THE CAGE, WITH HUMAN SOUL AND PARTS!

Milo | They/them | 22 | Autistic | White | Robot kisser

[atroph1k]

My name is Milo. Feel free to say hi! :)

About me/this blog:

I use this blog to share art, activism information, animals, fan content, memes, and any other nice things I find.

They/them, nonbinary/genderqueer

22 years old

Bisexual + in a relationship

Level 1 autistic

Objectum + Robot and Computer Lover

USAmerican

Don't feel bad about spam likes/reblogs!

If you want to ask/message me regarding anything, don't feel shy. Just be polite. ^^

Mutuals may ask me to tag certain topics if desired.

If we've talked a bit, feel free to ask for my username on Instagram, Discord, Steam, or other platforms.

Tumblr has previously marked my blog as explicit for reblogging SFW transgender content. I do reblog suggestive content every once in a while, but I do not make or reblog pornographic or otherwise sexually explicit content on this blog.

Any suggestive posts will be tagged as #suggestive or #not sfw, as well as marked with the "sexual themes" community label when needed. I tend to use these liberally just in case.

Before you follow:

Obligatory "bigots won't read this dni" but anyone who makes racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, zionist, etc. posts or tags will be blocked.

This blog is 16+; if you are under 18, please block #not sfw, #not sfw text, and #kink (the latter tag is not used for explicit content; rather, these posts are about information regarding kink, such as safe practices, history of kink in pride, etc. It's still not something I want minors reading.)

Users who I find out are under 16, lying about their age to access my blog, and/or interacting with suggestive content while under 18 will be blocked.

I generally tag or censor slurs when they are used in a hateful and derogatory manner, but may not tag certain slurs if they are being "reclaimed." This includes LGBTQ+ users saying anti-queer slurs, Black users saying the "soft" n-slur, and other similar situations. While I do have issues with slur reclamation in certain contexts, I generally believe that these words can be reclaimed by people whom these slurs are used against. I occasionally use some of these terms to describe myself and friends who have stated that they are okay with it, not strangers. If any of this makes you uncomfortable, that is completely understandable; just understand that this blog might not be for you.

The above bullet point does not include the use of "clanker" or most anti-AI insults (I'm not that online, I don't think). I will, however, tag those that are based on real-life slurs that are used against real minorities. Besides, do you need to invent a slur for something to criticize it?

If you have a problem with something I post or a person I reblog from, please message me so I can address it!

Everything is okay to reblog unless I’ve disabled the option on that particular post.

Interests (as of last updating this post):

☽ Undertale/Deltarune

☽ Kitten Burst

☽ Club Penguin

☽ Overwatch

☽ ENA

☽ Industrial, EBM, and Metal Music

☽ Cult of the Lamb

☽ Minecraft

☽ Bats

☽ Yakuza/LaD

☽ Horror movies

☽ Computers and machinery

☽ Inscryption

☽ Portal

☽ Splatoon

☽ Dead by Daylight

🇵🇸 For those who have come to my profile to share a GoFundMe, I will share it once I find some vetting information. I am a college student and I don't work throughout the entire year, so I can't donate often, but I will when I am financially able.

To view my original posts, go here (dashboard view) or here (custom blog view).

Have a good day/night!

[malama-art]

my tenna fanart

[gooselycharm]

theyre building up speed to travel to parallel universes

[inthefallofasparrow]

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[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

[quasi-normalcy]

The genuine celebration of world-ending nuclear weaponry in 1950s America was a truly bewildering and disturbing cultural moment.

[quasi-normalcy]

Thinking about the fact that the common name for a two-piece bathing suit is STILL taken from that of a Pacific atoll that was forcibly depopulated by the US Military and subjected to atomic bombing.

[crionic-dubs]

Well, nuclear weapons didn't become 'world-ending' until the Soviets had them in enough number for MAD to take effect. Prior to that it wasn't a threat to the entire world, it was a threat only to America's enemies.

[quasi-normalcy]

Yeah, but the Soviets got the bomb in 1949. By the time H-bombs were a thing (1952), mutually assured destruction was the order of the day

[elfetamine]

The Professor of Queer and Transgender Studies at Emory University released a talk on how "trans lesbians are crossdressing men"

He's a trans man by the way

Really wish you guys could have our backs or at least stop going after us. During fucking pride too. Genuinely fuck you. I wish this shit surprised me anymore but it doesn't

[dollwhojoinedtheartifice]

"We are all enemies in the eyes of the state", only some are literal leaders in academic fields of gender studies and uses their position to openly harm the women of their own community with no consequences.

