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major league language gamer. professionally extremely online. producer @ Andata Express, novels in Holohaus, researching rationalfic & litRPG @ UWO. Comiket Communist. actual chuunibyou. nobledark ★
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need to start posting like this again

submitted 87 days ago • 5 comments

lusila̱ks - light a fire inside, or, raven the phoenix. my sticker design for pride month 🏳️‍🌈🔥 #art #indigenousart #formline

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

even though AI tends to lean progressive by itself (/as a *subject*), I wonder how much it’s also enabled more powerful forms of algorithmic manipulation behind the scenes in this window

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Fairport Anime Convention

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“We are watching a systematic starvation of 2 million people. A live-streamed genocide & the world's silence is deadly. That is why we have to keep trying everything we can, even if the odds are against us.” Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg shares moments from the Madleen.

submitted 3 days ago • 58 comments

random image else June goes awry

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

the meta-level stakes of the GoFundMe debate - “why wouldn’t you just give to accredited organizations?” - is whether the decentralized immediacy of online, which lets us see these atrocities with so much less filtration, also lets us do anything novel about them

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Pride

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Lately, I've been thinking about the story of the Mouse Buddha, who goes around squeaking the Dharma. Today, I'm talking about it with a friend: "Most mice eventually will get eaten by an owl or something, but everything a mouse is is everything an owl finds hard to catch".

submitted 85 days ago • 3 comments

I'm old enough to remember when conspiracy theorists would have lost their shit about this news. Shows that most conspiracy theorists really just wanted *their* type of fascism. 🤷‍♂️

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submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

after a week of smugness about how Bsky's hostility problem only applies to transphobic liberal journalists and their feefees, I am once again seeing it cascade through several layers of fractally branching beefs between people at fractional degrees of ideological or social separation on my tl

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

bracketing the highlighted wham line, bc I do think there is *something* here - from having read a lot of www.issendai.com/psychology/e... and seen adjacent stuff often in my own life, I think the category error is if a kid cuts off a parent off over something more mundane than physical/sexual abuse

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I am often saying "living in a dystopia means it will take utopian will to achieve realist ends" but "we need to do revolutionary mass violence to achieve Euro-style social democracy" is one of the lamer variants of this

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Kamen Rider QAnon

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popularism and anti-popularism fundamentally *agree* that people's core beliefs are fixed (despite all evidence to the contrary). when centrists say we need to try reaching out to demographics going fascist in real time and edgy leftists say there's no point, popularists take you at your word

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Bombs may drop at any time in Gaza. Drones constantly buzzing the skies above you. And sometimes, you must practice your breakdancing.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

oh my fucking god

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Shaman King has two major character arcs about the existential horror of being able to hear everyone's random thoughts all the time which are pretty useful for thinking about what's going on these days

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I am the very model of a politically engaged intellectual I’ve discourses racial, gendered, economic and sexual

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"mom, i want good criticism of rationalism from the left!" "hush child, we have left-critics of rationalism at home" the left-critics of rationalism at home:

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

first person dominates in the anglo novel in the 21st century, a radical change from the previous 300 years of the novel form. for an explanation of this historical mutation and the ideology around it, check out chapter 3! (happy to send a copy to anyone) www.versobooks.com/products/303...

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments