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Have you heard of GPN? Just saw this here

free maja here actually refers to the non-binary anti fascist activist Maja T., a german citizen who has been held in hungarian prison for almost two years now. they are currently on a hunger strike to protest the conditions and treatment they're experiencing in prison.

there is very little talk about this case outside german language media and anti fascist circles, but it's a really important case for antifas across europe and the world, so it's worth looking into!

not perfect but here's one thing i found about it in english:

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the problem with floating bases is that you end up making your rocket look like it has a fucking knot

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kris deltarune

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the whole "this brave man fought stalin in ww2" thing is like if you watched someone place a rake down on the ground, deliberately step directly onto it and then get surprised when it whacks them in the face. literally no one is forcing you to do that, and yet!

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is there any chance of a full version of "Spider D.A.N.C.E." or does it already exist somewhere

here's a longer version, but i'm not calling it Spider D.A.N.C.E. because my pal Jenny already took that one

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EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (2022) Dir. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert

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I had a dream last night where homestarrunner.com randomly put out a new Quote of the Week and it was Strong Sad saying "Ohh… I wish people would call me she/her… or at least call me at all…"

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in honour of the deltarune news im once again remembering my funniest memory of it which was opening the game unspoiled, entering my name as "chris" and then being absolutely fucking bewildered when the game told me I couldn't make my own choices and would instead have to be called. kris

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idk why hyperrogue is actually one of the best roguelikes, the gimmick game with several mechanics designed specifically to showcase odd properties of hyperbolic geometry is actually just really good

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the idea that AI art has no element of choice or deliberation or expression becaues it's "just a prompt" is nonsense. if someone prompts midjourney with "anime girl in swimsuit, big boobs, trending on arstation, high quality, 4k, beautiful" how is that not making a bunch of choices about how the resulting image should look? sure, they're boring, insipid choices, but nevertheless they unambigiously express a particular set of aesthetic sensibilities

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i feel like 90% of adaptations don't justify their own existence. And the types of adaptations that fans of the source material like and the types of adaptations that production companies like to make are both some of the worst most pointless ones imaginable

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So like, it's obvious to me reading the comments on my post that anti-porn people are largely like, afraid of porn. Like the concept of a sex video is really spooky to them. They're not making thoughtful critiques of the porn industry, which is genuinely a really fucked up industry, they're mostly just spooked by the concept of a sex video and what it could Do To You If You See It.

I said this in another post, but it's like, the difference between "a ton of coffee is produced using slave labor" (valid, important criticism of the coffee industry) and "coffee turns people into raving coffee addicts who forget how to interact with anyone because they're so obsessed with their coffee" (objectively not true, insane viewpoint).

It's literally just sex videos. They really cannot hurt you.

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What's truly horrifying is that people actually believe this? Just another example of the brain rot that happens when your only source of information is the Media