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artemis

@artemis@dice.camp

#horror and #ttrpg enthusiast.

I'm a bisexual anti-capitalist, and I strongly believe in (at bare minimum) punching Nazis. Reproductive rights and civil liberties for all! Trans rights are human rights. The Palestinian people have a right to self-determination, life, and freedom—just block me if you think otherwise.

#nobot #noindex and no goddamn scrapers.

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artemis , to random
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So by now we all know that Mother Teresa was an absolute monster, right?

I'm so tired of people using that awful person's name as shorthand for "a really good, kind, and selfless person."

artemis , to random
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Pet peeves: when someone is writing/speaking "Shakespearean" English and uses "thee/thou" for a second-person plural.

I'm sorry that it doesn't sound ye-olde-timey to the ear to use the word "you," but it's how it is. 🤷‍♀️

(For that matter, by the time we get to Shakespeare, people were already frequently using "you" for second-person singular, though it was more formal than "thou", so...)

artemis OP ,
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Same with people adding "eth" and "est" to verbs to make them sound old regardless of how the verb is functioning in the sentence.

I'm just a spoilsport I guess.

ElleGray , to random
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David Tennant. Always supporting Pride and trans people. Just a wonderful human being ♥️

(photo by Georgia Tennant. posted on her insta)

artemis ,
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@ElleGray
He's real one.

artemis , to random
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I saw some other folks on here talking about the concept of "lonely fun" related to : reading sourcebooks, coming up with campaign or character ideas, all the stuff people do for fun on their own, and that was what got me to pull out my sourcebook.

I remembered that you can read books and think about the games you want to play & the things you would like to try, and that is part of the fun. It's ok to just enjoy stuff, even if it never materializes into a live game.

artemis , to random
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What happens if they change the price between when you picked it up on the shelf and when you get to the register? At some point isn't that false advertising or something?

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/06/19/a-supermarket-trip-may-soon-look-different-thanks-to-electronic-shelf-labels/

artemis , to random
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Reading through the Roleplaying Game sourcebook and really wishing I knew more people who are into .

It's based, and I've never played anything GURPS-adjacent, so I don't know how well I would like the game, but it's an amazing handbook to Pratchett's world and how one could roleplay in it!

artemis OP ,
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@deinol @auguryignored
Yeah, GURPS supplements are the bomb. Great starting place for figuring out how to incorporate elements specific to the setting you want to use into an RPG, even if you will be using a different system.

nickwedig , to random
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Most of the time when I teach someone a board game that is new to them but I already know, I wind up winning (because I already understand the game better than they do) and then I feel guilty about it.

I suggested we play do this activity, and now it looks like I chose it because I could easily beat the inexperienced players. But really I just wanted to show them the fun thing I enjoy doing.

artemis ,
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@nickwedig
What's even worse, as the person learning the game and losing, I feel bad about feeling bad about losing, because I KNOW the person teaching me is just trying to share something fun with me, but I always get stressed out about losing games even though I KNOW it's just a game.

mikertrice , to random
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Asked ChatGPT4 to give me 12 dwarven names with short back stories and a hook each.

All 12 names were from the Hobbit.

Asked it to try again with no Tolkien names.

3 of the 12 were from the Hobbit.

artemis ,
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@Tim_Eagon @mikertrice
To be fair, the Tolkien estate doesn't own most of those names because Tolkien lifted them straight out of obscure mythology.

artemis , to random
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I'm reading for the first time (no spoilers pls), and oh my God is it one of the most hilarious terribly, horrifyingly bleak books I've ever read.

thoughtpunks , to random
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Huh. What a funny math "mistake".

Equivalent bandwidth home broadband is half the price of Starlink. The cost difference for just 1 year for 140 million people: ~$100 billion. Excess profit over what others charge. More than double the "waste" being complained about.

Twitter screenshot. Elon Musk. "This government program is an outrageous waste of taxpayer money and is utterly failing to serve people in need" Quoted tweet by Whole Mars Catalog. "For $42 Billion they could have bought Starlink dishes for 140 million people. (US Population is 333 million) Screen shot of The Washington Times headline "Biden's $42.5 Billion rural high-speed internet plan gets stuck in red tape"
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    • artemis ,
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    @thoughtpunks
    MAGAs are always saying that "liberals" (whatever they mean by that) hate rural people, but then they call efforts to get essential infrastructure to people in rural areas "waste".

    thoughtpunks , to random
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    What kind of are on your mind this Tuesday morning? What sort of design puzzles are you pondering? Games you're reading? Sessions you're planning? Tell us what's on your game brain today.

    artemis ,
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    @thoughtpunks
    I'm preparing to debut my Swashbuckler Rogue in a new D&D campaign so I've been watching videos on fighting with rapiers to get ideas for describing their flashy technique in combat (I have decided they fight with a cloak in their offhand, because it's very cool and swashbuckler-y).

