a dyke who hacks on things. she/xey/ey. beka_valentine@kolektiva.social
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women shooting men with handguns that they kept in their clothing pockets is why women's pockets were made so so very tiny or removed entirely!
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do younger folx not understand the fairly standard ways of representing complete and utter boredom, and other universal human experiences, that are used in television and movies?
“mulder isn’t autistic” mind you, he spent a week sharpening pencils before perfectly lining them up and throwing them into his ceiling
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what kids these days dont understand is that in the y2k era, companies would just imply that their products were drugs in a good way
ALT ps2 ad of a girl sticking out her tongue with 4 e tablets on it, but they have the playstation button symbols on them
Community note
This image is not official PS2 marketing material. It was first posted by an artist named Shy Smith in 2021.
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cops in NYC did this once. tried to strike to pressure the city into giving them what they wanted. crime dropped so much that they had to end the strike early lol
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"You almost burned down the house, but fortunately you accidentally made one of the most thermally insulating materials known to science. Do you know what an aerogel is?"
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fun fact: many debt holders started to refuse to sell debt to groups intent on cancelling it a few years back
they don't care about getting the money from the sale, they care about keeping people in debt. think about that for a second
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the connection between trans women and butch cis dykes in bathrooms is SUCH AN OLD ISSUE that it was literally a joke in Dykes to Watch Out For
ALT 4 panel comic from dykes to watch out for showing the cis lesbian soft butch character getting nosie about a trans dyke using the bathroom and then after going in herself getting accused of being a man by the cishet woman in the bathroom, the trans dyke saying she never has this problem
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Seattle gay bars are getting raided by homophobic Seattle PD who are citing the bars for public indecency because of what people are wearing
thestranger.com/queer/2024/0…
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the correct response to this is massive gay sex and kink shit at pride this year
fuck you, SPD
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it frustrates me that social darwinists have screwed up everyone's understanding of what "survival of the fittest" means to the point where people think it means competition
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every rich person does this shit with their hobbies. this isn't a sign of autism it's a sign of wealth
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what has happened is that a lot of americans, especially on twitter, have no clue how to be politically active, and instead have turned consumption of war porn into activism
they """witness""" atrocities and thereby have done their duty and absolved themselves of responsibility
ok so the people calling me a murderous c*nt for saying this are not refuting it, but let me just reiterate: if you already oppose the genocide, sitting in your house watching footage of dismembered children will give you ptsd and actively harm your ability to engage in activism
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i think one of the most dangerous liberal ideas is that you can reason a fascist out of fascism, that they're just confused and mistake about the world rather than that they have fundamentally different and incompatible values
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this girl is posting recipes for synthesizing the worlds first known room temp and pressure superconductor on twitter in order to deny corporate control of the patents, fuxking legend
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the Luddites were 100% correct about everything but you'd never know it because the standard narrative about them is mostly fake and misrepresents both their concerns AND the outcomes of the changes they were concerned about
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lots of programmers write code like this on a regular basis, it's called bad code
ceiling is being raised. cursor's copilot helped us write "superhuman code" for a critical feature. We can read this code, but VERY few engineers out there could write it from scratch.
Took lots of convincing too. "come on, this must be possible, try harder". and obviously- done in parts.
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i'm gonna say this again because it's so mind blowing
Debt Collection Companies will happily sell debt at a MAJOR discount so long as the debt continues to exist
they will REFUSE to sell it if they know it's going to be cancelled even tho it HAS NO EFFECT ON THEM
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it is frankly outrageous that democrats today have moved so far to the right that ronald fuxking reagan is to their left
In August 1982, when Israel massacred 300 Lebanese civilians in saturation bombing of Beirut, President Ronald Reagan literally ordered the Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to halt the massacre.
Contrast Reagan's humanity with the senile old pro-genocide filth Joe Biden.
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these companies literally TURN DOWN MONEY because they want debtors to continue to be in debt even tho they have no immediate financial incentive to do so
they're either hoping for LONG TERM profit somehow, or they're seeking to maintain an indebted underclass
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this is eugenics this is eugenics this is eugenics this is eugenics this is eugenics this is eugenics this is eugenics this is eugenics this is eugenics this is eugenics this is eugenics this is eugenics this is eugenics this is eugenics this is eugenics
“Canadian man approved for euthanasia despite citing POVERTY as key reason for his decision” dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
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i'm saying it
HRT should be over the counter. no one has any right to tell me or anyone else what they can or can't do with their bodies, period
"Oh so you're saying we shouldn't demand gold standard evidence for life-changing interventions because some people might feel bad?"
