Have Some Thoughts

This is all just random stuff. (she/her, 25+)

[quakerjoe]

[animentality]

[wordfather]

idk if this is an usamerican thing or not but it always blows my mind as a small european country resident that yall have many names and types of apples???? what do you mean its not just red yellow or green??? why is it so complicated??? who is granny smith????

[wordfather]

'whats your favorite apple' 'red' 'no i mean like what type' '??????' actual conversatiom i've had with a mutual from usa

[wordfather]

THIRTY TWO??????

[phillyphillyphilly]

Listen that doesn’t even account for all the weird shit local farmers are getting up to.

May I present the best apple:

[wordfather]

the world is so big and beautiful

[beardedmrbean]

[depsidase]

[unicorncryptid]

"my life isn't a crime, I'm not one of those people -"

"you sure? new parameters for Those People just dropped. check again."

[lizardywizard]

And if you truly cannot imagine this, if you're convinced that it will never happen to you, consider this one thing.

Would you want scammers to know the state of your loved one's dementia?

[headspace-hotel]

Oh. Shit.

[stephanisoejono]

happy new year -------------_--------------------

[calamity-aims]

[danielkahndyke]

the op linked the study in the replies & i’ve been skimming it & it’s actually rlly rlly interesting to think abt

https://e1.nmcdn.io/assets/pushkin/wp-content/uploads/imported-files/Wait-theres-torture-in-Zootopia_-Examining-the-prevalence-of-torture-in-popular-movies.pdf

[danielkahndyke]

like this sentence from the introduction alone is fucking crazy. “approximately half of adults in the united states think that torture can be acceptable in counterterrorism.” what!

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

[do-you-have-a-flag]

one of THE scariest comedy videos i've ever seen about to hit a milestone

[preserving-tiktok]

[hugintheraven]

I say this every time, but people Do Not Realize just how short the timeline has been on gay people in kids’ media. And it’s an ongoing fight, but this was 10 - 15 years ago.

[casuallyodd]

I'm not in the Steven Universe fandom. I don't really even know the show. But the story she's telling here is important to remember. What feels like small snippets of representation took a lot of fighting to get and it wasn't as long ago as you think.

[proteusolm]

Crazy to think that seagulls existed before french fries.

[bluebandedagate-reblogs]

Medieval seagull struggling to fly away with an entire purloined potatoe

[ryebreadgf]

my dad is very intensely involved a battle with his city’s public administration over a playground they have tried to forcibly remove like five times in the past 20 years and DID remove once in like 2005 but then had to rebuild because my dad was such a pain in their asses and came through with undeniable receipts of the zoning plan from the 60s/the historic/cultural value of the urban planning…. like there’s a woman in the city office who is his arch nemesis. he is literally the daredevil of urban planning

[ryebreadgf]

everyone in the tags needs to stop saying they want to fuck my dad.

[dogpuppy]

[squirrelly-13]

they got married btw

[visit-me-here-in-wonderland]

oh you’re not kidding

[queer-cosette]

"Oh knowing too much about World War II is a red flag" hey I'm begging some of you guys to forget TikTok therapy speak for a moment and go watch a documentary about the politics in the lead-up to WWII. Go watch a documentary about the implementation of the Holocaust. Go watch a documentary about European resistance movements in occupied countries. Hell, go watch an episode of Drain The Oceans that focuses on WWII shipwrecks. You NEED to know how Fascists get into power and what they will do after that happens.

[queer-cosette]

#theres a very particular subset of knowledge about. well any war really#where theyre too busy worshipping the death machine advancements to discuss the actual human lives#(most military aircraft museums ive been to fall into this category)#but the social aspects? the human shit? thats so important to know#you can think tanks are cool. because tbh in a vacuum theyre kinda neat. but if you open with that i will be prying into your sociology

@meraxes-of-new-albion peer reviewing your tags because yeah you get it.

I think part of the problem is also that people hear 'WWII history knowledge' and immediately associate it with the 'worshipping-the-death-machine-advancements' branch of irritating history buffs, but if you write off all WWII history like that, you'll miss things like how Fascism smooths over power hierarchy disagreements by constantly pushing the 'remember, it's us against them' line. You'll miss resistance stories of Dutch schoolgirls luring Nazis into the woods to a waiting anti-fascist with a gun or of Norwegian freedom fighters sabotaging the Nazi nuclear programme or of Allied planes that survived direct hits to the fuel tank because Czech slaves made empty shells with no explosives inside. You'll write off the ghastly things done in concentration camps as horror stories from another time and not recognise them as Real Things done to Real People that were justified on the grounds of pure vitriolic hatred and allowed to continue by others' sheer apathy. And you will not know how to recognise it when it begins building momentum in your own country.

The Fascists want you to be apathetic. They want you to shut off your ears and look the other way. They want you to be so removed from the idea of Fascism beyond a red swastika armband on a 1940s soldier that they can roll out their hateful regime stealthily while you only protest the flashy meant-to-be-offensive parts.

Learn what it looks like and what it intends to do. Don't let your annoyance at that one Operation Sealion buff you met on, like, fuckin' Tinder blind you to the realities of how Fascism actually operates.

[queer-cosette]

Bringing this post back to recommend a 10-part documentary on Netflix for anyone who hasn't seen it - it's called "Hitler's Circle Of Evil" and the reason I think you should watch it is because it dives deep into the political workings of the inner circle of the third reich, but also it will make you realise that the nazis were human. They were all human. And that's important, because we need to remember that the evil they committed is not something beyond any of us. We cannot 'other' evil, because if we do, we will not know how to fight it within ourselves.

You will find yourselves taking sides in fights between Goebbels and Göring. And then you will remember "oh, right, you might be human, but you're also fucking evil".

The two are not mutually exclusive.

[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

[vacuously-true]

Researchers can do studies that track disparate impacts across genders just fine without the government storing your assigned sex as part of your legal identity. They do this with race and orientation and disability and so on just fine.

A census can understand population level trends just fine without storing your assigned sex as part of your legal identity. They can ask for this information in the census. The census tracking population level data is not the same as your assigned sex being permanently part of your legal identity. (At least, the way my country does a census.)

Your doctor can know your anatomy by you communicating it to them if/when it is relevant. There is never a time when they might need to know something that could only be conveyed by your assigned sex being officially relayed to them via government documentation. You can just use your words. The same way you tell your doctor any other part of your medical history.

People respond to "the government doesn't need to store your assigned sex as part of your legal identity" as if they are hearing "no one should ever acknowledge gender or sex at all" but that's not what's being said.

Your birth certificate conveys important legal information about you. Your name, as a designation. Your parents, as they have a legal obligation to you. Your place of birth, as that place has a legal obligation to you. Date and time of birth, since age is important for application of some laws.

And sex. That's on there too. But what is the legal relevance? What laws is the government going to apply to you differently based on what sex is on your birth certificate? I can only think of one thing my government really uses that for, and that is to determine who has to sign up for the draft. And guess what, fuck that shit anyway. The government also used to use this to decide who is allowed to marry who. They don't do that anymore. For now.

There is literally no reason my assigned sex needs to be part of my legal identity. My government is not using that for anything (important). It doesn't matter. If the gender markers on everyone's IDs vanished tomorrow nothing (except maybe the draft) would be significantly negatively affected. Data collection for research could continue as usual since researchers usually have people self report these characteristics rather than checking their government IDs. My doctors would still know which organs I have and if they forgot, I could tell them. I don't want anything to be part of my legal identity that doesn't have to be.

[puppygirllaika]

so. i just learned that my entirely me-written resume flags as being AI-written by automated HR systems for a few writing quirks and the fact that i followed all the rules of good resume writing, which is apparently a telltale sign of AI use in this fucking hellworld. i've been desperately applying to jobs that i am massively overqualified for for months with no response, not even an interview, and now i find out that at least part of the reason is because some fucking moron decided that following the rules every career advisor has given me for a decade means i cheated and should be disqualified. the ai bubble cannot pop soon enough. what the actual fuck.

[puppygirllaika]

"frequent use of action-result sentences. bullet points all start with action verbs. no career gaps." girl what the fuck are you talking about. that's just resume writing advice being followed. i just did what i was told. it's a fucking resume. you're supposed to do all that stuff. what the fuck do you mean it looks ai generated and wouldn't pass basic detection systems?????????? for following the resume writing rules????????????

[puppygirllaika]

wishing every AI bro and ceo a very [REDACTED]

[h0lyshift]

The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because they’re hiding something, but because being constantly perceived starts to feel spiritually exhausting.

[spicyvampire]

Do you think I can make instant ramen in Tomato soup

[spicyvampire]

That's not a no

[spicyvampire]

Just got home, didn't even take off my work clothes before assembling the ingredients. Unfortunately i don't have bell peppers but nothing will stop me. Let's get to work

[solaarflaree]

I AM BEGGING YOU TO NOT DO THIS!

With tears in my eyes actually.

No. No no. Hard no that's heavy enough to break several scales.

[spicyvampire]

Butter, 8 cloves of garlic, 2 yellow oignons, leftover bell peppers found in the fridge, tomato paste cuz me likey, 2 and half tomatoes, seasonings, now we wait 20 mins

[spicyvampire]

I'm aware of the existence of spaghettios but I've never had the please of making them myself. Glad I could invent some out of my beautiful mind. Anyways stuff blended, cooking the ramen separately as the tomato soup is a lot, will check back during the assembly in the separate pot

[solaarflaree]

JUST EAT THEM SEPARATELY! NO NEED TO COMBINE THEM!

[spicyvampire]

She has been assembled, yes there is ramen juice & seasoning in there, and yes I let it boiled enough to combine. BTW i know you were wondering so I'll say it, the reason why the ramen juice was a little orange to begin with is cuz there was tomatoes soup juice in there as I use the same spoon for it all, even if i broke the noodles with the fork. Now we plate

[spicyvampire]

Solar this is like the best thing I've ever made, it's so fucking good. Not gonna put my face on here but my eyes are rolling to the back of my head, Im burning my mouth eating too fast, i'm literally a genius