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i put this in the tags of another post about AI but no yeah im gonna make it the main post

the global rise of fascism is an awfully convenient time to get you hooked on the "not using your brain" machine.

self reblogging because i'm thinking about this again. if you were writing cyberpunk novel and you said "fascist policies are on the rise all over the world with increasing support and with the backing of a handful of companies with global superpower status," and fascism famously relies on anti-intellectualism and information suppression, it would sound too easy, too clichéd for that conglomerate of word-controlling corperations to invent a robot that everyone unquestionably defers to for every piece of information and tiny bit of thought-work but nope. this is just a real plotline from real life.

don't talk to the fucking corp bot. use your fucking brain.

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lesbianlyonelb

I just wrote 8 pages when I haven't written in months and was beginning to think I'd never be able to again. Idk what it is, but I am sharing and manifesting this energy for every writer who sees this. May you write 8 quality pages effortlessly and find joy writing once more

realest-slenderman

8 pages you say

beemovieerotica

most braindead fanbase on planet earth lmao

knight-of-ashes

So the UK will reroute a fucking Internet cable for a fake grave for a fake elf because a bunch of brain dead nerds through a pissy fit, and meanwhile real actual natives in the US are getting arrested for trying to keep oil sand pipelines from going through their actual graves, holy sites and unceded territory. Burn it all down.

beemovieerotica

oh it's worse, it's not an internet cable, it's a cable for distributing cleanly generated solar/wind electricity

pocket-deer-belly

this grave has a real life physical location and YOU 🫵 can destroy it

inzaltsiknyam

they routed the project and such that it's close to an actual Bronze Age burial site btw. so they're possibly disturbing REAL graves in order to not "disturb" a fictional character's "grave"

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys

Yeah, this is in West Wales - Freshwater West in Pembrokeshire. Shit head tourists keep going there and littering it with fucking socks and painted pebbles. It's in a national park and is environmentally sensitive, so yes, please, do go and destroy the fucking thing

fakelawyerbug

I've seen a bunch of "fandom etiquette" posts on my dash today and I'm going to say something that is maybe going to be unpopular but;

The absolutely pervasive mentality that unwanted criticism or critique shouldn't be given and should be ignored is why fans of color don't stay in fan spaces.

And I am not going to mince words here:

A lot of you are racist. A lot of your fan works are racist.

That might have been difficult to hear. And if it was, you should probably reflect on why that was.

"Fandom etiquette" has created a space where fans of color either bite our tongues and eventually leave or say something, get dogged on, and then eventually leave.

So much of "fandom etiquette" seems to be about insulating creatives from Feeling Bad and hostility to any kind of negative feedback is a pretty big contributor to why bigotry festers in these spaces.

fakelawyerbug

Example of exactly what I'm talking about.

Notice also the use of "We" in opposition to "You" and how this person positions themselves within the collective "we."

Why should "we" want you to stay;

Who is this "we"? Why is this "we" not sorry POC keep leaving? Why does this "we" not want POC to remain? Why is this person so comfortable accepting membership inside this "we"?

orcboxer

it's meee I'm your guardian angel hiiiiii 😇 okay🙏 so. in about six months, you're gonna die of starvation. 🥺 and if I don't protect you, I will get: #fired! 🫢 and that is No Good 🙅‍♀️ hahaaa So. 🙏 I looked into causes of starvation, and it turns out: Your death is totally preventable! 😯 Uh oh! 😆 There's more than enough food to sustain you without interfering with anyone else's survival, but you're not allowed to have it! 🤨 Whaaat? 🤷‍♀️ Apparently, your death is premeditated by thousands of things called "shareholders." So. 🙏 I've been killing people,