No, I'm saying we should apply the same rules we do when it's literally anything else. We don't do RCTs on atherosclerosis for the same reason.
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the writers of this show were not at all representing autism with this. it was the 90s, their understanding of autism was profoundly ableist and terrible, which is why when they did actually have an autistic character, he was portrayed like this:
piped.video/watch?v=LaOQn-1U…
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there is literally no such thing as Stockholm Syndrome
it was made up by a paid psychologist in order to gaslight one of the women who was held hostage and who criticised the recklessness of the police and corporation
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fun fact: the 1950s were a time when casual polyamory was rampant
"going steady" meant to be in a monogamous relationship with someone, but you could be undecided about who you wanted to "go steady" with, which meant that you could go on dates with multiple people
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the thing about homelessness is that prior to the enclosure of all space, people could and did literally just build homes for themselves and there was no homelessness. you'd just find a place and build and home and you were done. that's how the modern world was formed. and yet
So... I did some detective work on Google maps and I found it and I actually went there.
I gave the people there a bunch of sodas I had in my trunk, and they were really nice and respectful. They're literally just people at the end of the day. 1/?
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what if, instead of burying infrastructure behind walls and in weird inaccessible and unserviceable places, we built houses like the active serviceable maintenance oriented machines they actually are
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this may not be a good faith question but i do think that treating it as good faith can be quite useful in understanding the history of early 20th century culture, so i'll give my non-art-historian answer
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web3 is not Web 3.0
Web 3.0 means the Semantic Web and existed back in the late 90s and early 2000s
web3 is blockchain con artistry trying to steal the brand recognition of Web 3.0
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Death of the Author-ing Mulder is fine, but don't confuse an intentional re-interpretation as some kind of contemporary understanding
Mulder is a weird, mildly obsessive, mildly paranoid person who is bored, stuck, and uninspired
piped.video/watch?v=2c4oOgvn…
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gonna start a new discourse about how Sapphos of Lesbos was a fake lesbian and maybe even a traitor to women because she was bi
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tbh it's because you're not torrenting enough. back when torrenting media was widespread, Netflix was forced to offer a good legal alternative. but now most people don't torrent. so they have no reason to not take advantage of you
i mean, what are you gonna do? torrent it???
I'm sorry I shouldn't have to pay $2.99 to watch a 35 year old movie on a streaming service that I already pay for. Can somebody explain to me why we've allowed this to happen?
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the worst nuclear accident in US history and it literally was fine, and as a result of media panic and new age anti science fools, we severely curtailed nuclear power rollout and now have more fossil fuel dependence and more climate change than we would've had by huge amounts
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every piece of scientific evidence we have on this is that this is 200% false -- people do not in fact need to over work themselves to be highly productive, and in fact doing so decreases productivity because exhaustion and burnout are bad for productivity
ALT nat friedman quote tweeting someone talking about pushing deadlines etc. nat says "This is how great new things are built, more often than anyone has been willing to say during the last decade's cultural revolution in Silicon Valley."
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if you dont believe this happens, here's a story from 2014 about Navient doing this
theguardian.com/money/2014/s…
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if this is a behavioral trait of people with ADHD and not neurotypical people, then we really should be having a conversation about why neurotypical people are compliant and obedient, because that seems like a deeper problem than "folx with ADHD get bored with boring shit"
This 2017 study led by University of Florida found that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder symptoms manifest watching videos requiring executive brain function [read more: buff.ly/3Dq8bgm-]
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a lot of people would be shocked to see a verbatim transcript of their own spoken words
people think they speak a lot more coherently than they actually do
linguists have known for a loooong time that naturally spoken language is all over the place
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whats happening is the coordination of genocide
before you can actually start mass murdering people by the tens of thousands, you have to establish that there is a sufficient number of people WILLING to do that
once you have done this publicly, everyone who said yes feels safe
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psychiatry is so real and doctors are so smart that they only invented the idea of having two illnesses at once in the year 2013
If you’re autistic, you might have ADHD (and vice versa); studies indicate that up to 80% of autists may meet the criteria for ADHD. If you’re wondering how your doctor could’ve missed one but not the other, prior to late 2013 the DSM didn’t permit dual autism and ADHD diagnoses.
