Going individually to everyone at the party like “I’m sorry, I have to leave early. My boxer briefs are bunched up in my jeans and I have to go fix them. Excuse me.” And then I’m never heard from again
Produced by Japanese company Triad, whose main line of business is producing architectural models, the Omoshiroi Blocks feature various notable architectural sites in Japan like Kyoto’s Kiyomizudera Temple, Tokyo’s Asakusa Temple and Tokyo Tower. The blocks are composed of over 100 sheets of paper and each sheet is different from the next in the same way that individual moments stack up together to form a memory.
so i noticed that graph is based on data collected in 2011, and i got curious. the most recent one they have now is 2016.
also the website is a wonderful resource i’ve been exploring. it breaks down the intimidating complexity of US politics to help busy folks who want to understand better but don’t know where to start. and as someone who is neurodivergent, the charts and graphs they use are so helpful for comprehension!
I can’t remember how much of this is implied canon or my own interpretation, but I fully believed that Chiron recognized Percy was a son of Poseidon from the fountain incident with Nancy Bobofit, knew that a child of the Big Three being claimed would be a total shit show, and simply chose not to say a word about it
“you don’t like the proliferation of terms like Unalive outside of TikTok because you realize that you’re aging out of youth culture and it makes you uncomfortable!”
no I don’t like it because there’s something INCREDIBLY dystopian about being forced to soften terms for basic parts of the human experience like death and sex (and even more so terms for oppressed minorities- call me a “le-dollar sign-bian” and I will bite you) purely because advertisers and corporations demand it
The idea that young people are getting used to not being able to speak in public about sex, queerness etc without talking around censors, and see this as normal and not a problem, scares me tbh.
The fact that people are so comfortable with being censored that they Voluntarily censor themselves on words and topics that aren’t even being limited is a terrifying sign
I hate to be like the “THIS IS JUST LIKE 1984” guy but. there was literally a thing in that book where you had to say “double plus ungood” instead of “bad” because you weren’t supposed to talk about bad things. if you told me ten years ago that “unalive” was a word that George Orwell had coined for Newspeak I would have believed you.
Deep breath everyone. People are code switching. So that they can talk about sex and death. This is not cowing to censorship, it is language flowing around it. ‘oh we can’t say ‘sex’? Fine I’m just gonna say ‘She Bojangles on my Hardee til I Jimmy John’ which is in fact much more explicit than ‘we had sex’.
You understand that when someone says ‘self delete’ or ‘auto terminate’ that they’re discussing suicide. You understand that ‘unalive(v)’ means 'kill’ and that 'unalive(adj)’ means 'deceased’ without having that explicitly explained. Because it’s a valid construction in the English Language.
If you comprehend the meaning of the words, language is working. It’s doing its job of taking ideas and concepts from the head of one human and conveying them to another. Linguistic relativity does not in fact prevent the transmission of ideas and concepts.
Put down your copy of 1984, take a breath, and pick up a copy of A Clockwork Orange.
the issue here isn’t whether terms like “unalive” are comprehensible or not though. it’s pretty obvious what they mean, and I don’t see anyone disputing that.
what’s unsettling is that people are voluntarily mincing words that are so integral to the human experience. death is natural. sex is natural. why are we so uncomfortable talking about them that we need make up new, softer words?
censorship is, unfortunately, an undeniable fact of modern media and being online. we are adapting to it, yes. we’re still communicating the ideas that corporations are trying to censor. and yeah, some of us are effectively code switching in order to bypass the censors. but I can tell you from personal experience that there are definitely people who just talk like that now. like all the time. they’ll say “unalive” to my face, in person, completely seriously. that is what’s worrisome to me. it doesn’t seem like “rebellious youth culture” to me. it seems like the opposite of that. it seems like corporate interests seeping into our genuine, private, offline interactions where they shouldn’t have any control.
Last time I checked, this kind of thing has not and never has been solely the wheelhouse of private companies.
Censorship is generally done by governments. The euphemism treadmill is often operated by sincere and well-meaning activists.
If people are using this kind of language offline, they have responsibility for their own actions. Not some vague collective Other boogeyman.
And frankly, this isn’t even remotely the first time e-euphemisms have escaped containment. It’s just the first time y'all noticed.
Don’t tell me any of u guys actually think autism is a “destigmatized disorder”
The entire anti-vax movement is built around the unfounded idea that vaccines cause autism. There are people and organizations dedicated to “finding the cure” for autism. Autistic people, including children, are seen as “creepy” or dangerous. You cannot, in good faith, claim that autism is “destigmatized like anxiety and depression” just because it’s kind of trendy between a bunch of autistic bloggers on this stupid website to make jokes about “my autism beam” or whatever
Also anxiety and depression aren’t destigmatized either
The rainbow infinity symbol is and has always been the autism symbol.
