Chaia Eran - חיה ערן (she/they) 🏳️‍⚧️✡

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New: "For the last 30 years, our institutions have propped up Bibi, telling us not to question, often refusing to heed even mainstream Israeli partners asking us not to do that. As someone who's worked my whole career to build bridges, I've resisted writing this piece. But– if not now, when?"

There's a whole essay and all, which is one of the best things I've ever written, but it's funnier if I just clip the first line.

ALL YOU FASCISTS BOUND TO LOSE

NON BRASILIANS FROM BSKY WE NEED YOU TO SPREAD THIS MESSAGE. THERE'S A COUP D'ETAT HAPPENING IN BRASIL RIGHT NOW! THE PEOPLE POWER GOT SO STRONG THEY TOOK DIRECT ACTIONS TO SABOTAGE THE ELECTIONS SPREAD. THE WORD. NOW.

hhhh i wanna play the warrior cats game, and everything in the game is handmade, but they apparently used AI in the planning stage... i've wanted a warrior cats game for like twenty years, i'm conflicted :(

i cast a fairly large net re: who i follow on here, and while i usually appreciate the breadth of posts i see, it is sometimes fucking wild to see people i follow shitting on each other and remember oh right, "i like their posts" is not actually a unifying factor between liberals and leftists lol

I let myself get roped into experimenting with AI coding agents, because I got told to "at least try it and then you can judge it". I figured it would help me understand what all the fuss is about as well. And what can I say... I've converted! ...from an AI hater to an AI super-hater. 🧵

visceral disgust at the proliferation of mog as a term i don't care how ironically funny it might be

there are so many bangers in here i'm rereading again "Miyazaki is right, and Altman is wrong. Miyazaki tells stories that blend the ordinary and the fantastic in ways people find deeply meaningful. Altman tells lies for money."

THE NUMBER 4 HOW THE FUCK DO YOU SET YOUR PRIVATE KEY TO THE NUMBER 4 HOW DO YOU MAKE YOUR PRIVATE KEY A FUCKING NIBBLE HOW DO YOU FUCK UP THIS BADLY

Who said it?

She was murdered by transphobia 😥😥😥

tryna put into words how nice it is to be shopping at the small and seeing other trans ppl goin about and shopping and not knowing who they are. i hope theyre having a good day.

a vision hath come to me: what if someone translated lord of the rings... and kept with tolkien's philological kayfabe of localizing westron and rohirric but not sindarin or quenya, and so changed the rohirric, gondorian, and hobbit names, but not the elvish ones

wow, thanks walter benjamin

I kinda can’t get over this logic! To say it’s okay because they’re “dressed like whores,” but you didn’t pay them Shane! Sex workers don’t want to be ogled either! They do it to get paid! It’s like saying you’re allowed to steal someone’s food if they’re dressed like a chef!!

safewording because mid-scene i got in my head that she actually hates me and im being annoying

decided to go ahead and update my profile, the text i had there was really old and i figured i could stand to clarify my position a bit better lol

And if you did all the right things and got your computer science degree because that was going to be the thing to get you a job? Lol jk good luck

LITERALLYYYYYYY, when I got my compsci degree they had us learn the basics in Java, knowing full well we'd probably never use it in the field, because the point was to learn the underlying fundamentals that would allow us to code in ANY programming language.

Full text:

soliciting interest in (& taking submissions for) the proof-of-concept issue of COYOTE, a quarter-page (4.25in×5.5in or 10.795 cm×13.97 cm) zine of all things therian, alterhuman, and questioning of the hegemony of human experience information & submission sheet: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

אִם־אֶשְׁכָּחֵךְ עַזָּה תִּשְׁכַּח יְמִינִי׃ תִּדְבַּק־לְשׁוֹנִי ׀ לְחִכִּי אִם־לֹא אֶזְכְּרֵכִי אִם־לֹא אַעֲלֶה אֶת־עַזָּה עַל רֹאשׁ שִׂמְחָתִי׃ If I forget you, O Gaza, let my right hand wither; let my tongue stick to my palate if I cease to think of you, if I do not keep Gaza in memory even at my happiest hour.

it was smart of jacob geller to only post about what he did to his 50k followers on here instead of to his 1.5 million youtube subs or on his patreon. that way fewer people know about it and he limits the financial hit

Hey you know how when Tucker Carlson or Nick Fuentes toss out some nominally left wing position, and everyone immediately recognizes it as an attempt to rehabilitate their image and infiltrate new audiences? Maybe stop praising the Pope just because he hates AI, like everyone else does.

One thing that's been bothering me in the last couple days is I have never seen this level of "we should forgive and forget" "rehabilitation" for any woman doing anything perceived as or actually wrong no matter how small compared to literally having sexually assaulted someone.

today on birzeblog: two years have passed since Cohost closed; two years of Cohost realism have, in turn, set in. it is now easier to imagine the end of the internet than it is to imagine another website with the promise or possibility that was offered by Cohost. alyaza.neocities.org#cohost