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the problem with fossil fuels is not that they're inefficient -- they're so efficient that this massive logistics problem was worth solving
the problem is that they ARE efficient
they are REALY good ways of storing a LOT of energy in a small space
Such an excellent illustration of how inefficient fossil fuels are and how manufactured our dependency actually is.
Close to half of all shipping traffic worldwide is just moving fossil fuels around
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because third spaces have been destroyed. notice how all the replies and quotes are "i do this with my partner"?? it's bc your partners one of the only people you can spend lots of time around outside work now. arcades are dead, coffee shops are a 10 drive and have no space, etc
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fun fact: paving stones have a much lower ongoing maintenance cost because the space between them lets them expand and contract between summer heat and winter cold, leading to less cracking and thus less wear, fewer potholes, etc.
they also force cars to drive slower
Old streetcar rail and pavers normally buried beneath asphalt — but visible in a pothole today along Smith Avenue on St. Paul’s West Side
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supposedly this kid was arrested for using a megaphone, which is banned in many places without a permit, and this has been a long used tactic to silence protestors
more people need to understand the People's Mic, so let's talk about that
I'm posting this with her mother's permission because I need everyone to see what Ron DeSantis’ Florida really looks like.
13 year olds being arrested for protesting for their own freedom.
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I'm quite serious when I say this about the Luddites. their main concerns were:
1. power looms and stocking frames were being used by capitalists to turn textile work into a de-skilled trade, that would make workers more interchangeable
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just learning about the better rival to femboy hooters: Tomboy Outback
ALT art of some tomboys wearing tomboy outback uniforms draped on some gothy person in a big purple chair, possibly by an artist named shuunnico
ALT are of a tomboy in tomboy outback uniform handing the viewer a menu saying "w-welcome to tomboy outback steak house. here's your menu. if you ask me about the strip steak i will break your spine", art by @pshyzomamcer
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this is the best explanation i've found for why this shit happens
If people think they can just hold out until their loser debt gets bought up and forgiven
PEOPLE WILL NOT PAY THE COLLECTORS
That is why, imho, they absolutely do not want to sell even loser paper to 'debt forgiveness' schemes.
-fin-
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4. the use of machines worked by less skilled people would produce lower quality textiles and garments
all of this is in fact true and is exactly what happened
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and that "Blue Sky" is the term used to refer to projects and science undertaken without consideration of practical applications and instead for exploring new ideas for their own sake, which is what bluesky started out as
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2. the shift to factory production forced a shift of power from workers to factory owners in terms of how work got done and when
3. the shift to factory production would shift economic power to factory owners because the factories were big and rich and backed by big banks
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the modern Library of Alexandria is the libgen network and the bittorrent network. looney tunes is still on bittorrent without interruption
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controversial opinion: there are very good reasons to have anonymous digital money and if money laundering is a consequence of that then that's just too bad for the government i guess
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you'll see many narratives out there about how Luddites were afraid of machines, as if they were literally just afraid of a monster, but that's a cheap and easily refuted narrative so its not even worth giving attention to
more important are the narratives around real concerns
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once you realize that fascists aren't going to be reasoned out of fascism you can start to ask what it will take to actually beat them politically
but you MUST disabuse yourself of that false notion that you can persuade them to value queers, or anyone else
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we don't need to speculate! this is what happened in the early 1900s when women were allowed to play all sorts of sports including at the olympics. women crushed men in some sports, were then BANNED, and then gender segregation was invented to protect men
For all the whiners crying about trans women competing in sports, I'm betting a lot of cis women would dominate cis men's sports if they were allowed to compete. 🎖️
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this is a perfect example of how psychiatry is used to pathologize people for the sake of enforcing compliance
This study led by University of Central Florida found that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder symptoms manifest watching videos requiring executive brain function
[read more: buff.ly/3Dq8bgm]
[full paper: buff.ly/3NdWpvU]
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when fascists say that queers are a danger to kids they partially mean the groomer shit but they also mean something far more important:
they mean that queerness itself is the danger. that the very state of being queer is harmful in and of itself
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a small but annoying lack in most modern OSes:
a good fucking paste bin
seriously, your paste bin should be a long as history of what you've copied, all of it, in time order, with lots of contextual information that you can BROWSE VISUALLY
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half of psychiatry is just declaring that authoritarianism and capitalism are Biologically Correct and anything that doesn't comply with those is a disorder
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one narrative, for instance, is that they were primarily worried about wages (which was *a* concern but not the only concern) and that they were wrong to worry because wages went up
