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Just gonna give this a repost, but shes officially found a new place and been approved, but she needs 550 for deposit and 220 for Nov rent moving in on 20th. If able to help is appreciated and thank you <3

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

argentinian TV roasting the fuck out of bolsonaro LMAO - the loser speaks - family tradition: complaining about the results - a classic: the right alleges fraud

and a GIGANTIC SUCK SHIT to Mark Zuckerberg and Meta.

Omg it's beautiful. Culmination of the most annoying shit ever. Parents getting involved in local politics and at least our Step Father has finally realised what kinda people tend to run in local councils as the party they backed falls apart turning against each other. Fuckin hilarious. x3

images from the Dungeons and Dragons x World of Warcraft book are coming out, and wowie zowie I love the art

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

And because they're "protecting women" anything goes, that's their cudgel to beat all women with. This is why I think it appears outwardly that once people indulge in transphobic hate, they suddenly come down with all sorts of other bigotries, but I think that frequently the hate was already there.

The way a lot of men in the anti-trans movement speak to, and speak about, cis women allies who are vocal in their support of trans people's human rights is straight up misogynistic hate. See how Papa Terf Graham Linehan targets cis women allies in particular for dogpiling and harassment and abuse.

Something I spoke about before was how transphobia is often an expression of misogyny, it gives people who hate women an outlet and sets trans women up as a class of women it's socially okay to be misogynistic towards, while also providing an ideological justification for that misogyny.

For sure - and not just TX. Didn't nail the point precisely: in US it's combo of anti-immigrant & anti-trans; what genuinely surprised me about working in Brazil was absence of the former thus fixation on "gender ideology" (which includes anti-abortion, anti-feminism, anti-trans.)

Back to Hilton, this is all the MORE remarkable because unlike in most places where (im)migrants are go-to scapegoat (see US, UK, EU, Australia, Chile, Argentina...) the Bolsonaros (dad & son) really put their hate peddling into "gender ideology."

What appears to have changed from round 1 to 2 is increased participation, given compulsory voting over 18, that likely means outsized role 16-18 year olds (who can but aren't obligated to vote) played. Did a podcast on mobilizing this cohort in 2022 election: wordstowinby-pod.com/speak-yourse...

3. Make clear true opposition, ascribe motivation & render their threat credible - see how campaigners made Meta backfire & linked Bolsonaro to billionaires

2. Fight on your turf & terms - see big push to make CONCRETE economic promises (not "opportunity economy" flim flam) in form of shorter work week, free weekend transit

Fully aware motivated cognition is a helluva drug but...as far as following the precepts of what I call Magnetism (if you want people to come to your cause, be attractive): 1. Engaging the base is HOW you convert the conflicted - see "Lula's Army" recruited on WhatsApp & taught what to repeat

So much to say about Brazil, not least of which is the role that Erika Hilton, a Black trans leader and most voted woman politician in Brazil, played in mobilizing folks for Lula. She was behind the critical, concrete, economic promise of shorter work-week. theprint.in/feature/erik...

Almost like having a spine and working with rather than throwing marginalized communities under the bus is a winning strategy and always has been...

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

Franchises of the 90’s churning out furries

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Halloween season is here, and it's never too early for parents to start inspecting the candy their children consume. Be sure to look for the telltale signs that their treats may have been tampered with:

Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

If you put all world leaders in a room and put them on fucking drugs we'd probably just have no living world leaders.

the only person you should strive to be better than is your previous selves. and even then, you have to give them credit. they all got you here, and they were trying their absolute best. the mistakes they made and the lessons they learned are what made you You

When trans creators are subtle, people dismiss the trans subtext as “headcanon.” When trans creators are loud and proud, people call it “obnoxious” and “cringe.” They just don’t want us to be represented in media at all. Because they don’t want us to exist at all.

Not a business man but the only version of events that might sit remotely well with me would be a Ueda/TLG situation where the BW folks lead a contracted studio to finish MEU then the series be put to rest. EA would never. I want the game BW wanted to make, not just any other game set in that world.

Trouble is, even the #SaveMassEffect campaign is divided between people who are advocating for a new studio to pick it up because they think that's realistic and the ones who want BW to be able to finish what it started feel like this campaign's momentum means it's the only way they'll be heard.

I appreciate that people want a new Mass Effect, but the future where fans advocate for the work itself and not the people who make it is the one the vultures at EA want. If you'll take it however you get it, they can keep treating people who make what you love as expendable.

'Blue Planet III' will deliberately include murkier and less polished underwater footage to assure viewers it's real and not AI-generated 🌊 The David Attenborough-narrated series won't feature a single AI-generated frame (via guardian)

The largest chocolate manufacturers made the switch and hoped you wouldn’t notice but now the price of cacao is collapsing which threatens the economic stability of these countries. Anyway if you love chocolate here are some great African brands to choose from. www.tasteatlas.com/best-rated-c...

This article does not discuss one major reason why chocolate in the West got worse - Ghana and Ivory Coast, the two African countries that are the biggest suppliers of cacao globally, got organised and started demanding fair prices for it. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Somethin somethin live long enough see yourself become the villian. Like don't know about think it, def can imagine it however.

Your country might be great but does it follow Australia’s lead by colour-coordinating its currency with the nation’s favourite snack foods?

Wait until you hear what we do with our Public Transport in Melbourne!

BOY WOULD WE LIKE TO

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket