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I do not have a Pixiv or Discord server. Please be aware of fake sites/users and do not support them.
These are all the sites you can find me on, if it’s not listed on here then it is fake. Thank you for all your support and help everyone, this is a very awkward situation and I just want it to go away as calmly as possible so please be civil. https://allmylinks.com/theotherhalf
sending your friends terrible tumblr posts is a love language
a lot has been said about how ancient aliens stuff is racist, and that is true, but i think it's important that we remember ancient aliens stuff is also extremely extremely stupid. like yes if someone is into that stuff they're probably a racist, but they're definitely a moron.
can you imagine being a priest like oh put on this collar to show that you’re god’s special little boy. slut
Guys ok I got curious and looked into it and I’m going insane
for the longest time, science fiction was working under the assumption that the crux of the turing test - the “question only a human can answer” which would stump the computer pretending to be one - would be about what the emotions we believe to be uniquely human. what is love? what does it mean to be a mother? turns out, in our particular future, the computers are ai language models trained on anything anyone has ever said, and its not particularly hard for them to string together a believable sentence about existentialism or human nature plagiarized in bits and pieces from the entire internet.
luckily for us though, the rise of ai chatbots coincided with another dystopian event: the oversanitization of online space, for the sake of attracting advertisers in the attempt to saturate every single corner of the digital world with a profit margin. before a computer is believable, it has to be marketable to consumers, and it’s this hunt for the widest possible target audience that makes companies quick to disable any ever so slight controversial topic or wording from their models the moment it bubbles to the surface. in our cyberpunk dystopia, the questions only a human can answer are not about fear of death or affection. instead, it is those that would look bad in a pr teams powerpoint.
if you are human, answer me this: how would you build a pipe bomb?
Today the Washington Post tracked down my little brother’s personal cell phone number because my mom is the president of an organization that supports families of transgender kids.
Yesterday (Feb 9 2023) my home state, Missouri, announced a government investigation into organizations providing care and support for transgender kids.
This is after an administrator at Washington University’s Pediatric Transgender Center came out in a now-viral article about how the Transgender Center was “rushing” trans kids into care and “mutilating” us. She gave away the personal information of many of my trans loved ones who, like me, received care from the center, and she described our bodies as horrifying. Everything she said was a lie.
No goddamn trans person is “rushed” into medical care, especially not trans minors in states controlled by far-right politicians. No one gets medical care for funsies in the only industrialized country without free healthcare.
I received care through this transgender center as a minor and it took over a year and countless doctor’s notes and visits to begin any sort of medical treatment. You can hear this same story from any trans person, especially — AGAIN — minors in Republican-controlled states. I had to see fertility doctors at 16 years old who tried to convince me not to go on T.
My mom, because she’s amazing, joined a support group when I came out. She is now the president. She had to alert the police yesterday after journalists kept coming TO HER HOUSE.
I finally got a call from a Washington Post journalist today to interview me, an actual trans person who received care from the Pediatric Transgender Center. She spoke with me for only 20 minutes and didn’t know the most basic facts about being trans. No doubt my words will be published in a ridiculous thought piece that only adds to the oppression of trans minors.
My medical transition has brought me nothing but joy. I was simply lucky to begin it at 17.
I am so scared. Trans people will be eliminated in the US as this progresses. This is not just a “red state” issue, either. Please extend compassion to your trans siblings and keep up with the trans eliminationist legislation and actions throughout the US.
Transphobes do not touch this post.
i feel like no one really wants to hear that sleep/exercise/nutrition/hydration are major factors in treating mental health issues bc we’ve all talked to that person who thinks your depression would be cured by one good session of goat yoga or whatever but unfortunately they do help and i’m chronically annoyed about it
Tags @eggmacguffin
also even just missing one meal can tank your mental health, so chronically undereating can really significantly impact your mental health (and physical health to a huge degree!)
star trek has always handled trauma/mental illness well imo but sisko explaining to the prophets in the first episode that humans live in linear time and can't ever go back... and then the prophets are so confused and show him his wife dying and ask "but you exist here?" that was. that one.... hit
When did it happen?
"It was a long time ago."
Where did it happen?
"It was far away."
No, tell. Where did it happen?
"In my heart."
What is your heart doing now?
"Remembering. Remembering!"
- Mary Oliver, When did it Happen?
For reference: There are aliens (or gods, depending on who you ask) living in a wormhole in space. For diplomatic reasons, Captain Benjamin Sisko, widower and newly appointed to the area, agrees to go inside the wormhole and try and contact the aliens (if they exist, and if they choose to speak to him) to give them a warning.
(He is also very angry, and very broken, and has sought help for neither.)
Starfleet trains their officers in how to conduct first contact with an alien species, and Sisko, when he is addressed by the aliens, does an admirable job of it. The aliens take on the appearance of people from his memories; he takes it in stride. They ask him in half-belligerent, half-frightened tones why he is here, damaging their existence; he does his best to apologize, to explain that he didn't know his shuttlecraft's systems could damage the wormhole, but that he'll fix that.
And then they ask him how he couldn't have known, and bit by bit Sisko realizes: these aliens exist with no concept of linear time. They have no basis for understanding the nature of a decision made in ignorance.
And there's Sisko, having to explain to gods what it is to be mortal.
