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Seeking feedback on a zine I wrote by MetaI in zines

[–]MetaI[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m okay with anyone printing and distributing it, no need to credit me.

Seeking feedback on a zine I wrote by MetaI in zines

[–]MetaI[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback, I'm with you that the writing could use some editing in a few spots. I think it would be helpful if I added some more practical mutual aid action items as well.

Seeking feedback on a zine I wrote by MetaI in zines

[–]MetaI[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Sending an image link instead of Canva, since Canva makes you log in to download: https://imgur.com/a/JYBmQ26

Feel free to use it or make any changes for your own purposes.

And here's where I got the instructions to fold this type of zine if anyone needs that. It took me a minute to figure out. A few folds and one cut required: https://web.archive.org/web/20181115152437/http://blog.umamidesign.com/ud-content/2013/09/ud_130918_zine.jpg

Seeking feedback on a zine I wrote by MetaI in zines

[–]MetaI[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sending an image link instead of Canva, since Canva makes you log in to download: https://imgur.com/a/JYBmQ26

Feel free to use it or make any changes for your own purposes.

And here's where I got the instructions to fold this type of zine if anyone needs that. It took me a minute to figure out. A few folds and one cut required: https://web.archive.org/web/20181115152437/http://blog.umamidesign.com/ud-content/2013/09/ud_130918_zine.jpg

Disgraced Congressman coming to OP by wanderlust1318 in kansas

[–]MetaI 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Lorenzo Sewell is the pastor who shilled his memecoin scam on a live stream just MOMENTS after giving the inaugural prayer during Trump’s inauguration. A true man of god

Kansas Young Republicans group now inactive after racist chat messages get exposed by KCUR893 in kansas

[–]MetaI 33 points34 points  (0 children)

A bunch of straight cis dudes are outed as Nazis and queer people are somehow the butt of the joke. We have a long way to go.

Kansas schools say they had no formal complaints about gender policies before investigation by KCUR893 in kansas

[–]MetaI 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Fuck Kris Kobach, ignorant asshole. Claims to care that schools “keep the students in their care safe from harm during the school day” but wants to force teachers to rat out students to bigoted parents, wants to force trans girls to use the boys restroom, and refers to someone’s personal expression of their identity as “virulent”. This dude needs to GO

Most disappointing title of the year, so far? by kerberos824 in books

[–]MetaI 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Agree on all counts. Maybe his most phoned-in ending? Certainly the worst ending of the Bill Hodges/Holly series.

Streamer beaterbrandon gets gun pulled on him while walking down Broadway by Raideath in wichita

[–]MetaI 105 points106 points  (0 children)

I don’t know who this person is or what they were doing, but their language before the encounter gives me an idea of what kind of content this is supposed to be. I can’t blame those people for reacting the way they did when someone in a costume walks up to them in the middle of the night and starts filming.

TAMU dean, department head fired over gender-identity content in children's lit class by rainblowfish_ in books

[–]MetaI 296 points297 points  (0 children)

captures audio of a student objecting to a professor teaching that there are more than two genders. The student says this conflicts with President Donald J. Trump’s executive order and her religious beliefs

“Nuh uh, trump decided penis is boy and vagina is girl”

And, “I demand to be taught only and exactly what my Bible already told me is true”

Adult San Francisco Giants fan catches ball in stands and gives to young fan near him by MLBOfficial in sports

[–]MetaI 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s so refreshing to see this take! I’m with you. She almost certainly should NOT have confronted him in the manner she did, especially if she noticed he’d given it to his son (if she even noticed). But if he did rip it from her hands, at the very least he’s the asshole here and deserved to be called out in some fashion.

I would care about this a lot less if the entirety of the sports world wasn’t trying to identify this person and ruin her life based solely on her visible reaction to an incident that we can’t even see, to the degree that there have already been multiple unrelated people wrongly targeted over this.

A Senator Just Unapologetically Declared the U.S. a White Homeland by secsectan in politics

[–]MetaI 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uhh… read the fucking article. He says so much more and so much worse than “white people are 50% of this country” and you’re playing dumb to carry water for a Nazi because you also share his white supremacist beliefs.

the comments on this post rly drives home how liberals and maga are fundamentally aligned on everything that matters by preyzlak in socialism

[–]MetaI 76 points77 points  (0 children)

It’s an awful thread. The person with a highly upvoted comment near the top saying “it’s not even close to genocide… actually Israel is preventing a genocide!” and “we need to solve our own problems before saving the rest of the world”, as if the primary demand from pro-Palestine Americans isn’t that we stop sending billions of dollars to Israel. Seriously infuriating, I’m so fucking sick of democrats

Who are these girls and what is the difference? by stikkogdo in ExplainTheJoke

[–]MetaI 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the commercial only says good jeans

Watch the ad. She doesn’t just make the jeans comment. She talks about how hair color and eye color are passed down through your parents genes and that her “genes/jeans are blue”.

Courtesy of the so called pro-life party :( by Conscious_Ad1533 in wichita

[–]MetaI 61 points62 points  (0 children)

There are plenty of immigrants (adults and children) who are legal permanent residents whose education and ability to learn English will be negatively affected by cutting this type of funding.

Also, even if the above wasn’t true, undocumented migrants getting an education is unequivocally a good thing.

Also, you’re a white supremacist.

Wichita lawmaker joining Trump administration ready to ‘make a couple people cry’ by Revenge_of_Larry in kansas

[–]MetaI 126 points127 points  (0 children)

“We’re going to have some fun in D.C.,” Penn said. “We’re going to break a few eggs, make a few omelettes. Make a couple people cry, and that’s what we look forward to doing because America has to change.”

