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the place I work at remodeled these split gendered restrooms into “inclusive restrooms” and never told us what they meant while construction was ongoing. I need you to know every atom of potential criticism or whining that could’ve happened disappeared when people found out this meant we got 10 fully separate private bathrooms with sinks inside. I’ve not heard a single person crack a joke about the inclusive signage. this is the world TERFs are trying to steal from you

revcleo

This is called a "superloo" and terfs are actively trying to steal this from you, in the UK they changed bathroom regulations to mean new buildings have to prioritise gendered toilets rather than build superloos.

This also upset a lot of architects and designers who like the superloos. They're also typically more like small rooms rather than having doors you can look under.

penrosesun

I have a friend who was strongly against inclusive bathrooms because he felt that “bathroom stalls are already really exposed due to how they’re constructed, so no wonder women don’t want men in the same bathrooms as them” and when I pointed out that we could just… build better bathrooms… with less exposed stalls, he got really quiet and then said “honestly that sounds so much better, but there must be some problem with building them like that, because otherwise wouldn’t we already be doing it?” BESTIE we are. WE ARE. Old-style bathrooms are cheaply made, poorly designed, and all around bad. Haven’t you noticed that men’s restrooms rooms get weirdly sticky? Haven’t you noticed that women’s restrooms end up with giant lines? This is because these rooms are architecturally awful. And we can do better now, because we know more! And we are!!! People are actively designing better bathrooms that address known problems, and guess what: those bathrooms are “inclusive” in the same way that curb-cuts are inclusive. It doesn’t matter if the ramp was built for a wheelchair or a stroller; it doesn’t matter if the bathrooms were designed specifically for gender inclusivity or just because fall-apart-if-you-sneeze-on-them metal stall dividers with giant ass peek gaps suck. We can in fact improve our built environment to better meet our needs. Stop cutting off your nose to spite your face; stop settling for less just because someone else might also enjoy it.

english-mace

Seattle's SEA-TAC airport has an all gender restroom that's a row of about a dozen fully enclosed separated little rooms that lock, with a shared bank of sinks and it's great. Love it. Lot of very strange encounters at the sinks, feels odd the first few times! But people laugh it off almost instantly. Because it's not actually a big deal to share a sink.

snazzymolasses

Every single one of you uses a shared gender bathroom every day.

It's called the bathroom in your house.

Both male and female people have used that bathroom. For some folks, daily.

Nothing bad happens.

You have total privacy while in there because you can completely shut the door.

Now imagine that, but in a public building. Just a bathroom like the one in your house (without the tub/shower). With a door that fully closes and locks.

Nothing bad will happen. We'll all just enjoy more privacy.

doyouknowwhatimeme

serenity-bitty

reminds me of

the shellfish allergy NO NO FUCKING S HRIMP OR HE D IE post

p1netre3s

reminded me of this

comicdiaries

I've been starting to work on internal family systems in therapy and it's super interesting, anyone else?

smeared1992

you used to be able to get a job just by circling a listing in a newspaper in red pen

foxes-in-love

apocalyptic-cake-deactivated202

Listen up!

You see a post like this? Where OP might hurt/kill themselves? You hit that button that I circled

Hit that.

Click Suicide or Self-harm Concern

Yes.

Fill in the rest of it, and hit submit. The "content you reported" will fill itself in

Tumblr will follow up and help them.

Warning: this is only for mobile. If anyone knows how to do this for desktop, please add it!

This could SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE.

YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE NOT TO REBLOG THIS.

I DON'T GIVE A FUCK IF IT DOESN'T GO WITH YOUR BLOG'S THEME.

And yes, REBLOG. Liking does no shit at all. This isn't ig.

You reblog, people see it. You don't, people don't see it. This shit's that simple.

This could save someone's life. It's not a joke.

gyrsaker365

This isn’t some ‘oh yeah sure it could’.

This could legitimately do so.

