Good to see our future PM being crowned next to British political heavyweights such as Count Binface and the local furry.
*This is a real photo.
#uk #unitedKingdom #countBinface #labour #andyBurnham #politics
Analysis showed how much the UK could have grown if it had not exited the EU.Faisal Islam (BBC News)
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not having a japanese keyboard in arch ->
the CD Database has a japanese song on this CD in scrambled text ->
needs to type japanese to fix my cd rip ->
messaged a cute adorable pet that understands japanese and can type japanese, ask her to type out the characters
yeah, i guess i will not install a japanese keyboard anytime soon
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And here's some more fun facts about the (presumable) vagina which differ somewhat from what this diagram tells you:
-The pubic symphysis is not inside the vagina
-Neither is the bladder
-And neither is the sacrum
All of these bits are nearby the vagina and might appear on a diagram with it, but are definitely not inside it.
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But that's exactly how generative AI works. We explored how ChatGPT is working *exactly as it is designed to do* when it generated this horrifying pregnant penis-rectum image masto.ai/@vagina_museum/115100…
Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.
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And believe us, you are not going to get a decent diagram of the gynaecological anatomy using generative AI. We tried. We used "good prompts". But the tech is doing exactly what it's supposed to do, which is making shit up vaguely based on proper actual sources that it's eaten. masto.ai/@vagina_museum/115231…
When we posted this a couple of weeks ago, we had some AI enthusiasts insist that this diagram was the result of poor prompting, or that the prompt that the original poster made was to generate a funny, bad diagram. So we decided to test ChatGPT's capability... masto.ai/@vagina_museum/115100…
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this is a monstrosity
It makes me so mad
wow. wow and yikes and oh no.
brb downgrading my already fairly low opinion on what kind of things generative "AI" products can reliably get sorta-kinda-mostly-right-enough for casual use.
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also ... *ALSO* THERE IS SOMEHOW A PART OF A HUMAN SPINE INSIDE THE UTERUS !?! WTF !?!
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Ohh god ok, i didn't read the AI part, and thought my understanding of anatomy greatly lacking because i struggled to interpret what on earth is going on in the pic...
Phew, it was just slop
Da musste ich doch mal nachschauen, wie sie tatsächlich verwendet wird.
Und ja, die Menstruationstasse scheint ja wirklich nur Vorteile zu bieten.
that is so cursed 😬
My GOD! This image traumatized me. You may need warnings for Bad AI. Imagining sticking the cup through my bladder is horrible, not to mention the bad labeling.
Thanks for the warning. I will never ask A.I. to show me the reproductive system now.
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Yo, all y'all who are laughing/cringing/horrified at this astounding content ... hit the donation page and chip in a fiver, this account is doing world-saving work.
Also, if anyone knows Sam Altman please slip this image into his dinner menu folio with a photocopy of the appropriate pages of the anatomy colouring book. 10 copies, he needs to be in detention for a while for this nonsense.
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Keir Starmer: "I am not prepared to compromise on the safety and happiness of our children."
Ok, good. Then give them all free school meals, well funded community centres with caring and emotionally mature staff, access to the arts, free spaces to exist in public, residential streets with less cars and more room to play, free higher education. Something to do during the summer holidays that doesn't make them feel like an inconvenience.
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The Rainbow Dash Dalek my husband bought at one of his first pony conventions has made its way back into our lives!
#mlp #mylittlepony #brony #drwho #rainbowdash #crochet
CSAM generation is now openly "critical for national security." So yeah, America is going about as expected.
The US government has intervened in a lawsuit on the side of X, saying Grok is "critical for national security" wired.com/story/doj-lawyers-ar…DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit
In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI’s polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.Molly Taft (WIRED)
South Park scene where the government decides the fate of various companies on the verge of insolvencymerrillovermatter (YouTube)
a CSAM generator is national security in a nation run by a pedophile.
Agreed, this passes the sniff test
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My dad had this conversation with me just before he left for work (night shift):
“There’s a new person at work…He’s a she. I mean… She is a she— Now. We’re supposed to call her that now.”
[long pause]
“Anyway… I don’t care about this gender, pronoun, stuff. It’s not my business. All that matters is that she’s very helpful.”
[dad pauses thoughtfully]
“She’s a good colleague… Don’t understand all this fuss about people’s gender these days. She works hard and is always friendly. This media malarkey… About what’s in their pants. Now, that don’t make sense to me.”
“These ‘journalists’ should spend a day with her and see the trans people are good and honest regular folk.”
Based dad???????????
