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I have been thinking of this Canal+ ad with napoleon in it

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Astronaut readjusts to life back on Earth

> Don’t give him a baby for a while.

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Seems handy if one wanted to put one on their door.

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they should invent a me who is not exhausted by simply being alive

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Gosh.

Must be rough for them.

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I've been saying for the past 7 months that the fundamental problem of 2024 was that people got way too comfy and cozy and complacent under the prosperity of Biden's America, and they couldn't be bothered to vote. That's it. This pig never won 50% of the vote. The majority of America has always hated Trump...but that doesn't mean a whole lot when those people do not vote against him and let his super fans decide elections instead.

It was all always so avoidable. We Hillary-Biden-Harris voters always knew to do the right thing instead of just saying the right thing.

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the thing about CC is that she did plagiarize. she was found guilty of plagiarism and banned from fanfiction dot net! she plagiarized pamela dean, among others, and lied about it repeatedly! it happened! and regardless of whatever else she writes, regardless of whether the publishing industry and her fans trust her not to do it again, regardless of how many times her wikipedia page gets scrubbed clean, that will always have happened! so it is not in fact cruel gossip, but a factually true statement, to say that she plagiarized and i'm not interested in supporting her or giving her the benefit of the doubt because she plagiarized and lied about it repeatedly! fuck!

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Flashback. Actor Chris Evans for Flaunt Magazine.

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I find the Dark Dany conversation really confusing (and maybe part of this is because I haven't watched the show, and I think a lot of analysis of Dany's arc is wrapped up in trying to use the show as a barometer for where George is going to end up – which I don't agree with), because I feel like she already had her Dark Dany arc and the end of ADWD is her realization that compromising with the masters is bad! You can make no peace with slavery!

Her last two chapters seem really clear to me as a denunciation of compromise in the face of moral evil!

Here's her second to last chapter (when she's going to the re-opening of the fighting pits):

The "floppy ears" comment is in reference to the tokar, the outfit of the ruling (former slave owning) class. Brown Ben Plumm makes a joke that if you want to be king of the rabbits, you have to wear floppy ears, and so Dany refers to blending in with the ruling class (again, the former slave owners!) and adopting their customs as putting on her floppy ears. Here she describes how putting on the floppy ears, the symbol of her attempt to compromise with slavers!, will keep her cool and hide any blood splatters. But she also acknowledges little about this day shall please her – she knows the compromise is wrong.

Dany is upset that that so little has changed despite ending slavery. "One step, then the next, but where is it I'm going?" is Dany questioning herself about if she's taken the right approach to agreeing to reconstruct Meereenese society under the influence of/beholden to the whims of the former masters. Has she compromised her entire abolitionist project?

Dany witnesses Barsena's violent death in the fighting pits. The boar realizes he can't charge Barsena directly (much like how the masters of Meereen have changed tactics. Instead of fighting Dany directly, they are manipulating her into compromise, attempting to provoke and misdirect her, and waging violent guerrilla war from the shadows with the Sons of the Harpy).

Barsena is brave, but dies horribly in front of the crowd, and Dany is sickened. The sequence ends with her TAKING OFF HER FLOPPY EARS, the symbol of her compromise with slavers, because she can no longer ignore the violence of the fighting pits and the moral rot of appeasement.

She's realizing the depths of her mistake in compromising.

I am looking into hell (the fighting pits), but I dare not look away (instead of allowing Hizdahr and the rest of the masters to convince her to ignore the problem and lead her astray).

If I run from him, he will burn me and devour me (the moral consequences of compromising with slavers will destroy her.

And here's her final chapter (where she's wandering lost with Drogon):

"That was where she belonged, surely" – she's trying to convince herself that her place is in Meereen, back with her husband. She's telling herself to keep walking forward despite the previous chapter's quote about "one step, then the next, but where is it I'm going?"

I also think this part about Drogon is interesting – is she talking about the path of moral truth, that she shouldn't have bowed to whip or words (of the ruling class)? Or is she talking about the rot of slavery, that she can't turn the masters away from it if they do not wish to be turned?

And then! In this next paragraph she contradicts the previous statement, saying "Drogon had bent before the whip, and so must she"

But she believes that her place is in the arms of her noble husband, the husband who has pressured her to reopen the fighting pits, which she knows is evil, that's the realization she has in the last chapter! So she's conflicted here, and I think we're supposed to be taking away that she shouldn't do that. Her place is not there! She should not bend!

Then Dany describes the blisters she gets "from the way [she] walk[s]" a clear callback to the line in her last chapter "one step, then the next, but where is it I'm going?" – the path of compromise is quite literally hurting her!

Dany has to remember who she is – someone who abhors slavery, who doesn't compromise on her principles.

She's sick, dehydrated, hallucinating (and seemingly having a miscarriage), all alone at her lowest point, and finally she realizes Meereen is not her home and never will be! She cannot be a Harpy!!!

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Strangers messaging you to donate to their fundraisers are scamming you with very, very few exceptions. Strangers trying to make you feel guilty ("you are killing my family, my pet will die without you, how dare you be happy when I'm suffering", etc) to make you donate to their fundraisers are not only scamming you, they are also manipulating you.

