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Sensation Comic vol. 1 #50, (1946)

Sensation Comics #13 - “Wonder Woman is Dead” (1943)

written by William Moulton Marston art by Harry G. Peter

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Adding this good news too :

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Mercury :

Venus :

Mars :

Jupiter :

Saturn :

Uranus :

Neptune :

Pluto :

Just a fun question cuz i'm obsessed with space rn. Besides earth, which planet you like the most?

Mercury

Venus

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

Pluto (if you still consider it a planet!)

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GenAI v. not GenAI round up.

So you can avoid them stealing things from you, the artist/writer, etc.

Pro GenAI websites/Programs:

Facebook

Instagram

X/Twitter (Remember, Grok gives people cancer)

Threads

Pro Writing Aid

Grammarly

Duolingo

Google Docs

Microsoft Word/all Microsoft products Takes from and will feed their machine.

Youtube (taking advantage of people who are hearing impaired. ==;;)

Adobe Products. All of them. If you HAVE to use them (Some businesses require it), save offline because there is a film of at least some privacy protections there, so if you have to sue, you can say it violates US privacy law. Remember, contracts do not circumvent US law.

Corel won't feed the machines, but still uses AI stolen from other artists. Which sucks since Corel Draw is the second best overall for vector programs. (Plus I love Painter, but I bought the offline version to avoid AI). (Canadian company)

Canva Takes and feeds their machine.

Deviant Art Not only supports AI, but put a tool in and said they are going to steal your work if you like it or not for their machine.

Sketchup went Pro-GenAI. The thing is that you can do the same thing in Blender these days with precise measurements.

Autodesk has stated they are Pro-Gen AI here. It is not clear if they will use your models to feed their machine. But be on guard. They make Maya and 3Dmax. You can replace it with Blender.

Neutral ground:

Tumblr (there is a way to opt out [Link] and they don't have an active AI machine.) https://www.tumblr.com/dookins/743519550598987776/heres-how-to-disable-third-parties-like-ai

Etsy allows GenAI, but still has some (minor) restrictions. I'd still be cautious. (Also be cautious of drop shippers). Complaints about too much AI and AI images+patterns made by Ai still exist on the website. They lean slightly more pro-AI, but still won't let it run completely amok, say like Facebook. They won't feed your work into a machine, but also don't ban it through robots.txt.

Bluesky They don't use an AI algorithm except for in the "Discover" section of their website, but while they are anti-GenAI strongly, they don't seem to block the Gen AI bots from entry, so you'd still have to use Nightshade or Glaze (links below). There is no opt-out because they don't need an opt out. (Leaning towards strong position on AI, but I wish they would block GenAI bots).

Searxng- If you super want to screw over Google, in general, and have some tech savvy, you can set up your own search engine through searxng. It's easier on Windows and Linux than it is on a Mac. (Mac you need Docker), but if you're determined on privacy, Searxng adds a layer of privacy. Some of it sometimes uses bits of AI, but most of it doesn't and you can fuss with the settings so it doesn't spit out AI results. At sheer minimum Google will stop spitting out weird videos on Youtube at you because in your private browsing, you searched for the origin of ball bearings while not logged in for a book and Google likes to break privacy laws.

Strong positions against AI:

Scrivener (Creator vowed against AI) Writing program. There is an active forum, and versions for Mac, Linux and PC. It is paid, but at ~60 USD, it's cheaper than most programs. There is usually a holiday sale around Christmas. It has a learning curve, but with an active forum with the programmer of it there to ask obscure questions it's not a dead zone. They often take suggestions and implement them over time. (Especially if you rank the importance, applications, etc) US company.

LibreOffice Open source and free Spreadsheet and Word processor program that can replace Microsoft Word. Some people might have seen older versions where it was called Neo Office (now extinct) and Open Office. LibreOffice is still populated, plus the forums are super helpful if you get stuck. The UX is pretty intuitive if you've used Microsoft Word. Scrivener, BTW, supports exporting to odt (the native file) as well as .doc, and this can open both. The slight thing is that sometimes it doesn't export to .doc smoothly. And I DO wish more magazines, and agent (big clue here) supported .odt files since it is free. Part of the reason .odt isn't as supported is because Microsoft and Adobe have a deal with the devil with each other, so Adobe's Book formatting program InDesign doesn't support ODT. (BTW, if you have a good open source replacement for InDesign that supports ODT, let me know.)

