a vegan couple I know is planning their wedding and their non-vegan family members are giving them a hard time because the catering is going to be all vegan. they seriously think they're entitled to eat meat as an "accommodation" the same way people with nut allergies need nut-free options. why do weddings bring out the worst in relatives. just fucking elope at this point smdh

these look so cool https://www.vegetarian...

I need to bring back my linkedin wizard persona. he would have loved posting about the wonders of OrbGPT

TIL there's an award for "Worst Screen Couple" in film and this movie won it https://en.wikipedia.o...

@amagire @junebug the connection between human eugenics and dog breeding is really ironic considering that inbreeding and the founder effect are known causes of health problems in any population. but somehow this magically doesn't apply to purebred dogs and cats

@junebug this is unironically a really good point about animal breeding being rooted in eugenics though. like how rhodesian ridgeback puppies born without ridges are frequently killed

"spiritually Israeli" is really funny when you apply it to how fake nationalism is in general, it's less funny when it's just the "rootless cosmopolitan" and "degenerate art" tropes with extra steps

I actually think the story is a brilliant critique of how queer movements are co-opted and their liberatory potential defanged by nationalism and neurological essentialism

so I finally read the helicopter story

anyone who actually read this and concluded it was by a cisgender chud has no reading comprehension skills. literacy and satire are both absolutely dead and the internet has killed them

I don't think right-wingers are completely incapable of making good art, but there's no way a conservative could have written this. there's just no way

@hopeful @jake2 spiritual successor of Lovecraft's cat

I've also taken direct psychic damage by reading some of this shit though so be forewarned of racism, slurs, etc.

@hopeful @jake2 I'm extremely disappointed that this is not in the public domain

if you're a really bored detail-oriented person who likes old books and is OK with free labor, I recommend volunteering for Distributed Proofreaders. they supply ebooks to Project Gutenberg. I have made multiple ebooks for them as a post-processor (I'm not posting any because they have my government name attached), and I find the fruits of my labor personally satisfying. it's all online and you can pick your own projects based on your interests and skill level

most roles don't require any technical experience but if you're a post-processor you will have to know/learn HTML and CSS. it's not very complicated compared to building a whole website though

I put this on my resume and referenced it in the interview when I applied for a job after having been out of work for years. I got the job, and I think part of it was being able to show proof of my attention to detail and willingness to learn new skills

https://www.pgdp.net/

I'm really glad I didn't become a social worker lmao

it's so frustrating how little people on the internet understand that CPS is just as useless and racist as any other kind of policing

the internet doesn't hate CPS enough

@slu7 that's a cool jacket

@georgia I think we're in agreement that quality of life, whether due to a person's disability or other life circumstances, is not a good indicator of whether they should be born or not

however I still think opposition to abortion to protect the weak is misplaced, because it places hypothetical (and very dubious prospect of) fetal pain above the real pain of the unwillingly pregnant person. people who give up their newborns for adoption also experience trauma that often goes unackowledged in discussions about this. adoption is not a fix-all and I'm not convinced that fetuses can be victims themselves

I also don't think a feminist future is possible unless we can thoroughly separate the PIV sexual act from reproduction and reproductive logics. speaking solely of biological reproduction (and in cisgender generalities here for a moment), it is one of the primary vectors through which women are oppressed. men do not face nearly the same penalty for fatherhood that mothers do for motherhood. opposition to abortion is inherently misogynistic because the burden of it disproportionately falls on women. there are women being prosecuted for natural miscarriages in the name of "protecting the weak." (for the record I think this applies to all women in different ways regardless of whether they can get pregnant or not)

@georgia do you think it's OK for parents to relinquish responsibilities for an unwanted newborn under safe haven laws? like leaving them at a fire station or hospital