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all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

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Been awhile hasn't it

#animation

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James Baldwin: “After all, you’re accusing a captive population who has been robbed of everything of looting. I think it’s obscene.”

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i am skeptical you could do that actually, tiktok user

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From Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish

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OCD symptom i struggle with but don't see talked about a lot: inability to trust your own memory and/or perception.

as an example: i put my headphones in my bag. i say im sure they're in my bag, but what if i imagined putting them in my bag? i have to check, so i stick my hand inside and grab them. but then i have to check *again* because what if i just so happened to have another object shaped and sized exactly like my headphones that i just forgot about? so i have to pull them out of my bag and look directly at them to fully confirm they were in my bag

this is a fairly benign example but this also happens with other worse scenarios for me and it's. not fun

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excuse me what the fuck

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i NEED you to listen to this episode intro. please. please. I NEED you to. please.

#palisade #friends at the table #austin walker genius of our time

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My friend Rita has been harassed by TERFs, and bullied by Tumblr staff for the better half of a year now. Afew hours ago they nuked her off the website after threatening her with the FBI

the "threat of violence" in question:

Rita's name has been dragged in the mud and the literal CEO of tumblr decided to join in too.

please consider helping her out. she's a disabled sex worker just trying to get by and anything you give would go a long way.

paypal / cashapp: £moirahopz

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i think more people need to be more critical of the way that genocide and racism are presented in tes.

the elder scrolls is a series that has deeply entrenched racist ideals that have dug their roots into western fantasy and it does not subvert or challenge these ideals. concerningly, it presents multiple scenarios wherein a genocide is “justified” in some way, often presented in the form of “human vs elf race wars” that have more or less become fascist dogwhistles in fantasy. elves frequently become stand-ins for races and ethnicities seen as subhuman, and you can look no further than the real-life politics of die-hard stormcloak fans to prove this matter. in fact, members of the neo-nazi forum stormfront have overtly stated that to them, ulfric stormcloak represents whites struggling against jewish overlords. it’s not hard to see how this issue came about- the presentation of essentially white humans being subjugated by a near-but-not-quite-human race of overlords for their religious reverence of a man who is also a god is something found in both far-right christian circles and also skyrim. the clear influence of christianity on the imperial pantheon does nothing to help this issue.

skyrim lends itself to being co-opted by antisemitic conspiracy theorists in this manner with the thalmor, and the status of dunmer refugees and their descendants in windhelm openly appeals to anti-immigration fans who then go on to use the dunmer as a stand-in for whatever culture or race they scapegoat as an immigration threat. it is concerning to me to hear ostensibly liberal tes fans arguing that the dunmer should be grateful to be allowed to live in a slum at all, echoing the sentiments expressed by far-right fans who don’t really mean dunmer all that much when they say those things.

the falmer pose another issue. it shouldn’t be hard to imagine why the lore of a european-analogous race sailing to a “new” continent where they proceed to slaughter the prior inhabitants with the excuse that they were attacked first might be upsetting to players. the fact that the game goes on to present surviving falmer as mindless subhuman monsters is yet more unsettling. yet skyrim goes out of its way to avoid placing the blame on the atmorans/nords, instead pulling that whole deal with the dwemer and focusing on that as the source of the falmer’s suffering. even one of the few surviving unchanged falmer places more emphasis on the crimes of the dwemer and the malevolence of the betrayed than on the nords that enacted a genocide in the first place.

this is a writing decision that places the player in a spot of perceived innocence- the game implicitly suggests that nothing can really be done now because the dwemer are gone, and the falmer are so corrupted that you have no choice but to carry out indiscriminate violence against a race subjected to a genocide. meanwhile the companions actively revere ysgramor and you as the player can acquire an axe with the sole purpose of being used to kill elves AND A DAMAGE BONUS AGAINST THEM, and none of this is condemned nor really even all that discussed at all.

these kinds of decisions don’t exist in a vacuum. it is known that bethesda has had an issue with bigoted employees, most famously but far from exclusively michael kirkbride. while certainly fantasy racism isn’t a direct 1:1 to real life oppression, there’s undoubtedly influence from real life biases and bigotries (even if subconscious and not the result of intentional malice) in the writing of the elder scrolls, and it’s important to be able to recognize this and point it out so you don’t end up sounding like a nazi when you discuss the games.

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Al-Jazeera stole a video from Moataz Abu Sakran, a video which he singlehandedly filmed and edited. They then incorrectly credited a different account, the owner of which is not even in north Gaza.

Moataz risked his life to get this footage, and shared it so that the world would see the damage inflicted on his home by the occupation. Al-Jazeera has way too many resources at their disposal to carelessly commit misattribution like this.

Moataz has started a fund to rebuild his house for himself and his wife and baby girl. The fund is linked here. Please share it and donate if you can.

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Here are some of the donations for Congo

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Behold, the semifinals bracket! We have two exciting races on our hands:

Marielda vs The Sermon of Sister Rust

Tell Me vs The Killing of the King-God Samothes By The Traitor Prince Maelgwyn, or The Marielda Suite

The polls will be live tomorrow!

#well sermon of sister rust and tell me have to prevail #i love marielda and killing of the king-god samothes by the traitor prince maelgwyn or the marielda suite #but the marielda suite ends with marielda and also. also. #you can listen to the choir. when will he tell me. listen. listen.

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هُنَّ لِبَاسٌ۬ لَّكُمۡ وَأَنتُمۡ لِبَاسٌ۬ لَّهُنَّ‌

"Your spouses are a garment (comfort, chastity, and protection) for you as you are for them."

(2:187)

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Repost of Instagram post by alessandra_sanguinetti:

“In 2004 I worked as an intern in Newsweek and had to go through the wires coming in from the Middle East.

The Iraq war was raging. Israel was committing its routine violations and killings.

The images were devastating and unequivocally condemning of both the USA and Israel, but I remember the editors would reject all my picks and demand images of burnt cars or vague images of destruction.

So I brought a hard drive and collected everything they didn't publish.

It was my first live glimpse of the lack of ethics or integrity in most US media.

Not the journalists on the ground, but of the senior editors making the calls - in their self important glass cubicles.

And no, to the cynics out there..it's not all too complicated to discuss on social media.

Social media is the only reason we know what's happening in Palestine.

And the only reason mainstream news has to keep up and sprinkle some actual news now and then.

Meanwhile we are seeing much less footage coming out of Gaza - Israel has been killing off all the journalists.

This is terrifying.”

Photo credits: Nasser Ishtayeh, Yossi Alon, Saif Dahlah, Jaafar Ashtiyeh, Musa Al-Shaer, Abed Onar Qusini

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Ave True To Caesar!

#fnv #see fnv needs to above all else be reinvented in an engine and style that is not the bethesda engine #look at the kind of cool shit we could've had