The aim of the organised transphobic movement is to mandate trans people out of existence, they won't be happy until their targets are dead, it's a movement motivated by genocidal mania, and the cruel, vindictive, hateful bigotry extends from there.
They are one of my favorite flowers.
Don't make art for anyone else. Don't show it to a single soul. Don't even judge it yourself. Exist inside the process of creation. If the end result is pretty, that's a bonus. But the real result is what happens inside of you, during the creation itself. Embrace that deeply human impulse. Be free.
Go and get some pastels, or some paint, or something - anything. Go put some marks on paper. Move your arm across the page and watch the colour unfold as you do so. Follow in the footsteps of all of human history. Make your own cave paintings. Remember that impulse you had as a child. Let it out.
Off to give Claude a fatal dose of House of Leaves
Agreed. I'm planning on getting to know my neighbors once the weather gets better / becomes spring. Maybe see about joining some organizations and see what I can do to help. Maybe explore new hobbies. All while hopefully reading more theory.
I hope you are doing well.
We’re going to have to shut down the country. I don’t think we have any other choice at this point. We need to buckle up, dig in our heels, and band together as communities to take care of each other.
That fear that you "don't make sense" when you talk isn't about whether you actually make sense or not-- it's usually about having been made to feel in the past like what you had to say wasn't important or intelligent.
The reality is, you are articulate & expressive. Remember.
Hardcore. And wearing a keffiyeh too.
Yes, because Rage Against The Machine exists. (I've been listening to them and only them for months)
As a Ukrainian, if you ever cared about Russia's fascist illegal, illegitimate and unjust invasion of Ukraine, you should absolutely care about US's fascist illegal, illegitimate and unjust invasion of Venezuela. My solidarity and best wishes to all Venezuelans.
if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
I also got a manual coffee grinder so I can just get the whole beans and grind them to the consistency I want.
I have overflowed it though.
I have yet to burn my tongue on my coffee since getting a French press for Christmas.
tapping the sign
Famously, corvids are highly intelligent problem-solvers.
They’re also greedy fuckers.
Kropotkin quote from the Conquest of Bread: "Why has woman’s work never been of any account? Why in every family are the mother and three or four servants obliged to spend so much time at what pertains to cooking? Because those who want to emancipate mankind have not included woman in their dream of emancipation, and consider it beneath their superior masculine dignity to think “of those kitchen arrangements,” which they have rayed on the shoulders of that drudge-woman. To emancipate woman is not only to open the gates of the university, the law courts, or the parliaments, for her, for the “emancipated” woman will always throw domestic toil on to another woman. To emancipate woman is to free her from the brutalizing toil of kitchen and washhouse; it is to organize your household in such a way as to enable her to rear her children, if she be so minded, while still retaining sufficient leisure to take her share of social life. It will come to pass. As we have said, things are already improving. Only let us fully understand that a revolution, intoxicated with the beautiful words Liberty, Equality, Solidarity would not be a revolution if it maintained slavery at home. Half humanity subjected to the slavery of the hearth would still have to rebel against the other half."
Kropotkin's analysis of women's domestic labour remains relevant over a century later.
Cartoon meme of Sonic the Hedgehog (from Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series, Jan 1994) lying down and looking smugly at the camera with a speech bubble that reads: “I want bad art made slowly by real people AND I'M NOT KIDDING”
the only good thing about genAI is that it got me to really love seeing bad art, because I know a person put in time and effort, made themselves vulnerable by showing it to others, and is trying to improve. I value that more than anything now
I read articles from all over the world every day.
Nowhere is being as…
…destructive
as the US…
when it comes to public health.
Nowhere that I have found… in 50 languages.
AI will never replace novelists. If you think that, you don’t understand what novels actually are.
And you also don’t understand what AI is capable of.
Show me an apolitical story and I will show you unconscious bias.
Authors shouldn't be political is such a bizarre take to me. I cannot imagine a work worth engaging with which is not political.
Genuinely can't tell if this is just regular fascist nostalgia politics or if he just straight up can't taste anything because of COVID
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
This is your regular reminder that the federal government is actively monitoring social media and most social media sites will comply with subpoenas to some degree.
So, you know. Be careful what you post
Frankly i do not think there needs to be nuance when the topic is systematic copyright theft, unethical data collection, environmental destruction, online information pollution and dehumanization. Like all of that is bad and i dont think you should be arguing otherwise
