𓃗
Sade Olutola
occasionally subtle

PR's Tumblrdome
Xuebing Du

roma★
No title available
YOU ARE THE REASON
Game of Thrones Daily

shark vs the universe
NASA
Keni
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her

Kiana Khansmith
untitled
One Nice Bug Per Day

Product Placement
TMBGareOK. The Official They Might Be Giants tumblr
★

titsay
seen from Thailand

seen from Germany
seen from Russia
seen from France
seen from United States
seen from India
seen from T1
seen from Indonesia

seen from Türkiye

seen from Türkiye
seen from Brazil

seen from Netherlands
seen from Indonesia
seen from Bangladesh
seen from Vietnam
seen from United States
seen from Namibia

seen from Malaysia

seen from United States
seen from United States
@emergentphenomena
it's crazy how once you notice how literally everything centres men all the time you will never be able to enjoy anything properly ever again
this show is about men this movie is about men this game is meant to be played as a man these characters are men so they're intrinsically more likeable than their bitchy women counterparts this show is about women but they're all for men to look at this movie is about a woman but there's a guy there as well to make it more palatable for General Audience (men) this fandom is all about this one man what do you mean you don't like men. what about this man you must like him!!! he's like a woman to me! and by that i mean i headcanon him as a trans man because im #queeringit and him being a trans man basically means Woman Lite right? so i basically do care about women! and going on e makes you like men and going on t makes you like men and being a lesbian means you still have to have a himbo man friend and you HAVE to read this book! it's about a man
Usamericans need to invent adult animation that doesn't look ugly as sin
I fuck with this
[image description: screenshot of writing formatted as a question and answer exchange. headline of piece is: The Proposal to Raise Every Boy as a Girl. (author not listed)
Q. You want to raise every boy as a girl? Yes.
Q. Why? A boy will learn to hate girls as long as he is raised in such a way where he is treated as better, and superior to, his girl peers, whenever he is cruel to girls. So, instead, we raise boys as girls.
Q. What if they say they are not a girl, and want to be acknowledged as boy? Then you know they are a boy, so you must make sure to understand them as boy, and not a girl.
Q. What does it mean to be 'raised as a girl'? That's up for you to decide. The only difference is that you should not raise boys any differently than you raise girls, since you raise every boy as a girl.
Q. Girls and boys are raised in specific ways for specific purposes, so it does not make sense to raise boys as girls. If you raise every boy as a girl, then there is no being which is not raised as a girl, so anyone raised as a girl necessarily must learn to do anything and everything to grow up, without restrictions on tasks, labours, or interests.
Q. But boys and girls are different. All two girls are different, and raising girls in one specific way destroys this individuality in favour of moulding girls to serve the same master. Still, the girls resist to live life on their own terms. If girls can be raised such that they know they can do anything they want, including not being girls, so too will boys raised as girls.
Q. Why not raise every girl as a boy? Because if a girl does not exist among boys, then the girl is made.
Q. Why not raise girls and boys as themselves? The self must be made in a world where girls and boys can first and foremost be themselves. One step towards this goal is to raise every boy as a girl.
Q. The way people raise girls is cruel, so why would you raise boys with that cruelty? If you raise girls with cruelty, then you should stop being cruel to girls.
/end description]
Children are born into a state of implicit debt.
Good parents forgive this debt. Bad parents expect it to be repaid, one way or another. The accepted currencies are varied and cryptic and might be mostly innocuous or they might be horrifically criminal.
Many families don’t realize that there is a debt until the child defaults on it somehow. That could be for any reason—the child simply fails to deliver on the parental investment by not adequately being the child they paid for.
“Inspiration porn” is a disability term, but I’m using it here because it’s appropriately provocative, and because the state of being a child is functionally a disability. A child who fails to be life-affirming and inspirational and to perform heartwarming innocence is breaking a contract, and adults are no longer obligated to uphold their own end and nurture the child. A child is a resource from which inspiration porn can be mined, or it is a kind of brood parasite.
i like when people say that the universality of campbell's hero's journey only applies to western mythology/folklore. brother, i am going to hold your hand when i say this... it doesn't apply there too