>hears new information
>processes new information accordingly
>doesn't go into a petulant rage about it
Why is it this simple for my dad but apparently a struggle for so many others?
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Also, remember why people don’t. Some people just want to read. Their accounts are there because you need an account to be able to follow multiple people or hashtags in the fediverse. If they want to be passive observers that’s okay. They aren’t being nefarious by not posting personal information that will cause people to send them unsolicited messages, they’re just shy.
And when people block follow requests for these people, don’t be surprised if they go and tell all of their offline friends that there’s nothing worth reading here.
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I fully agree with your points. Especially the second one.
The first point might cause confusion for some of the people you mentioned, as they might ask themselves: ‘Well, why are your suggestions acceptable, but mine aren’t?’
That’s the difference between addressing a newcomer and someone who knows how things work.
@Tattooed_Mummy @sternengucker
Ich lache mehr, als ich sollte
@Tattooed_Mummy @sternengucker Twitter’s Ragebait algorithm is the problem. Fediverse is free and everyone should be invited. We just see too many inofficial web police officers in public posts that flame new people who just want to talk.
Just be polite and have some sort of filter, if not these people are wrong on any „Social“ platform
yeah, this. We are trying to foster a better social culture here,and because of how other networks operate,we have to be vocal about reminding newcomers that certain behavior is actually not OK and certain things are expected when someone takes responsibility for their own social media.
Things work differently here, people shouldn't have to guess or figure it out on their own when we've already learned the hard lessons and wrote th down.
We tried making a railway without track switches
It was pointless
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Mystery Biscuits!!!
(I know that is old format, but still)
FUCK YES
-carrie
sparkly!
Loved that show, for many of us viewers this really felt like coming home (to somebody's kitchen table...)
Well done!
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if any of these laws were passed when i was a teen, i would be long, long dead, probably because i would have ended my life by suicide.
sincerely, a queer neurodivergent former kid who grew up in an abusive religious family in a country with no queer rights and whose only lifeline were other queer, neurodivergent and furry people online
fuck the law
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Age verification is being used around the West to implement fascistic censorship, and its proponents nakedly just want to kill free speech on the Internet. That's the only reason they're doing any of this.
Free expression is the light and air of any movement to make things less bad.
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the shitmongers rely on silencing their opponents in order to win. Otherwise they know their time is limited.
If free speech was undisturbed, then trump and his fascist goons know it is only a matter of time before they're all killed like Mussolini.
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I wouldn't be here if they'd managed to censor the internet when they first tried. (yes children, there have been previous reactionary censorship attempts.)
Same reason, different path to getting there. Disability and an overprotective mother.
I didn't know that there were other people like me in the world /at all/ until I was an adult in the eyes of the law. And I don't want anyone else to experience that hell.
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almost certainly same
that or i would have figured out every damn way to circumvent it because, i had no community for people like myself
-carrie
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Internet helped me to figure out my gender identity in an environment that had strict gender expectations for me. It helped me to get free from cult-ish religion and become more open minded and shed biases that had been stuffed into mh adolesent brain against my will.
Internet can be a great asset an escape.
They should instead be banning LLM:s stealing everyone's data, and making people addicted to it on purpose. "AI" reliance is way worse than TikTok to growing brains.
SIRI AI WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE IN THE EU
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
WHY WOULD THAT BE HUH
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If you find yourself on a timeline filled with therians and otherkin, you may be told you will discover something new about yourself.
I agree.
You may discover you're the single human character actor in a muppet movie.
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i legit feel like this, my entire friends group is just therians and furries and trans people and i'm just A Guy (tm)
it's even wilder when your only known headmate is a therian lmfao
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$12,047 raised of $90,000 goal 13.4% funded Campaign ends August 1, 2026 at 00:00 -0700 59 days 07 hours 42 minutes 09 seconds Campaign closed.furry — A Top-Level Domain For Our Community
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NVIDIA and Microsoft Transform Windows PCs for the Era of Personal AI The computer world is in a constant change. Up until recently, basic a...Raghul (Blogger)
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A flogger made from USB c cables. The handle of which is an evil USB drive that will exploit anything that its plugged into.
Perfect when you aren't sure if the entity you are meeting is human or machine.
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Just a note to everyone - Pride Month is no excuse to use generative AI to make "happy PRIDE" posts, merch, or any image or text related to it.
Generative AI is funded by facists who hate LGBTQAI+ and who fund laws against us. It is the tool of the enemy we all should resist together - not generate useless slop that muddies the message with AI vomit.
Using it shows no care, no love, and no solidarity.
