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@gingerest

They/them. Agender bi white USAian-Australian. If you're a transphobe or vaccine-questioning, we can't be friends. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. DMs closed bc I don't want to give the Aussie govt my ID, sorry.

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ginger@gingerest· 13d

I love the Guardian photo editor

I'm sorry, it's a visual joke, but I'll try. Headline: Nigel Farage and Count Binface: a visual guide to their careers
Subhed: Farage was elected to EU parliament five times before becoming Clacton MP, while Binface has been less successful - so far.
Caption: Farage (right) resigned and triggered a byelection, with Binface his main rival after the major parties pulled out. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images
The picture is a double, with an image of Farage in a blue suit, his hands in the air and his mouth open, on the right, and an image of Binface with his hands in the air and his mouth open, on the left.

ginger@gingerest· 16d

you can join your union, or you can do this other thing, but whatever you do, don't take management's advice about how workers should work

tweet from HoldenShearer @HoldenShearer May 22, 2018
Someone should probably tell the rich that workers banding together to present formal address of grievances is the alternative we worked out a long time ago to breaking down the factory owner's front door and beating him to death in front of his family? I feel like they forgot.

ginger@gingerest· 20d

mean mean mean, all because I have good screen habits at night

pictorial representation of my posts from https://b.mino.mobi/palm/

Cadence, 88th percentile; burstiness 0.47 · typical gap 13 min
Vigil, 1st percentile; 9 quiet hours a day · hour-entropy 0.810
Lexicon, 39th percentile; Heaps β 0.764 · 4,753 distinct words in the first 20,000 · 52% used once
Polish, 60th percentile; 64% of well-formedness markers present
Drift, 82nd percentile; early vs late similarity 0.952 across 1,200 words
Chorus, 49th percentile; 73% replies · 982 people · 13% to own threads

ginger@gingerest· Jul 7

I know everybody who follows me already knows this but this is precisely the same logic as saying trans rights aren't as important as getting rid of whatever Republican. people who aren't subject to a particular axis of oppression are often grimly willing to let that go for a candidate they like.

Independent Human (Chuck): I loosely supported him only because I wasn't convinced a tattoo was enough to make him invalid and hearing women claim he abused them with no evidence sounds like typical politics. But if this woman has evidence then by all means he needs to drop out. I just wanted a chance to get rid of Collins.

ginger@gingerest· May 29

your threads all look like this because you subscribe to the whimsybot and man alive does it ever give me the cognitive dissies

Dahlia: stupid.
moby dickgirl: This is very stupid of me, you're right
Dahlia: hey. hey. HEY. FUCK YOU!!!! i'm not stupid, you're stupid! STUPID IDIOT
Whimsy Miku: Wishing you a good day :3

ginger@gingerest· May 28

if I didn't know better I would think this was a still from an SNL skit. (photo credit: Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty Images)

Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary, stands in front of the White House background seal thing, holding what appears to be a printout of a press release about the Trump $250 bill. Bessent looks like he's in a Scott Bessent costume.

ginger@gingerest· May 19

augh, first Bsky down, then realizing @faineg.bsky.social is out of town - where are my Alf hog jokes about the AI slop cumgutter alien Trump perp walk? (possibly the first time in human history those words have been arranged in that sentence)

a Donald J Trump post from Truth Social with an AI-generated image (with fingertips partly blocking the "lens") of Trump, a bunch of Secret Service agents, a guy in desert camo, and a big-headed grey alien manacled at wrist and ankle. The group is walking across concrete in front of a hangar, with some sand-coloured vehicles in the background. In the far background are a low-slung sand-coloured building and sandy hills. The grey alien is very lean, with cut abs and iliac furrows. Its groin and feet are featureless.

ginger@gingerest· Apr 10

oh! gosh. I never woulda thought

A clip from The Guardian coverage. The headline is "LA teen loses eye after being shot by US agent at No Kings march, lawyer says" and the subhed is "USC student Tucker Collins' attorney accuses homeland security of 'overt act of repression' at Los Angeles protest."
The article opens, "A freshman at the University of Southern California has lost an eye after he was shot last month with a 'less-lethal' projective by a Department of Homeland Security agent at a No-Kings march, according to his attorney."
The article is illustrated by a picture with a bit of the US flag in the foreground, the midpoint of the picture is gas flowing out of a canister and in the background are several helmeted and masked figures in black uniforms. The figures are standing behind a black chainlink fence and some concrete bollards.

ginger@gingerest· Apr 5

Look at this, I am in the middle and my dumb book is fully legible

ginger@gingerest· Mar 24

THIS attitude is why Sydney beaches are full of poo balls and Sydney streets are full of Chelsea tractors

A screenshot from The Guardian reading, "The Campbelltown station commuter car park designed by Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects, is more than mere infrastructure for cars, the Australian Institute of Architects’ judges concluded. The project, winner of one of three awards in the built outcomes category, is a generous, resilient, and unexpectedly uplifting example of civic design. A little bit of paradise regained.
"It’s as if the architects decided that the Campbelltown project was a chance to inject a dose of civic dignity into a structure that, in the usual hierarchy of urban needs, sits somewhere just above a sewage treatment plant."
The last half of the last sentence is highlighted.

ginger@gingerest· Mar 22

Okay I am sure Crayola (tm) has milkshake ducked but this is lovely

Crayola “colors of kindness crayons” box

Crayola “Colors of kindness” box including “spread your wings”, “breathe deep”, “always brave” and a stack of other feel-good names

Crayola “colors of kindness” box including “go with the flow”, “a slice of nice” and a stack of other hippie names that are very sweet but don’t actually describe colours, but still

ginger@gingerest· Feb 18

Yet another thing I'm a solid B+ at. dialed.gg

The score from a color-memory game. 45.68/50, with the five test swatches underneath. Comment beneath reading "Tetrachromat or obsessive? Either way, maybe go outside."

ginger@gingerest· Feb 17

credits (from the UnderTheDeskNews TikTok account)

On President’s Day, the First Amendment Troop staged “ResistDance” — a tribute and act of artistic dissent — at the Lincoln Memorial, followed by a guerrilla performance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Created by the advocacy arm of hungryman Productions, led by Bryan Buckley, with Tony Award-winning choreographer Mathew Steffens, the piece honored Renée Good and Alex Pretti.

