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The destruction was not enough for them, the lives that were lost were not enough for them, the genocide and famine that ravaged us and our children were not enough for them????

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me: NOBODY LIKES ME AND WANTS TO TALK TO ME,,,, EVER,,

my discord and Snapchat, stuffed, overflowing with messages from people I love: Are You Fucking Stupid

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it’s been less than a week and i already have 20 hours clocked into this game 😭

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I hate that I have Apple products that people see me use in public. like some sort of idiot that I am.

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your quaking purrs are the only earthquakes that do not scare me 🐈

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my mental health is going to be bad again 😗

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It's kinda hard to "attribute to ignorance rather than malice" when that ignorance is the product of centuries of malice.

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to be clear the "shinigami eyes keeps mislabeling" myth isn't just coming from evil conniving transmisogynists or whatever. it's a popular sentiment because people don't know what transmisogyny looks like and can easily let it slide between more recognizable and palatable trans-affirming language

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Since Homestuck is trending again because of the Spindlehorse Pilot, I did just want to take a moment to remember “Usagi” Buzinkai, a really talented composer who wrote one of the most iconic and reoccurring melodies in Homestuck, Doctor.

Usagi was a brilliant musician and composer who tragically passed away in 2018. She was early in her transition at the time of her passing, and I was unable to find any confirmation of the name she preferred. I will be referring to her using her online moniker “Usagi” since we don’t know how she felt about the name she was given at birth, or if she wanted to change it.

She wrote many of the most beloved songs for Homestuck, as well as the soundtrack for the game Spelunkey.

Usagi was a part of the LGBTQ community, and talked about her experiences regarding her trans and ace identities openly and with joy.

Her Bandcamp and last album, Qualia, can be found here

Usagi’s music deeply impacted many people. Homestuck as a whole would not be the same without the iconic songs that she wrote for it. Her music influenced Toby Fox, who remixed Buzinkai’s song “Doctor” and sites the song as a major turning point in his growth as a musician.

I didn’t even know that she was the composer or that she had passed until a few years ago.

I was really upset to learn that someone who contributed so much to something I loved had passed and, in my opinion, never really received the wide-spread recognition she deserved for her art. My goal in making this post is to try and educate people who were unaware of her artistic contributions to Homestuck. I hope to honor her memory, as well as the beauty and music she brought to the world.

I’ll leave you with a really lovely quote from her regarding accepting and discovering one’s identity:

“…There's nothing like that first time stepping out as yourself, talking about who you are meant to be without fear. The world might come knocking, but when it does, knock back louder and say it loudly and proudly;

"This is my life. This is who I am right now. I won't wear a mask for you."”

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"george w bush helped"

do you think the current rise of right-wing thought could have been because of political and economical factors in the world's hegemonic superpower or was it cartoons

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“The things you criticize AI for is stuff most of your tech does” is not whataboutism for a simple reason: AI literally is built into the same industry as the rest of the tech you use, bc it’s the tech industry. Thus, trying to reject AI alone for what is essentially a product of a hyper capitalist tech industry is functionally useless.

For example, it’s very reasonable to be concerned about the new Twitter data center that’s poisoning Memphis right now, and single out the LLM, grok, as a source of it. However, generating an image using locally run stable diffusion does literally nothing to contribute to this. Conversely, using Twitter without using grok absolutely contributes to the polluting Memphis. If we try to simply boycott AI entirely and nothing else, we still contribute to that data center. However, if we single out Twitter/X as a company, then we can actually have an effective boycott.

If your problem is the environmental cost of all data centers, and you single out AI as the source, but still continue to stream video (ie Netflix, YouTube, TikTok etc), use social media, etc, you are still contributing to the stuff that’s at least 90% of current datacenter output. I know this is news to people but data centers didn’t just. Suddenly become a problem post-AI.

People pointing this out are not being contrarian for no reason. Current anti-AI thinking has done literally zero for actually combatting the issues we need to care about, because a lot of these problems go beyond AI. This is the tech equivalent of banning straws.

The point of this isn’t to go “oh and yet you participate in society…interesting”. The point of this is to show how you need to be thinking systemically about these issues beyond the superficial shit you hear in op-eds and tweets, which by the way, frequently misreport the actual data/info regarding the situation.

You want actually effective movements that combat the tech industry? Check out notechforapartheid and BDS’s tech boycott list.

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I am a big proponent of completely ignoring outlandish things you see while living in a city, with the assumption that even acting disgusted or moving away could potentially antagonize a crazy person. but today a man lit a crack pipe 1 foot away from me on the subway and I found out that even I have limits

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Where are the international laws regarding what happened two years ago, a year ago, a month ago, a week ago, yesterday, today, and every day? Where are the international courts, where is the White House, where are human rights, and where are the international conventions? Are they really real or are they just lies? It is really a lie. All of this is empty talk claimed by America and the West through CNN and BBC all this is a lie

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im in big trouble with some wraiths i owe a lot of wraith money

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