#fuckAI #NoAI #PrideMonth #PRIDE #NoAIInPride
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Dam #pride month already 😎? Time to put together something to beat last year's outfit 😆💜😘
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meal deal alignment chart
(obviously a lot of food, not vegan)
Good ol’ market capitalism.
The portable air conditioner unit that I ordered a week ago is now £100 more after a week of hot, sunny weather.
Hello, world!
We're Wiki Workers United, a global solidarity union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation.
This account will share updates on our organizing effort, relevant news/info, and maybe the occasional meme. We promise to keep posting volume reasonably chill.
More info here:
And we welcome the community to express support here:
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We are Wiki Workers United, a global union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation. We are the people who do the work to provide a platform, services, and funds to support the Wikimedia movement.Wiki Workers United
hey folks. In response to my request to cancel my donation, MW sent me this update from the CEO. What’s your response to their claims?
@boffbowsh less talk and more action. They better start firing the union busting law firm they have im their payroll and hire the union organizers back.
I do not trust a single word of their bullshit coorporate union busting law firm written statements.
someone needs to invent a device that lets me hug my friends over the internet when they're in distress.
i cannot express how badly I need this right now
Yay, my order from @spellingmistakescostlives arrived today!
SEGA #ACAB cap and pin. Plus some AI critical silver stickers.
also, aliens is technically correct. just not extraterrestrials.
"wow who redid your patio?" - "aliens."
Hi! Can I suggest an alt so I can boost? 
Family guy meme in which a policeman holds a skin color chart in front of several pictures of historical monuments from History Channel. The top pictures associated with light skin tones are the Pont du Gard in France, the Colosseum in Italy, and the Parthenon in Greece. They're labelled "engineering marvels". The bottom pictures associated with dark skin tones are the Temple of the Sun at Machu Picchu, the Easter statues in Rapa Nui, and the Great Sphinx and the pyramid of Giza. They're labelled "aliens".
Our Friendica (TROM Social) failed to update to the latest stable. Likely this bug github.com/YunoHost-Apps/frien…
Seems easy to solve, but since our database is massive, around 80GB, it took around 20 hours to restore....
I understand that it totally sucks for a Social Network to be down for almost a day. People may be put off and not want to use Friendica anymore. Or our instance at least. But our instance has been very reliable for the past years and I always email people to tell them about updating it, so they are aware such things can happen.
Also, our budget for TROM.tf is around €0, compared to the billions floating around Facebook and the like. So please understand that.
Today we will give the update another try, and it is likely to work. If it doesn't at least thanks to @YunoHost a backup will be automatically restored.
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No worries, some of us enjoy Friendica and TROM.tf for reasons that a day's worth of downtime couldn't sway. And I'd like to think there's more folk around here than just me who very much appreciate the hard work you and your team put in on our behalf. Plus, there's only one thing that could ever drag me away from this instance, and we all know I just can't be trusted to do the upkeep on one of my own.
\m/ thank you!
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Regarding that upgrade failure - I ran this:
sudo apt-get update --fix-missing
with that key errors:
Err:6 dl.yarnpkg.com/debian stable InRelease
The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 62D54FD4003F6525
Err:7 packages.sury.org/php bookworm InRelease
The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG B188E2B695BD4743 DEB.SURY.ORG Automatic Signing Key <deb@sury.org>
Probably you can do a similar job.
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I write a lot about my ongoing discovery of just how good cis women are to trans girls when they have not been preemptively made to fear us.
I write about how easy it is to get accepted as a trans woman, because I think a lot of transfems really have this fear of imposing. Because we have impostor syndrome for womanhood as social performance.
It is something that newly transitioning women need to hear. Our struggle and hangups and fears are parallel and often the same as those of cis women's.
They do not always understand the specifics of our circumstances, but the underlying struggle? They know.
And that's an important message.
But there's another angle I'm realising.
Cis women don't know that we don't know they know.
I'll give you a second to parse that one.
I think cis women do not fully understand our fear. They are welcoming, but I've seen them react to me gushing about how welcome I feel with slight surprise and minimising the things they said and did to make me feel welcome.
The reason is that they do not fully understand how fucking STARVED I've been of this stuff all my life.
A few years ago, here on Fedi, I read something that stayed with me. About how people who've been in an abusive relationship can burst out crying and have a huge outpour of loud gratitude after something absurdly trivial like their new partner offering them a glass of water or something. They act like nobody ever did something like that for them, to the bafflement of the other person. It's just a glass of water.
The reason being, of course, that in some sense they never DID receive this kind of small kindness.
