...whatever.

I'm not saying I would listen to an entire audio drama based around the Demeter, but I WOULD listen to an entire audio drama based around the Demeter

The Demeter sections have been my favorite part of Re: Dracula thus far. They sound like found footage horror audio dramas (i.e. The White Vault) and I LOVE this genre. I want an entire series about the Demeter

Big damn props to the entire Re: Dracula team for the time and effort put into producing this podcast. It has been top tier quality content

i am begging you to read The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zaraté, it's three and a half hours long on audio and it's a queer reimagining of the voyage of the demeter

It's such a good book! I read it in an afternoon and AHHHHH

Young Alfred: Pain in the Butler (2023)

y'all, the OP on the Barbie breakup headlines post going around right now is a TERF. Please, I beg you, go into your preferences and blacklist common TERF tags like 'terfs please interact' and 'radfem safe' so you are less likely to platform TERFs. :/

Since I posted this, I've seen one that was reposted by someone as annoyed by the TERF as I was.

But listen, this is a good time to update your filtered tags! Filtered tags a) work on desktop and mobile b) aren't reliant on an outside service like Shinigami Eyes c) trigger on tags the OP and/or the current reblogger put on.

From mobile:

Your blog > cog icon > Account Settings > Content You See

From desktop:

Hamburger menu on the top left > Settings > Account > Filtered tags

Then add some common tags used by shitty people for their shitty ideas!

This will screen these tags and make it so you have to actively tap/click to look at the post and thus warn you if OP has tagged the post with one of those things.

I have a bunch of dogwhistle stuff tagged, not just TERF stuff, but it's a good way to avoid accidentally platforming people who hate my family. :)

actual king shit

europeans have types of racism i didn't even know existed

you can drive for two hours in europe and pass through 17 different types of racism

Some stuff about racism in Italy. This is not a definitive account by any means, just some personal observations from what I've witnessed or read about. People who live there have a closer view of it than I do.

There was the time our house got broken into in Italy about ten years ago and the cops wrote it off as "probably Gypsies" and didn't even investigate. With no camera recording or witnesses, just evidence of a break-in, they felt like the burglar must be Romani based on just racist vibes.

Nowadays even many racist politicians know to call them Romani ("rom" in the Italian language, as Romani or Roma would be about the city of Rome), but they still use the same racist stereotypes regardless of using the correct word. During the last electoral campaign, a politician humiliated a Romani woman on the streets of Florence, beckoning her in to wave to the camera with him before saying, "Vote for us so you never see her again in the city of Florence."

Also there's this famous movie from the 1970's that is almost entirely about Swiss people being racist to Italian migrant workers (based on the real experiences of Italians at the time). But if you point this out to modern day Italian xenophobes, they're quick to say it's different when they are racist to immigrants coming to Italy because...something something something. I once heard someone say in front of me, "there are too many immigrants in Italy, I'm moving to Switzerland!"

There was a lot of racism against Romanian immigrants at one point (and there probably still is! I just haven't personally heard it lately), which was ironic because the same people would hire Romanian home health aides to care for their aging relatives. Good enough to look after their parents but not good enough to treat right.

The bigotry of northern Italians against southern Italians that was very strong in the 20th century gave rise to the saying "sei sempre il terrone di qualcun altro" with "terrone" being a nasty slur for southerner. The translation would be "You're always someone else's [slur]," because no matter how high and mighty and racist you are in your personal hometown, there's some other country or area in Europe where people will be as prejudiced to you as [the implicitly northern Italian] you are to southerners.

The political party the League used to be called the Northern League, and when they later started focusing on hating immigrants instead of hating southerners, they just dropped the "Northern." I gather they haven't had so much electoral success in the south, though; people don't easily forget how you treated them just because you have a new target now.

And Italy has the anti-black racism that's commonly understood in the US too. There have been two mass shootings in the last fifteen years targeting Africans, which is notable because there are hardly any mass shootings in Italy at all. A racist killer targeted Senegalese people in Florence in 2011, and in 2018 a racist mass shooter targeted black people in the town of Macerata following an unrelated murder committed in the same town by a black immigrant. Of course, if a white Italian person commits murder, which obviously is more usual in Italy, there's no rampage against white people.

And black people are often assumed to be immigrants/noncitizens/not Italian even if they were born and raised in Italy and speak the language fluently. It's very hard to get citizenship if you are not descended from another Italian citizen, but they're widely assumed not to have it even if they do. And every time there's an effort to make it easier for kids who are raised and educated in Italy to acquire citizenship when they grow up (ius scholae), it's stopped by racist politicians.

Racism in Italy, at least the kind I've observed, is often tied to assumptions about class and money. The hatred is so often against the poor migrant worker (at first from a different region, now often from a different country), which is ironic given the long history of Italians immigrating to other countries as migrant workers. In that respect, the usual mode of Italian racism seems to me quite similar to American racism to Mexican and Central American people--the racist assumption that they're possibly "illegals," definitely outsiders, ruining the country for sure, and oh, could you do backbreaking work while being paid low wages in awful conditions? Immigrant farmworkers in Italy are particularly victim to exploitation and violence on the job from landowners, organized crime/mafia, and exploitative contract agencies.

So the racism is somewhat differently expressed compared to US anti-black racism because it's not based on the legacy of slavery, but it still leads to black people being targeted by shooters just like in Buffalo.

And have I mentioned how we really haven't faced up to the massacres our country committed, particularly in Ethiopia and Libya, during the Fascist/colonial period (often overlapping)? The fact that we were ineffective at colonization in the long run compared to France or Britain, and that Italy was later occupied by Nazi Germany, is often used to ignore that we used the same brutality.

hitchcock found it long before. more effective as well.

>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

fastest reblog in the west

Yeppers. :)

Honestly, if CG artists unionising kills the use of CG in films, I don't see a downside.

This post has riled a lot of people. For what it's worth, my point wasn't that technology is bad and Edison was a witch, my point was that any industry that can be killed by unionizing should be.

Hey y'all. With the Writer's Guild of America on strike, you might be hearing a lot more about something called "residuals," which are payments that the writers get for the studios continuing to air their work on reruns and such. Already I'm seeing people trying to frame the union trying to bargain for better residuals as greedy and unreasonable, so I just wanted to give you guys a peek into my dad's full, 100% real residual payments for writing some of the most watched episodes of American late night television.

Yeah lol. If u hear anyone trying to frame the conversation around residuals as writers being greedy, please do me a favor and punch them straight in the face ❤️🙃🙃

this was a great read. “Laziness Does Not Exist” by Devon Price

Good Find

No offense but where are the male porn bots

..and where are all the gods?

Isn’t there a white guy to clutter up my feed?

Late at night I scroll and I block and I dream of what I need

I need a manwhore! 💥💥💥💥

Can someone PLEASE answer my question

That was still craftsmanship

Who the fuck has this many secrets I got like 3-5 at most

Secret society desk.

Speechless

DUDE THIS KID SHREDS HARD

i’m glad we all agree

this is what dnd bards look like when they’re casting spells. like this dude is casting fucking power word kill but the power word is SHRED

that image that goes i want to do this. do it. but im scared. do it scared. changed my life