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Sorry we really went from free the nipple, take back the night, slut walks, and ending gender/sex segregation in sports being fucking milquetoast feminism 101 concepts to fucking girl dinner and "I just worry about fairness if we let trans girls play against cis ones" and "it was right of that woman to call the cops on a black man for existing near here in public during the day time because men are all violent monsters" and "radical feminism isn't transphobic we just need to kill all men including trans ones those oppressive traitors" and I will legit never be able to be normal about it. What the FUCK happened. I'd say I wonder what the feminists of my youth would say about this but I'm one and lemme tell ya I want to throw up. Go fucking read bell hooks or do something else useful please because all of this learned helplessness, gender essentialism, and transphobia dressed up as feminism is actively holding us back.

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forgive me for generic human bill but i was requested to draw my friends RH avatar and well. how could i refuse when they were dressed as him?

anyways heres the king of chaos himself.

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purity culture KILLS fandom thats why we have to make sure all victims of sexual assault of any kind know how little people care about them. for #fandom

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i feel like high school/middle school sitcoms set the unrealistic expectation of being able to have lunch time outside

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How to stop the knight from making dark worlds in 5 easy steps:

Find traffic cone

Steal traffic cone

Find knight

Put traffic cone over fountain

Never remove the traffic cone

Succeed

traffic cone have hole in top

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Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about the name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

(Six months ago, I did a version of this poll with about five hundred options on the spinner wheel. For this one, I more than doubled it.)

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reposted with permission, please participate if you can!

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hi so come December internet privacy in Australia will be dead.

people in Australia will have heard, those outside may have not, there was recently legislation passed to ban under 16s from social media.

how will this be done? age verification technology, of course! this means you have to do one of the following:

- give your credit card details to a private age verification company

- give your government issued photo id to a private age verification company

- give your device usage data to a private age verification company

- use an extremely unreliable face scan (and give the data from it to a private age verification company)

the preliminary report into the technology has said it's "robust, private, and effective".

it also notes that hey these companies sure seem to want more data and less privacy than the absolute minimum for some reason.

now a lot of people support this (at least in theory) because hey, kids face harms on social media. and it's just social media right?

nope.

through regulation, which does not need to be debated or voted on in government, search engines are also going to be restricted without age verification.

without giving your data to a private company Australians will only be able to access safe search results. which doesn't sound like the worst thing (in theory) until you remember safe search is known to accidentally also restrict such things as age appropriate sex ed. and health information. and anything about queer people, especially trans people. and like, basically anything else that's always deemed "inappropriate".

that's just what's already passed! in phase 2 regulations, age verification gates have also been proposed for:

- actual porn sites

- gambling sites

- app stores

- messaging apps

my point is, even if you support some or all of this in theory, is this really what anyone wanted? we didn't vote for it and neither did our elected officials. this has extreme implications for privacy across the internet, not even getting into the implications of the restrictions themselves. I'm not a fan of them for a number of reasons, but I don't think arguments about sex ed and freedom of expression and going after companies instead of individuals is going to get to people the way the reality of data and privacy violations inherent in these regulations will.

there aren't any open petitions opposing this. I don't know how to respond, bar for contacting the office of the eSafety Commissioner. so I guess you can do that.

but what seriously disturbs me is nobody is even talking about this. please get the word out about what's happening because come December a lot of people are going to be shocked by the reality of the social media legislation and the regulations packed alongside it.

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The Entirety of Tumblr from Tumblr has been Chucked in to the ocean! You're all wet now.

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reposting from bsky, but heres a cheat sheet for how to properly send a message to payment processing companies over the recent highly conservative shift in where youre allowed to legally spend your money

more info here!

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yeah i drive the truck that isekais all those lonely 20yo NEETs and bored salarymen. it’s a really hard job. they keep sending me to workplace counselling after each hit. “it’s normal to feel guilt at ending someone’s life,” they say. how do i tell them that’s not what makes me feel guilty? “but it’s okay. he’ll live a better life in another world.” yeah, with 100 girls who could have lived normal lives but got drafted into being in these boring dudes’ harems. how many women’s lives have i ruined. and they don’t even know. they don’t even know

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Listen, I completely understand why it was an issue for some people, but I still think that naming the original release of Deltarune “SURVEY_PROGRAM.exe” was really really funny

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Just to clarify, there's a bill that would STOP credit card companies from controlling who's allowed to spend money on porn or "risque" (read: queer) content. If you don't think big business should be able to tell you what to spend your own damn money on, call your senators and reps to let them know! It's the Fair Access to Banking Act, H.R.987 in the House, S.410 in the Senate.

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straight men are on something else

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SHIT, RIGHT, ARTFIGHT