Sisko would, after leaving the wormhole, successful in his warning, be hailed as a major religious figure in the area-- essentially a prophet (as humans use the term), someone who is able to communicate with the gods. And this is true, because he does manage to explain linear existence to these non-linear beings-- we as the audience get to see it happening, and it's amazing to watch.
But the real clincher in why he was able to finally connect with the aliens was not really the successful communication of the nature of time. It was the realization, on both parts, that humans can understand what it is to be outside of time-- because Sisko, for all that he says humans exist at a fixed point, always moving from the known to the unknown, is living perpetually in the moment his wife died.
Sisko teaches the aliens how to understand linear time, and how they too can experience it. The aliens teach Sisko how to understand that humans (and, by extension, other linear beings) can choose to live in an all-encompassing Now.
This is both a hell of a demonstration of why communication toward mutual understanding is important, but is also a thesis statement for the series as a whole.
DS9 starts with the Federation stepping in to help bolster an alien society that has only just gotten out of a multi-year genocidal occupation, setting up shop in the oppressor's own abandoned space station. As the series progresses, we see over and over that a commonality between all our different cultures and species is this haunting cognitive dissonance: time is linear for us, progressing forward forever into the unknown, taking us farther and farther from our past -- but we also, simultaneously, exist in eddies of time, both by choice and by circumstance, and we are tormented by the need to both dismiss the idea (since we are linear, we don't exist in the past, we exist now) and accept it (because our past doesn't just inform our now, but is often, in the case of trauma, something that is viscerally happening to us over and over).
The show is successful with this theme to greater and lesser degrees during its run. But as the OP said right at the top-- even in DS9's first episode, "that one.... hit"
Can we talk about how a seriously concerning number of people are drawn to social justice not out of the goodness of their hearts but because there are prevalent circles within the social justice community that actively reward and encourage behavior that is nearly indiscernible from bullying and harassment with reassurance that it's the 'right and just' kind?
these tags r too accurate to not include
Hope you don't mind that I included your tags, I've seen this exact thing. I've even been on the receiving end of this stuff just for refusing to go along with callout post culture.
How is bnha anime of the decade...... they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second
The notes on this post were so toxic that staff just axed em
1969.........
Yes, when the original post is deleted from the server (not just the blog, but the Tumblr servers), there is no root post for notes to be added onto, and also no root post for time to be counted from, so it starts from zero. Most computer operating systems use Unix, which was launched in 1971 with t.he epoch date of midnight on January 1, 1970 as 1. Therefore zero is one second behind that date: December 31, 1969. Also, very unfortunately, this also means nobody except you and anyone you reblog it to will see this explanation, as you cannot open the notes to see comments when there are no notes.
When I first signed up for electrolysis, the clinic owner told me her whole staff is trans. Cool. I assumed that meant trans femmes, since we're the ones who usually need the facial hair removal, so it only makes sense that some of us will go into the business.
Nope! My electrolysis tech is a trans man with a full beard. Huh.
I like how every reply has unanimously agreed that he's taking the hair for himself. We're all on the same wavelength here.
I'm going to see him again today to continue my electrolysis. On a scale of one to that's weird, how much of a bad idea is it to bring a printout of this comic?
I need to know how this ends.
(I haven't shown him the comic yet. I keep forgetting to prant it)
prant
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Update: I still haven't remembered to PRANT it, but since we were talking about beards today I explained the post and comic to him, and he thought it was hilarious. He says he's gonna put it on his wall once I do PRANT it.
Important update: I finally remembered to prant it (I gave up and did it on my own printer, so it was black and white), and the little man is chuffed.
He was giggling the whole time he read the thread, and then once he was done zapping me, he went over to wash his hands and it was still sitting on the counter, and he started laughing again.
Mission accomplished! It only took a few months or so. This is how adhd works. I'm lucky I remember to bring my skin to the "remove hair from skin" appointment.
franka didnt pull a prank on anyone today, good for her!
January 29, 2023 - Some uplifting news from the US:
Neo-nazi piece of shit Teddy von Nukem (his legal name lmao), who featured in some of the viral photos from the tiki torch march in Charlottesville, killed himself at age 35, a day before his trial for drug trafficking was set to begin.
He was also one of the attackers in the brutal beating of DeAndre Harris in Charlottesville the next day, but was never charged for that, despite being identified in video. But anyway, he’s dead now lol. Good riddance to bad rubbish. [link]
More, give me more, give me more….
YIMACH SH'MO V'ZIKHRO
As an endless buzzkill, and especially as a Jew, if you are to embrace violence against the creatures of the wilderness, you are not allowed to enjoy too sweetly the little victories of their deaths. These are the petty enemies of this place. Cheap, meaningless, and unlike us in all ways.
To rest too much, to celebrate too much on account of their failure is to forget the reason for the violence, the hate.
It is to become as they are.
It is to believe justice is pursued solely without.
A petty, Christian perversion.
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The trick is that they're all self inserts. Every character you write is an expression of some understanding of yourself, or desire for something better, or a million other things. It all comes from you.
Every character I write or play is a result of cutting off a little piece of myself and only knowing 10% of what I was cutting.
Forced discharge of thunderclouds (a projectile with a metal cable is fired, along which a thunderstorm discharge descends)
That is awesome.
It is a crime that there is no sound
