Oh for fuck’s sake, people calling out racist writing in fanfic isn’t “censorship”. I say this as a fic writer but some of you need to get off your high fucking horse.

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here's a simple image if anyone wants to put it on your Doylist posts to ward off the ~ popular fandom headcanons ~

Also, here's a bonus one:

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Pro Tip: if someone is critiquing a writing choice or an author's choices, you coming barging in proclaiming your headcanon is x, y, or z does not have any actual meaning or impact on the text itself and how others are interpreting it.

and last but not least:

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Making it its own post for easy reference. Please feel free to use these images (as long as you include the attached image descriptions as indented or plain text below them) on your media critiques to ward off the hordes of fans who think any critique, (even the most surface-level, plain facts-based summary) is some kind of dire personal attack against themselves.

we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better

Thinking about the Holmes story where a blind girl goes to him and is like "My fiancé is missing and he kept telling me the week leading up to his disappearance that he would always love me and come back for me,were anything to happen so I think he knew he was in trouble and I love him so much and I'm going to wait for him but I'd like to find him faster,ya know?" And Holmes figures out that it was this girl's parents to scam her out of money she was owed from an estate which she gave to them because she was still living at home,which she wouldn't be if she ever married,so her step father PRETENDED TO DATE HER for MONTHS to keep her from ever getting engaged to a real person and when Holmes finds out he confronts this man and this man is like "Well,you caught me! But it wasn't illegal:) so:)" and Holmes is like "No,but it was sickening and cruel and if she had a brother or good male friend he should post you up and whip you but she doesn't." And the man is like "No,she doesn't." And does the Victorian version of sticking his tongue out and Holmes is like "Well,I guess I'll do then!" And HE PULLS OUT HIS HUNTING WHIP.

In 2005, 5-year-old Abubakar Nadama died after receiving dangerous chelation treatments meant to cure his autism. Last year, 5-year-old Thomas Cooper died in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber meant to treat his ADHD. Now, under anti-vaxer RFK Jr., the FDA has removed a page warning against quack autism "treatments" like chelation and hyperbaric oxygen chambers. These fake cures don’t just swindle families – they kill children. If our nation’s health authority can’t keep disabled children safe from dangerous scams like these, what is it good for?

So, if you're not in a techbro-adjacent world you might not know this, but a lot of gamer bros have finally started rebelling against AI. Because they were all waiting for Black Friday sales to get new PC parts, but AI companies are buying up all the PC parts, so they all logged in on Black Friday looking for deals and found everything three times as expensive as it was a few months ago. And I mean everything. It's not just GPUs this time like it was with the crypto miners, it's RAM and SSDs and even fucking HDDs.

You tell a gamer bro he can't get a 1TB SSD for less than 200 smackeroos and he'll be against anything you tell him is to blame.

It is “absolutely not necessary” for the US to seize Greenland, a largely self-governing part of the Danish kingdom, the Danish foreign minster, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, said late on Wednesday. “We didn’t manage to change the American position. It’s clear that the president has this wish of conquering Greenland. And we made it very, very clear that this is not in the interest of the kingdom.”

Rasmussen urged Washington to engage in “respectful” cooperation over the Arctic island that is controlled by Copenhagen.

In a signal of European support, France, Germany and Norway have all said they would contribute troops to a multinational force led by Denmark that would lead to “an increased military presence in and around Greenland, comprising aircraft, vessels and soldiers, including from Nato allies,” the Danish defense ministry has said in a statement.

The two sides did agree to create a working group to discuss ways to work through differences as Trump continues to call for a U.S. takeover of the semiautonomous territory of Nato ally Denmark.

Many things are happening

Civil rights pioneer

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.

Her death was announced Tuesday by the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation. Ashley D. Roseboro of the organization confirmed she died in Texas.

Colvin was arrested months before Rosa Parks gained international fame before refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus.

if i had a nickle for everytime a cutesy artist turned out to be a mean manipulative jerk I'd be a billionaire