Dabble (as suggested by SF stories, see reblog) is a writing program. Similar to Scrivener. Has vowed against AI and to resist it. 108 dollars a year for Basic. It is almost twice the price of Scrivener who lets you update for fairly cheap. 29 dollars a month, v. 59 dollars for the whole program (Scrivener) for the same features of Premium. You choose.

yWriter is a free Writing program and like Scrivener, and has vowed against AI Last I looked it had some UX issues, but some people swear by it. The learning curve is higher than Scrivener which is saying something.

Ellipsus is an online writing program and vowed against AI. The main feature I like (which Scrivener doesn't have) is the ability to change spellcheck based on region/language. It is a requested feature of Scrivener, but lower priority. So if you have a Brit, you can get the spelling for the character. They are a British-based company.

Cara.app (The creator of the website sued GenAI there is no chance they'll convert) is an artist website. Cara is trying to institute an auto Glaze/Nightshade into the website if given enough funds. People see it as a soft replacement for deviant art. (which went fully AI) If you believe in human art, please donate if you can. Zhang Jingna, the Creator,is Chinese-Singporean. She lives in Singapore.

Clip Studio Paint added AI, but saw the light and decided to protect artists instead because of protest and removed it. There are tutorials and a good forum if you get super stuck. Based in Japan, so the UI and UX is really clean.

Davinci Resolve Pro is a film editing software that's super good. There is a free version and a paid version. The forums are responsive. The programmers aren't always present. There is a healthy group of tutorials. US company. Clean UX. It does take a little bit of time to remember the shortcuts.

Tahoma2D is anti-AI and open source animation program. Takes a little getting used to, but is good for animations and doesn't crash as often as Animate. Programmers are in the forums and some bugs are fixed within hours. The forums are super responsive and helpful.

Krita open source and free, no AI. I'd rank it secondary to Clip Studio Paint (which is paid) I haven't tried the forums, but it's pretty intuitive and can stand for a lower level replacement for Painter, and do a lot of the basics of Photoshop. It's usually ranked higher than the equally open source Gimp.

Writer P AKA Writer+ (app for when you're on the go) is a simple word processor app for your phone that doesn't use AI. The original programmer stopped updating, so Writer+ person took over and isn't out to make a profit since it's free in the spirit of the original app. It has subfolders you can use. Since it was programmed before GenAI it doesn't have AI. Intuitive, easy to use. Fairly easy to upload the files through three dots->share. The files can save to your card or phone with some settings fussing. Simple word processor.

Inkscape is a free vector program and no AI. It is harder to use than illustrator and has less features. But if you're doing smaller vectors for one-offs with less complexity, it'll do you after some learning curve. Best of the lot. I hate Affinity Designer which is the same thing, only paid. (Neither Affinity program was worth the money paid)

Affinity (Designer, etc) swore to be AI-free and does Vector and Photos. The UX is messy, I dislike the program and regret paying for it. Inkscape and Krita are better UX and do the same thing. The forums aren't as friendly since there has been an onslaught of people seeing it's supposed to be a replacement for Photoshop and Illustrator, but the programmers aren't present. The people on the forums are often on edge about this assertion. And the capabilities of the program don't outshine basically Krita or Inkscape capabilities (both free). What is usually intuitive is not. UK company. If you're going to pay for a program, go for Clip Studio Paint which rivals Corel Painter.

Blender is a 3D art program and does not use GenAI. It can do 2D animation, but Tahoma is easier to use in this regard. It's open source and free. Plus there are plenty of tutorials. The forums can be touch and go sometimes, but there are plenty of sub Blender communities that might be responsive. It can also do animation.

