The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.
I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.
Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!
But let me tell you a story:
I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.
One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.
At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.
I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.
Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.
The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.
And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.
So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.
So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.
By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.
Sight is a bullshit power and I’m starting to think it isn’t even real.
I’ve been obsessed with that one post where people speculated “What if sight was really uncommon in the universe so other aliens treat humans ability to see like it’s some magical power that doesn’t work half the time for stupid reasons?”
I imagine the alien “see” with echolocation, so they don’t bump into things but their range is very limited.
It’s easy to look at these and assume “well, high crime cities need more police,” but i think that’s putting the cart before the horse.
Police make crime worse.
Police take fiscal oxygen out of the room, away from actual social support programs. The money spent on policing could go to housing, nutritional services, healthcare, civil rights, building inspections, labor rights enforcement, street maintenance, public transportation. But it goes to paying guys to sit around idling Ford Explorers all day and hitting poor people with sticks.
Crime follows poverty in absolutely every single case. Every single “high crime city” is because of the fucking poverty.
I bring sort of a ‘peasants of the past were not as debased,uneducated and dirty as a lot of pesudo-medieval fiction makes them out to be but this new wave of attempting to sweep the very real indentured servitude, corporal ownership, poverty and lack of basic human rights under the rug isn’t achieving what you think it’s achieving’ vibe to the party that people don’t really like
yeah actually this was a very literal piece of vent art bc i got a notification about cheese recalls while making dinner :’) might as well add the info since i didnt expect so many people to share my doodle
Recall is for Ambriola Pecorino Romano grated cheese, due to contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria can be fatal to anyone infected if not treated, and its incubation time may last for months.
Affected brands are Ambriola, Boar’s Head, Locatelli, Member’s Mark, and Pinna. Expiration dates range from the end of Feb to May 2026. These were sold in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Not saying this as like a lofty or mocking thing, but re the Larian AI bullshit : Clair Obscur’s developers literally got caught with “”“placeholder”“”“ AI slop in game once it shipped, and they won Game of the Year. Another beloved independent studio "sticking it to the triple AAA studios and showing them how REAL artists craft games”. AI in game development is firmly here and inescapable
Don’t put companies or corporations on pedestals. They’re not your friend, and they don’t have “art” written on a beautiful shrine out the back that they all bow to. Assume that every game was developed with the use of AI/LLM/ML in some capacity from here out unless the developers strictly disavow it, and even then, be sceptical
In the meantime, make art. Make it beautiful, make it bad. Make it for yourself, make it for your friends. Make the world more beautiful in the way only you can
Convenience isn’t bad because of some inherent value in toil or it rots your soul. Convenience is bad because it often comes at the cost of an exploited underclass. I don’t care if someone wants to taxi their meal to their house instead of making it themselves or even driving to the restaurant themselves. I care that meal delivery apps underpay their workers (they don’t even consider them their workers), provide no workplace protections, and prey on their desperation.
The desire for convenience is a morally neutral thing (no matter how many capitalists want their workers to see unproductivity or aversion to the “grind” as a moral failing). Companies that sell you only convenience by making it worse for yourself and for others are not.
