Melville Collins

Gleefully going back to Tumblr as Twitter dies (yay!)

He/Him

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[Caty⁷ ✨ art&personal @c_art_y]

Everytime a black actress gets hate for a casting turns out eartha kitt has already done it 😭

[Mountain Ğeneral @MountainGenera]

Since Pope Leo XIV mentioned this in encyclical, this means if your employer is pushing you to use AI, you can cite religious conserns as a reason to not use it at work

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

do you understand what Google's AI just did to an artist..

His entire Google account got permanently banned. Not just Drive. Gmail.. YouTube.. Every single service..

His appeal was rejected. No human reviewed it. An algorithm decided his life's work was a violation.

He never shared the files publicly. It was a private backup of his own creations. The AI flagged it anyway - probably the filename or art style - and that was enough.

- Google banned a developer's 14-year-old Gmail account over a research dataset that contained no illegal content
- Google expanded its automated ban policy in October 2025 - violations now trigger immediate termination with zero warning period
- No lawsuit against Google for wrongful account termination has ever succeeded in US courts

Your Google account is not yours. You are renting access to your own digital life from a company whose AI can end it in seconds - with no appeal, no human, and no recourse.

[(⧖)E ه҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿҈̿ @miroyato]

@AyakaMods Stop using Google apps people, it keeps happening!! Great open source alternatives:
- @ProtonDrive for drive
- https://t.co/mjfnepl4Vx for notes and docs
- @brave for browser

[Celestara @celestaracosmos]

A part of you is completely unexplored until you meet a particular person.

[Celestara @celestaracosmos]

Respect your decision to grow. Never go back to people, habits, and situations that made you miserable.

[Qadi @Bigqadi]

A Black man literally invented the game cartridge & another one made downloading games possible . Woah

[Brother Legend @BigBroLGND]

When I say it Black leftists get mad so Ima let her tell yall👇🏾

[Celestara @celestaracosmos]

One of the most underrated skills you can learn is the ability to ignore your mood and stick with the plan.

[Je suis Fatty-Gay @JustCall_MeJo]

Whenever y'all start talking about the ills of sex positivity I shut up. Bc if not for me falling into a sex positive rabbit hole in my early-mid 20s I'd still be trying to convince myself that there was something wrong with me for not wanting sex. I do not think y'all have an

[⚢reign @r31gnn]

how the fuck do you people not see these are concentration camps???

[lovedarksoul @lovedarksoul]

The origin of an iconic meme

[Ichigo Niggasake @SomaKazima2]

Since y'all don't like to listen to us, listen to one of your own 😭😭😭

[trappy-chan @trappychan]

🚨How to recognize a False Flag operation vs a real military action taken by a nation:

- Clear Objective: Demands and negotiations are a necessary part of military action from day 1, even if they are false (Israel's false negotiations towards Gaza)

- Continuity: False Flags are one or few isolated events with no continuity. An isolated t*rrorist attack is not a military action taken by another nation, unless they immediately achieve a demand or clear objective (US t*rrorist attack against Venezuela in 2025).

🚨WARNING: "Anarchist"-like or "ISIS"-like demands are not Clear Objectives. General claims of demands for whatever "rapture" that would spawn from a single or few isolated events (i.e. a "manifesto"), or general demands for "revenge" (with no actual continuous warfare and no material demands to "win the war" other than some fantasy scenarios), does NOT qualify as a Clear Objective in the real world. These are crafted to misguide you and make you *think* there is legitimacy to the False Flag operation. No nation takes military action based on

🚨 Importantly: The nation responsible for the military actions will not only take direct responsibility for the operations, but will immediately put their Clear Objective on the table for negotiation. Keep in mind that merely "taking responsibility" is not enough, a Clear Objective must exist and negotiations must happen - as entire military groups can be created and funded with the mere goal of crafting False Flag operations (thus they lack Clear Objectives and real Continuity).

🚨 Do NOT FALL for the lie about nations secretly doing military actions but not taking responsibility for them. This is commonly done by the USA and Israel during covert t*rrorist operations, but these still possess the two characteristics of Clear Objective and Continuity.

[yammi @sighyam]

Hi. Thai here.

Almost nobody in Thailand uses the term “ladyboy” when discussing trans identity in Thai. The word is an orientalist construction and is a Western projection that exists only within English speaking contexts.

What these viral misinformed takes always leave out is that trans women in Thailand use feminine language in the exact same way cis women do, and they are addressed as women by almost everyone whether they are conservatives, men, women, children, monks etc.

Unlike Indonesia, very few people in Thailand spend time policing other people’s use of language, which restrooms they use and how they choose to live their lives.

These hot takes from people stems from one thing: the fact that most of you have never actually known a trans person, listened to a trans person, or opened your hearts to one in real life.

And you certainly don’t understand how Thai language functions either. In Thailand this is almost unthinkable as Trans people are normalised members of society.

You can’t avoid trans people in Thailand because they don’t need to hide. If their family doesn’t accept them, they still have friends and the larger Thai community to lean on.

They are doctors, nurses, business owners, entertainers, teachers, service workers, creatives, athletes, and more. While you’re all busy debating bathroom politics and indulging in religious and political hysteria, the world keeps turning in Thailand lol

I see this discourse often and it really does expose how colonial language hierarchies erase the nuance of non-Western gender systems - systems that, while imperfect and still evolving, have long recognised identities beyond the narrow Western binary and flatten them into stereotypes for global consumption.

I’ve said this before but social media algorithms amplify English-language content to the rest of the world while Thai opinions remain trapped within Thailand’s content ecosystem. That asymmetry is exactly why so many of you speak about Thais instead of with Thais and it’s why your understanding of Thai trans identity will always sound like a mistranslation.

[Melville Collins @Tellmell12]

@springbris People hate mixed people. It really is that simple. I've been in rooms with people who seem perfectly sane. The topic of multi-racial people comes up and gone are well thought out responses, replaced with dismissive, knee-jerk, incredibly racist reactions.

[inqilāb @tastefullysaucy]

See how he backed down when a man stepped in? Fighting grown men was never part of his training.

[Muting/Blocking = Self Care @QueeringPsych]

Here:

https://t.co/cZxA2Unbip

[Melville Collins @Tellmell12]

All the nerds coping about Baldur's gate 3 crushing spider-man 2 by reminiscing about last years game awards are hilariously pitiful.

[SIR @SIRArtwork]

yeah...