I guess I live here now

A, he/him, trans, late-twenties, anarcho-syndicalist

[galileosballs]

"Why is it a problem if students use AI to get through college"

Because if you demonstrate to me that you're willing to set aside concern for truth, evidence, and verifying things with your own eyes whenever it happens to be inconvenient for you, I have a solemn responsibility to make sure you don't get into medical school.

[galileosballs]

"oh, but this course is just a distribution requirement, it's not for my major"

Does saying things that are true and that you know are true only matter when someone is giving you a little prize for it?

[galileosballs]

Tumblr doesn't like to do this kind of ethics, so I have to phrase this carefully, but it's a question of character. And a person's character is clearest when they're being asked to do the right thing even when it doesn't matter to them.

I don't want to live in a world in which doctors and lawyers and politicians just ignore the responsibility to research and verify when it's inconvenient for them. When they're busy. When they have something they'd rather be doing. The world I live in is already too full of those people in positions of power. I'll be damned if I let there be more of them.

[galileosballs]

Some of the responses to this have been, in essence, "well, it's not our fault for being raised in a bad educational system that prioritizes grades over comprehension". And you're right, it's not your fault.

But you freely admit the system is bad. That it values the wrong things.

So why do you limit yourself to only achieving what it values? Do you not aspire to be better than a system you know is wrong? Don't you want to change the world?

[feotakahari]

An analogy: suppose you’re a retail worker. When you’re not busy, you can stand or sit. The customers don’t care if you sit, and you’re not doing any particular harm by sitting, but you’ll be fired if the manager catches you. By sitting for a minute when the manager isn’t looking, you’re not doing anything immoral, just risky.

By the same token, by not spending hours on bullshit homework that doesn’t teach anything or show anything, all you’re doing is risking getting drummed out of school. I don’t pass moral judgment on that. You can’t ChatGPT your way through tests that actually check whether you know things.

Before the obligatory “you’re just saying this because you want to cheat”: I didn’t know how to cheat when I was in school. I just happened to be good at generating useless bullshit, and I refuse to place myself on some kind of pedestal for that.

[galileosballs]

It's not hard to pinpoint exactly where this analogy breaks down: it's at the 'bullshit homework that doesn't teach anything or show anything' part. Maybe you could make the case that some homework in elementary school is like that, but I guarantee you that no homework in university is like that. University professors aren't giving homework for no reason. Someone has to grade it, after all, and that someone is usually. We're not wasting our own time for no reason.

If you think the work you are being assigned in a university course is pointless, that means that you have not understood the point of it. It will be easier to do the assignment (and get the benefits of doing so) if you understand what the point of it is. I recommend going to your professor's (or TA's) office hours to ask (nicely) for an explanation of what the assignment in question is designed to achieve. I promise, we think long and hard about this before we design an assignment. There is an answer to that question.

But if you just assume that anything you don't feel like doing must be pointless busywork without ever checking, then, well...

[genderkoolaid]

Transmasc Health & Wellbeing (2022 USTS)

Here's some data from the 2022 United States Trans Survey Health & Wellbeing Report relevant to trans men & nonbinary people assigned female. This is the study's way of dividing the data, not mine. I included race & disability where they also provided that data. This is just the data relevant to transmascs that I found in a cursory look-through, I recommend people go to the actual report to see the data for themselves.

Trans men (32%) and nonbinary individuals assigned female at birth (AFAB) (24%) were the most likely to avoid care due to mistreatment concerns. American Indian/Alaska Native respondents (32%) and Middle Eastern/North African respondents (37%) reported the highest shares of avoiding care.

Nonbinary AFAB people and trans men reported the greatest proportions of negative experiences with healthcare providers (55% and 53%, respectively). Respondents with disabilities also had higher rates of negative experiences, compared to those without a disability (58% vs. 41%, respectively).

Among gender categories, trans men and AFAB nonbinary individuals showed the poorest self-reported health (64% and 58%, respectively).

Trans men and AFAB nonbinary people show the highest burden with 31% and 34%, respectively, reporting that they did not see a healthcare provider because of cost. Cost was disproportionately a prohibitive factor for Multiracial (34%), American Indians/ Alaska Native (33%), and Latine respondents (32%).

