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Valentine (c. 199X)

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softieskywalker

i think the key difference between george lucas’s star wars and disney’s star wars is that lucas is a man with an ideology. someone with a point of view, and all that entails. which comes with ideas of revolution, anti-imperialism, challenging the status quo, cultural appropriation and racist stereotypes. complex and contradictory ideas because that’s how artists are: complex and complicated people. disney is not. disney is a corporation. a corporation can’t have ideology, because ideology defeats the purpose of profit. and when the only thing you do is to turn on the movie manufacturing machine before you sit down and plan what ideas are you trying to convey to the audience, then your results are going to be washed out corporate garbage. and because when you’re a giant corporation who only cares about selling to the widest audience possible, you can’t take sides. you can’t decide on an idea. because you want to sell your product to people who are on the entire political spectrum. which results in movies without ideology, without purpose, without soul.

david-talks-sw

I have been looking for this post for years after I came across it and it’s finally here and I need to reblog this because it is absolutely and entirely accurate.

comebackali

#as I always say: lucas was making a samurai film and a ww2 flying ace film and a western film and adding laser swords#because he fundamentally LIKED samurai films and dambusters films and westerns and 40’s adventure serials#but disney are making a ‘star wars film’ and adding nothing because it already had laser swords and they have nothing else to say#xerox of a xerox baybeeeee (via harrietvane)

#star wars #disney #art #george lucas

chewablepebbles

In love with this

first-sight-and-second-thoughts

hi I love this so much and you have made the world a better place by doing this. more people should follow this example. this should become a thing

stars-flowers-meteorshowers-dea

[Image ID: tags by thesixthstar reading:

#god i love the weird shit people do in college #every time we ordered a pizza we would give our cash tip inside a hand written thank you card #that our apartment.any guests had collaboratively composed with flowery language #thanking the delivery person and pizza chef by name #(since the tracker told ou the name of the employees making and delivering your pizza) #and 95% of the time we'd leave a lipstick kiss and a spritz of perfume on the note #one delivery girl texted us after she got into her little dominoes car to say we made her night #it was great

/. End ID]

#whiskers on kittens #vision board

disabled-bug

Idk what person with chronic illness needs to hear this, but you can do things to make your responsibilities nicer for yourself. You can get an ice cream after a blood draw. You can sit down for tv time after an injection. You can pick out the bandaids that have cartoon characters on them instead of the plain ones. Being an adult doesn’t stop you from benefiting from encouragement. Go for whatever fits with your routine/abilities/budget and makes life a little better. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down etc etc

#disability

dorothylarouge

lakemojave

Happy Friday afternoon! 😁☺️ We've done it! 😎😌 We've got to the end of the week ‼️✅️ We've locked 🔒 up ⬆️ our warehouse 🚚 we've parked ⛲️♿️ up our vans 🚐 we have logged off ❌️ our computers 💻 and I've quickly 🏃‍♂️ popped 🫧 into my local favorite pub 🍻🇬🇧 for a cheeky pint of beer ☺️🍺 and look 😳🔎 a little bit of 🤏 early dinner 🍴😋 because the wife 👰‍♀ I love her dearly 🥰❤️ but her cooking 🍳👩‍🍳 ain't that great 🙅‍♂️🤢 and we've got 😮 a stunning ✨️ beef and ale pie 🥧🍮 a bitofmashedpotatoes 🥔🧈 baked beans 🫘 in a pot 🫕 which I think 💭 is wrong 😤 but it's happeninganyway 🤷‍♂️ and of course a bit of gravy 🥣🍲 and you know me 😉 I never look 🚫👀 when I pour 🙈🫗 because I am ☝️‼️ the absolute govnah 💂‍♂️🧑‍💼 And listen goiuys 👂 hope you had a great week 😘⌚️ keep on smashin' life 💥😮 keep givin' it a hundred 💯 and ten 🔟 per cent 🔣 and don't go home 🏠 until you're proud ✌️😌 And listen 🎧🙉 cheers to you all 🏅🎆 You deserve it 😉 A'bosh! ⁉️

#very good

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art tip via art dog

why are there so many posts about asexuals being immune to sirens. people. sirens don’t lure you in with sex (necessarily). they sing about whatever it is that you want most. they could sing about mothman or cinnamon toast crunch and guess what then your asexual pirate is fucking dead

thesylverlining

this is the only kind of ace discourse i ever want to see on my dash. the only kind. ever again. good job

kittyknowsthings

Do you think the sirens would be grateful that they finally get some variety?

systlin

“Oh my god we can finally just sing about pasta thank the fucking gods.”

totohoy-blog

I’m not asexual but I’m fairly certain sirens would do a far better job luring me into the depths with a song about pasta rather than sex…

systlin

I mean.

