Dr Alex Cruikshanks

"I'll tell you how far your destination is, just after these 10 minutes of messages. You can skip them if you buy a crate of PRIME energy drinks for £80 right now, in a great 40% off deal!"

I mean, you don't need the consent of someone you had sex with a minute ago to have sex with someone else now.

I have no idea what this means and am scared to google it

In fact, very few societies were ethno-nationalist until the last couple of centuries, and it wasn't really the consensus view shared by major world powers until the First World War or so.

Oh, there were plenty of *racist* societies and regimes, sure. But not really ideologically ethnonationalist.

"See, trans people are clearly an existential threat to our Pepsi-sponsored public bathrooms!"

For a lot of small-scale tasks, videos are really inefficient compared to text. Imagine if every road sign had to be an electrified screen with a voice actor yelling out the information rather than just textually displaying it on a thin piece of metal.

Sure, but you still need someone who can read to create and interpret the apps that do that.

How will illiterate people make videos, exactly?

"the sex-based boundaries that we have had for generations"

Misogyny, of course, he means institutionalised misogyny.

Unironically Tolkien's languages are the most "realistic" part of his legendarium. Like he's literally putting languages with what would be "realistic" human development in the mouths of immortal elves and a pantheon of gods in a young earth mythology just because he really fucking loved languages.

Gotta go with Norn Iron 😜

I mean, this isn't necessarily contradictory. The actual number of violent racist thugs is relatively small, but there is a broad consensus among national politicians that these handful of thugs represent something super popular that must be endlessly coddled.

Like I don't think a random antivaxxer with the exact same views but not called Kennedy gets the same attention and following.

Though RFK Jr is also just a case of government by family inheritance 🙄

Fascinating to me that AI clearly struggles with the difference between a TV and a microwave.

So if something is portrayed a lot in porn, that means people are only doing it in real life because of a fetish?

Well, that *really* puts a different spin on the stereotype of all Poles being plumbers 😳

Oh god this reminds me of Buck Angel's tweet suggesting that porn categories should be the basis of gender categories.

Like, if someone decided that they were going to livestream themselves downing several whole bottles of vodka, then I'd strongly try to persuade them not to, that that's a very dangerous thing to do.

But like, I'm pretty sure it's not a *crime*?

Yeah, it's something I do find kind of grim and probably not a healthy (in multiple ways!) thing to do. But from a legal perspective... what's the precise *thing* we're going after here?

Also going to point out that the sex worker who has supposedly prompted all this is not "barely legal", she's 25. And as utterly grim and gross as I find the idea of having sex with 1,000 men in a day, I struggle to see how you can realistically expect to *ban* it.

If you want to raise the minimum legal age for sex work, I'm not necessarily against that. But that's not going to somehow destroy the "barely legal" fetish, it's just going to move its focus a couple of years older.

This isn't even shooting at a moving target, it's shooting at a target that automatically moves *when you shoot at it*!

Basically every Tsar except maybe Alexander II a bit was terrible to serfs and minorities just like Ivan was, but unlike most of them Ivan was also a monster to the Russian nobility, so he gets saddled with the name.

You've done it now...

Yeah, kids these days need to learn that the true princess experience is being kidnapped by a big bipedal spiky tortoise monster and imprisoned in a castle from which you will be rescued by Italian plumbers.

They're still generally profitable, have a long tail of secondary saleable stuff compared to non-franchise films, and are also relatively low risk bets compared to those non-franchise films, no reason for them to stop.

I mean, it's simple really - Carol Danvers is Binary 😜

Well, Fantastic Four absolutely ruled

Also, are Captain America's girlfriend and Gordon Ramsay two separate people, or is Gordon Ramsay now Captain America's girlfriend?

3 Aug 25 - New study shows vast "over-representation of trans boys" turns out to be vast _under-representation_ of trans girls bec. they: a) come out ~10 years later; b) start puberty later; & c) delay transitioning longer because of deep social animus towards AMAB femininity.
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