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If you’re on the app, immediately go to your dms and then “add friends”. After the latest update they allow your contacts to find you and have that option turned on by default, so make sure it’s unchecked!
This is very obviously not great for a multitude of reasons, but especially for people in vulnerable positions who do not want people in their contacts to see who they are on discord and/or know they have discord in the first place. I’ve also tried finding out if this is a thing on desktop but haven’t been able to find any mention of it, so either it’s not a “feature” (yet) or they’ve hidden it. Either way, stay safe, and turn off finding friends via contacts!
[ID: three screenshots from the discord app with circles around the buttons to press to get to this “feature”. 1: the messages/DM button, 2: the “add friends button”, 3: in the add friends page, the “allow contacts to add me” checkbox. /END ID]
“you don’t like the proliferation of terms like Unalive outside of TikTok because you realize that you’re aging out of youth culture and it makes you uncomfortable!”
no I don’t like it because there’s something INCREDIBLY dystopian about being forced to soften terms for basic parts of the human experience like death and sex (and even more so terms for oppressed minorities- call me a “le-dollar sign-bian” and I will bite you) purely because advertisers and corporations demand it
The idea that young people are getting used to not being able to speak in public about sex, queerness etc without talking around censors, and see this as normal and not a problem, scares me tbh.
The fact that people are so comfortable with being censored that they Voluntarily censor themselves on words and topics that aren’t even being limited is a terrifying sign
I hate to be like the “THIS IS JUST LIKE 1984” guy but. there was literally a thing in that book where you had to say “double plus ungood” instead of “bad” because you weren’t supposed to talk about bad things. if you told me ten years ago that “unalive” was a word that George Orwell had coined for Newspeak I would have believed you.
the whole thing with subtitles saying ’(speaks foreign language)’ is like. aside from logistical issues with outsourced transcription services, the solution is seemingly very obvious - just transcribe the foreign language itself. like, someone who hears the audio can, if they’re familiar with the ‘foreign’ language, glean some understanding from it, even just from individual words that are loaned or widely known - and by transcribing it accurately, that isn’t denied to those reading the subtitles. even if you can’t understand anything, the experience of having a character respond 'Non, mais votre chien oui!’ or ‘好久不见’ is better than having them respond ’(speaks foreign language)’. just like when expletives are censored in subtitles but not in audio, it’s a case of the richer, fuller experience being denied for a sanitised version compatible with a production pipeline that does not see subtitles as a method of genuinely conveying meaning, but as a regulatory requirement
this scene from the goes wrong show where they cast two different people as the head and hunky, semi-nude body of the same character during a live theatre production haunts my every waking moment
In honor of pride month and the continuing struggle of the Palestinian people, please consider supporting the talented people at Hirbawi by buying a rainbow kufiya (or any other one for that matter) and help keep a traditional craft alive.
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(This really shouldn’t have to be said but terfs/swerfs do not touch. This post is for all LGBT+ people)
hirbawi is the last factory in palestine for kufiya. all the rest had to shut down along the years bc of the occupation. please consider supporting them and buying their pride kufiya or any kufiya. i bought their kufiyas myself and theyre top notch - theyre beautiful and really high quality as you would expect from handmade palestinian craft and are so varied and colorful. if you cant buy please consider reblogging and sharing their work.
i answered wrong! lol i said 2-5 but it was 1st song— BAYNK featuring Cub Sport (“Mine”) who’s vocalist is a woman (also i played this more than days in a year)
