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the Columbia University arrests are worse than they seem. They're arresting protesting students for trespassing. It goes without saying students cannot meaningfully "trespass" in the common areas of a university they attend. So Columbia University has suspended all student protestors from their institution, in the process revoking their access to housing, their belonging, and most crucially damaging their academic futures. We are witnessing full scale silencing and removal of anyone of conscience from the next generation of academia.

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This movie is so good.

#to read

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yall are not fucking doing this shit to ted kazcynski, the white supremacist homophobe murderer who died alone bc he couldnt bother to do anything with his impotent rage besides take it out in the least effective way possible and form absolutely meaningless politics from that!!! you white losers who would rather spend 10 hours a day online than crack open a book or go the fuck outside love finding some hitlerite asshole and acting like he had anything significant to say about a world that he didnt try to understand and that you dont either.

i feel like this is part of another shitty trend of babygirl-ifying horrific, racist men and treating trans womanhood like some sort of escape for the shit they do as men or like transness is some sort of cure for being an awful racist person, just like is done to kurt cobain. if your politics were based on anything more than being edgy, if you took the effort to understand the world deeper than fandom culture, and if you tried to envision trans women as women instead of an escape for men to dodge consequences, you wouldnt be posting shit like this

my fave riff on miku binder jefferson is the one with ted kaczinsky on horse piss estrogen

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I'm so glad that y'all are so into Monkey Man and the badass hijra priestess army, but friendly reminder that hijra are NOT trans women. Hijra are their own distinct gender; trans women are women. India has both :)

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Raiden, hit the slay button!

#metal gear solid 2 #mgs2 #mgs

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so anyway fuck comptop forever & if you have a transfem partner who's playing that conventionally masculine type of role in yr relationship you gotta make sure she like actually wants that. and even if she says she does, maybe sprinkle some treating her like a sweet little flower in there cuz maybe she's never experienced it & she'll like it more than she thinks. the alternative is always that some suave tgirl polycule whisks her away into the heavens and treats her better than u anyway

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A horse conch, also known as “triplofusus giganteus, eating a lightning whelk, which is a large predatory whelk.

#oh good lord

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After raising the price of COVID-19 vaccines more than four-fold this year, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told investors Monday that the company will also likely hike the price of its lifesaving COVID-19 antiviral treatment, Paxlovid, raising further concern about access and healthcare costs.

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2002

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there’s no point downplaying the signs anymore,,,,my boobs are about to start growing again,,,,

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 35mm scan

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There's a question which the west coast Fallout games are quietly litigating, which is that age-old gotcha about what you do with the remaining orcs once you've deposed Sauron. In the original Fallout, the Super Mutants are basically universally aligned against the quote-unquote "good guys," for whatever value of that term is applicable to the wasteland at large, but subsequent games make it clear that this was an ideological thing, and a product of the political moment of the mutants creation rather than an ontological quality that they have. The game is very aware that this is something that was done to them, and the tragedy of that; the first mutant you're likely to run into is dying scared and alone.

Fallout 2 presents super mutants who've broken in every direction ideologically in the aftermath of the Unity's collapse; the peacemakers under Marcus at Broken Hills, Gond as a member of the abolitionist NCR rangers, reactionary remnants of the original mutant army, genocidal self-hating fascists like Frank Horrigan. Fallout: New Vegas iterates on this beautifully. The mutants dovetail perfectly with the theme of how every faction in the wasteland is trying and oftentimes failing to reckon with the weight of history. Their utopian movement imploded outside of living memory, closer to the apocalypse than to the present day. The survivors- who can only dwindle in number due to their sterility- have been left to reckon with that in whatever way they can. And they have their backs to about a hundred and twenty years of that reckoning not going particularly well, of being the bugbear and boogeymen for bullies and ideologues whose grandparents weren't even alive to suffer from the Unity's actions. The lack of a collective future for mutantkind casts a pall over even the best ending for Jacobstown; humans are collectively resilient within this setting, but through violence, and accidents, dementia and senility, the day will inevitably come when there are no mutants left. And worse still will be the day before that, when there's only one mutant left. Finding some form of satisfaction or contentment within that dwindling window, with the world against you, is a task that falls to the individual mutant. (Take Mean Sonovabitch, for example. He seems to be doing alright for himself.)

Then we slide on over to the east coast games, where the mutants are.... morons. Cannibals. Marauders. And when you meet one who isn't, the game throws itself a ticker-tape parade for containing such an audacious twist. To go back to the orc thing, it's like if The Hobbit had contained a lengthy, empathetic subplot about the rich internality and fleshed-out-if-deeply-flawed ideology of the orcs, and then there was a pivot to treating them like a monolithic block of ontologically evil marauders in LOTR. While staring you straight in the eye the whole time, unblinking. Daring you to say something

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she rosencrantz on my guildenstern until i dead