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Pretty sure I alienated everyone in my local furry Discord by saying I'm refusing to vote for Genocide Joe lmao
  • unless you live in a swing state your vote is symbolic either way. I guess these people would prefer you symbolically vote for a genocidal piece of shit

    even if you do live in a swing state good on you for voting based on your principles. the whole "voting for third party candidates is useless because they can't win" is such horseshit. motherfucker, you're the reason why they can't win. they're electable if you vote for them...

  • if not for bear website I just wouldnt have a social life at all
  • yeah same. I also used to have IRL friends, except they basically became online friends due to everyone moving. they aren't all bad but one guy is so bad I left the whole group a couple years back and haven't had friends since

  • SOPHIE - Reason Why (feat. Kim Petras & BC Kingdom) - Official Visualiser
  • yeah it was really amazing, those shows were DJ sets and I'm very sad I never saw her during the OOEPUI tour which was more of a full performance but I'm still very grateful that I had the chance to see her at all

    the first time was a show with A. G. Cook and QT. SOPHIE played L.O.V.E. which was unreleased so I had no idea what was happening. that song is cool on headphones but hearing, or rather feeling it on big club speakers was a transformative experience, having those vibrations wash over your entire body is indescribable, I'll always treasure that memory

    the second show was probably even better because it was in a smaller room but everyone there was going absolutely crazy and it's where I heard some of the Charli XCX collabs for the first time

    actually I just realized it was 3 times that I saw SOPHIE but now I'm just bragging

  • SOPHIE - Reason Why (feat. Kim Petras & BC Kingdom) - Official Visualiser
  • I feel so incredibly privileged to have seen SOPHIE live twice back in 2015-2016, her music was a major catalyst for helping me realize I'm not cis, even before she came out as trans. Nobody was pushing the boundaries of music like SOPHIE was and I think her death is the most profound loss to music and art of the 21st century, so it's great to hear that her previously unreleased music will live on and continue to reach more people.

    PS I hope it's okay to use she/her pronouns for SOPHIE, I know there was some confusion about this after her death because she kept her personal life private but SOPHIE's family is using she/her so that's why I am too

  • [Not the Onion] Biden up 23% with...
  • under-30 turnout will be historically low. how many young people want to vote for some old piece of shit who was already the president? most of our lives got worse under both these assholes

  • Searching for artists/bands (and songs)
  • do you like punk rock? because there are a lot of punk bands who would align with your values, probably more than most genres. folk punk bands are usually leftist

    Against Me! is one of the best IMO, especially their first couple albums, Reinventing Axl Rose and As the Eternal Cowboy are absolute classics, their EPs released around the same time are great too. Their politics have become a bit more lib over time but were left-anarchists at first. Definitely pro-feminist and the singer is a trans woman.

    if you like folk punk also check out AJJ (Andrew Jackson Jihad), Defiance, Ohio and projects from Pat the Bunny (Johnny Hobo & the Freight Trains, Wingnut Dishwashers Union) - a lot of his music deals with substance abuse but not in a glamorizing way

    There's some good lefty ska-punk bands like Streetlight Manifesto and Bomb the Music Industry!

    other more conventional punk bands you might like : Bad Religion and Propagandhi

    as for rap I'd check out Dead Prez

  • Comic Book Writer Calls Out A.I. Art - 'You Solved a Problem That Didn't Exist'
  • "Wow I loved that AI generated movie I wonder what these people will do next” nothing they don’t exist they will never wear something crazy to the met gala or go rogue in an interview or have a fascinating break up for you to obsess over, you just watched a screensaver

    lol is he trying to make a case for replacing actors with AI? I don't want to hear about these people's stupid relationships or what they wore to some party for rich assholes

  • Slurs becoming normalized in 2024?
  • I wouldn't judge cultural trends by what's happening on X dot com, the cool people have either left or are spending significantly less time on the website formerly known as twitter, now that it's a project of the far-right. remember that people who donate to Musk literally get boosted by the algorithm

    if people are saying it more in real life, especially young people, then that's a problem. I don't know if that's the case or not because I don't spend any time around teenagers

  • I'd like to thank the femboy community for proving that I'm not straight

    I mean, could you imagine???

    my whole life I thought I was only attracted to women, turns out I'm attracted to anyone who's pretty

    what a sigh of relief

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    I've been unemployed practically my entire life and I don't know what to do about it

    deleted post because of personal info, but thank you to everyone who responded and gave advice, it means a lot

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    Bored Lord - No More Hiding Who I Want to Be [house / electronic]

    seems appropriate for June 1st. Bored Lord is a great artist and this album (Transexual Rave Hymns) is full of bangers

    >press release from 2019:

    >"Transsexual Rave Hymns is Bored Lord’s recent release from Knightwerk. As evoked from the title, this full album is a meditative, spiritual approach to dance music, specifically situated within Daria’s experience. Amongst the dissonance there is melody, and amongst the resilience there is despair. This duality allows for Daria to present a complex and honest portrait of what it means to exist as a trans woman, all within the context of highly danceable club tracks.

