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if i look back, i am lost
shark vs the universe
KIROKAZE
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
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occasionally subtle
Monterey Bay Aquarium
@theartofmadeline
Kaledo Art
Andulka
Jules of Nature
Product Placement
trying on a metaphor
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Cosimo Galluzzi
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@engineering-a-better-world
I say this every time, but people Do Not Realize just how short the timeline has been on gay people in kids’ media. And it’s an ongoing fight, but this was 10 - 15 years ago.
I'm not in the Steven Universe fandom. I don't really even know the show. But the story she's telling here is important to remember. What feels like small snippets of representation took a lot of fighting to get and it wasn't as long ago as you think.
>landlord of my building changes >new online portal for paying rent >required to set up an account with Bilt Inc. >Bilt will add $10 a month to my rent if I pay it using my debit card >look for ways to avoid this fee by paying directly through my bank account >required to set up an extra account with Plaid Inc. >Plaid demands the password to my bank account (!!!!!!!) to connect, after which their terms of service will allow them to monitor all of my financial activity and sell that data to the highest bidder >look for a way to set up my account through a regular ACH process without taking this massive security risk >download the Bilt app on my phone because it's the only way to directly contact their help desk >realize that the Bilt app has an ACH option for connecting my bank account that is available on the app but completely unavailable on their web portal (illegal?) >finally enter my routing and account numbers like a normal human being >app still tries to redirect me towards giving away my bank account password >avoid this again >Congratulations! Your account has been set up! >doomed to a future of both email and physical mail spam from Bilt trying to pressure me into a Bilt Rewards credit card that allows me to earn 4% of my spending back in Bilt Cash that can be redeemed at qualifying establishments, terms and conditions apply >this is considered an efficient mechanism for transferring money between two accounts
Nuke the entire financial industry.
Random person: so what are you? Guy or girl?
Me: Gremlin
Random person: no like what’s in your pants?
Me: A Knife ! >:) 🔪
“be gay do crime! but sex is yucky and crime is wrong!” ass website
i appreciate this, but in a world where your gay brothers and sisters are being actively punished if not outright killed for having sex—in a fascist society that is trying to make gay sex a crime and has successfully done so in the past, in ways that still harm us today—we have GOT to be there for gay sex and the people having it. it doesn’t make you any less gay not to have sex, but that’s not something bigots are going to take into account, and if they do, it only stands to make you “one of the good ones” and pit you against your siblings and loved ones. whether someone personally wants sex or not, i think we have a responsibility to defend the people who do just as much as the people who don’t.
Sure, but it’s not been long since this entire website was virulently anti-asexuals so that’s probably worth keeping in mind too. We actually don’t defend people who don’t have sex very much at all. And trust me, the bigots don’t love it either so.
i dont disagree that asexual people have faced hostility, including on this website.
“don't stigmatize gay sex" and "don't stigmatize asexuality" are compatible positions. we can and should defend both. what im pushing back against is a strain of rhetoric that treats consensual sex as inherently suspect, gross, or morally dubious. that line of thinking is not in defense of asexual people; its a judgment of people who have (gay) sex
Hey, asexual here. We don't actually need to fight against every single pro-sex statement on the website to be respected. In fact, being radically pro-gay sex goes hand-in-hand with sex-repulsed asexuals' right to not have sex, because both have to do with consent and bodily autonomy.
The slippery slope of sex control goes straight from "you can't commit sodomy" to "husbands have a right to their wives' bodies."
Meanwhile being radically pro-gay sex is about the idea that "as long as two (or more) people are consenting adults, who cares what goes on behind closed doors?" and you'll note that consenting is a vital word here. It means that they also can't force you, a sex-repulsed asexual, to have sex.
The post was fine. Leave it alone.
"as long as [the] two (or more) people are consenting adults, who cares what goes on behind closed doors?"
Okay, so: there's a local restaurant whose online ordering process involves various selecting various sauces to be included with one's order – so many units of teriyaki sauce, so many units of hot sauce, so may units of peanut sauce, and so forth.
