I'm back from a week at my mom's house and now I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand, the brand I've been putting in my mouth for a week. We never talked about this brand or googled it or anything like that.As a privacy tech worker, let me explain why this is happening. đ§ľ
Cold take: it's pretty fucked up that the "proper" way to unfuck the USA's democracy is "win against overwhelming odds repeatedly and by large enough margins to overturn permanent minority rule by white bigots. And don't you dare break even one window in the process."
They donât know what CRT is but donât need to because their people donât either. They could just as easily rail against teaching the Standard Theory in physics. The point was to turn an academic school of thought into a catch-all phrase that conjures everything people fear.
The GOP, deeply enmeshed in violent white nationalism and xenophobia, has decided to go on the offensive. By attacking antiracism theyâre changing the subject away from the racial arson theyâve encouraged. The attacks on âcritical race theoryâ are central to this.
They're maneuvering to steal the 2024 election. There's no secret plan, no anonymous sources or leaked documents -- it's just all right out in the open -- so we seem unable to treat it as an important story, or call it what it is.
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there should be public bathrooms on every block
people trading increasingly lurid stories of "and I heard, in their parades, they put their WHOLE ARMS up each other's you-know-whats! right in the street!" gives me 90s talk radio flashbacksqueer people repeating it gives me an involuntary eye twitch
For folks who think Person of Interest and Minority Report are fiction.Algo tells Chicago police that area man will be involved in a crimeâeither as perpetrator or victim. But their actions set in motion the thing they say they were trying to prevent.
There is no compromise with this. There is no common ground. There is no deal to be struck. Millions of our fellow citizens are lost in rebellion against reality.
its been a year since george floyd died and so many people bled and lost eyes and marched with such passion and some small victories were achieved and yet the systemic cruelties for the most part remain intact and so do the propaganda systems that uphold them
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Guess it's time to find a new insurer.
For example, when a user files a claim, they record a video on their phone and explain what happened.Our AI carefully analyzes these videos for signs of fraud. It can pick up non-verbal cues that traditional insurers can't, since they donât use a digital claims process. (4/7)
âObservation is participationâ was an idea coined to describe kinks that required audience participation, like flashing. There are some cases where it might be a worthwhile point. âPeople came to Pride wearing a thongâ isn't it.
I notice that the purity respectability crew is not hopping all over Mardi Gras threatening to call the cops and calling most of the city of NOLA what they're calling those of us who think kink is part of Pride because it was there before us.https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1397192434422067201
@Aranock1 @AnaMardoll It's not even like this is theoretical; we've got basically ALL OF HISTORY showing what an attitude of "This class of person dressing the way they want is inherently sexual and must be banned" leads to.
One thing I feel like is not being mentioned in the current discourse is what is defined as kink, and who does that defining. There are plenty of transphobes who define trans people dressing and presenting as our gender as being kink. And, especially with recent bills, 1/6
Transition is >7x more effective at alleviating gender dysphoria than Advil is at reducing headache pain. Transition is THIS effective even in a trans-hostile society, which is like comparing Advilâs effectiveness for a headache at a heavy metal show.Yet, detrans is the focus?
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Y'all understand being upset about tits at Pride is the same as people claiming all tits are sexual and breastfeeding in public is kink right?
@AnaMardoll "Uncontroversial"?? Pride is based on some people's belief that queer folks shouldn't be allowed to LIVE, this is such an asinine goal to have. For some people, my existence is controversial! I refuse to try to mitigate that!
This year's discourse feels like a TERF operation and it worries me. So many people talking about how the mere existence of a (clothed!!) penis makes a space sexualized and unsafe.
pointing out here, again, that trans people were not a contentious issue until conservatives lost the war over gay marriage. they immediately pivoted to the next issue they could exploit for their culture war BS. it's a pattern and people need to get wise to ithttps://twitter.com/CaseyExplosion/status/1396886159406649346
People keep asking questions like "how can misinfo literacy help when everyone is so polarized" but it completely misdiagnoses what goes on with most people, who have *zero* idea what they are consuming harpers.org/archive/2021/0âŚ
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"but the leather stuff is /weird/" YEAH THAT'S WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT ALL OF US KAREN. THAT'S THE ENTIRE FUCKING POINT. THAT'S WHAT /I/ GOT EXPOSED TO AS A YOUNG QUEER: HOW NASTY AND UNNATURAL THEY THINK QUEER SEX IS, AND HOW IT'S ALL THEY THINK ABOUT WHEN THEY SEE US
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I so very rarely talk about actual transhumanism but no punchline this shit gets me really fucking excitedhttps://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1396003181151272963
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So, TikTok right? They're finally releasing an API. This API includes the "Login Kit for Web", which include this unbelievable code example:
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This. Fucking all of this.
Someone put my rage into words.
"no kink at pride" is exactly the same as "no porn on tumblr/ebay/telegram/etsy/twitter/patreon" and the same as SESTA/FOSTA and the same as banning trans people from existing in public. it all comes from the same place, and the sooner you see that the sooner we can break it
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I hate how this discourse comes around every year like clockwork at this time. and its the same each time. its never resolved because its unresolvable. its your own internal shames and guilts at war inside you. its why pride exists: to tell that shame to fuck off for a day.
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guilt, shame, internal phobias, aversions, these are the emotional cores that get turned into policies and political stances. when enough people share a personal aversion they vote for someone who promises to make whatever it is go away forever.
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the "no kink at pride" people are swiftly radicalizing me from "kink at pride is not a big deal" to "ONLY KINK AT PRIDE"
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i don't know how to make it any fucking clearer than this:"don't hold hands with your boyfriend in public, we all know you have sex with him"
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"don't wear your pup hood in public, we all know you have sex in it"
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google has been around for longer than gay sex has been legal in all of america. when super mario sunshine was released, a man could be arrested for having sex with another man in the US.
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we had to have a fucking supreme court case saying you can't actually put people in Literal Goddamned Jail for having gay sex. that's in living memory of every adult in the fucking country because if it were a person, it wouldn't be old enough to vote yet!!
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look i just think pride should be for the LGBTQs. Lesbians, General motors, Bank of america, Teenagers, and Qalmart
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i literally just saw "pride isn't about sex" and i feel like i'm in an AU. people like me were still being called "sodomites" pretty regularly and publicly while i was growing up and that wasn't that long ago, what the fuck is happening here
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Republicans and right wing media outlets told them there were monsters under their beds, and they believed it. Now theyâre crippling democracy across the country to chase away these imaginary fears.Democrats have to protect voting rights, and now.
https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/status/1396902958495850500
* Garland won't release the memo on Trump and obstruction
* Yellen won't release Trump's tax returns
* Wray won't investigate the elites behind the attempted coup
* Biden won't restructure board to get rid of DeJoy
* Dems won't pass voting rightsYou catching on yet?
Iâm a queer parent, and tbh if you donât want to have to explain shit to your kid at Pride that has hard answers or crosses the line of what you feel is comfortable, donât fucking take them. Pride didnât start as a PR campaign to impress the wine moms in your book club.
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hi, I'm the parent of a kid who attended Harvey Milk elementary - we walked up Castro Street every day after school, seeing whatever was in the shop windows & whatever people were wearing or not wearingI'm here to tell you she's fine - fantastic actually
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lil nas x didn't give satan a lapdance for y'all to get on here and ask queer people to tone it down for the children
Yâall motherfuckers realize that the increase of kink at pride in the 80s was a direct response to cishets framing queer sex as a shameful death sentence during the height of the AIDS crisis, rightThey told us it was a punishment from god
So we chose to rule hell in style
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