zarkanian
@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on why do I keep doing this???? 2 days ago:
It’s called ADHD.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I’m seriously questioning what you consider good, then. That’s the reason people call it “slop”. It’s not good.
- Comment on It keeps happening 4 days ago:
Pamela Colman Smith, a British artist. Who, I have just learned, was actually not a woman of color. Despite her spending a lot of time in Jamaica, writing books on Jamaican folklore, and even adopting the dress and mannerisms of a Jamaican…she was actually European. Kids these days would call that “problematic”.
However, she never married, and she lived with a female best friend, so I think the odds are very good that she was either a lesbian or asexual.
- Comment on It keeps happening 4 days ago:
Waite-Smith deck. I don’t know why we’re giving credit to the publisher of the deck and erasing the queer woman of color who did the artwork. Oh, wait…
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 4 days ago:
Do you honestly think that they don’t boost right-wing stuff? They can and they do. I’ll give you an example. After Trump got elected and Zuckerberg was genuflecting at him, I suddenly started seeing Trump shit in my Facebook feed. This is even with an adblocker and FBP, which normally lets me block sponsored shit. Another example: At X, Musk has ideas like “white genocide” baked into the platform’s AI chatbot. You can’t reform a system like that. You have to abandon it.
The left cannot win anything going forward unless they beat the fuck out of the reich on these platforms. There is no protest that can succeed if we don’t have a good presence on the platforms that people get their opinions from.
Reality is we all should be there now, building groups and putting their ideas against the ropes.
Right. The left is only going to win by…arguing with CHUDs on X? What an obvious waste of time. Yes, organize, but you don’t need to organize at the Nazi bar. In fact, organizing at the Nazi bar is pretty clearly a bad idea. They control the platform. They have your personal and private data. What do you think that they’re going to do if you start winning? Come on.
Also, if “we should all be there now”, why are you here? Why aren’t you arguing with Nazis on X? Sounds like you’ve got a lot of work to do!
- Submitted 4 days ago to memes@sopuli.xyz | 14 comments
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 4 days ago:
The right owns those platforms and most of the leftists are still there regardless.
- Comment on Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre 4 days ago:
I remember how shocked I was to find out that Behind Blue Eyes wasn’t originally by Limp Bizkit
Are you fucking kidding me
What is going on here
You listened to that and went “Yup, Fred Durst wrote that”?
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 4 days ago:
What do you mean?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Why would you post something that’s been censored?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s pretty terrible. There’s a political podcast I was starting to listen to, and the guy on it was talking about how the Venezuelans Trump sent to CECOT were sexually assaulted: he said "They were graped!"
I was like "Did this motherfucker actually say graped?" Yes, yes he did. Obviously, I couldn’t keep listening after that. What the fuck is wrong with people?
- Comment on Advice Dog 3 weeks ago:
I guess they didn’t nootice.
- Comment on Randezvous 📅 3 weeks ago:
Wait until you hear about “boatswain”.
- Comment on Randezvous 📅 3 weeks ago:
First they came for our pronouns.
- Comment on Randezvous 📅 3 weeks ago:
You know, the logic that has a word like “knight” where half of the letters are silent.
- Comment on Me, a Lemmy instance admin, looking at the new Digg 3 weeks ago:
Which user interface? I have several. It depends upon which app you’re using.
- Comment on X-Files '90s promo shoot 2 months ago:
These look so much better than what the show actually was.
- Comment on X-Files '90s promo shoot 2 months ago:
You misspelled “hysterical”.
- Comment on Just opened a new jar of jam, only to find mold in it. 2 months ago:
Good luck proving what made you sick, though. A foodborne illness can sometimes take days before you develop symptoms. At that time, you might think it was that sketchy chicken salad that made you sick, and you might be right…but it could also be any number of other things that you ate before you got sick.
- Comment on A true friend understands that carcinization is real, natural and not at all shameful 2 months ago:
Me too. More licking than nibbling, though.
- Comment on You are not prepared 3 months ago:
They didn’t use the Roman alphabet. They used hieroglyphs. The Spanish were the ones who came up with that spelling.
Now, why did the Spanish decide that X should make a “sh” sound? I don’t know, but I can guess. I don’t think that the “sh” sound is present in Spanish, so they decided to use a letter that they didn’t use much (or at all) to represent it: X. But in English, X inside of a word makes a “ks” sound, so when the word was read by English speakers, they said “acks-oh-lawtl”.
I just pulled that out of my ass, though.
- Comment on You are not prepared 3 months ago:
Sometimes when a word gets borrowed from another language, the pronunciation comes along, too. Sometimes not. Every dictionary here says we aren’t using the Nahuatl pronunciation. It isn’t a thing, no matter what some guy on YouTube is saying.
- Comment on You are not prepared 3 months ago:
Not in English it ain’t.
- Comment on Totally 3 months ago:
Who is the threadiverse’s first?
- Comment on Get over yourself 3 months ago:
This is all subconscious shit that marketers have to deal with. There’s a good article about it here. What bothers me is not knowing what unconscious biases like this that I have.
- Comment on Get over yourself 3 months ago:
The whole “long hair = gay” thing is such weird boomer shit. It’s right up there with believing that gay men wear dresses and makeup.
It’s not even 21st century homophobia. It’s like something out of the 1950s.
- Comment on Easy choice 3 months ago:
It says “rain”, not “petrichor”, though. Petrichor is the smell you get when rain hits dry earth.
- Comment on Easy choice 3 months ago:
That’s not funny! My brother died that way!
- Comment on Easy choice 3 months ago:
Aw yisss
Also the sound the campfire makes when the rain hits it.
- Comment on Easy choice 3 months ago:
Enjoying your own farts is normal. Enjoying other people’s farts is perverted, you sick fuck!
