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I think we're in an era of romanticization of radical action and radically compassionate life... that is somehow synonymous with inaction. I don't think you get to be cold hearted and friendless and then post videos of James Baldwin online. I don't think you should post posts about random acts of love and then be nasty to the people who know you personally.

There is this performative persona of compassion here sometimes, and this wanting of unearned solace and reprieve that does not match up with the lack of hardship in some of your lives. I think when you spend time claiming someone else's hardship and romanticizing their rest, you end up with white women reinventing colonialism and gentrification for the cottagecore of it all. You end up with communists who don't even understand the interconnectivity of race and class.

Like I know it’s a hard pill to swallow, but consider that: at least they’re trying to learn theory and any speed is a good speed unless you, yourself are going to help tutor them.

Nuerodivergency, mental health, disabilities, etc. People who have to struggle to learn theory ARE in fact doing good enough.

Leftists are punching down which is like… antithetical to what leftism is.

You should not be telling us that we’re not doing enough. That we aren’t trying hard enough. We already know about theory. We are Already trying to learn it. Why are you yelling at us?

Maybe it’s so you don’t have to do the Actual work of reaching out to radicalize your neurotypical, healthy, privileged friends. The people who aren’t even aware of socialism outside of the lens of capitalist propaganda. The people directly benefitting and profiting off their own ignorance. The people capable of actually influencing the public. The people the public pays attention to.

Like imagine if leftists put the same energy they use to shame disabled poor people into radicalizing people who are capable of making change tangible.

Maybe that’s why the left can’t get anywhere.

You keep telling us to put in work. Okay. Where’s yours? How many of you have radicalized your neurotypical, healthy, privileged friends in a way that made them capable of sharing what they learned?

Most leftists on this site are more than willing to leave disabled people behind and won’t provide alt text, or remove it when it exists because it makes a post “too long.” I don’t wanna hear anyone try and prove me wrong on this one btw, I try to do a few image IDs everyday, both political or just cute animals, and I literally see (and block) people reblogging and deleting that shit lmao. They’re so willing to kill the cop in their head, but afraid to turn the gun on the eugenicist in there because at their core, abled and neurotypical people can’t see a place for us in their vision of a utopic future. It’s in their very language just look at how many go on about how all diseases will be cured.

Kernow has its own language, culture, history and identity. The language was forcibly removed by the English until the last monolingual speaker died in 1777–her name was Dolly Pentreath. It has existed as a kingdom before England had ever existed. Historically, Cornwall has been a place exploited for minerals and resources and labour. Currently, it still is. There are now ghost towns where once thriving fishing villages stood (Mousehole, Pentreath’s home, was one of these). Cornwall is now a playground for second home owners who drive up house and rent prices and drive out permanent residents and workers. Local businesses go out of business and struggle to stay afloat when the influx of tourists come who only purchase from supermarkets, putting nothing into the local economy. There is a long, long and often very gruesome and bloody history behind this—leaders of rebellions executed all the way into 1715.

If you are in the UK, and sign the petition to get this to a debate in Parliament.

And we’re all aware that when the government announced its budget, it conveniently didn’t mention Cornwall once. It in fact avoided the South West. But absolutely no funding gets to Kernow.

And we all also know that Cornwall is the 2nd poorest region in Northern Europe, correct?

And it has remained this way for a very long time.

Between the lack of British government funding, celebrities buying multi million pound mansions in Cornwall and leaving them empty 3/4 of the year, all the seasonal workers who companies hire from other counties to work during the tourist season, it should be obvious why Kernow should want some self-governance. It’s been fucked for centuries, a play pen for rich people, a novelty with their silly little language and silly little traditions, just look how quaint. Meanwhile the actual Cornish people swim in their shit and pay for their second homes while being driven out of theirs.

