Some Pokemon fans really need a sense of humor. I’m sorry but after years of people wanting dunsparce to get an epic evolution only for it to evolve into a slightly longer version of itself and its called fucking dundunsparce is the funniest shit ever and y'all won’t admit it
israel has now officially been announced as one of the countries participating in eurovision 2024
meanwhile russia is still banned, for the third year in a row. the double standard is just sickening
if you’re european, you should 1) put pressure on your national broadcaster to withdraw from the contest. if the national selection goes through, then 2) pressure the individual artist(s) to withdraw from the contest. if come may, and israel is still participating, you should 3) boycott eurovision as a viewer, 4) pressure local establishments (clubs, gay bars etc.) to cancel their eurovision events, 5) intensify the pressure against your national broadcaster and its representing artist(s). never let them forget, even for a moment, the genocide they’re complicit in.
also, if you’re swedish, you have a special responsibility to protest as you’re this years host country.
i just wanna emphasize that it’s important the pressure is leveled at individual countries and artists, not the EBU as a whole. trying to pressure the EBU directly, be it through social media, emails, phone calls or whatnot, is likely just a waste of time.
the EBU doesn’t care that they come off as callous hypocrites. but having individual countries withdraw from the contest? that’s not only bad PR, it’s also a loss of revenue
even just one country withdrawing as a direct protest against israel’s participation is a big hit to the EBU. and there are already several countries i can realistically see withdrawing based on their previous reactions to israel hosting in 2019
also, for countries with a hardline pro-israel stance, pressure might be more effective if it’s primarily be directed at the participating artist(s).
is it realistic, for instance, to get the BBC to withdraw from eurovision? no. but the individual artist…? with unrelenting, daily reminders that they’re supporting a genocide? maybe.
at least we can ensure that participating in a nakedly pro-genocide eurovision will be a miserable affair for everyone involved.
Let’s not ignore that Azerbaijan is on that list too, Israel is not the only participant actively conducting a genocide right now.
A lot of pop psychology gets thrown around and since I already have a headache, here’s preventing you lot from making it worse.
Love-bombing: A manipulation tactic of increasing affection and grand gestures before or after doing something abusive, specifically to weasel one’s way out of consequences.
What it is not: A streak of affection and generosity towards friends/loved ones.
Trauma-bonding: Knowingly traumatizing someone to take advantage of their vulnerable state, to then act like the “hero” or the one who cheers them up.
What it is not: Bonding over similar traumas.
Gaslighting: *Knowingly* convincing someone they cannot trust their own perception of a situation in pursuit of one’s own narrative.
What it is not: Misaligned perception of events.
Narcissist: Someone afflicted with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, a traumagenic cluster B disorder, that struggles with self-obsession, paranoia, craving validity from the public, delusions of grandeur, and social disconnection.
To this day people will cry over the knowledge and works destroyed when the library of Alexandria was burned down.
And yet no tears are shed as Palestinian archives and libraries are bombed.
Saint Porphyrius Church, built in 1150 and the 3rd oldest church in the world has been bombed.
It’s not an accident.
Israel aren’t simply killing Palestinians, they are trying to erase that there ever were Palestinians in the first place.
Destroying their livelihoods, trying to to destroy their culture and history and pretend this land was never there’s.
It’s easy to deny someone’s existence when there’s no record of them.
Which is why it’s so important to look at the atrocities and bear witness to what’s happening.
But to also recognise that Palestine is more than it’s suffering.
There is a living breathing culture, of art, history, literacy which all come from the Palestinians.
Traditions they’ve carried for centuries.
So while we mourn the dead, we shall fight for the living. Fight for the preservation of their crafts, amplify their voices as they speak on their culture.
Palestinian history and culture is alive. And no matter how much the world wants to erase that, they cannot and will not.
the whole thing about israeli settler “leftists” not being truly “left” due to them upholding their illegitimate settler state is also true for usamerican “leftists” who don’t fight for the full decolonization of turtle island btw
hey artists just in case you feel despair at the rise of ai art please remember that the talking points of pro-ai people are as genuinely “ai art bad? but what if there was a PUCK girl who had Steampunk Tube Arm Prosthetic No Hand Syndrome that couldn’t draw because of no hands and you poured a biiiig vat of pencils in front of her really big and made her look at it sadddd style and she can’t just Pick Up Pencil and draw because No Hand ? what if that happened? then ai art… goood😃😄?”
the most ironic thing about pro ai people being like “BUT IMAGINE IF THERE WAS A DISABLED PERSON WHO COULDNT DRAW?! AI ART WOULD BE SUCH A USEFUL TOOL TO DISABLED PEOPLE WHO ARE PHYSICALLY UNABLE TO DRAW!” is that by virtue of saying that they have outed themselves as knowing jack shit about the online art world because a huge majority of artists have carpal tunnel or some other pain condition in their hands like tremors that makes drawing Painful. like ohhh wow yeah ….it would be such a huge innovation if there was …. a tool that would make drawing easier….it’s not like every art program on earth comes with ….. oh i don’t know… a stabilizer that would completely alleviate this problem..??? yeah it would be really nice if that would happen. but yeah it’s such a miracle of technology that we disabled people FINALLY have a method of creating art! by creating something completely artificial and inauthentic !!! it’s SUCH a gift from god THANK you random person on the internet! do you want all the disabled people in the world to come to your house and throw a party? do you want a cake? do y
Also… she can’t type for shit with those things. How is she going to use an art AI?
