Los CoChinos Dec 2022
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it is. so weird to me that I'm having to say this again after a real-life cartoon supervillian already once ran for president on a platform of hatred & fascism and won, but.
it's November, please fucking vote
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andrew’s definitely gotten in trouble with his pr manager for tweeting things along the lines of:
“no mania inducing medication will compare to the euphoria i will feel the day donald trump drops dead”
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Italian Jay and his Italian dad (harvey). Just a thought
Honestly, I headcanon both of them as Hispanic, but, Harvey has GOT to have some Italian for sure. I personally love the take of him being biracial and connecting that to his split theme.
I’m just saying; Let them have a Rio and Miles dynamic. That “YOU GOT A B IN SPANISH?!” scene except it’s this:
Jason as mob boss red hood, trying to negotiate with some Big Bag Leaders and failing hard: And… Okay, hold on.
Harvey: What are you doing? Why are you checking your phone?
Jason: Just— I need this word in Spanish, okay—
Harvey: IS—IS THAT GOOGLE TRANSLATE?!
Jason: CALMATE PAPI, ESTO MU ES MY FAULT!
Bruce gets an extremely angry call from Harvey, saying that “their failure of a child” just embarrassed him in front of the entire drug cartel and he’s not letting him go until he’s fluent in Spanish, god damn it.
“Are you trying to kill your father?”
“DID YOU GUYS KNOW THE WHOLE TIME?!”
“The Hamlet references were a giveaway, sweetheart.”
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"The House voted on Friday to expel Republican Rep. George Santos of New York after a critical ethics report on his conduct that accused him of converting campaign donations for his own use. He was just the sixth member in the chamber’s history to be ousted by colleagues."
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I mean the problem with the Speaker of the House situation is our government was designed on the basis that if this kind of thing happened, it would force people to learn how to compromise and settle their differences like intelligent and rational humans, but this is the Republican Party, so lol they fucked.
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new fav silly little guy.. new fav silly little tweet
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A Palestinian man is asked in an interview by a white woman if he condemns Hamas while his people are being slaughtered in the open, and HE is the one condemned when he yells that it's injustice to insulate that his people deserve to be murdered, because "Hamas chose this."
A black woman is attacked first in a fight and SHE is the bad guy when she strikes back, she is the one whose face is plastered all over social media to be condemned and shamed for "aggression."
Two sisters are appropriately reacting to their oppressors by ripping off posters promoting their propaganda, and THEY are shamed and attacked for their lack of politeness when their people are being killed for existing.
An American democrat watches her colleagues cheer on genocide and ethical cleansing, the murder of children and the rape of women and the slaughter of families, and SHE is the one censored for speaking out in defense of them, despite her grief of losing family members.
Zionists are not condemned for enjoying the thought of children being killed, for calling Palestinians "animals" or saying Gaza should be "turned into a parking lot", Israeli doctors can get away with demanding that Palestinians, HUMAN BEINGS, should be murdered, that their only remaining hospital should be crushed.
They are not condemned for saying they wanted nuclear weapons unleashed on Gaza, they are not condemned for the imprisonment and torture of children, for desecrating dead Palestinians' corpses and mauling their bodies, for mocking Muslim Palestinians by rubbing their bullets against pig's skin before shooting them, for bombing Palestinian churches, for bombing universities, for shutting electricity from Gaza, cutting Palestinians from food and water, not letting them access to aid, for bombing CANCER hospitals and CHILDRENS HOSPITALS, for turning the sky of Gaza RED from explosions, for killing enough students that the entire school year was canceled, for annihilating families, for attacking Jewish people in Jerusalem, for cutting dead fetuses off dead mothers, for STEALING THEIR SKIN AND ORGANS and using them for their benefit, for forcing CHILDREN to hold a press conference to say that hey, they want to live.
Insinuating that this is about religion is the basis of Zionism. 60 members of Hamas were killed, and 10,500 civilians killed, 4000 of which are children. Over 800 bloodlines erased. Israel says they aim for "damage, not accuracy." Implying this is about Hamas is lies.
When white people in power tell you from their air-conditioned studios this is Israel defending itself, refuse to let Palestinian journalists explain things happening from their point of view, watch those journalists lose their entire families for speaking about what's happening to them, demonize Arabs who rage about injustice, ask Palestinians grieving if they condemn Hamas, know this is propaganda.
