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I think the weirdest form of fatphobia I keep bumping into is writers suddenly becoming deeply concerned with physical realism when a fat character is involved even in contexts where everybody's physical capabilities are explicitly bullshit. "They're fat, it wouldn't make sense for them to have super speed" and it would make sense for the 98-pound twink to be able to run at Mach Fuck? That's something skinny people can do in real life, is it?

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Told my doctor and therapist about how the AI "trying to determine my age" will expose all the HIPPA covered private information that has passed through gmail and all the medical advice youtube videos they had linked over the years and the response was instantly "I will contact the other doctors here and lodge a formal complaint about it to HIPPA" Try this, tell your local librarians, teachers, doctors. Most people have not heard about this yet, that's how it is getting traction

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About the YouTube AI age verification thing in the US:

Here is a link for another post detailing a boycott plan on the 13th of August. And if you think that it's not gonna be that bad...

IT WILL AFFECT YOU, TOO.

If you watch:

Gameplays and gaming-related videos, for example Minecraft, Undertale/Deltarune, The Sims 4, GTA/Minecraft roleplaying videos, mod videos (even if the mod is 18+), Genshin Impact and other gachas, horror games no matter the rating

Unboxing of Pokémon/Magic The Gathering/any other type of playing cards

Table Top Games, including watching TTRPG campaigns

Slime tutorials, probably (yeah, both kinds)

Essays/Commentary/Theories about IP for children, like cartoons/anime - Gravity Falls, Winx Club, Monster High, Pokémon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, My Little Pony, Miraculous Ladybug, Spongebob Squarepants, and the like

Anything about Doll Customizing, including ball-jointed dolls, Blythe dolls, OOAK projects, and anything similar

Cosplay videos, probably

Videos about collectibles like Labubu, Funko Pop, plushies, and similar

Videos and YT podcasts about Anime, like Trash Taste and Mother's Basement

VTubing, most likely, given the nature of animated avatars

And maybe, Draw With Me/Art tutorials of all kinds

There is a chance that the AI will target your account, EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT FROM THE USA, and flag it as an underage account because of your watching habits. Therefore, requiring you to provide your identification or photo to YouTube in order to continue using their services normally and not have your account deleted.

And here is the kicker: IF YOU DON'T and continue to use the service disregarding your account's newly found underage classification, THEY WILL CONTROL WHAT YOU CAN WATCH EVEN MORE. They are banking on you being too tired to fight this, and just accepting it as the new normal.

This is a blatant ploy to monitor the people and gather massive amounts of data to sell to governments, plural. If it works without too much of a hiccup in the US (and in the UK as well, since over there it's affecting every online service), other countries will follow suit.

If you are in the US, you have to fight this.

They've already come for Steam and Itch as a way of controlling self-expression and speech. This is yet another tool of censorship. And it WILL affect all of us, globally, eventually, because the internet serves a lot more people than the US and the UK, and the rules are applied mostly equally.

Share the boycott plan. Tell your friends and family about it. It will affect them, too.

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You can adopt adults. idk about other countries, but in the USA you totally can, so long as there has never been a sexual or romantic relationship between you (sfaik). Hell, in most states, you don't even need to let the original parents know that you are becoming a parent to their child. Takes a notary and a court hearing. I'm sure searching "lawfully adopting another adult adult (my location)" will get you to the glory you're looking for. Sincerely, Someone who thinks that adopting college students and helping them become better adults via leading by example will help heal many more generations.

You should be able to adopt adults for inheritance purposes like in Ancient Rome. Yeah this is Cathy the 23 year old and she’s my daughter now. She has my last name. When I die she inherits the tire shop.

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being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. "you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas". studies have proven its making people dumber. "i asked ai to generate this meal plan". its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. "ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign". its spreading misinformation. "meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid". its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. "i was talking with my snapchat ai-" theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. "youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification". my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more "well at least-" "but it does-" "but you can-" im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?

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My dad has been in the hospital for 2 weeks now.

I called him on 7-27-25, a month after his birthday and something didn't sound right. He's a t2 diabetic and told me he had food poisoning and hadn't eaten in 3 days. He then excused himself.

