Recycled Stardust and Borrowed Energy

Skye. 30something. Autistic. Queer. I'm a geek and proud of it!

[hirundinidaeaac]

If you write a post about environmentalism and it involves "the banning of all types of plastic everywhere", it doesnt matter how much I agree with the rest of your post I simply can't reblog it.

Plastic is always going to be needed somewhere in the world, especially in medical devices. And you do not get to be upset at, or decide to sacrifice, the disabled and ill people who rely on plastic to survive.

[identitty-dickruption]

nobody ever believes me when I list off all of the ways that humans are significantly less sexually dimorphic than people seem to believe and it drives me batshit insane. “you’re denying the biological reality of sex” well you’re sticking your fingers in your ears and saying lalalala every time anyone presents you with data that confirms that women and men aren’t really that different. and refusing to come to terms with the two-way relationship between the “biological” and “social” worlds. I think one of us is ignoring the biological sciences here and it isn’t me

[shofarsogood]

Someone once told me my biology degree was fake because I said humans weren't sexual dimorphic.

A male human and a female human are roughly the same size and same coloration.

Meanwhile, male black widow spiders are brown and a tenth the size of females. Anglerfish females are a full foot long and have a bioluminescent protrusion on their heads; males are barely half an inch long with no bioluminescence or protrusions. Male elephant seals are ten times bigger than females and have massive snouts. Male orangutans have big jowls and neck sacs that look like goiters, while females look more like other apes. Peacocks have flashy coloration and a long tail that they can display. The females are brown and simple.

Humans aren't sexually dimorphic! You only know someone's gender because of cultural identifiers, like clothing or hair.

[zaprowsdower27]

The big things for primate sexual dimorphism tend to be canine size and body size. Male primates in sexually dimorphic species tend to have HUGE canine teeth for better threat displays, and are bigger for similar reasons.

Lowland Gorilla males tend to be 2.38x on average the mass of Lowland Gorilla females. Humans? That ratio is something line 1.15.

Male gorilla canines tend to be about 2 inches long, easily twice the length of some of their other teeth. Male humans have canines the exact same length as human female canines and the exact same length as the rest of our teeth.

We are not particularly sexually dimorphic.

[lgbtqiatext]

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[belladonnabedlam]

Okay. I was on my beloved AO3 and I saw something that made me do a double take. So, now I really want to know…

What is your AO3 user ID?

I’m an OG user 5 digits or less

Six figures baby!

I’m in the millions…

Remaining time: 4 days 16 hours

I’m so curious to see how long people have been on AO3! I know some people have been on there since beta/invite only, but I would love to see what the number is on tumblr!

[boringkate]

When I was a kid watching tv was idiot coded and nerds read books, but now scrolling shortform videos is considered braindead behavior and watching tv means you're some kinda intellectual. You might think this shifting assessment of media's consumers might make readers into absolute super geniuses, but no. Only perverts read now.

[eefo-but-everywhere]

[Day #17] Wplace-eefo-highlights #9: EEFO

[grithogirl]

this is their dynamic i think

[Image Description: Minecraft Youtubers Grian, Geminitay and Ethoslab's minecraft skins in a triangular formation, with arrows pointing between each of them in both directions, all labeled with ' "That was so dumb why would you do that" *does something worse*' /End ID]

[blogbibliophilia]

[genderkoolaid]

its crazy seeing people on this website talk such big shit about how "androphobia isn't real everyone who talks about transandrophobia is an MRA !!!! learn basic feminism!!!!!"

but then because reproductive injustice and the centrality of controlling pregnancy to misogyny and patriarchy, perhaps the one (or at least most obvious) area where you cannot pretend that trans men have male privilege, is when it comes to the uterus. and so people are now having this reactionary backlash to the discussion of abortion rights or pregnancy or menstruation - NOT ON CIS WOMEN'S POST, mind you, only when trans men talk about it, while at the same time trans men are told they are "derailing" posts about misogyny by bringing up their experiences, trans and intersex people in general are told they are being selfish males by insisting that gender-inclusive reproductive language is vital. if you cannot see how anti-feminist this growing sentiment is, you need to work on that.

