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like I knew the FTX crypto exchange was a ponzi scheme but finding out it was run by a polycule of racist Harry Potter tumblr nerds was a real gut punch ngl

zoesupreme

Posts from a since-deleted blog linked to Caroline Ellison, Alameda Research’s former CEO, reveal the FTX-affiliated executive’s controversi

cryptotheism

This is so cartoonishly unethical. This mfer invented Dark Polyamory.

kineticpenguin

This dude literally created ranked competitive sex

chronicallyburntout

This person really misses MySpace.

two-thirtyy

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Look buddy, i’m just trying to make it to Friday.

taykoutmccleod

reblog if its friday and you made it

queerasfact

This week on Queer as Fact we’ve been learning some words in Beki, a queer language used in the Philippines. Beki was created by queer people to avoid being understood by others, and uses wordplay, pop-culture references and sound changes to create new words to replace normal vocab. It draws on Indigenous languages from the Philippines like Tagalog and Cebuano, as well as English, Spanish, Japanese, and other languages from around the world.

Some of my favourite Beki words are ones describing sexual orientations. Here’s a just a few (we are a history podcast so these may be outdated….)

True blue - straight

Double-blade - bisexual

Bianing - lesbian (from the English word lesbian plus the diminuitive -ing)

Baki - bisexual (from the Cebuano word for frog, since frogs live both on land and in water)

Magic - lesbian (because they’re like “magicians with wands”)

Kwaknit - gay man (from the Cebuano word for bat, since bats and gay men both cruise at night)

Check out our podcast if you want to learn more Beki words!

i-live-for--the-aesthetic

Bisexual Ravenclaw

requested by @riles-4

gods-angriest-girlthing

friendly reminder that

this beautiful character

this absolutely beauty queen from Strawberry Shortcake

is canonically trans.

millika

Who’s Alex?

Billboard demonstrating gender stereotypes as most people automatically assume that Alex is the boy.

urulokid

Actually, I’ve studied design and advertising, and I can tell you that the reason people would look at this and immediately assume Alex is the boy is because, quite simply, the boy is the focal point of the ad.

English-speaking readers’ line of sight goes from left to right and up to down. This ad leads the viewer from the words MEET ALEX etc straight to the boy and then over and down to the girl. I didn’t even notice there was a set of parenthesis with words in them in the ad until I looked the fourth time.

This is a fallacious confirmation bias, as anyone looking at it will assume Alex is the focal point (i.e. The Boy) and then if they’re perceptive they’ll notice the words at the bottom. Aha! Those damn gender stereotypes gotcha again! Except no, because the ad literally forces you to read it as “Alex is the boy” by the visual language and lines of sight.

A better ad would have been structured from top to bottom instead of left to right, and wouldn’t have pushed the girl, the real subject of the ad (who, by the way, has been VISUALLY PUSHED OUT OF HER RIGHTFUL SPACE ON THE AD BY HER BROTHER) off to the corner as far away from her identifiers as possible.

Here, I’ll make you a better ad.

Bam. Shitty stock photo but you get the point. If anyone sees this and assumes Alex is the boy, they don’t have the the ad layout to use as an excuse for their internalized gender shittery. Likewise, the ad isn’t actively trying to make you read it a certain way and THEN making you feel guilty for interpreting it the way they designed it to be.

whythatsbullshit

Holy fuck someone who actually understands design, sexism, and how they intersect? Yesssss

cricketcat9

Duh. They marginalized Alex in the add. WTF graphic designer?

inspirinq

halloweenmortal

i love this

capricorn-0mnikorn

If I’d known that THIS Disability Rights flag existed as early as 2017 (if it had shown up in ANY of my Internet Searches), I MIGHT not have continued trying to design one myself

Wikipedia Article on the Disability Flag, designed by Valencian dancer Eros Recio in 2017 (warning:. an image of the zigzag flag I designed also appears in the right-hand sidebar to this article, beside the “Influence of Disability Pride” section [section 3]).

[Image description: a flag of three equal horizontal stripes, from top to bottom: Gold, pale grey (silver) and muted orange (bronze). Description ends]

Apparently, according to the Wikipedia article linked above, it was officially adopted as the official flag of all persons with disabilities on December 3, 20`7 (the 3rd of December is the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities) by “parliamentarians from Latin American countries gathered in a plenary assembly in Peru.”

This is another clue that the “Worldwide Web” is not actually that world wide – because even though I read this Wikipedia article just yesterday, when I searched for “United Nations Disability Flag” today, this image was absolutely no where in the first page of search results. But I bet it would have shown up, if I were searching from anywhere in Europe, or Latin America.

On the other hand, even if I had known about it, I might have decided that we still needed a more punk flag than this, and kept on working a black, pirate-inspired, eff-ewe, flag

Because the gold, silver and bronze stripes were inspired by the Paralympics. And I’ve always hated how disabled athletes have been used as a “so what’s your excuse?” cudgel against the rest of us.

To be fair, though, Eros Recio (who is disabled, himself), has said this flag represents overcoming the ableism we face, rather than overcoming our disabilities.

But since the queer community benefits from multiple flag designs (The Gilbert Baker flags, the Progress Flag, the Bear Flag, the Leather Pride Flag, etc.), than so can the Disability Community.

So I am hereby encouraging people (especially anglophone White, USA people) to spread awareness of this particular flag. USA culture is like honey: just one spilled drop can spread over everything, and make everything sticky. And this is especially true of USA-based Internet culture. If enough American based English-speaking people spread awareness of this flag online, than maybe the next time someone searches for “United Nations Disability Rights Flag,” this image will pop up, instead of photos of Wheelchair accessible parking spaces in fron the UN building in New York.

pastelog

Aesthetic for the name Chynna

-paint

prguitarman

I’m 35 now. Also here’s the original doodle

i-wanna-be-cute

i feel like i just walked past jesus in a hot topic

danhumphrey

snail :0

ao3commentoftheday

Follow up question for readers: if you think in images, can you actually see a scene that's well-described?

I have to admit that I get to a point with description where I just start skimming and looking for the dialogue. 😔

mizjesbelle

Derailing a little.

The first time I read The Plains of Passage -- Yeah. Scenery... scenery... scenery... and here's the plot and/or sex scene; we can tune back in now.

Re-reading The Plains of Passage years later -- Okay. Cro-Magnon angst... cro-magnon nookie... cro-magnons meeting more cro-magnons... and, holy shit! Okapi! Micro-Biomes! Megaloceros!

But, yeah, reading or writing, I want to know what the set looks like. I've been known to use reference pics for rooms and buildings as well as characters in my writing.

chronicallyburntout

When I read a really good book and get into it, later I can't tell you if I read it or watched a movie.