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two wonderful things i saw online today

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Seriously think that social media has fostered a near total inability for the average person to tolerate disagreement or get over being mad at somebody over something.

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READ THIS IF YOU PLAN TO BOYCOTT YOUTUBE LONG-TERM

get an invidious account. it is an alternative front-end to youtube, allowing you to make an account, subscribe to channels, make playlists, and all the other things you use youtube for; all without giving the company a single cent. swearing off youtube long-term is a tall ask, so you can use this to still follow the creators you want to keep up with while continuing the youtube boycott. it has a built-in adblock and anti-tracker, meaning that you can really keep fucking them over.

it doesnt interact with the API at all, it scrapes the metadata to make sure they get as little as possible.

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The YouTube Blockout is still happening

Even if this is your first time hearing about it, you can still show your disapproval of the new policy by joining the blockout/boycott.

How?

Stop using YouTube. The best way to show our disapproval is by completely ignoring YouTube until they roll back this decision. There are lots of alternatives, and we are working on a masterlist. If you absolutely have to use YouTube in some capacity, I highly recommend using a front-end client like FreeTube. It gives you more privacy and doesn't have ads, but the best option is still to boycott YT entirely.

Use Google products as little as possible. I have switched over to Firefox, and there are lots of alternatives for lots of Google products. If anyone's interested in a specific list, I'll share what I find.

Sign this petition:

If you're interested, there's a Discord server for this, too, started by @gentleman-velvet. Look at their blog for more info about that.

But why are we doing this? Why should you care?

I'll let YouTube themselves explain it for me.

[Alt: A screenshot of the YouTube policies page that reads: "For all U.S. accounts, YouTube employs a dual approach by using self-declared age as well as the application of an age estimation model that uses machine learning to determine whether a user is over or under 18. Regardless of the birthday in the account, this technology enables us to deliver age-appropriate product experiences and protections, treating teens as teens and adults as adults. How it works: We use AI to interpret a variety of existing signals that help us to determine whether a user is over or under 18. These signals include the types of videos a user is searching for, the categories of videos they have watched, or the longevity of the account. When we identify a teen user, we’ll automatically apply our safeguards, including: -Disabling personalized advertising and restricting age-sensitive ad categories -Turning on digital wellbeing tools -Adding safeguards to recommendations, including limiting repetitive views of some kinds of content. Users have the option to verify that they are 18 or over by using a credit card or a government ID. We only allow users who have been inferred or verified as over 18 to view age-restricted content that may be inappropriate for younger users.]

Read that all the way through. According to YouTube, if their AI thinks you watch childish content, regardless of the birthdate you associated with your account, your account could be restricted until you provide either a government-issued photo ID or a credit card to verify your age. This is what they themselves are saying.

Personally, I don't want a private company to have images of my ID or my credit card. I feel that that is an invasion of my privacy. I fear what might happen in the case of a data breach. And Google has fairly frequent data breaches. Just search (with any other search engine) "google data breach recent" and see for yourself.

And consider adults who don't have either a government-issued photo ID or a credit card. What then? It would appear from the policies described on YouTube's website that they are just out of luck in that instance.

This could very well affect animation on YouTube. It could affect gameplay videos. It could affect anything and everything that their AI might deem "childish."

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at a tribal finance conference listening to a quileute tribal council member talk about how companies have bought every house in forks, wa because it’s a tourist destination so they can’t hire people to work for the tribe

anyway fuck stephenie meyer for profiting so intensely off of racist stereotypes of quileutes and all native people while never contributing a dime to help them solve the problems she caused!

if you have the ability, you can donate to their move to higher ground fund here: https://mthg.org

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my art hoe friends are working on another musical

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A rather sensitive pokemon that is easily startled or angered. Be sure to be wary of its static charges!

(couldn’t decide which background color so you guys get both)

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Really into Pokemon rom hacks again...playing emerald seaglass and thinking about things I look for in a rom hack:

-Gen 2 style art. I just like it......................... -Following Pokemon!!! Very important!!!!! -Quality of life improvements -Something new beyond just added difficulty -New region big bonus -New story big bonus Low key dealbreakers?