but wages didn't go up at all
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there certainly were cases where the corporate factories could loss lead on wages, and so entice people into the factories with temporarily higher wages, absolutely
that's the same trick walmart does to destroy competition in small towns across america
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the transphobes were so worried that gender self ID would let predatory men just waltz into non-men's spaces that they decided to prove the point by becoming the predatory men who just waltz into non-men's spaces
nitter.app/tom_usher_/status/1653…
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if you show people some facts about this or that self harm rate or depression rate etc it doesn't matter to them because they consider the queerness itself to be a GREATER harm
no amount of rational debate will change that. that's a VALUES difference
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thousands of years of clogged pipes and architects are still like "what if we put the pipes in the most inconvenient places"
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they're harder to repair, too, and increasingly these days impossible to repair thanks to other shit like computerization
and the end result is that you can spend MORE money on kitchen appliances in a lifetime than you would have even 70 years ago, simply because of quality
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thanks to bittorrent, you'll be able to watch these shows forever! remember to seed in order to keep the shows you love alive and well :)
Remember when the promise of streaming was an endless library where even niche shows would be watchable forever? Now b/c of the merger, HBO Max is DELETING dozens of shows, just to save $ on taxes and residuals. A needless, shameful waste. variety.com/2022/tv/news/hbo…
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why is there a photograph of Columbo baked into this column from Blade Runner? I've checked every version of the movie, including the workprint and its there in all of them
ALT column from the noodle shop scene as deckard gets into the car
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but the long term trend was, and still is, that real wages dropped
another important thing is that they were entirely right about quality
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i have never seen anyone use the term tech bro for anyone who would be called a nerd and all the nerds i know hate tech bros
“techbro” is just the reemergence of thinking it’s cool to hate nerds, mixed in with a bunch of resentment from watching the last 20 years of nerds taking over the world
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anyway so the situation with Twitter right now is happening because Musk trapped himself in an obligation to buy Twitter with a flippant tweet earlier this year, and the CEO of Twitter was then legally obliged to follow it up b/c it would be a good deal for shareholders
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a recurring theme across a lot of factory capitalist propaganda is how mass production has made poor people able to access things that not even the richest monarch of 1800 could get
and this is often true, sort of
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don't use boolean, use descriptive values
don't do this:
foo.isReady = true
do this:
foo.status = Ready
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i mean, plastic didn't exist in 1800 so no amount of money would've gotten a monarch a plastic doodad
but the cost of this mass production has been a dramatic drop in quality
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one need only look at, say, kitchen appliances
today, you can find endless kitchen appliances for cheap. but of course they break in a year or two because plastic is weak and easily damaged, etc etc etc
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its very similar to how political activism for leftists is often just protest marches that are only marginally disruptive, and how even when some folx want to """escalate""", that typically means starting brawls at marches far from the causal core, rather than anything else
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also fun fact: if someone cancels your debt, the government considers that income and you have to pay taxes on it
that's right, if someone says "nah you don't owe me anything anymore"
the government says "you just got money so pay up"
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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"we escalate for gaza" generally means "we start shit with cops at the DNC", and not "we blockade the entrance to a military port"
"when X are under attack, what do we do? stand up fight back!" generally means "we protest then go home, and don't fight ever"
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every time i see a study like this it's always like, are you really defining ADHD as "unable to concentrate on boring things even if you have to for externally defined reasons" and it's like, dude are you seriously saying THATS the abnormal party? not your subservience???????????
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there's an old joke about ATT that goes something like
A: Do you know what the business of ATT is?
B: Helping people communicate?
A: No, it's making money. We just happen to do that by helping people communicate.
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everyone is like "oh no, we can't make twitter bots anymore, so sad, gotta shut it all down"
you SHOULD be saying "heck yeah time to learn Selenium and make it even harder for Musk to block us"
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honestly what's the point of men's basketball when this is what happens in women's basketball
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every tech worker friend i know makes gobs of money and also wants to destroy capitalism and institute full communism. maybe you're just hanging out with the wrong people bro
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fun fact: when timothy leary tried VR around 1990, he said it was what they were trying to achieve with LSD back in the 60s
the first wave of VR was heavily psychedelic in both its content and its influence. jaron lanier was a regular at Esselen
modern VR is sterile, corporate
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