Today's no-nuance hot take is: pushy, aggressive sales tactics exist in the same continuum as rapey pickup artist strategies.

A thing about the heaviest users of chatbots is that they acclimate to cloying obsequiousness. Like a billionaire and their entourage of viziers, it becomes normal to them.

Any interaction that is *not* abject simpering they'll now perceive as a slap to the face, an aggressively violent outburst.

It's baffling to me, a foreigner, that a patch of land that is mostly empty has a deciding control in your elections.

The solution IS more education AND a better voting system.

You can't just say "no" when that's literally the logical conclusion of your opinion.

By direct consequence of that logic, we should always consider the majority as the most oppressed by virtue of number...

As far as YouTubers go Hank Green had one of the worst falloffs in history. He’s fully in for AI in ways that don’t even make sense.

It's awful that trans women haven't stopped to think of the plight of the REAL oppressed minority, cis women, how terrible of them...

Do you hear yourself?

Silly banma, you only get arrested if you're one of the proles!

In a two party system, where their opponents are losing vote share, they somehow still managed to fuck it up.

A two panel image meme, the left panel show a woman joyfully enjoying rain, the caption reads "TERFS excluding trans women" the second panel shows a man urinating forcefully over the top of a garden fence, the caption reads "the patriarchy"

Do the UK next.

I just want to hard reboot my entire life.

Or at least have a piece of it where it doesn't feel like it's always on me to be the understanding one, or the one who can't express herself because everyone else's shit is worse than mine, or the one who has to accomodate everyone else.

I fear media literacy is dead

Stupid sexy cake...

Please, my wets.

Exactly the Gaza playbook: forcing mass displacement, then rendering entire towns and cities uninhabitable.

The violence built into the system never counts as violence but the violence of resistance is always considered violence

#Marxistmonday

This happened during the run up to the generals, it's a conservative leaflet he's taking.

I'm not sure why it's making the rounds again, with false information.

I am now going to shower because I feel dirty.

This is from years ago, it's a conservative leaflet in the run up to the general election.

Not sure why it's making the rounds now with fake info.

Almost like when you gerrymander the fuck out of everything and offer up "far right" and "center right" as the options, people stop engaging! What a shock!

✊🏼

"passing" trans men.

Because the conversation is driven by transphobes and transphobes don't seem to believe that trans men even exist, like they are some fey creatures or something.

And nothing will happen.

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FUCK OFF

"so you're gonna be allergic to pollen"
"sounds bad, I can just avoid it right?"
"...here's the fun part. It's gonna be everywhere and start early."
"well if I keep my windows shut, I'll be okay, right?"
"haha well...actually you're gonna wake up feeling like you've been punched in the face."

It's worth considering those Stonewall chair's comments about Rowling as they seem to be intended - an olive branch to the GC community and a signal that Stonewall is one of the 'good ones' now.

There is literally no other reason to say what she said otherwise.

I'm not holding my breath on this!

Real Chamberlain "peace for our time" energy.