lavamonster.bsky.social
Science (sometimes fiction) nerd • Outdoor adventure obsessive • One of those transgenders you're hearing about in the news • she/they
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Emilia Pérez getting 50x the attention of I Saw the TV Glow comes to mind.
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Too much choice/freedom can spark crisis. It’s calming in a way to know that even if life is dissatisfying, there are no other choices you could have been allowed to make.
No point worrying about the road not taken when a cop with a gun was guarding it.
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I’m still kind of proud that roughly eight-year-old me read the first two HP books and The Hobbit back-to-back and then quickly told all of my HP-obsessed peers the latter was better.
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Wut
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Yes thank you I couldn’t remember the one!
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I saw a video from someone who liked it for most of it until she realized it wasn’t satire.
She thought “this is so dumb it must be mocking libertarians, I vibe with that.”
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I think they’re more not-anti than actively pro-trans, considering the silence they responded to Republican anti-trans attacks in 2024.
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The implication seems to be that Israel deserves credit for going in and stopping intra-Syrian violence while the rest of the world stands aside. So even while blatantly colonizing, there’s the age-old “civilizing” colonial apologist narrative.
2/2
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The line I’ve seen is “there is a genocide occurring in Syria (referring to very real and terrible ethnic violence still happening there), and the left hypocritically doesn’t care, and hyperfocuses on Israel.”
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A big part of our current crisis is people still being mad about the Civil Rights Act.
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I was literally just going through the archives for my local earlier today looking for changes.
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The website for my regional affiliate (Southwestern Oregon) is completely down, 403 errors for the entire page, not just gender-related stuff.
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That's completely humiliating, holy shit.
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What an odd coincidence!
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Yeah while Russia has definitely interfered in recent American elections, all they really did was giggle and toss some gas on an already blazing fire.
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I think this gets near the heart of why antifeminism has been so resurgent.
It’s a very short path from “if toxic masculinity is bad what’s positive masculinity” to “screw this let’s restore old patriarchal ideas” when the answer to the first question is consistently vague and inconsistent.
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The best case then is that she got totally played. Still not a great look.
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Oh god I was so confused for a moment.
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No what I mean is the cost, before tax, of one of these hats is probably very low, like maybe $3. Trump then imports them and makes $47 in profits on each one.
Add in a 140% tariff, and each hat is getting charged $4.20 in tax, bringing the total cost to the seller up to $7.20.
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There’s zero chance the import cost of these things is more than a few dollars. The rest is pure profit.
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Black Mirror is now just the best (worst) of CSPAN.
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Not only that, literally any endangered species is a potential target because finding one and publicizing it could lead to ESA restrictions on land use in order to protect the population.
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Not even. Have you seen their prices? They charge just as much for their slop as many, many better independent restaurants do.
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“Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can’t explain it.”
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I’m very used to having conservative opinions expressed around me and have a pretty thick skin about it but sometimes I hear something so stupid it kind of just leaves me stunned.
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You legit reminded my ADHD ass to take my hormones today. o7
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I think this is knife-twisting. He knows his endorsement is poison for Democrats.
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There isn’t a shred of systemic critique of a government and society Rowling herself says has repeatedly elevated Dark Wizards in the lifetimes of many characters. It says volumes about her actual politics.
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I think the core fault is the fundamentally liberal idea that there’s nothing wrong with the institutions, just the people in them. Sweep out all the enablers and secret sympathizers and replace them with Harry and his friends and everything is hunky dory.
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The actual narrative implication of Dobby’s arc in the second book is that the Wizard societal status quo is deeply fucked and in need of change, but Rowling seems to value preserving her status quo so much that characters repeatedly say and do outrageous things in order to not challenge it.
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Gonna do this today.
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I finally read the original trilogy last year and its description of how a superpower unravels was nowhere near as dated-feeling as I assumed it would be going in.
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Slow clap.
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Many liberals seem to agree with “Make America Great Again,” except they want to return to 1998 instead of 1958.
How about neither?
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That feels like criticizing a lake for being full of shit and saying that should take precedence over worrying about the raw sewage pipeline leading to it.
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She also just seems too cool to become a grifter.
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Literally nothing the Empire does in fiction doesn’t happen already, but just on non-galactic scales.
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It’s already abundantly clear that trans women don’t come anywhere near automatically beating cis women in sports, but it turns out trans athletes aren’t allowed to be mid either.
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Those kinds of people are usually just too embarrassed to admit which conservative ideas they like in polite company.
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Well if that isn’t an interesting piece of bait. You have my attention.
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-also lots of people in 2008
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Deep analysis from the captains of industry: taxing commodities makes them more expensive 🤯
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There’s a reason most of the best comedians come from persecuted minority groups.
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Nah those live feeds of the Big Bear eagles and their chicks are fire.
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90% of that shit is authentic human American chud, unfortunately.
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Me seeing a bald eagle in the wild: 😃
Me seeing a bald eagle on social media: [many confusing negative emotions]
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The problem is that people react to those abstract numbers in very concrete ways that will cause tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths (layoffs, benefit cuts, etc.).
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The feeling is “if I saw this coming, someone with the power to stop it should have as well?”