arroscnleche

soy yooo tu ángel de la guarda holiiiiii 😇 okay🙏 bueno. en como seis meses, vas a morir de hambre. 🥺 y si no te protejo, me van a: #¡despedir! 🫢 y eso No esta Chido 🙅‍♀️jajaaa Entonces. 🙏investigue acerca del tema y resulta que: ¡puedo prevenir tu muerte al 100%! 😯 ¡Uh oh! 😆 Hay más que suficiente comida para que sobrevivas sin que interfieras con la supervivencia de los demás, ¡pero no puedes teneral! 🤨 ¿Queeeé? 🤷‍♀️ Al parecer, tu muerte fue premeditada por miles de cosas llamadas "accionistas." Y bueno. 🙏 empeze a matar personas,

tracing-rivers

c'est moooi ton ange gardien coucooou 😇 bon 🙏 alors. dans genre six mois, tu vas mourir de faim. 🥺 et si je te protège pas, je vais me faire: #virer ! 🫢 et ça c'est pas Pas Super 🙅‍♀️ hahaaa Donc. 🙏 j'ai fait mes recherches sur les causes de famine et devine quoi: Ta mort est 100% évitable ! 😯 Oh-oh ! 😆 Il y a largement assez de ressources pour te nourrir sans interférer avec la survie d'autrui, mais tu n'y as pas accès ! 🤨 Quoooi ? 🤷‍♀️ Apparemment ta mort a été préméditée par des milliers de trucs appelées des "actionnaires". Du coup.🙏 j'ai tué pas mal de monde,

clockworkspider

hiiiiii 😇 我是亲的守护小天使！okay🙏 嗯。您在差不多半年会饿死哈🥺 若我不能救您我会被#炒鱿鱼！🫢 那可不行哦🙅‍♀️ 哈哈。所以昵🙏我查了一下人类饿死的原因，然后发现：诶呀呀😯亲的死是可以避免哒！😆 这世上有足够食物给亲吃，一点儿也不需要影响别人的生存率哒！但不给亲！🤨 怎么会这样昵？ 🤷‍♀️ 原来，亲的死是被一帮叫“股东”的东西计算好滴！所以昵🙏 我杀了一些人，

orcboxer

y'all are doing some rosetta stone shit to me

megacarapa

to sam jaaa tvoj anđeo čuvar hejjjjjj 😇 ok🙏 dakle. za nekih šest mjeseci, umrijeti ćeš od gladi. 🥺 i ako te ja ne zaštitim, dobit ću: #otkaz! 🫢 i to Ne Može🙅‍♀️ hahaaa Dakle.🙏 proučila sam o uzrocima gladi, i ispalo je ovako: Tvoja smrt je totalno sprječiva! 😯 Uh oh! 😆 Ima dosta i previše hrane da te održi bez da ometa preživljavanje ikoga drugog, ali nije ti dozvoljena! 🤨 Štaaa? 🤷‍♀️ Izgleda da je tvoja smrt unaprijed isplanirana sa strane gomilu stvari koje se zovu "dioničari". Dakle. 🙏 Počela sam klati ljude,

cool-jpgs-of-wizards-with-swords

Ich biiiiiiiins dein schutzengel hiiiii 😇 okeee 🙏 also. in so sechs monaten wirst du verhungern. 🥺 und wenn ich dich nich beschütz, werd ich: #gefeuert! 🫢 und das Wär Blöd. 🙅‍♀️hahaaa also. 🙏 ich hab mir mal die ursachen fürs verhungern angeschaut, und es stellt sich raus: dein tod is völlig vermeidbar! 😯 ohjemine!! 😆Es gibt mehr als genug essen um dich am leben zu erhalten ohne dass es das überleben anderer einschränkt, aber du darfst es nicht haben! 🤨 Wie jeeetzt? 🤷‍♀️ anscheinend ist dein ableben durch tausende von sogenannten 'Aktionären' vorgeplant. Also. 🙏 ich habe angefangen leute zu töten,

snakesarefuckingcute

Det är jaaaag jag är din skyddsängel heeeejjjj 😇 okej 🙏 så. om ungefär sex månader kommer du svälta ihjäl. 🥺 och om jag inte skyddar dig blir jag: #avskedad! 🫢 och det är Inte Bra 🙅‍♀️ hahaaa Så. 🙏 jag kollade på orsakerna till svält och det visade sig att: Din död är helt förbyggbar! 😯 Ojsan! 😆 Det finns mer än tillräckligt med mat för att du ska klara dig utan att påverka någon annans överlevnad, men du får inte den! 🤨 Vaaaaaaaa? 🤷‍♀️ tydligen är din död orsakad av tusentals saker som kallas "aktieägare." Så. 🙏 Jag har dödat folk,

