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[inkskinned]

it's extremely critical that you see the photo of the perp walk for luigi mangione as being propaganda. i've seen so many people wave it off and instead fawn over his looks. and trust me, i know it ended up being kind of pathetic and weird - but please don't brush it off as a "modelling opportunity" for him. it's a fucking terrifying message the police are sending.

i want to make a few comparisons here, in case you're not from the US or familiar with why the perp walk thing is something to pay attention to. just to set the groundwork for why this is a purposeful, unusual, and cruel act by the nyc police - for why this is not a common occurrence and for why that matters.

the prosecution alleges the show of force is due to the charge of "terrorism." for comparison, in june 2015, tsarnaev was found guilty for the boston marathon bombing, which killed 3 people and injured hundreds. his actions are considered to be an act of domestic terrorism. i have spent the last hour looking through google for pictures of similar to mangione's perp walk - and so far, i have found zero. i also just do not personally remember a moment like that, despite living in boston at the time.

they allege that luigi is a stone-cold killer who carried out a longterm plan, making him particularly dangerous. again for comparison: in nyc, recently cory martin was found guilty of the killing of brandy odom. the murder was planned and premeditated to steal insurance money. and yet no staged perp walk. why didn't her life matter enough for a "show of force"?

but mangione gets paraded by a veritable army of police officers as if he is a rabid animal. for a single citizen who allegedly killed one other single citizen, the "largest perp walk ever" occurs.

so what is the "strong message" that the mayor and the police were trying to send here? the mayor speaks as if mangione is already convicted of terrorism. there is a very thin number of people who feel threatened by the CEO's death. none of us felt like mangione needs to be under massive armed guard.

the message is that you shouldn't resist. they are trying to "make an example" of him - that if you behave badly and kill a single rich person, you'll be treated as if you killed hundreds of people. you will be treated worse than a man who was found guilty of terrorism. you will be considered guilty without trial. the message is that the rich are a protected class, and you cannot touch them without massive punishment. they are trying to prevent a revolution by showing dominance and force against you.

the message is that the police are a puppet of the wealthy and that the law is not equally applied across class disparity. it is "some are more equal than others." it is "one life is more precious than another."

the show of force wasn't for luigi. it was for us. it was a warning. they are trying to remind us who is really in control.

[sirazaroff]

I dedicate this post to the funniest beef ever

[inaturalist-unofficial]

What's the iNaturalist AI drama...? I hadn't heard about anything until now.

iNaturalist announced a project, funded by a $1.5 million dollar grant from Google, to create a LLM trained on user ID comments to produce generative AI ID tips.

As a user that has voluntarily provided nearly 95k IDs and a lot of them containing uncountable hours of study to provide helpful and accurate information for the community, this disgusts me.

The official announcement on site: https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/113184-inaturalist-receives-grant-to-improve-species-suggestions

The official announcement on bsky:

Official feedback form:

A forum discussion:

[simplified-birds]

Simplified bird #138 - siberian goshawk

( requested by anon )

[pluverapickles]

let's talk about how the term "divine feminine" (shakti) was appropriated from hinduism and turned from this:

to this 🤮

[cozymochi]

Couldn’t think of anything new, so I’m just recycling previous work now.

[incomprehensiblelentils]

I chime in with a haven’t you people ever heard of locking the goddamn tomb

[quick-catton]

sometimes i just sit and think about how their eyes both drift down towards each other's lips at the exact same time and i could cry

[egophiliac]

Hi it's just to let you know that the official romanization of Revaan's name is Raverne ! Also they have romanized Baul's name to Baur !

Twst coming back at us again with the least expected romanization! thank you everybody (oh god my inbox) (no it's great, I literally asked for this and the reactions have been INCREDIBLE, thank you all!)

I do like Raverne though, I think it's got a nice fancy sound to it! (I had kinda suspected it was going to be an R instead of an L, so the fact that it's SO close to Laverne except for that is hilarious to me personally.) and Dragoneye Duke is honestly probably the best translation for his title, I wasn't envying the localizers that one. :') Baur instead of Baul I was NOT expecting, but in retrospect I think his name's supposed to be a reference to the Bauru crocodile, so that actually makes way more sense!

someone else also said Meleanor has become Maleanor, which is the REALLY weird one to me, because I was so surprised it was written as Mel instead of Mal in the first place?! oh god no I can't decide which one I like better. 😭 (I wonder if they might change it to Mal...they have made romanization changes before) (like I remember House of Distraction being corrected to House of Destruction in Playful Land) (I did check and she's still Mel for now, but I dunno, they might Mal her up and some point and save me from having to make a decision about which one to use) (HECK I CAN'T DECIDE)

uhhhh thank you for letting me ramble about anime names, let's just say MONOGRAMMED SWEATERS FOR EVERYONE

[pink-linoleum]

face forwards

[xenasaur]

just realized I somehow never posted this so now I am. ur welcome :3

top tip me maybe? :3

op is nonbinary and uses it/its pronouns

[soggydoggydisco]

@lulev AGHH I LOST THE ASK but I'm pretty sure you wanted komahina doodles.. here you go ❤️

[deadpoets]

PAUL MCCARTNEY At the Revere Hotel (1963)

[moondove330]

oh my GOD i did it