Miss Stanky🔞🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️

thinkin of HIM <3

in Isabel Fall's "Helicopter Story" (2020), the narrator is a US military pilot who bombs a school because an AI designated it as a target. for the crime of writing this story, its author, an anonymous trans woman, was hounded from public life by luminaries of sci-fi literature.

Something I animated for a university project. Shoutouts to Kotinkov for the Courtney rig, absolute legend. 🤘

This needs to become illegal. It is data collection + intimidation of existing employees + stock market manipulation + HR pretending to be working. Literally nothing is good about it and it damages the social fabric a lot.

Cant forget about marcille

🇮🇶 A surreal monument in Baghdad, Iraq, featuring a five-armed giant struggling to hold up a massive, toppling ancient cylinder seal.

Libya negotiated. Let's be precise about what happened to Libya. In 2003, Muammar Gaddafi made a strategic decision to abandon his weapons programs, open his country to international inspectors, and normalize relations with the West. He paid reparations for Lockerbie. He dismantled his nuclear program. He cooperated with Western intelligence against Al-Qaeda. He did everything that was asked of him. He negotiated. He complied. He normalized. In 2011, NATO bombed Libya for seven months. His own military turned against him with Western backing. He was captured in a drainage pipe. A mob sodomized him with a bayonet while Western officials watched via satellite feed. Hillary Clinton laughed about it on camera. "We came, we saw, he died." The man who gave up his deterrent in exchange for promises of security and normalization died in a drainage pipe while the people who made him those promises laughed at the footage of him being sodomized with a bayonet. And Libya, which had the highest GDP per capita in Africa, free healthcare, free education, housing subsidies, and a functioning welfare state, became a failed state with open slave markets within three years. This is what negotiated security guarantees look like. This is the documented outcome. Not a fringe case. Not a misunderstanding. The most complete, unambiguous illustration possible of what your weapons are worth the moment you give them up. The lesson is not complicated. The only deterrent is a deterrent you still possess. The moment you negotiate it away, you have nothing left to negotiate with.

Christopher Columbus was so infamously cruel that the Spanish crown paid to send someone to Hispaniola in 1500 to investigate. This resulted in a 48-page report detailing the testimony of two dozen witnesses, and the investigator himself, of how Columbus had mismanaged the colony, cut off ears and noses, tortured colonists that questioned his authority, paraded women naked, and sold natives into slavery. He was arrested, tried, and stripped of his titles. Some people that witnessed his barbarism, who had initially supported and participated in his colonization efforts, became so disgusted by Columbus's behavior that they also published accounts of his atrocities and began advocating for the rights of Indigenous populations. In particular, a contemporaneous Pope, and many other lesser Catholic figures, condemned Columbus explicitly, viewing his behaviors as grave offenses against G-d. Matt, you are literally more of a cretin than people that died before 1600 BCE. I wouldn't call you a conservative, I would call you a barbarian.

Please remember that in Washington, ICE used the last No Kings “protests” as a distraction to kidnap people from the community without anyone knowing. If you are going to attend one of these protests on the 28th, move the crowd to the ICE facilities. Don’t let ICE operate.

if you stop n remove yourself from how mundane & commonplace of a term/concept it is, the term "[store/brand] loyalty program" really sounds quite ridiculous. like exaggerated-propaganda-by-the-USSR-level ridiculous. bein asked in food order inputs to provide your "loyalty code"

my mother holds maternal feelings towards her monokuma plush so she put him in a swaddle

My wife strap game makes my hole get Vietnam flashbacks to when I was 8

Oh to be sleepy and crawl into bed with someone who’s warm and safe and you know will take care of you in all the right ways

You'd expect Venice's long history to come with a litany of great leaders throughout the centuries, but you can probably name maybe no more than two. The Venetian State was the first of its kind, a faceless bureaucratic machine with the world's first professional secret service.

A more apt analogy would be comparing those who refuse AI with those who resist corporate farming methods, which have decimated our food systems, displaced poor farmers, damaged our health, & destroyed our planet.

More concrete decolonization accomplished by Iran & its allies in 3 weeks than what most postcolonial studies academics have managed in 4 decades.

wtf = what the flop tf = the fluff wth = what the hay gtfo = get the fluff out ffs = for flops sake uhhh there would be more but ummm...I'm just a dumb bunny...

@plaks4ngel i dont know

genuinely how do people handle life and people and everything, its all so crushing and overwhelming, all these emotions and trying to predict how people will react, how do you not hide awayfrom everything and everyone, im suffocating and losing my place in reality

I used to think one of the most unrealistic parts of ghostbusters 2 was that an entire city would just forget that an existential apocalypse happened and then demonize the debt-riddled public servants who prevented it from destroying the world but turns out nope