You shouldn't need them to tell you they're parroting lies to you. Their lies kill people. Their lies destroy people. Their apologies are insincere and their "sympathy" is limited only to those who look like them. It is unjust. It is cruel.
If I was were to narrate to you every atrocity Israel commited that I am aware of, I would never stop typing.
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09/19/2023
a bit of a weird day but my seminar took a field trip to the u.s. capitol and we met a senator to discuss federal policy. tbh no one in my class, including our professor, really agrees with their political philosophy lolol (which they acknowledged), but still an interesting experience to go into the building nonetheless ! afterwards, got some studying done at a café🍵🌄
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Legal U.S. government definition of AI, as found on page 63 of this:
I am in agony. 1, 2, and 4 could be interpreted to cover practically any numerically estimated mathematical model, automated system, or computer tool. 5 is a great sci-fi definition of AI but no one is anywhere near making it if it's even possible and even if they were it's a completely different set of concerns.
Yeah. Sure. Let's make rules about AI that apply equally well to chatgpt, The Algorithm, Data from Star Trek, automated color adjustment, and logistic regression which was developed in the 1950s.
At this point I think we need to scrap the term immediately for everything with the possible exception of 5. Alternatively, everyone using it is required to individually define what they mean at the beginning of their statement because otherwise it's meaningless (other than 'probably a computer is involved').
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"I may have been born yesterday, but I still went shopping!"
Happy 16th birthday to Charles Budderick "Buddy" Cole, born 64 years ago, yesterday.
Image/quote sources are under the cut:
Opening sentence of Buddy Babylon, written by Scott Thompson and Paul Bellini
Frame from "Buddy Cole Origins part 1", Scott Thompson's first video as Buddy Cole. Entirely improvised by Scott Thompson, filmed by Paul Bellini in 1985.
Still frame from the Buddy Cole sketch "Buddy and Bobs", filmed for the Kids in the Hall on CBC/HBO but never released
Photograph taken by Jessamine Manchester backstage at Scott Thompson's Philadelphia show during his KING tour on February 10th, 2024
Buddy Babylon, page 2
"Buddy Cole Origins part 1"
Buddy Babylon, page 131
Photograph taken by Jessamine Manchester in the green room of Scott Thompson's Atlanta show on the KING tour, February 16th 2024
Buddy Babylon, page 198
Scott Thompson quoted in "An oral history of Kids in the Hall's unabashedly outspoken Buddy Cole played by Scott Thompson" written by Vanja Mutabdzija Jaksic June 9th 2021.
Frame from "Buddy Cole Origins: Uncle Sappho" filmed by Paul Bellini in September 1986.
Photo taken during sound check at City Winery Atlanta by Jessamine Manchester February 16th 2024
Buddy Babylon, page 167
Buddy Cole in "Stand Out: An LGBTQ Celebration" on Netflix. June 2022.
Vulture article "The Kids in the Hall’s Scott Thompson Used Gay Provocateur Buddy Cole As an Essential Megaphone" written by Abraham Josephine Riesman on February 9th 2017.
Photo taken by Jessamine Manchester in the green room at Scott Thompson's Boston show during his tour of KING, February 7th 2024
"Behind Buddy Cole" written by Jaffe Cohen, published in the New York Native on January 8th 1990
Photo taken by Jessamine Manchester February 2024
Scott quoted in "An Antidote for a Sickening Era", written by Eve Kucharski May 30th 2019
Frame from Buddy Cole monologue "I'm Canadian", from Kids in the Hall Season 1
Photo taken backstage at Mouth Congress's performance at PhilaMOCA in May 2022 by Anne Hoskins
Scott Thompson quoted in "The Persistence of Buddy Cole: Scott Thompson Discusses His Most Iconic Role" written by Brock Wilbur on May 30th 2018 for Paste Magazine
Frame from Scott's first Buddy Cole monologue "Love at First Sight" from the Kids in the Hall Pilot, 1988
Frame from The Lowest Show on Earth (2001, possibly 2002) encore in which Buddy Cole appears in a fursuit and makes love to a woman live on stage
Frame from Buddy Cole monologue "Finding Love", from Kids in the Hall Season 3
Frame from Scott Thompson's appearance as Buddy Cole on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, 1997 or 1998
Vulture article "The Kids in the Hall’s Scott Thompson Used Gay Provocateur Buddy Cole As an Essential Megaphone" written by Abraham Josephine Riesman on February 9th 2017.
