Dusty Callie

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[botanyshitposts]

a really funny thing about working with seeds in a day to day capacity is that you really need the seeds to stay in one place at any given moment, and the seeds disagree. so it’s just like, seeds end up on the floor. seeds end up on the desk. seeds appear in the crack between the glass plate of the microscope stage and its surrounding metal casing. seeds are around the dumpster outside. sweeping up seeds, patching up bags of seeds, picking seeds off your clothes and from between keyboard keys, very carefully transferring seeds into containers less likely to cause catastrophe should the seeds breach containment, like it’s just an uphill battle built into the work. almost as if the seeds are hyperevolved to disperse themselves or something

[discount-supervillain]

[audhdspacewizard]

Knowing that Eridians have much longer lifespans, and also he can't be at every school on the planet at once, Ryland Grace decides to record a bunch of entertaining science lessons with Rocky's help.

Hundreds of years later, Eridian kids still get excited when the substitute teacher rolls in the 3D shape projector, because they know they're in for an episode of Friend Grace the Science Ace.

[zarohk]

Knowing Rocky and how well he gets to know Grace, I’m sure the name for his show rhymes in Eridian as well.

[roguesquirrel]

my pre-columbian miis and the art they were based on

[ickaimp]

So this is not a plea for money. This is something that surprised me, and chatting with people on discord, they were unaware of as well.

Discovered last year I couldn’t look at my 2015 MacBook Air without it triggering nausea and migraines, and figured the screen died. Have been getting by on my phone, but concluded I really need a laptop again.

Saved up, realised I could afford a brand new MacBook Neo, and got one.

-And I couldn’t spend more than five minutes looking at the screen without massive eye strain, nausea, vertigo, and if I pushed it, I-need-to-lie-down-in-a-dark-room-for-hours migraines.

Looking up MacBook and Eyestrain explained what is going on. The liquid retina displays that Apple currently has uses Pulse Width Modulation or PWM. In order to give the screens a deeper depth of colour and contrast, PWM flickers between several hundred to thousand times a second.

And there is currently no way to turn it off. There are settings and apps to reduce it, but there is no way to stop the screen from flickering. Checked Apple forums, called Apple Support, and the time I could look at the screen kept shrinking. Got the laptop Tuesday, returned it Friday, today is Sunday and I’m still dealing with a vertigo migraine.

For MacBooks, it seems to vary on the computer model and the software it uses. In retrospect, the issue with my MacBook Air started after a major software update.

And it’s not just an Apple thing. Current Windows and Android screens do the same thing. There’s even a Reddit for people who are sensitive to PWM flickers to help find computers and screens that won’t trigger eyestrain and headaches.

So, yeah. This week has been a learning experience. But for those who are prone to headaches and migraines, this may be something to be aware of, cause I was not.

[velvetvexations]

so I wrote a banger of a paper last semester, like the prof gave me an A+ & told me I oughta use it when applying to grad school level BANGER of a fabulous paper, about Paris is Burning. And in the research for that paper (extensive, all scholarly and peer reviewed sources), I came across an interesting tidbit:

Livingston purposefully kept drag kings, butches, and trans men’s involvement in the scene to a minimum level, so as to not confuse the primary audience (the cishet white middle class American audience).

Now, I do understand why. This movie was made in the late 80s, released in 1990, it makes sense to keep a documentary film focused. But all the same, every time I think about the current trans discourse, I think about the decision to avoid interviewing a huge portion of the community so as to keep the emotional/rhetorical focus sharp. And again, I do have an appreciation for the movie — the paper focused on transfeminine case subjects and how they were empowered by an accepting community. But I cannot deny that it kinda stings to see that “trans men need to stay quiet so that the rest of the community can thrive” is not a new take.

Maybe I oughta write a paper on that...

Also, I have done a LOT of research on historical transmasc subjects, and the whole “hysterically demanding to be taken seriously while being a danger to themselves and others” is nothing new. TRFs sound like old timey doctors trying to keep transmasculine people quiet & obedient.

Transmasc invisibility is and always has been enforced. It doesn't arise naturally, people commit to shit like this.

[velvetvexations]

[aetherograph]

That sounds so familiar to what the transgender people were told when civil rights marches for gay people started--that we ALL needed to stay quiet so the movement could seem "focussed" and "easy to understand" for the straights. Same shit different day.

I didn't know I was trans until 2007, because I didn't know that a trans person could be THAT direction of trans. And even then, I wasn't really given any information about anything but binary transness. There's still very little information about it for people my age (another issue the queer community has). And yet in the almost twenty years I've been here, the needle hasn't moved at all for trans-m people. My Dr, who works at the queer clinic, was telling me how frustrated she was that she'd read this big huge book that was supposedly the history of trans treatment and transmen were not meantioned even at all, even though it mentioned doctors that worked with us, like Hirschfeld! And I was like yeah! We're invisible! We get called lesbians and tomboys and "wow she was so brave having to cross-dress and pretend she was a man to live her life #girlboss" even when its like "this person shot anybody that called him a girl, went by male appellations and a male name, and said he was a man".

We're here.

Y'all just don't fucking LISTEN.

I wonder why THAT is?

(I know why.)

[genderkoolaid]

So does anyone have an actual source for this? Genuinely, I would love to be able to verify this, but anon doesn't really give any identifying information about what source this actually came from & I haven't been able to find anything myself.

My first thought is the Criterion Collection commentary, discussion, or outtakes, but those are behind a paywall & I haven't found any way to access them.

