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So, trying out a new pet-name, I decided to call my wife “Vanilla Bean”– just giving it a go because vanilla is my favorite flavor and beans are cute and she’s my favorite and also cute.

Now, apparently “Vanilla” is plain and boring and baby did not appreciate being called plain and boring, and so here is a list of the pet names she’s given me in last few minutes:

- My saltine cracker

- The concept of Kansas

- My dearest manila folder

- That beige color they paint offices

- Bleached white rice

- You blank word document, you

- My perfect suburbs Republican

- Tap water

twofigs

“do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. do justly now. love mercy now. walk humbly now. you are not obligated to complete the work but neither are you free to abandon it.”

from the talmud

aolkeywordqueer

I have this permanently in the corner of the whiteboard in my room

alwaysaprille

Every single white lesbian who has spent years complaining about the lack of lesbians on screen had better support The CW’s Black Lightning.

Anissa Pierce (portrayed by Nafessa Williams):

is a canon lesbian with superpowers (who goes by the name Thunder) who has, among other abilities, the power to make herself invulnerable (this means she’s essentially unkillable-although she can be hurt/injured!)

Her comic-canon girlfriend Grace Choi (Chantal Thuy) has already been cast:

Grace is half-Amazon, and has superhuman durability and rapid healing abilities-which also help to make her relatively invincible!

Also, they’re really cute in the comics:

So basically-support this lesbian, interracial, basically invulnerable couple on the CW’s Black Lightning-airing January 16th, 2017!!!!!

africanaquarian

everything I wanted

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hey microsoft, here’s a tip, don’t make such fucking creepy ads you weirdos

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microsoft gonna help me transcend into cybernetic godhood

priceofliberty

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trans-goblins

microsoft has an agenda, it seems

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stop playin games @microsoft give us the fuckin robots

corporationsarepeople

cultural-antifascism-deactivate

*Foucault Intensifies*

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mcnamak

I don’t understand the Foucault intensifies thing. all I know about with Foucault is the type of pendulum

rubyvroom

In short, Foucault took the idea of the Panopticon, the philosophical system of control commonly associated with prisons, and pointed out that many insitutions are built around this same idea of constant surveillance and control to regulate behavior, including schools:

It is polyvalent in its applications; it serves to reform prisoners, but also to treat patients, to instruct schoolchildren, to confine the insane, to supervise workers, to put beggars and idlers to work. It is a type of location of bodies in space, of distribution of individuals in relation to one another, of hierarchical organization, of disposition of centres and channels of power, of definition of the instruments and modes of intervention of power, which can be implemented in hospitals, workshops, schools, prisons. Whenever one is dealing with a multiplicity of individuals on whom a task or a particular form of behaviour must be imposed, the panoptic schema may be used. It is - necessary modifications apart - applicable ‘to all establishments whatsoever, in which, within a space not too large to be covered or commanded by buildings, a number of persons are meant to be kept under inspection’ (Bentham, 40; although Bentham takes the penitentiary house as his prime example, it is because it has many different functions to fulfil - safe custody, confinement, solitude, forced labour and instruction).

In each of its applications, it makes it possible to perfect the exercise of power.

Prison guards patrolling the perimeter with guns just makes that comparison a WHOLE LOT MORE DIRECT

tiefighter

My favourite part about Foucault and the Panopticon theory in general is that it doesn’t just apply to institutions, it applies to the way we present ourselves as a whole. Kids try so hard to fit in with each other because the systems they live in teach them that someone is always watching, someone always knows everything they do and their lives will be ruined if they step a foot out of line; it’s useful in systems like schools and community centres that function around control, but it’s a severely fucked up way to live and a really fucked up way for kids and young adults to grow up thinking. Like, slightly off tangent but that’s what I find fascinating about that in gender theory, both as someone who has studied it and as a Trans person; I found myself not only performing the gender I was assigned for everyone else, but I also perform my own gender sometimes to an extreme that would be uncomfortable if I had been born in the body I was supposed to be born in, specifically because “They” who watch are going to judge me and stop me from getting my shit done. I mean it’s not wrong, I’ve had some interesting conversations with people that boil down to “I don’t think you have a right to exist go to hell in a handbasket” but it’s always about being SEEN with me, being seen talking to me, etc etc. It’s all about public perception, and the idea that people are going to be punished for stepping out of the box society has created for them. Once you’re aware of the theory it really helps you examine your own actions, and look at how communities, no matter how big or small, structure themselves around Panopticons as a basic operating system because we’ve fucked each other up that much.

mckitterick

I don’t think I’d ever recognized how directly surveillance and “protection” parallels the feeling of being in prison. And how literally privacy parallels freedom and liberty.

Major internet sites, big corporations in general, and conservative politicians are working to implement a panopticon dystopia in order to monitor, control, and use us for their own profit.

That’s the definition of life in prison. The prison-industrial complex seeks to expand its reach to all of us.