In 2022, AFAB nonbinary respondents and trans men faced the highest shares of hormone therapy denials at 14% and 13%, respectively. Trans women (21%) and trans men (19%) reported the highest shares of transition-related surgery denials.

While transgender men and AFAB nonbinary individuals often seek similar forms of care, nonbinary individuals experience a larger gap between desiring a procedure and receiving it, possibly due to systemic barriers or variations in how medical providers approach nonbinary transition-related care.

[mysharona1987]

[bellybuttonblue2]

[anexperimentallife]

The best way to fight climate change is to destroy capitalism.

[spooniestrong]

Don’t believe that you are responsible for this. They just want to pass the buck.

[asterosian]

an example of transandrophobia i need people to be screaming from the rooftops about

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-detention-louisiana-transgender-detainees-abuse-complaint-10483607

Trans men and Transmasculine detainees kidnapped by ICE have been and are still being put in Forced Labor Programs, sexually assaulted, harassed, denied medical care, beaten and locked in solitary confinement, and all the other fucked up shit they‘re doing in these camps.

The specific warden mentioned here was intentionally targeting Trans men and Transmasculine people, along with anyone “presenting masc.“

“If this person complained about the abusive conditions or even when people asked for personal protective gear or equipment when working with dangerous chemicals, the response was always, ‘If you wanna be a man, I'll treat you like a man’, or ‘aren't you strong enough? Aren't you a man’,” Decker said. “So clearly there was something more diabolical going on.”

“Decker said that RFK Human Rights, the ACLU, and the National Immigration Project do not think these four detainees are alone. The organizations said they believe sexual abuse and misconduct is pervasive across ICE facilities, particularly those which are designed to house women.“

“There's a really intense and disturbing paper trail of ICE’s knowledge of what was happening in this facility,” she said. “This was not just one assistant warden who went off the rails and acted abusively. This is part of a system of neglect and abuse. And what this tells me is that there's even more going on behind the scenes that we're not yet aware of.”

I‘m not going to copy-paste the entire article and I’m sure there‘s more but I can’t stomach it. This was from 2023 continuing to 2025. This is still happening. This is confirmed by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the ACLU and the National Immigration Project at the very fucking least.

Anyone who disagrees with or tries to deny the fact that Trans men and Transmasculine people are being thrown into women‘s facilities and then targeted and treated uniquely like shit FOR BEING TRANS MEN AND TRANSMASCULINE is more ideologically in line with ICE and DHS than you are with fucking transfeminism. (if you claim i’m using TMOC as some kind of rhetorical device here, especially if you are white, you are racist. End of.)

Please share and talk about this everywhere. We‘re already so invisible and they’re already dissapearing (via “lost/untracked records”) people from these camps. I‘m terrified for all of my brothers. I’m terrified for my siblings. These are just four surviving people out of who knows how many, and just four lucky enough who could get some kind of real help. I don‘t want to hear shit from another white woman about how the “TMES” are coddled and fascists roll out the red carpet for the “theyfabs”. Since 2023. Absolutely sickening

This is horrific. I have no words.

[labcorphehe-deactivated20260118]

person i work with says his wife allows him 1 diet coke a day

[rebbellsinchad]

I feel bad for him

[labcorphehe-deactivated20260118]

i do not he’s cool and loves his wife

[powerburial]

while this may appear to be a case of a domineering wife controlling a weak man, it actually represents a mutual interplay of fantasy and control. the wife does not and cannot really control the amount of diet coke the man drinks in a day. if he wanted to drink more, she very likely would be unable to physically restrain him in order to stop him from doing so (picture this in your head NOW). what is likely happening, is that the man himself does not want to drink more than one diet coke per day. he has a short-term desire to drink an infinite amount of diet coke, which he has little control over. he idealizes himself as a man who can control how much diet coke that he drinks, and the distance between his idealized self and his current self generates psychic tension. by externalizing the locus of control to his wife, he frees himself from his own judgment and expectations, and releases himself from the burden of self-imposed restraint. he offers the control to his wife, like a gift, and she gladly accepts. she enjoys the fantasy of having control over his diet coke habits, and he enjoys the relief the externalized locus of control brings to him. this represents a mutual dynamic in which both parties are healthy and happy, and neither party is truly controlling the other. in addition to that, I'm gay.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

