@patbits

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"I paid a lot of attention to skin color. Also to using multiple languages. Lots of times when you watch anime, the characters all have white skin — all the characters in fantasy stories all have white skin, which I never liked," Watanabe said in Cowboy Bebop: The Jazz Messengers
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“It was Watanabe who wanted to have several groups of ethnic diversity appear in the series.  Cowboy Bebop won awards specifically for its culturally diverse cast” (which was unusual for anime at the time)
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jörg shidmann@tranz_schubert14 Mar 2024
dolls run the world i’m so serious
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☔@pussycr4ckula14 Mar 2024
this is so real,, because the way y'all infantilize disabled adults - especially adults with developmental disabilities like Down Syndrome - is weird as hell and needs to stop.
em@shinywiglett14 Mar 2024
this hits so hard! ❤️‍🔥
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The police found Samaria’s body the same day she went missing but failed to identify her for 2 weeks bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lo…

Samaria Ayanle: Body found weeks ago believed that of missing woman

Samaria Ayanle, 19, was last seen on CCTV footage in central London almost three weeks ago.

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Reina Sultan 🇱🇧@SultanReina13 Mar 2024
They do this every. single. year. For those new to the struggle, please know that this is not unique to the current aggression, but instead a longstanding genocidal tradition.
The New Arab
@The_NewArab13 Mar 2024
Israeli settlers storm the compound of Al-Aqsa Mosque under army protection during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan. newarab.com/news/israeli-set…

Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa compound in Ramadan raid

Hundreds of Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa holy site amid continued restrictions against Palestinians in the month of Ramadan.

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jade@WifexOfxAgony12 Mar 2024
At risk of sounding like an old person, why in the fresh fuck is this news and why bother covering it XXL? This is a woman who didn’t consent to this bullshit and here you, a “reputable magazine,” go sharing screenshots of childish garbage like you ain’t seen a titty before
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ً@sheepnstein8 Mar 2024
No one should be murdered just for being Palestinian
Joe Biden
@JoeBiden8 Mar 2024
No one.
A green graphic that reads: No one should be jailed just for using or possessing marijuana.

ALT A green graphic that reads: No one should be jailed just for using or possessing marijuana.

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David Austin Walsh@DavidAstinWalsh29 Feb 2024
These guys understand that they’re supporting an immoral war and are condemning Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation because it rightly makes them feel morally compromised.
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Welp. Look who’s being chopped from my 2024 itinerary. I’ll see the Door of No Return elsewhere, or never.
BBC News (World)
@BBCWorld28 Feb 2024
Ghana passes bill making identifying as LGBTQ+ illegal bbc.in/3IhmDLS

Ghana passes bill making identifying as LGBTQ+ illegal

Lawmakers approve a tough new bill, but rights groups say it threatens basic freedoms.

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bridget@bridget_eke27 Feb 2024
Yessss! I love to see women in male-dominated fields!
The Guardian
@guardian26 Feb 2024
More women may be psychopaths than previously thought, says expert theguardian.com/society/2024…

More women may be psychopaths than previously thought, says expert

Dr Clive Boddy says assessment skews towards obvious male traits but female psychopathy is more subtle

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Pro-Democracy RTs@ProDemocracyRTs27 Feb 2024
Tommy Tuberville apparently thinks people are afraid to go out for ice cream in New York City, even though the homicide rate there is one third of the rate in his home state of Alabama.
Coach Tommy Tuberville
@SenTuberville27 Feb 2024
Hope @JoeBiden enjoyed going out for ice cream in NYC while the rest of the city is afraid of crime and migrants.
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Ben Crew@BenjaminCrew125 Feb 2024
Every presidential photo of the Easter Bunny looks as if we lost a war with him and are surrendering
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Zach Zimmerman@zzdoublezz24 Feb 2024
ur niece is Amelia Bedelia
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The Hollywood Reporter
@THR25 Feb 2024
Joel Kim Booster Says AI Would Be Better Suited to Replace Executives Rather Than Creators hollywoodreporter.com/busine…

Joel Kim Booster Says AI Would Be Better Suited to Replace Executives Rather Than Creators

"I think it's nerve-wracking, and I think the advances that we're seeing, it's happening quicker than I think we're able to adjust to it," the 'Fire Island' star and executive producer said.

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simone de bolivar@_bitchsword25 Feb 2024
cops saw a guy light himself on fire and their first impulse was to shoot him
Talia Jane
@taliaotg25 Feb 2024
Replying to @taliaotg
For a full minute, police (unknown sector, maybe fed or DC) see him, say “May I help you sir?” and as he’s on fire scream at him to get on the ground but do not otherwise engage. One cop appears with a gun drawn on the man after he collapses, still consumed by flames.
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Caitlin Johnstone
@caitoz26 Feb 2024
This is insane. Anat Schwartz isn't the focus of this scandal, The New York Times is. The issue isn't decorum, it's that NYT enlisted an Israeli intelligence veteran who supports the genocide of Palestinians and had no journalistic experience to help write atrocity propaganda.
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@zei_squirrel25 Feb 2024
BREAKING: The New York Times is desperately attempting to do damage control after one of their lead writers of the widely debunked "mass rape" atrocity propaganda hoax, Anat Schwartz, was shown to be a genocidal racist maniac. They're trying to pretend it's just a decorum issue
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lol do you actually expect us to feel sorry for any of these genocide tourists
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Ryan Grim
@ryangrim25 Feb 2024
This “freelancer” played a lead role in the paper’s most consequential coverage of the war, and had no journalism experience. The better question is who assigned her these stories, why, and what were they thinking.
Corbin Bolies
@CorbinBolies25 Feb 2024
NEW: The New York Times is investigating an Israeli freelancer after she repeatedly liked multiple X posts that indicated a pro-Israel bias, including one that called for the Gaza Strip to be turned into a “slaughterhouse.” thedailybeast.com/new-york-t…

New York Times ‘Reviewing’ Reporter Who Liked Gaza ‘Slaughterhouse’ Tweet

The likes on X included a tweet calling for Israel to turn the Gaza Strip into a “slaughterhouse.”

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Talia Jane
@taliaotg25 Feb 2024
UPDATE: I got footage of the self-immolation at the Israeli embassy in DC. The individual, wearing fatigues, introduces himself as “an active duty member of the U.S. Air Force and I will no longer be complicit in genocide.” After ignition, he repeatedly yells “Free Palestine.”
Talia Jane
@taliaotg25 Feb 2024
Someone self-immolated (or tried to) outside the Israeli embassy in DC today.
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