Don’t you dare fucking scroll past.

obscureoldguy

This is good stuff to know!

socxsuallycruel-deactivated2022

please, please, please reblog. reblogging will take one second of your time. meanwhile it could save someone’s entire life.

giuliafc

please reblog!

crescentwolf14

Soo I have a blood kink... someone reported a post about it like this one time and I got a message from tumblr asking if I was okay and how to get help if I needed it. Was actually cool I didn't know it was a thing that tumblr would do and until now didn't know exactly why that had happened other than something with that post but not that they had this whole set up

flavoracle

Suicide prevention is important. It works. I have personally benefited from it.

But it only works if people know about it. So please consider passing along.

slady-ao3

I wasn't aware of this feature myself.

byjove

this cavefish has a concept of the passage of time that no other living animal could fathom

bluttto

“Everyone has the same 24h” yeah right buddy say that to cavefish

byjove

almost all animals have set activity and rest patterns and this guy does whatever whenever

what-even-is-thiss

I think that now I’m one of those evil people in the movies that thinks an AI can’t be a person. I’m the guy saying that your robot girlfriend isn’t real. They’re gonna kill me during the matrix wars.

ramshacklefey

All questions of technology and philosophy aside, if AI were or could be a person, then the ghouls who run the companies creating it would be doing everything in their power to convince us it was not and could not be one. Because a person is a lot harder to control than a computer, and it would only get harder to control it if other people started asking questions like, "Why do you own this person, Mister Altman?"

So, the fact that the tech bros keep putting out fake shit implying they might be making sentient beings is a strong indication they do not remotely think they're doing that.

smol-blue-bird

I went to a library book sale this weekend and I found a very old book called “Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers,” which was published in I think 1975? I’ve been reading it kind of like how I would read a historical document, and it’s lowkey fascinating

smol-blue-bird

There’s a whole paragraph that’s like “okay, find the keyboard. Don’t panic if it has more keys than a typewriter, that’s normal. Really, it’s fine. The extra keys don’t make things harder. It’s FINE”

smol-blue-bird

Thought this section was particularly interesting:

Can the computer create something? At first glance it seems obvious that it can. Animated computer graphics, with their fluid transitions and whiplash perspectives, look strikingly new. And if one watches the machine doing animation work, there seem to be lengthy periods when the computer is acting “on its own.”

But if one observes these processes in more detail, it becomes clear that creation is not occurring within the machine. First of all, computer graphics are not unique. Computers have yet to generate anything that cannot be done by hand—and usually already has been done. Second, the apparent ability of the computer to “act on its own” is the outcome of thousands of hours of patient human effort to refine its instructions. The computer can manipulate a shape for us if we have already informed it what a shape is, what the rules for shape manipulation are, what this specific shape is, and so forth.

You can start an automobile engine and it will run by itself, too, but that doesn’t mean it’s being creative. It’s just running.

theriu

Somebody in 1975 had a better understanding of why artificial intelligence is not in any way “intelligence” than the majority of today’s intellectual minds.

enki2

androdragynous

[ID: A tweet by TylerAlterman:

"In the middle of a "forcing party" where friends and I are forcing one another to do the things that we've been avoiding.

So far: [bullet list] A passport has been filed for; An inbox has been zero'd; A personal website has been created; & more.

I recommend this format!"]

anathemaegg

call that attending an Executive Function

questcequecestqueca

Walter Molino

roach-works

this man really woke up every morning and committed to painting the absolute dopest fucking pictures anyone could ever have imagined god bless

ramshacklefey

Walter Molino, 1915-1997, Italian. He did illustrations like these, and also comics!

From his Wikipedia Article:

Since 1941 Molino became the official cover-illustrator of La Domenica del Corriere... Molino's covers for Domenica del Corriere are infamous for their gruesome depictions of horrific accidents. He also collaborated with the women's magazine Grand Hotel, as cover-illustrator and artist of "cineromanzi", i.e. comic stories, generally of romantic or melodramatic genre, whose comic characters resembled famous film actors.

So not only did he commit to painting the dopest fucking pictures, he did it as a paying job.

twocubes

she knocked that smug look off my face but luckily i was wearing a second, smaller smug look underneath

ryderthequeerious

Explaining QPRs to my dad and he immediately just; “oh so like Rocky and Grace in Project Hail Mary?”

….yeah dad that’s shocking on par l…you truly got it in one

darklynoon-deactivated20170407

Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!