“WHAT THE FUCK STAY AWAY FROM THE ROCKS.”

“FUCKER THEY SAID THEY HAVE FETTUCCINE CARBONARA AND HOT GARLIC BREAD OVER THERE HANG ON BITCH.”

musicalhell

This is true; Odysseus heard them promising him knowledge of the future. So the next time you see artwork like this:

Remember those sultry naked chicks are saying “We’ll tell you the winning lotto numbers.”

fuckstaffposts

Them: “We have unlimited wifi at incredible speeds~” Me: *diving headfirst into the water*

rpluvsyj

This post is a blessing

wittyusername97

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kitvalkyrie

Oh my god sirens were literally scam websites

10thingsihateabout-all-yall

Oh my god they were phishing

#world heritage post #mythology #monsters

dataandphilosophy

“For example, if you’re trying to convince people to boycott a segregated store, your object is to convince them that boycotting the store will have a strategic effect, not that desegregation is morally important. For whatever reason, on a cognitive level human beings have a really hard time with this. Smucker cites an example of a Lefty roleplaying session where people were tasked with selling an action to people who agreed with them on principle but didn’t see the strategic merit of the action. Surprisingly, the sellers couldn’t make the conceptual switch to sell strategic merit: instead, they doubled down on THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT — even though it had been stressed to them that the people they were selling to bought into the importance of the issue. People react poorly to “this is important, so do WHATEVER I SAY”; they want to be convinced that what you’re proposing will work.”

Source.

myfootyrthroat

Also from above:

“Bob Wing, a grassroots organizer, explains this nicely: “If winning feels impossible, then righteousness can seem like the next best thing.” But righteousness is not conducive to getting normies to join your team if your team cannot demonstrate ability to, at least sometimes, win. Nor does righteousness help you make real inroads with regular people.”

bbcwhereareyou

Somewhat related, my favorite comic strip of all time:

#activism #advocacy #politics #so much of advocacy and politics work is just messaging. and you will despair over what does and does not work.#one of the things i was taught (and learned first hand) is that people by and large do care and want to do the right thing #but systemic issues are so big that being asked to get invested is just comparatively overwhelming as a concept #something like “we need funding for seats at bus stops” or “we are setting up a food and medicine pantry in your district's schools”#suddenly you've broken down the very big problems like “accessibility” and “public transportation” and “low income safety nets”#into little bite-sized pieces that feel doable and more importantly - far less abstract #genuinely so much compassion fatigue and burnout comes from trying to champion the weight of it all at once #and there is a reason that the advice to survive fascism is to find what you care about and stick to that lane #it is more manageable to break it down. it is comprehensible to your single human brain if you're just fighting The Evil of Warm Beer.#ultimately motives do not have to be grand or even pretty. the work getting done and the funding to do it does not care.#which is something i think a lot more people need to internalize: calvinist social justice is just less effective #adding barriers to enacting civil rights will only slow down the realization of equity

sztupy

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

ayeforscotland

Let’s fucking go

made-in-manetheren

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

alianoralacanta

5. If the words are Google's, this solidifies the position of universities who demand that all answers from AI are fully cited. If all the in-line citations now have to be (Google, 2026), that's going to make it obvious when someone's trying to use Google as a source. There's still the difficulty with people who are academically dishonest by trying to pass off the AI writing as their own. 6. 91% accuracy is officially too low to use as a source of references, which means the AI can't be used as a source of references either. This makes it less legitimate for such purposes than Wikipedia of all places (Wikipedia might need date/time proof of when it was accessed for the reference to be valid, but at least it is possible to prove the link existed at a particular date and time). 7. This will help encourage the rollout of courses on how to avoid AI search for students who need academic accuracy, because it's statistically not good enough to use. 8. This strengthens the case intellectual property authors have against Google in the EU, as this is proof that an intellectual property transfer took place.

#european union #germany #generative ai #google

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doomhamster

"Israel is a tactical mistake because if antisemites were only exposed to Jews they'd stop hating them!"

...I was going to write a long rant about Nazi Germany and really the entire fucking history of Europe and the Middle East, but then I realized I have a better example: Western universities, especially post-'23.

People have harassed, attacked, verbally abused and threatened their Jewish classmates and colleagues as though they had fucking quotas to fill. They've HAD exposure to Jews and nope, still raging antisemites.

athingofvikings

I've had people who were good and close friends. People who I have had in my HOME. People who I have their home addresses because I sent them care packages!

And those people have turned on me, shunned me, accused me of PERSONALLY MURDERING CHILDREN--not supporting the deaths of children, not wishing for the deaths of Palestinian children, but having PERSONALLY GONE AND DONE THE DEED.

