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Oddball
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Comic Book Noob and Sci-fi enthusiast 🎮 Ally 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸Scatterbrained 🤯 Daydreamer, Meat Lover 🍖🍕🌯🥓 Still learning and trying to find my place in the world, Progressive but still learning
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I think it's really embarrassing as an international community how many people continue doing business with the guy who got caught ordering incompetent hitmen to murder a journalist he hated, a thing he not-so-implicitly does all the time
Feel like that's a pretty easy line to draw in the sand tbh
September 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Toxic "fans" need to be called out. Not just because bigotry, harassment, and other shitty behavior should have no place anywhere, but also because we should make fandoms welcoming spaces and push out the culture war tourists who miss the message of these fandoms.
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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CARTOONS ARENT BAD. THEY HAVE VALUE. STOP UNCARTOONING CARTOONS AND STOP WATCHING UNCARTOONED CARTOONS. Thank you
November 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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I am well versed in American racism and I can tell you that Greene, Mace, and Boebert have neither tired of white supremacy nor the patriarchy and are simply bitter that they are no longer young enough, white enough, attractive enough or useful enough to reap the rewards of Bondi, Noem, and Kirk.
I'd be really curious if someone better versed in feminist theory wrote about what's happening on the right. Because between Greene, Mace, and Bobert, we've got this bloc forming of women who seem tired of serving a patriarchy of sex criminals. And their rhetoric is starting to lean that direction.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for 6 years for. I gave him my loyalty for free. I've never owed him anything. Let me tell you what a traitor is -- a traitor is an American that serves foreign countries."
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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I am going to say this only once but fuck these white racists. Fuck them to hell.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that Muslims are a “threat to our freedom” on Tuesday as he targeted the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the U.S. with a foreign terrorist organization label in an escalation of a movement of anti-Muslim hate in the state.
Abbott Says Muslims Are “Threat to Our Freedom” as He Targets Civil Rights Group With Terrorist Designation
Governors do not have the authority to designate groups as a foreign terrorist organization.
truthout.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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I mentioned elsewhere about how the books Alice in Wonderland and Matilda had a lot to say about the hypocrisy of children having to behave while adults and authority figures get away with being rude and cruel. I'm glad I outgrew my worse traits, but it doesn't make the world I grew into any less...
a cartoon of wendy from peter pan is screaming
Alt: Wendy from Peter Pan is internally screaming.
media.tenor.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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we need a term that's not "journalism" so we can quarantine the op-ed and soft profile industry
November 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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"The Art of Rise of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is coming.
256 pages of concept art, designs, backgrounds & commentary about the animated series.
Pre-orders >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...
July 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House votes overwhelmingly to force release of Epstein files, sending bill once opposed by Trump to the Senate.
November 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Straights:
"Why do the gays have to flaunt their lifestyles in front of us?"

Also Straights:
"Let's publish 8,000 words about how one het incinerated every principle of professional ethics and even good judgement for the sake of a torrid het affair with a het 30+years her senior!"
November 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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This emitting from this image is ingrained into my soul…

I can even hear Marceline snickering
November 19, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Various group-philosophical pessimisms will have you believing that universalism is impossible, not worth striving for. That if you don't oppress, you will inevitably be a victim. I refuse. We are best protected by democracy, by the rule of law, by human and civil rights.
November 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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You can love someone you love even if you don't love yourself🏳️‍⚧️
But if you love yourself, you can love both yourself and the person you love. Your love becomes twofold.
So take care of yourself.
Your soul is beautiful.
November 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Robert Pattinson is one of the greatest actors if not THEE greatest actor of my generation. I wish it was him and Margot Robbie in the Wuthering Heights movie and not Jacob Elordi

Just an actor that BECOMES whatever character he is playing
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Pres. Trump has approved C.I.A. planning for covert operations in Venezuela while simultaneously reopening secret back-channel talks with Nicolás Maduro, NYT reports. People briefed on the talks said Maduro has floated stepping down after a 2–3 year transition, but the White House rejected the...
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble.

A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.

We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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"I code so others can dream."

Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.

Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ games pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has died - Gayming Magazine
Rebecca Heineman, a trailblazing figure in the video game industry and a celebrated icon within the LGBTQ+ gaming community, has died.
gaymingmag.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Honestly I know I got problems and that's why I'm a communist. I'm just not a good enough person to do right by everyone by myself. I'm not. I try to be the best person I can manage but like we work together, that burden is lifted off one person's shoulders and we team lift that shit.
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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to be clear, i also do not think it is necessarily true that adopting a laundry list of progressive positions is an instant win either. i think you have to do the work of discovering what it is that voters want in a direct and engaged way. and i think that voters want moral leadership.
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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This man is just restating the GOP's desire to eliminate the protections against insurance companies price gouging folks with pre-existing conditions.

Monstrous stuff cloaked as a "reward"
Markwayne Mullin: "Reward people for being healthy. Think about this. Healthcare is the only industry that you're not rewarded for taking care of your responsibility. If you think about homeowners insurance, if you're within 500 feet of a fire hydrant, your insurance goes down."
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Jesus... Trans women of color are targeted more than any other trans people. #1 being are BLACK TRANS WOMEN! Black trans women are the most sexually assaulted, the least likely to be taken seriously by medical professionals, and are the most murdered members of the trans community.

See below.
Why should we care whether she is trans? She was killed by a significant other. How is it different from all the other women killed in domestic violence?

Also I searched on Google and found many stories about it
November 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Yup. Not least because today's outrage is forgotten or contradicted by next week. (With the odd enduring outlier like Chappaquiddick.)
November 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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"overrated" has to be the most commonly used word that doesn't mean actually anything.

There's something so needlessly bitter about it to me. Oh did other people love something too much for you? What's the correct amount of praise then? Worthless imo.
November 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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at any time the press corps could have stood up for each other. trump needs them - formal legacy news outlets - more than they need (to be in the room with) him.

but it's been years now, almost a decade, and no reason to think they'll start doing it now. disappointing.
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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“Never put in an email anything you don’t want read out loud to a jury.”

-Common advice given by lawyers
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM