"try developing an account of the world around you that isn’t largely based on posts" --bimboficationblues, litany against tumblr users
Claire Keane

@theartofmadeline
DEAR READER
RMH
Xuebing Du
Jules of Nature
Today's Document
Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Janaina Medeiros
hello vonnie
ojovivo
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
almost home

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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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Kiana Khansmith
i don't do bad sauce passes

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@bimboficationblues
"try developing an account of the world around you that isn’t largely based on posts" --bimboficationblues, litany against tumblr users
wisdom at least partially involves knowing what matters and what doesn't, and therefore not getting wrapped up in fights that don't matter. you can make your life easier by learning this
do you have opinions on the marxist humanist-marxist postestructuralist divide
I feel like the people who get stuck on this are dinosaurs of the 20th century honestly. As far as the original debate I think it was really more like a debate centered in Europe between those committed to an older style of democratic mass politics and the Enlightenment vision that accompanied it (humanism) and a newer generation who were skeptical about what total mobilization did to the nature of politics, seeing an element of conservatism and conformity in it, and wanted to think more flexibly about politics and focus on everyday micropolitical tactics though also often lost sight of the “big picture” out of skepticism (poststructuralists). And ultimately both of these were products of the crisis of the mass party form in the later 20th century and the debates that resulted from it. There were plenty of people who took positions that were associated with one while technically advocating the other. For example Frantz Fanon was a humanist yet he made critiques of Western civilization mostly associated with the poststructuralists, and Henri Lefebvre began as a kind of humanist but then became one of the first of the poststructuralists but did so by following the concerns of his humanist phase. I find these kind of more independent figures to have much more long lasting significance and interest personally although there’s still a historical weight to revisiting the intellectual side of the crisis of mass politics in the late 20th century to deal with the impolitical situation we’re stuck in now
I think also I’ve been getting more irrationalist when it comes to political formation and strategy, which I don't necessarily love but I think it is what it is. people don't experience the world in an objective or ordered manner and if narrative and emotion is what people to respond to, better to find the right narratives and emotions rather than insisting we’d win if people would just think straight.
Feel free to ignore this if it's too awkward but what are your main issues with Tumblr Trans-feminism, and do you have any suggested reading on the matter?
To your second question, read Talia Bettcher's entry on "Feminist Perspectives on Trans Issues," and Perry Zurn's entry on "Trans Philosophy." You could also throw in Mari Mikkola's entry on "Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender." Then explore the citations that strike your interest. What resonates with me may not resonate with you and I think the subject of "transfeminism" is too expansive and tangled to do it justice in just a few readings. Forewarning that there is sometimes some nasty stuff in there, both because transfeminism has had to respond to transphobic material and because philosophy (especially Anglo feminist philosophy) has proved especially accommodating to transphobic actors.
I don’t know if it’s specifically a Tumblr problem. I am generally skeptical of what I see as social-media-driven political forms, especially those that are participating in some form of ideological nostalgia rather than innovation and creativity. But I think there are layers here. The TL;DR is that social media is a bad avenue for these discussions, because the nature of the platform means that a lot of the actors here are more interested in promoting themselves as glamorous radical philosophers. This has consequences for what kind of audience they cultivate and what kind of work they produce.
Problem of Forum:
By virtue of taking place *on* Tumblr it has all the regular problems of social-media driven political forms - being easily animated by populism, shallow rhetoric, daily clique drama, and authoritarian-personality clout demons. Whoever can talk the loudest, be most inflammatory, and repeat the slogans the best, sets the tone for discussion. And there are emotional (and sometimes financial) incentives to be that person within the attention economy. Plus there are unique problems of trying to do theoretical work on Tumblr, a website that historically pumps out two things: fandom content and social-justice posturing. It selects for people who 1) care a lot about TV shows and video games and fiction and/or 2) care a lot about seeming maximally left-wing according to their personal definition of that term. This can color the way people interact with (trans)feminist ideas.
Formal / Procedural Problems:
23.06.2025 🔴 today's anthy!
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I did not care for The Boy and the Heron at all really, felt like an extra-concentrated version of all the things in Miyazaki's overall filmography that really annoy me
site moderation is very obviously busted and biased heavily in various ways. but also some of these ladies getting termed have like the worst self-preservation instincts I have ever seen.
honestly i get why elizabeth holmes is convinced she got martyred because you have to think about it from her perspective, literally the entire valley runs on guys just running their mouths until another guy buys them out and turns their scamup into a data services provider and then eventually that guy sells it to jeff bezos, why couldn't it happen for her too? oh suddenly the medical establishment is too good for a para industry of scam bespoke home lab testing that tells you nothing validated? suddenly everyone has not been caping for the mormon dna race science or the gut microbiome fascists or the psychiatry fandom spit testing? it's so much worse to give your blood to a blonde woman recreationally? vengeance for her & anna delvey.
happy pride month
One thing Nevada the novel was really strong on is the seductiveness of other people's problems, and the urge to mentor and advise. Other people's problems as an opportunity to feel worldly and wise, chasing the pleasure of making someone else experience fresh epiphanies that have become old news to you, other people's problems as an exercise in philosophizing about life in a context where you won't pay the costs of any conclusions you recommend, other people's problems which look so clear and simple and tractable next to your own, other people's problems which feel so pleasantly low stakes because you don't actually care as much as you think you do.
the world hates nocturnal girls
Psychobilly is a subgenre of rockabilly focused on mental health and neurodivergence
fool…you brought an Ought to an Is-fight
I was pretty surprised by how much of Scarface has giallo/horror DNA - the chainsaw scene, the helicopter hanging, the weird psychosexual fixation on his own sister, all feels very kindred with a lot of De Palma's surrounding output in the 70s and 80s
as some have pointed out, only to be basically ignored, nonbinary identity necessarily troubles most everyday language about “sexual orientation.” which is why the attitude towards our inclusion in the category of lesbian is just vibes (with all the problems of prejudice that brings)