It was always exclusive to AUTISM. Stop with this bullshit. You’ve been spitting this bullshit on twitter too and refuse to listen to ACTUALLY AUTISTIC people who are correcting you.
The rainbow infinity symbol is the symbol for autism, not neurodiversity. I don’t fucking care if a random google search tells you otherwise.
I AM SO ANGRY AMETHYST IS RESISTENT TO THE OCCASIONAL BATH BUT THE GEODE CRUST CERTAINLY ISN’T LITERALLY MINERALS BREAKING DOWN BY BEING PULVERIZED WITH HOT WATER IS HOW GEODES FUCKINGCRYSTALIZES IN THE FIRST PLACE AND YOUR TAKING A GEODE THAT BIG AND TURNING IT INTO THE PERMANANT WATER CONTAMINATE AND BACTERIAL CESS POOL THAT IS A SINK WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU NEVER GONNA USE TOOTHPASTE OR FUCKING SOAP SO IT DOESN’T EAT A HOLE THRU THE BOTTOM OF YOUR FUCKING SINK YOU GODDAMN GOON WHY DON’T YOU JUST MAKE A STOVE OUT OF CARDBOARD OR A DOOR OUT OF TISSUE PAPER??? WHY DONT YOU MAKE PIPES OUT OF FUCKING SMARTIES CANDY OR TABLE LEGS OUT OF PLAY DOUGH FUCK YOU BUDDY IF I WALKED INTO A PLACE AND HAD TO CLEAN A BATHROOM AND SAW THAT SHIT I WOULD BREAK YOUR FUCKING SKULL OPEN WITH A STEEL PIPE
Never before has an art installation spoken to my very being like this.
The “text added by an anonymous artist” part is throwing me. Did some unidentified person just go in and add words below the installation and they decided “well, this is part of the art now” or what
Neoliberalism kills working class arts because when your rent eats up 80% of your income and you have to put more hours (or jobs) in to make ends meet, you just don’t have the time or money to be creative. The property laws that have more or less killed off the squat scene play a big part too.
The UAW in particular is a union that’s been a pretty popular punching bag in the American public consciousness in my lifetime, so it’s hard not to see stuff like this and think there’s just been a fundamental shift in how the general populace views unions and strikes in the past half-decade
Little girl was part of a county fair agro-educational program where they raise an animal for a few months and at the end it’s slaughtered. Supposed to teach them about the economics of farming and stuff.
But the little girl loved her goat so much she was crying on the day her goat was supposed to be taken away, so her mom sent the county fair people an email saying “I’ll pay for the goat and any expenses. We’ve had several deaths in the family in the past year, I don’t wanna take away one more thing my little girl loves.” Technically the goat had already been sold at auction, so the mom was on the hook for about $1000, only about $70 of which would have been profit for the county fair.
The county fair people were irate and got law enforcement involved, over this “breach of contract”. They literally got a fucking judge to sign a search warrant, authorizing them to go to this little girl’s house and search every room and every cabinet or box “large enough to contain a small goat”. The sheriff’s deputies seized the goat, and whoever they gave it to immediately slaughtered it, though they were supposed to wait until some kind of agreement had been worked out.
In the county fair’s initial email correspondence with the girl’s mother, they made it clear that they were pissed off because the story of the little girl who loved her goat was circulating on social media making them look bad, and they felt the girl needed to be taught a lesson about keeping your promises or whatever. So they refused the mother’s offer to pay for it, and insisted they get the goat. Even if it meant sending the fucking cops into her house lmao.
the congressman who bought the goat didn’t have any objections to the family saving the goat from slaughter either! it’s fucking insane that the cops were so eager to play act their swat commando fantasies that they played stooge to the benefit of no one except some self important local organizers!
Alternate link, LAtimes locks their stuff behind paywalls sometimes
Don’t forget the part where the goat wasn’t where they had a warrant to search, so they drove 500 miles, leaving the area they have legal jurisdiction in, then searched a farm they didn’t have a warrant for ans seized the goat. The fair then had the goat slaughtered, even though a court had ordered them to keep it alive until ownership was resolved and despite the fact that both potential owners of the goat had decided to keep it alive.
They broke multiple laws in order to “teach” a little girl the “lesson” that “everybody has to follow the rules”.
I sure hope all of the complaints sent to Shasta District Fair CEO Melanie Silva, whose decisions these were and continues to defend her actions, are polite and don’t waste too much ink. I’m certain nobody would take advantage of the fact that the Sasha District Fair and Event Center’s contact page lists their phone and fax numbers, not to mention the email form below that.
Would be a shame if that information was to circulate far an wide, and ruin that despicable woman’s easter holidays
I found the lawsuit filing. It is a work of art, brief and to the point. If you read nothing else, check out page 2, the section headed Nature of the Action. Magnificent.
One of the things that bugs me in the notes is a bunch of people being like ‘it’s a livestock animal, it’s her fault for getting attached’ and.
