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Also I've said this before but advertising is an industry that should be considered as pointless and harmful as fossil fuels.

elbiotipo

"as harmful as fossil fuels? don't you think you're exaggerating a bit?" the world's largest and most sophisticated surveillance networks that gather incomprehensible amounts of personal data to make profits technological companies who are the largest corporations on the world and shapers of public opinion often for the worse, all do it for advertising.

Cut the head, just ban advertising.

elbiotipo

From protecting privacy to saving the free press, it may be the single best way to fix the internet.

anarchistmemedistro

vexwerewolf

I genuinely believe that there should be a basic human right not to be advertised to

postoctobrist

About a week into my transition I had this dream where I awoke naked in this enormous ocean of wheat. Fully transitioned, hips, tits, hair, the whole nine and then spent the entire dream being hunted by an enormous brown bear with six monster truck wheels instead of legs

I hate the transphobic monster truck bear

2pen2wildfire

Really hate that the queer community's response to the creation of a gender trinary (girl, boy, and nonbinary, which is still not all-encompassing) was to... reinvent the binary. We just started grouping all genders into "masc/male-aligned" and "fem/female-aligned" and it's so fucking stupid. Even with the occasional allowance of "neutral/unaligned" it still maintains the binary as the standard. And then they don't let you use certain labels if you don't have the "right" gender alignment. The fuck.

wizard-loving-wizard

brennan answering the question "what would make a dragon unfuckable to a monsterfucker?"

hellyesbro

I’m far less interested in fiction where it’s like “This power/ability/prophecy is gender specific but trans inclusive” and for more interested in fiction that just… doesn’t do that

hellyesbro

Stuff that’s like “Only girls can use moon magic but that includes trans women :)“ is still stupid and honestly a really reductive view of gender. Now if you wanna write some shit like “It’s believed that only girls can use moon magic but surprise it’s just surpressed/ignored in men because of gendered norms” like have at it. If you’re writing a fictional society you don’t have to stray away from fictionalized gender norms as well, but don’t right some shit where gender is baked into the laws of nature. Gender isn’t a force of nature, it’s a societal tool, and understanding that in real life means understanding that in fiction as well.

jadeharleyinc

announcing my fantasy setting where you can only cast magic if you have fat tits, very explicitly including men

comparative-tieflinguistics

Wanted to agree wholeheartedly with the previous tags: it absolutely is horrifying and imo generally tends to reflect a failure on the part of the author to actually interrogate how gender (or other social categories) is constructed. Or sometimes an outright refusal to view them as worth interrogating, which I find pretty disappointing, especially when it comes from people whose expressed beliefs are pro-trans That said, I would also enjoy a story in which gender roles are baked into the laws of magic, but only because the magic in question is not natural—it's controlled/enabled/distributed by a deity or ruler who has decided that it should be that way, and which explores how that by necessity could not exist in a way that wasn't arbitrary and stupid and harmful

adhd-mode-activated-deactivated

my dealer: got some straight gas 💯🔥 this strain is called “Moby-Dick,” or, “the whale” 🐋 itll have you zonked out of your gourd

me: whatever I don’t feel anything

five minutes later: vengeance on a dumb brute! That simply smote thee from blindest instinct! Madness! To be engaged with a dumb thing seems blasphemous

my buddy captain Ahab, pacing: Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me!

txttletale

"to get treatment for adhd you (person with untreated adhd) need to schedule and then show up for several appointments" is the kind of shit the greek gods would inflict on a guy who ate his son

self-loving-vampire

If you buy into the predator/prey gender binary at all then your best defense for trans women is going to amount to abstract, possibly essentialist efforts to separate trans women (which includes includes those that haven't started transition or even told anyone they're trans) from men in some kind of fundamental sense that fails to really account for the variety of experiences in both groups, or the fact that men and women are just not that different in the end.

self-loving-vampire

I think giving up the neurosexism that leads to treating men and women like fundamentally different types of beings in the first place seems like a much better proposition than keeping those assumptions entirely intact but trying to argue that trans women are just on the good team after all.

self-loving-vampire

"I hate men but trans women are not men so they're fine."

I'm suspicious about how you might react to trans women who don't pass, trans women who are not feminine, trans women who can't/won't transition, trans women who are big and tall, trans women who are in the closet, trans women who are still figuring things out, and so on.

What are you going to do if a trans woman doesn't meet whatever standard you're using for "not being a man"? What are you going to do if a trans woman does or says the things you assume to be exclusive to men? What are you going to do if a trans woman scares or angers you?

tanadrin

Bacteria do have souls, but binary fission doesn’t produce new souls 99% of the time, so most single celled organisms share these sprawling souls that just get bigger every time they divide. Over time they compact down into these big mats of soul get compacted into geological layers that gradually accrete to the world soul. Sexual reproduction creates new souls but they’re much shorter lived as a result, and rarely make it into the bedrock, so most of the world spirit is from the Proterozoic.

dragon-in-a-fez

but do viruses have souls?

tanadrin

No. Some people think that this is because viruses have no metabolism and can’t reproduce on their own, and therefore do not qualify as life. In fact it is just because they are too small. Pneumatons, the constituent particle of soul, have a wavelength of about 1 micrometer, and so can’t be contained in cell membranes or protein envelopes smaller than that. This also means the smallest bacteria also don’t have souls. This includes mitochondria and their immediate ancestors, which was a major impetus for their symbiosis with eukaryotes in the first place. The eukaryote cell got a source of energy, and in return the mitochondria finally got to directly apprehend a portion of divine eternity.

dragon-in-a-fez

this is super useful information, thank you!

tanadrin

It is a common error that many faiths believe the souls of the dead depart this plane of existence for some mythical heaven or hell. In fact, the souls of the dead go to UDFj-39546284, a high-redshift Lyman break galaxy in the constellation Fornax, about 32.7 billion light years away. When asked why the dead from across the universe should all be converging on this one faint galaxy, NASA astrophysicists said “it’s like an eel thing,” and refused to elaborate further.

more-mathematics-mor-lam

Explaining to Sauron that modules are much better behaved

abalidoth

One Left-Noetherian Module To Rule Them All

beardedmrbean

thestuffedalligator

It’s not autumn until you bring out the family trebuchet.

thestuffedalligator

I regret to announce that the family trebuchet has been retired following an incident wherein the trebuchet lobbed a pumpkin backwards, taking out a truck window, before self destructing when the counterweight swung into one of the support legs, shattering it instantly

thestuffedalligator

I am delighted to announce that my dad has begun work on a new trebuchet