TIL the reason you don’t find much Lyme’s Disease in California is not because we don’t have Ticks, or Lyme Disease Vectors; but rather: because the Western Fence Lizard (if you live anywhere in California this is your regular Garden Variety Lizard) has adapted a passive immune response that makes their blood lethal to Lyme Disease Bacteria. Any Tick that feeds on one gets its gut cleansed of Lyme Disease as a side effect.

Fucking neat.

[iheartvelma]

There is a new vaccine going into Phase 3 trials from Valneva and Pfizer as well as a monoclonal antibody-based prophylactic treatment being researched at UMass!

[dragon-in-a-fez]

"the only cure for this weird disease is the special lizard blood" is a Star Trek TOS plot that escaped into the real world

[byjove]

I hate anti-vaxers now. Actively loathe them. There was a time where I had a modicum of empathy and understanding for people being distrustful of the medical establishment, even though every study has shown that vaccines are safe and effective and beneficial, I know some wounds are hard to heal. Now? If you’re seeing the people regurgitating anti-vaccine misinformation and witnessing their agendas, reading the news reports of diseases that were nearly eradicated coming back to kill children again, hearing the distress and fear from medical professionals and parents of immunocompromised children and still saying “Hmm. Fuck you.” and deciding not to vaccinate your children and yourself, there is no excuse for you. You’d like to see me dead. I’m not tiptoeing around you. You’re a horrible person and a terrible parent.

[orcbara]

i know most leftists agree that everybody should have a right to food, water, shelter, and healthcare but i think a vitally important fifth pillar is privacy. people should not be compelled to be tracked, monitored, or to share personal space with others to access their other essential rights

[kiranatrix]

Illustration of Satan (Devilman) by Takeshi Obata. This drawing was included in the art book ‘Illustrations of Devilman’ published in 1999 by Kodansha, as part of an event that began in 1996 to honor Devilman creator Go Nagai. Famous illustrators and artists were invited to submit fan art of Devilman and this was Obata’s submission [press link in the source]. Of note, Obata says in How to Read that the design of L from Death Note was partially inspired by Akira Fudou in Devilman, particularly L’s eye bags.

[real-life-cephalopod]

@aceofenbies

[thanatos-girl]

Tbh i think the disabling nature of a lot of work is sort of criminally overlooked by a lot of otherwise excellent labor analysts

[thanatos-girl]

Like im a janitor, I clean all day, and at 23 I am developing serious upper back pain that is echoed in my older coworkers ten-fold. It's a job that demands you to be up and moving constantly and often bent over or scrubbing something. We (janitors) have much higher rates of back, joint, and muscle problems and injuries compared to the population average, as well as significantly higher rates of sickness and chronic illness. It's a job that literally destroys your body.

But whenever people talk about my profession, it seems like their main concerns are the (accurate) ideas that the labor we do is wildly devalued and invisibilized and that it is a gross and thankless job to clean up after others. While this is a major aspect of the work I do I feel like it undercuts the serious physical toll of the work itself and the ways that impacts our ability to experience life out of the workplace.

[thanatos-girl]

Obviously this doesn't just apply to janitorial work, and tbh its perhaps an issue of imp-core labor and its failures to understand itself given that the most dangerous jobs with the most disabling effects have largely been outsourced to the periphery at this point, creating a sort of buffer for the modern imp-core worker where the largest problem with most jobs truly isnt the literal material effects of the work upon the worker

[troublepunk-ldn]

the assisted dying debate is so crazy

because i do fundamentally believe everyone should have the right to die when they want.

BUT if they legalise assisted suicide in the UK right now i don't trust our ableist fucking government to not just start coercing disabled people into suicide to save money. they already won't give them enough money to live.

