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I don’t like bright lights. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ he/him, bisexual, trans neurodivergent, disability, queer stuff WWDITS, OFMD, disenchantment, houseMD, LOTR, a few others DNI: terfs “MAP”s fascists creeps etc. “men DNI” blogs please DNI

[clonerightsagenda]

Usually when the electrician goes 'hey.... there's something you should see' it's because someone set up shoddy wiring. This time it was because he pulled two snakes out of my wall

[is-this-fascism]

its funny to me how warmups for instruments generally sound nice and pretty. like just basic scales or chords. the exercises i do on my guitar could be mistaken for actual music at times.

and then vocal warmups are shit like. bark like a seal. grunt like a thwomp from mario 64. now sing the melody but instead of the lyrics youre saying 'moo moo mee mee mah mah' even the scales you gotta moo mee mah through that shit and its just so goofy every time. and this is why im not a singer

[guiltfactory-moved]

sometimes the absence is more compelling. let's lack something and then feel its presence forever in the empty space where it should be.

[trattenbach]

Happy Battle Against Richard Nixon's Immortal Soul Saturday

[your-dewey-decimal-number-is]

973.924 and 641.864

richard nixon and gelatin (re: aspic)

[sunbentshadows]

tiktok that is good

[arteei]

you use ai baby pictures i use stupid gifs that don’t fit the situation we are not the same

[woman-respecter]

suburban women on september 15 1967 tuning in to star trek and seeing fuck-or-die mode spock getting in a sweaty man fight with captain kirk in amok time

[luulapants]

actually once you do vote by mail once, it feels STUPID that in-person voting is even a thing. getting to sit with your ballot in your house, easily see your options, have time to do research and consider your choice, talk with friends and neighbors about their vote. it's especially so for small local elections and primaries where you might not have heard about different candidates and really have to ask around, attend local events, or dig into local news stories to find out who they are and what they stand for. but, of course, not allowing voters to easily research and carefully consider their votes is why there is opposition to vote by mail in the first place.

[kedreeva]

I get the sentiment, but in person voting needs to remain a thing. Not an exclusive thing, absolutely not, but the choice needs to be there.

People that don't have a residence to send a mail in ballot to need to be able to go in person if they can. People in situations with abusive spouses or partners or families need to be able to go in person and be allowed to vote without influence, if they can. People who would feel pressured to vote one way or another, or feel pressured to show their ballot to someone else if doing it at home. People that can't read or write and don't have anyone they know or trust enough to help them with the ballot can get help at the in person places. They can ask questions of the volunteers there to assist. People that are nervous to do it alone can go in person together and make a little event of it. Sometimes the mail gets misplaced or stolen.

There are a lot of reasons that in person voting is a thing and should remain a thing, just not an exclusive thing. I want to receive my ballot in the mail to my house that I own, and spend time with my wonderful spouse looking up the candidates and reading each other their stances on stuff we care about, and I want to drive my car over to the township building at my leisure and pass my completed ballot to a human being so I know it was received. But I also understand not everyone is in that kind of position, and that having more than one option on how to vote is essential actually. Voting should be as easy and accessible to as many people as possible.

[vacuously-true]

Also... You can do all those things op listed while voting in person. You're allowed to sit down at a table and pull out your phone and look stuff up. It's not like an exam that you can't cheat on. You can look at a sample ballot online before you go. You can text your friends and neighbors and ask them their thoughts whether you're at home looking at your real ballot or at home looking at a sample ballot. My experience voting in person and voting by mail is extremely similar because if I plan to vote in person I'm still gonna look at a sample ballot a few days in advance and ask the same questions and do my research and talk to people, and then know what I'm gonna vote for when I go in person. So the difference between whether my trip is to go to the poll and mark a ballot there or to bring my ballot completed at home to the collection, is very minor. You can bring a piece of paper to the poll with you to remember the choices you made if you don't want to store that in your brain; again, it's not a test, you can't cheat.

I get that all these things psychologically become more obvious or something when you have your actual ballot at home with you but please do know that you can do them if you are going to vote in person as well.