Handmade vowed against AI and promised to never sell itself for stock prices to prevent AI (as a replacement for Etsy.)

Proton (to replace Google Suite) as suggested by SF Stories (see reblog) Vowed against AI. They are missing a spreadsheet, but have online and offline capabilities, plus a built-in VPN.

But you need a pro website...

Look up robots.txt and AI bots: https://www.cyberciti.biz/web-developer/block-openai-bard-bing-ai-crawler-bots-using-robots-txt-file/

Use cloudflare:

Use Nightshade:

https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

which will poison the algorithm

Use Glaze:

Take Away:

The thing is you think you doing it alone will do nothing, but the more AI feeds on itself, AI images, the worse they become, and the less detailed so, denying it the images, adding poison or not being able to read the human text is eventually going to lead to an AI collapse.

And why not help that along?

I don't want to give cancer to poor people [Link] or make the planet burn faster [Link]. So GenAI collapse is everything I dream of. GenAI apocalypse is not.

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https://www.collectiveshout.org/adolescents_most_common_perpetrators_of_child_sexual_abuse

New research finds adolescents most common perpetrators of child sexual abuse - Violent porn identified as a contributor

Adolescents are now the most common perpetrators of child sexual abuse, according to new Australian research published in the International Journal of Child Abuse and Neglect.

The study, Child sexual abuse by different classes and types of perpetrator: Prevalence and trends from an Australian national survey, found that while child sexual abuse by adult perpetrators has declined, child sexual abuse by adolescents has increased.

The study follows previous research documenting the rise in sexual offending by young men. In 2020, the Australian Bureau of Statistics found that males aged 15-19 had the highest rates of sexual assault offending of any age group.

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Inhumane execution of a pregnant wife by her husband

Source: batyrjamal

In the village Balasaz in the Zhetysu region (Kazakhstan), a man tortured and killed his wife in front of their two-year-old daughter. According to relatives of Aizat Zhumanova, her husband, Aibar Zhanbolat, tied her hands with a rope to a horse saddle and dragged her across the steppe.

The man was detained, but the criminal case was not opened under the article "Murder," but rather "Intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm resulting in death by negligence." Aizat's relatives are outraged and are demanding that the case be reclassified.

The first person to report the murder of Aizat Zhumanova was journalist Sandugash Duisenova, who spoke with the girl's relatives and described the incident in detail on social media and in an article for Orda.kz.

According to Orda.kz, medical reports indicate that Aizat has broken almost all of her ribs, skull, fingers, spine, knees, and lower jaw, as well as abrasions, cuts, and lacerations all over her body. The list of injuries includes a closed head injury, concussion and swelling of the brain, a fracture of the base of the skull, and multiple fractures of the limbs and pelvis. There are marks on the body that indicate that the woman was dragged across a rough surface. According to Aizat's relatives, she was tied by her hands to a horse saddle with a rope and dragged across the steppe.

"Like in ancient execution rituals, they tied her up and dragged her until only a broken frame remained..." said the mother of the murdered woman, Saltanat Zhumanova.

The sisters of Aizat, who washed the body before the funeral, said that there was no skin left on her wrists—it had been torn down to the flesh:

"When we took off her clothes, we couldn't hold back our tears. Our mother fainted immediately.

There was not a single spot on her body that was intact.

Not a single one."

Aunt of Aizat, Raushan Daurenbekova, who worked as a paramedic for 30 years, said that her niece had been tortured: "Such injuries cannot be caused by a fall or a fight.

It looks like she was dragged along the ground.

And not for five minutes, but for hours."

The torture that Aizat endured is shocking enough, but that's not all: at the time of her murder, the woman was pregnant with her second child, and her two-year-old daughter witnessed her mother being tortured.

According to her relatives, the girl is in a state of deep shock and says nothing except one word:

"She doesn't speak, she just holds her head and whispers every morning: 'Mummy, mummy'. She is afraid of shadows and doesn't sleep at night. She saw everything, but she can't speak. She is the only silent witness."