and i will not deny that some trans men absolutely do get bioessentialist about it. i have myself made posts calling out some anti-science, anti-transfeminine, intersexist posts made recently that act as though the uterus & disorders relating to it are solely and exclusively the purview of people assigned female. i am not saying there is never ever ever any bioessentialism in how trans men or nonbinary people assigned female talk about their experiences with sexual misogyny. there is and its important we are vigilant about it (although this is true for all trans people, none of us are immune to appealing to cissexist feminism at the expense of other trans people to get our suffering heard, not that these people ever wanna talk about that)

but it is VERY obvious that because of the anti-transmasculinity on this site, people have become genuinely anti-feminist in their hostility to anything that ever discusses abortion or pregnancy or anything relating to the uterus and how it ties into people's oppression. the fact that there are people on this site who call themselves transfeminists, and then insist that trans men who talk about how they are affected by attacks on abortion rights, or birth control, or forced pregnancy, are being bioessentialist and should shut up... i am sorry but THIS is anti-feminism. these are not good faith criticisms, they are soaked to the goddamn teeth in anti-transmasculinity just as much as some people's posts about how trans women who say they have endometriosis are valor-stealing liars are soaked in anti-transfemininity.

if your transfeminism cannot reckon with the reality that having a uterus has a material impact on people's lives, it is brittle and shitty transfeminism which will fail all of us. transunity or death.

[go-learn-esperanto]

Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.

They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.

Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.

You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.

This article specifically notes:

For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesn’t care which VPN you use, only that it’s still the same Windows installation.

Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint

GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.

Other important quotes:

What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows “surveillance software”.

Two things back that up:

There’s no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Apple’s advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Android’s works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.

Then there’s activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: “It’s impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].” Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.

[this-is-trans-joy]

everyone loves to hate terfs until they realise that it actually entails rejecting bioessentialism entirely and then suddenly you’re “taking things too seriously” and you “don’t have a sense of humour” like i’m sorry but saying protect the dolls doesn’t make you immune to terfism it has seeped into every corner of mainstream feminism and unless you’re actively searching it out and checking your own biases you will always be at risk of sharing a space with terfs

[this-is-trans-joy]

“Only women can—” nope. “But all men—” nah. “The divine femininity of—” gonna stop you right there. “Everyone born ama—” if you finish that sentence I’ll kill you. “Men don’t experience—” you’re wrong. “Gender isn’t real but sex is imm—” *loud incorrect buzzer*

It also goes without saying that bioessentialism inherently can’t be trans inclusive no matter how hard you try. “All men including trans men—” probably not. “This is only a woman’s issue—” is it really? “Afabs only—” why? “All trans men are like—” what? what are they like? finish the sentence i dare you.

[someonexdeez]

Have you guys seen the amount of times theyve fallen into a hole after the other one already fell into it. Yea

[tr1lliumm]

gorgeous n soft eefo....

af attack on @0xycod0ne <33

[reddbug27]

i drew them or something la la la

[i-do-enjoy-ethoslab]

An assortment of Etho’s pokemon noises from his Pixelmon series. 

You know the “if I were a pokemon” line in his newest HC video? He had another what-if-I-am-a-pokemon moment in his pixelmon series, where he makes some Etho noises, I guess. (It’s at the end if you wanna skip, but why would you ;D?)

[i-do-enjoy-ethoslab]

please watch Pixelmon please watch it pretty please 🥺🥺🥺

[shulkersneow]

Fighting art block by drawing aiw ethubs as cats 😼

(I wanted to try drawing aiw bdubs in somewhat accurate historical fashion... but I was crashing out over not being able to draw them how I wanted to that I gave up and drew them as cats and immediately felt much better 😭)

HOGHHHH MY GOD THE FANCY LITTLE BDUBS OUTFIT...... and i love how cut up etho is. these are everything to me. WAIT I JUST NOTICED BDUBS HAS JEWELRY AND LITTLE GOLD FRECKLES????

this is everything

[applestruda]

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