Esoteric Merit

30 years old, e/e/e-self, pan poly agender ace and alienated Lnu 

[ortut]

Julian Hooper 1. Introduction, 2016 2. Inevitable conclusion, 2016 (Acrylic on linen)

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certified door post

[transhuman-priestess]

Estrogen is my favorite recreational drug

[transhuman-priestess]

Reblog to fucking bite prev

[tpwrtrmnky]

"Whether someone understands it or not, these are the consequences of the political views they're espousing" is a pretty important analysis tool for online movements because quite honestly, over half of everyone engaging in politics online have no foundations for the stuff they're saying and are just saying whatever makes them feel like a member of an in-group.

[tpwrtrmnky]

If your in-group is "the left" you're very much not immune to this. In fact, trying to do left-wing politics without even trying to build a foundational political understanding is a great way to end up as a neo-nazi with a tumblr accent rather than an effective left-wing advocate.

[gremlininho]

let me. innnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

[prokopetz]

The actual most implausible thing about video game writing is that they'll show us a people-pleasing sad sack of a protagonist where everyone around them treats them as a disgusting pervert for no obvious reason, takes everything they say in the worst possible light, and ascribes vile motives to their most innocuous actions, then turn around and insist that this character is a cisgender, heterosexual man.

[closet-keys]

post: patterns of social harm are not innately & permanently encoded into populations of people, all social relations are changeable, and therefore reducing harm requires addressing why these patterns develop and interrupting them rather than having the state systematically kill people

replies:

- agreed except for the Bad People who are innately harmful.

- yeah because sometimes innocent people get killed not just the innately bad ones

- vote blue no matter who!

[elierlick]

The juxtaposition of these tweets...

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[stackslip]

we're moving to an internet where children would be banned from reaching out for help and friendship online but abusive parents can post their children's every second online to humiliate and expose them for money with no pushback

[esoteric-merit]

encountered a post so disingenuous lately that it is living rent free in my brain.

It was trying to argue that one demographic had higher income than another, not by comparing income, but by comparing employment. And then saying "disregard the unemployment rate". I . . . the unemployment rate is literally 2x higher for one of the demographics being compared.

I don't think "this demographic has a higher full time rate than the other" is meaningful if we're disregarding both unemployment and income. Is the other demographic more likely to survive based only on part time work? Does the higher unemployment rate come from a firing rate, where only more essential people (with better bargaining power) still have jobs in the demographic you're trying to argue against? Do those demographics have a wage gap for the same job positions we can compare? (yes, yes, and yes)

ah, but no, the one single stat that looks better is that, *of the ones who have jobs*, the first demographic has 1.13x as many full time jobs as the oth-

wait, what do you mean they compared the full-time jobs of the employed people in the first demographic to the full-time jobs of the total people in the second demographic?

christ on a fucking cracker.

oh, yeah, this was only one point out of 14 and it got worse from there.

[psychic-waffles]

We're at the "JK Rowling is personally funding litigation to try and destroy AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL" stage of rabid UK terf brain.

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

*Not so friendly reminder there is no way to engage in the wizard books without enabling this shit.

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[phidelta]

Shimigami eyes should add a feature where you can label someone pink for girls who dont realize they're girls yet. It would make the extension worse and almost certainly cause more drama

[phidelta]

We are crowd sourcing her gender

[storyweavingspider]

“Hey, did you know you’re rated Egg on shinigami eyes?”

[storyweavingspider]

Trans men are real men.

[prokopetz]

You'd think "don't use a fictional creature as an allegory for oppressed minorities and as a horde of vile automatons that it's always okay to kill in the same work at the same time" would be a no brainer, but roughly 70% of all works featuring goblins and/or robots demonstrate otherwise.

[bicokun]

Star Wars using this exact formula with droids blows my mind to this day. Like, they really can’t decide whether they’re actually an oppressed group or genuinely mindless automatons whose inner lives we don’t need to worry about.

[prokopetz]

Given that Solo: A Star Wars Story features a droid liberation activist who's very obviously characterised as a mean-spirited parody of a women's rights activist and whose concerns are consistently treated as misguided and laughable (before they blow her up and use her brain to repair a spaceship), I'm not sure it's that the writers they can't decide so much as it that they don't want to say what they really think out loud.

[bite-my-grimy-fleshy-ass]

True, but I think droids in star wars are more racialized & have a tendency to draw on the Black civil rights and slavery abolition movements in pretty awful ways. Aforementioned droid in Solo is explicitly looking to abolish droid slavery and is destroyed while liberating droids from a mine (not to mention her being something of a sassy/angry Black woman stereotype).

Going beyond Solo; There is an episode in Rebels where they make the droids sit at the back of the bus and C3PO is positioned as being whiny and annoying for being upset at this treatment. The Clone Wars series is the origin point for "clanker" and it exists in a near-identical way to how imperialist militaries use racial slurs to dehumanize their enemies. There's even the "we don't serve droids here" in the catina in A New Hope. Stepping out of canon and into legends and it can get even more overtly racist. I'm sure if one sat down to actively watch for this there would be more. This is no one writer's issue but baked into the very identity of the series. Droids are sapient machines that are bought and sold, kept in line with memory wipes and restraining bolts, and this must be seen as a morally neutral action by the narrative or we are acknowledging Luke Skywalker as a slave owner.

[aroedmundpevensie]

there's actually a secret eighth deadly sin and it's exactly like gluttony except for textile projects

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