A person that's been abused has a completely broken barometer of what is "normal". Treating people with basic kindness is the baseline, but to a person that's been victimised it feels like extreme, saintly goodness, at least initially. Because it's hard to realise that no, the horrors were not how people normally interact.
Same has been written about people leaving cults, abusive families, abusive communities.
Why am I mentioning this? Because trans people in general, and trans women in the specific, are kind of a demographic-wide example of that.
Like any abuser, a transphobe will make it seem like there's nowhere and no one to run to. Like they are the best we can get. Heck, some transphobic rhetoric will pose as the 'phobes doing us a kindness.
Here's the thing. Cis women do not necessarily fully realise that we never had a normal girlhood or, for many of us, any interactions with women in women-dominated settings, AS women.
I mean, sometimes they know, but they don't KNOW, know.
Yesterday I wrote about a nice time spent with a few girls that I am only getting to know. And I was gushing, both here on Fedi and to the girl that invited me to the thing. And I thought about that and I am realising that she probably doesn't understand how big a deal this is, *even* when I say how big a deal it is.
Because she, presumably, had a relatively normal time being a woman. So she doesn't understand why women interacting in a friendly and casual way is blowing my mind.
Because it's hard to convey that all my life I was primed to think cis women would reject me and treat me like not just a man, but a predatory, dishonest man pretending to be a woman. I know it's not true, but I've not *experienced* it being untrue.
Transphobes badly need to convince us (and themselves) that all, or most, cis women do not want us to live as women.
Most cis women don't *know* these words are being put in their mouths.
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This is one reason why I talk so much about being trans, both to cis and trans people.
(I mean, other than the fact that I'm an attention whore /hj )
People are not mind readers. They will only know your experience - be it one particular to you or shared with one group of people or another - if you tell them how it is for you.
I didn't know how much I had in common with other trans women before I started having conversations with trans women about their experiences and mine.
And that helped me realise I'm a woman.
And later, I didn't know (and maybe still don't know) how much I have in common with cis women, too. And that knowledge is making me more bold, happier and I think a better person to others.
So I know super well that this kind of sharing can be a game changer for a lot of people. Some people figure things out looking at others, but some do need to share, or to hear someone share, before they realise "oh! So that's how it is. So that's how I am the same/similar/different to that other person".
The best way to defeat "divide and conquer" tactics by evil people is to communicate. As taught by every shitty TV sitcom from the 80s and 90s.
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It’s obviously different, but as a cis woman I empathise deeply with this.
I was diagnosed autistic in my late 40s and spent most of my life feeling like an alien, especially among women - not like I wanted to be a man, but like I lacked whatever quality made womanhood come naturally to others. I never felt like I fit in, or was interesting to be around, and I was genuinely astonished, if a woman wanted to know me.
Your post is powerful, really thought-provoking.
Thank you! And thank you for sharing ❤
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Very well put. Thank you for putting words on this.
Thank you for your comment ❤
Yeah, children and teens, girls included, can be vicious little beasts. I hear the support and sisterhood part can be somewhat hit and miss for many.
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I made quite similar experiences actually.
Most clueless cis people I met sure weren't very sensible about word choices and reading the room ("so i was wondering, ehh, are you a boy or a girl??"), but once you gave them an answer to whatever they were wondering, they just would shrug, accept it and move on with our activity at hand.
They'd then include me in gendered activities and spaces without any awkwardness or second thoughts at all, they'd be super relaxed about it, they'd clearly just take my gender as truth, and they'd get irate on my behalf if people misgendered or excluded me because they were genuinely baffled why people would mistreat me that way. It was as natural to them as anything else that I was a woman, it didn't even occur to them that it could be "wrong".
It took my middle-aged, cranky, Yugoslavian coworker who never heard of trans people exactly two days to completely understand my womanhood. When I eventually talked to her about the whole thing, she was surprised I brought it up, but said something that stuck to me ever since:
That she met a lot of unique and surprising people in her life, and that you learn things about the world and other people every day. And that it was just an interesting medical fun fact about me. And that's all. She said that to her, it was no different than when she met a black guy in our village and then found out he and his family are actually natively German. She compared me to her grandma, who apparently had a lot of facial hair, which ran in her family. It was just a fun fact about me that I'm trans, nothing more.
The validity of my womanhood was never in question to her, just whether I was a woman at all. That's the main thing really.
You really hit the nail on the head: transphobes really, really want to make us think that we're alone. That everyone naturally sees us as freaks by default, except those we have successfully 'convinced of our ideology'.
It's actually the same mechanic at play as with conspiracy types, crazy conservatives or elderly people refusing to go with the times.