    Also trying to figure out a "voice" for them. I don't do full on character voices and accents, but I try to choose a specific register and tone that distinguishes them from my normal speaking voice.

    futurebird , to random
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    If you see a new youTube channel with a plain sounding name like "NatureView" or "BrightScience" etc. and there is what looks like a tempting video on a specific education topic "Most Active Volcanoes" or "Incredible Carnivorous Plants"

    There is a 50/50 chance it will be a generated voice with stock footage and a script written by GPT.

    I am now avoiding videos if I don't recognize the creator, or don't see signs it was made by a person.

    So much spam!

    artemis ,
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    @futurebird @nottrobin @shiri
    I dunno...why would you think that would be the case?

    My thoughts are all verbal. I think and interact with the world almost entirely through words (I can't think visually—I appear to have some form of aphantasia), and I find LLMs to be total horseshit.

    futurebird , to random
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    Someone here once told me of how Microsoft had these customers who pay $$$ so a real driving force in the development of Excel are these horrific, unspeakable, monstrosities of spreadsheets critical to the operations of some very serious companies, serious bookkeeping, serious material operations. The elderich horror spreadsheets are decades old, have 100,000s of rows, spaghetti code formulas— Microsoft always checks updates will not harm them. IDK. if it was true: but it felt true.

    artemis ,
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    @futurebird
    I mean, I LOVE a good spreadsheet monstrosity. I have done some absolutely horrible things to make my Excel sheet work with the equally monstrous Word Mail Merge I created, but...uh, if they made improvements to Excel (and Word...Jesus Christ Mail Merge is primitive) I wouldn't have to Frankenstein it all in the first place.

    wdlindsy , to random
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    It's hard to get more conservative, in the traditional sense, than David French is. He's rooted in white evangelical Southern culture, and even though he has come out as an outspoken critic of the Trumpist turn in the Republican party, he remains rooted in that culture.

    But as he reports here, his welcome in that culture is now proving very conditional.

    His church is Presbyterian Church in America.


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    Gift link below from Wonkette

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/opinion/presbyterian-church-evangelical-canceled.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yk0.eeM8.4fuiVRRiANtC

    artemis ,
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    @wdlindsy
    The PCA is far-right conservative, but it is still disturbing to me how things like this are playing out in denominations like the PCA that are theoretically heavy on historical doctrine and theology.

    It's proving that most people in American "evangelical" churches, regardless of what their official theology says, regardless of how much deference they supposedly give to "Scripture", don't have any ideological commitments to anything but far-right politics.

    futurebird , to random
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    After some conversations with friends NOT on the fediverse I've arrived at calling it "independent social media."

    This is better than "open source" or other titles, it better conveys the central difference.

    artemis ,
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    @futurebird
    I've been calling it "non-corporate," but "independent" flows better.

    ai6yr , to random
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    CNN: Bus passengers frantically texted loved ones as gunman hijacked an Atlanta commuter bus during rush hour https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/12/us/atlanta-bus-hijacking-how-it-unfolded/index.html #crime #bus

    artemis ,
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    @futurebird @alec @ai6yr
    In college I got a license & carried for a brief bit. Before that I did a lot of reading on guns for self-defense.

    Something the folks who had some sense said was that if you carry a gun, you have a personal moral responsibility to avoid situations where you would need it. Guns have 1 purpose: to kill, so instead of becoming reckless because your gun can keep you "safe," it should only ever be the last possible resort.

    But that way of thinking is no fun, I guess.

    artemis , to random
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    Sometimes I think about all the other highly intelligent species we "share" this planet with: orangutans, orcas, crows, elephants, and more, and I really feel the weight of the damage humans have inflicted.

    It's been shown that we have not even gotten close to understanding the complexity of these creatures, what they are capable of, and what they understand, and it's depressing that we don't respect them as conscious beings simply because their consciousness is not like ours.

    artemis OP ,
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    @mozz
    My jaw dropped because I watched that movie, but I don't think I fully grasped that as an interpretation. It makes perfect sense now that you say it. I should rewatch it with that in mind.

    artemis , to random
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    I have a lot of sympathy for men as fellow victims of the patriarchy, but something that I think doesn't really get directly addressed when talking about helping guys deprogram from that is that if you are someone who experiences misogyny, even having a conversation with someone who is genuinely trying to do better can be like getting a caustic substance on your skin. It burns on contact.

