The Greatest Person on Earth

Kay. Demisexual Agender, mid 20s.

[plushpyth]

my little sister is 5 by the way and she is fuckign hilarious im literally crying rn

[plushpyth]

Hey guys the star of Let It Snake is graduating high school today lmao

[frawgs]

apparently vic’s vapor rub goes exitinct ? i’ve been using the same vapor rub for years and apparenlty it went bad in the 2010s ..

[frawgs]

expired .

[morganicapples]

[busket]

saw a post like "tmras will insist joan of arc was a transmasc but not even realize that is proof that masculinity is rewarded because joan of arc is celebrated and ascended to sainthood"

and i just googled real quick,

what good is becoming a saint and being celebrated for your GIRL POWER hundreds of years posthumously if during your life you are abused and murdered by the state in one of the most gruesome and painful ways imaginable because you dressed as a man? I wouldnt call that society "rewarding masculinity" in people who are afab.

[taibhsearachd]

Just to make it very clear, for those who haven't studied this... she was specifically murdered for wearing male clothes (pants) because she felt less at risk of being raped while wearing male clothing. (...I don't feel like I should have to say this, but rape is not a normal thing that medieval men charged with heresy had to fear.)

They couldn't trick her into saying something heretical, so they used the fact she wore male clothes to prosecute and kill her. Transmasc Privilege (TM).

[sagekuromi333]

was talking to an ex friend once about being disabled and was like “yeah, the government wants me dead” to which she responded “noooo dont say thatttt that’s not true :( “ and i just need people to fucking think critically before saying something they think will be comforting because what the fuck do you mean the government doesn’t want disabled people dead have you never fucking heard of EUGENICS

[animentality]

[prismatic-bell]

Sojourner Truth wrote an entire book when she couldn't read. She dictated her memoirs to a friend. You can still read them today.

She also became a prominent abolitionist speaker. To the best of my knowledge, she never actually learned to read (probably because she was too busy kicking ass and proving a Black woman could do everything a white man could do), which means she was giving some of the most eloquent-but-straightforward speeches I've ever read, without notes. She had to do it from memory.

Oh.

And did I mention she never learned to read, but spoke two languages fluently?

But sure, go off about how you need Anthropic.

[madgastronomer]

I agree with the thrust of this, but wtf is this "Helen Keller wrote a book without... touch, smell, taste nor intuition"??? She absolutely had touch, that's how her primary language worked. She might have lost taste and smell, I don't know, but why on earth would she not have intuition, and what does that have to do with writing a book???

This sounds like more ableist bullshit to me.

[animentality]

[transfemme-shelterdog]

Cis people really are clueless to how things really are for trans people, aren't they?

My parents partook in a ground search for a missing trans man today (I'm planning on joining the next. I just couldn't get the time off work on such short notice on a Friday) They told me that they were shocked that the cops really didn't care. They left the crime scene completely open for 3 days, haven't followed up on any leads, basically just took statements and left. The neighbors have footage of someone entering and leaving the house days after with a huge black garbage bag and throwing it into a trunk of a car.

They're shocked that the cops don't give a shit. I regretfully had to inform them that this is the case for literally any missing queer person, or marginalized person in general.

Like yeah, cops don't give a shit about us. Sorry to break it to you.

[saywhat-politics]

The White House is now beefing with the weather

[maswartz]

For the love of all that is just and noble in this universe may whatever deity exist strike this man and all those who stand by him tonight with bolts from the heavens!

ZAP THE MOTHER FUCKER!

[goddessvicky]

A+ can confirm

[reflex76]

Theory that Toto’s Africa is about a werewolf seeking a cure.

[diserbillyti]

Honestly man I kind of love telling able people I used to be a support worker. The response is always ableist but sometimes it's in a surreal and fascinating way.

Once I had someone do the whole "that seems so hard, you must be so patient" standard routine. I ask her, "why's that?" You know, why do I need to be some kind of virtuous martyr to watch 90s cartoons with other disabled people for $30 an hour?

And she says to me, with full seriousness and a look of utter dread on her face,

"All the biting."

OK mate. What do you mean. What biting. What are you on about.

"The biting," she repeats, as if it's obvious and I ought to intuitively know what she means. Then she kind of snaps her teeth to demonstrate. "You know?"

No I don't know. What do you mean biting.

"They bite," she says. Eyes wide, dead serious. "The, um, the Slow People. They bite."

Melany, I says to her I says, they're not damn draculas.