    >Pairing distorted pop with acid house, Rave Hymns blends genres to create a hypnotic club sound. The album moves between her signature energized sound (“Spit in Your Mouth,” “My Loneliness Is Killing Me”), to tracks that channel a contemporary take on classic rave sounds (“Broken Heart Broken Hearted,” "You Make Me Feel So Good”), to reflective, melodic trans anthems (“No More Hiding Who I Want To Be,” “Keep Your Hands Off My Body”). Rave Hymns firmly reflects Daria's position not only within the tradition of other trans DJs, but at the forefront of a growing movement and sound."

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    No Kinkade at Pride

    an LGBT Pride festival is simply not the right forum for displaying the paintings of Thomas Kinkade

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    anyone know a good software for generating / translating subtitles for video?

    preferably something I can run locally on my PC. most of what comes up on google are cloud-based services and I don't want to have to upload shit to the internet. I just want a Windows program that can do speech-to-text from a video in different languages, translate to English and generate an .srt file or similar

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    man what the hell is this lmao (Rabbit R1 "AI" assistant)

    what kind of lame-ass dork would spend $200 on some worthless plastic garbage that does nothing but give you blatantly false information

    for fuck's sake, LLMs do not possess knowledge. they generate believable text, that's it. you can't trust any information it spits out, it's just a word prediction algorithm AHHHH STOP TREATING IT LIKE AN INFORMATIONAL TOOL

    even if this "AI" shit was even remotely useful, who wants to carry around some stupid orange device that does nothing your smartphone can't already do? whoever buys this trash deserves to get grifted

    PS I hate Swedish minimalist design. this shit looks like a toy for a 4 year-old, which happens to be mental age of anyone who would buy this crap

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    Oneohtrix Point Never - Long Road Home

    ``` We don't rely on "There's nowhere to go" We realize that the soul grows We just deny that the truth is untold No one to rally us both

    I don't know why I don't wanna transform Taking the long road home

    Doesn't the sky look like maps to our house? Doesn't the sea look so empty? Even my dreams kissed in digital gloss It's my reality

    I don't know why I don't wanna transform Taking the long road home

    I don't know why I don't wanna transform Taking the long way home Alone

    I don't I don't know why I don't wanna I don't know why I don't wanna I don't know why I don't wanna I don't know why I don't wanna transform ```

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    Sydney Sweeney Discourse™ (it's not about her boobs)

    I think the fascists' fixation on Sydney Sweeney has less to do with the size of her breasts and more to do with her blonde hair and blue eyes. They're thrilled to have an Aryan sex symbol in the mainstream again. They've felt threatened by the suggestion that other types of people can be considered attractive as well.

    They also seem to be reveling in the fact that western culture is still superficial and celebrates people for being hot, that physical attractiveness is seen as virtue. Because fascism is an ideology predicated on superficiality, appealing to the most shallow of basic human instincts, they need surface-level aestheticism to peddle their rotten ideas. ___ Now, let me address the two big elephants in the room. I said I wasn't gonna talk about her boobs but they're not entirely irrelevant to the discussion. Skinny women with big tits represent the mainstream ideal of what straight men like, and fascists want to assert that what straight men like is what's right and true. The cis-hetero male-dominated beauty standard is the only one that should exist in their minds.

    In reality, people (straight men included) like all sorts of bodies. But fascists don't like variety and diversity, they want a singular standard for society to adhere to. They want to reduce the complex and subjective experience of being human into something simple, a lie that's easy to understand.

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    Angelo Badalamenti explains how he wrote Laura Palmer's Theme

    posting in honor of Twin Peak's Day, the 35th anniversary of Laura Palmer's death on February 24th, 1989

    Laura Palmer's Theme

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    Julee Cruise - Questions in a World of Blue

    composed by Angelo Badalementi, written/produced by David Lynch for the soundtrack of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

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    choosing your own name should be the norm

    I think that in a rational society everyone should feel free to choose their name, and doing so should be a normal and expected rite of passage.

    It makes way more sense to choose the sound people make when they refer to you, than having your parents choose it for you before you're even a person yet.

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    Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary

    this is really fascinating. definitely recommend watching this if you are at all interested in game development, CG art or animation

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    Anyone seen the new horror film Talk to Me?

    I haven't seen it yet, wondering if it's worth catching in a theater while it's still playing or just waiting to pirate it.

    The movie has been getting good reviews but I understand it was made by some popular youtubers, which makes me somewhat hesistant to see it lol. But if it's good I kind of want to support it, since it's a smaller movie and not a major studio product.

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