Also AI is such an awful replacement. Telling people that it’s impossible to create the art they want and should therefore use a machine to generate generic anime tits as a replacement is not the disability advocacy you losers think it is.
whenever i’m discussing baby names with a weird woman i always make sure to try and sow the seeds of tragedy. ‘isn’t eridan a cute name for a boy? it’s greek.’ this is the pseudointellectual’s noblesse oblige.
introduced my mom to pirating websites now she’s watched “so many movies I haven’t seen in years! for free!” and she wants me to “tell your internet followers about this!”
she does want me to warn you “don’t click on those ads with the very pretty ladies!” and that “please tell those lesbians on the internet not to fall for it!”
I found out today that my parents are gender abolitionists. They keep apologizing gor misgendering me and today they basically said “so why do doctors even assign a gender at birth if it has such a high probability of not being accurate later on? Shouldnt we let kids decide for themselves what they want to identify as and not force them into situations they might be uncomfortable in? None of this seems practical” And its like yeah exactly :3
how long are radio stations gonna say “80s, 90s, and today!” We’ve entered the third decade of “today”
I work at an oldies station. Every six months we sit down look around the table and someone goes “Y'know, we could start adding ‘90s to the mix. It’s within our format.” We all nod and no one plays anything produced after 1989 because time stopped here sometime around 2003, and no one wants to be the one responsible for whatever consequences come from breaking that fragile illusion.
i love you lab grown diamonds i love you slavery-free chocolate i love you community gardens i love you fact that the insulin patent was sold for $1 i love you locally produced meat and milk i love you streets turned into walkable parks i love you little reminders that Things Do Not Have To Be This Way and there are people working to build a better world!!
I understand that this is a profoundly pedantic bit of crankery, but it bugs the hell out of me when a robot has jiggly boobs, but then later their chest gets opened up for someone to mess around with their internal gadgetry and you can clearly see that the interior wall of the thoracic compartment follows the exterior contour of the breasts. Like, are these tiddies rigid, or are they not? Pick one or the other!
(It especially bugs me when their chest is opened up and you can see a pair of protruding turbine-like components right about where the breasts would be, presumably in an effort to to justify their presence. Like… are the turbines squishy?)
Animation of robot with jiggly boobs where every bounce is punctuated by the sound of someone wiggling sheet metal
Can’t stand how people will learn that humans are related to Pokemon and somehow come to the conclusion that different people are different types. That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.
🍑 pechaberrysoda
there are literally so many fighting type people what are you even talking about lmao
🌊 lugias-sopping-anus
Your genetic make up doesn’t just magically change type because you took a karate class. Do you also think your Charizard is a Grass type now because it learnt Solar Beam?
✨ ace-trainer-luna
But aren’t Psychic type people a thing? Some humans have telekinetic powers, I’m pretty sure there are a few gym leaders who have them. There are even rare cases of children born with psychic abilities.
🌸 cynthiasfuturewife
that’s still just learning moves
🌌 mistyterrain
As an actual Psychic type, this post is really disheartening to see. The fact that people who still refuse to acknowledge the existence of psychics are so common is just shocking. We exist!
☣ deathtounova
no one’s refusing to acknowledge the existence of shit, you just don’t know how types work
🌌 mistyterrain
The sheer ignorance on display here, it’s obvious you’re just mad you’re a normal type lol.
☣ deathtounova
how bout i karate chop your ass and we’ll see how “not very effective” it is
🌌 mistyterrain
Typical physical attacker brutishness, resorting to violence as usual
🦧 return-to-mankey
didn’t you claim you manifested the kyogre disaster in hoenn?
⚡ electrictypesfuckyeah
WHAT
🥀 cradilyzone
Actual professor here! Genetically, all humans are Normal types, though some of our relatively recent ancestors were Psychic. Part of what let us succeed as a species was reutilizing the brain power originally used for psionics to language and tool use. We do still have some vestigial psychic power that can be trained, though it’s quite weak compared to most Pokémon. As for those born with psychic powers, this is considered nowadays to be like an egg move, passed down from parent to child. And no, obviously learning Fighting moves doesn’t make you a Fighting type, there is no way for a human to change their type.
🌔 hexmaniac
my grandma became a ghost type
🔶️ bigjiggly
I-
🔞 mega-miltank
What about swimmers though, they’re water type, right?
Saw a thread on Twitter of “gifts to give a person with ADHD and autism” that was full of stereotypical and quite frankly patronizing items, so here’s a list of I (autistic individual) want instead as a gift
Money
Fourteen billion dollars
Free coupon to kill somebody with my teeth
Suitcase full of money
Cool looking rock
Scratching post for me to sink my claws into
An albino elephant
The head of Jeff Bezos mounted on my wall
Uncooked rice
A cup full of blood
100k in cash
On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 100k in cash Cup full of blood Uncooked rice Albino elephant Scratching post (for me) Coupon to kill somebody with my teeth COOL LOOKING ROCK fourteen billion dollars money money money new pair of socks And the head of Jeff Bezos mounted on my wall.
Support your local libraries and the small businesses that are actually making the products you want. Fuck Jeff Bezos and the systemic, universal worker abuse, gaslighting, and brutality they live off of.
this seems like a good thing to bring around as people holiday shop