[orionnco]

If you see a community of people missing from a chunk of history (Queer/trans/religious ect) and your immediate thought is "oh they didnt exist then" instead of "oh shit these people had a bunch of their history erased" you have fallen for genocidal propaganda.

[cock-holliday]

So much of cis and trans radfeminist discourse is like throwing a grenade into every room you think has a man in it, then when 99% of the people killed by the grenade are women you go “well, you shouldn’t have been in the room where a man might have been” and somehow it’s feminist praxis

Penis makes you evil? Trans women get hit. Trans men get hit. People who fuck with a strap get hit. Being a top gets you hit. Got penis envy? Must be evil. Can accuse you of penis envy? Evil.

Testosterone makes you evil? Trans women get hit. Trans men get hit. Intersex people get hit. Masc women get hit. Women of color get hit. Anyone you can force a masculine label on or deny of a feminine label gets hit.

Male privilege is a moral failing you both somehow choose but also cannot opt out of rather than a set of conditional circumstances society imposes on you that may temporarily benefit you? Trans women get hit. Trans men get hit. Anyone you can accuse of being too close to maleness gets hit.

Masculinity makes you evil? Trans men get hit. Trans women who are masc get hit. Trans women who you can accuse of being masc get hit. Masc women get hit. Anyone you can accuse of being masc get hit (woc, intersex people, ethnic minorities with features assumed ‘masculine’, anyone who rejects aspects of femininity or doesn’t perform femininity in a way you think they ‘should’)

Proximity to men makes you evil? Anyone who dates men is hit. Anyone who likes men is hit. Anyone who is friends with men gets hit. Ultimately people assaulted by men suddenly “had it coming” because they dared stand next to a man, and you call yourself a feminist spouting the biggest rape apologist catchphrase???

You wanna “kill all men” for what theyve done to you, but you’re not doing anything to hurt OR change cis men or society but you are wracking up a body count of women just as hurt as you.

“Feminist” when you’ve pushed more women towards suicide than an incel has? Gimme a break.

“Misandrist” you wouldn’t dare say that shit to a cis man, but you sure have a lot of gas in the tank for the woman standing near him or the trans man who *just* started using he/him after 20+ years of the type of misogyny you are going to gleefully throw back in his face

[decadent-hag]

Where that New England Gothic post

[countkunt]

my personal favorite

[demilypyro]

Can't get over this comment I got the other day because I didnt wanna play Cyberpunk or watch the anime. I blocked the op but I had to save a screenshot

Share if you're the magical fucking prophet of anti-consumerist enlightenment

[demilypyro]

I think this also

[foone]

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

In my opinion it's a lot more healthy to be able to own that you dislike someone for petty reasons than to do all kinds of mental gymnastics to make everyone you don't really vibe with out to be a bad person actually

[sage-nebula]

[keatxu]

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

[omikronsoul]

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.

[justletmeremember]

op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.

[prismatic-bell]

I just took my computer in for a repair I'm not skilled enough to do on my own.

As I was chatting with the tech, I mentioned offhandedly to her that my first computer games were on 5 3/4" floppies, and said "you're so young, you've probably never even seen one of those."

Her response: "oh, I have. We do maintenance for a company that still uses them."

For those of you too young to know what any of that means: my school moved to computers with 3 1/2" floppies in 1992. I only used the bigger ones for one year. Three years after that we got converters to also use CD-ROM. I got my first thumb drive in college, in 2007. And the storage on 5 3/4" floppies was minuscule. This post would fit on one. I think. This technology was outdated 34 years ago, which is like 500 in computer years. This is roughly equivalent to someone telling you they're self-publishing their werewolf romantasy on Ben Franklin's printing press.

Now I don't know why this company is still using technology so obsolete it makes thumb drives look like sci-fi. But given that it's functionally useless in the modern day, I'd bet a nickel it's because of abandonware.

I also don't know what this company does.

But does it give you a little shiver to know I live near both the Mayo Clinic and Honeywell Aerospace?

[natalieironside]

My boyfriend was showing me his cat and I leaned over to kiss the cat on his soft little baby head and he went "meow" and scrambled away because I'd been wearing my headphones and I accidentally jabbed him with the microphone.

And I said "Damn, this is exactly like in the Iliad"

[rebels-cairn]

#explanation: this references the scene where Hektor the prince of troy goes to his wife after a battle and leans in to kiss his son #(who is still a baby and being held in andromache's arms) #but his son cringes away in fear of his father's battle helmet #it's a gut wrenching scene about how war dehumanizes you and separates you from the people you love #this interpretation implies that being a gamer is analogous