if you don‘t personally own one but your roommates/parents do and you are allowed to use it, that counts as yes

i appreciate the attempts a lot of game devs are making with gender neutral character creation, and i appreciate that it's actually a very difficult task to implement that depending on the game's base code. but it's so funny to me when you hear an uproar because some game has "entirely removed the gender option from character creation!!!!!" so you go to check it out and its just like

When I’m reading smut and the author breaks the flow of the story so that the characters can tell us that they have enthusiastic consent it feels exactly like when Dora the Explorer looks directly into the camera and says ‘Seat belts so we can be safe!’ anytime she gets into a motorized vehicle.

The spirit of Diogenes is alive and well

This is funny, obviously, but even if you don't go to the extreme of the example above, this is a separate seat for one person, with a back and 4 legs:

But it's not a chair. It's a bar stool.

This, however, are all chairs:

Each one is missing at least one component of the chair definition above.

So like... it's almost like strict definitions are exclusionary.

Reblog to hit a transphobe with a separate seat for one person

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transphobe with a separate

seat for one person

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

The plot structures of movies need to start taking more cues from classic opera. Open with fucker in a hat who directly addresses the audience and explains what's going on in a way that raises far more questions than it answers, then immediately drop the viewer into the middle of a shouting argument between three of the weirdest people you can possibly imagine.

@hatingongodot

I hate modern science fiction shows, all filmed in flatly lit green screen. I miss when science fiction shows weren’t cowards and just told the audience that every inhabited planet in the galaxy looked like British Columbia.

Richard Dawkins' meltdown in the early 2010s was so prophetic for what would happen to *gestures at every old British celebrity* in the past few years. Within just a few years he went from quietly respected to giving interviews where he ranks which types of rape are the worst, calling a Muslim teen wrongfully arrested for playing with a clock a "ISIS child soldier", and repeatedly trying to shut down feminists by using Muslim women as a blunt object to say they don't have it so bad so stop complaining, all while doing a lot of "I don't believe [bad thing], I'm just asking questions, y'know" on the side

Confirming all that I learned that he promoted a conference run by evangelical Christian Nationalists in 2019 since, while he "didn't support their religious beliefs", he did support their speaker's rants about "post-modernism", which. That checks out tbh

There's so much discourse around the idea of an atheist being "culturally Christian" but it's funny that the term entered the mainstream to describe Richard Dawkins, who's out here saying things like "I think church bells are better than the Islamic call to prayer. I believe this solely because of my cultural upbringing"

He's willing to promote a Christian nationalist conference if it'll own the libs (until people on Twitter called him names) but thinks being a Muslim disqualifies someone from being a journalist. Richard Dawkins' weird niche of being a west vs Islam crusades guy but an atheist is. Why does he do that. Why is he like this

Richard Dawkins going on TV to declare that the UK is a "Christian country" and should be one since Christianity is "fundamentally decent" and it would be "dreadful" to have an "alternative religion" take over. Noted atheist has preference on which religion should rule society

Apparently the difference is that Christianity is better with women, since it has its problems, but he just cites a lack of female vicars and bishops. The one problem. Which may be true in the UK where conservatism is less religious afaik but is a wild statement to hear living in a country where religious conservatives openly want to turn women into cattle with few rights

Inspired by him getting mad that a street had Ramadan decorations up instead of Easter ones. Be vigilant: the Richard Dawkins War on Christmas arc is coming

This machine kills AI

To the weirdos bitching in the replies to my 1984 post about how AI art is just another evolution of art and I’m just being classist: THIS is why it isn’t. THIS is why it’s not the same as photography or synth music. This is why an AI artist is not an artist, so fuck you.

Specially to the people who say AI takes effort too so doesn’t that make it count: THIS is why it doesn’t count. I’m sure these AI prompters did spend a lot of time on what they were working on. But editing, revising, redoing, applying feedback is a part of the design process to get to a finished result, as every commercial artist knows. If you can’t make the changes, then it’s useless. If you don’t have the skills to make the changes, then you don’t have art skills. It makes it a funny little novelty, but it makes it absolutely useless in a professional setting.

I find this story absolutely delightful btw. This studio probably thought they’d save a ton of money, but instead they’re wasting their time trying to generate useful AI results instead of actually getting anything done with real actual artists. Absolutely fucking hilarious.

children existing in public spaces is genuinely like. necessary for the continuation of society. it doesnt have to be your kids you dont have to volunteer at a daycare or whatever but you need to be able to tolerate the presence of someone who is learning how to exist as a human and interact with people

ADHD