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Do not think for a moment that this admin is only going after trans folks. They are ultimately going after the whole LGBTQ community. They start small, like getting rid of a hotline option, then go BIG.

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The fascists always told me the left uses fascism to describe anything we don't like, and now we get to explain to confused children how they're helping the people in power who are trying to kill all foreigners, queer people and women with opinion prove their point

After seeing that “saying you don’t want to associate with people who create pornography of child characters is fascism” reply on my post and getting that “attributing (sentimental/cultural) value to human remains is fascism” reply to my post, I’m beginning to suspect ‘fascism’ is the new trendy fancy fad word for weaponized use by people who were born without brains and the ability to comprehend words. We have an actual fascism problem in this world, a major one, and it is not people online saying “I do not want to befriend people who create South Park porn” and “do not take a random human jawbone you just found home with you”. Those are two of the mildest takes I could possibly make.

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You'd think the easier way was to stop buying live service games but eh

if you're in Europe PLEASE consider signing the Stop Destroying Games initiative. the deadline is July 31st 2025. i've posted about it before; it aims to create legislation for publishers to stop killing the games you pay for and to provide an end-of-life plan for live-service products. thank you!!!

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I know a blind man who got permanently injured tripping on one of these bikes, who in his court battles then found out nobody is actually responsible for what happens when people dump them on the street. The users? No. The company that owns them? No. The city department of road safety? No. Using them for barricades is the closest anyone has come to justifying their existence.

It's so funny that the ICE protestors finally found a good use for these stupid fucking things.

They are a hazard out on the roads and sidewalks, but piled up and zip-tied together in front of the federal building garage exits that ICE vans use when they're kidnapping people out of immigration court? Then they become pieces of a beautiful community sculpture project.

(Art credit: Stolen from Reddit but now I can't find the post)

(Photos credit: This Reddit post)

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To make an obvious metaphor, taking into account population amounts, military power and such, I think wrecking a synagogue could be called "not antisemitic" in the same way the 9/11 attacks could be called "not anti-American"

So apparently breaking into a synagogue and vandalizing torah scrolls is not antisemetic according to London police?

Like I'm sorry but out of every attack on jews and jewish institutions recently, how is this one not labeled antisemitic by police????

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"US and Israel announce ceasefire deal." Hours later,

...I'm not sure anyone told Iran about this ceasefire deal they made with them.

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I was five years old when I somehow developed the idea that I could spend a long time in a dream, grow old, and then wake up and be back there. A part of me is still there, standing in deep thought in front of my bed, wondering if I'll wake up and be five again. More and more I'm hoping for it.

Wayback machine. A fear submitted by Lucy to Deep Dark Fears - thanks!

You can pick up art in my shop!

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Can't get over how bad Trump and his administration of loyalists are at every damn thing they do

Operation Midnight Hammer, where we drop the hammer in the middle of the night? Well you're supposed to pull a name out of a hat so you don't give any information away to your enemy but I guess pulling one out of your ass at the last minute works as well. Like this is the sort of thing you'd do if you know less about running a war than someone who's played a game of Civ. Alternatively they're just 100% confident Iran has no ability to intercept communications with Israel because they're generations behind in technology and no threat.

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*if you know/have confirmed from multiple sources, pick the first one you experienced

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The oil and auto lobby will force people to drive cars the size of buses to prevent public transit development

The American consumer doesn’t actually want trucks and cars that are huge enough that you can’t see a six foot tall person over the hood. They make vehicles that big now to avoid environmental regulations related to engine efficiency

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And if we want to talk about the problems with countries having nukes, I think the ones who already have them and have no plans of getting rid of them have no part in that conversation. Nuclear disarmament or nuclear proliferation, those are our choices.

It is just infuriating how few news organizations are willing to discuss how pointless this is. "Preventing Iran from having nukes is important..." they weren't working on getting nukes! None of this prevented anything! People are attacking Iran's nuclear power centers, not anything related to weapons, because there is nothing currently related to weapons. The intelligence saying this was public knowledge before the attacks happened!

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Operation Midnight Hammer, where we drop the hammer in the middle of the night? Well you're supposed to pull a name out of a hat so you don't give any information away to your enemy but I guess pulling one out of your ass at the last minute works as well. Like this is the sort of thing you'd do if you know less about running a war than someone who's played a game of Civ. Alternatively they're just 100% confident Iran has no ability to intercept communications with Israel because they're generations behind in technology and no threat.

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I hope everyone knows good freezers use very little energy to maintain cold once the insides have reached the target temperature and it's the process of freezing along with the pumping out hot air from whenever you open the door that costs you, but just in case

what farming items in mmorpgs has taught me: i used to think using ice trays to make ice cubes was free but after thinking about it i have to pay the electric bill to power the freezer so every moment that i’m not freezing new trays of ice cubes is a moment that i’m underutilizing the freezer and increasing the cost of ice cubes. i have to constantly swap out ice trays for new ice cubes on an hourly rotation on a 24 hour basis or else i won’t produce the maximum amount of ice cubes possible and will underutilize the full potential of my electric bill. i need to stop using all other appliances and utilities in my home to make more ice cubes

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At first I thought this was an ad for morphine. It seems to try to say "Our product packs the strength of two quintuple decker burgers into a single burger"?

Second thought, "Why are they bragging about making something much weaker than morphine so you need much more of it for the same effect? Is it about creating a safer alternative for morphine addicts? When was morphine addiction a big problem?"

This is not an intuitive way to illustrate potency is all.

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Operation Midnight Hammer, where we drop the hammer in the middle of the night? Well you're supposed to pull a name out of a hat so you don't give any information away to your enemy but I guess pulling one out of your ass at the last minute works as well. Like this is the sort of thing you'd do if you know less about running a war than someone who's played a game of Civ. Alternatively they're just 100% confident Iran has no ability to intercept communications with Israel because they're generations behind in technology and no threat.

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Horror writers just ditched the whole genre and came up with "New weird" instead. Maybe horror will turn into a forbidden name that disappears from history like whatever we used to call wolves.

I think that horror, probably more than any other genre, has people who just hate it as a matter of principle. Which is fine, you like what you like, but I really wish they didn't let such people review horror for media outlets.