Ratty Pumpkin

People get mad when I critique Biden/Harris/Newsom, others call me a “milquetoast liberal” for voting. But it’s not either/or—you shouldn’t toss your vote, but that’s not your real power. Treating elections as the only outlet for politics—even to reject them—only feeds institutional power.

There's your problem, somebody set this anti-defamation league to defamation

Fuck jk rowling. She's a mid-at-best author who only succeeded by not knowing how long a children's book was "supposed to be."

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Mimi looks lovingly at Rae. Rae looks bashful in response. MIMI: OH, RAE. I ALWAYS FIND MYSELF GETTING LOST IN YOUR EYES. RAE: AWWWW, YOU'RE JUST SAYING THAT! We see a close-up on Rae’s eye. We zoom even further into Rae’s eye. Her pupil now takes up most of the frame. The panel is black, with little speckles of white lights present. It looks almost like a starry night sky. MIMI: NO, I’M BEING SERIOUS! We zoom in on the starry sky. It’s clearly a night sky / image of space. It looks beautiful. MIMI: THERE'S A WHOLE UNIVERSE IN YOU THAT I WANT TO DISCOVER.

Rae the Doe - Lost in Rae’s Eyes

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The genocide apologia saying it's not that bad because victims were disabled holds as much water as a a sieve. What's disabling them? Could it be attacks on their bodies living in famine surviving bombings? And disabled lives are lives no matter how they got disabled & it's ableist to discount them.

You cant separate bigotries especially with extremists like terfs, see John Boyne and JKR's antisemitic fiction work, or terf's racist harassment of athletes, or as Casey points out here terfs frequent support of the genocide of Palestinians. We have to oppose all violations of human rights.

Liberalism defines itself on maintaining a status quo and while Dems will make cosmetic changes to appease their base the very infrastructure the Republicans retool to be more bigoted when they're in power will be utterly maintained

You need someone who can give tangible change

What the absolute thundering fuck? What member of the public or trans person can peruse 160+ academic papers and suggested others in a few days? This is ripe for abuse. What other area of healthcare in Ireland has ever been done this way wtf?

2 is the gay one (complimentary). 3 is Dream Warriors which is probably the most popular of the sequels.

You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’

You don’t ‘run the gambit.’

gamut = entire range or series

gauntlet = severe trial

Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy

Biden and his administration could’ve punished Trump the minute he took office but they didn’t because the role of liberals is to protect norms, not the people. They’re more responsible for Trump than the powerless people you yell at on the internet all day

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Latest Windows 11 security patch might be breaking SSDs under heavy workloads — users report disappearing drives following file transfers, including some that cannot be recovered after a reboot Some say continuous transfers exceeding 50GB can cause drives to vanish from the OS

Windows 11 is such a Beta OS. Now it's even killing SSDs for whatever reason.

www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

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It was not enough to defile US soil by inviting Putin to Alaska, now they are using the US flag when attacking Ukrainian positions.

Y'know, I stand with Palestinians because it's right, but it's not for nothing that every single "Gender critical" ideologue also seems to be a committed Zionist, the same people loathe and dehumanise us both, and in that the Palestinian people have my solidarity.

see the terfs will all claim that polari has been cancelled by the 'trans mob' or whatever but the first i heard of this mess was *after* authors, and judges, had started pulling out.

they simply can't accept that they're a tiny, but incredibly vocal, minority with a lot of institutional power.

Covid accelerates vascular aging
An 18-country, 38-center study of ~2,000 participants
—Effect predominantly in women, adding 5 years of aging
—Seen with non-hospitalized and mild-moderate Covid
—Reversible in some at 1-year; vaccination link to protection
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Practical Guide to Pedal-Powered Electrical Generators

Succinctly and brilliantly put!

Facsim wants to build a future based on a nostalgic past that never existed. So if it can make you forget what the past was like and make you think it was some pristine, better place - then it can sell you a fascist future that looks like the mythological past, instead of reaching for something new.

A tweet change. Original tweet from Dave Blass - "I don't want to get ostrich sized by the Star Trek fans but the old Gorn isn't cool. Sure, make me the escape goat for "Nu-Trek" but irregardless of the canon which was just a piece of bamboo anyway. I think the whole argument is a moo point. Am I wrong?" Jessie's response - My issue with the new Gorn isn’t canon changes—it’s that SNW stripped away their purpose. The original Gorn weren’t monsters; they were defending their space after the Federation accidentally trespassed. The point was learning to negotiate, not shoot. (1/3)Now they’re xenomorph knockoffs—missing both Trek’s message & what the xenomorph in Alien represented (exploitation, both corporate & sexual). It's nostalgia without meaning. Change, updating stuff, and not being beholden to canon is fine, but context gives depth & meaning. (2/3) Also -- most importantly - the guy in the gorn rubber suit WAS cool! I'll double fist fight about it! (3/3)

Reposting from X. I can't stress this enough. We live in a fascist society. When capitalism strips stories of their context and meaning and sells them back as empty nostalgia, they stop questioning power and become just aesthetics. That’s how we forget what they were meant to teach us.

Serial killer argues victims had preexisting conditions

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pointless to say this but the democrat leaders should be out there banging the drum that they're going to tear these agencies apart & prosecute every single masked fash who ever did some shit while refusing to identify themselves

they do not want to “solve crime” they want to punish cities for being liberal and they are succeeding at their goal

Yeah, it's like it was made for them! Humor & imagery wise The whole cover EP is good with songs that also fit. Those being "If you have Ghosts" (Roky Erickson, actually prefer this cover to the original), "I'm a Marionette" (ABBA) and "Waiting for the Night" (Depeche Mode). Plus "Secular Haze" live

That's hilarious! XD And an admirable bit of dedication for a whole channel.

YouTube video by Ghost - Topic Crucified

Ghost version for comparison (on off chance it's not region blocked >_< )