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No children are allowed in the Library of Congress.

It's not that kind of library.

In other words...

You are being lied to

again

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Meow

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Friendly reminder that AO3 is fighting AI data scrapers on behalf of all fanfic writers!

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The American people overwhelmingly oppose Trump’s plan. In fact, a recent poll found that only 14% of voters support cutting social services to fund an extension of Trump’s tax cuts. That’s why Republicans passed the bill early in the morning when no one was watching — because they know how wildly unpopular it is. This bill is NOT a done deal. It still needs to pass the Senate. It's important that we get in touch with our senators and tell them to vote NO on this bill. Keep calling. (202) 224-3121

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Apparently there’s a website called Public Square where conservatives register their businesses to identify themselves as “anti-woke” so other conservatives can find them. I just thought I would share in case anyone wanted to put their zip code in and learn which local businesses to avoid.

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Generative AI has destroyed academia.

In the next few decades we’re going to have thousands of people who don’t really know anything, and can’t do any critical thinking.

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I constantly think about how Bruce and Jason have their hands tied due to DC comics themselves as an entity. The Joker is the most big bad in my mind for a reason, it gives credence to his No Kill policy in my mind. Maybe not exactly the killing himself (though I understand that because Bruce's mind... woof) but the effect the killing has. If he kills him and sees the improvement and benefits... why not kill the slightly less bad big bads? Surely there'd be more good change! However, he doesn't, we all know he doesn't in favour of rehabilitation. This is where DC gets in the way in a way I dont think people think about, because... well if we don't have Arkham "revolving door" Asylum, we'll have to actually think of different storylines and maybe take unfavourable risks outside of our wacky oneshots and offshoot aus. Arkham is a staple, that's where all the villains come from; its our plot! If we get rid our easy excuse to have a villain on the floor what're we gonna do? Hell, if we somehow got it to work, Batman won't be very interesting at all, will he? This is the problem with long-standing media, its gotten comfortable, established, and now they're less likely to take story risks. Of course they do, but its always tied back to one of Batmans' "staples... plus a natural unnatural disaster. Dc can't end the story, so they stick with whats comfortable less they're forced to. This is also why the clown is alive at all; they can't have anyone kill him, even those with looser morals (Jason), because he makes money. This has been discussed by several other people as well. These are fictional characters, of course, hands tied by marketing and recognisability. Bruce's idea of rehabilitation isn't wrong. It's great, and it's kinda worked with the Sirens? All though you can argue his input. The issue with rehabilitation is that DC doesn't want to. This is why Gotham is "cursed," but they refuse to use that for new story lines in lieu of people that are recognisable to people everywhere, they've been in movies afterall. Jason can't kill the Joker (or anyone else) because he makes too much money for dc, and Bruce can't rehabilitate him because it damages their status quo

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here’s a link to an organization shared by Bisan on instagram providing food and water to Palestinians in Gaza

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Bisan today

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im at disbelief at the fact that a lot of folks are simply over palestine. like protests are dwindling down. people are not very interested in news related to gaza. some are simply over it.

israel hasn't let aid in gaza in 70 days. gaza has been starving for 70 days. the condition of people there is horrendous.

i find it distressing to think about children in gaza. how does one continue to have a childhood in a genocide? they don't have school. they don't have safety. they don't have food.

despite all this, the kids will be alright. they'll be alright once the genocide stops and they get back to 'normal'. till then, can we please try to support them however we can?

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