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There are some people whose lives are so profoundly altered by their experiences that their ability to independently live and thrive is forever destroyed. You can’t pick and choose who gets to receive grace, everyone must get it because everyone suffers.

You ultimately have to be an antitheist because "your freedom of religion doesn't give you the right to abuse your children" is something religious people fundamentally will not respect

@fishfacts7 @ducknuk_comic I think in real world situations, it can be a detriment to revealing that you are gay or if your partner is same sex. Also in the workplace and in most situations it’s no one’s business what gender my partner is. Using the term partner allows me to reveal what I want to reveal

@dreeeaaming @ducknuk_comic what makes you say that

Pillow Princess (repost)

@fishfacts7 @ducknuk_comic I think you’re probably just immature.

@dreeeaaming @ducknuk_comic and im saying i dont want it to be normalised i want a word we can use to signal being gay implicitly, but it feels like that battle has been lost by now

@fishfacts7 @ducknuk_comic The whole point of using the word partner is to normalize the use of gender neutral terminology to describe someone that you’re seeing. Also your point makes no sense at all

@dreeeaaming @ducknuk_comic its used by gay people to refer to their boyfriends or girlfriends so that they dont have to explicitly say theyre gay wile still implying it. but then when straight people start using it as the norm then it makes gay people sound like theyre straight when they say it

@fishfacts7 @ducknuk_comic And what is wrong with saying partner as a straight person

@ducknuk_comic straight people saying "partner" and "pillow princess" dawg.......

This is a cope muslim women use when they grow up in strict families that limit independence and autonomy instead of fighting back (said with experience and compassion)

until it happens to you, you will think you are very careful, very responsible, very smart, very religious, very mature, very private, very etc.

@hyderabadiyuri @meltsmelts

no one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. i am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. the same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. i keep on swallowing.

I’m seeing someone in everyone now

Watched my grandfather realize he would never see Me again

For $5, someone can upload your photo to an app called Sherlock and pull up your name, your social media, and every website where your face appears. The app has over a billion faces indexed. It launched in January. and it's far from the only tool that does this. PimEyes came first, back in 2017, out of Poland. It has about 3 billion face photos copied from the internet without anyone's permission. Costs $30 a month. The company runs through a tangle of businesses registered in Belize, Seychelles, and Dubai. When five people in Illinois tried to sue them for collecting face data without asking, the lawyers spent two years trying to track down PimEyes' CEO. Sent people to the country of Georgia, to Dubai, to Belize. Never found him. The case got dropped. Clearview AI is the one police use. Over 70 billion face photos in its system. There are about 8 billion people on Earth, so Clearview has roughly 9 photos for every one of them, pulled from social media, news articles, and random websites without asking. Ukraine's military used Clearview to identify over 230,000 Russian soldiers during the war. The database keeps doubling roughly every 18 months. Texas sued Meta for scanning Facebook users' faces without consent and collected $1.4 billion. Then went after Google for the same thing and got $1.375 billion. Meta had already paid Illinois $650 million in 2020. TikTok paid $92 million. Clearview settled for $51 million. Total payouts from face-scanning lawsuits across the US: over $3.5 billion. Last October, two Harvard juniors connected PimEyes to a pair of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses (regular-looking sunglasses with a tiny camera built into the frame) and built a system called I-XRAY. They walked around campus, looked at strangers, and within about a minute had each person's name, home address, phone number, and part of their Social Security number show up on their phone. They didn't release the code, but said anyone who can write basic code could build the same thing with tools already available online. On March 17, three US senators wrote to Mark Zuckerberg asking what Meta plans to do about facial recognition in its smart glasses. Their letter pointed out that one person wearing these glasses could scan thousands of faces in a day without anyone knowing. There is still no federal law in the US covering any of this. Illinois passed one back in 2008. A few states have followed. For everyone else, the only thing between your photo and your home address is whether someone feels like spending five bucks.

Every news story I’ve seen about this seems to conveniently gloss over the brutality of misogyny, and the reason that she’s dead is due to misogyny. The blood fucking boils.

even as a child i knew i wanted a cigarette

Hear me out—completely open borders, but with a draconian ban on religion.

Trump tells oil CEOs: each morning the true Samurai must visualize himself being torn apart by dogs, pierced by flaming arrows, cleaved in twain by a ōdachi. the path of Bushidō can be trod only by those who consider themselves already dead and thus free

This will always break my parent-heart wide open.

He was a poet

@DarkOddCon "Kramer, what's going on in there?" "Something bad's happened to me, Jerry. It just hasn't reached me yet."

hey girls did u no that uhm "Shame is awakened not when one looks at oneself [...] through another’s eyes, but when one suddenly perceives a lack in the Other [...when] the subject no longer experiences herself as the fulfillment of the Other’s desire, as the center of the world"