Lee

I make stuff. Props builder, scenic artist. Mad scientist & Igor all in one. Placated by coffee & common sense. Trans Masc Enby. They/them. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Ecstatic

[Covie @covie_93]

Notice how German police arrested people for plotting to overthrow the government *before* they actually tried it.

[Julia S. @booktweeting]

@ColMorrisDavis I mean, I still want him out of a Russian prison, but as you suggest, the “he was a Marine!” implication that that makes him more worthy than Ms. Griner is gross.

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

Mr. Whelan is not a retired Marine. He was court-martialed in 2008 for attempted larceny, false statements, dereliction of duty, and other offenses and received a bad conduct discharge from the Marine Corps.

https://t.co/eIaGlfIx0P

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

Not for sale.

[Gabe Ibrahim @gabe_ibrahim]

To go through what this family went through and then immediately commit to helping others takes an uncommon amount of compassion and courage.

[delaney vandergrift @delaneypv15]

not y’all pretending to care about arms dealers.

we live in the usa, babe. a war machine. the danger is here.

[Lee @IgorLetLoose]

Anyone saying tr*mp would have done more for Whelan forget that he had two years to do so, and that he also released a shit ton of taliban prisoners, threw Kurds and other alllies under the bus, and caped for dictators. Fuck entirely all the way off.

[big boy online @idonotbleed]

what if we kissed under the missile toad

[T.J. Quinn @TJQuinnESPN]

My abiding lesson from reporting on this for nine months: we don’t know what we don’t know. There may be elements to this deal—and any possible deal for Whelan—that are never made public.

[Lee @IgorLetLoose]

This. Some ppl were hard on the "do the crime do the time" bs when it was clear from the get-go that Griner was a political prisoner (of a country infamous for using complex doping in its national sports programs no less) and RU's metric was always about leverage, not guilt.

[Reimena Yee 🦇 @ reimenayee.com @reimenayee]

This Tumblr post sums up my feelings on N-F-Tees and A-I and this complete, cynical commodification and gamification of creating or engaging in art

[Lee @IgorLetLoose]

I fucking love that the cat has been blurred for protection as well.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Picture of the day in Ukraine

[Daniel Kwan @dunkwun]

The Freaky Friday reboot we never knew we wanted. (bonus points if done as a full-on musical)

[Lee @IgorLetLoose]

R's can fuck all the way off. Cry all the tears they want while fucking all the way off. Human rights are a thing. Personal religious freedoms end at the end of one's person. Pls to continue fucking all the way off while ruminating about this.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Holy shit. A Republican just started crying on the floor of Congress begging them to vote against protecting marriage equality.

[Lee @IgorLetLoose]

Crypto, NFTs, AI art & learning source programs dredging the internet while ppl also happily give them money, permissions & access. Don't take this shit (or the ppl behind it) for granted. It's not benign.

[Lee @IgorLetLoose]

This is a massive reason why AI shit can be so dangerously insidious. Who controls the production & promotion of it. Who is expolited & excluded. Never stop asking basic questions & shrugging in apathy at the latest tech innovations. They're often still about money & gatekeeping.

[El Norte Recuerda @Vanessid]

Do you know who Shudu is? I just found out—she’s the first AI model. She’s been “hired” across the industry which means her creators, white men, NOT a Black woman, are the ones paid. And companies get to say they ran Black content without having to work with or hire Black people.

[Lee @IgorLetLoose]

@MicahhParsons11 Disappointing to hear this from you. The work to release Whelan has not stopped. Releasing Griner is not somehow 'misplaced' nor should she be considered somehow "lesser." Could just as easily celebrated Griner's release while also hoping for Whelan's soon. It's not binary.

[Lee @IgorLetLoose]

This is a fantastic thread, and this part in particular should be at max volume & on repeat. It can never be said enough.

[Daniel Kwan @dunkwun]

A healthy industry requires a diverse range of films finding their own versions of success. Every list that deviates from the norm should be celebrated (unless they're shilling problematic shit hah)