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"he would not fucking say that" i say with disgust, but im not talking about characterization im talking about his, like, vocabulary

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sometimes people think I’m really pedantic about word choice but it’s really important to be precise when talking about big structures and precise wording is the difference between “capitalism reinforces patriarchy,” a statement which is true, and “capitalism created patriarchy,” a statement which implies that misogyny didn’t exist until the 1600s

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BECAUSE CITING SOURCES KILLED MY GRANDMA, OKAY?

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I finally switched to firefox and I've seen a lot of posts about the effortless importing of preferences from chrome and how it's important to support non-chromium platforms, but nobody is talking about the loss of productivity that happens when beautiful women come to your house to kiss you on the mouth because they heard you use firefox now. nobody's talking about this

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It's embarrassing that it took me till I was in my 30's to actually discover who the lead singer of 30 Seconds to Mars is, but every time I think about it I'm like "no way, no way"

#WH

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every once in a while im like "lmfao isnt england embarrassed to have a queen" but like the lawyer wig situation is honestly above and beyond that weirdness like what is that. do they make you guy your own wig. is it like harry potter where it chooses you. is it custom. do you go to a judge wig store. how come some wigs dont fit and look like shit

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Headlights are just too bright now. We gotta regulate them.

(And before anyone says it’s just an aiming problem - no. Like I apologize to the headlight aficionados clearly lusting after lighthouses, chernobyl, or the death star, but no amount of aiming is gonna fix the fact that the moment your car encounters any kind of hill, curve, or bump, my retinas are vaporized by a shade of blue-white previously known only to god. Just accept your limits and settle for a soft orange like the rest of us)

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Spicebox in the shape of a fish, 1800s, Poland.

#LOVE

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Hbomberguy isn't the goat because he 'destroys careers' or 'dunks on things/people I hate', he's one of the best on the platform because he actually backs up all his claims with research (EXTENSIVE research, considering he will actually read related scientific articles and so on) and creates his videos with the intent of sharing an original overarching message. When he engages critically he does so in good faith, and with media it comes from a place of passion and WANTING something to be good.

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"In a historic “first-of-its-kind” agreement the government of British Colombia has acknowledged the aboriginal ownership of 200 islands off the west coast of Canada.

The owners are the Haida nation, and rather than the Canadian government giving something to a First Nation, the agreement admits that the “Xhaaidlagha Gwaayaai” or the “islands at the end of world,” always belonged to them, a subtle yet powerful difference in the wording of First Nations negotiating.

BC Premier David Eby called the treaty “long overdue” and once signed, will clear the way for half a million hectares (1.3 million acres) of land to be managed by the Haida.

Postal service, shipping lanes, school and community services, private property rights, and local government jurisdiction, will all be unaffected by the agreement, which will essentially outline that the Haida decide what to do with the 200 or so islands and islets.

“We could be facing each other in a courtroom, we could have been fighting each other for years and years, but we chose a different path,” said Minister of Indigenous Relations of BC, Murray Rankin at the signing ceremony, who added that it took creativity and courage to “create a better world for our children.”

Indeed, making the agreement outside the courts of the formal treaty process reflects a vastly different way of negotiating than has been the norm for Canada.

“This agreement won’t only raise all boats here on Haida Gwaii – increase opportunity and prosperity for the Haida people and for the whole community and for the whole province – but it will also be an example and another way for nations – not just in British Columbia, but right across Canada – to have their title recognized,” said Eby.

In other words, by deciding this outside court, Eby and the province of BC hope to set a new standard for how such land title agreements are struck."

-via Good News Network, April 18, 2024

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I hate to say it but everyone saying there's Pre-Holocaust vibes are correct

We're seeing a massive spread of unchecked, unrepentant antisemitism spreading quicker with social media now. People are cheering on murdered Jewish kids and then fact checking us to tell us it didn't happen

Blood libel is gaining traction like never before all the while Jews in the Diaspora are being attacked

So to all you proud Nazi Punchers, I must ask,

Why are you standing by, letting this happen, repeating things the Nazis could only dream of? Why aren't you standing up, dismantling antisemitism in your movement, helping Jews once again forced to hide in their homes?

Or was it never about protecting Jews? Just about protecting your egos

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When Moomin's tail was balding and doctors couldn't be of any help, Moominmamma goes out of her way to cure his son herself. His tail successfully grows back - but now the tuft is gold! Because of this, Moomin becomes a sensation across the world, but is fame always a blessing?

Honestly, I think a movie based on Moomin and the Golden Tail would be a very interesting thing to make, especially as a response to the declining capitalist economy and the flanderization of the Moomins' image. All the Janssons who've had their hand in the brand have admitted to Moomin being a sort of curse - the stress of managing such a large brand and also creating content out of it... It's known how rough it was for each of them. And Tove projected that stress onto her Moomintroll in Moomin and the Golden Tail.

3 of the major changes I would make would probably be

1. Moominpappa's arc is expanded upon beyond his troubles with Wimsy and the gentrification of his house - he'd try to ride the coattails of his son's fame and finally sell his Memoirs to a large audience, only to get... Not negative responses but responses that bruise him right in the ego.

2. Sniff would be a Lars stand-in rather than a greedy company stand-in. Stinky is already there to fill that role, and Sniff was very much flanderized in later Tove comics much to my chagrin, so I would like to have his role as an adoptive brother be expanded upon as he tries to help Moomintroll in his tail ownership/maintenance/business.

3. The golden tail gets passed onto Sniff. The comic ends with a classic "the crowd moves onto The Next Big Thing immediately after the main character quits" trope and while it's fine for a semi-episodic comic strip, for a movie that would lean into more of Tove's struggles with the franchise I think it would be more hard-hitting and truthful to subvert that trope and be honest about the franchise's ongoing relevance and how the comic ended up in Lars' hands after Tove happily quit and left the comic strip to him.

#undescribed #moomin

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"Do you see there, on the mountain, a cross rises.

There are a dozen soldiers under it, hang on it.

And when you get tired, come back to me.

Walk on the water, walk on the water, walk on the water with me."

#alicia moomin #undescribed #THE BESTIES

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true friendship is willfully making someone’s emotional devastation over fictional characters worse

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transgender bodies are incredible and beautiful and in fact also quite sacred. this includes yours. i will not be hearing objections to this.

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why is “report hate speech” not one of the default options with “report spam” instead of “report sexually explicit material”. i’m not a cop so i don’t care if people post hole & pole but i would love if i didn’t have to explain every time why it’s bad when there are nazis

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i love when sibling characters are fucked up from the same event but in opposite ways