You may have to shoot me with shells for asking this, but isn’t this a big component of how the app is used by everyone? I see people re-purposing audio all the time? This feels very different from ... “physical” blackface

Well, did you actually read the article, because it lays it out pretty clearly - maybe respond to that? In short, she starts out being motivated to get a man, and then learns and grows and ends up doing what she’s doing for her. It is entirely feminist. I don’t know why starting with un-feminist motivations but…

I get that this is a humor piece, which is a pretty funny read, and reminds me of goofy pieces from old pop culture magazines.

I love EVE Online stories but I have no desire to ever play.

I never said it wasn’t? Just said they had more reason than low Covid-19 rates for selecting the city. 

Portland has a pretty robust food scene, so I’m not at all surprised it was chosen. I think they’re more known for street food than high-end, but still. Def more of a foodie scene there than in nearby Seattle.

In the meantime, Michael Phelps can use his Marfan Syndrome as a physical advantage with zero criticism or rewriting of the rules.

As someone with about 1,000 hours in the game, I can say the last 3 days have been the most toxic this game has been in over a year. Sure games like this always have some toxic gameplay, but it has spiked to all new extreme levels.

it can be such a fun game when players aren’t being complete assholes to each other,…

The reason for Black being used as an identity is because, for many Black Americans, that’s exactly their heritage. The history of their family was lost due to slavery, and their identity was created around the sole existence of being Black in America. Black folks don’t go around calling themselves or each other…

“He also noted that “there’s a long story to this,” which he plans on sharing in the future.”

Oh dear lord.

Dogs haven’t really changed, maybe the food is a little more processed and higher in things like salt and fat than it used to be. The real change is knowledge. We no longer have to rely on just the personal experience of our close associates (and maybe a few books for the really curious). With limited information, it…

sure, but if we know that grapes can give dogs kidney/liver issues, its probably fine to let people know since some people like their pets to live long happy lives and vet bills are expensive as shit when something does go wrong. 

I’m going to steal an ace tweet for this:

Kurt Cobain died from drugs and mental health, it’s a fucking disservice to him and all us addicts fighting every day to reduce his death to a woman who was also in the midst of her own battle.

At best, the theme was a copy. But Love did not create the crying prom queen image, so, no, she doesn’t get to lay claim to a trope.

Read the second sentence of the article; Utada is quoted as saying “I’m nonbinary” and the sentence links to a video of them saying that. This isn’t a grown woman complaining about English honorifics, this is a grown person coming out as nonbinary and doing educational work with some of their audience.

The problem with a denim skirt that is longer than your knees is that even if you wear just a bra with it, I’m going to automatically think “oh is she one of *those* Christians?”

This is really upsetting.
As an artist myself, seeing all that hard work get put down like that is just sickening. What is especially stupid is that this is by likeness alone, with no matching code. 

It’s obvious she has been fighting for her own dignity privately in vain. The fact that she has to leverage her privacy for her own freedom by publicly talking about the contents of her uterus is so utterly wrong.