"Trans women get all the visibility" but it's 16,913 newspaper articles in the UK mainly demonising trans women, while some trans men have enough institutional power to get on a stage and spout utter bullshit about trans women that is not historically or factually correct.

And of course trans men have it hard right now, any kind of trans person has it hard in the UK right now. But this is yet another example of the differences in structural power between trans men and trans women, and a good example of how a trans men can oppress trans women

[tamamoland-of-destinys-demise]

was this the same one that used the phrase "transitioning into faggots" for us or is this a new one

[storyweavingspider]

Sorry he what

[its-a-me-an-idiot]

This is in his biography on the faculty page for the Emory GWSS department.

The argument that trans WOMEN shouldn’t call themselves women. That we don’t get to call ourselves or be called women is frightening.

The last line cut off from the screenshot is “trans women and femmes of color.”

[thelongestrose]

let's take a look at that "materialism" that's going to smash the "middle-class transgender hegemony" in solidarity with trans women of color, shall we?

well that's not a great start. someone should probably tell Sylvia Rivera nobody was arguing she wasn't gay, for one. also since when were gay people and transgender people thought of as the same? does Amin believe that because it was somewhat fluid and the communities overlapped that means the distinction was nonexistent?

"transmisogynist violence is a consequence of homophobia" is as much a dangerously incorrect and transmisic take as his belief that heterosexuality was invented sometime after gender deviance (?) as if those things are unrelated and not co-constitutive. also could he please stop dropping transmisogynist slurs at the drop of a hat?

and there it is, he's an unironic transgender is taking all our beautiful butches and queens guy. also he seems to think that there was some prelapsarian past where gayness was focused around gender deviance and then gays invented trans people in 1989 to be respectable. needless to say, our conmunities have always been interrelated but distinct. one might even say there are material differences that are in part described by the terminology he's crusading against, that a "materialist" should pick up on.

and the hat trick. it's not transgressive to transition. trans women are taking all our feminine gay men! they're all gone. and it's also trans women's fault that gay men aren't interested in the ones that are left. this is because trans people invented a fake binary and for no other discernable reason. y'all, this is the analysis you end up doing if you think transmisogyny isn't real and read every historical document at face value with no critical lens. this man watched Paris is Burning ten years ago (skipped How Do I Look, naturally) and he's going to make it our problem

oh and that was all somehow from one shockingly terrible essay. pulling just a few things from it was not easy, because there's a lot! love my field, love my colleagues

[scruq]

This study is being done by Dr. Lisa Littman, Dr. Kenneth Zucker, and J. Michael Bailey. The same people behind the “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria” and other Transphobic pseudoscience. Do NOT give information to them via ayagdos, they have a long history of retractions and reported misconduct.

Report this ad wherever you see it. The fact that staff allows this kind of shit yet still turning a blind eye to everything else is just pure hatred.

Burden of Proof:

Scientists Behind the "Social Contagion" Myth Are Recruiting Trans Young People For Study, Community Leaders Warn

The project is called AYAGDOS—brought to you by the same names behind “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria” pseudoscience.

Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access

[probuccalfat]

the highest recorded wet bulb temperatures in the world occur in india, jsyk. in odisha, they’ve hit 34.6 degrees celsius. the human survivability limit is 35 degrees celsius but the body faces significant risks, potentially fatal risks, even at 30 degrees as it starts failing to cool itself, like i’m talking organ failure levels of risk. climate change isn’t coming to peak, it’s been in the global south where you can’t see it or feel it.

[probuccalfat]

imagine temperatures that high and humidity as high as 75%—you make more heat than you can ever cool. your sweat cannot evaporate fast enough. you literally boil alive. heat deaths in india are underreported and they already hit the thousands. there is no plan, for a nation of almost 2 billion people. no plan. nothing.

[probuccalfat]

man, i’m sorry—this breaks my heart. i went to odisha during one of the trips home to india to visit my mom’s family and it is one of the most remarkable and deeply wondrous places that i have ever seen. i wish that was how i could speak about it all the time. it’s a place that eternalizes human creativity and devotion towards the sublime. i wish anybody cared about india as much as it deserves to be cared for, starting with care from our own government.