I also disagree that the primary reason people oppose mail voting is because it allows people to do their research. People oppose it for the same reason they want shorter open hours for polls and fewer locations. Because that will disproportionally hurt people who work longer hours, people without reliable transportation, and so on. It's not that they want people to vote without doing their research, it's that they don't want people to vote.

[our-queer-experience]

helen “trans people are perpetuating gender steriotypes” joyce is now upset that the scientific american is writing about how women were hunters too back in the day, not just mothers and caretakers. feminist win!

[the-gummy-worms-have-me]

I think I found the article!

The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong

The influential idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not isn’t supported by the available evidence

Read it if you have the time, it's very interesting.

[mikkeneko]

Reading the article I see why TERFs are mad about it; it explicitly makes the distinction between gender as a social entity and sex as a biological category, and defines biological sex having multiple factors, both of which are anathema to TERF philosophy.

It also includes these fascinating paragraphs about the role of estrogen in different types of physical activity, directly debunking the widespread notion that estrogen is the weak human's hormone and only does weak human things:

Given the fitness world's persistent touting of the hormone testosterone for athletic success, you'd be forgiven for not knowing that estrogen, which females typically produce more of than males, plays an incredibly important role in athletic performance… The estrogen receptor—the protein that estrogen binds to in order to do its work—is deeply ancient. Joseph Thornton of the University of Chicago and his colleagues have estimated that it is around 1.2 billion to 600 million years old—roughly twice as old as the testosterone receptor. In addition to helping regulate the reproductive system, estrogen influences fine-motor control and memory, enhances the growth and development of neurons, and helps to prevent hardening of the arteries. Important for the purposes of this discussion, estrogen also improves fat metabolism. During exercise, estrogen seems to encourage the body to use stored fat for energy before stored carbohydrates. Fat contains more calories per gram than carbohydrates do, so it burns more slowly, which can delay fatigue during endurance activity. Not only does estrogen encourage fat burning, but it also promotes greater fat storage within muscles… which makes that fat's energy more readily available. Adiponectin, another hormone that is typically present in higher amounts in females than in males, further enhances fat metabolism while sparing carbohydrates for future use, and it protects muscle from breakdown. Anne Friedlander of Stanford University and her colleagues found that females use as much as 70 percent more fat for energy during exercise than males. Estrogen's ability to increase fat metabolism and regulate the body's response to the hormone insulin can help prevent muscle breakdown during intense exercise. Furthermore, estrogen appears to have a stabilizing effect on cell membranes that might otherwise rupture from acute stress brought on by heat and exercise. Ruptured cells release enzymes called creatine kinases, which can damage tissues… Linda Lamont of the University of Rhode Island and her colleagues, as well as Michael Riddell of York University in Canada and his colleagues, found that females experienced less muscle breakdown than males after the same bouts of exercise. Tellingly, in a separate study, Mazen J. Hamadeh of York University and his colleagues found that males supplemented with estrogen suffered less muscle breakdown during cycling than those who didn't receive estrogen supplements.

The article also talks about sexual dimorphism in different species, concluding that "Modern humans have low sexual dimorphism compared with the other great apes," and that overemphasis on averages obscures the wide dispersal of individual traits, which is what I keep saying.

[aethersea]

Anthropologists also look at damage on our ancestors' skeletons for clues to their behavior. Neandertals are the best-studied extinct members of the human family because we have a rich fossil record of their remains. Neandertal females and males do not differ in their trauma patterns, nor do they exhibit sex differences in pathology from repetitive actions. Their skeletons show the same patterns of wear and tear. This finding suggests that they were doing the same things, from ambush-hunting large game animals to processing hides for leather. Yes, Neandertal women were spearing woolly rhinoceroses, and Neandertal men were making clothing.

I also thought this part was cool :)

[caesarsaladinn]

I recite this to myself every time I refrain from making a stupid purchase

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

my farming sim game will have animal butchery as a normalized part of the gameplay loop to act as a lightning rod to draw all the discourse and thinkpieces away from topics that would annoy me more

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

in my farming sim game that has animal butchery as a normalized part of the gameplay loop, shipped products will be sold on a weekly basis, not a daily one. you get a big windfall once a week and then you budget around that. if you want more money in the interim you have to go sell to the local merchants whatever products they specialize in.

