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this can’t be real

He put them together at the kids table that doesn’t exist I’m fucking crying

its easy to make fun of this (and i think we should) but its also important to note the description of this new department that trump has given

[transcript: "together, these two wonderful americans will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies - essential to the 'save america' movement," trump wrote. "i look forward to elon and vivek making changes to the federal bureaucracy with an eye on efficiency and, at the same time, making life better for all americans."]

to be clear: trump is planning to create a new department whose purpose is literally to deregulate and defund government oversight. this will lead to corporations having greater freedom to fuck over consumers while making more money, and he is putting two billionaires in charge of it.

sure, maybe this is just a ploy to keep them quiet. giving them the illusion of power in exchange for backing him. but lets not forget all the regulations trump cut during his last term

which has directly led to the constant recalls of consumer goods and foodstuffs over the past several years. the recent e coli outbreak at mcdonalds? the boars head listeria recall? these are the products of deregulation. getting rid of laws and standards that protect consumers by making sure money hungry corporations dont cut corners.

the funny name is a smokescreen. keep your eye on these fuckers.

if I had a nickel for every time I voted for the potential first female president over trump and trump won I’d had two nickels and it’s really fucking fucked up that it happened twice

Campaign tip: if the opponent is going far right in order to court an increasingly far right voter base, try going moderately right to appeal to neither the left nor the right

can't think of a more fitting end for Kamala's political career than her keeping her supporters waiting all day at a watch party and then losing harder than any Democrat in their lifetimes and canceling her speech and sneaking out the back and having her campaign manager tell everyone to go home. this is the same contempt she's treated her base with throughout the campaign and even her most ardent followers were not spared from it as they wept.

while we're at it, Biden being on the wrong side of history at every single junction for 54 years and then handing the keys back to the guy who attempted to coup him, who's had 34 felony convictions since then, who he defined his presidency around not being, perfect sendoff for one of the worst political careers in this country's history he accomplished nothing but pure evil during his whole entire run and then passed the torch back to the devil

this is worse than 2016 bc you could've written off 2016 as a fucking fluke or revenge for electing Obama or just a fit of racist madness but now it's happened twice.

Biden won and we all sighed in relief and thought surely the madness is over.

and then Trump came right back.

like a fucking cancer.

we were in remission and now it's over again.

let this be a reminder that progress is not linear, though.

you think that the human race has a set path and surely it can only ever get better?

no.

it becomes a cycle, if we don't stop it.

democrats, let this year be a fucking lesson. you lost the house, senate, and presidency, and we will have a conservative supreme court for the rest of my fucking lifetime.

gear the fuck up, you useless donkeys.

A fire was also set at a ballot box in Portland, Oregon where three ballots were damaged.

"The Portland Police Bureau reported that officers and firefighters responded to a fire in one ballot drop box at about 3:30 a.m. and determined an incendiary device had been placed inside. Multnomah County Elections Director Tim Scott said a fire suppressant inside the drop box protected nearly all the ballots; only three were damaged, and his office planned to contact those voters to help them obtain replacement ballots.

A few hours later, across the Columbia River in Vancouver, television crews captured footage of smoke pouring out of a ballot box at a transit center. Vancouver is the biggest city in Washington's 3rd Congressional District, the site of what is expected to be one of the closest U.S. House races in the country, between first-term Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and Republican challenger Joe Kent."

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Fuck off, lol

The Zionist entity is allowed to commit genocide, carry out terrorist attacks in Lebanon, occupy territories, kill over 500+ people, carry out assassinations on foreign soil, blow up diplomatic buildings, and there's no condemnation of it.

But the moment Iran retaliates, despite putting up with so much restraint, it's worthy of condemnation? Fuck liberal democracies.

practically saying the quiet part out loud

Pixar can keep fucking its employees like this because its one of the only major animation studios that remains ununionized btw

jesus fuck, this article

My "favorite" parts from the article:

makes bland slop movie using a character from the disney library but none of his expanded universe trappings that might fuel nostalgia, blames the gay kiss they threw in there to scapegoat instead of the fact that it was a bland slop movie

Dont forget that while this is going on theyre still axing manga sites (with fanmade translations!!), kimcartoon and THE INTERNET LIBRARY

Sorry for double posting but APPARENTLY those commission scammers have showed up on Tumblr at least for the first time for me.

For those who don’t know what I am talking about, there were/are commission scams going on in Instagram and even places like Artstation where people would pretend to be interested in your work and try to commission a pet or portrait for the sake of trying to get your bank details. Here’s how to (somewhat) sniff them out:

1- They don’t seem to be an average customer/ person that would be involved in your fandom, or has a blank template for an account or don’t even follow you.

2- They ask you to draw a portrait or a pet picture either for themselves or their children/family.

3- They promise to overpay you (in the hundreds) and do not listen to you even if you firmly state the price is cheaper.

4- They are constantly asking for your email name, or private details regarding things like banking details or passwords or other private information others should not know.

5- They try and over reassure you they mean no harm, try to guilt you into giving them the info, or become aggressive over you not giving them what they want.

What should you do if you come across one of these guys? My best advice is to block and report. Sadly these people jump account to account so there isn’t really much to do other than spread this info to prevent artists from being scammed.

SORRY FOR A SECOND POST BUT IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT THE INSTA COMMISSION SCAMMERS HAVE REACHED TUMBLR LMAO

If you are an artist and take commissions please read, these scams prey on innocent and desperate people and are frankly scummy.