It made me frustrated because my sisters see him a hell of a lot more often than I do and NO ONE picked up on the weirdness. Texted baby sis and snitched about his dieting (she works in a hosp and also drives). She got him the next morning and all hell broke loose. The original plan was to get him to an urgent care and have a doc chew him out and give him some medicine. But when baby sis went to get him, nothing was right. He even had a bucket next to the bed so he could pee because he was so out of it. So the urgent care turned into the emergency room. They tested his blood and the emergency room turned into the ICU. Major infection paired with a blood glucose of 477 (I believe the average for fasting t2 diabetic is 120, so we're looking at 4x the amount. They decided to CT scan him and put him on a plethora of antibiotics while trying to get those blood sugars under control. They moved him to a regular room as soon as he was under 250. But that CT scan showed his appendix had burst. (Can't go halfassed now, can we?) So the room became an operating room for an afternoon. Turns out he had about a liter of pus and other gross in his abdomen. The infection was RIDICULOUS. 2 weeks later and they are still waiting for the infection to fucking die before they go to take his appendix out.

For the uninitiated: T2 diabetics basically got the opposite end of the spectrum of wolverine's healing factor. Nothing heals quick, and from what I've seen, not quite perfect either. So the docs gotta wait for that infection to be hella dead before even thinking about taking out that organ. Right now they have basically a lil pump attached to his innards that are siphoning out the pus, it's annoying the shit out of him. He can't really hold a conversation because of the strain of even breathing with that lil bastard machine making his lungs spasm too. He also now has a tube that goes into his nose and down to his tummy to pump stuff out so he quits vomiting. Talked to my sisters more in the past 2 weeks than in the past 20 years. Babysis is doing her best to keep up, but with 3 kids at home and a full time job, she needs me to tag in. Which I am going to do. She and our older adopted sis are afraid dad has given up. I don't see that he has given up. Being in a hospital bed and having a lot of indignities thrown at you fucking sucks.

He was basically able bodied before. So of course he's having basically a dissociative episode to let him cope mentally/emotionally with this horseshit. So I have a heavy load right now. Tomorrow I am going to go to see about getting him an apartment that doesn't have stairs and a 1 star review on google. Then back to the hospital to check on Pop. Hoping to fit a nice birthday lunch for my bestie in the day too.

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My dad has been in the hospital for 2 weeks now.

I called him on 7-27-25, a month after his birthday and something didn't sound right. He's a t2 diabetic and told me he had food poisoning and hadn't eaten in 3 days. He then excused himself.

It made me frustrated because my sisters see him a hell of a lot more often than I do and NO ONE picked up on the weirdness. Texted baby sis and snitched about his dieting (she works in a hosp and also drives). She got him the next morning and all hell broke loose. The original plan was to get him to an urgent care and have a doc chew him out and give him some medicine. But when baby sis went to get him, nothing was right. He even had a bucket next to the bed so he could pee because he was so out of it. So the urgent care turned into the emergency room. They tested his blood and the emergency room turned into the ICU. Major infection paired with a blood glucose of 477 (I believe the average for fasting t2 diabetic is 120, so we're looking at 4x the amount. They decided to CT scan him and put him on a plethora of antibiotics while trying to get those blood sugars under control. They moved him to a regular room as soon as he was under 250. But that CT scan showed his appendix had burst. (Can't go halfassed now, can we?) So the room became an operating room for an afternoon. Turns out he had about a liter of pus and other gross in his abdomen. The infection was RIDICULOUS. 2 weeks later and they are still waiting for the infection to fucking die before they go to take his appendix out.

For the uninitiated: T2 diabetics basically got the opposite end of the spectrum of wolverine's healing factor. Nothing heals quick, and from what I've seen, not quite perfect either. So the docs gotta wait for that infection to be hella dead before even thinking about taking out that organ. Right now they have basically a lil pump attached to his innards that are siphoning out the pus, it's annoying the shit out of him. He can't really hold a conversation because of the strain of even breathing with that lil bastard machine making his lungs spasm too. He also now has a tube that goes into his nose and down to his tummy to pump stuff out so he quits vomiting. Talked to my sisters more in the past 2 weeks than in the past 20 years. Babysis is doing her best to keep up, but with 3 kids at home and a full time job, she needs me to tag in. Which I am going to do. She and our older adopted sis are afraid dad has given up. I don't see that he has given up. Being in a hospital bed and having a lot of indignities thrown at you fucking sucks.