In an interview with Channel One's Eurasia, relatives said that previously Aizat had never complained about her husband, and their family appeared happy and prosperous from the outside. However, neighbours now tell the woman’s relatives that her husband was quick-tempered and aggressive, and that she endured everything and kept silent.

According to Aizat's mother, she is particularly hurt by the fact that her son-in-law now says that he is not to blame for her daughter's death.

"If she had fallen and hit her head, I would have kept quiet. But injuries like these—I don't know. Whatever the case, I demand the truth. I want to see the truth with my own eyes. I don't want my daughter to have a bad reputation, but he won't admit it.

He says, 'It wasn't me.' All I want is for the investigation to be fair and for him to tell the truth," explained Saltanat Zhumanova.

Orda.kz shared the opinion of Aizat's relatives, who say that by the time the girl was brought to the hospital, she was already dead. Her relatives also claim that an attempt was made to cover up the crime, as she was changed and washed before being admitted to the hospital. In addition, according to her relatives, "Aizat's husband has a wealthy and influential family" — allegedly, this is why none of the neighbours reported the noise on the night of the murder: "they are all afraid." Meanwhile, her husband was intoxicated and behaved aggressively at the hospital. The police have already detained him.

There is more information about his spouse: the media found out that he recently ran for the position of mayor of the village of Kapal — election posters featuring Aibar Zhanbolat can still be found on social media.

It is also known that a criminal case was initiated under Article 106 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, "Intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm resulting in death by negligence." Orda.kz reported that Aizat's relatives are outraged and are demanding that the case be reclassified under the article

"Murder with particular cruelty":

"This was not 'negligent homicide', it was torture. Purposeful and methodical. And then — an attempt to cover up the traces.

He acted deliberately."

Source: batyr jamal

The murderer tries to claim that his wife died by falling from the window when she tried to make a selfie. Despite all of the evidence of the egregious crime that he committed. But now, after exerting his power on his partner that was weaker than him, he is being a coward. Classical.

Every day around the world women are getting killed. Be it a femicide, a murder by an intimate partner, or other type of murder.

In Kazakhstan, or other central Asian nations, it’s unfortunately very common. The news is filled with women killed brutally by their partners. And that’s the stories that are recognised, not silenced.

Don’t be silent about the fates of women. Share the word.

Justice to Aizat.

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Gender wars and it's just a memorial of female victims that had been femicided by their (ex) partners.

“Gender wars” and it’s women responding to misogyny.

“Gender wars” and it’s women fighting back against misogyny.

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Nice guy, incel, libfem, trans bots, any religious/cults members etc

No you don't get it, I'm a Good Person. You don't understand. I'm a Good Person which makes it okay for me to think violently about the Enemy, who is Bad Person. I'm commenting "you should be violently murdered" because I'm Good Person and you're Bad Person. You think saying that to someone is fucked up?? You should be violently murdered, you're probably Bad Person anyway

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source

The Japanese government actively encourages women to enter prostitution—making it alarmingly easy—while systematically pushing them out of universities. This reveals a blatant fear of women surpassing men in education and career.

Japan’s policy might as well be: *Keep women in brothels, not classrooms.* By easing access to prostitution while limiting women’s education, they prioritize male insecurity over gender equality.

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Gorgeous human females are walking around with men who look like they were born and bred just around the corner from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Meanwhile, female frogs:

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Islam (as the other abrahamic cults) is literally promoting slavery and genocide but that's fine as long as the slave or victim of said genocide are not trans !

That's literally the same rhetoric as the other cult, we can genocide half the planet it's fine ! As long as it's them (the one outside the cult) and not any of us (cult member).

Some leftists are so interesting to me because what do you mean you hate terfs, but muslims are totally welcome? The same religion that has being gay haram? The people that are at times violently homophobic to their own people in the name of the Quran? People will come on this app and/or twitter shouting "No terfs on our turf" and then post about "Islamophobia is bad". How is it acceptable to not only be transphobic but homophobic and misogynistic at the same time in the name of religion, but being trans exclusionary feminist is where they draw the line? I never see trans rights activists protesting about "punch your local muslim" or "the only good muslim is a dead muslim", but somehow with radical feminists it's okay? The only possible conclusion is misogyny. I seriously am baffled by hashtag they.