How much more "exposure" did they NEED?

#antisemitism

notaplaceofhonour

nothing will drive you crazy like having banged pots & pans about QAnon since like 2018/2019, getting a glimmer of hope that people might be starting to understand why in 2021, just to watch almost the entire political spectrum and internet culture as a whole fold its talking points into their own

sighinastorm

PEOPLE I LIKED ON HERE are now saying "well shucks I guess they had a point". NO!!! No they didn't! John-John is still dead, covid is still real, vaccines still work, Obama was always a citizen, Biden won in 2020, and there is no basement at The Alamo Comet Ping-Pong.

What exactly did they "get right", other than generic shit no one ever disputed to begin with?

notaplaceofhonour

right, like, people try to hang their hat on pizzagate or Qanon “predicting” Epstein, as if Epstein wasn’t arrested for soliciting prostitution of a minor in 2006, years before either of them were a twinkling in 8chan’s eye. if you “predicted” Epstein in 2016-2018, you were more than a decade too late lol.

it’s reversing cause-and-effect.

the part of pizzagate & qanon that people dismiss has never been the “people who abuse minors exist” or “when a child-abuser is rich they have resources to do it / keep it secret” it was the “and therefore our entire society is controlled by a cabal of pedophile elites who keep a livery of children in underground lairs they can order like a pizza”.

#jeffrey epstein #qanon #conspiracy theories #radicalization

renthony

I've been seeing a lot of posts lately that tell dropouts "you can always go back!"

And that's not bad! It's true for a lot of people! You CAN go back later! You can apply to university, you can get your GED, you can pursue whatever level of education you want. It's not bad to share that message. If you dropped out and want to go back eventually, there is zero timeline. You can go back at any age, with any life experience. You do not have to graduate by a specific age.

But as someone who dropped out of college over a decade ago, sometimes "you can always go back!" starts to feel a little like an empty platitude. Sometimes it starts to feel grating instead of hopeful. Even when it might technically be true, sometimes it still feels like a hollow sentiment.

I just want to say, to anyone else out there who feels that way, who dropped out and CAN'T go back, potentially EVER, whether it's due to poverty or disability or any other reason:

It's okay to drop out and never go back. It might feel shitty, and you may even feel grief over it. That's real, and painful, and allowed. But you are not lesser. Even if you never go back, you are not a failure or a loser. Academics do not define your worth. You are not stupid. And it is almost certain that the system actually failed YOU.

With love,

A fellow burnout

renthony

A couple people have reblogged this with the comment that it's also okay to be totally confident in the decision to drop out, and to not grieve about it at all. And you know what? Yeah! They're right!

I personally still deal with a lot of grief about how my university career ended, but that's just one experience. I know other people with zero regrets, who talk openly about the ways that dropping out literally saved their lives. Life throws nasty curveballs sometimes.

So, to everyone who dropped out, for whatever reason, and however you feel about it: the educational system is a fucking minefield, but academics don't define your worth, and sometimes dropping out is the only option. Rock on.

#self care #academia #education

hometoursandotherstuff

#birds #oh shrikes how i love you #comics

this-is-trans-joy

everyone loves to hate terfs until they realise that it actually entails rejecting bioessentialism entirely and then suddenly you’re “taking things too seriously” and you “don’t have a sense of humour” like i’m sorry but saying protect the dolls doesn’t make you immune to terfism it has seeped into every corner of mainstream feminism and unless you’re actively searching it out and checking your own biases you will always be at risk of sharing a space with terfs

this-is-trans-joy

“Only women can—” nope. “But all men—” nah. “The divine femininity of—” gonna stop you right there. “Everyone born ama—” if you finish that sentence I’ll kill you. “Men don’t experience—” you’re wrong. “Gender isn’t real but sex is imm—” *loud incorrect buzzer*

It also goes without saying that bioessentialism inherently can’t be trans inclusive no matter how hard you try. “All men including trans men—” probably not. “This is only a woman’s issue—” is it really? “Afabs only—” why? “All trans men are like—” what? what are they like? finish the sentence i dare you.

aanonymu-s

Id like to point out how before trans people became part of the popular discourse, feminism was kinda devoutly AGAINST bioessentialism. One of the big things people were pushing for is that women are just as capable as men, that there wasn't some fundamental difference between sexes that made a meaningful difference in what someone was capable of.

Now that trans people are part of the discourse, a lot of people have fallen back onto bioessentialism as the easiest justification for transphobia. This rhetoric isnt just harmful for trans people, its regressive for feminism as a whole. Nobody wins in a bioessentialist world aside from the people trying to uphold the patriarchy

#gender essentialism #queerphobia #feminism

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