some circumstances is still legal in the u.s.

as someone else pointed out, US-wide legal slavery (enshrined in constitution) in the form of prisoners

found while giving my feed a moment of scroll while making coffee after too many 3am worknights, I saw this response to the substack guy giving themselves a pat on the back again for helping the nazis

the product produced by the producer operating in a violently censorious state has complied with censorship in the production of the product? omg, stop the presses!

(nevermind the fact that if you spend half a second thinking through where said state exercises its power and control, the reasons for the things you observed should all but smack you in the face)

neither our posters nor our instance really give a fuck which posts random federated weirdos like or don’t like

although every now and then some of those come by and get a fedifuckton of updoots, but when you look at it it’s all very 🤨 and

there are lots of complaints one can level at ccp-run china without having to dip right into this strand of sinophobia, what the utter lazy fuck. bullshit like this that helps the world stay bad and intolerant. fuck off with it.

(sincerely: one of your downvotes from sunny ZA)

no internet points today, only internet cookies (good kind)

gives a hell of a kicker to the numbers I found

this for the specific concept in japanese martial arts (and sometimes applied elsewhere too)

I’ve said it before a few times: this shit is a tunguska-level event on society today

that there’s now even retroactive contamination fallout is sickening :|

this isn’t an episode of TNG and I’m not a cardassian interrogator, there definitely were two questions

Funny enough, I saw it was 18 minutes and tossed it over to Gemini to summarize.

“funny enough”? why?

“tossed it over to gemini”? again, why?

since I’m At Keyboard now, Fader Abuse

I am extremely enamoured with how much effort was spent on the writing, ito cadence and placement. it’s glorious :D

(also, I wonder if the virtual riot video is why I’ve heard that riser pattern in so much stuff lately)

my habits lead to such curious discoveries:

if/when I use youtube, I use it entirely statelessly (and thus also without account)

it’s a remarkably good way to see some utter lunacy, but it also precludes that option of dealing with shit

Among other things, probably

oh yeah that was a good one

reminded me of the Fader Abuse demo

also cc @dgerard (for pivot maybe)

re the youtube phenomenon, ran into this as an interesting post recently, although fuck if I can remember where I saw it

so I ran into this fucking garbage earlier, which goes so hard on the constituent parts of “the spam is the point”, an ouroborosian self-reinforcing loop of Just More Media Bro Just One More Video Bro You’ll See Bro It’ll Be The Best Listicle Bro Just Watch Bro, and the insufferably cancerous “the medium is the message” videos-made-for-youtube-because-youtube that if it were a voltron it’d probably have its own unique Special Moment sequence instead of being one of the canned assembly shots