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I'm done apologizing for who I am. I'm done hiding who I am to make sure no one sees me as a problem. I've grown into someone beautiful and messy and brave, and I'm proud of that. So I'm going to be me.
And if that doesn't suit your tastes, might I instead interest you in a delicious block button?
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It's the 250th Fourth of July or something. Let's talk about democracy.
The United States cannot be saved by returning to the Revolutionary War or the Founding Fathers or the Enlightenment. We cannot find the solution to Western imperialism from the core of Western imperialism; we cannot find the escape from capitalist modernity from within capitalist modernity.
Every terrible thing that is happening in the United States - and all that which seeps out from it to the rest of the Americas and the rest of the world - can be traced back to authoritarianism, hierarchy, and the commodification of people and the natural world. The U.S has always been, at its best, "state-plus-democracy," having been forced to compromise and share power with the people, and the state is always seeking for ways to maintain its hegemonic power. Your voice doesn't matter because it was never supposed to matter, not as much as the businessmen. You feel this disempowered because you were always supposed to be powerless, your vote just part of an elaborate system meant to keep the peace between the wealthy and keep the poor productive. This country was never for you; it's all been one long con, and even the con-artists had themselves convinced it was "for the People."
In order to truly love democracy, and all the people of the Americas, you must hate the United States, which has only ever captured the will of the people to lend legitimacy to the rule of the wealthy. True (direct) democracy is possible, and it will be achieved through landback, Black liberation, gender liberation, solidarity with the Global South, and socialism.
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Anarchy is Democracy taken seriously
ANARCHY IS DEMOCRACY TAKEN SERIOUSLY
Everyone on tumblr has Conditions. maladies. I log onto tumblr and my mutuals are unwellposting. Conditions I didn't even know existed and sound like dark curses but I will see a post from friend like "died about 60% today, fine now. Made egg on toast #yummytoast". There are so many people in this world with life experiences
Every time I express that I think it's shitty to say that genAI "hallucinates," people get weirdly pissy and combative with me.
But until real human beings who experience hallucinations are treated like human beings worthy of respect and dignity...I think perhaps it's shitty to keep associating hallucinations with being non-human, dangerous, and a liar.
It actually really fucking sucks that hallucinating is seen as monster-movie-scary, dangerous, inhuman, and worthy of scorn and/or mockery. It actually really fucking sucks that people who hallucinate or experience delusions can't get compassionate help or understanding, because everyone thinks it's an automatic sign of being dangerous, violent, and a liar. It's a massive problem that people look at hallucinations as "dangerous crazy person shit" that should be gotten rid of or locked away.
I find it crass, at best, to flippantly use the term "AI hallucinations" when real-life people get abused, imprisoned, and killed because they experience hallucinations.
But what do I know, I'm just a crazy person. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
People in the notes keep proposing alternatives or asking me what they should say instead, and I really think y'all are overthinking it. You don't need to coin an entire new term. You can just say "AI generates misinformation." If you need it as a noun, "AI misinformation."
If you want to be provocative, "AI spits out garbled bullshit" works, too.
honestly if you are someone who really struggles with being like "is it stupid to imagine we can overcome capitalist imperialist white supremacist patriarchy? is it too naive and idealistic? it just all feels so overwhelmingly inevitable and impossible to resist in a way that changes anything" i recommend trying a double dose of Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? and Hope without Hope: Rojava and Revolutionary Commitment. and then go read those texts with your friends and neighbors!
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We've not only taken away all of the physical spaces for our children to exist in, we're now taking away the electronic ones as well. I'm sure this won't have any negative consequences.
the more time you spend in active recovery from any given self destructive behavior or addiction the more you understand the common conception of the "relapse" as defined by a broken "streak" to be, like, so bad for one's own well-being that it would be funny if it weren't resulting in just a lot of misery and death
I told my girlfriend to think of quitting vaping as training her endurance by seeing how long she can run before she gets tired, then doing it again and hoping to go further next time. She said it really helped her.
The difference between "There used to be hot summers too,” and a climate crisis.
Look, we all know this is true. But there isn't a SOURCE for this, and the graph itself is basically illegible beyond "ooh colors". If we want to be good stewards of our informational resources, we need to cite our sources.
From a reverse image search, I found the website Show Your Stripes, run by the University of Reading in the UK, which is likely where the above graph originated. It provides temperature data for various regions of the world from approximately 1900-2025. For example, here are graphs for Canada, India, and Papua New Guinea:
All clearly show a sharp rise in temperature beginning around approximately the 1980s, which corresponds with the graph in OP's post. But now we know where this data came from, and we can verify its validity accordingly.
Hey sorry if I’m kinda weird I was supposed to be dead by now
questioning intersex culture is the doctors trying to convince you it's normal for you to look nothing like the diagrams and you wondering if you're making it all up until you ask another intersex person and they say "holy shit yeah you're intersex" because they actually know what it's like
questioning intersex culture is...
Nothing quite like having the doctors call you, hang up on you upon hearing your voice because it doesn't "match" your legal name, call you back, and then force you to prove that you aren't your legal name's abusive boyfriend trying to prevent them from having access to their own medical information. Mind you I am single.
