I CAN’T BE STOPPED! I WILL SHOVE TWO HOT DOGS IN MY MOUTH INTO MY CHEEKS LIKE A COLD MEAT EATING GERBIL. CHEEKS PUFFED OUT, CHEWING, STARING AT ANYONE WATCHING AND NEVER BREAKING EYE CONTACT.
I subscribe to some pet subs to see cute pictures of cats and dogs to improve my mood and then every tenth post or so is “my poor dead cat”. I hate it, I never knew your catdog and now im slightly sad that its dead. Now I have to unsubscribe from all these cute pet subs cause y’all can’t not talk about how dead your pets...
I despise these posts. The day my cat dies, I pledge to post some sort of post about him, but it won’t say he died. It’ll be some trash post like “LOOK AT THIS DUDE, HE HAS NO BRAIN CELLS” and it’ll be him like, chewing plastic or going goblin mode on a toy.
It’s well known now that gamergate and large parts of the “MRA” movement were organized specifically to radicalize young white men, as a test run that would eventually become the alt-right pipeline to radicalize even more people. Steve Bannon and his band of merry trolls were heavily involved.
So, yes, it really was sexist, racist, full of hate, and directly led to the alt-right movement online.
This information is not hard to find, if you cannot or do not wish to learn about the entire situation, which is much more complicated than could be boiled into a reply here, perhaps you are willfully doing so. please look it all up. There have been plenty of articles and even documentaries made about it through the years since. It is not my job to teach you about it, and I’m not qualified, nor do I have sources ready.
I’m not citing a source, I’m speaking generally. Search YouTube for a video called “how to fall down the anti-sjw rabbit hole” to get started, great video by a great YouTube creator called Three Arrows., but really it is not difficult.to find this sort of information. I am also speaking generally instead of specifically on purpose because my goal here was to leave a comment. Not to have a debate.
Edit: A couple times I’ve said eBook while I actually meant Audiobook. I’ve learned that Spotify has a 15 hour limit per month for their free ‘included in premium’ audiobooks. However these are the two books I listened to for free, and even rounding up to 13 hours it doesn’t make sense, unless they count accidental...
Go to your local library and ask if they have audiobook borrowing through Libby or a similar platform! Not only are you NOT limited on listening hours, but it’s free! You just might have to wait if all the “copies” are borrowed at the moment.
Also, if you have a cool library like I do, you might be able to borrow from multiple libraries. For example, my library card is for the St. Louis County Library, but it can also be used at the St. Charles County Library. So if I am looking for an audiobook on Libby, and SLCL has 3 virtual copies and they are all borrowed, I can search SCCL to see if they have any. I’ve had many situations where I’ll find one library or the other will have a copy available for borrowing with no wait.
Thus pisses me off. The big fandoms and influencers could move. But all the people are on X. The users couldove, but all the fandoms and influencers are on X. It’s a fucking loop where no one wants to make the first move
There’s this rising narrative going around that if you ask specifically for a CIS partner, you’re a transphobe. That could be true for some people but it’s not fundamentally related to bigotry. Moreover, this narrative, the “if you only want a CIS mate then that is prejudice” is trampling on one of the most important...
I have never run into this, honestly. I would assume if you are looking for a possible sexual relationship, that a person’s sexual preference matters. Not to say gender is not important, but sex also is in this instance. If you expect a dick and get a clit, that’s going to be a bit of a let-down, no matter how much you are romantically attracted to the person. I think it’s mature to have this conversation early in the relationship. More people need to understand that you can discuss this kind of stuff like adults and well, if you’re someone looking for a certain type of partner, there should not be shame attached to it.
I just finished Enterprise. I know the last episode doesn’t count, but seriously, how the fuck did this not get more episodes eventually? Seasons 3 and 4 were so fucking good, like, DS9, Voyager, and TNG’s best are right there, equal. It’s been so long now it would be hard, but I feel like fans deserve a real conclusion and deserve to be told that Trip didn’t really die, it was all a plot from the future somehow and then we could truly see the final battles, Starfleet vs Terra Prime vs the Suleban and their shadowy future boss who is totally not Archer from a future mirror timeline. >_>
Oh also, Star Trek Voyager x World of Warcraft. Is that just Star Trek Online?
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No I’m not catastrophising....
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I hate pet memmorial posts
I subscribe to some pet subs to see cute pictures of cats and dogs to improve my mood and then every tenth post or so is “my poor dead cat”. I hate it, I never knew your catdog and now im slightly sad that its dead. Now I have to unsubscribe from all these cute pet subs cause y’all can’t not talk about how dead your pets...
TIL about Earl Silverman, a domestic abuse survivor who founded a shelter for men. It was denied funding from the government and he was ridiculed. The shelter went bankrupt and he died by suicide (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Wot The Fsck You Say, Spotify? (lemmy.world)
Edit: A couple times I’ve said eBook while I actually meant Audiobook. I’ve learned that Spotify has a 15 hour limit per month for their free ‘included in premium’ audiobooks. However these are the two books I listened to for free, and even rounding up to 13 hours it doesn’t make sense, unless they count accidental...
Every Boomer Comic (sopuli.xyz)
Knowing what you know about Elon Musk, why are you still on X?
Kenneth Smith ‘struggled for life’ for 22 minutes in Alabama nitrogen gas execution: Updates (www.independent.co.uk)
“Kenny just began to gasp for air repeatedly and the execution took about 25 minutes total.”...
You should be able to ask "I want a CIS mate" in a dating app without being shamed.
There’s this rising narrative going around that if you ask specifically for a CIS partner, you’re a transphobe. That could be true for some people but it’s not fundamentally related to bigotry. Moreover, this narrative, the “if you only want a CIS mate then that is prejudice” is trampling on one of the most important...
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Star Trek: Enterprise x Deep Rock Galactic (i.imgur.com)
I'm never lonely cuz i got these little guys with me :) (lemm.ee)
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While Education and Organizing is building the parts for a new engine the rest of the year.
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