uooooogh the christian God is actually deer skull and raccoon salmon in pickup truck ooooooooooooooo and She (god) (usually refererd to as Male but im Queering it) talked to me in parking lot and said uh h Life Is Decay Anr Rotting and Sunlight is actually the souls of deer skull and i was like woah but im just little old me from somewhere in the contiguous USA and She (god) (Queering it) said being Yourself is th e most important thing and that i should Vote
I think the aversion in our society to coming up w/ utilitarian answers to ethical questions (my favorite hobby) has caused us to cede way too much ground to the assholes of the world in the vein of "Evil will always triumph because good is dumb," as Dark Helmet put it. Like.
Laypeople (and also a concerning number of scientists) have often got the idea that unethical human experimentation is some sort of ultra-effective super science that would fix all the disease and discover all of the medicine and we only don't do it because it isn't nice (see: every science fiction show ever). No! Jumping straight from abstract theory to human trials is a terrible way to do science. It produces incoherent results and useless observations and nonsensical conclusions. We have pages and pages of historical precedent demonstrating this.
And lots of people have got the idea that totalitarianism is some sort of magic super-government that does all the government stuff really effectively abd efficiently and we only don't do it because it isn't nice. No!!!! "Let's put one idiot in charge and do whatever dumb shit they say" is the worst way to organize any project at all, let alone an economy and a political machine. Fascist regimes are models of corruption, waste, and inefficiency.
And so on
mengela discovered nothing. 731 discovered nothing. Residential school trials discovered nothing. Unethical medical trials are just cruelty by mediocre people. None of the doctors in these unethical trials were outstanding students or notable doctors. We dont need science fiction we just need history and honesty.
In addition to its being niceys, ethics is a form of rigor. Someone who disregards ethics is (1) Doing It Wrong and (2) just as likely to disregard any other forms of rigor they decide they don't like.
Rough biomechanical study of a bison-sized predator sophont I'm designing.
Everyone else's masculinity is a violent performance of the patriarchy. Not mine tho, because of [identity trait].
Patriarchy was the exclusive product of [outgroup], so we don't have it. Our masculinity is cool and secretly leftist because of [identity trait]
This kind of ties to conversation about queer-flavoured russophobia I’ve been having on my yaoi sideblog but it’s not about yaoi so I’m posting it here, but I do love when western queers balk at the assertion that the idea(that is often used by our governments to criminalise healthcare and same-sex activity) the LGBT movement is western export actually does have basis in reality. And then in same breath they’ll be like Marsha P Johnson is the Patron Saint Of Being Trans and it’s like. Why not Sally Mursi. Why not Hanan El Tawil. Why not Jin Xing. Why not Maryam Khatoon. You probably don’t even know these names.
Like I am down to venerate literally any trans woman in history by virtue of that alone, and I do, but you all do understand that frankly the entirety of US queer history has done dangerously close to nothing to the advancement of our liberation on the other side of the globe, right? Not nearly enough for you all to be acting like these western figures are universal figures, or expecting gender and sexual minorities from the imperial periphery to agree that this is a culture and history that is meaningfully shared. It isn’t shared. It is imposed.
no for real like sit over there and drink your little beverage and stay tf out of the way let me cook
as a kitchen dweller this is 100% my preferred configuration
big cooking sessions are a ven diagram that makes a circle of "Do Not Enter My Cooking Space" and "Please Hang Out and Talk with Me"
also, this is sort of similar to Shotgun Duties in a car - on a long kitchen trip Kitchen Chair should be in charge of music, and be available for such things as "can you hand me that towel?" and "oh thanks for refilling my drink" ... and of course watching out for cops
The difference between derivatives and integrals is like the difference between solving a sudoku and solving a riddle from a fairy guarding a treasure who is bound by fairy law to make it technically solvable, but if you do manage to solve their riddle their boss will actually kill them, and even if you get the right answer they won't let you through unless you remember to add + C at the end
I think the reason for this is important to bear in mind tho!
Differentiation makes functions worse. You have to be pretty nice already to be differentiable, and after differentiating once you might no longer be nice. It's very easy to make things worse.
Integrating makes things nicer! Most* things are integrable, and after integrating you have to be nice.** It takes a lot more work to make something better than potentially ruin it
tweet of the year 2024. tweet of the year 2025. tweet of the decade. tweet so good it got banned in the EU