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Immigrants can teach us how to fight dictators:

"Myrla Baldonado became one of the “forced disappearances” under Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr., in 1983. She was kidnapped by state agents, swept away to a secret location, tortured, and then imprisoned for two years."

And yet:

Hatsune Miku is able to see and touch Shen Qingqiu’s system window much to his surprise. One window has !!Error!! written on it twice. The middle top window has a system buffering symbol. The rightmost window has OOC written on it. Luo Binghe stares enviously from a distance.

Bai Zhan Peak disciple Miku stumbles upon someone’s little… secret. 🎋
#svsss

the hot tub validates humanity’s inherent desire to become stew

i never used to be able to justify writing about tiny ass games for polygon, so this one was really fun to write <3

man this is incredible cinema. because whatever direction youre expecting the car to come from i promise youre wrong.

i made some desk job affirmations to get me through the day

We're horseposting post your horses.

YouTube video by Scissor Sisters - Topic San Luis Obispo

scissor sisters also has a very catchy song about it www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOTf...

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

A brown river otter mascot with a blue girdle around his waist stands on a stage, playing the saxophone.

Gen-chan the Japanese river otter is a mascot from Ehime Prefecture who plays the saxophone.

most difficult problem of writing fanfiction is when you need a character to express the particular surprised/dismayed/disappointed sentiment of going "jesus christ" but this isn't a lore friendly thing to say and there's nothing lore friendly that conveys quite the same emotion

You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...

OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

oh my god, welcome to a cultural classic. season 2 made me laugh the hardest i ever have in years

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

You don’t need Disney-level resources and drawing skills to create animation.

People have made classics with sand and a source of light. With magazine clippings, or their own bodies animated via stop motion. There’s no barrier to entry, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/sand-and-a...

A screenshot from the deadloch s2 trailer of eddie holding a bag, wearing sunglasses, a blue shirt and cargo shorts

A screenshot from the deadloch s2 trailer of eddie crossing her arms, wearing sunglasses, a blue shirt and cargo shorts

MY WIFE EDDIE REDCLIFFE IS BACK

we spent years setting up WorldCon 2020 then had to pivot to digital in a couple of months due to covid. It's still something that hurts a little – I'd really appreciate any support in bringing it back to the South Pacific so folks like me can actually attend in person, for once.

The cover of Science for the People vol. 27 no. 2: The Political Economy of Science

New from @courtneyaddison.bsky.social and I for SftP mag! The NZ govt's vandalism of research and science prefigures similar destruction in the US and is part of a broader effort in NZ to stifle political dissent.

The only way out is to build our power as researchers.

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i dont trust anyone who sees themselves as cute and harmless. i like a little grit in a person

happy lunar new year 🧧🐎 + ramadan + mardi gras yippeeeee

"my name is tteok!"
to celebrate the lunar new year, here's an 8-page mini zine about my little rice cake OC

(1/5)

Civil rights figures like Jesse Jackson are why black feminists are theorized intersectionality: he might have forged a multi-racial coalition but black woman weren’t always in that coalition. Complicated man, complicated politics.

panel 1: a person is pointing on a bed where cats are lying in a way that leaves a vaguely human outline in the middle, saying "this is my hole!! it was made for me!! panel 2: a twisted shape of a person lies on the bed, screaling silently as the cats sleep peacefully in random positions

hey, i made a terrible comic instead of working #makeaterriblecomicday2025

Two pikachu wearing hanbok next to and riding on a ponyta. The words happy lunar new year are above them in English and in Korean 새해 복 많이 받으세요

Happy lunar new year

Enjoy 'The Butcher of Whack-a-White', winner of the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize 2025, by Jilly O’Brien 💙💚

The insightful judge’s report by Janet Newman is also available online: www.takahe.org.nz/the-butcher-...

If you're in a position to vote on this, do the South Pacific a solid and vote for Brisbane.

The last time Worldcon was scheduled down here it was 2020 in Wellington and it didn't happen in person. Will have been 18 years by 2028 since we got an accessible in-person con. Put the World in Worldcon.