gihussysupremacy

Se oon mä, sun suojelusenkeli tässä heiii😇 okei🙏 eli. noin kuuden kuukauden päästä sä kuolet nälkään.🥺 Ja jos mä en suojele sua, mä saan #potkut! 🫢 ja se Ei Oo Hyvä🙅‍♀️ hahaa Joten🙏 mä tutkin nälkäkuoleman syitä, ja kävi ilmi: sun kuolema on täysin vältettävissä!😯 Ohhoh! 😆 Maailmassa on enemmän ku tarpeeks ruokaa pitämään sut elossa ilman että se vaikuttaa kenenkään muun selviytymiseen, mutta sä et saa sitä! 🤨 Mitääää? 🤷‍♀️ Ilmeisesti sun kuolemas on suunniteltu juttu, toteutettu tuhansien niin sanottujen "osakkeenomistajien" toimesta. Joten.🙏 Oon tappanu porukkaa

naiad-r

би шүүүүүүү харин таны хамгаалагч сахиусан тэнгэр нь байна сайн уууууу 😇 за🙏 тэгэхээр. ойролцоогоор зургаан сарын дотор та өлсөж үхнэ. 🥺 тэгээд би таныг хамгаалж чадахгүй бол: #халагдана! 🫢 энэ нь Сайн Биш 🙅‍♀️ хэхэээ Тэгэхээр. 🙏 би өлсгөлөнгийн шалтгааныг судалж үзээд нэг ийм юм илрүүллээ: таныг үхлээс бүрэн сэргийлж болно! 😯 Өө! 😆 Бусдын амьдралд ямар ч саадгүйгээр таныг тэжээх хангалттай хоол хүнс байгаа ч та үүнийгээ авах эрхгүй! 🤨 юу вэээ? 🤷‍♀️ Үзвэл, таны үхлийг "хувьцаа эзэмшигчид" гэж нэрлэгддэг мянга мянган зүйлс урьдчилан төлөвлөсөн байдаг юм байна. Тэгэхээр. 🙏 би хүмүүсийг алаад байгаад,

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onion-souls

"Why don't the people of Gotham just move?"

Because it's a massive East Coast city but the property values are probably like $200 a month for a three bedroom apartment, and most Gothamites are like, "Hey, Bane never swore to break my back."

And here's the thing: you're not just moving out of Gotham City. You're moving into the rest of the DC universe. And it has hero-based power scaling.

Oh, Metropolis looks fucking great. But it gets invaded by aliens and robots and demigods, because Superman is there.

Wonder Woman's tangling with gods.

You go to Central City, and some Reverse-Flash motherfucker runs backwards from an alternate future and kicks your balls off at the speed of light.

You could move to the West Coast, and oh, an entire city just gets exploded by Cyborg Superman or some shit.

How about you move to Indianapolis, or Cleveland? Haha, no. They have no protector during the alien invasions, and you're in Cleveland

So stay in Gotham. Sure, you have lunatics, but you know that if you had a gun, you at least have a chance against the Joker or Riddler. Mongo of War-World would crush you. But Gotham just has creeps, and you know you have a chance. Even Bane, R'as Al-Ghul, Killer Croc, and Mr. Freeze are just slightly altered dudes. Oh no, Poison Ivy is going to kiss me to death! Who gives a shit, you kinda wanted to go out that way anyway.

There are super-intelligent telepathic gorilla warlords in Africa and the Greek titans are real and chained in the abyss

choppers-pink-hat

This does beg the question of why Gotham has such a horrible in-universe reputation when all its villains are relatively human compared to the cosmic bullshit that most other heroes put up with.

