The blog of Erik A. G. '59

Boomer | he/him/his/his/himself | raised in California, now living in Iowa | I seem to post about gender issues and politics in cartoon and fandom meme form, with occasional raccoons, pangolins, and other charismatic animals. Also see my sideblogs at erik-even-gayer and erik-even-wordier.

[victusinveritas]

Found on Friendly Atheist on Facebook:

The Pentagon has AGAIN updated its list after complaints from Mormons.

But this list is still a problem.

It separates non-denominational Christians from evangelicals.

It lumps together atheists and “Nones” who believe in a higher power.

It combines a BUNCH of smaller religions into “Other.”

It lumps together progressive Baptists with conservative Southern Baptists.

It combines all Muslims in one group.

The government run by Christian Nationalists has, as usual, taken something that wasn’t broken and made everything worse.

The 2017 list was better. This is just ignorant.

https://x.com/DOWResponse/status/2064015222621221315

[my-dailydreams]

[meirmakesstuff]

A guy at the gym just looked around, realized he was lifting the same weight as a "girl" in a wheelchair, pushed his weight up two notches, screamed once, and left.

[meirmakesstuff]

Like,

[meirmakesstuff]

This could have been avoided by keeping your eyes on your own workout,

This could have been avoided by realizing not all disabilities make people weaker--in fact, the opposite,

This could have been avoided by just being normal about things, man, I don't know what to tell you

[meirmakesstuff]

My wife (they/them) is the wheelchair user in this scenario. I was on standby because sometimes they lift so much weight they start to tip over.

[scunthotter]

People who are making posts telling us what is happening over on threads, twitter, and Instagram are like war correspondents sending us reports from the front.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Meanwhile in Denmark: My mom knitted a hat for my cat

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

The face of a woman who isn't disappointed that her only grandchild is a cat

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Just one day later she sends me this... My cat in different homemade hat. The woman is unstoppable!!!

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Taking over the world... One silly hat at a time...

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

The source of her power:

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

The most delicious little strawbebby...

[maemaybe]

I don't know who my intended audience is here, so whoever needs to hear this, I am begging you to learn to participate in conversations that are about things you aren't interested in.

Part of socializing and having friends is being a good listener even when you don't actually give a shit about the subject.

Your are hurting other people's feelings when you bluntly respond with "Anyway..." and then change the topic.

It can not always be about your preferred topic.

You are being rude. Yes, even if you are neurodivergent. You can be both autistic and rude.

[eel-slap]

If you don't like a browser's AI mode, a good way to get around it is including profanity in your question. If you're using Google, including a "fuck" or "fucking" in your query immediately puts you in normal search mode rather than AI mode

[originalleftist]

Average fantasy author writes one timeless classic factoid is actually a statistical error.

Sir Terry Pratchett, who created Discworld and wrote over 40 timeless classics, is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted.

[sizzlingcandyjellyfishhhhhh]

no revenge because I forgot what you did #memoryloss

[sumikatt]

I think people should just be fine with disliking something without calling it slop or moralizing about it you don’t need to have some noble reason to say “i don’t like this”

[recklesslyinfatuated2]

[defectivegembrain]

What is mature content what is safe for children what is safe for teenagers we don't know anymore it's up to the robots that don't understand human behaviour to decide how humans should behave if the robot says that fully clothed person just existing is mature content and that hardcore porn isn't well then that's true now

[assignedmale]

[aroace-ryland-grace]

the sewing machine is like if a horse and an inkjet printer had a child

[fuckthisgovt-deactivated2023091]

[theatsthetic]

female-presenting vitruvian

[theatsthetic]

i appreciate the amount of people reblogging this despite me not really tagging this at all. im glad many of people feel the same anger i do.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

when a government bans young people from using social media, and then categorises messenger apps like Signal and WhatsApp as "social media", they are pushing those young people toward using text messages, a fundamentally insecure form of communication. texts are not encrypted in transit and can be read by both the sender's mobile carrier and the recipient's. that also means they can be leaked in data breaches, subpoenaed, or just handed over willingly to law enforcement at the carriers' discretion.

hmm. I wonder why governments might want this