    If you're a victim of misogyny, helping guys out of it can be absolutely appalling for your mental health.

    artemis OP ,
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    BTW, if you're a dude looking to examine how the patriarchy harms men and how it must be dismantled for all of our sakes, The Will to Change (bell hooks) is a great place to start.

    artemis , to random
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    So a lot of folks on here don't boost posts with images that don't have image descriptions, and that's a pretty common thing people talk about.

    I replied to someone taking a poll about preferences people who use screen readers and said "I currently do things x way but I'm curious what people will say"

    Someone responds to me to tell me that they're disabled and can't do alt text, and so how dare I not boost posts without alt text? What a terrible "ally".

    And just... Why?

    artemis OP ,
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    But also... in the context of disability, I'm pretty insulted that someone called me an "ally" to tell me how wrong I am. No, I don't have major visual impairment, but I'm not positioning myself as an "ally" to disabled people.

    I am a disabled person who is trying to be respectful of other disabled people's accessibility needs.

    Mocking me for being a "bad ally" is bullshit.

    artemis OP ,
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    Look, the reason I don't boost stuff without alt text is not because I want to be seen taking a principled stance—oh look at me!—I just want anyone following me to be able to access & enjoy anything that I post or boost. I don't boost images without alt text because I don't see the point in sharing something with some people, but not everyone.

    I just don't want to do that. I don't like that. It's not how I choose to use social media.

    artemis OP ,
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    I don't think I have an obligation to boost other people's posts, even other disabled people's posts. I choose what I share and choose how I share it.

    Again, I try to be respectful of everyone's accessibility needs, and I'm not going around yelling at people for not using alt text. I am just making a decision about the types of content I share.

    artemis , to random
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    Inspiring.

    "She Series Poster 1" by artist Karen Hallion, with one small modification. The poster is a 3x3 grid of panels, each with a fictional female character and an inspiring word. 1st row: Wonder Woman (Wonder), Rey from Star Wars (Resist), Mulan (Honor) 2nd row: Moana (Explore), Princess Leia (Rebel), and the third portrait has been replaced with "What's Her Face" from Teen Girl Squad (Strong Bad's comic from Homestar Runner) with the caption "Possum" 3rd row: Angelica Schuyler from Hamilton (Work), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Slay), Okoye from Black Panther (Defend)
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    appassionato , to palestine group
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    People in Gaza are drained, frustrated and exhausted. They have been displaced more than five or six times. There's a family that literally had to evacuate nine times.

    People are tired of being constantly displaced. They’re also feeling hopeless because they know even being evacuated from one place to another does not guarantee they’re going to escape the Israeli air raids.

    @palestine

    artemis ,
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    @kitten_tech @appassionato @palestine
    Well put. Even the literal best case scenario for Gazans right now is still a cruel nightmare.

    NotImpressed , to palestine group
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    #palestine
    #BDS
    @palestine

    If you want to know which actor, singer, performer you follow and like is actually a Zionist or at the very least an Israel supporter, here's the website that has done some research into the biggest names:
    https://www.reversecanarymission.org/

    You can either type the name or click on "Browse all people"

    I found some of the names quite shocking...

    artemis ,
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    @voxofgod @NotImpressed @palestine
    Jerry Seinfeld shows up for me.

    I found you can't just type a name and hit enter: you have to start typing a name and if it appears in the drop-down, you can select it and see the details. (At least this is how it worked for me on Android)

    artemis , to random
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    I'm told this is largely a Midwestern thing (correct me if I'm wrong, I suppose), so I want to share the Gospel of "oh, it's going" as a response to "how's it going" (these are pronounced with the "in" sound not "ing" but "goin'" looks weird).

    Some days things are not great and someone asks you "How's it going?" and you just can't bring yourself to say "good".

    So just say "oh...it's going" in a kind of tired tone that sounds a bit like a sigh.

    davidtoddmccarty , to random
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    I think I understand the idol worship from the deplorables and I understand the Useful Idiot theory from those who simply want power, but I have a hard time reconciling otherwise intelligent and informed people who appear to genuinely like Trump. It’s all got to be an act, right?

