Disc horse, innit?

[zmpl]

speaking of r slur shit i see people using the word then backtracking saying “i can reclaim it because i’m autistic :)” like i don’t think you can actually. because the r slur directly targets people with intellectual disabilities not someone who took the raads-r online and scored slightly within range of being on the spectrum SORRY

[zmpl]

there’s this concept of “aspie supremacy” where autistic people with overall lower support needs dominate conversations of neurodivergence and do not take into consideration that they have privilege over other disabled and neurodivergent people. yes you ARE autistic and no one can tell you otherwise because they are not in your brain but being autistic and having an intellectual disability are two different things.

[inzaltsiknyam]

@withasmoothroundstone (z''l), Mel Baggs, coined this term and in 2011 wrote "Aspie Supremacy Can Kill" on their WordPress, BallastExistenz. Mel was nonspeaking, experienced institutionalization, and was a prominent autism rights activist until they died in 2020, from neglect via lack of services. I recommend reading their writings on this.

[depsidase]

[displeasedwolf]

this is the vibe i bring to the party actually

[furryprovocateur]

crazy how every generative AI proponent has been mysteriously quiet about things like AI psychosis, observed cognitive atrophy through repeated generative AI use, use of generative AI chat programs to plan murder(s), and the exacerbation of suicidality via generative AI chat programs. like the best possible read of all this is that generative AI is an experimental technology that needs more guardrails and safeties before it should have been publicly available, and the worst is that it is a sham technology that has an increasing body count that silicon valley does not want to acknowledge because it will scare off investors (which it should).

"dangerous unverified new technology kills people" is not a new phenomenon by any means, but i can't think of a time when the causal relationship between it and suffering + death has been so clear-cut yet so widely denied. really makes you feel fucking insane.

[rslashrats]

ohhh did -slop really come from antisemetic 4chan conspiracy theories…

[rslashrats]

literally every online “meme” word is stolen aave or this shit huh

[blockiestone82]

Man I knew something felt off with the 'slop' thing

Why did I never post this? It's been in my drafts for a year apparently?

[sadhoc]

the pistachio food trend is soooo interesting because it's like. i've been following the californian pistachio water politics for years, as a californian with personal connections to agricultural workers but! basically there's been a big push in california agriculture over the last decade to pressure farmers to produce pistachios, because iran has dominated the global market in pistachios for decades, and the US government has been trying to weaken iran economically, so they want to make california pistachios a competitor. which is ridiculous, because california's agricultural infrastructure is suffering under a drought, and pistachios take insane amounts of water. so a ton of water is being redirected from the people in order to engage in a trade war with iran over fucking. pistachios.

anyway now that the US (i.e. california) is producing more pistachios than iran, the next step is to drive consumption of pistachios, so that the farmers who are producing these pistachios can continue to make money on them. ergo all the fancy pistachio coffees at starbucks and similar shit like suddenly being able to find pistachio butter in grocery stores when five years ago it was exclusively available at specialty stores and online, and the huge boom in pistachios foods in instagram and tiktok recipe content. like i watch a lot of instagram foodie reels (cooking/baking is one of my hobbies) and these get thrown onto everyone's feeds, to promote the purchasing of pistachios, so that the US can stick it to iran. it's. kind of incredible to watch this happen in real time, because it sounds like deranged conspiracy thought, but like. i've been watching this trend for the past decade and it's fucking real.

anyway one of the vegan recipe accounts i follow just posted like five pistachio-based recipes in a row and it makes me feel some kind of fucking way

[sadhoc]

it is extremely relevant that pistachios are so easy to acquire here, but acorns, which are an indigenous California food staple crop, are impossible to find even in the best stocked grocery stores, and knowing how to prepare them for consumption is a rarer skill than sourdough starter

[evilvampire]

Some more important context: Stewart and Lynda Resnick, the billionaire couple that owns the Wonderful Company (a California based food company that owns Wonderful Pistachios, POM and Fiji) has been donating to the IOF for years, directly funding… you guessed it, bombing Iran.

[vampire-loving-vampire]

why is ut always "being fat puts pressure on ur joints" but never "being skinny makes u more vulnerable to joint/bone injury" like lets be real im not playing this game with u where u get to pretend u know anything about medicine much less my personal case . u are going to have things happen to u and ur body no matter what size u are and pretending fat people are somehow the only people who can possibly sustain weight related injuries PISSES ME OFF . be fucking serious

[mousegirlheart]

people give me shit like "you wouldn't have such severely impaired mobility if you weren't so incredibly fat" like nice try fucker i lost my mobility when i was thin and fit and then i got fat when i could no longer walk, you know fuck all about me.

[gotinterest]

Gonna be honest a lot of people deep down view cheating as worse than abuse which is why so many people view downright controlling and manipulative behavior in a relationship as 100% permissible so long as that behavior is centered around either preventing or discovering cheating.

