The Ink-Well

Hello. Keelan here. (he/him|they/them)  

[pmamtraveller]

by elodidole_antoine

[glendathegoodone]

[enchantingcheesecakepersona]

[knightofverity]

I always recommend handwriting anything you have to remember (ex. test material) to cut down on overall study time

[anthonyhurd]

Just feeling like the luckiest soul at the moment. That thing that haunted me as a child brought me community and wholeness as an adult. I’ll forever be grateful for my queerness.

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

[inber]

Say you break your ankle. You could know everything there is to know intellectually about the injury. Even with this vast knowledge, you will still experience physical pain.

Now take this logic and apply it to things like ADHD, autism, clinical depression, and other less visible/divergent disabilities. You cannot think your way out of feeling.

That is to say: you are not a bad, lazy, or selfish person for struggling, even if you know why you are struggling.

[thepolymorphexperience]

Genuinely, thank you so much for this.

[tsunflowers]

reading a historical romance novel and reflecting on the way these stories often present woke nobility for the contemporary reader. a big thing is servants. you can’t not have servants in those times but many modern readers think “but I would never have servants. it would be so weird to have servants” and in order to make the protagonists of the story more relatable they are actually friends with the servants. but flip your perspective and think of it from the side of the servants. wouldn’t it be so awful if your boss was always trying to be friends with you. a really common thing you’ll see is the woke baronet having tea in the kitchen with the servants bc he’s not like other baronets. but what if your boss wanted to hang out and talk during your lunch break every day. not so charming when you think about it that way

[miraculouslumination]

Can I say by the way that one thing I have continuously noticed is the rampant erasure and/or ignorance of asexual, aromantic, aroace, and otherwise acespec/arospec/aspec trans men in all of this? Especially when it comes to trans radfems fearmongering about how all trans men (sorry, "TMEs") are just these sexual predators to every and all trans women and transfems.

Like. Trans radfems posting about how trans men are more likely to be sexual assault perpetrators. Trans radfems saying that testosterone makes you sex obsessed. Trans radfems creating this boogeyman tidal wave of trans men who are locking trans women in a relationship with them and preventing them from transitioning, or only being misogynistic about their transition.

I'm sorry but. That whole idea of this being an INHERENT part of trans manhood and/or transmasculinity falls apart because. Hi. Hello. I'm a sex-repulsed, romance-repulsed aroace trans guy. I get icked out of the idea of ever touching someone in a sexual way. I get repulsed at the idea of kissing anyone.

I am not saying these trans men aren't out there. They absolutely are. And I am genuinely sorry, from the bottom of my heart, if you have ever been the victim and survivor of something traumatizing like that.

Trans men are people, and people will find ways to hurt their fellow people, for whatever reason. However, this is not something unique to trans men, and to act like it is betrays reality in such a horrible way. Stop treating gender identity like it is a prescription or diagnosis. Gender identity doesn't determine anything of any person, but especially their morals and ability to respect consent.

And again. Asexual and aromantic trans men exist. Trust me, for some of us, the last thing any of us want is to interact with any sort of naked body, but especially one that isn't consenting. Like. Come on y'all. Do better.

[flipclock]

And unfortunately, being asexual or on the ace spectrum does not prevent bigots from accusing us of being sex pests/sexual predators/etc. After I broke it off with a transphobic ex, she started spreading lies about how I was a sex pest, sexually inappropriate/abusive, etc during the relationship despite that being the furthest thing from the truth. Being sex repulsed and on the ace spectrum don’t matter because I am transmasc… Anyone hearing the allegations would just assume it’s true because I am The Man and thus must be a creep. Of course, like you said, there’s definitely abusive creepy transmascs. But when someone is painted as a sex pest because they are transgender/transmasc, that’s a whole different story.

When someone has a bigoted bias against you, it doesn’t really matter what the reality is; they will shove you into that box and use it as a bludgeon against you and your entire group.

[penny-anna]

The contest descended further into chaos on Friday as Jeremy Corbyn’s conspiracy theorist brother and a man dressed as a fish finger joined the race.

(the telegraph) sorry, what now??

[penny-anna]

His “manifishto” includes pledges to change the lyrics of the national anthem to Cod Save the King and replace the statue of Admiral Lord Nelson in Trafalgar Square with a statue of Captain Birdseye.

what???

[penny-anna]

there was also briefly a professional psychic in the race but i gather she dropped out to avoid splitting the vote

[mls-classics]

[natoraptor]

“Tour Guides”

-2026

[afairyheart]

Royal Society reveals best nature pictures of the year

Photo taken by biologist Bert Willaert

[kuttithevangu]

On a more productive note, since Sold A Story came out there have been campaigns in at least 40 US states to establish science-based literacy curricula

How the ‘science of reading’ is reshaping literacy education

Stanford Professor Rebecca Silverman discusses a transformative movement backed by research that is changing literacy instruction in schools

The Reading League, a nonprofit dedicated to the project of science-based literacy education, has chapters in 46 states and have collected materials on reading-education science here:

Find science of reading resources, recommended books, and professional development videos to build your professional knowledge.

[julpernulper]

parents will be like “you’ve changed” and it’s just you started doing the things that make you comfortable that you always wanted to do but was too scared to express your wants and needs

[foone]

the annoying thing about the privacy nightmare that is age verification is that this is 100% doable with double-anonymity: The verifier doesn't know what site/app you're verifying your age on, and the site/app doesn't need to know your personal information.

The fun part is that you could do this extremely easily by just bundling a key with an item you can't buy unless you're 18. Like a beer that includes a PGP key, or a pornographic magazine with a page that's a randomly generated key.

The site/app doesn't need to know WHO you are, only that you have access to something you can only get by being 18. This way they're putting the burden of verifying your age onto someone else, someone else who is already legally required to do exactly that.

But no one is interested in developing this because the point of age verification has never been age verification. it's always been governments trying to tie a real-world ID to internet identities, and companies trying to get more private information on users so they can sell it to advertisers.

(and also, it's not like this would be a good system even if it'd work and do what it says it'd do: We shouldn't be blocking minors off of large parts of the internet just for the sin of being underage, especially when "mature" labeling gets applied to more than just pornography. Queer teens shouldn't be separated from their support groups by parents who don't think they're mature enough to learn about that, for example)

[vampurrring]

I’ve got that neglected dog stare

[theweirdwideweb]

[thatnordicguy]

anchorage lol

repeat urgent request more diphtheria antitoxin lol

nome in grave danger lol

please help lol

[tpwrtrmnky]

Tbh I think the "but data centers are important infrastructure, not just AI" talking point misses that like

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

That is the problem.