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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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brandyllyn

I'm going to need y'all to preemptively chill out because the actor's strike is going to mean a lot of things including shows and movies we've been anticipating being pushed way back, and absolutely minimal press tours for the next however long this lasts.

The effects of the writer's strike are months down the road which made it a whole lot easier to support because as third parties we weren't really being affected (yet), the effect of the actor's strike is going to be immediate and we're going to get a lot more propaganda of "these people are overpaid to begin with."

Remember our desire for content does not supersede these people's rights to live.

Support unions, support the strikes.

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just-antishipper-things

"You can't ship that!"

lol what are you gonna do, climb inside my mind and shut off the imagination switch?

just-antishipper-things

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This kind of response always fascinates me, so while I've got you here, can I just ask: legal by what standards? Do you mean real world standards, where laws vary from country to country, and in the case of the US, state to state? Or do you mean the fictitious laws set in place in the fictional setting of the ship? What standard exactly should we use to tell people "you're not allowed to enjoy this fictional thing?"

I know you didn't mean any harm by your response, but I feel it's important to reiterate that nothing gives anyone the right to police what people do in a fictional setting, full stop. Because at the end of the day, it's fiction, it's a fantasy, none of it is real, and so real world rules and standards do not apply. So, as long as you are not actively causing harm in a real world setting (i.e. harassing real people over fictional ships) then you do you.

just-antishipper-things

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a very important addition

lynati

Everyone pushing the line on the "It's immoral to depict any content that's illegal!" stance are either going to be massively horrified or massively thrilled if LGBATIQ content is made illegal again.

So if that's *your* stance, I've got to wonder which one you are, and why you're so comfortable with the company you're keeping.

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hiddenmirykirigum

Fanfic authors are amazing like they could be literally anyone. That one coffee au you read last night? Could have been written by morgan freeman who knows

drarryking

Dude I am acutely aware of this whenever I see people writing at coffee shops and stuff

choose-your-muse

Story time: I used to sit at the library for hours to mooch the wifi and work on my fics. Almost every day, the same person would sit across from me. We both had our established spots and no one ever really took them. Couple months passed and I was working when I got an email from Ao3 saying a story I was following had updated. I proceeded to take a break to grin and giggle behind my hand throughout the story. I left a comment and went back to my writing. Not five minutes later, the person’s phone went off, and they started grinning and typing on their phone. Another few minutes go by… And my phone pings that the author has replied to my comment.


Long story short, we traded a few odd looks while we both typed on our phones, before we finally put the pieces together and realized we were talking to each other while sitting across from each other. Turns out we were mutual followers of each other and ended up talking for hours about our favourite fics.

persianpenname

Give me THIS as a coffee shop AU!

theriu

THAT IS AWESOME

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jv

Oh

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OhOhOHHhhhhhh!!!!!!!11!!eleven11!!!!!


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The ✨

Fucking 😻

European Union's 🌈

Digital Service Act 🥲

Forces large social platforms 🥳

To always offer ♥️

a non-algorithmic option 🌟

To EU users 🤟



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Fuck

Yeah

EU!!!!


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jv

I see US tech jounalists on Mastodon, once again, charging against the EU for "damaging european users" by forcing companies to deliver "a subpar experience". So let me paste something I wrote over there a few weeks ago:

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I keep seeing very important US tech journalist here talking about how Threads not launching in the EU is:
- somehow shameful and a sign of how "you can't innovate in the EU"
- a problem for the EU, which will led us to creative interpretations of the GDPR to finally allow Meta to launch here.

And I think folks from the US tech scene really, really don't understand several things:

1) how incredibly hostile the EU (and a good chunk of the European political parties) are to "big tech".
2) how surprisingly immune to lobbying the EU Parliament appears to be.
3) how actually popular it's that the politicians take a hard stance against macrocorps. Every time the European Commission has gone against big tech most the press and the people have cheered them as our champions against evil.

jv

And I can't even start describing how IMPORTANT for the future could be that people started being able to turn off YouTube algorithmic recommendations. I think YouTube shares with meta, pretty much 50/50, the responsibility for the global resurgence of fascism we have seen in the last decade.