Turns out the British public has more positive views of lgbt people than the British media would suggest. Cis lesbians are tied with cis bisexual for expressing the most supportive views on trans people

Article date: August 11, 2023

Some encouraging news.

Really glad they did this research - especially because YouGov is a credible, well-regarded, and fairly accurate pollster. They're one of the most prominent polling organizations in the UK. So it's not like just anyone is giving these numbers - you can have a fair amount of confidence in them.

Given British media and assholes online, I definitely would not have called that cis lesbians and cis bisexuals are tied for most supportive of trans people. Very, very nice to hear.

transphobes are a very loud but very small group. don't lose hope. don't give up. don't stop fighting. more people support you than you realize.

some dipshit uploaded my book to an AI site, so suffice to say, I will fucking kill them

emailed my agent cuz our contract states she has to protect me from shit like this, so we'll see what she says

but I will still kill these ppl

LMFAO THE SITE IS BEING TAKEN DOWN

hey so, just so there's no ambiguity about what just happened-- this was about Prosecraft, a website that would help you compare your writing to your favorite author by analyzing the "vividness" of the words used, passive voice vs active voice and the number of adverbs used in a given section.

unfortunately, the service is dogshit for various reasons but that's not the issue here.

the issue is that the website had trained an AI on 25,000 books, one of which included mine. and i definitely did not give anyone permission to use my work to train an AI. it's literally stated in my contract.

and if i didn't give permission--i can imagine quite a number of authors didn't give permission either. (oops, i don't have to imagine--because hundreds of authors came forward and said they didn't give permission either!)

so i emailed my agent about this. my agent directed me to my publisher which has a legal department that looks into piracy on this scale. all of those authors did the same, emailing their legal team, getting The Authors Guild involved.

EVERY AUTHOR pretty much roasting this guy named Benji Smith on Twitter for claiming to "support authors" yet clearly using pirated work to train an AI.

of course, he decided to take the website down. authors are now talking about getting AI protection clauses in their contracts going forward. i already have one with my agent, but I imagine I will have to get it instated into every publishing contract moving forward.

source: it happened to me lol (but if you don't believe me, here's a link)

norwegian is an incredible language

[ID 1: Google translate between Norwegian and English. the Norwegian word "data-fag" translates to "computer science"./ ID end]

[ID 2: Google translate between Danish and English. the Norwegian word "fag-person" translates to "professional"./ ID end]

GAYS, GHOULS, AND EVERYONE IN BETWEEN:

THEY’RE MAKING MORE THIS IS NOT A DRILL

*​idk when these will drop but i will update when/if i find out*

*​idk when these

will drop but i will update

when/if i find out*

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Long lost original cover for Nirvana’s Nevermind

now i might be wrong. but i'm pretty sure these aren't omens. like these are just things that can kill you.

this is like if i said i'm a prophet because i know exactly when you'll die and then pulled out a gun and shot you with it

Spirit: Stallion of The Cimarron & the Indian Boarding Schools/Residential Schools allegory

Holy shit!

Was this intentional?

Considering the rest of the film’s heavy anti-colonization messaging, the main antagonist being heavily modeled on & inspired by General Custer, the other main (human) protagonist being a Native man (& the fort is where Spirit meets Little Creek), yes, most likely

YES. It was 100% intentional. I highly recommend reading up on the making of this film. There was an incredible amount of care that went into the development.

They had Lakota consultants for the project, especially regarding the use of the Lakota language in the film (which is used sparsely, but when used is accurate).

It’s par for the course now to consult people belonging to a culture for projects representing it these days (i.e. Moana, Frozen 2, etc.) but it certainly wasn’t when Spirit came out in 2002.

This film is allegorical to its core.

play this clip to someone who asks what tf2 is

tf2 heritage post

another round of - spot the difference between the cis terf and the trans radfem! This addition: trans men hold the power of the patriarchy and are responsible for it!

Trans inclusive radical feminism is indistinguishable from trans-exclusive radical feminism because both ideologies still hate and despise trans men

Two of these screen shots are actual cis terfs. three of them are radfem trans women. And you cannot tell them apart by their words because they are the same

Pirate all your favorite shows, movies, and games while you still have the chance.

Image description: a twitter thead from Patrick McHale (@/Patrick_McHale). First is a quote-retweet of @/ToonHive, from which the original tweet reads:

"'Over the Garden Wall' will leave Max starting August 31st."

McHale replies: "it's funny, i just saw this now, but coincidentally i've been fighting the urge to tweet this all day: 'i hope somebody is out there ripping and saving all the stuff on all these streaming services because i'm pretty sure so much of it is gonna disappear and become lost media.'"

and continues in a second tweet: "years ago i didn't have a game console, but i had an ipod touch. got deep into 'mobile gaming' in early days. there was brillian work. amazingly creative games. slowly the app store UI changed, became impossible to find that stuff. games disappeared. gone the way of flappy bird."

End description.

Pirates archivists, PLEASE do the world a favor and upload your rips to:

And don't forget why they're removing everything from streaming: To cheat creators out of their pittance pay residuals.

shrimb.

@identifying-cars-in-posts

2014-2016 Toyota Corolla

He is so tired

emotionally competent cassowary

And then he proceeded to storm into the kitchen and demand they make a gluten free, dairy free tomatoless pizza

They prolly just gave the kid some ice cubes hahahhh

Imagine half of your entire personality was made to love pizza and you meet who can’t even touch it smh

I am fully aware there are gluten/dairy/tomato free options for pizza, most of which I have tried, some of which I have liked-

BUT, In my mind, fazbear entertainment wouldn’t really care enough to have an anything free version and would never have programmed Freddy to even know about other options-

Fazbear entertainment is a horrible company in my imagination haaaah :)

"Lesbians don't like dick" wrong! Genitals mean nothing, don't bring cissexism into my good dykely home

I'm not going back and forth with fascists on a Sunday morning xoxo, I'm for trans women + trans lesbians forever and always

this bitch empty, TWEET

Have any of you heard of the Harvard MIT Pigeon Prank?

Ah yes, classical conditioning put to good use

in reference to that last post i reblogged, i should also mention:

PLEASE LOOK OUT FOR ANTISEMITIC PROPAGANDA IN ANTI COP ART/POSTS. PLEASE PLEASE LOOK.

right now, being anti-cop is NECESSARY, but some people use “anti cop” art to actually depict EXTREMELY ANTISEMITIC, DANGEROUS propaganda

look for:

i totally, 100% understand the temptation to rb all the anti cop stuff you see. it’s a good instinct. but goyim NEED to look out for these dogwhistles. IT IS NEVER INNOCENT. IF YOU SEE THESE THINGS, IT IS NOT TRULY ANTI COP, IT IS ANTISEMITIC. IT IS COMPARING JEWISH PEOPLE TO POLICE.

just make sure the message you’re spreading is a good one. be safe, and keep your community safe (including the jewish ones).

Do not get me wrong I think it's great that we're slowly getting more aroace representation (and I am both aro and ace myself) but istg people forget that aromanticism and asexuality exist outside of eachother ESPECIALLY when it comes to aromanticism. Acknowledge all aspecs not just the overlap between aros and aces

reblog to kill an HOA manager