[abdalsalam-2000]

For eight months, under the guise of a false ceasefire, Israel killed a child every day. That means 240 children in just eight months, and the war is supposedly over. But what's happening in Gaza is the opposite. Every day there are martyrs here. What is our sin? What is the sin of the children? What is the sin of their families? Please don't forget Gaza. Gaza is bleeding every day. Death continues, the siege persists, and displacement never stops.

[abdalsalam-2000]

This is the approach Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu's government follow: killing, killing, and more killing. This is what's happening to us today. I don't know when a missile might come right next to me and kill me. This is truly terrifying. We just want to live, nothing more. Is this a big dream? Oh no, it truly is a dream for me and for everyone in Gaza. Please, get us out of this hell. Please, help us get out of here. Please, I beg you.

[abdalsalam-2000]

My father has cancer and a blocked artery in his heart, my niece Iman suffers from severe anemia, and my youngest child has numerous health problems. The only solution is to leave Gaza, but this is no easy feat. The cost of leaving Gaza is exorbitant; an adult costs between $30,000 and $40,000. This is outrageous! We have no choice but to buy their medications, trying to save them and struggling to get out. Please help us and donate. Please.

[hotvampireadjacent]

Please do what you can and donate to help Nader and his family survive and leave Gaza. If everyone who sees this post donates $10, we will achieve something amazing for this family. Please donate now.

[charl0ttan]

please help nader with whatever you can!!

[abdalsalam-2000]

Unfortunately, this post has been shared by nearly 500 people and no one has donated. Please donate now and help us. Please donate.

[theinternetarchive]

I cannot imagine the pain his father is enduring or the stress Nader must feel, please donate what you can if you can.

Pain medication should not be a privilege or a luxury. His father is freshly post-op and in immense amounts of pain. Donations are the only way to concretely help Nader and his family.

[abdalsalam-2000]

Friends, I implore you to donate. Match this donation and do your utmost to help us and donate. Please donate now.

[tropiclown]

wonderful! better than tenna! 🍳

[niceprincessdisposition]

The way transmasc erasure is discussed within queer spaces is a pretty good example of transfem erasure.

Now transmasc issues are erased that’s obvious. But so are transfem issues, unless you seriously believe mainstream discourse actually gives a shit about including us in the discussion during an anti transfem moral panic. But guess which erasure is taken more seriously by the queer community.

Transmasc erasure is a cause for great concern, and that’s good transmascs are an important part of general queer discourse as all trans people are, but when transfems aren’t included in the conversation, even when that conversation is explicitly about us, no one seems to bat an eye. Transmasc erasure is used as a bludgeon against transfem issues, ironically used to erase our issues. When credible evidence is brought forward that transmascs have some structural benefits over transfems, such as the wage gap, the specter of transmasc erasure once again comes forth to silence us. Any transmasc privilege is down played because “survivorship bias.” Because this survey only targets transmascs with a job, or with stable housing or with enough money etc etc. completely ignoring, no, erasing, that transfems face many of the same structural barriers, often further amplified by transmisogyny. This means that when you take demographics without a job, without housing and who are critical impoverished into account the disparity is likely exasperated not lessened. Arent transfems one of the most chronically unemployed, homeless and impoverished demographics there is? Is it not “erasure” of our issues that our poverty is ignored in favor of transmasc poverty when our issues are dismissed out of hand?

There is a general trans erasure, one effecting transmascs, one that makes it so their issues are not taken seriously in broader discourse that’s undeniable. But to act like the erasure transmascs face is somehow unique to them, not an issue that faces transfems on an equal, and due to transmisogyny even greater, scale, is to erase transfem erasure.

[niceprincessdisposition]

Like the number of times one heard “survivorship bias” when talking about a survey talking about wage discrimination they’re like “well this survey doesn’t include impoverished transmascs” just completely ignoring impoverished transfems. Like yeah I’m sure if you judged wage difference in a survey that included all transmascs both well off and poor but only included well off transfems the wage gap would disappear. But like this whole argument is playing into the stareotype very strongly that trans women are all well educated software engineers and

Actually poor trans women exist too. The only way you can ignore the wage gap or other structural issues we face is by picking and choosing which marginalized community gets to account for poor people and which one doesn’t.

[niceprincessdisposition]

I’m sure if you pitted the wage gap between global south billionaires and global north proletarians you’d also find no good evidence that the global north plundered the wealth of and impoverished the global south.