Crucially, no Cornish person I've ever met considers themselves English. And, every time I have ever been to Cornwall, I've been met with delight when I've said I'm Welsh. One pub we went in even had Welsh rugby memorabilia on the walls, because they support Wales over England. There's a real cousins vibe, and a definite Celtic-not-English identity

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jesthehuman and over 200 creators have put together a bundle of 561 games, assets, and zines for $10 to support Immigrant Defenders Law Center, a social justice law firm fighting for the rights of immigrants in California. They've already hit their goal, but any and all money they can raise is a net good against the current tide of fascism. The sale is only going on for another 3 days as of August 7, 2025

If you've got $10, a love of indie games, and a burning desire to help immigrants right now, I urge you to head on over.

And if you don't have $10 to spare (no judgement, I've been there many times), or don't want to support anything on itch right now, please spread the word, or donate directly to IDLC.

This emergency need is compounded by the government mass firing of conservation officials and the pulling of funds from many of the country's conservation organizations.

If you can help please donate here:

Key points from the Amphibian Foundation.

Our building will be demolished in 2026, and we need to identify a new location (or locations) for 7 labs and over 1,000 animals, many of which are endangered and part of critical conservation programs.

We've identified a new location for most of AF, but not our research and conservation programs. We have an amazing lead, but it's not confirmed yet.

Our first fundraising project is the AF Emergency Fund as the minimum cost estimates to move this many labs and animals safely is $50,000. (It costs about 50 USD per animal to move them)

google docs is not randomly deleting peoples work for being nsfw. there is no evidence at all that you are at risk of having google delete your fics for having "inappropriate" content.

this article by the wired is the only "source" op has ever provided. i would very very much recommend both reading the entire article and looking at the linked posts in it for yourself. it is also self-admittedly the only source they've ever found - so keep that in mind. it's about k. renee, an open door romance novelist who had her work restricted by google. "open door romance" refers to works where sex scenes happen on screens and are described in detail. they are explicit works. the article talks about similar things happening to a few different authors who write in the same genre.

the incidents described in this article happened in march 2024, which is over a year ago.

those affected had their works restricted, with a warning message. they were not abruptly deleted out of no where. authors were able to file appeals with google to recover their docs, though i havent found any updates on if they were successful in doing so.

the reason this happened is because google docs incorrectly flagged the shared documents as spam.

That author later posted a video to Instagram explaining that it wasn’t the adult content in the files but rather “Google thought I was spamming people.” Apparently, sending the same doc to scores of people—for example, alpha and beta readers—can make it appear as though the doc was unsolicited.

sharing a document that contains "adult content" with a lot of people will trigger google's automod, but the adult content itself is not the problem. if you are sharing a doc with a handful of people, or arent sharing it at all, this is not going to happen. from my own personal testimony, i have dozens and dozens of explicit, nsfw work in my google docs that ive shared with people, and none of them have been touched. i have not seen a single claim with proof that anyone's work has been deleted in the manner the original op describes.

there is no source at all for original op's claim that google is "using AI to find inappropriate and problematic content". in the above article (again, the only source), ai is mentioned once, to say that k. renee had ai functions turned off and did not think that was the problem.

Renee hadn’t turned on any of the AI functions in Google Workspace, so she doubted it could be chalked up to a bot banning her books. After all, a 2016 paper coauthored by Google researchers revealed that its recurrent neural network language models had been fed thousands of romances. If for some reason a bot was crawling her work, wouldn’t it recognize what it was looking at?

and, lets just think logically for a moment. if google docs was doing some sort of mass cleans of nsfw content using ai, dont you think it would be a more widespread story? would it be this hard to find sources and testimony about it? google docs has literally millions of users, including published authors and scientists and academics. if an ai bot was crawling works and deleting any it deemed nsfw, it would be mainstream news because it would be affecting countless people. and especially without disclosing a change in policy beforehand? they would probably get sued for it!

i am not making this post in defense of google, god forbid. google is open about the fact that they use any "publicly available" information to train their ai models (and did get sued for it), though they claim that they dont take from docs that they dont have permission to. i honestly, genuinely, cannot tell you the veracity of these claims or how serious the scraping is. like, i just do not know if google scrapes from private gdocs. if someone knows more and has better sources they are free to add on to the post.

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