Cats, communism, et "cat"era, et al

18+ Only!! Ⓐ Call me "Cat", 28, He/Him.☭ Ancom. Norse Polytheist ("Heathen"). USAmerican, unfortunately. Bulgarians (Vulgar Bulgars!!) DNI. Also anyone who likes fun.

[myjetpack]

My latest cartoon for New Scientist

[voroxpete]

To be clear, this isn't a bit. This is what they actually did. "Its too late" is the new "Climate change isn't real"... And its still a lie!

Every serious climate scientist agrees that there is no such as thing as too late, just as there is no such thing as too early. We should have done a lot more than we have to fight climate change, and the world will suffer for our inaction, but there is no point of no return. We can always work to reduce the amount of suffering that occurs, and eventually turn things around to the point where our planet is healing once again. Do not believe anyone who says it's "too late".

[i-suggest-landback]

i have a suggestion

[anarchistmemedistro]

decolonization reading list

The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies of Ecological Revolution from Below : Peter Gelderloos : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : I

Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that international governmenta

Audible Anarchism

Philosophy Podcast · Updated weekly · A podcast broadcasting Anarchist texts and audiobooks

Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching

Various Authors Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching 1993 A note from the web-publisher: I put this up to make ecodefence informatio

[partywithponies]

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

[urlocalpyshcopan]

as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name

[brainsforbabyjesus]

for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!

[infamousbrad]

I think I know how this works.

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.

[kagedtiger]

Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm

[jayalaw]

What’s the solution then? Or if there’s no solution, should we make things even queerer and more diverse?

[kryptidkhaos]

My local Planned Parenthood is shutting down; I need my next HRT appointment.

The clinic is officially shutting down on June 26th. People in Florida on testosterone don't have the option to do telehealth appointments because it's a controlled substance, and you have to be seen by an in person provider.

I've been scheduled for an appointment on the 1st to have my testosterone refilled one more time, and then it's going to be god knows how long before I can get an appointment at another location.

After this location shuts down, I'll have to drive two hours away to another city for my appointments every 3-6 months.

My current cost estimate is $210. If I don't make this appointment, I'm pretty much screwed, but I'm also broke and disabled with a household of other medications and expenses to cover for the month. I don't know how I'm going to to make this appointment *and* feed us.

If you'd like to help an impoverished trans guy in Florida stay on his hormones for the next couple of months while his health care gets sorted out, my pay links are below:

PayPal.me/chaosqueer

Venmo: chaosqueer

CashApp: $chaosqueer

[felysha]

Jonathan Joss was an Indigenous, gay man who was murdered on the first day of Pride month as well as Indigenous History Month. He died protecting his trans husband. Homophobia and racism aren’t marks of the past, and this is a heart breaking reminder of that.

Praying for a safe journey back to the spirit world, Uncle ❤️‍🩹🦅

[felysha]

Today is the anniversary of the death of Jonathan Joss (King of the Hill, Parks and Rec). Jonathan Joss was an Indigenous, gay man who died protecting his transgender husband, on the first day of Pride month. Today we remember him and how he protected his family.

[catsnuggler]

I feel "American" to refer to US Americans works exactly because of the self-centeredness of the country, so self-centered it calls itself by the name applied to not one, but two continents. At the same time, that very name, America, is a colonial name. Nobody Indigenous to the two continents before colonization called themselves anything resembling "Americans". Yeah, they're called North and South America now, but if we oppose colonialism, we ought to come to some consensus on different terms for these continents - perhaps Kheya Wita and Abya Yala. Apologies, I don't remember where the accents are in these terms. "American" would certainly not be the demonym for either of those. Since it has so long been used in common parlance to refer to those of and loyal to a particular settler-colonial empire, I think anyone else from outside that particular empire should reject that term for themselves, as well as the popular colonial names for the two continents, out of a stand of rejection of all colonialism, and particularly that of the US. I mean... I just wonder why anyone would want anything signifying commonality with us when we're genuinely so awful.

[crimethinc]

Any politician, organization, or activist who calls for people to restrain themselves is effectively creating the conditions for more kidnapping and murder.

If we want others to understand this murder as a tragedy, we must ourselves behave as though it is a tragedy. Otherwise, we can be sure that ICE will go on kidnapping and murdering with impunity.

As Democrat politicians talk about the supposed necessity of "maintaining order" in the wake of an ICE agent murdering a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis, remember—the movement of 2020 only spread countrywide because a police station burned, and polls showed that the movement *improved* Democrat polling.

If Democrats want to "maintain order," it's because they want to lose.

[ganymedesclock]

I think there's something weirdly funny about the way we talk about disabilities and their limits in terms of what kind of maltreatment we expect to 'get away with' in terms of people.

Like almost every time someone tries to explain what autism is the go-to is "they hate disruptions to their routines" and I'm like. okay. I think if you made a bunch of allistic people wake up outside of their usual schedule at short notice, most of them would be annoyed with you.

Sure, there is a distinction with autism, but at least from inside my own head that distinction feels a lot less like some kind of mysterious pattern-obsession and a lot more that by default, most things are moderately to significantly stressful. I think even Certified Neurotypicals can understand full well if I say, "you know when you're tired and cranky because you've had a really bad day and that one person next to you won't stop clicking their pen really loudly? And maybe pens don't bother you even then but someone smacking their mouth or the tag on your shirt, there's something that gets to you more if you're stressed, everybody has one."