[joycomplexx]

by the way it's fine to like sexual content just for the sake of it. "we can't ban porn because other stuff will get banned" "sometimes nude art has value" "the government will classify queer people as sexual" this is all true but it's okay to just like porn. its okay to not want porn to be banned because you like it.

[orbitingrook]

[mousidy]

the state does not need to assign you a sex, nor does it need to keep inalterable record of it btw

[mousidy]

a very interesting terf objection to this one boils down to "but how would the state know who to protect?" because it speaks to the incredible privilege of being in a class the state actually ever remotely wants to protect. most oppressed groups do not want the state to have a registry of them, lol

[mousidy]

the patriarchy has done a great job convincing white cisgender women that it's in their best interests to maintain it

[mousidy]

[chilewithcarnage]

sorry gotta get my ‘friend that’s too woke’ on but I don’t think the solution to misogyny is more misogyny. like by all means rip into republican/right wing women but your critiques should be about how they’re evil soulless people not ‘haha they’re ugly/visibly aged. they don’t know how to put on make up!’ like i don’t fucking know man I don’t think any woman at all should be required to wear makeup or be made fun of for not wearing it ‘properly’ also let’s stop doing the ‘not conventionally attractive = morally bad’ thing. that last part especially be kicking y’all asses.

[chilewithcarnage]

this is the second case ive seen of a black child going missing and then found lynched, what the fuck is going on

[transsexual-feminism]

Today I wanted to talk about Kyle Bassinga. Kyle was a 21 year old man from Georgia, whose family described him as "a kind, thoughtful, and smart young man who loved nature, music, and the people around him". Kyle Bassinga was killed on February 18th 2026, just ten days after his birthday. He was found hanging from a tree in a park.

The police ruled it a suicide. The family and local community demanded an investigation. The police refused to change their ruling.

I know this website it too white for this to really go anywhere, but an understanding of the present reality of white supremacy in the United States is just so important to transfeminism here. Lynchings never stopped, white supremacy never went away, you just stopped looking.

[lizardsfromspace]

So as you can clearly see from this screencap of an in-joke with a friend when they were nineteen, you have no choice BUT to acknowledge this queer indie author is scum. Another addition to my spreadsheet of over a thousand problematic authors to NEVER platform or support

Anyway here's the next chapter of my Crowley/Marauders fic! A/N obligatory fuck JKR and Neil Gaiman tho </3

[tboy-cock]

the weird thing about being a leftist is the government calling you a radical extremist and your family believing that youre a radical extremist and the whole times your main political beliefs are shit like "we live in a world where we could very easily end world hunger, homelessness, most disease, poverty, ect. and the people in power are choosing not to, and thats evil and should change" and that bigotry is bad

[feldfrog]

[souplover13]

images: two tweets by stand-up comedian Benny Feldman.

the first picture shows a tweet:

"Don't police comedy" Well. I'm not going to arrest anyone. I'm not even trying to cancel anyone in the 2010s sense of having them lose their job. My goal for comedians who make regressive jokes is for them to change their minds. And for everyone to understand why jokes matter.

the second picture shows a quote retweet. twitter user ChoppedBeef says:

"All I want is for everyone to agree with me"

to which Benny Feldman's response is:

I would like everyone to be not racist instead of racist, yes

end image descriptions.

[souplover13]

benny feldman's the man who gave us 'it's just a joke dude. and the joke is just rooted in ideas. that i'm enforcing' and also 'it's just a joke dude. it's just one of the most digestible and powerful forms of persuasive rhetoric my guy'. he posts a lot of his one-liner sets online. he's a very good person to check on occasionally if you're interested in the philosophy of humour.

[jabberwockypie]

The problem with so many of these regressive, right-wing people is they view social censure as equivalent to an attack on them, personally.

If you say shit that's mean or racist or transphobic, some people will not like you! Some people may, in fact call you an asshole.

Freedom of speech is not freedom from social and economic consequences! Somebody calling you a dick and refusing to give you money is not the same as throwing you in a gulag.

You are not owed an audience and you are not owed access to people.

[manipulated-pieces]

What kills me What really fucking kills me is that I have seen that picture of Patrick Star with a full-on vaginoplasty situation, just pussy out visible, not marked mature not blurred nothing but recently on Tumblr desktop I have been shut out of viewing blogs of transgender women posting random innocuous bullshit. I cannot toggle mature content on because I have not forked over my ID. But Patrick Star pussy out flies by totally fine.

And this is not me trying to poo poo on the fun of Patrick Star pussy out. I think it's hilarious. I'm just really upset that I can't look at {trans-girl}'s blog where she posts her gunpla and book reviews because she's been moderated. It's just really stark how every day another blog gets termed in front of me, as i'm scrolling through it or i'm just prevented from viewing by lopsided moderation. It's fucked up because that's what patrick star pussy out represents to me at this point. I see him and I get angry and it's not even his fault. I'm not yelling at you Patrick