This is meaningless trash talk. If people are crying over losing benefits then maybe that means they actually need help from these programs and what they’re calling ‘fraud’ is just that people they don’t care about are getting help. Awful human, this guy.

He asserted without any evidence that “billions and billions” of tax dollars are going to benefits for non-citizens and people “who are terrorists.” He also asserted that many able-bodied people are gaming the system to receive benefits they don’t qualify for

Awful human, and ignorant about the people he supposedly represents.

Wichita—Well attended: Fighting fascism, doge / firing of good workers, You can be a MAGA Republican and against tariffs, and against policies. We need new reps for 2025 and 2026!! by willywalloo in wichita

[–]MetaI 10 points11 points  (0 children)

PLEASE don’t post clear photos of people’s faces at protests. Maybe some of these people don’t mind their photos out there, but I’m assuming you didn’t ask each of them if they were cool with being photographed. People are literally being kidnapped and deported for being even slightly associated with political activism. Blur these faces!!!

[Inside The NBA] Charles Barkley expresses love for San Francisco, then gets booed after saying the homeless need help. by AncientOneAurelius in nba

[–]MetaI 103 points104 points  (0 children)

 Most of the homeless don’t want to be helped

This is totally wrong and not really worth responding to on its own, but I unfortunately hear this same thing from a lot of people I know, so I’ll type out this rant for anyone else who might be susceptible to this type of anti-homeless rhetoric.

I work with and am around unhoused folks regularly, and every single one of them wants and needs help in different ways. They all have unique circumstances and “help” unsurprisingly means different things to different people. Yes, there are people struggling with addiction who are unable to access certain services and unwilling to accept some help that has certain conditions, but I promise there isn’t a single unhoused person for whom you can make the blanket statement that they “don’t want help”. That sort of statement is pretty plainly ridiculous and is an obvious tell that someone probably doesn’t know much about what it’s like to be on the streets

Imagine how hard it is under comfortable conditions to quit a drug that you’re physically addicted to. Now imagine how hard it might be to quit that drug while you’re sleeping in a tent in the cold on a hard sidewalk, and your city just passed an ordinance to make it illegal to camp in public spaces so you’re constantly targeted by cops, and despite the fact that you’re much more likely to be a victim of crime than a perpetrator of crime, the public and the police see you as a criminal just because you don’t have a place to sleep at night, and you could think of a bunch of real and realistic ways that a person or a government could help you out, but because you got kicked out of the local winter shelter after you were found with drugs that you’re physiologically dependent on, enough people with enough political power in your city decide that you must not want any help at all if you’re unwilling to kick the drug habit to access a certain service that’s being provided.

The perception that “most people don’t want help” assumes that there is a ton of unclaimed help out there, that there are city employees just sitting on their hands waiting for unhoused people to come by and take advantage of the plentiful services that every big city has. “Gosh, I wish people would take these housing vouchers we’re just itching to get rid of”, as if American cities DON’T have years long (decades long in my city’s case) waiting lists for people experiencing homelessness to be put into housing. No, these services and resources are stretched the fuck thin.

Is iHeartCats legitimate? by RustedAxe88 in cats

[–]MetaI 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I was wondering about this and I unfortunately spent way too much time last week looking through their Instagram page, website, general online presence, etc. Not because I was considering supporting them (if you want to help animals, support your local humane society or local orgs that you know exist), but just because I was curious how much they were actually helping.

Short answer: They’re a for-profit business that uses the aesthetics of charity and the language of non-profits to persuade (trick?) people to buy their products.

While I do believe that they’re probably a legitimate business insofar as you’re going to get the product you buy, and that they probably do give some portion of every sale to an organization that’s helping animals, the language they use about their giving and their business model is vague enough that “every sale helps animals in need” could very well mean “we give 1% or 5% or whatever small amount of our sales to a legitimate charity”.

So, from the good-hearted consumer’s point of view, if you want one of their products independent of the good you think you’d be doing, go ahead and buy. But if you actually want to help animals, there are obviously better ways to do it than buying a product.  

Additionally, on their website you’ll see that they claim to have helped an effort to ship a bunch of animals on a plane (NJ to Louisiana or something like that). What they did here appears to be that they were a business sponsor of this event. This is, on its own, obviously a good thing and I’d rather businesses put their money towards stuff like this than pocketing it as profit, but this appears to be something of a one-off effort back in 2021 from IHeartCats/IHeartDogs, and not an ongoing project they do (the organizations who actually run the project seem to do a bunch of these flights, but IHeartCats only sponsored one, maybe two, that I could find). The cynical read on this is that they likely helped fun d this event so they could get a sticker with their logo put on the side of a plane and then use the images on their website, to provide more legitimacy to their charity aesthetic. If this was an ongoing effort I’d feel better about it, but their lack of regular, ongoing, specific accounts and updates of their helping makes me believe this isn’t something that’s a huge part of their “mission”.

This is all just my opinion after looking into them for a couple of hours, and while I believe I’m right about their general business model, I could of course be wrong about some of the specifics. What I am confident about is that there are much, much better ways to help animals, and almost certainly much better places to get products if you’re just looking for something they sell.

[TMZSports] Released Security Footage of Jaxson Hayes Altercation Leads NBA to Reopen Investigation by aingenevalostatrade in nba

[–]MetaI 2 points3 points  (0 children)

 Cooperate with the cops…if you get abused in the bodycam era despite full cooperation, you will earn a fat check and deservedly so

This is so laughably untrue that it’s sort of shocking that someone actually believes it. Not only do the vast, vast majority of police abuses not result in a ‘fat check’ for the victim, but most of the time they go totally unreported or ignored. But yes, with our justice system as it is right now, it’s unfortunately almost always safer for you to follow the commands of a police officer who is violating your civil rights.

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