He was basically able bodied before. So of course he's having basically a dissociative episode to let him cope mentally/emotionally with this horseshit. So I have a heavy load right now. Tomorrow I am going to go to see about getting him an apartment that doesn't have stairs and a 1 star review on google. Then back to the hospital to check on Pop. Hoping to fit a nice birthday lunch for my bestie in the day too.

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Audiobooks, then with a fork and knife. Like a gentleman.

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someone got really mad at me for being pro-pornography so i'd like to be annoying for a little longer:

-there are enormous problems with exploitation in the porn industry that harm and endanger the people within it, and that harm is carried out mostly against women and minorities

-this is Bad

-however the last century of passing laws against pornography hasn't actually helped any of those problems, and what sex workers tend to advocate for is the legitimization of their labor, so that they can then access the same protections and regulations that people in other industries can access

-for instance football players, miners, roofers, and warehouse workers are also exploited and endangered by their professions, have to work long hours, and can end up traumatized and disabled by unregulated and unsafe working conditions. these people are used up and thrown away by powerful bosses they can't individually challenge.

-however because these industries are not de facto illegal to participate in, when these people form unions and demand better working conditions, they can at least fight for their rights.

-sex workers, who engage in heavily stigmatized work that's also often illegal, have little recourse to demand better treatment.

-even if you don't like porn, and especially if you don't like porn, if you care about the women who are exploited in pornography, you need to advocate for the legality of pornography.

-the more illegal the porn industry is, the less safe and fair it is, and people will still be working in it, no matter how illegal it is.

-again: the porn industry should be regulated like any other industry and subject to laws guaranteeing fair compensation for labor, safe working conditions, and legal resources for workers suffering exploitation and abuse.

-once it is legal to do sex work, then women can bring charges against the men who have broken their contracts and abused them.

-and that is why i push back against posts saying that pornography is evil. it is an entertainment product, made by people, to meet an ongoing demand. criminalizing the consumption and production of it may slightly lessen the demand at the incredible cost of endangering everyone involved. and i think that is what's evil.

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Throughout history, tyrants have understood that their major enemy is an educated public. Slaveholders prohibited enslaved people from learning to read. The Third Reich burned books. The Khmer Rouge banned music. Stalin and Pinochet censored the media. And Trump, like past authoritarians, wants to control not just what we do, but also what we know and how we think. He knows that an uninformed public is easier to divide and conquer. Gutting funding for public broadcasting is part of a broader attack on the American mind. This attack on our minds reduces our capacity for self-government, because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny. [Cartoon by Drew Sheneman]

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You know your drunk art post about love and personhood from 2019? Every night at bedtime my late cat would lie on my chest, and her little heartbeat would be right on top of mine, and I'd think about that piece of art you made, and have a similar sort of image in my head. Anyway, yesterday I finally put the image to paper, and idk where this is going, just that that piece of art you created means a lot to me. Have a cool day ✌️

OHHHH MY GOD!!!!! EVERYBODY SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LOOK AT THIS. ITS ALL BEEN WORTH IT

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Mastercard and visa have reported to a couple news outlets that they are currently being swamped with calls and complaints. Keep up the pressure and try to (politely) insist that you leave a complaint via phone instead of letting the rep direct you to emails. It's way easier to be overwhelmed by a much smaller number of calls so each one counts for a bit more!

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Commission for my friend @beast-of-the-void of their character Knight Officer of the Frozen Kingdom, Protector of the Sacred Graves, Enchantment Wizard Adurnarseh Sivsive.

I like drawing pretty men...

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Commission for my friend @beast-of-the-void of their character Knight Officer of the Frozen Kingdom, Protector of the Sacred Graves, Enchantment Wizard Adurnarseh Sivsive.

I like drawing pretty men...

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How it started:

How it’s going:

Just a lil reminder that even if it doesn’t feel like it, even if it feels so fucking slow and you can’t see it at all, you do improve when you keep doing the thing. I love you. Hang in there.

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god in hell, before chatgpt people used to have some class. when we needed info we’d ask narnia blogs

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If people are sad about The Wizard Facism game coming from someone you used to look up to and admire, may I suggest an author whose books are filled with nuanced characters and strong, dynamic women?

Tamora Pierce has been writing since the 80’s and has two worlds of magic and fantasy and bonus!!! Isn’t a transphobic POS.