    I mean everyone can see that he’s a morally depraved, addled tyrant who is a perpetual failure, right?

    Just look at the things Tucker Carlson said off the record. He’s just a meal ticket.

    artemis ,
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    @davidtoddmccarty @mastodonmigration
    Yeah, a lot of things people believe depend more on how motivated they are to believe them than on any evidence. So the issue tends to be figuring out how to get through the mental defenses they've created to allow themselves to keep believing the thing.

    And I think the longer they believe it when all evidence points to the contrary, the more intense the defense becomes. Especially if it's something where realizing they were wrong would have consequences.

    artemis , to random
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    Okay, wow. Unexpected.

    thomashoyle , to palestine group
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    The NY Mayor said that there must be “outside agitators” organizing the Campus Protests, because “all tents look the same, and everything is so organized!”

    Looks familiar? Yes, in 2014, HK students involved in the Umbrella Movement were also accused by the HK govt with a similar logic

    All govts that dont like dissents are equally dumb and shameless

    #FreePalaestine #FromTheRiverToTheSea 🇵🇸@palestine

    artemis ,
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    @thomashoyle @palestine
    Not to mention: students organize. Since these protests began people have been tall about the history of student protests.

    These are young adults, not children. They are fully capable of organizing themselves, especially in a day and age where people with experience organizing and protesting can share that information broadly, but I guess learning the fundamentals of organizing from someone else would be considered "outside agitation".

    faab64 , to random

    They actually think they have a valid argument here.

    It's just unbelievable. Remember some 30 years ago I was having a discussion with a coworker who was part of the evangelical church of "Livets Ord" in Sweden about the intifada and he was using the same argument and claiming that IDF soldiers shooting Palestinians was justified because they were defending themselves against those throwing stones at them.

    And also justifying the order or Israeli PM to break the arms and legs of palestinians to prevent them from protesting as "non violent measure".

    And of course after October 7, these people think the whole history of Occupation and ethnic cleansing of palestinians is nothing and the conflict started on October 7 that justifies Israeli destruction of Gaza and the ongoing Genocide.

    artemis ,
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    @faab64
    When broken bones are described as "non violent" that shows how far people are willing to stretch language to justify this stuff. Calling that non-violent is simply, indisputably false.

    artemis , to random
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    I'm sorry, Trump speaking in fucking WAUKESHA says we need to "take back our campuses"?

    "Our campuses"?

    Ah, yes, the people of Waukesha, Wisconsin. Famously big supporters of the cities of Madison and Milwaukee and of the universities they house.

    artemis OP ,
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    For those not in the know: Waukesha is the reddest county in the state, and the folks of Waukesha have little but contempt for Wisconsin's cities and everything to do with them. They do not like us. They want us to shut up and go away forever (though how the state of Wisconsin would get along financially without its only large cities is unclear).

    #UWMadison specifically has a long history of protest and activism, so if the people of Waukesha think their campus belongs to them, that's weird.

    adachika192 , to palestine group
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    @palestine

    I wholly understand some may feel about the recent #ProPalestineEncampment in universities & colleges as, “So you’ve just noticed there’s occupation & ethnic cleansing in Palestine, after 70 years?”

    Better late than never.

    It’s banal but true. 🖖

    artemis ,
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    @adachika192 @palestine
    There's also the fact that these students haven't been around for 70 years. They're young—this is one of their first opportunities to voice their beliefs and stand up for something. They haven't been ignoring this: they've just been children.

    artemis , to random
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    In our pets' eyes, I am "Mom" while my boyfriend is "co-conspirator".

    Both important roles.

    SaltiredPopcorn , to horror group
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    http://foritismansnumber.blogspot.com/2024/04/immaculate-2024.html

    Yep, I finally got to the new @horror flick, Immaculate.

    #blog #blogger #review #MovieReview #immaculate #SydneySweeney #MichaelMohan #AndrewLobel #horror #nunsploitation #film #filmastodon

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    @SaltiredPopcorn @horror
    Ooh. I have been trying to decide whether I was interested in this. Sounds like it's worth a shot.

    artemis , to random
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    I keep seeing trailers for #Tarot, and the thing is... I really don't think you can make Tarot scary to me. I have an entire desk drawer filled to the brim with Tarot decks (well...also a couple Lenormand and oracle decks). I kind of doubt this movie will work for people who read Tarot cards or get Tarot readings.

    artemis OP ,
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    You could incorporate a creepy Tarot reading into a film, the way Ouija boards sometimes get used, although even then, the premise of Ouija boards is that you're talking to the spirits of the dead, which is not really a thing with Tarot. But still, you could make a Tarot reading scene work for horror.