If you're autistic that's just liable to happen a little more often because you're by default usually more stressed. because a bunch of other little things chipped away your tolerance levels.

I guess it's frustrating to hear something described as a head-shaking, apologetic, yeah this person is so flawed because they hate surprises, because I think the assumption most people can just have their schedule and comfort fucked with because they won't dissolve into screaming about it implies some really unkind things about what we assume is okay to do to people. Like you don't have to offer every change of plans on a velvet cushion, but regardless of having a shiny pathological identifier on it, I think most people want to feel informed and prewarned what to expect. Framing this as a special thing wrong with autistic people just means most people, autistic and allistic alike, are getting some degree of hazed with the assumption that "Real, Normal people" love unpleasant surprises when the most high-stress EMT responder isn't 'enjoying' the unpleasant surprises just because they're good at rolling with them.

[faithful-grigori]

”#this not even getting into the 'othering' that is done wrt disability descriptions, #like. every disabled mind and body is built the same as abled minds and bodies in terms of pieces, #every disabled human being is still a human being exactly like you'd expect, #if you've been tired and sore you know what chronic pain feels like, #if you've been so stressed that you snap at small noises you know what sensory overwhelm feels like, #these aren't Alien Freak Experiences that only Weird People have, #they're human experiences, #some of us have them commonly enough that they're a part of our lives, #or warrant enough disruption we plan around them, #and that's not even getting into how many people probably ARE technically ND, #but will never be diagnosed as such because it doesn't catch the 'problem flags' our society kicks up, #because medically we only look for “a problem”, #and live in societies that tell you having “a problem” is a moral failing. #so how many people are absolutely never going to be a squeaky wheelc #without even consciously thinking about it”

[dark-spirit-tamamoland]

they're still terming random transfems as i type this i see which does make quite a statement doing this today specifically

[puppetstuffing]

watched three girls who reblogged its new blog mutual aidpost (made literally 15 minutes ago) already disappear from its notifs. transfems are not included in their pride :/

[puppetedlove]

:)

[puppetvictim]

:)

[tamamowand]

QUITE the statement to be nuking transfems at the current accelerated pace right at the start of pride month like this, isn't it

[catsnuggler]

There is something the media doesn't want you to know

Cat tummies... Are for kisses.

That is all.

[optical-trapping]

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[explorerrowan]

Well, yeah. @staff is nothing but cowards, and @photomatt 's blatant bigotry against trans women is at best unopposed and more likely than not encouraged by the people he has surrounded himself with. Cowards or bigots only at tumblr HQ.

[filmphotofranz]

[kaban-bang]

[captain-price-returns]

Soldier your mission is to be a seat filler at our 80 year old president's big birthday fight! Strong sexy hunks ONLY! Absolutely NO uggos!

[transhuman-priestess]

I shouldn’t be surprised that Trump and Hegseth went “No Fats, No Femmes, No Asians.” So that one is on me.

[rabbitkinglune777]

cool. another black child died in a hate crime

[rabbitkinglune777]

South Carolina jury finds store owner not guilty of murder in killing of Black teen | CNN

A South Carolina jury on Monday found a store owner not guilty of murder in the 2023 shooting of a Black 14-year-old.

apparently the murder happened in 2023 after doing some research but the murderer has been found not guilty.

black children get murdered and become victims of hate crimes every fucking day. this is ridiculous

[rabbitkinglune777]

im posting this here despite the website being extremely white centered, I want people to understand how in this country it's basically ok to murder and victimize black people, especially women and children in the name of "self defense" and white America will reward you for your antiblackness.

[catsnuggler]

#JustSkyrimThings

Hired Thugs moseying on into Fort Kastav to "teach me a lesson" when I not only have a companion, but I just helped the Legion take the Fort.

I could understand them coming after me by themselves. I could understand the three of them thinking they could take on the Dragonborn and his companion.

I cannot understand them thinking they could take on a fort of Legionaries.

[catsnuggler]

Mood: listening to "Miyasan, Miyasan" while fighting for the Imperials against the Stormcloaks in Skyrim - because, hey, I am fighting for an emperor, after all. Maybe not the Emperor of Japan against the Samurai, but the Emperor of Tamriel against upstart Nord reactionaries. Close enough?

[catsnuggler]

Uriel Septim Banzai!!

[catsnuggler]

☠️

I was wrong

The Akaviri are not the samurai warriors of the Redguards

The Redguards are not a combination of North African, Arab, Moorish Spanish, *and* Japanese culture, just the first three

The Akaviri are a different race, a race of snake people, and they're the ones with Japanese culture

☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

I am a fool

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Man denied dental coverage under national plan says insurer 'playing games' with Canadians | CBC News

The Canadian Dental Care Plan is supposed to help millions of Canadians access dental care. But repeated denials of pre-authorization for mo

After months of probing, Walter Bossé is still trying to get to the bottom of why he doesn’t qualify to get a crown covered under the Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP).  The public insurance program subsidizes the cost of dental care for Canadian residents with a household income below $90,000, if they don't have access to a private insurance plan.  Insurance provider Sun Life administers the CDCP and processes claims. While most claims don’t need pre-authorization, it’s required for more expensive procedures, like crowns or partial dentures.

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