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some (even a large) amount of just thoughtlessly mimicking things from exposure is p normal & unavoidable, but you *should* evaluate & think about your language use sometimes—especially when prompted. it can & does fuck with the way you think about shit && we proliferate these effects unto others.

but everyone seems super down to just import language from the most vile corners of the internet directly into their daily usage without any thought—and, more importantly, argue that it's harmless to themselves & others if pushed on it?

like yes, language is memetic & the internet is an atmosphere.

cos i feel like it was v widely known & accepted that, for instance, using slurs & dehumanizing language alters your attitude towards affected people/groups over time; normalizing such language from platforms of reach & power is a super effective way to shift social attitudes...

the word 'language' in the common paraphrase, "the idea that language influences perception/cognition/worldview", is referring to the literal NamedPrimaryLanguage that a speaker knows && not, like, ✨the words & idioms they choose to use.✨

i often wonder if at some point non-linguists """learned""" that sapir-whorf is heavily discredited without knowing that:

i feel like alot of ppl need to get their personal lexica under control

The Disappearance of Young Adult Books and Services in Public Libraries: Book Censorship News, February 20, 2026 Teen collections in public libraries are disappearing. So, too, are professionals dedicated to serving this demographic.

The disappearance of YA book collections in public libraries–and the parallel winnowing of YA librarianship. Where are young people supposed to BE young people?

That, plus an extremely long roundup of censorship news: bookriot.com/the-disappea...

not kidding property damage needs to come back in a big way

How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

I don’t think I’ve ever had so many people writing to me to ask about encrypted/secure/private tools for comms, collaboration, and organizing. So @lhn.bsky.social and I talked to experts and assembled this: the Wired guide to organizing in an age of surveillance. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

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DMV FGC cornerstone and friend of mine Ludovic Mbock has unfortunately been detained by ICE. Folks are trying to raise money for his legal fees, please donate if you can.

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the most pathetic thing about the now multiple videos of fascist middle-aged men getting their shit rocked by protesting schoolchildren is how they all always scramble, bloodied & bruised, to recover the truest, reddest heart they possess—the crumpled merch hat become vital to their entire existence

Sigh. Leftists invented whole aesthetics around using technology w/o destroying the world. Anarchist transfems teach classes on solar power and spawn three new electronic music genres weekly. We are notoriously into trains, libraries, vaccines.

We just didn't fall for a scam and now y'all are sore.

I would shoot the computer with a handgun five to eight times

seriously && immediately

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

i'm realizing that melee is the only context in which i'm pro-canada

this stationary crouch dtilt in neutral might be my new least favorite fox Thing

MELEE. IS. LIVE.

You know what to do.

📺: twitch.tv/genesisgg #GX3

joshy looking at salt & making that face after her totally wrong hardread f-smash was like the irl version of "?"

genesisgg - Twitch Genesis X3 FINAL DAY - ULTIMATE TOP 8 -> MELEE TOP 8 | !bracket !schedule

genesis x3 melee top8 going live rn @ www.twitch.tv/genesisgg

And on this edition of "what the fuck is going on at Smash 64", Isai won SSB64 Genesis with Link

Cool to hear since Link is like bottom two in 64 lol

so it's just, like, rly nice in the past few years to see so many of those timers hitting

there's like a timeline for getting to this point because usually overdeveloping smth super valuable (often execution & punish) is the most reliable way to consistently get deeper in brackets—which is what allows you to play ppl good enough to expose your gaps & in theory force you to fill them in

there's always gonna be knowledge gaps & matchup inexperience, etc. of course—what i mean is well-rounded players who are not super disproportionately developed in like character tech or punish or set plays or camping or whatever without being able to rly put the whole game together vs ppl who could

i used to joke that june broke out by being the first DK in a decade+ to play neutral, but it's legit so sick to have this widening palette of players who are both ~bad character specialists AND play, like, the entire top-lvl game of melee with so few big holes. Shroomed/Axe/aMSa were v rare in this

there's so much fucking melee in there

clip of the day easy, but it's not just the misfire!

see how narrowly that first luigi dair whiff-punishes the uair? then perfect wd rising uair catching zain's double-jump. fastfall waveland on sideplat -> drop cancel nair while zain is ready for tech-slideoff. THEN fair -> misfire hard read, like

:3 btw

melee commentary that activates the parasympathetic nervous system

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