Jill Bearup (medieval history, armour, weapons…) www.YouTube.com/@jillBearup

karolina zebrowskax (historical fashion and design) www.youtube.com/c/karolinazebrowskax

Lady Emily (pop culture essays) www.youtube.com/@LadyEmilyPresents

Chrissy Marshall (deaf & hoh content, pop culture for, about and with deaf people) www.youtube.com/@ChrissyMarshall_

Strange Aeons (Tumblr “culture”, LGBTQ-focussed essays, internet Weirdness explored…) www.youtube.com/@STRANGEONS

Verity Ritchie aka Verily Bitchy (LGBTQ-Focussed pop culture video essays) www.youtube.com/@VerilyBitchie

Unfortunately, it has been a year since both SarahZ and Mia Mulder have last posted videos, but if anyone doesn’t know both of them, go check em out.

Auto tune you still have to be able to sing to make it sound good. Sampling can be an art form.

The difference here is that you could pay musicians if you don’t play an instrument. Using AI shit just means you’re taking art away from artists

Why not? Or at least if people are choosing a browser they might not see the benefits of Firefox and just see that chromium is more spread and thus more compatible and “user friendly” (whatever that means). If Firefox isn’t better than chrome, why not switch over to the bigger one…(?)

I’m so sorry, Americans. I’m not sure who is even able to liberate your country. You and the Russians liberated the camps in Europe at the end of WW2, but who’s there for you? I think you might need to liberate yourself. Again. I’m sorry. Good luck

i read this and nobody wrote about Shutter Island? it was so so bad i hated it. I hated how people said it was so clever. it was one of the only movies that I spotted continuity errors and mistakes on the first watch in the theatre. and I do NOT believe those mistakes were intentional. the movie was so obvious is the “clever bits” that it tried to do that these mistakes were just not in the same lane. the movie tried to be an Aranovsky movie, but Scorcese is not that director.

No you don’t understand, all of them people were Hamas. As soon as a Palestine civilian dies, they’re automatically promoted to Hamas terrorist

don’t. be angry. show your anger. let it out in productive, constructive ways to support those who can’t

Because we have to acknowledge the systemic privilege of white people. I’m so very white. I have my problems and my concerns, but none of them are for my looks. Black people do not have that luxury.

Yeah it’s not about that. It’s about culture, history, systemic racism, discrimination, found family, community…

This “I don’t see colour” argument is an old blind argument that ignores all of the above.

" it pains me to see how, after murdering most of my family in the Holocaust, you empty the word antisemitism of meaning to silence critics of Israel’s occupation in the West Bank (the topic of our film) and legitimize violence against Palestinians"

That’s from the ISRAELI maker of the movie. Who feels unsafe in Germany. But his movie documenting the real going-ons is antisemitism? Fuck off, Germany. Sincerely, a German.

Well there’s hope that it incentivices the American people to revolt or revolution. So…yay?

Don’t worry. The others will follow their big daddies. Germany will probably follow. And with Germany, must of the EU, unless they want to anger Germany and not get any funding…

“raises risk of war”???!? The ATTACK raises the risk of war?! How deluded must someone be to write that. Is it not war if a nation straight up shoots missiles at another country??

I know your point. Access to professional help is a privilege that few have.

I think next best thing is socialising. There’s probably groups in your area (see social media for that, meetup, Facebook, forums) that meet up and talk. I highly recommend in-person meetings. Also I tried giving my body some help with food. Carbs give you some serotonin.

Damn that’s a strong text. Thank you for that. That really moved me

The more I aged, the more “hopes and dreams” I gave up on. I guess that’s the normal human experience. You might want to be a pro in sports or a dancer or a famous doctor…but then you grow out of the age where reaching those is possible (dancing goes first…).

Other than that, I’ve given up on so many hopes, only to then later get back to them. Like the hope of connecting to people, or to make art, to teach,…those and more are things I gave up on and later readopted.

So give up hope, but it might just come back :)

Imagine saying “it dishonours the victims” to one of the actual victims

i don’t know what you’ve been smoking, but every day is a lifetime of men.

oh welcome culture? you mean the one where we ostracize and other families that don’t look white european enough? where we put them in camps at the border, where we let them drown in the mediterranean, where we rig the system so hard against anyone lower class so that they will never rise to anything and their kids won’t as well? where we criminalize them and then just send them to some war region somewhere? yeah…must have been the “new” far right that has soured this great welcome culture. STFU