normalooking (she/her)

its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made

Opinion | What Exactly Is a ‘Concentration Camp’?

"Always, always, always concentration camps are an end run around the existing legal system. These people that are getting rounded up because whoever’s in power wants to do something that they can’t do using the letter of the law..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

Top left mask is stylized cursive ‘WOW’ vines, with flowers, leaves and raindrops. Middle mask is a giraffe with a bluebird perched on her right ear. Bottom mask is a wide-eyed kitteh. Covid is not over, Long Covid is real, measles and RSV are rampant, and the next plague is only a matter of time.

Please enjoy these fine art KN95s I created for my bus-person elderly mum.

(Note: Previous particle spray tests on Sharpie-painted and unpainted masks showed that if the Sharpie art masks are allowed to cure at least 48 hours, they are just as effective as plain masks.)

there’s a direct line between misogyny and cat-hating. i will not be taking questions at this time.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

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i guess it’s “extreme” if everyone else has been propagandized into being fine with being sick constantly and developing new chronic illnesses and disabilities—and getting angry at people who are choosing to opt out of that.

No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.

These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country

I do wonder is this is a side effect of repeated Covid infections

They don't want to do art, they want to show art to other people and get praise

A small but very deep thing that bothers me about generative AI as a shortcut to practice and work and skill is the basic assumption that it’s impossible to take pleasure in a creative pursuit that you aren’t very good at and I assure you that is not the case

I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly

It does worry me that a kid's odds of getting out of a tortuous detention center are mostly dependent on whether a random bystander got a perfect picture of them looking sad

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

Huge scandal that Minneapolis has been crawling with terrorists this whole time. They've been living among us undercover as poets and nurses. And would've continued to, had it not been for the work of our bravest child kidnappers

If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.

As daily goals, "stop fascism," "defeat evil," and "save the world" probably aren't going to get you anywhere, and might leave you feeling overwhelmed and helpless, but "work towards building something good" is always achievable, concrete, and useful.

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

No one has made democrats more hopeless and less likely to vote than Chuck Schumer.

this is just conservatism, no understanding of the systems they benefit from and constant false victimhood

the thing is that AI is very good at confident bullshit, which becomes more a part of your job toward the top of the ladder

Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.

Hilarious that the paid, professional protestors who fly all over the country to instigate shit are actually right wing lol. Oopsie daisy!

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend