messages and finding nothing, because silence now feels more terrifying than hunger or bleeding. It feels like watching baby Qais disappear. Donate and save him.

I can't believe he's dead. It feels like just yesterday Lindsay Graham and I were just young boys playing down by the creek. "CT buddy, one day I'm gonna start a war with Iran" he would tell me, "and then by god I'm gonna immediately lose and die." Well look where we are now old friend. Look where we are now.