J. Alfred Girlcock @Sophia_Zoe@shrike.club

Shouting and howling. Pitching up and clipping out. Smothering in soundscapes of sighs. From 100 Gecs to Against Me! to Ada Rook, trans women push vocal technology to the breaking point--and in the process expose how we think of gender.
https://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2020/09/i-dont-ever-wanna-talk-that-way-again.html

this panic is extremely woke and not at all indicative of "social justice" spaces being easily coopted into theocratic conservativism and I was astonished today when a giant ball of light appeared in the sky this is unprecedented, to me

personally I think that it is entirely coincidental that a massive sex panic about the animation industry happened at the exact same moment when cartoons started gaining more queer representation. funny how things just occur randomly with no causality!

if you're an early 2000s hypercomics fan click to be Activated

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posting this essential classic in honor of the elephant shrew news https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvemPyOJZEY

Gaiaeaeaeaeaeooooon

WE AAAARE STROOOOONG
NO ONE CAN TELL US WE'RE WRONG

imagine you're a writer for the New Statesmen and you get Judith Butler on the line, you get in an email exchange with her, and every SINGLE QUESTION you ask, is about the transphobic author of a book about wizards who use magic to disappear their shits.

the intellectual culture of the west is dead, I'm begging China to just annex us already.

a cool exercise in "how can I deconstruct the ideology of a Certain Group of Transhumanists without actually directly mentioning them or allowing them to frame the debate" lol

Remember Universal Paperclips, that clicker game? Remember turning the human race into paperclips? Ok, so, what if you just... didn't? What would that choice tell us about game design, agency, artificial intelligence, and people?
https://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2020/09/in-end-we-all-do-what-we-must-universal.html

[Malcolm Gladwell in an alternate timeline where he joined Tool voice]
🎶 10,000 hours in the fire is long enough,

I am genuinely shocked that putting à;GRUMH... into spotify didn't either crash the system or allow me to execute arbitrary code.

godspeed you! cute cowgirl

she dreamt she was a cowgirl she dreamt she was alone in an empty field

"a spectacular successful dragon mating"

😏

FOUND IT

also I forgot that they liked this sequence of dragons fucking so much that they included the same exact footage at the end as well asdkjfhskhfadf

someone put SO MUCH THOUGHT INTO THIS
https://youtu.be/gVhT8alJ0l8?t=4057

just remembered this discovery channel extremely hyped cgi special that was all about the speculative biology of dragons and they had an ENORMOUS section dedicated to how dragons would fuck

the virgin LaVey trying to con everyone into Objectivism vs the chad lead singer of Ghost maybe actually being part of a Masonic plot to summon the Antichrist or something

my brain just tried to come up with a feminine form of bimbo.

it arrived at "bimbette" before I remembered that bimbo is already the feminine form.

this is why I'm a bimborella