The idea is supposed to be that you can select any combination of sauces you want, as long as it adds up to no more than four units. However, what the app actually required is that you select exactly four units of sauces; it wouldn't let you submit the ordering form if the total wasn't exactly four.
Just today I discovered that they seem to have fixed it... not by correcting the errant validation rule, but by adding a "no sauce" option, which counts toward the required total of four.
Thus, it's now possible to place an order with, say, two units of teriyaki sauce rather than four by entering 2x "teriyaki sauce" and 2x "no sauce". Similarly, an order with no sauce at all is 4x "no sauce".
This is quite possibly the least intuitive ordering process I've ever encountered, and I've literally worked in e-commerce.
I once had an online ordering experience where they were selling a 12 pack of cookies, but within that pack you had to select each cookie individually. But the thing is that there was only one type of cookie to choose from. So it was just clicking "chocolate chip cookie" over and over again 12 times in a row.
I have to imagine that it was just an artifact of previously having had more than one cookie option and just never changing how it was set up, but it was still bizarre to see.
One place I shopped at had one item listed, and if you wanted a different item, you'd order the one item and put the item you actually wanted in the special instructions field.
"Can such-and-such a person ever be redeemed?" I don't believe there is or could be or needs to be such a thing as redemption because I am not a Catholic, therefore the question is vacuous and incoherent. Next question.
What about redeemed like a voucher? Can you turn in Jim Kirk at the customer service counter for 40% off your purchase? Does Galadriel get you in store credit? Can you go to the bar and exchange Twilight Sparkle for a shitty beer?
Problematic characters can be redeemed at waffle house for a free omelet
my knight dismissed me as his squire for shrieking “DIVA DOWN!” when he was unhorsed on the battlefield
Dr. Alan Hart helped pioneer the use of chest X-rays to diagnose tuberculosis. Hart was married to a woman and practicing medicine in San Francisco in 1918 when he was outed as a trans man by a former colleague. Dr. Hart was chased out of town on the back of headlines like “Girl Poses as Male Doctor in Hospital" (he was not posing, of course) and spent much of his life moving from town to town to escape various forms of transphobia. Hart was also a novelist, and wrote of one of his characters, "When it came to outrunning gossip he found he couldn't do it," which was Hart's experience as well—he moved seven times in nine years all around the U.S. in search of safety, but it always proved fleeting. He did manage to get a graduate degree in radiology, though, and helped show how chest X-rays could show very early signs of tuberculosis, thus allowing patients the opportunity to rest and get adequate nutrition sooner, which contributed to better outcomes. Chest X-rays continue to be an essential diagnostic tool; mobile chest X-ray machines that can be carried via backpack now serve rural communities, so Hart's popularization of this diagnostic method continues to save lives.
From Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green.
While this is an excellent description of Dr. Hart's important contributions to medicine, and I certainly don't want to minimize the difficulties he faced as a trans man practicing medicine (the story about his being outed and forced to lease his hospital position as a result in 1918 is, of course, entirely true), I do want to jump in and say that his safety did not necessarily "always" prove fleeting!
While it's true that Hart was publicly outed once and moved all over the country for a while, by the time he died, he had served as the director of hospitalization and rehabilitation for the Connecticut State Tuberculosis Commission for over a decade. Nor was he exclusively hounded or excluded from society at home in Oregon, either -- there are regular mentions of him (under his chosen, male name, or occasionally simply as an "Albany man") and his second wife in his hometown newspaper, The Albany Democrat, throughout the 20s and 30s, reporting when they were in town for social visits, promoting his novels, and even reporting on his graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with his graduate degree. Nor does it seem most people saw him as a woman pretending to be a man for most of his life, despite the press his 1918 outing received -- a reviewer of one of his novels even once remarked that Dr. Hart, while a good writer, didn't seem to know much about women! (Having read a bit of Hart's fiction, I don't think this is true, but to each their own, I suppose)
I mention this because I think it's important to emphasize that trans people -- even trans people who have experienced dramatic setbacks in their lives, like Dr. Hart's 1918 outing -- have not only always existed, but always persisted through trouble and often managed to live very fulfilling lives that were not exclusively marred by transphobia. Nor did everyone around them feel that they were simply "posing" as their gender. Even in 1918, people in Hart's hometown expressed disgust at the way the press way treating the story, and the local newspaper did an exceptionally sympathetic interview with him that allowed him to express his own feelings on the situation and affirm that transitioning was the best choice he could have made! In fact, he was very clear he was not ashamed of his choices, saying:
In a time where transphobia is painfully on the rise, and a lot of trans people are fearing for their safety and livelihoods, it feels worth emphasizing that there has never been a time in history where we were exclusively hounded, or hated, and that bouncing back from traumas like forced outings was and is still possible. Dr. Alan Hart dedicated his first novel to his mother, who spoke out in his defense after he was outed. His second wife established a medical research fund in his honor after he died. Despite setbacks, he was ultimately successful in his field, and clearly very loved. And that's important.