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women don't lie about rape, actually, and the whole concept is another bullshitting scam many feminists fall for. men don't care about the statistics of false accusations. men lie about rape. men lie about rape when they say that none of it ever happened, that it was consensual, that he didn't know it wasn't consensual, that it was just a misunderstanding, that he had a good reason to do it, that it was in her best interest. then men project their lies onto us to distract us from holding them accountable.

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it’s time to look at some photos of pikas carrying plants and flowers in their mouths

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Thank you! I completely agree with you!

I would add, from observation, that it seems that radical feminists feels or at least demonstrate signs of feeling threatened by it ? Similarly to when we denounce oppression within an oppressed group I think ? Like when black women talk about white women being racist, and some women don't care about this, but some react as if they were threatened by this facts, whether they are in fact racist or not. But also similarly to normies straight women who don't want to acknowledge the awful misogynistic reality we're living in because if they do it will shatter their beliefs that they are using to cope without realising it. So here, it threatened a nice concepts that girls and women are pure, innocent and unable to do harm, or to be mean, oppressive or even evil.

It threatened the idea that in a full female world, environment, spaces, whatever, we will be finally fully and entirely safe.

I'm leaning more towards the second and I think only a few are leaning towards the first examples (probably out of their own guilt because of what they might have done to other girls and women in their past).

In a Matriarchy world, we would be safe, there wouldn't be any prejudice or oppression. But sadly it's been too long and we are carrying with us thousands of years of violence within us and our behaviours. In a only women space we are indeed safe from males violence, but we are not free from other form of violence. Women are still traumatised by males violences and carries it with them everywhere, we reproduce scheme of learn behaviours, of grooming etc. Such as the abuse perpetrated by older women to reinforce patriarchy, which include being groomed for pedocriminals and incest abuse, or it could be strong homophobia and racism due to being raised in a religious environment and country.

Female abuse is not exclusive to sexual violence done by a woman/girl on another woman/girl.

I think the notion that it's not as bad when females are predators as it is when men are predators has a lot of roots. I do think part of it comes from radfems not wanting to feel like anything a woman does could be as bad as when a man does it, as well as a resistance to thinking males could ever be victims to females. And, when it comes to females preying on other females, I think it comes down to the fact that women are just less likely to inflict physical damage on their victim. We can't literally kill someone with our genitals. Not saying it's impossible for us to damage another female physically(trust me, I'm well aware that it is), but when it comes to sexual violence, it's extremely rare for us to inflict as much physical damage as a man does. I think it's that focus on relativity and rarity that affects people's perception of female abusers. While males are out here routinely raping females to death, focusing on female abusers who inflict much less physical harm can feel like a waste of time and energy. It's not. It's really not. And I think female abuse is underreported *because* of the fact that it's not taken seriously. I just think these are some of the reasons. What do y'all think?

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Omg yes !! Thank you for pointing it out ! It's so important and never talked about !!

I wrote a post about it, about the war rapes and sexual abuse done on refugees, British, French, German and brezhonek girls and women during world war 2 done by the us, french, german and soviet soldiers. It was horrible beyond anything. Like I said previously, those regimes and dictatorships were studied on a very long period of time, very detailed etc except for this part. It's unfortunate but not surprising that out of our history books and history lessons, it wasn't included. This part I learned it as a radical feminist adult and also because of personal family trauma.

Thank you for sharing your experience and hypothesis/answer to my question!

I know how propaganda works but it still feels weird to see that it impact people that weren't fed propaganda... Like she is not growing, existing in a world where this propaganda is still active, what we have now are the residue of said propaganda and apparently it still works. It feels so odd to me.

I'm stuck between supporting socialism or communism. Apparently the word communism makes people think you're some sort of demonic evil, so would anyone explain to me why its so demonised? I have attempted to research for months, but its all the same. Nothing new comes up, and nothing changes how im stuck between the two.

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