-Fakemon. Im not getting attached to a guy with 0 merch no one has ever heard of !!!!!!! Im sorry I know you worked hard on them! -No physical/special split. (I love feraligatr its not 'nostalgic' to make it basically unusable ;0;) -Exact same game art, region, and story but with difficulty/QOL updates. Its gotta have a LITTLE sparkle

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Being TME is not a moral failing where you're evil btw....? It just means you need to recognize the invisible privilege you have by not experiencing transmisogyny. This is actually very easy, and by listening to and supporting transfems: the entire trans community is made more liberatory, not less.

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Honestly, not usually a fan of photography during golden hour. I prefer midday sun, 1-2pm or so. This is an exception. Holy frig, Dead Horse Point goes off during sunrise. Left my apartment at 2am for this and it wasn't even bad.

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mole crickets might just be one of the cutest bugs ive ever seen in my fugging life im not even messing around i feel like i wanna kiss them and hug them and pet them like a little puppy doggy

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Okay I've said before that part of why transmisogyny exempt (TME) people who aren't cis men so often think that TME only means transmasculine and/or cafab people generally is that they are holding on to a belief in sex essentialism which makes it so they literally cannot concieve of themselves as in the same oppressive category as cis men but I really think it's more than that.

"Cis men"—not the actual large demographic of living, breathing people in this world—but the idea of cis men as they have been conceived within queer pop feminist discourse, are people who's transmisogyny is obvious. From violent hate crimes to chasing, these aspects of transmisogyny are well known within pop culture at large and are almost exclusively attributed to cis men. Think of how many movies or shows you've seen with jokes at the expense of trans sex workers. Now think of how many of those jokes, rapes, or murders on screen were done by cis men.

This widespread knowledge means that those with even a nominal support for transfems easily and widely condemn these acts of violence. But this conception of transmisogyny—as something separate from queer progressive movements and only limited to fetishization and extreme acts of violence—allows them to ignore their own participation in the more base, less physically violent forms of transmisogyny that they themselves also enforce through social exclusion and abuse which create the conditions for isolation, poverty, and high murder rates to exist.

Nevermind that nearly every demographic other than cis men also commit acts of physical abuse and violence against transfems. Nevermind that cis men, both those who support transfems and those who don't, also enforce the same base social exclusion that everyone else does too. These facts are at best paid lip service to or outright ignored to maintain the belief that the primary enforcers of transmisogy are cis men.

"Cishet men" being positioned this way as fundamentally alien to progressivism through their dominant enforcement of cisheteropatriarchy haunts so much pop queer discourse as the culprit for every aspect of our oppression. Growing out of the 2013 "male tears" buzzfeed jokes type of pop feminism, it's near foundational for so many of the conversations, theorizations, and jokes that are expressed within our shared spaces.

This combination of a widespread obfuscation of base levels of transmisogyny on a societal level and the more niche belief that cis men are the primary or even exclusive enforcers of queer oppression generally creates an ideology where queer people who aren't cis men see themselves as incapable of oppressing us. This along with their held on to sex essentialism is what allows them to believe that it's actually trans women who oppress them from us being "male" and even that it is they who are really affected by transmisogyny.

Therefore when we talk about transmisogyny within wider queer spaces and talk about it as synonymous with how cis men treat us, they cannot help but call us ignorant or liars because this fact challenges so much of their pop queer feminist world view that reckoning it would shake their own self conception as inherently progressive and moral. Seeing themselves as participating in and benefiting from transmisogyny seems to them as wildly outlandish as saying that men don't benefit from patriarchy seems to us.

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I'm not afraid of death. I don't care if I go to hell. My life has been hell since the day I was born. But if I had to go to heaven, then I'd really start to tremble.

HIGH AND LOW | 天国と地獄 1963, dir. Akira Kurosawa

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Showing the rings of Saturn to Bronx street sex workers, Via.