Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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Listening to the Autistic Culture podcast, season 3, and it’s great so far.
Back to work. Two weeks off for my pre burnout did me good I must say.
Pride was decent. Some fighting between participants and fascist who were protesting. Sadly queer activists for arrested for it.
Damn that’s sad. At our pride, we had activists arrested for protesting the Booking .com boat that was pinkwashing their involvement in genocide. It seems the authorities who claim to be on the queer’s side aren’t on our side after all. That being said. I’m feeling more empty now our prides done. As a queer person, it was still nice to see that for a whole week the city became ours. Even though it attracted a lot of straight people who just came here to party and were harassing queer people lol.
Do y’all think ID verification will soon be mandatory across all mainstream social media?
I expect it to mandated by law to make accounts with any online service within the next 5 years. I’m working on a full transition away from the few things i still use that need accounts with those types of corporate services now. The main thing left to do being email.
Will be in australia. By december all social media sites have to delete all accounts of people under 16 and the only way to do that is for them to ID people. Supposedly its to “protect children” but they aren’t calling for age verification on porn sites so its pretty obvious its all about tracking what people say and do online.
I’ve also heard that sites like YouTube will implement AI systems to estimate users’ ages based on the content they view, and apply restrictions accordingly, such as blocking the viewing of videos deemed problematic, and an ID will be needed to prevent these restrictions. But considering that the majority of YouTube’s “kid’s content” is either brainrot or ElsaGate content, this will more likely be used to silence opposition, such as coverage on Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.
I can definitely see it ramping up even more than it already has. There may be one or two holdouts that distinguish themselves for not doing so, at least temporarily, though.
I have just watched Takopi’s Original Sin and it’s some really heavy stuff. It sheds light on some very real issues in today’s society such as bullying, domestic abuse, suicide, etc., and how unfair conditions can lead to such behaviors. However, the ending feels a bit… Libby, for lack of a better term? (Spoilers ahead)
Major spoilers up ahead:
So in the end, Takopi sacrifices himself so that the two rival characters Shizuka and Marina become friends instead of enemies. The anime presents this as a happy ending (of course, as the main conflict between them has been resolved in a positive way), but at the same time, during the time skip at the end, Marina still has the facial scar she gets from parental abuse in a time skip from a previous timeline, which implies that her household problems likely still haven’t been resolved.
Also, it seems like a wasted opportunity to not address how the contradictions within Capitalism perpetuate these situations in the first place, whether it be Shizuka’s poverty (with her mother having to turn to prostitution to keep them afloat), Marina’s abusive parents (unable to properly seek help, causing her to turn to bullying Shizuka to vent her frustrations), Azuma’s parental neglect (always being forced to push himself as an attempt to gain his mother’s approval due to work culture), etc.
I hope you all have a nice week :D
You too oppo!
Thanks! You too! ^_^
Thank you comrade!
Oppo, you too
You too Oppo!
You too comrade 🫡
Yeah video not working well, still thanks for the cute ducky 😌👍🏼
I’m working on a joke tell me what you think
Q: How many zionists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: This joke is antisemitic.
It’s funny how Israel is seen as the protector of Jewish culture when they discouraged their citizens from speaking Yiddish or Ladino
I like to hurt myself by starting shit in predominantly right wing online communities. I made a post about a far right org intimidating our Pride on a Dutch subreddit and it is so funny. They are always posting Muslim lgbtq+ intimidation incidents and defend lgbtq+ rights in those topics. But now they are trying to bring nuance or are outright deflecting with other bullshit. I wonder why.
Also, these guys have the PR instinct of a mosquito. All you can do to make me look like a fool is saying: man that is stupid I condemn this. But they cannot bring themselves to condemn a right wing attack on the lgbtq+ community.
From the DPRK
Beautiful architecture.
Still gay
based
If your reading this, your cute and you survived another week in this shit of a system
Thank you, although I’m not sure if I am cute.
I can assure you, you are!
Aww, thanks, comrade!
Aww thanks, although IDK if I’m cute
I just verified, you are :D
:D You are a_cute_kernel_panic
Can only give that back comrade :3
i am a brute :(
No Lely you a very very cute person. I can assure you that :)
why do i have a deja vu
Because I am just an anonymous account from a person you know from the genzedong matrix :3
And I always thought you are cute hehe!
no wonder it felt familiar!!
:3
Back atcha!!! <3
Waaaaaaa >.<
The journalist Anas al-Sharif was murdered by the occupation. I had to cry it out after hearing it. When will it stop?
Yeah. Every few days I break down and scream something like “Just stop it already” to nobody in particular. If there is a god, when I die, I swear I am going to stab them like 30 times while yelling “This is for Gaza you sick fuck.”
What will you buy if you were here?
give me all of the pins
I’ve been wanting an Ushanka. I already have a silver Lenin bust.
Def grabbing some pins, the classic hammer and sickle still rocks
I already have some soviet pins, but a Lenin bust on my desk would be 🔝
A bell and fuzzy hat. Winter is coming!
