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[everoutoftouch]

If you have Spotify reblog this and tag what your number one song on your “on repeat” playlist is.

[gibberishquestion]

many such cases

[gothhabiba]

in general if you believe that your job is to definitively describe, capture, taxonomise, or exhaustively define reality you are going to have a bad time imo. it's far more useful to ask "which model is useful for my purposes," "does this model basically make sense with what I know of the world," "might another model be more useful for another purpose," &c.

the best map is the territory--but describing everything about the material and social conditions of each individual person on earth, besides being impossible, would be useless. in order to be useful--to describe something about the part of reality that you're interested in, to have the power to make predictions or have insights about that reality, to propose actions in order to alter that reality--you are going to have to generalise. any time you propose to reduce reality to a model you are compromising and generalising something, somewhere. the question is where do you generalise, and how much, and what do you gain from doing so, and what do you lose, and in which contexts is this model useful (i.e. how should you constrain the field in which you apply this model), and in which contexts is it more trouble than it's worth?

[gothhabiba]

another Critical Thinking hack is that you must not mistake a classification or naming of something with an explanation of that thing. sorting or naming something does not have explanatory power. the phenomenon remains to be explained regardless of the fact that "this actually has a name!"

who named it? when? who sorted these discrete ideas or phenomena into one category? why? in association with what organisation, ideology, &c.? what ideas does this classification, sorting, or naming rely on? do you agree with those ideas? in what other ways could these phenomena be grouped, sorted, named, classified? what ideas would that alternate classification rely on? must these phenomena be named or sorted into categories at all?

[mxactivist]

Help challenge the UK ban on puberty blockers

One day before the UK parliament was dissolved on 30 May 2024, the health secretary Victoria Atkins introduced an immediate ban for trans young people using puberty blockers.

Possession of puberty blockers for trans children is now punishable by up to two years in prison in the UK. Puberty blockers for cisgender children remains legal.

The timing of this act was careful and deliberate. As parliament was dissolved the next day, there are now no working MPs in the UK, meaning that citizens have no way to challenge the ban.

The Good Law Project is running a crowdfunder to challenge it in court. They have about £2,000 of £75,000 needed. Please support it if you can, in any way that works for you.

[gendercensus]

The 2024 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The 11th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th June 2024.

It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

For the curious, you can also spy on some graphs and demographic data for the incoming responses here.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

Image credit: Malachite and rhodochrosite.

[prinz-myshkin]

Bothersome beast, comforting friend

[tylidae]

oh my god oh my god its bingus its bingus from pokemon

[that-butch-archivist]

source: The Little Butch Book by Lesléa Newman

[emmaleficent]

the library I work at has a bunch of children’s books by this author & I love that

[aspiring-apparition]

(I bring a sort of “Everyone has inherent worth regardless of their productivity” Vibe to every conversation that ableists don’t really seem to like)

[emmaleficent]

looking 4 friends so off the dome here’s shit I am either interested in, will talk abt, or would like to see posts abt:

lesbian

disability things inc autism

hozier

chappell roan

dimension 20 but not in a remotely parasocial way

names

pokemon

grief

drag race

survivor

d&d

my hero academia (bkdk 5ever idc idc idc I am so uninvolved in fandom idc about ship wars or whatever the fuck y’all talk about I just read fanfic and vibe)

freelance editing maybe ? if u need a beta reader hit me up

I enjoy the occasional hee hee ha ha

I’m no longer tagging shit regularly bc I got 80 of these HDs and I’m running a mental energy deficit but I’m adding tags on this just for visibility

[hellish-undeath]

every time you imply butches need to be physically strong you owe one of us disabled butches $20

i carry a big metal stick if you don't wanna pay up btw

[emmaleficent]

still not sure if I’m actually gonna use tumblr regularly again but jsyk I’m no longer in my tagging era. my mental capacity is more like mental? cap. ass city.

also still in my grief era so !!!

[striders]

i think that “people with limited mobility or ability to leave their homes deserve the same access to goods and services via home delivery” and “the exploitation of workers through gig delivery apps is Bad” are two sentiments that can and should exist simultaneously in the brains of like… anyone with the capacity to think lmao

[sadgi]

can I get a job as an editor but the only thing I do is correct when someone uses the word "prone" when they mean "supine"

[sadgi]

thank you wikipedia for this really good image

[sadgi]

a helpful mnemonic for everyone

[xoxotlou-deactivated20241101]

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[my-autism-adhd-blog]

@AutisticCallum_

[feywildwest]

employees should be allowed to steal, actually

[feywildwest]

idk. yesterday was a slow day and at the end of it, I still stared into a cash drawer, one of three, that had more than my rent in it, even if you only count the 20s. I spent a lot of that day trying to calculate in my head how many hours of work equal one pair of pants, let alone how many hours of work equals the fun thing I want to do next month.

I feel a cough coming on, because I work in a drug store, and all of my customers are sick. I always feel a little bit sick, now. I can't afford to eat well enough to keep my body healthy. Cough medicine is worth two hours and 20 minutes of work. Our store probably bought a case of cough medicine for they price we're selling one box. If this cough gets worse, I might have to call out, which will cost me more than the medicine in the long run- but that doesn't give me the money to buy the medicine right now. I stock a case onto the shelf. I don't buy any.

A mom wrangling three crying, sick kids enters my line and sets two types of children's medicine down, says they're both on sale and thank god for that. I ring her up, and she gets very quiet, because she misread the sign, and her total is twice as high as she was expecting. Her youngest screams in the cart, because she's burning up with fever. Her mother very quietly asks, please, she's so sorry, if I could please take the more expensive one off her total.

I agree, I move the box below the counter, and when she's not looking, I slip it into her bag. I pray as hard as I can that if she notices the "mistake" she says nothing, because I so desperately want her to have that medicine. The store has lost profit at the cost of a child's health. I don't bat an eye. This is a terminable offense. If I'm presented with the same situation tonight, I'll do it in a heartbeat.

The myth of evil employees stealing from the company falls apart the second you realize the company would shoot you dead to make a profit. This isn't two equal players, one of whom is stealing from the other. This is someone fighting for survival versus someone fighting to make an extra million. It's not equal.

Employees should be able to steal, actually.

[koicifer]

Bro I teared up oh my god bro