I read once, passingly, about a man named Shakespeare. I only read about him passingly, but I remember one thing he wrote that kind of moved me
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Insane that algorithmic price gouging hasn't been taken up by either party (a slam dunk for the Dems); I am currently looking at the exact same flight on American Airlines, both logged in to my account, but from different browsers and one is $204 and one is $419
Brooklyn update: only two people got it, but three groups have asked me if I went IU with extremely sincere excitement and then been very disappointed. One was more than half a dozen adventure time characters saying “dang it” in near-unison
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Restrictions on porn are genuinely such an insidious trojan horse for mass censorship because if you try to speak out against it, people on both sides of the political aisle will just write you off as a pervert.
Truly this is just a gay person, not a porn account. I have decided to not give x further info until March to see if an account that has existed for over 18 years still needs to verify it is over 18. For a company with such a horrifying, on-going actual CSAM issue this is absurd.
…suddenly cannot interact with several mutuals. My account can vote in six months and fuck where I registered it, do they think I made it when I was an infant?
“Gary Indiana” costume for the Rentboy x EQ show tonight in Philly & the
Rentboy Ridgewood set at Future Space Studios tomorrow going over better than expected
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Beijing Queer Film Festival has been cancelled; the post below details years of authorities' intensifying pressure on the film festival, as well as on LGBT rights in China👇, as Xi Jinping's government intensifies social control.
突发：爱酷电影周宣布取消：原定今秋举办的第十九届北京酷儿影展停办🇨🇳🏳️🌈
2026年10月29日，爱酷电影周（Love Queer Cinema Week，即北京酷儿影展 Beijing Queer Film Festival）在官方Instagram账号发布声明，宣布“原定于近期举办”的影展取消，并向计划参与的观众致歉。声明没有说明取消原因，也没有提到原定日期和场地。今年4月20日影展开放了2026年征片，8月2日起招募志愿者，招募截止9月1日。
影展创办于2001年。当年导演、学者崔子恩和北京大学学生杨洋在北大办起第一届，放映了《蓝宇》《东宫西宫》《今年夏天》。据长期组织者吴漫记述，影展结束后校方约谈组织者，几名学生受到处分，并被告知校内放映必须经过审查、取得许可。2005年第二届开幕前几个小时，北大通知不得在校内举行，影展转到798艺术区一处私人工作室，以邀请制进行，用短信通知观众地点。此后场地屡次被临时叫停，组织者把一周的放映分散到六七个地点，自称“游击战”。
2014年影展再次被叫停。组织者几天内改为带观众乘坐北京开往怀柔的列车，在车上用U盘同步观看回顾影展十年的纪录片《我们的故事》。2015年起影展改名“爱酷电影周”，中文名里不再出现“酷儿”，此后在北京法国文化中心（Institut français de Pékin）举办。同年，影展原定5月17日国际不再恐同、恐跨日在荷兰驻华使馆放映，据组织者记述，当地部门在放映前几天多次警告中方组织者，称会对其工作和家庭造成“严重后果”，放映最终临时取消。
2021年起，影展宣传不再出现影展和组织者名称，只介绍影片；2025年停用运营多年的微信公众号。2024年开幕放映时，场外停着六辆警车。2025年，第十八届影展仍在10月下旬至11月初举行，志愿者报名约200人，是前一年的四倍。
今年6月，北京法国文化中心原定在骄傲月放映法国电影《Enzo》和《Eat the Night》。据Urania研究所报道，警察6月6日到场，要求审查影片，并查验在场中国公民的身份证件，放映随后取消。目前没有公开信息表明这件事与爱酷电影周停办有关。
背景：北京同志中心已在2023年宣布关闭，高校LGBTQ+微信公众号从2021年起被成批删除。二十五年来，爱酷电影周靠更换名称、分散场地、减少线上痕迹维持运作。
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There is something wrong with me and it’s getting worse as I age, but when I meet someone who has the sauce and it’s being misused / mishandled I feel a genuine compulsion to say something. There are many flavors of charisma and they deserve correct pairing.
I thought my fiance to a formal private dinner with a secretive arts cabal and he wore a leather coat and popped a Zyn as soon as we walked inside
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You know how Brazil reversed deforestation.
It wasn’t a bunch of conservation tax incentives for farmers.
IBAMA (Brazil’s equivalent of the EPA) airdrops shock troops to firebomb illegal logging and mining camps.
Yanuni (2026)
UPDATED – Analysis: Lula presidency saved at least 20,000km2 of Brazilian Amazon since 2022
✍️ By Orla Dwyer and Josh Gabbatiss
Read here: buff.ly/QqRBFfy
Jake Tapper recommending Zahav to Jesse Singal is a bit on the nose, and moreso because it isn’t even a top 3 answer for limited men of unlimited means looking for high-end veg in that area. I’m taking psychic damage
kinda crazy this has An Answer, though there is a secondary nested answer if you don’t wanna learn to swim in the open ocean
Recommendations for best use of stream of consciousness writing in the last 50ish years. Any suggestions? @bradkelly @AmericanGwyn
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This story is not getting enough attention, even though it is a dark portent of the political repression on the horizon all around the NATO bloc.
Five activists who damaged an Elbit Systems site in Ulm, Germany, are facing harsher treatment than the Reichsbürger, a far-right group accused of attempting to overthrow the German state by force. The two trials are being held in the same building.
The Ulm5 are held in a maximum-security prison, marched into the courtroom in handcuffs, and seated behind bulletproof glass two meters tall. On day one, the judge switched off the microphones of the defence’s legal team, and has since repeatedly refused to hear their evidence and expert witnesses, while rejecting a motion for an independent stenographer to keep a record of the proceedings. The only written record of the trial is the judge's.
Meanwhile, the Ulm5 all remain in prolonged detention — with stints in solitary confinement. The prosecution is seeking to argue that the attack was antisemitic in nature, as Elbit Systems is a “Jewish-owned company” and therefore the “baby killers” graffiti drawn by the activists amounts to blood libel.
The case sets a chilling precedent for any actions taken against German militarism, and no doubt forms part of a wider arc of repression that now extends from Britain to Italy. That is why the activists’ call for international solidarity and support is so urgent.
In a show-trial riddled with procedural irregularities, Germany is seeking to make an example of five activists who organized against the genocide in Gaza. buff.ly/i46zuHe
Uniquely worried about drones as harbinger of a very bleak few decades, but often the asymmetry will *not* be in the favor of currently empowered actors. Their quick adoption by cartels, Sahel militant coalitions, Colombian marxists to attack police stations etc speaks to that
Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks.
By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time.
Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.
Countering drones doesn’t scale up super well from shooting at them with a gun or hitting their drones with your own yet, usually only buying you a bit of time. Designs like this one seem like readymade assassination tools! A bullet that chases the target
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