I think it's all about perception. Gotham City has crime. But when Ares sends his undying legions to march upon the mortal realm and Wonder Woman has to punch all of them, people don't internalize that as "crime." That's "a crisis" or "a religious event" or at best, terrorism. Same thing when Superman has to stop Brainiac from shrinking Metropolis or whatever. That stuff is objectively more dangerous but it's on such a huge scale that "crime" is not the word for it. The cops don't involve themselves in this at any point. But the stuff Batman deals with is like, robberies, assaults, gang wars, serial killings. All his villains commit actual crimes, so they go into police reports, which end up as statistics. So when someone compiles all this data, oh look, Gotham City has the highest crime rate in the country, yet again. Forget the fact that 10% of Keystone City's population had their skulls crushed by invading superintelligent gorillas. Who cares that a random guy in Opal City accidentally teleported the entire state to Hell after he found out the hard way that he was born a wizard. Those are not crimes. There's nothing in the police recordkeeping app's drop-down menu for a Gorilla invasion. Closest thing we've got is Random Chimp Event.

So my theory is that while Gotham does have a lot of crime, what it does not have is space catastrophes. And so it ends up being the most dangerous city based on a bureaucratic technicality.

starberry-cupcake

all this is very true, I just wanted to point out that the worst thing about metropolis isn't the alien invasions, killer robots or meta human fights breaking buildings, it's the power hungry scheming ego maniac billionaire who gets enough of a pass from the population, despite the several journalistic exposes about him, that he's been able to run for president and win

at least gotham's billionaire is funny in the tabloids and, even if he's rather ditzy, he seems to be helpful to legit causes, against all odds

theswisscheeserag

You gotta be really publicly passionate about things if you want your friends to text you. Bc people will forget to text you because they’re human. But if you’re really openly the friend who loves identifying ants your friends will think of you when they see ants. And they’ll text you “what ant is this [blurry photo]”. And then they’ll ask you how you’ve been and we should get coffee sometime. But if they don’t know what you love they’ll never know what you like

theswisscheeserag

And then when the ant convention is in town they’ll be like dude… we should go to the ant convention. But they would never think to go if they didn’t know u loved ants

theswisscheeserag

And sometimes you need to ask them to go to the ant convention. But you Will not get anywhere hiding your passions

velvetvexations

Weird Fantasy (1950) #18 written by Al Feldstein and drawn by Joe Orlando, with editor Bill Gaines

velvetvexations

So he said it can't be a Black. So I said, "For God's sakes, Judge Murphy, that's the whole point of the Goddamn story!" So he said, "No, it can't be a Black". Bill just called him up and raised the roof, and finally they said, "Well, you gotta take the perspiration off". I had the stars glistening in the perspiration on his Black skin. Bill said, "Fuck you", and he hung up.

Al Feldstein, Tales of Terror: The EC Companion

iconuk01

Just to add context for those not aware of the impact of this story.

The reason it was so important for narrative purposes, was that the plot concerns the visit of the Astronaut, in his completely opaque spacesuit, to a planet populated entirely by self-aware robots (originally from Earth) who have built their own society and are petitioning to be allowed to interact with Earth again as equals.

They have a democratic government and free choice of careers etc. as the orange robot serving as guide tells the Astronaut.

The Astronaut notices that there are two different types of robot on this world; the orange ones, who are in charge, gifted access to all information and facilities. and the blue robots, who are seen as more limited in function, have less access to information and resources, and are not allowed positions of power or as wide a choice of employment opportunities. Even transportation is segregated.

The Astronaut investigates further and discovers that the blue and orange robots are actually structurally identical, there is absolutely no difference between their potential or capabilities, and it is only because the orange robots are instructed by their Educator system to consider themselves superior, that the difference exists.

The Astronaut tells the robots they are not ready for re-alignment with Earth, until they come to terms with their own unfairness, and how Earth had had to deal with this issue themselves. When that time comes, the robots will be able to ally with Earth.

Then he leaves in his spaceship, and it's only in that one final panel that we see the Astronaut is black.