I've made a donation post before. In retrospect, it probably looked scammy because it was about a sick cat and my phone had corrupted some of the photos without me noticing so they looked strange or had black blocks (imagine how much that fucking hurt when I went to look for photos of my recently dead cat and discovered that most of them had been wrecked at some point). But I didn't go around sending anyone asks or DMs for help, I didn't @ anyone, nothing like that. Because that is SCAMMER BEHAVIOR. That is what BOTS do. The vast majority of real people actually asking for help do anything they can to avoid looking like bots.

Don't share fundraisers that random people put in your inbox. Definitely don't click any links in messages. The very slim chance of them being a legit human being who needs help you can provide is not worth the risk of your (or your followers') info getting stolen or your money being used to fund things like human trafficking and terrorist groups (because that is what scam farms are directly linked to).

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From a state hearing in Texas

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Palpatine: My boy, I'm afraid to report that Master Kenobi is very likely sleeping with your wife.

Anakin, who knows for a fact that Obi-Wan is sleeping with his Commander, a good chunk of Ghost company, the Organas and Quinlan Vos: ...where is he finding the fucking time???

Palpatine, oblivious: Oh I've heard from some very reliable sources that-

Anakin: *pulls out a spexcel spreadsheet, the 3rd System Army's shared spoogle calender and a calculator*

Anakin: Your Excellency. That's just. not logistically possible.

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i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. martha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1989. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

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2026 House Elections

The Democrats House elections arm announced a jaw dropping 35 Republican seats it's targeting in its opening list for the 2026 (expect it to grow, first lists are always the most conservative target list)

So Check here if you're in one of the listed seats because control of Congress will rest on your vote, and getting out to volunteer will have a huge impact on what our country will look like.

Alaska

Volunteer

Alaska-At-Large: Flip

Volunteer

Arizona

Volunteer

AZ-01: Flip

AZ-02: Flip

AZ-06: Flip

Volunteer

California

Volunteer

CA-09: Hold

CA-13: Hold

CA-22: Flip

CA-27: Hold

CA-40: Flip

CA-41: Flip

CA-45: Hold

CA-47: Hold

Volunteer

Colorado

Volunteer

CO-08: Flip

Volunteer

Connecticut

Volunteer

CT-05: Hold

Volunteer

Florida

Volunteer

FL-07: Flip

FL-13: Flip

FL-27: Flip

Volunteer

Indiana

Volunteer

IN-01: Hold

Volunteer

Iowa

Volunteer

IA-01: Flip

IA-02: Flip

IA-03: Flip

Volunteer

Kentucky

Volunteer

KY-06: Flip

Volunteer

Maine

Volunteer

ME-02: Hold

Volunteer

Michigan

Volunteer

MI-04: Flip

MI-07: Flip

MI-08: Hold

MI-10: Flip

Volunteer

Missouri

Volunteer

MO-02: Flip

Volunteer

Nebraska

Volunteer

NE-02: Flip

Volunteer

Nevada

Volunteer

NV-01: Hold

NV-03: Hold

NV-04: Hold

Volunteer

New Jersey

Volunteer

NJ-07: Flip

NJ-09: Hold

Volunteer

New Mexico

Volunteer

NM-02: Hold

Volunteer

New York

Volunteer

NY-03: Hold

NY-04: Hold

NY-17: Flip

NY-19: Hold

NY-22: Hold

Volunteer

North Carolina

Volunteer

NC-01: Hold

Volunteer

Ohio

Volunteer

OH-07: Flip

OH-09: Hold

OH-10: Flip

OH-13: Hold

Volunteer

Oregon

Volunteer

OR-05: Hold

Volunteer

Pennsylvania

Volunteer

PA-01: Flip

PA-07: Flip

PA-08: Flip

PA-10: Flip

Volunteer

Tennessee

Volunteer

TN-05: Flip

Volunteer

Texas

Volunteer

TX-15: Flip

TX-28: Hold

TX-34: Hold

Volunteer

Virginia

Volunteer

VA-01: Flip

VA-02: Flip

VA-07: Hold

Volunteer

Washington

Volunteer

WA-03: Hold

Volunteer

Wisconsin

Volunteer

WI-01: Flip

WI-03: Flip

Volunteer

Control of the US House in 2026 runs through these seats, the map will expand, and it'll expand faster of Democrats see fired up volunteers ready to go in their target races. If you march in a protest you have no reason not to sign up to volunteer with your state party, so look, do you live in one of these districts? close to one of them? sign up! get going!

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The "historically accurate" movie: Bleebus and Blorbus were fast childhood friends, but grew apart in adulthood due to political differences, eventually becoming bitter enemies who led opposing armies at the Battle of Shitty Hill, an era-defining conflict which culminated in a one-on-one confrontation between the two, who wounded each other grievously and died arm in arm.

Actual history: Bleebus and Blorbus met once when both were in their thirties. They had functionally identical politics, though they regarded each other with mild distaste because one of them spoke French. The Battle of Shitty Hill was a relatively unimportant border skirmish in which Bleebus died from falling off a horse; Blorbus didn't show up at all, dying ten years later of complications from syphilis.

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idk man I think according to color theory this is actually an excellent design for the carpet