I gave them my legal name, my spoken name (listed on my chart), birth date, address, the doctor I see, all of it. And the nurse was still fighting with me that I couldn't possibly have my voice.
I'm intersex. It's in my notes. Yea, my voice is low. It's been low. And yea, the name my parents gifted me is hella girly. Plus since I started HRT years back it's been getting lower (trans joy moment). It took her hanging up and calling back a third time and going through the same process (both names, birth date, address, the doctors I see) to finally tell me the lab results. This has happened to me with my bank and at the pharmacy, too. Like damn I should not have to rely on someone's opinions about sex and gender binaries in order to access my own medical information.
Been seeing a lot of least weasels outside. I don't have anything poignant to say about it, it just makes me really happy and I wanted to share. I would like to hold one if weasels weren't vicious predators that would rip my hand to shreds for the audacity.
They stand up and poke their heads out of the grass like chipmunks do so for a long time I thought they were chipmunks. Sometimes the everyday things in your life are in fact more special and exciting than you realize.
Hey idk who needs this but helpful reminder that "virgin blood" in any witchcraft shit that requires that means "virgin" in the same sense as "virgin hair" means hair that hasn't been dyed or processed in any way, natural in the default sense. So no, "virgin blood" doesn't mean blood from a virgin, just blood that hasn't been used for any other kind of witchy shit earlier.
Whether nor not someone has fucked before is completely irrelevant. Any act of fucking doesn't instantly make someone contaminated or un-magic any of their shit. You're just not supposed to re-use blood for blood magic. That's just not. Just do not. Like that's just weird who does that.
no wait that- no that's not- no.
Unles you've like, poured out ALL OF YOUR BLOOD, used it for a spell, and then somehow SIPHONED THE WHOLE THING BACK IN, that doesn't mean the blood on the inside of you is also used. And even then, if you'd had your sacrifical blood IV'd back into your body-
actually nevermind, I need to draw a graph to illustrate:
I hope this helps.
The blood inside of you is used. Constantly. It's why there is blood there.
If anything, the blood on the outside is unused.
damn they ain't lying, it is like talking to a fucking genie with you people.
Ok, but that was a good point before the diagram.
What if you use the blood in a dialysis machine. As in, you grab a few pints, use them in a ritual, and then dump it back in the machine to be put back in the body (assuming you don't add anything extra to the blood for the blood rite, poor woman would die for sure). Assuming you do this multiple times and eventually use all the blood in cycled in the body for the rites:
Is any blood in the woman's body still blood rite eligible?
As blood gets replenished (because red blood cells die and get replaced), does the blood eventually become virgin again or is the blood in the body now permanently unvirgin?
Are the red blood cells the only part that's necessary for virgin blood (like can I centrifuge the blood and use a solid cube of RBC for the rites) or must all the plasma, white blood cells, insulin and stuff also be in the blood?
Does putting unvirgin blood in the blood dialysis machine make it virgin again?
If I feed the bone marrow unvirgin (but nutritious) blood, will the blood it produces be virgin or unvirgin (Theseus style)?
I think it works the opposite way from holy water: Any amount of blood that was used in blood sacrifice getting mixed with blood that hasn't been used as a blood sacrifice is going to make the blood used blood. But nonetheless the blood refreshes itself naturally as the body creates new blood and old blood cells get discarded, so I believe that the blood is good to use again in whatever time it takes for the whole blood amount in the body to get 100% recycled?
For the rest of those questions, I genuinely don't know. I'm not a witch, a doctor, or a witch doctor. You'll need to find all three and compare their answers.
But if any amount of blood contaminates the rest, does the recycling still work when the "unused" blood mixes with the "used" blood? Or does the recycling process render the "unused" blood immune to the effect of the ancient ritual?
okay, let's look at it this way:
A blood sacrifice is an offering. Let's say you're offering the blood to something in exchange for something you want to get in return. The blood should be blood that was specifically intended for this purpose.
If you went to a restaurant, and received a burger in exchange for your money, and only SOME PARTS of the burger you received were put together from the partially eaten burgers left behind by other customers, how much new ingredients would you expect to be also mixed into it until you no longer regard it as being served other customers' leftovers?
This is a very long way of saying that virgin blood just means fresh blood.
I dare you to try to briefly define a simple concept in a way that people on Tumblr can understand instantly and perfectly and with no additional clarifying questions.
i think its funny when objects are like this
“If we can and do deceive ourselves in service of capitalist hegemony, why not in service of revolution?”
from Hope Without Hope: Rojava and Revolutionary Commitment by Matt Broomfield
(for context: Broomfield is talking about how we internalize certain myths/narratives created by capitalism, despite deep down knowing the system is unjust and deeply flawed, and live as though these myths are as real as anything. since we are capable of doing this in the name of an unjust system, we are also capable of choosing to take a leap of faith in the existentialist sense, credally buying into liberatory myths and to live as though radical socialist liberation is achievable, even while acknowledging the flaws that exist in all revolutionary movements and that we will inevitably fail in many ways)
