@poisonjr Having interests and doing things unrelated to art unironically causes you to make better art too
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Sandra Sim
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get a job and spend the money making art
jacob@thesoggyblanket
does anyone know how to make a living as an artist
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@ElokoMode @molochofficial As far as I'm aware Harry Potter was the only thing that reached global popularity, people in North Korea were reading HP but not watching Sherlock
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@molochofficial Why did it hit the other continents so hard then? That shit was global
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"tumblr anglophilia" was just one of a hundred manifestations of the broad pushback in the late oughts against the "vulgar" pop culture of the Bush years (playboy-bunny reality tv bimbo aesthetic, 50 Cent, Ed Hardy, post-9/11 patriotism, Fergie, Los Angeles in general, etc)
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@royllovians @sleepyamel So it's not that a singular ancestor gets more descendants as time goes on, but that people get more ancestors as time goes on
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@sleepyamel Imagine there's an island with 1000 people. As dozens of generations go by and people across the island intermarry, it becomes increasingly likely that every one of those original 1000 people is an ancestor to every living person on the island.
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The actual truth, which people have repeatedly refused when I explain it, is that roughly 25–35 generations back, you are descended from ***every single*** person who was alive in your ancestors' entire region of the world so long as they have any surviving descendants today.
Wanderer@wood_eater_
"Your medieval ancestors were based warrior-pilled aristocrats" and "your medieval ancestors worked 18 hours a day and all died before 30" are both locked in an endless struggle to determine who got their brain the most fried up
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@tresdessert @Sturgeons_Law ok but you're kinda agreeing with israelis by implying that welsh people need an ethnostate or something, that segregation based on ethnicity would be better for indigenous people
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@Sturgeons_Law “Everyone else gets a country except us”. Ok well also every single indigenous population in the americas, hundreds of groups arbitrarily split by colonial borders in Africa, the Basques, Catalans, Welsh, Scots, Kurds, countless groups in India and China
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Jews are not "literally the most persecuted people on Earth." There are peoples who recently have gone or are going near or just completely extinct. This exceptionalism & obsession with being the #1 victims in history has to end.
Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆@RachelBitecofer
Yes. If you hate Jews, literally the most persecuted people on Earth- then get the fuck out.
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@TheStageSystum @facetedcarapace It's not the wait that's the issue, it's the social atomization and hedonism of sitting in an idling car waiting for slop food served by a teenage wage slave
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@facetedcarapace Ok to everyone saying “just go inside”, it is not actually faster depending on the establishment, you can end up waiting even longer because of 👇
Barcode@AcidSilver1
@TheStageSystum It’s because the store gets timed for how long a car sits in the drive thru. The longer a car waits the worse it looks for the store so they prioritize drive thru orders.
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one of the most disgusting incredibly common aspects of American culture is 30 cars idling outside of a fast food place waiting for chicken nuggies for 40 minutes
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@OS2NOX that last-minute attempt to smear daniel biss was literally a plot point in eddington
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@vikdeadgens @shaabiranks Zohran should also condemn Jewish people who express anti-German sentiment to get Der Stürmer off his back
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@shaabiranks *Sighs... rubs eyes* It takes 30 seconds for Zohran to condemn Susan Abulhawa, it gets the Free Press off his back, *and* it improves his crosstabs in polls. Condemning Trump, Hochul, etc. as vigorously would put a target on his back. Do we want the Affordability Agenda, or not?
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Only a white Jew would have the audacity to say “it’s me or Susan Abulhawa” and expect anyone in ~the movement~ to pick him lmao
Eric Blanc@_ericblanc
Tolerating anti-semitic remarks in our movement makes it harder to build a mass pro-Palestine movement in the US, it's not that complicated
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@Sortakaron1540 @SecondRingSZN @RedAbundance268 He's right, if none of us could read/speak English we wouldnt have to react to these stupid tweets
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Did Indians and South Asians see the new putonghua policy and think finally there's one thing they have over China? I really don't understand what they have to brag abt.
ArunAnnow@ArunAnnow
I come from Tamil Nadu in India. We don't speak Hindi. In fact we make it a point never to learn Hindi. We literally tell North Indians who come to our state: 'Hindi theriyadhu poda' ("I don't know Hindi, fuck off") We're one of the two most successful states in India rn
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@OS2NOX A smart political campaign would've tried recruiting Bushra (a member of the community you're running to represent, one of your constituents!) instead of assuming she would drop out the whole time, kinda arrogant and dumb imo...
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you have to be genuinely stupid if you think AIPAC spending on pro-Bushra ads is more about getting Bushra hate than drawing support from the anti-Israel candidate in 2nd place
Sana Saeed@SanaSaeed
AIPAC deliberately put a target on this girl’s back - so that progressives, who didn’t even know she was a candidate until this moment, would run and mob her (either doubting her anti-AIPAC position or now demanding she drop out of the race). It’s so transparent what happened here.
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@alosthighway0 @Sturgeons_Law if a jewish author was calling germans parasites during the holocaust, would you be shitting your pants this hard
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@Sturgeons_Law This dumb bitch was doing illustrations for Goebbels and you’re defending her lmao
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Classic Israel lobby MO. You illustrated an essay by someone who said things outside that essay that you may or may not know about that we are asserting are antisemitic. Therefore, you must apologize.