[socialmaya]

Occasionally forget people genuinely think capitalism is thousands of years old

[sylestial]

One time I was talking about Robin Hood with some coworkers and one guy was like “he was bad because the people he helped learned to expect handouts” and I wanted to be like… okay can you explain how that flawed capitalist propaganda applies to feudalism

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

reminder that capitalism was literally invented in the 16th century

[tayefeth]

That’s an exaggeration. What was invented in the 16th century was mercantilism. Capitalism really dates for the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the rise of industry and cash crops over artisans and merchants. Vulture capitalism, with the notion that companies have no duties other than generating profit, is even younger.

[antique-scarecrow]

Capitalism is only 200 years old and I have to say, they have not been an impressive 200 years

[downtroddendeity]

I think a lot of this comes from the fact that most people don’t know the formal definition of capitalism. We all know the word, we’ve all seen the jokes, but very few people bother to actually define it unless they’re talking about political theory and philosophy, so it’s easy to end up with the impression that Capitalism = Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods And Services.

Capitalism is the economic system where most of the means of production (i.e. everything people need to have to make the stuff that everyone wants) are owned by private individuals or corporations, who then hire people to provide the labor necessary to produce things, with the intent of selling the output at a profit. It’s the difference between “you’re a carpenter and you make a chair and you sell it” and “you’re Richard Q. Richington who owns a chair factory, and you pay people to sell the chairs you paid other people to make and then all the excess money goes back to you.” There have been Richard Q. Richingtons on and off throughout history, but that being the norm for every single industry is a pretty recent development.

[antiterfbutch]

An alarming amount of people seem to think capitalism = all trade, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

[sistersorrow]

One of the greatest victories capitalism ever achieved is convincing people that capitalism is when you have money and exchange it for goods and services

[quasi-normalcy]

Though i do think it’s fair to refer to a lot of the economic activities in Dutch or Italian Renaissance citystates as a form of capitalism.

[stealthrockdamage-deactivated20]

all i will speak of on that divorced man poll is that not once does asgore stick a gun in his mouth

[stealthrockdamage-deactivated20]

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[posthumousprincessparts]

PLEASE HELP TWO TRANSFEMS IN DANGER

hi there it's princess/nova back again, i'm really sorry i have to come here like this but me and my wife are still struggling abandoned by our families and unable to reach any of our friends. we've been trying to survive without me being exposed to harassment but at this point we're going hungry. we don't have any income and need help affording food for ourselves and our kitties please if you can, donate. I would be so truly thankful

v3nm0: @Crow-Forgemaster , @Prince-Nova

c@sh@pp: $dragonforgedbutch , $StrayNova

and for people from outside of the USA, i take donations on my F@nsly: @lil_puppy_nova

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

I love that tumblr scrubbed every instance of this post from the site when they terminated her account, awesome. thanks to the person who had a copy in the drafts and made sure I got it.

anyway, here's the DM I got after a couple days of fundraising

do you have $20 and a desire to make a sad girl smile? we can't right the wrongs done to her, but we can make her day better.

[lovertm]

[ayviedoesthings]

Saying this with all the love in my heart, "Trans" is not a magical title that erases all social biases and discriminations you hold in your mind the moment you transition.

You have to actually ACTIVELY unlearn all that shit. You can actually be trans AND hold TERF and racist beliefs, it is in fact very easy.

Read studies and essays, Engage with the works of other minorities, Don't think you're just better by virtue of losing *some* privilege.

[ayviedoesthings]

I hope all the red usernames reblogging this post have read it veeery slowly!

[save-the-child-qais]

Today I woke up to a terrifying message from my baby Qais’s doctor. He told me Qais’s wound will keep bleeding pus and blood unless his surgery is done urgently. I will not forgive anyone who scrolls past and keeps browsing without sharing my post.

[save-the-child-qais]

I am a helpless mother in Gaza. I cannot afford the surgery or the medication. Every donation, no matter how small, could stop this bleeding and save my child’s life. Please donate for Qais.

[save-the-child-qais]

Please don’t scroll past us in this critical moment; even a donation could ease suffering and give Qais another chance.

Please donate now Gofundme

[save-the-child-qais]

Every hour without medicine deepens Qais’s pain and infection. I am watching my child suffer while help stays silent. Please don’t wait—donate now so I can buy his medicine and protect his life.