    But a whole frickin movie? I have a feeling that if I watch this I will spend the whole time absolutely baffled by it and wondering what the hell the filmmakers think #Tarot is.

    artemis OP ,
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    I gotta be honest...Tarot is one of the least scary things I can think of.

    artemis OP ,
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    It's like making a horror movie about a nice, warm, comforting cup of herbal tea.

    artemis , to random
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    I hate this so much. It's disgusting to me.

    If people getting killed in prison is a problem, let's fix (abolish) prisons! Why does Trump deserve to be protected and other people don't? Why is his life any more precious? Other people get killed in prison, but we don't give everyone a Secret Service detail, do we?

    If some specific person being sent to prison is "a death sentence", then something is terribly, terribly wrong with prisons (but we all already knew that).

    https://crooksandliars.com/2024/04/alan-dershowitz-predicts-trump-would-be

    artemis OP ,
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    I feel like one of the implications of this type of worry is that there are certain classes of people who should be protected from violence and some who should not.

    Tim_Eagon , to random
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    If you want to see a case study on parasocial relationships, check out the online sturm und drang about Watcher Entertainment leaving YouTube and starting their own subscription-based streaming service. Now, I've enjoyed their videos over the years, but not enough to subscribe, so I mentally wished them well and moved on. But holy hell, check out social media and you'll find it filled with rage over this perceived economic, ideological, and very personal betrayal.

    artemis ,
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    @Tim_Eagon
    Yeah, I find this type of thing complicated because I largely don't have the money to support such projects, but seriously, I'm actually quite happy for the creators I like who have found ways to stop being totally at the mercy of corporate giants. I'm not familiar with Watcher Entertainment specifically, but I think projects like Nebula or the success of Dropout TV are, in general, good things. I want more alternatives!

    artemis ,
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    @Tim_Eagon It's kind of like when people get pissed off at an artist because their commissions "cost too much". If I can't afford to commission an artist I like, that sucks, but they are allowed to value their time and, like all of us, they have to make money because that's the world we live in.

    When I can't afford someone's art, I just think "Awwh. Too bad!" and move on. Getting mad at them for an economic reality that isn't their fault is counterproductive af.

    flawed , to israel group
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    Here are two dominant aspects of shitlib morality with regards to Hamas.

    1. Don't praise a resistance struggle unless it's as clean as I am comfortable with (never happened in history, unlikely ever to happen). Better condemn it because there is blood (or) They din't just kill only "military" people.
    2. Claiming both sides are gangsters, which is a farcical position to hold — even as an anarchist, as that erases the legitimacy question entirely & it ignores the circumstance under which one side is forced to resort to violence.

    In my view, both are short-sighted views (history will judge me too as much as it judges who hold those other views — may be I will be proven wrong too, as it's Palestinians who are going to decide what they are going to honour & we will have 3rd party perspectives too). We only have to read histories of many societies in 3rd world beyond sanitised versions to know why those views are short sighted.

    Oppressed are not looking for our approval on how they need to break their chains. They want them broken & are not looking for the certification from those who are not subjected to the same violence. We will only understand that when we are subjected to exactly that long enough, not pretending we can understand that from a distance.

    If Palestinians gets rid of apartheid, genocide & settler colonialism — as part of a single political entity/seperate entity or as any other political formation, my guess is Oct 7th will be remembered as martyrs day (or) day of attempted rebellion (or) Intifada (or) something of that sort, atleast so far as I can see it based on what I know from struggles in history.

    Clapping about history & revolutions after someone obtained liberation is not same as distancing oneself from the history while it happens. What I know for a fact is Oct 7th is a historical day for Palestinian liberation struggle, however later events turns out.

    I know it's difficult to form ones morality distinct from dominant morality that claims to talk about so called peace while being most violent, but grey areas is the most substantive area to explore before we form our own morality. Black & white is too idiotic to even think about as things of consequence never fall on those edges — esp when it comes to difficult things like taking on power.

    @palestine @israel #israel #palestine #gaza

    artemis ,
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    @flawed @palestine @israel
    Yes, the inescapable problem of condemning the violence of the oppressed is that you have to ask whether they would be able to end the violence inflicted on them by any "proper" means. If the answer is "no," then we are saying they must submit to their own annihilation while we sadly shake our heads about how tragic their plight is.

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