[troublepunk-ldn]

you can't make a free, genuine choice about the time and manner of your death until you have the right to live, as independently as possible and with all your needs met.

this is also true of people who commit regular old unassisted suicide because they can't transition, because of harassment or discrimination, because they can't keep a job or don't make enough money to live. it's government murder by proxy.

[idratherhavefreedom]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[covid-safer-hotties]

[chase-solidago]

i have become radicalized as a pawpaw agent, pollinate a flower or two on your local tree!

More isolated, further north = less likely to be self-pollinated. You need different genetics around and enough awake pollinators to make sure you get fall fruit, so lend a helping hand

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

Something I've been rotating in my mind is the concept of bodily autonomy and how constrained it is in our current world.

This isn't fully thought out yet, but I'm trying to imagine what a society that actually prioritized bodily autonomy would look like, and I think there are a lot of basic rights that are essential for true bodily autonomy.

For example:

the right to eat when, how, how much, and (within reason/what's sustainable obvs) what and where we choose. (To truly have this right, people should not be starved for any reason, including things like "not being useful enough to rich people" or "being under siege from a genocidal state" or even "pissing off a person with near-absolute power over you, as a child or anyone else" or "being fat")

the right to access to sustainable clean water for drinking, cooking, bathing and cleaning

the right to be safe from physical violence or damage from environmental hazards in all aspects of life

the right to freedom from systemic and interpersonal discrimination and abuse

the right to safely leave housing/social situations and relationships you do not want to continue in, without losing other forms of bodily autonomy. This imo should include children; we should provide them safe and supportive places to stay if they wish to temporarily or permanently live apart from people they live with. They should not have to prove their reasons are good enough; not wanting to live there or interact with specific others should be sufficient.

the right to sleep! Both in terms of safety and quality of sleep; you should be unharassed if sleeping in public, but should also always have an option that is as comfortable for you as we as a society can reasonably provide. Lack of sleep or poor-quality sleep especially over the long term does significant damage to the body!

the right to communicate with people who also wish to communicate with you; being deprived of communication is imo a significant form of harm in many current forms of incarceration. This also includes alternative forms of communication that people want for any reason; you shouldn't have to prove you can't communicate in any other way before you get access to AAC.

the right to control your own reproduction and sexuality, including the right to sex between consenting adults and to pregnancy prevention and/or support (as is sustainable for the society to provide)

the right to accurate and respectful education and information about your own body and how it works, including about potential medical treatments, in a medium that you can understand and have your questions answered

the right to patient-led supportive medical care not just to cure, prevent, or treat illness, but to improve quality of life

the right to accommodations and supports, not just to make it possible to work or to minimize labor needed from others, but to improve quality of life

the right to basic privacy

the right to determine what would improve your own quality of life for yourself!

Obviously very many people are deprived of these basic forms of bodily autonomy in our current world. Many people choose to die who likely would not want to die if they were not being effectively tortured by constant denial of bodily autonomy.

When we imagine what kind of world we will work together to build, I truly believe providing this basic level of control over one's own body should be a central goal. We should aspire to safety and autonomy for everyone.

Euthanasia is being treated in many places as a shortcut to avoid having to provide people with the above forms of basic autonomy. You should have the right to end your life, yes, but how meaningful is it without first having the right to actually live?

[peekofhistory]

AHH!! Quickly!! The artefacts have escaped the museum!! 😘😘 This video is adorable :D

These ladies are wearing Tang Dynasty hanfu, the famous "golden age" of Chinese history. Artefacts show that aesthetics during this dynasty favored fuller shaped women, if you've ever seen the figures from the museums these ladies look like exact replicas :D

Video src: 包意凡 【博物馆闭馆时间到，我俩要粗去玩！】 https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1iJ4m1K7Mq/

[stevviefox]

This is gorgeous. Paintings and figurines are helpful but seeing the clothes being worn and IN THE SUNSHINE!!

The fabric is glorious and you see the drape of the cloth during movement.

Fine, I think every museum needs a ten of people to walk around wearing replicas of clothes. This would be amazing for kids on school trips.

I mean Every museum, too!