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Fantasy and SF have about the same level of cultural decay, along with nearly every other form of fiction, because it's less about the set-dressing of the fiction than it is about who is writing it and in what era, and what ground assumptions they have re: their life, culture, market and audience.

A 3D needle felted landscape with a standing stone, river and waterfall

A 3D needle felted landscape with a standing stone, river and waterfall

A 3D needle felted landscape with a standing stone, river and waterfall

A 3D needle felted landscape with a standing stone, river and waterfall

I’ve finished another needle felted piece of terrain….all made from wool :-) It’s so satisfying!

She ate a poppy seed salad. Child services took her baby. You’re having a baby. A hospital drug test comes out positive. But you know the test is wrong—and you can’t control what happens next.

You’re having a baby. A hospital drug test comes out positive. But you know the test is wrong—and you can’t control what happens next.

The latest from our friends at @revealnews.org:

In point of fact it fell into the public domain, which made it free to show, and was only clawed back out of the public domain by dint of its soundtrack, which was kind of a cheap trick.

blogs.loc.gov/copyright/20...

Australia to recognise existence of country that’s being destroyed by weapons made with parts Australia supplies

"For now on, when we say we are 'deeply concerned' about the deaths of people being killed by someone, we will be doing so while acknowledging the country those people are from exists."

Read more: chaser.com.au/national/aus...

In Israel, I protest my government. Can I do the same at Columbia? Dear President Shipman,

"I am seeking clarification on how I—a student with Israeli citizenship—am allowed to speak about my government without violating these new policies."

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_bissu.k 22h She thinks it is her freedom, but the irony is she is not under any protection anymore. A Silent Message for 'Modern Women'. 283 G monica.siva.14_16h + Interesting take. So you're saying a woman only deserves protection if she stays confined? That's not protection, that's control disguised as care.

Double dumb analogy, they think women rip off their backbones?

I am staring at every single goddamn LGB without the T shithead and liberal who told trans people to calm down and that we were being dramatic over how bad things would get with an intensity and cold, hard fury that would make a disappointed parent go "jesus christ"

UK police arrest at least 466 people at Palestine Action protest in London Critics say ban on activist group stifles freedom of speech and assembly and aims to curb pro-Palestine demonstrations.

UK police arrested hundreds today at protests over the Palestine Action ban.

Absolutely bonkers quote from the police here: “It will take time, but we will arrest anyone expressing support for Palestine Action."

Just to reiterate: Simple written or verbal expressions of support are illegal.

If an individual offering consensual nudes of themself on OnlyFans is considered “illicit” but a program generating nudes of women without their consent is fine, the powers that be have made their priorities clear. And they’re the same as they ever were.

John Boyne owes being able to be out to trans people and gender non conforming queers. It wasn’t bald middle class men in tweed jackets chucking bricks and starting riots and abseiling into parliaments. Cunt.

the thing that's so frustrating about the upcoming attempt to overturn gay marriage is that at every point for the last thirteen goddamned years, trans people have been warning that once they were done removing trans folks from society, all the other queers were next

and y'all kept shrugging

Fuck pickup trucks, especially those crew cab monstrosities that have never seen a day's work in their lifetime.

Pickup trucks should come with a requirement to demonstrate your use case before you purchase them. No demonstration, no sale.

Fight me.

ESSAY: Ending cash bail shows that we shouldn’t lead with fear • The TRiiBE The Pretrial Fairness Act has shown us possibilities; we can have safety without incarceration.

The president brought up no cash bail and Chicago today.

Here’s a reminder: Data emerging from the Circuit Court of Cook County shows that the law is working

thetriibe.com/2024/07/essa...

Reminder that my very democratically priced art commissions are still open! :) As always, super interested in headshots of your OCs!

The entire tech industry has made GitHub the lynchpin of development and now Microsoft has decided "what if we cover it in shit and light it on fire, will that make you use Copilot?"

I've been dreading this turn for months — the war over AI scraping data is undercutting a load-bearing part of the internet, and it will probably only get worse.

Today's reminder to keep the pressure on! They're hoping we'll shut up, get tired or bored, and just walk away.

If we keep trashing their operational metrics, they'll fold first.

worth noting that extreme resources were spent to try and make sure black children couldnt access the same facilities as white children and it required a proportionate response to counteract it

Genuinely incredible that she's saying this with 2 accused rapists on either side of her

ken dilanian: DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro just raised a legitimate issue that has long been debated in DC: Is the legal system tough enough on juveniles who commit serious crimes. A lot of residents believe it is not. But as she said, changing that situation would require a change in the law—it’s not going to be impacted by a federal takeover of the police department.

watching national reporters who live in DC do this is really embarrassing. no one speaking at this conference was raising a legitimate issue.

Employment jelly, repost for a job you'll love and deserve

Offer received and accepted, funemployment ends homies.

I release my employment jelly to the wild now, thank you friend.

You want every protection for the guilty if only because without those protections, everyone is guilty

'We're not safe here' In the immediate days after, creators have found themselves at a loss of what to do. Game developer krispycat, also known as ButterflyLatte, reports that her NSFW game demo, known as "The Seventh Bride," was deindexed, and is only shown when specifically searched for. It wasn't just this game, either. "On a whim, I tried to search up my SFW games as well - Wendy, warm, Like Seafoam. These games are fairly innocent and wholesome; 'warm' and 'Wendy' star children. However, they don't appear in the suggestions either - I suspect it's because they're yuri games," she recounted, describing a genre of fiction which depicts romance between two female characters and has no inherent sexual elements.

Some creators report that an entire game jam - or collection of games developed in a short period to build community - was affected. The Toxic Yuri Game Jam, consisting of over 200 different games, saw significant hits, with over half of the games delisted and several being completely removed from the site. One user, known as Kastel, describes how a joke game they made was delisted squarely for having the tag "erotic." They mention how this jam was filled with first time developers, and how the occurrence of these bans led to mass panic, watching a happy community turn into people feeling completely doomed. "I've done a bunch of these game jams, so I'm giving them advice. And then I'm looking at all this and it's just... what do I even say? This is a pretty bad situation. I can't pretend that this is good. This isn't a wonderful thing we can all survive. It's pretty rough. I feel bad for everyone, especially because it's their first wave of censorship."

“She was not the only developer who reported the company singling out yuri content.”

Games journalists really dropped the ball on itchio targeting yuri content, both SFW and NSFW

The censorship of Toxic Yuri Game Jam hasn’t gotten any coverage from the games press

We had Livejournal, ICQ, AIM and unlimited calls and texting after 7pm, what fucking world was this person living on?

I feel like there’s two “25 years ago”s and one of them is the year 2000 where we had like computers and the internet and email and shit and the other one “25 years ago” is a mixture of 1978 and somewhere around 1800

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