Not subtle, nor should it be, but for 1950 this was a breathtakingly powerful statement, perhaps the first of it's kind in the genre.

The black character was not a caricature, or comedy relief, he was a main character in his own right, a human who "simply" was black.

xiaq

When I was a professor I fucking LOVED teaching this comic. You can read the full thing here (and please read the letters to the editor at the bottom as well—including a message from Ray Bradbury).

howmanyholesinswisscheese

Biggest fuck-up ever is that people have to pay to become doctors

howmanyholesinswisscheese

Like unironically we should be subsidising at least 50% of their educations. What do you mean we have a shortage of doctors we should have surplus. What do you mean they’re being overworked they should be treated like royalty, they can fix human bodies

howmanyholesinswisscheese

I don’t care if some of them are only doing it for the money. I don’t care if all of them are only doing it for the money. Intentions don’t matter to the stitches in my nana’s leg or the ten billion other lifesaving treatments we all get at a detriment to their finances and mental wellbeing. Entire cities are kept alive by just a couple thousand of them what are we DOINGGGGG

naamahdarling

If we had more, maybe it would be easier to get the shitty ones fucking replaced. The board isn't going to do much to the only endocrinologist in the state who takes Medicaid, you know? But if there were more than, idk, maybe 5? Maybe then?

landunderthewave

More importantly if you needed less money and less physical stamina to become a doctor, people with less money and less physical stamina could become doctors, which would increase diversity and improve patient care.

omegaversereloaded

i cant believe that there's still gamergate STANK on games that women enjoy. NASTY misogyny residue. stardew valley is in fact a video game. animal crossing is also a video game. so are otome games and dating sims and twee little cozy games. sometimes a bitch doesnt wanna play bloodborne that shit's hard

omegaversereloaded

guys who mainly play 2k and fortnite will still be like oh youre not a real gamer for having 1000 hours in stardew. mother fucker you're larping as a basketball player

fluorescentnova

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urie

im about to catsit next month for a (lovingly) crazy woman who is so deeply obsessed with her cat's care its touching truly. he needs insulin shots and she is telling me that shes going to send voice notes to my phone of her saying "copo! baby! its time for your insulin!" "come here handsome!" "its insulin time sweetie!" so that he feels safe getting his insulin from a stranger. im like girl i love it. i love this

urie

she was telling me yesterday "sometimes i look at him and he looks at me and i feel like we can hear each other's thoughts. is that crazy" and i was like "no of course not"

depsidase

baravaggio

happy international female orgasm day to all who celebrate

baravaggio

everyone complaining that they missed it it’s still 8/8 somewhere drop trow and get busy soldiers

k-wame

WNBA star Gabby Williams supports trans women playing in the league: “I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team.”

tlbodine

For the last goddamn time...

"Kill your darlings" means "if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty."

That's it! That's all it means! It means if you're stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you're avoiding removing that thing because it's good, you remove that thing. That's the darling.

It does NOT mean

That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing

That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)

That you need to kill off characters (??? what)

That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones

That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don't want to

The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn't SERVING THE STORY.

The POINT is that you don't get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.

Good grief....

prof-grace-aspen

Also, you don't have to like, delete it from existence. Keep a second document full of the Darlings. You never know when you'll need it later.

earhartsease

yes, your killed darlings are ripe for rebirth

eldritchsandwich

compost your darlings

recycle your darlings

Darlings who don't fit this narrative go into the use later folder

breelandwalker

If you are unsatisfied with the fruits of your writing, put them aside and let them ferment. When you come back to them later, you'll either find gigglejuice or good compost. Both are helpful for future projects.

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wetheurban

You will heal. You will create again. You will wake up genuinely excited about your life. You will laugh again. You will get out of survival mode. You will trust yourself again. You will get your spark back. You will find your way back to yourself. You will. You will. You will.

thelegendofjenna

I'm trying to take the high road but I'm like, dragging myself bleeding and sobbing along the high road while looking so so longingly at the low road

rattyjol

#AND that fucker taking the low road is going to get to Scotland afore me. very annoying.

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