Josie Stratman@JosieStratman
Mayor Mamdani says his wife, Rama Duwaji, was not aware of anti-Israel posts (like calling some Israeli citizens “parasites”) from an author she illustrated an essay for. Mamdani calls that rhetoric “reprehensible” and says his wife booked the gig thru a 3rd party
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@Tom_Nicholas is the UK labor party a left party? because im under the impression thats its basically the same as the american democrat party, feckless warmongering, the lesser-evil option.
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"Why aren't young British men moving to the right, where young men in other countries are?" would be a far more interesting question.
I'd actuially really love to hear thoughts and perspectives on that.
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The obsession with the "young men are moving to the right" narrative is just another case of American cultural overspill.
It's just not a thing which is happening here.
Three times as many >24 men voted Labour than Reform in 2024.
HowTheLightGetsIn Festival@HTLGIFestival
The young have typically tended to vote on the left, seeing it as a vote against the status quo and the establishment, before gradually moving to the right as they got older. But things are changing. In France’s latest elections, Marine Le Pen won more youth votes than the left, while Donald Trump’s youth vote in the last US election was a third higher than in 2020. Should these new rebels be listened to as a challenge to a failed establishment? Or does this signal a breakdown of the traditional left–right divide? Join House of Lords member Thangam Debonnaire, Reform UK politician Matt Goodwin, critical theorist Louisa Munch, and politics professor Eric Kaufmann in Hay-on-Wye this Spring to debate what this shift means for the future of left-right politics. Tap the link to explore everything HowTheLightGetsIn Festival has to offer. howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay/…
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@SecondRingSZN Is it because they lost the THAAD systems that there's an uptick of Koreans bitching about Chinese people online lately lol
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There's this thing amongst too many Koreans where their nationalism is smol beans cute stamped by the UN intangible heritage but if Chinese people even mention something was from China via tributary system they combust and yells Chinese Han fascism to White people.
서선장 🐶🐱@captain_seo_
There is no stronger ideology in China than Sinocentric nationalism. New generations of Chinese leaders will inevitably steer China in that direction. When nationalism combines with socialism, it could easily evolve into Han Chinese supremacist fascism—a prospect that worries me.
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@nise_yoshimi i've never read chainsaw man, so i'm interpreting this image as the main character hugs chainsaw man and gets impaled by his chainsaw arms and thats the ending
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really though the entire arc of chainsaw man over its course has been that "being a superhero is an unhealthy coping mechanism" and "denji needs to stop being chainsaw man" so while the suddenness of it is jarring and amusing the idea of this ending shouldn't be surprising at all
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@very_bug_like @MattZeitlin I mean, it's not really theirs, it's ours that we put there to fuck with China lol
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@MattZeitlin And we’re taking their missiles defense systems on top of it
forbes.com/sites/siladity…
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obviously the greatest costs of the war are being borne by iran, the gulf states, israel, but the truly perverse thing is that a bunch of asian economies are being thrown into crisis for something they have almost nothing to do with
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@Popstonox The problem is not even what she says, it's that she's saying it in the middle of America starving Cuba to death and destroying the middle east, like we're talking about a policy for an imaginary theater of war that her country is trying to instigate lol
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Kat Abughazaleh on Breaking Points says the US should codify providing aid to Taiwan in the case of an invasion from China
"Any sort of military aid to Taiwan is an absolute last resort. We need to be reinvesting into diplomacy between Taiwan and China.
If the Taiwanese people pass a referendum for reunification with China, I'm supportive of that. That is their choice. But invasion is where we draw the line."
Ryan Grim clarifies, "does military aid mean shipping weapons or actively participating in and assisting in the defense?"
"Shipping weapons. We should not have US troops deployed on Taiwanese soil."
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@daehosbrush @B00K0FTRIBE @thisisnefertiti >cares more about the safety of his dog than the human lives endangered by this conflict
>left his dog in another country for some reason
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@B00K0FTRIBE @thisisnefertiti why are people hating on him for caring about his dog. yall are weird af
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@oshima9 @Sturgeons_Law The irony is you diminishing the disability by saying he just lost a bike or got unlucky with the mic, he's a janitor with a lifetime of experiencing the pain of unintentionally harming others
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@Sturgeons_Law It is sad that Davidson lost his bike and that the BBC and BAFTA set up him with the mike placement, but please stop diminishing how demeaning it was for Lindo, Jordan and Beachler to hear the slurs directed against them. Jordan's parents cried when they heard the slurs.
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While the celebs returned to their mansions, Davidson reportedly went home to find his bike was stolen. He's said before that he bikes everywhere instead of using public transit bc he fears what he'll shout in front of people. This is the privileged janitor people were attacking.
Sturgeon's Law@Sturgeons_Law
One of the saddest parts of the Davidson incident. He has some fame due to his activism, but the man is still a disabled janitor. But he was broadcast to the world, & some people still talk about him like he has immense power & privilege relative to the wealthy celebs there.
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i only see intra left infighting so i love getting glimpses into what’s going on on the other side from time to time
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@gayest_tone @how_do_i_pdf Wearing headphones? Seems like you don’t want to be present in the surroundings, being around others means you have to listen to that guy whistle
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@how_do_i_pdf I have noise canceling headphones why would I give a shit
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I’m convinced the “public” aspect of public transit is quite the annoyance to people like this.
Sorry that other people are sometimes not the perfect volume and tone for you? That’s what being around others is. Get a chauffeur if you don’t like it.
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