"basic feminist aspirations would require a radical overhaul of society and the worldwide reactionary backlash is driven in large part by the gains of feminism in the last 60 years"
You don't need a border patrol if you abolish borders.
Yeah, it has long been the case that adult-oriented businesses have to be careful or risk the wrath of everyone from prosecutors to payment-processing companies, but "prominent social media company owned by world's richest person swiftly became world's largest CSAM producer" produces no reaction.
i think it would benefit all queer spaces to be more open to having discussions about allonormativity and amatonormativity - the assumption that all people feel sexual attraction and romantic attraction, respectively, and want them in their lives
Während viele um Renee Good trauern, wird sie von der US-Regierung als Verbrecherin und Terroristin bezeichnet.
Nice bit of digital humanities here - using AI to transcribe more than 32,000 manuscripts in the space of a few months. But with two years of preparation in training the model and creating standards for automating manuscript transcription
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werewolf obviously.
Artwork for Minraud :3
I dislike how there are still people that act like pixel art is some outdated artform. The existence of 3d doesn't make pixel art outdated. It is like saying that oil painting became outdated when photography was invented.
I think it is why a lot modern fantasy stories don't feel all that fantastic to me. Everything gets explained, so there isn't any room for the fantastic.
Also, it is interesting that many of these older stories don't bother with extensive world-building or explanation. They just present the fantastic as is, with no explanation or justification. Oppose to modern fiction, where it is common for things to be extensively explained.
I have been reading Book of Fantasy edited by Borges. It has been interesting to read older fantasy stories. Many of them straddle the line of being fantasy, scifi and horror. E.g the story House taken over, I imagine today people would likely see it as a horror story than a fantasy one.
An example of why wolves are important
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🚨URGENT: Congress prepares to push forward wolf slaughter bill that would remove federal protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states and prohibit judicial review. Decision will be voted on Dec. 15 and could move to a House vote next week.
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Interesting to hear about “animal-computer interaction” being used as a term.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mind-blowingly cool use of AI
“Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
#OtD 4 Dec 1853 Errico Malatesta, mechanic and key anarchist theorist and organiser was born in Italy. Despite being repeatedly jailed, exiled and sentenced to death 3 times, he remained active and lived until the age of 78. Learn more in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/lif...
john elster's footnote from an article about why marxists should adopt game theory where he notes that just because capitalists benefit from a particular division in the working class does not mean they created it or maintain it
I think Americans fawning over party-state systems because they see a couple of rich people being arrested without understanding any of the context need to calm down a bit, because a party-state is exactly what the Republicans are going to give you if you're not careful
Bracing analysis of the rise of the far-right in Germany: "there are widespread right-wing extremist networks within the security services, the police, and the armed forces. Europe-wide networks of fascists are operating unhindered. Something is brewing. If we don't react now, it will be too late."
Saw this on the other site and wanted to share it here. Furry artist ardwoof has been detained by ice for the last few weeks. here is the GoFundMe link their family/friends have set up to help with their legal fees:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-johan...
It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop
All forms of hierarchy and authority needs be destroyed.
Here. You can get either the e-book or the paperback. fhfs.ink/when-the-wor...
But lo and behold! I found myself famous. Frankenstein had prodigious success as a drama, and was about to be repeated, for the twenty-third night, at the English Opera House. The play-bill amused me extremely, for, in the list of dramatis personce, came "———, by Mr. T. Cooke." This nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good. On Friday, 29th August, Jane, my Father, William, and I went to the theatre to see it. Wallack looked very well as Frankenstein. He is at the beginning full of hope and expectation. At the end of the first act the stage represents a room with a staircase leading to Frankenstein's workshop; he goes to it, and you see his light at a small window, through which a frightened servant peeps, who runs off in terror when Frankenstein exclaims "It lives!" Presently Frankenstein himself rushes in horror and trepidation from the room, and, while still expressing his agony and terror, "———" throws down the door of the laboratory, leaps the staircase, and presents his unearthly and monstrous person on the stage. The story is not well managed, but Cooke played ———'s part extremely well; his seeking, as it were, for support; his trying to grasp at the sounds he heard; all, indeed, he does was well imagined and executed. I was much amused, and it appeared to excite a breathless eagerness in the audience. It was a third piece, a scanty pit filled at half-price, and all stayed till it was over. They continue to play it even now.
For anyone who is like “the creature is also named Frankenstein”; Mary Shelley went to see a play version of Frankenstein and was tickled that they listed the creature as “———“ in the dramatis personae:
“this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good”
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I feel like that there is a double standards in fantasy where you can have many slightly different variants of elves or dwarfs, but soon as you do it for furries then it suddenly becomes a problem. Feels like blatant hypocrisy to me
Furry races are no more easier than any other races. You can easy create human races by simply changing their skin colour.
Buying and scanning the books you own is now "outright theft."
Love seeing people uncritically take up RIAA/MPAA talking points from 2001.
