its interesting how the people who say "my trauma made me funny" are never actually funny just uncomfortably self-deprecating
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its interesting how the people who say "my trauma made me funny" are never actually funny just uncomfortably self-deprecating
Return from the Stars, by Stanislaw Lem, published 1961.
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We regret to inform you that the sunshine and friendship app is actually a children killing app.
incredible picture found on the interwebs i had to share with everypony
I WANT TO LOOK AT THINGS MADE BY HUMAN BEINGS
And also occasionally by pufferfish
This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.
This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).
Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct
Cannot stand the trend of censoring any and all words that describe concepts that might make you go :( especially when the censoring is done in that quarter-assed way that's just 'did a lil scribble over a vowel so you know that I know this word describes a no-no."
I'm not even going to be vague about what sparked this. Do not fucking censor the word 'stole.' I'm at my fucking limit.
Who does this benefit. Who is made safer by this. Whose life is made better by this. Who is out there going "Wow I sure am glad I didn't have to see that word without it scribbled on a little. That really reduced the emotional impact of reading that word." Can I kill them?
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Tootsie
"I have a name... it's Dorothy. Not Tootsie or Toots, or Sweetie or Honey or Doll”
Art by Alejandro Mogollo
Have you ever seen Tootsie?
If not, you really should, it's an excellent comedy.
It's from 1982, I simply love it, it's easily one of my favourite movies of all time...
The dialogues are intelligent, the comedic time of the actors is impeccable, the rhythm is perfect. Tootsie incredibly stand the test of the time, and it features loads of amazing actors.
It surprised me a bit when, not long ago, I read of a famous interview released by Dustin Hoffman, about playing a female character.
In a widely circulated interview with the American Film Institute, Dustin Hoffman revealed that his 1982 role in Tootsie led to a profound "epiphany" about the societal pressures and invisibility women face.
The Beauty Standard Trap: After undergoing extensive makeup tests to pass as a woman, Hoffman was shocked and "devastated" that he was not more attractive. When he asked the makeup artists to make him "a beautiful woman," they told him that was as good as it would get.
A "Brainwashed" Perspective: Hoffman realized that if he met his character, Dorothy Michaels, at a party, he would likely ignore or "never even talk to" her because she did not meet the physical demands men are raised to expect.
Emotional Realization: He tearfully recounted telling his wife that there were "too many interesting women" he had never bothered to know because he had been "brainwashed" by superficial beauty standards.
Shift in Approach: Because of this realization, he viewed the film not as a comedy, but as a serious exploration of how he, and men in general, had been socialized to judge women.
As of 2026, this interview remains a significant cultural touchstone for discussions on gender dynamics and sexism in Hollywood.
Tootsie (1982) dir. Sydney Pollack
tumblr staff will let the thousands of porn bots on here run rampant yet will take down trans comics with no actual nudity
i originally reblogged this post, but since staff took it down you can't fucking see my reblog anymore. well i liked this comic, i want it on my blog, and it does not include any fucking nudity. especially compared to all the straight up porn staff allows to go free
so here it is
untitled by Pas (paxiti), all pages from May 23, 2018 to June 22, 2023
doing research on people's preferred formats for how restaurants have their menus displayed online and i'm including responses to the post to send to my boss but um. i don't think i can include this specific response
I regret to inform you all but my Google drive name at my job is Dirk Strider because that is also my real life legal name in my life
1) any stretching is better than no stretching
2) any vegetable is better than no vegetable
3) statistically you will never be the worst person at anything, there is always someone in the world who is worse at stuff than you are
tumblr bullshit lesson time
this means the poster added the content label herself
this means the poster did not add the content label herself (regardless of whether or not tumblr actually let her do so) and also every reblog of it will individually have the content label forcibly added to it in similar fashion regardless of whether or not tumblr actually lets you do so
I love how you’re saying “herself” because Tumblr only marks trans women’s posts as potentially mature content
while true it's actually coz i'm talking about myself here and speaking of myself wait until we finish this awkward segue i've set up and you learn about the special seemingly myself exclusive mature content flag they gave my first account that added a separate non-content-label mature flag to every post I made
Here's the thing about homeschooling that I think non-homeschooled kids don't and can't understand. You can have the best parents on the planet with the best intentions on the planet and homeschool will still seriously fuck you up. There is no way to do it ethically. I know because I basically had the best possible homeschooling experience.
My parents pulled me for the fourth grade, and I was homeschooled until the end of high school. Nine entire years. They pulled me from the public schools for a perfectly reasonable reason — my mental health was in the toilet and I needed to be away from other kids who might hurt me as they had spent all of my third grade year doing. My mom has a fucking PhD in neuroscience and tutors math professionally. She was, during the ten years that my siblings and I were homeschooled, the best, kindest, most caring, understanding, lovely teacher you could ask for.
But I'm still broken. That's the thing about homeschool. You can have the best experience possible in homeschool and still come out a fundamentally broken person. My social development stopped at the age of 10. I'm a 22 year old adult woman with the social skills of a 10 year old. That's not to say that that COULDN'T have happened in public school, but being homeschooled only made it more of a certainty. Both of my siblings and I have fewer coping strategies on average than our peers with similar neurodivergencies because we basically did not live in the real world for a decade during key developmental years.
Don't ban homeschooling because of the religious nuts. There are plenty of them. Hell, I KNEW plenty of them. But there are also plenty of quote unquote "good" homeschool families. Ones that do everything you would hope the model homeschool family does. And they are still hurting their children, even if unintentionally, because homeschooling is an inhrently traumatic experience. It's isolating. For seven entire years of my life, I had no friends. Not because I was a social outcast, but because I didn't even SEE anybody regularly enough. But, nonetheless, I knew people. You generally do if you get involved in the community.
Ban homeschooling because it breaks and utterly destroys everyone who goes through it.
Everyone.
I'm sorry, Lauren. I'm sorry, Kade. I'm sorry to the boy whose name I can no longer remember. I'm sorry that I survived and you didn't.