[show-me-the-bones]

Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your

@genderkoolaid sorry this is the only way it would let me upload it but I was able to snag a free trial of Criterion and went to listen to the commentary to confirm it. I took an audio recording of the commentary dialogue starting at 12:40 ish where the director talks about cutting out “butches and masculine lesbians” for being too confusing and off topic.

[genderkoolaid]

Thank you so much!!

Transcript of that audio:

Livingston: "[…] really about who was prettiest. Um, I preferred categories that had athletic dance, or original costumes, or somebody going for an overall look. And that was more in keeping with the film’s overall themes. And then there were aspects of the balls there wasn’t room for. There were a couple categories for actual women participants, including a category for butch girls, who would either pass as men or were just handsome. But ultimately I left out - we left out the category for lesbians and women because it was just too hard to explain. I mean, you’re trying to say to your audience, “all these women are actually men,” and then you’re saying, “but these people are women.” I just thought, even for a gay audience, it might be confusing. And there were some other categories that, you know, just didn’t make it in the film ‘cause we had so much footage. […]"

[gotchibam]

Shiny Sylveon and Shiny Jolteon ko-fi doodle for Mihai! ✨

[ceevee5]

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

Not everything is a curse, sometimes it’s just Tuesday

[wizard-shadow-league]

I cast

Eternal Tuesday

[wizard-council-museum-clerk]

So that's why yesterday was Tuesday! And the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that.

[wizard-shadow-league]

Happy Tuesday everyone

[wizard-council-museum-clerk]

Happy Tuesday! It feels like its been Tuesday for a week.

[ellipsisthegreat]

[littlethingwithfeathers]

@hexmeridian

[boozehund-blog]

ppl who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoying pass it on

[wolfprud3-deactivated20170620]

FUCK this post and happy birthday sonic

[twofingerswhiskey]

"oh food now has so much added to it, past food was so pure and untainted" victorians used to cut bread with chalk and aluminum powder. romans put lead in the wine, which was made from dirty feet mushing unwashed grapes covered in horse shit and road dust. i think our species will survive a few additives in food. our food systems have never been cleaner and safer. it has room for improvement, but we're not putting fucking plaster of paris in the milk

[dcartcorner]

why yes i did watch the miniminuteman video about the bad dürrenberg shaman

[charmers]

[genderkoolaid]

(Source).

An 80-foot-tall mural of trans men in Kolkata, India. It was made by artist Nandini Moitra (they/them) alongside the Kolkata transmasc community.

[genderkoolaid]

#the bengali text above says ''we were here we are here we will be here'' 🥺

[luckyladylily]

I have considered for a long time how to best and most simply explain the critical elements of intersectionality, because I think it is among the most critical of ideas and so many people get it wrong. So here we go.

Intersectionality, at it's core, asserts that identities can not be broken into what we see as their individual parts, in particular when discussing the oppression and prejudice a person faces. Identities are more than just the sum of their parts.

The theory was originally laid out by a black woman to explain her own oppression. In short, she claimed that her oppression as a black woman could not be simply explained as black oppression + woman oppression. She also experienced black woman oppression.

Now, the nuances of the situation are much more complex, but this is the very basic idea. You always have to account for a person's identity as a whole, and not just the individual parts.

Black women are not just "black" + "women"

Black men are not just "black" + "men"

Trans women are not just "trans" + "women"

Trans men are not just "trans" + "men"

You always have to consider the identity as a whole, which may mean there are non obvious aspects of the whole identity that are not readily explained by the sum of the individual parts.

That is the basic explanation. Now let's get into one particular application I think is very important, at least on Tumblr, because on tumblr it has become extremely controversial.

A consequence of intersectionality is that specific kinds of oppression cannot be divorced from maleness. A black man's oppression cannot be explained as "black" + "male" oppression. There are aspects of the oppression black men face that cannot be separated from their identity as a whole. Even if you believe "men" suffer no unique oppression, intersectionality means you can't deny the possibility that "black men" suffer oppression that cannot be divorced from them being men.

This application of intersectionality is fundamental and the application of intersectionality to black men has been accepted for basically as long as intersectionality has been around.

A similar application can be made to trans men.

Now if you don't agree with this model, sure. Im not going to say it is fine because I think you are wrong, but no social model is above criticism. What you can't do is claim that intersectionality is anything else. You either accept that aspects of oppression can be tied to maleness, or you do not accept intersectionality. There is no secret third thing. This is a fundamental consequence of intersectionality as a model.

I think it is important to note that intersectionality did not start as queer theory. The roots of the model are in the study of sexism and racism. This is black feminist theory. And to put a point on it, trans feminist theory has no business trying to warp intersectionality to fit preconceived ideas about how queer identities and queer oppression works.

I believe that twisting well established black feminist theory into an unrecognizable form and then stealing the credibility of that well established black feminist theory by labeling your new theory "intersectional" is racist. We do not get to borrow their credibility while spitting on their work.

Again, if you do not believe intersectionality is correct, or that it does not apply to queer identities, that is an argument you can make. I would recommend you have a lot of very well sourced data backing up a radical claim like that, but no model is above criticism. But don't try to trade on the credibility of black feminists while disregarding their work.

[pangur-and-grim]

all books should be written by deeply damaged autistic perverts

[ssajin]

@pangur-and-grim ?

[pangur-and-grim]

YOU DON'T NEED TO TAG ME ON THIS, I WROTE THE POST

[thylocalbard]

Hey hey Grace's yellow rain jacket foreshadowing his eventual role. His yellow jacket blending in with the astronauts before he even knows he's one of the crew. Facing Stratt telling her he can't be an astronaut and he's already wearing their colours.