They want to use "common sense" as a backup to try to convince you that their irrational fears are actually normal and how everyone else thinks. They're super afraid of having to change their world view, of being wrong about something. They want to make us feel like we have no support, not necessarily to hurt us directly, but because they themselves secretly feel ashamed and insecure about the world moving past them or judging them for something they don't understand. (Ideological transphobes who know what they're doing nonwithstanding, they're doing it on purpose).
That's also why allies can sometimes be insidiously worse than clueless folks. Allies might just as well have the same thought patterns as transphobes, but end the thought process on "...but it would be mean to misgender them, I should be nice and supportive."
They still fundamentally think we're freaks, they just think it's ethically good to be nice to freaks.
Before my coworker experience, I always felt that even if cis people accept us, they at best mentally create a third category: women, men and "trans". Or that they'd always see me as a guy who wants to be a woman and who they needed to be respectful of not to hurt their feelings. But that isn't the case. They just see me as a woman with a medical history.
Transphobes are the only ones questioning people's genders' validity. Normal people don't even have that thought process, because validity isn't an idea they associate with gender.
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This instance, atomicpoet.org, is itself a social experiment:
What will happen if I exit a mainstream social media platform, fly free of corporate and institutional overseers, and just say whatever the hell I want on my own damn platform?
What I find amusing is that BIPOC, LGBT+, and women are often accused of trying to de-platform whatever isn't in their favour. But at least for me, that hasn't been the case.
The biggest snowflakes have been cis white hetero men who really can't stand it when I say anything remotely political and demand that I start using CWs to censor myself.
And it's not as though I've never had a disagreement with someone from a marginalized community. But they've definitely been more civil.
The only time I—a white cis gender hetero man—was ever called a “colonizer” at a university was when a white cis gender hetero woman disapproved of me dating a woman of colour.
Let that sink in.
This instance, atomicpoet.org, is itself a social experiment:What will happen if I exit a mainstream social media platform, fly free of corporate and institutional overseers, and just say whatever the hell I want on my own damn platform?
What I find amusing is that BIPOC, LGBT+, and women are often accused of trying to de-platform whatever isn't in their favour. But at least for me, that hasn't been the case.
The biggest snowflakes have been cis white hetero men who really can't stand it when I say anything remotely political and demand that I start using CWs to censor myself.
And it's not as though I've never had a disagreement with someone from a marginalized community. But they've definitely been more civil.
Seen near Holborn Station, on the route of the Unite the Kingdom rally. By the artist Frank Riot.
The poster says it better than most speeches:
When the scapegoats are gone, the borders are fortified, and the hatred has done its damage, the cost of living will still rise, the NHS will still be dying, and corporate vultures will still be picking our lives apart.
Who will they blame then?
What will they have gained?
A badge for barbarism against a backdrop of decay.
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@sashabilton The US is a Poland, now.
A #duopoly excludes the middle, so land-of-Poles it is!
I know the answer! I know the answer of who they will blame then!
Women.
Oh, wait, they already do that.
never heard anybody blaming mosques for economic problems. Maybe, massive immigration forcing wages down, but that is not limited to one group of people.
If anything, it's all about colonizing and replacing the British culture by one that is completely different and adversarial to the western values.
Billionaires fear a 99% that wakes up to the fact that blameshifting bigotry solves nothing real in their lives.
Bigotry is distraction.
It doesn't provide affordable housing.
It doesn't create jobs.
It doesn't fund public services.
It doesn't lower prices for gas or groceries.
It doesn't stop fascism in government.
It doesn't stop wars.
It doesn't stop public corruption in business.
It doesn't educate the young or support seniors.
It enriches billionaires.
I hope in the near future people will understand that the only reason which makes corporation/right wing do their thing is that millions of people keep using their products, therefor financially supporting them to make the next lobbying advertisement.
choosing local shops will get rid of this. That's why we've build a worldwide map to easily find those places, while corporate and chains are noted with a grey dot and no information appart from 'we don't support this place'.
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In the middle of it all a woman in a scuba mask is submerged in a tank connected to two portaloos. Go on, go in and do your business. Your urine is filtered and fed back into the tank. She is swimming in your processed piss, and she stays in there for hours.
That moment when you’re wondering whether you’re reading a story written by @mindpersephone or an actual review of a serious art installation. I hope they didn’t have trouble finding volunteers for this.
The theme of earth’s biggest art extravaganza – spiritual rest – felt wildly wrong for our crisis-hit planet. Thank goodness for the pavilions, from fake babies to hi-tech sperm banks to a chocolate Russell CroweEddy Frankel (the Guardian)
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