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

in my farming sim game, getting married to one of the townspeople will have a significant impact on your gameplay. if you marry the rival farmer, their smaller farm will be merged with yours. if you marry the town alchemist/doctor you get a buff to all your alchemy and you wake up from getting knocked out in your own home instead of their clinic. if you marry the priestess she uh, idk she does weather related divine magic for you so you can choose the weather, idk i haven't thought too hard about that one yet

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

my farming sim game will have a MILF you can actually F

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

these tags are probably a joke but genuinely i do think that more games with romance candidates in general should require you to at least be on friendly terms with their family/close friends before they will romance/marry you. so yes. romancing the MILF will require attending her kid's pretend tea party first. to prove you mean business

[nedlittle]

if i were a respected british actor with any principles at all i would simply not agree to a project whose earnings will have material consequences for trans people but maybe i'm built differently

[nedlittle]

here are, to the best of my knowledge, the actors attached to the television series as of the time of writing (august 12 2026):

Dominic McLaughlin, Arabella Stanton, Alastair Stout, John Lithgow, Janet McTeer, Paapa Essiedu, Nick Frost, Luke Thallon, Lox Pratt, Johnny Flynn, Elijah Oshin, Katherine Parkinson, Gracie Cochrane, Ruari Spooner, Gabriel Harland, Tristan Harland, Leo Earley, Alessia Leoni, Sienna Moosah, Bel Powley, Daniel Rigby, Amos Kitson, Bertie Carvel, Paul Whitehouse, Rory Wilmot, Louise Brealey, Bríd Brennan, Richard Durden, Leigh Gill, Sirine Saba, Warwick Davis, William Nash, Finn Stephens, Anton Lesser, Nicholas Hoult

i will try to update this list with more names as they are announced

(x)

and here are (some) of the 200ish actors who worked on the full-cast audiobooks released last year: (x)

Frankie Treadaway, Max Lester, Arabella Stanton, Jaxon Knopf, Rhys Mulligan, Nina Barker-Francis, Hugh Laurie, Matthew Macfadyen, Riz Ahmed, Jude Farrant, Maximus Evans, Jake Sigsworth, Archie Mountain, Mark Addy, Michelle Gomez, Kit Harrington, Keira Knightley, Alex Hassell, Iwan Rheon, Sope Dirisu, James McAvoy, Simon Pegg, Leo Woodall, Ambika Mod, Ruth Wilson, Daniel Mays, Millie Gubby, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Anna Maxwell Martin, Avni Deshmukh, Sara Deshmukh, Bill Nighy, David Holmes, Mackenzie Crook, Stephen Mangan, Gemma Whelan, Tract-Ann Oberman, Matt Berry, Cush Jumbo

(x)

[memeuplift]

[mossspores]

life if comes fucks me

[girlballs]

my crinkling scrinklet

[girlballs]

no it's good for her

[gawdland]

"divorced the wife today. Probably wont get the kids. Drank beer that was 300 caIs. Gonna go yell at minorities on facebook."

#oldmanblogging #this is an old man blog #this is what makes us old men #the big lebowski #hell is a middle aged man #male testeria #man interrupted #humbert #nickleback #im just a man

[capacity2]

They’re on Reddit saying texting “hi” is low iq and gives people the ick and that’s why they got ghosted. They don’t let u say hi no more….. we’re in a loneliness epidemic bc everybody is a weirdo about every little thing im cracking up

[la-vie-en-lys]

If you say "hi" and that's it you sound like you don't give a shit. Why would I want to talk to someone who won't even introduce themselves properly? Make an effort or suffer your loneliness epidemic.

[capacity2]

You people are crazy . You’re just crazy. This isn’t a normal world anymore

[auttumnleafs]

It's poor netiquette. If someone sent you a letter in the mailbox that just said "hi" would that not drive you insane?

[capacity2]

I would send hello ^.^ back ….. and feel warm inside

[sodiumfreak]

im just going to have to cope with the bad feelings and thoughts for the rest of my life