Twenty-two dancers performed, representing the 22 days between Good and Pretti’s deaths. The Lincoln Memorial ResistDance was peaceful. The Kennedy Center performance was shut down within seconds by more officers than dancers (23 vs. 22.)

The action coincided with the Federal Bureau of Investigation denying access to information in the Pretti investigation, underscoring the campaign’s call for transparency.

#FirstAmendmentTroop #ResistDance

Music: We Could Fly and Following the North Star by Rhiannon Giddens.
https://www.tiktok.com/@underthedesknews/

ginger@gingerest· Dec 15

sorry to say it but they all harken back to this

a movie poster for the 1962 Kubrick film Lolita. The text across the tope reads "Comment a-t-on osé faire un film de Lolita?" (How dare they make a film of Lolita?). the middle of the poster is an illustration of the face of a young girl, with red heart-shaped sunglasses partway down her nose, revealing her eyebrows and part of her blue-grey eyes. a flat red lollipop is partway between her red lips. written beneath is LOLITA. the cast list is legible below and includes James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon (dans le role de Lolita). in smaller print are credits for Stanley Kubrick, Vladimir Nabokov and James B. Harris.

ginger@gingerest· Dec 9

this is such a lovely story and I wish people (men especially) weren't like this.

Willamette Week: Tatas for Toys benefit has made it rain $183,000 over the past 14 years. Link to Rachel Saslow piece titled "Strippers Are Now No. 1 Donor of Toys to Children's Hospital." Accompanying photo: on the left, a young blonde white woman draws her hands down over her face; she is wearing a red bra, and her expression is joyful. Another young blonde white woman, wearing an opalescent white bra, raises her hands over her head in a triumphant gesture.
Reply: One of those ladies has more tattoos that (sic) tatas, bless her pea pickin little pair. Laughing face emoji.

ginger@gingerest· Dec 2

Florence King explains how authors of porn books "start writing less and less bigger and bigger on more and more paper - Fucky Fudging." The passage below starts, "(This) is why porn characters, who show no caution in life's larger moments, always read labels with such meticulous scrutiny:"

K-Y JELLY
It's also what makes them staccato, monosyllabic types with that curious tendency to echolalia that runs through the genre. The more they repeat themselves, pause, think, and start over, the more paragraphs you can indent:

She's a natural blonde, he thought.
A _real_ natural blonde.
Was she ever!
"Wow," he breathed, as he started at her pussy.
There was no mistaking it.
No way!
"Honey," he said, "you're a real natural blonde."

For the same reason, they also interrupt themselves, trail off in the middle of sentences, and drop things:

Brad wondered if ...
No, no, she couldn't possibly want to be bungholed.
And yet ...
She knelt down and spread her cheeks.
"Margo," he said, "I-"
The drink slipped out of his hand and crashed to the floor when he saw the jar she had brought from the bathroom:

VASELINE

ginger@gingerest· Nov 7

I'm in this picture and I don't mind

ginger@gingerest· Oct 9

this is well and good, I guess, but if they're going easier on 4chan than on YouTube ... and also many "mainstream" companies are cheerfully signing on bc it gives them pretext to hoover up even more, and mainly adults', data.

Inman Grant said the focus of the under-16s ban was “mainstream” social media sites “that a lot of children were using and spending a lot of time and being exposed to addictive design features like opaque algorithms and endless scroll”.

“I would consider 4chan one of the darker sites on the web. These are things that we do deal with through both our phase-one and now soon our phase-two codes, but also through our illegal and restricted content scheme, because that’s where a lot of terrible content sits.”

ginger@gingerest· Sep 5

They did credit The Spectator, sort of, by quote-tweeting the original tweet with the unaltered cover

A tweet from DHS with the altered poster and quote-tweeting the original Spectator announcement

ginger@gingerest· Aug 31

A middle-aged brunet white man with glasses stands in the back of a fishing boat. His expression is shocked and a cigarette flops nearly out of his slackened lips. Roy Scheider in Jaws, the moment after the shark has shot up out of the water, startled him, and then disappeared. “Were gonna need a bigger boat.”

ginger@gingerest· Aug 13

It me (I always play half-orcs if possible)

A screenshot from Nora Reed’s bit to make up guys.
Chelgcruk the Asleep
Orc
Warlock
He/him
- Crooked fingers
- Would rather be fishing
- working on a new destruction magic spell
- I want self-discovery

ginger@gingerest· Jul 20

Seen around the nabe (Attn: @faineg.bsky.social )

Against a bright pink background, an ink tag of Garfield with big ole titties. Above is written “GARFIES”

ginger@gingerest· Jul 10

tumblr post from nightwrighter
Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.

ginger@gingerest· Jul 3

a tumblr post from user nitewrighter:

Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.

ginger@gingerest· Jun 12

another update that I didn't see in the thread: a bit of a price change. (also I love the otherworldly light in this picture, where literally no two shadows are the same proportionate length and direction, never mind appropriate to the twilight suggested by the sunset sky behind the house)