My dudes, I cannot emphasize enough that the little girl’s emotional attachment to the goat is in fact the least of the issues with this story. The main issue in this story is the fact that a bunch of cops broke multiple laws, including the unlawful entry to the property the goat was being held, the unlawful seizure and destruction of said goat, and the unlawful use of a criminal search warrant in a civil dispute case, just to start with.
The little girl owned the goat. At no point in the proceedings - and indeed at no point in the proceedings in the course of the normal auction-purchase-slaughter of a livestock animal in this program - did the fair own the goat. At no point in the proceedings did the person who successfully bid on the goat actually own it - he had made the winning bid to purchase rights to the meat. He hadn’t even done that yet! The goat legally and incontrovertibly belonged to the little girl. The very worst that should have happened in this story is a brief property ownership dispute in a civil court.
The fair CEO decided to unlawfully force the auction of the goat, and, when the girl’s mother began to dispute her actions, to make a false claim of theft, with precisely ZERO legal basis, calling the cops on an already emotionally fragile child, and then had the temerity to be angry with the child’s mother because the story was making them look bad on social media.
Regardless of your opinion on the meat industry, livestock slaughter, or 4H, 'cops drive 500 miles, perform an illegal search, seizure and destruction of an American citizen’s property, on the word of a biased 3rd party with zero legal rights to the property in question’ should make you angry. Because it is a violation of civil rights, and also had no motive besides needless cruelty to an already grieving child.
Like, please read how unhinged this is. Cops literally went all vigilante with getting deputies to go break into someone’s home, 500 miles out of their jurisdiction, to kill a goddamn goat the fair didn’t own. Authoritarians are so eager to hurt people at all times. This is fucking terrifying.
so i noticed that graph is based on data collected in 2011, and i got curious. the most recent one they have now is 2016.
also the website is a wonderful resource i’ve been exploring. it breaks down the intimidating complexity of US politics to help busy folks who want to understand better but don’t know where to start. and as someone who is neurodivergent, the charts and graphs they use are so helpful for comprehension!
The problem with the Democratic party is that they have no spine, and when someone like Hunt actually makes a stand they won’t back her. But now that she’s made headlines they want to claim her for publicity’s sake.
She’s fighting for her kid’s life and all the DNC can think about is how they can use her in ads instead of doing anything to stop this wave of bigoted laws.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the parent, who remains unidentified for privacy reasons, submitted their challenge on Dec. 11 along with an eight-page list of passages from the Bible that they found to be offensive and worth reviewing.
“Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide,” the parent wrote in their request. “You’ll no doubt find that the Bible, under Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-1227, has ‘no serious values for minors’ because it’s pornographic by our new definition.”
In their request, the parent goes on to say: “I thank the Utah Legislature and Utah Parents United for making this bad faith process so much easier and way more efficient. Now we can all ban books and you don’t even need to read them or be accurate about it. Heck, you don’t even need to see the book!”
id like to nominate Unidentified Utah Parent for president of their local school board and also Congress
AGES is asking for people to spread awareness by retweeting the above tweet and signing the petition to Sega management, which can be found here.
Please note that they also say “Continue playing the Sega games we all love.”THIS MEANS TO NOT BOYCOTT SEGA OR ITS PRODUCTS.
[plain text: “Oh, so the Sonic Superstars announcement was a distraction from the fact Sega is actively union-busting.” /End plain text]
[ID: Screenshot of a tweet by @/takesAEGIS that reads; “We are disappointed that Sega management has decided to interfere in our democratic right to organize leading up to the NLRB mailing out our ballots on June 16.” Below it is an image of a white gloved fist inside a circle, with all caps text on its outline that reads; “Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega”, “CWA Local 9510”. /End ID]
[plain text: “AGES is asking for people to spread awareness by retweeting the above tweet and signing the petition to Sega management, which can be found here.” /End plain text] https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/supportsegaworkers/
[plain text: “Please note that they also say "Continue playing the Sega games we all love.” This means to not boycott Sega or its products.“ /End plain text]
Short explanation: if Sonic’s clone is a girl it means that sonic could be afab
Long explanation:
In Sonic The Hedgehog 2 there was a glitch were Sonic’s palette would turn green and black, the fans named it evil sonic/ Ashura the hedgehog
Archie’s artist Ken Penders turned this concept into a character named Scourge The Hedgehog, aka anti-sonic; a sonic from a parallele universe, bizzarro style
He was a fan favorite but Penders wasnt really the best (Google Ken Penders lawsuits to check) and gived a lot of problems to Sega and in the end the Archie comics had to stop because of him, and now IDW pubblish sonic comics, and due how messy Archie sonic was, now Sonic Team has put a lot of rules of what the writers can or can not put in the comic.
Since they cant use Scourge anymore; IDW made a new character based on the green sonic glitch:
Surge the Tenrec; a clone of sonic made by Dr Starline! And since she is a clone and a girl; accidentally implies that sonic may be afab
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