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4 votes
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Why Confederate lies live on
10 votes -
Warren Zevon - Jungle Work (1980)
3 votes -
What are some great LGBT speculative fiction?
Speculative fiction contains elements that don't exist in reality. It includes genres such as science fiction, fantasy, and supernatural horror. A producer friend is looking for stories with a...
Speculative fiction contains elements that don't exist in reality. It includes genres such as science fiction, fantasy, and supernatural horror.
A producer friend is looking for stories with a focus on LGBT issues. As someone with a predilection for speculative fiction, it would be great to read/watch some speculative stories that deal with issues in that area. I am aware of some stories with LGBT characters, but gender and LGBT issues are generally not the main themes. I'd love to get suggestions for movies, TV shows, and books (especially short stories) that deal with those issues in a proper and inventive way.
As usual, Wikipedia has an extensive list on the subject, but I was hoping to get some more personal suggestions from the Tildes crowd.
Thanks!
7 votes -
Attempting to use a software engineering approach to win at chess against my brother—and only my brother
10 votes -
What are you doing for Pride this week? (7-13 June)
Pride month has already started, so - as per the title - what are you doing for Pride this week? Are there any cool events where you live? Is the encroaching summer making it hard to choose...
Pride month has already started, so - as per the title - what are you doing for Pride this week?
Are there any cool events where you live? Is the encroaching summer making it hard to choose between hugging the AC and ironing your flags? Are you still in the closet, and would you like to vent about it?
10 votes -
Hollywood loved Sammy Davis Jr. until he dated a white movie star
9 votes -
Which language do you think is best?
I don’t think best necessarily needs to mean most useful. For example though English, Mandarin, and Spanish are widely spoken they all have their problems, for example the reliance of Chinese on...
I don’t think best necessarily needs to mean most useful. For example though English, Mandarin, and Spanish are widely spoken they all have their problems, for example the reliance of Chinese on non-phonetic logograms or English’s complete mess when it comes to spelling and vocabulary.
I’ve been learning some Dutch these past few days and have been enjoying it quite a bit. It’s got a lot of the Germanic roots I’m familiar with without the junk and inconsistencies that seem pervasive in English.
Korean also seems like a potentially interesting “objectively good” language to learn since I believe the writing system was invented relatively recently (1950s?) and is phonetic.
All that being said, that’s pretty much all I know about linguistics so I’d love to hear peoples input on language and what they enjoy.
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
5 votes -
Looking for "gender questioning" content and personal experiences
Over the past few months I've been questioning my gender identity, and so I've been doing what any good millennial does and trying to read up on what everyone else in my position did and does....
Over the past few months I've been questioning my gender identity, and so I've been doing what any good millennial does and trying to read up on what everyone else in my position did and does. I've found a few resources here and there, but I'd really like to read/watch/listen to more if I can. I'm looking for blogs, YouTube channels, podcasts, twitter users, and possibly even music... Anything created by non-cis people and which discusses their experience with figuring out their gender identity.
Hopefully my fellow Tilderen can recommend some good media to me? I'd also be glad and grateful to hear any personal stories from folks here as well, though I do know it can be a very personal thing so no sweat if you don't feel happy sharing.14 votes -
When Brayden Bushby was charged with the death of Barbara Kentner, Indigenous faith in Canada’s legal system was put to the test
4 votes -
Asian Americans
16 votes -
US Department of Justice recovers $2.3 million worth of Bitcoin that Colonial Pipeline paid to ransomware extortionists
17 votes -
The secret IRS files: Trove of never-before-seen records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax
19 votes -
How to make your data harder to find online
7 votes -
Playdate, the console with a crank, gets July preorder for $179, game details
16 votes -
Chinese Cooking Demystified
12 votes -
An0m: Hundreds arrested in massive global crime sting using messaging app
19 votes -
A project of one's own
5 votes -
Keiko Fujimori’s fraud claims criticised as rival’s narrow lead widens: Pedro Castillo holds 0.4% lead with more than 97% of votes counted
7 votes -
US FBI secretly ran the An0m encrypted messaging platform, yields hundreds of arrests in global sting
7 votes -
Reasons why bugs might feel impossible to understand
4 votes -
“It is not known why the pulling cable snapped.”
5 votes -
I found a mud volcano in California
2 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
5 votes -
Adobo: Filipino or Spanish?
2 votes -
US Supreme Court turns away challenge to the rule that only men register for the draft
17 votes -
Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?
4 votes -
Once a bastion of US free speech, the ACLU faces an identity crisis
14 votes -
Playdate Update - 6/8/2021
@Playdate: Hi. Are you ready for a ✨#PlaydateUpdate✨?We have a lot to catch up on. Our first-ever video update has details on Season One, future games, some surprises and info on future pre-orders. Please join us!🗓 Premieres Tuesday, June 8th at 9:00 AM PDT➡️ https://t.co/cfSNsgTqeQ pic.twitter.com/dSClZQmkUy
11 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of June 7
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
7 votes -
Plans to capture and run six-hour-long sound tests on young minke whales are set to go ahead in Norway despite condemnation from more than fifty international scientists
5 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of May 31
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
9 votes -
What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
7 votes -
Jeff Bezos plans to go to space aboard Blue Origins first crewed flight in July
21 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
16 votes -
What did you do this weekend?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
6 votes -
Eric Whitacre - Water Night (1995)
7 votes -
Michael Haggins - Daybreak (2004)
5 votes -
Pinegrove - Audiotree Live Session (2016)
4 votes -
Security tips for online LGBTQ+ dating
11 votes -
A first lesson in meta-rationality
7 votes -
The Kiffness - Alugualug Cat (International Symphonic Mashup) (2021)
3 votes -
What are you reading these days?
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
11 votes -
Tom Jones: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert (2021)
4 votes -
Seven-year-old boy charged with rape in New York. Is arresting him the answer?
12 votes -
Luis Miguel - Ahora Te Puedes Marchar (1987)
5 votes -
On password managers
11 votes -
How do you think someone/people should be introduced to politics?
There are very serious articles about young adolescents being radicalized into fascist movements and personal testimonials of such in YouTube, along with many videos, most commonly by leftists...
There are very serious articles about young adolescents being radicalized into fascist movements and personal testimonials of such in YouTube, along with many videos, most commonly by leftists about how this works and very rarely a guess at what to do about it.
There are also often memes about young people entering politics, like this video or this video assuming that and then satirizing how young, presumably privileged people when it comes to social matters (because otherwise bad personal experiences will inform your beliefs and this will be more than a poorly done intellectual exercise to you) flip flop between every political belief like it's nothing, alongside memes satirizing how young conservatives are introduced to their politics by edited clips of what are supposedly SJWs out of context and how farcically (distressingly) ridiculous it is to be introduced to your beliefs by these videos, especially when these sometimes real but extreme regardless examples of the left's presumed irrationality are much less harmful than the conservative extremes.
A lot of this talk and memes concerns or satirizes radicalization of people after they've been politicized and occasionally in the case of the serious articles, what to do with it. But I feel this focuses more on the consequences, which is fine, but not everything worth looking at.
So back to the title question, how do you think someone/people should be politicized?
7 votes -
Bergman Island | Trailer
2 votes