Oh Jesus christ not them

theres bikes around the city you can rent but you have to use an app that needs your drivers license. theres buses that drive right to your destination, but if you dont have change you need the app. you can wash your car here if you sign into the app. you can go to the bathroom here you just have to unlock it with the app that needs your location on. you can order at this restaurant if you scan the code and download the app. im losing my freaking mind

I got my phone and wallet stolen once and the amount of things I couldn’t fucking do without The App was bonkers. I couldn’t order an Uber or the bus home because no phone or wallet, so I had to walk home based on directions written on a sticky note. I couldn’t do my laundry even though I had change in my apartment because my building’s laundry machines required The App. I couldn’t log into my school email because my school’s email requires two factor authentication and will ONLY take a phone number, not another email address. I had a hard as fuck time getting new cards set up with my bank because in order to do that I needed to log into The App. I couldn’t get any packages that were delivered to me because my building’s locker system was app based. So on and so forth.

We should not have this fucking single point of failure like this.

Since Elon bought twitter I ran away from that shithole, but it's really sad to see many artists that sold commissions there lose their main source of income.

I also want to inform my international mutuals that this is entirely Musk's fault. It is illegal for social platforms to run in Brazil without a representative, and Elon fired all Brazilian representatives after our minister required the app to regulate their users, fake news etc. So instead of deleting nazi accounts, Elon Musk decided it was better to lose their 4th biggest user base lol

I don't know what will happen now, but yeah, the app is down. If you can support Brazilian artists here it would already mean so much.

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Trans people in texas please be careful right now. This is terrifying and not okay at all.

Please share so people are aware of this. I can't imagine how horrible it would be to show up to make this change, thinking you have legal court approval, and you get not only turned away but put on a register for it. Who knows how they'll try to use it against you in the future.

"This can't be legal" it doesn't matter. The system is so deeply transphobic that they can basically do whatever they want. What are you going to do, call the cops? They don't give a shit. Civil matter.

It could take a bunch of people suing until they get a judge that isn't absolute dogshit for this to change, and meanwhile it'll be months of even years of trans people in texas being unable to get ID that matches their gender, and being put on a register if they try. And that's the best case scenario. Who knows how much worse it could get.

They are doing this because the Texas Attorney General requested records of people who had their gender marker changed already. They couldn't give those records because they included not only trans people, but people who had it changed due to clerical errors. This is an attempt to create a database that does only include trans people. I'm sure I don't have to explain why that's terrifying.

Not so friendly reminder that musk specifically came up with, and pushed, for hyperloop knowing that it would never be made, as an effort to stop the development of highspeed rail in America and shift all political discussions of it because "something better is around the corner":

source: new york times

Also: 2024 update, the total length of China's high-speed rail tracks has now reached well over 45,000 km, or 28,000 miles, by the end of 2023.

They are additionally five years ahead of schedule and expect to double the total number within ten years. And, before someone inevitably complains about "how expensive it is", they are turning over a net-profit of over $600M USD a year.

you know how you can go and watch a movie you watched a bunch as a kid and the version of a song in it is different? like they actually changed it since you were a kid? that isn't normal. we didn't do that until like, the last ten years. it's fucked up.

This is a post about how the Extra-Special-Super-Limited-Collector's-Wet-Dream versions of Neon Genesis Evangelion that cost $250 on ebay don't have "Fly Me to the Moon" in the credits even on the ADV dub.

i know I'm playing this off as me being pedantic but i really shouldn't.

Up til about the last 10 years it was widely understood that if you licensed a song to be used in a film or a video game or a television show that that song would be in that film or video game or television show in perpetuity.

Then, about a decade ago, things started changing. I don't know the exact point in time it changed, but the first time i became aware of it was around 2017 or '18 when some video game, i think it was Grand Theft Auto IV, got a big patch that did exactly one thing and that was remove a bunch of songs that had been in the game because the licensing expired.

And I remember being angered by that but going "oh well, that's video games, right?"

But then a couple years later when Netflix got the rights to Neon Genesis Evangelion and not only put out a new dub but took "Fly Me to the Moon" out of the show, even on the above ultra-fancy collector's Blu-ray set, which included the old dub.

And then recently i was watching From the Earth to the Moon, a HBO miniseries about the Apollo program that I've watched many many times in my life. It was one of my favorites as a kid, and i saw that it was on HBO Max. The thing that made me wanna watch was that it was remastered in 4K. Up til a couple years ago the only version available had been on DVD and I was, you know, really excited because I'm a bit of a cinephile (as you all may have gathered from my, uh, everything) and it's something I'm very familiar with.

Now as you might expect from a docudrama about the Apollo program, there's a lot of 50s, 60s, and early 70s music in it. Episode 5, "Spider", opens with a montage of space age art set to the theme song for Fireball XL-5.

So I'm watching this episode, which mind you, is one of my absolute favorites both as a space nerd and a machine fucker. (When you are done reading this post, please take the time to watch this clip that was formative to me as a robot girl.) So I'm on my nostalgia trip and i get yanked the fuck out because the song playing is not the right one.

It's still the theme song to Fireball XL-5, but its a cover, clearly recorded much later than the original, and it's really fucking jarring. Because the original is the exact sort of kitschy, early-60s space-age stuff that is being montaged in this opening scene.

And the really nutso thing is, I can't find anything about this anywhere. It's not that I'm crazy or that it isn't happening, its that it's just...gone. They do that now.

This is not normal.

It is not normal for companies (because this is 100% corporate pissing contests) to be able to retroactively change pieces of art because they don't want to lend their "intellectual property" to it anymore.

You should be angry about this. It's disgusting. And it was not normal until the last decade.

Reading the notes on this it’s apparently an even more prevalent thing than I realized????