"The lesson was supposed to stick" is a weird way to frame this when literally nobody who pushed this war ever experienced a single consequence for it. Lesson for who, exactly?

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

Horrifying doesn't even begin to cover it. This is, legally and practically, torture. They will deny HRT even to those who can no longer produce their own sex hormones, which can and will have dire medical consequences. They will drive people to suicide.

a ink drawing of a man tackling another man swinging a sword by grabbing him around the waist and putting his face in his crotch

swordfighting tactics, germany, 16th century

A full page photo of two computers, side by side; dense ad copy down below. The left computer has a towering 1:5 ratio monitor; the right computer has a squat 4:3 monitor. The left computer reads in vector font: "I'm a Toshiba HX-10. I've got the best bits from every other home computer..." And then it goes on for many hundreds of words about its features, comparing itself favorably to the Commodore 64, the BBC Micro, the Acorn Electron, and the Oric Atmos. The right computer, a not-so disguised Acorn, reads: "Wow. With a specification list like that, no wonder you've got 64K memory."

"If you want a computer that won't be obsolete in a few years, buy an MSX. If you want one of the best-selling MSX computers in Japan, buy a Toshiba HX10." (Source.)

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

me when i think the world is one country

"one of if not *the* most pro-trans political party in the world" lmfao

Green MP pushes to give whales legal rights under NZ law amid declining numbers Recognising whales as legal persons could force major changes to how oceans are managed, as a new bill links conservation, climate change, and Pacific values.

Tere tohorā, tere tangata.
Where whales journey, people follow.

Coalition Government impact on Māori unemployment undermining a generation of rangatahi Māori. Luxon's solution - put a marmite sandwich and apple in the lunch box of
young Māori and everything will be okay.

This is objectively such a funny thing for him to say. Yeah cool great go for it actually

Don’t ever let people forget this.

“Forestry in Tairāwhiti is a low-job, high-damage industry that survives by shifting billions of dollars of costs onto communities while exporting profits offshore. This report proves the current model is economically irrational, socially unjust, and environmentally catastrophic”

people constantly hound rape victims for not prosecuting their rapists, saying they’re somehow responsible if the person rapes someone else. meanwhile if you try to prosecute, and you have actual audio evidence that you’ve been assaulted, it could still be used to put YOU through a trial

like, people should have a full education but not because we accept some of it kind of sucks. we should make it suck less.

the humanities are valuable in their own right! but there are fundamental problems within science that need to be addressed, we can't just palm it off to people in disciplines where that work has been allowed to happen

the "this is why we need humanities" thing when science is harmful is kind of a cop out tbh. it accepts the ideology of science as an acultural, apolitical knowledge system that needs to be balanced and/or mediated by the humanities and arts rather than a western system that needs to be decolonised.

The Republican position on guns is and always was that guns can only be used by lone wolves to murder schoolchildren or by Republicans to murder whoever they want.

"Say His Name: Alex Pretti" David Farrier's Webworm reports that Alex Pretti's gun never left its holster - before ICE agents removed it and killed him at point blank range.

i've been out in minneapolis all day, talking to locals and trying to wrap my head around the murder of alex pretti. it's 11.23pm, and this is what i've arrived at. please RT, it's free to read: www.webworm.co/alexpretti/

James Cameron moved to New Zealand because his wealth can buy more politics here than in the states – to him the ability for him to exercise influence with less competition indicates a more rational country.

I don’t mock anybody for looking after their health - you do what you have to do. But I don’t agree with the lectures to ‘be kind to yourself’ & ‘not watch the video.’ If possible you do need to see what the state does in your name, with your money, to people you know & who look like you.

Figure, Weighted. Taking up space.

#monoprint Acrylic on Paper

#art #printmaking #abstractfigurative

i don't want to disrespect miyazaki's vision but idk that i appreciate having a little menu that says "view controls/menu explanation" if i press the open map button on the map...

how is a man supposed to get ingredients to make a cake in these conditions

people i've met for the first time love to look over at me and say things like "how are you doing being overstimulated?" as though i don't have sort of an international man of mystery vibe where people can't always tell what i'm thinking or feeling.

i started hormones in HRT and straight up went to a clinic open house thinking i was just gonna get some info and walked out with a script. i was so happy that i gave a dude asking for change like $20. informed consent fucks. if u are thinking about HRT u should try it u can always decide to stop

(scrolling Bluesky) I reject the premise. I reject the premise. Granted. I reject the premise. Not my fetish. Granted. I reject the premise. Funny. I reject the premise.

it's so fucking stupid