Frame from Buddy Cole monologue "Paris" Kids in the Hall season 3
Frame from Buddy Cole monologue "Montreal" Kids in the Hall season 5
Buddy Babylon, page 159
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Update to this post because a year later they're still trying it.
They vote again tomorrow, March 13th, to try and ban TikTok- only this time they're doing all they can to claim it's not a TikTik ban.
They claim it's to "protect Americans from 'Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications'" despite singling out ByteDance/TikTok specifically, and mentioning TikTok in literally the first sentence.
They also claim it's not a "ban," they're just giving TikTok the "opportunity" to divest from ByteDance and sell it's company, algorithms and source code to a non-communist county (the US) within 180 days or the US will take action and make the app inaccessible to USA Americans, which make up 150 million of TikTok's user base, the largest TikTok audience by country so far.
One could call this a shakedown, that effectively the US is trying to steal a popular and profitable company. "That's a nice company you got there, be a shame if you... I don't know... lost 150 million users- Wouldn't it?"
[Edit: Forgot to add that even though the US has 150 million TikTok users, that's still only like 8%-ish of TikTiks total userbase- making this "shakedown" an example of how Congress is embarrassingly USA-centric. TikTok will not sell just to avoid losing just 7%-8% of it's userbase, and Congress must know that- if not, that just proves the point even more. This bill is for all intents and purposes a BAN, regardless how they try to spin it, and they're being very USA-centric and Xenophobic about it]
Anyway-
This is the second vote. A House committee voted unanimously on Mar. 7th to advance the bill, and it will be voted on again by a Republican controlled House.
Please call or email your representatives and tell them to vote "No" on bill H.R. 7521.
This isn't about just losing an app. TikTok is unique in that it is currently the easiest place to organize and spread information that otherwise doesn't get as much coverage. It allows for real time coverage and updates by those living through major events going on around the word, and has allowed for increased awareness for such events that we likely wouldn't hear about otherwise. (i.e: the genocide in Palestine, Cop City, any of the bills trying to take trans rights/abortion rights away, etc)
If you don't know your representatives, just google "who are my representatives" and the first results should be links that will help you find them based on your zip code
And if you don't know what to write I can help you there too.
You can write something as simple as just:
Vote "No" on bill H.R. 7521.
Seriously, that's all you need.
Or, if you want something a little more in depth, here's a script that you can either copy and paste or reword to your liking. I just re-worded the script from the ACLU link above to fit more specifically about the current bill (Though let's be honest, for all intents and purposes Congress is pulling the same shit in a different hat)
Dear Representative,
I’m writing today to strongly urge you to protect our constitutional rights to free expression and to receive information, and to vote no on any bill that would give the federal government the power to ban entire social media platforms.
Bill H.R. 7521 is designed to allow the government to ban TikTok in the US and would likely result in bans of other businesses and applications as well. Given what we know about TikTok, it’s clear that a ban would violate the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans who use the app to communicate and express themselves daily.
Should these bills move to a vote, I urge you to vote “No.” In a purported attempt to protect the data of US persons from the Chinese government, these bills will instead block Americans from engaging in political discussions, artistic expression, and the free exchange of ideas.
We have a First Amendment right to use TikTok and other platforms to exchange our thoughts, ideas, and opinions with people around the country and around the world. Please oppose any bill designed to limit our right to express ourselves — both online and off.
Thank you.
Reminder, they vote tomorrow, Wednesday March 13th.
So please reblog this to spread the word and contact your representatives to tell them to vote "No" on this bill.
Do not be mistaken in thinking your opinion doesn't matter- it does matter so much. Do not let yourself be silenced!
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My god
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"He filed a legal brief in support of a lawsuit that sought to block the certification of Biden’s victories in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Johnson then supported objections in Congress to the certification Arizona’s and Pennsylvania’s 2020 presidential results.
Johnson also served on Trump’s legal team during the former president’s first impeachment.
He previously did legal work for the Alliance Defense Freedom, an ultraconservative advocacy group that litigates to restrict abortion access and prohibit same-sex marriage."
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The iconic Jo’s Coffee mural in Austin, TX received a Barbie-themed makeover ahead of the movie’s premiere next week. Source.
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