Esoteric Merit

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

[horrifyingsludge]

ethos, pathos, logos, and d'artagnan

[alexanderwales]

An idiot robin has built a nest on top of our garage door motor. The nest was constructed so the chain that drives the door is actually a part of the nest, and if we open or close the garage door, the whole thing is going to get torn apart. So I guess the garage door is staying open for as long as it takes for these eggs to hatch and these birds to leave the nest.

My wife has set up a camera to continuously monitor the situation.

Wife: Maybe we should set up some padding beneath where they'll fall out of the nest? Normally they fall onto grass, not concrete. Me: Seems like we're really coddling these birds. Wife: Well, yeah. Me: I just don't want you to get invested. Wife: Way, way too late for that. I'm all in.

So we're keeping the garage door open for a few weeks, I guess. Whenever I go to use the car, the robin flies away from the nest and watches me cautiously to see whether I'm going to kill her babies, and I can't help but find that a little bit rude of her.

[alexanderwales]

Pictured here, the robin hopping into her nest to settle in for some egg warming.

[alexanderwales]

Two of the three eggs have hatched, these are some ugly babies.

[gondorrevealparty]

Polycules should be able to trade people like sports teams do

[gondorrevealparty]

Listen -- you're a good defender and your pussy is fantastic, but that's not what our team needs right now. We're trading you to Greater Boston in exchange for someone who has a car.

[esoteric-merit]

tumblr over here reinventing the free use kink

[ortut]

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

[certified-door-posts]

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...

[mcgravin]

[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.

[dailycatsblog]

[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.