collecting these
HOW could i forget this classic
learning a lot toda✍️y
[Freeze Frame] Yeah, I sat on the remote. [Unfreezes Frame]
Image description: screenshot of two Tumblr posts.
The first, by nor-man-nor-mythical, reads, "[freeze frame] yeah, that's not me. I don't know who that is. [unpause]".
The second, by r0zeclawz, reads, "freeze frame. yeah thats me. you might be wondering if thats me. yeah its me. ok thanks. unfreezes frame".
Been doing test prints all day working off the rust and ironing out issues, but this one shows some promise.
The little red eye detail was added afterward with fine liner.
If I open these up for sale I will be picking a local organization to donate proceeds to. It’s been a long while since I’ve sold anything that wasn’t print on demand or commissioned so that will be an issue to solve.
list of mutuals that are FUNDAMENTAL for a healthy dashboard ecosystem (in no particular order): complainers, 30 year olds, emotionally stunted women, underachievers, people with a sedentary lifestyle, eastern europeans, workaholics and last but not least killjoy feminists
[ID: First image is a closet with no door, seen from the room outside the closet. A similarly-empty rack, as well as a couple of unpainted pipes, are visible within the closet. The image is labeled "Would anyone like to guess how tall this closet is?"
Second image is the same closet, seen from within, with the camera pointing up. The closet walls stretch unsettlingly high such that it has the appearance of a tunnel that darkens at the end. The tops of the two pipes are visible in the bottom-right. The image is captioned "That was a good guess! Unfortunately it's 25ft tall." End ID.]
(That’s over 7.6 meters)
I've been reading FORCE and it has to be one of the best art class book ive ever seen so far, my art school used to have the Lumis books and some ''how to draw comics' bs and i always hated it.
i found it from the tumblr post but im putting the link back here (because posts with a hundred diff art books well thats just 9overwhelming)(and they're not all good... but thats very subjective)
Bring your artwork to life with the power of the FORCE! Watch, listen, and follow along as Mike Mattesi demonstrates the fundamental FORCE l
this book goes up there with the Morpho books to me, they're so peak
I think it would be really fucking funny to write a piece of fiction set entirely in real life but using lazy fantasy worldbuilding talk. I gather coin* for the road west** - I will need it to enter the Capital.***
* two quarters and two dimes
** Interstate 64
*** Richmond, Virginia
I must traverse the treacherous way north* to visit my lover at their place of learning. This city is a crossroads, positioned near the boundary point of a dark land we try not to visit.** It is an ancient place, riddled with the memory of the War.***
* Interstate 95
** Northern Virginia
*** American Civil
The road north is blocked by enemy forces.* I fear we will be overpowered if we continue,** and never reach our destination.*** Let us abandon the road and take the ancient mountain pass.**** We will mind the cruel structures of bygone years***** as you go.
* northern virginians
** get vehicular manslaughtered by a tesla driver just outside the mixing bowl
*** west maryland
**** cut through loudon county
***** mcmansions
Bagpipes are a part of the reed family of woodwinds, much like a clarinet or a saxophone are. And yet I’ve never heard them sound so alike before.