Don’t let them win.

vaspider

Ok, friends, listen up.

I’m gonna need you to find two hours of your life ASAP and watch the pilot of Pose. I’m totally serious. If I have to arrange a group watch via Discord, I WILL DO THAT. (Do I need to do that? I will. I bought the season on Amazon because we don’t have cable and supporting this is really fucking important to me.)

Why? I mean, Tumblr, y’all have to have been talking about this, because I heard about it through Tumblr, but let’s talk about it again:

TV about QPOC starring and made by QPOC, *especially* TWOC. #ownvoices beyond measure. This is the largest transgender cast ever organized for a scripted series.

The series is expected to include over fifty transgender characters total. FIFTY. f i f t y.

A blunt history lesson wrapped up in two hours of drama. There will be things you knew or knew about or heard about kinda and then you’ll realize how much you can learn, even if Queer History is one of your Special Interests.

One of the main characters is from Allentown. This is only vaguely relevant but it made me go ‘yey’.

Seriously, this media only gets made if people watch it. Vote with your eyeballs. Vote with your eyeballs and let’s bring more of this to TV, to the screens. We need this. I was honestly really nervous that something was gonna blow up or this was going to be somehow terrible and so I was nervously chewing my lower lip until I could actually watch the pilot and it’s not perfect but it’s a pilot and like… it’s … this is our history and our present. We need to make this shit happen.

It’s REALLY GOOD. Look at that Rotten Tomatoes score! 95% right now, y’all.

Seriously, I’m probably going to watch this with @mistresskabooms this summer. Kids These Days need to know some dang history. We can trade off between RWBY and Pose.

Look, I can knit during anything. I have knitted during concerts, I have knitted in the car on cross-country trips, I knit my way through hurricanes and migraines and medical procedures and movies, I don’t have to look at my hands anymore when I knit kippot. There were a couple of points when I realized only after I had stopped knitting to stare at the television, totally entranced, that I had stopped knitting so I could concentrate on the screen. I cannot express enough how much that just does not happen.

I feel very passionately about this show already, now that I’ve stopped holding my breath and have allowed myself to feel things about it, aaaand I’ve only seen the pilot. Is it perfect? No. But it doesn’t need to be.

It’s real and raw and vulnerable and beautiful and triumphant and the MC’s name is Pray Tell which I found out in the first 2m from the subtitles and I love him already and we need to make it happen.

So who wants to do a watch party on this with me? @thebibliosphere, you wanna do something on the Discord? Seriously. Watch Party at the Wizard House, I’ll bring the popcorn.

thebibliosphere

Oh hell yes we can absolutely watch this. Lets figure out a time and date.

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omg omg omg are there nb characters @vaspider

bipolar-bubbeleh

ICE are fucking nazis. That goes without saying. Many of the tactics used by the ICE are directly lifted from fascist Germany. But this isn’t German history, this is American history playing itself out again. Calling immigration an “infestation” is directly linked to the racist anti-immigrant sentiment that inspired the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), Immigration Act of 1891, the Geary Act, the Immigration Act of 1903, the Naturalization Act of 1906, the Immigration Act of 1907, the Immigration Act of 1917 (also known as Barred Zone Act), the Emergency Quota Act (1921), and the Immigration Act of 1924.

It is important to contextualize ICE within American contexts because otherwise it implies that this is a brand new phenomenon and, frankly, it isn’t. America was built on these kinds of institutions and continues to depend on them to this day. Americans don’t need to look across the Atlantic to understand what is happening. We have to be willing to take a real, good look at our own history.

dateagirlwhosweird

Date a girl with hard edges and soft curves. Date a girl with rough corners, odd angles and one too many sides.

wolfliving

Domestic Internet-of-Things Abuse

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/technology/smart-home-devices-domestic-abuse.html

by Nellie Bowles

June 23, 2018

SAN FRANCISCO — The people who called into the help hotlines and domestic violence shelters said they felt as if they were going crazy.

One woman had turned on her air-conditioner, but said it then switched off without her touching it. Another said the code numbers of the digital lock at her front door changed every day and she could not figure out why. Still another told an abuse help line that she kept hearing the doorbell ring, but no one was there.

Their stories are part of a new pattern of behavior in domestic abuse cases tied to the rise of smart home technology. Internet-connected locks, speakers, thermostats, lights and cameras that have been marketed as the newest conveniences are now also being used as a means for harassment, monitoring, revenge and control.

In more than 30 interviews with The New York Times, domestic abuse victims, their lawyers, shelter workers and emergency responders described how the technology was becoming an alarming new tool. Abusers — using apps on their smartphones, which are connected to the internet-enabled devices — would remotely control everyday objects in the home, sometimes to watch and listen, other times to scare or show power. Even after a partner had left the home, the devices often stayed and continued to be used to intimidate and confuse….

ladies don't you hate it when you're out shopping and you find a cute pair of panties and they're even on sale but when you get them home and try them on there's nowhere near enough room for your dick