My Screaming Into The Void

23 year old trans girlthing she/it pfp by @liliana-teh-sluppy

[exhaustedcatgirl]

Was mentallyexhaustedcatgirl and got banned for ?????

Im honestly not sure

Looking for my moots

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

friend of mine recommended a video essay that's like 5 hours long about why it's currently a whole Thing for fascists to claim they only eat meat and demonize vegetables etc etc, and it's genuinely quite well researched in many places and contains some fascinating history and has made me feel very weird about my status as an adult who enjoys drinking milk. but I've not finished it and I genuinely don't know if I will because at one point the ol' "you can't say you care about animals and also eat animals" chestnut got dropped by the white vegan essayist and it put such a bad taste in my mouth that I had to leave instantly

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

like idk man it just feels genuinely parodic to dedicate hours to analyzing how foodways have frequently been used as white supremacist propaganda and then casually toss out an argument that pretty invariably demonizes indigenous hunting practices with 0 regard for traditional knowledge and land stewardship guiding those practices

[deramin2]

Every time I hear a white vegan say that I want to throw the rubble of the Klamath Dams at them.

The largest dam removal in U.S. history. So successful that the salmon that haven’t run freely in the river for literally over a century came back the next year. Not steady progress over a decade as expected, the very next salmon run they came home. No one alive saw salmon in that river outside the hatcheries kept by native’s tribes and the Department of Fish And Wildlife scientists desperately trying to save them. One of the activists who helped bring the suit spoke of their dying grandmother making them promise to bring the fish home, and they didn’t know how that was possible, but they spent decades doing it.

The legal basis for successfully suing the power company who owned the dams was Indigenous treaty rights to eat the fish. Eating the fish was the one thing in a century that succeeded in being a clear and legally binding right that superseded the desires of white capital and industry. I have been going to the public interest environmental law conference off and on for 20 years where a lot of organizing for Undam The Klamath happened. I’ve heard updates about every legal tact they tried as they happened, and they tried everything.

There are healthy, thriving salmon, trout, and lamprey in a rewilding and recovering Klamath River right now as a direct result of Indigenous people eating them. Of their legally binding right to eat them. They sure as fuck care more about those fish than any white vegan ever could. They are salmon people that the Creator sent Salmon to feed, while charging the People with protecting and stewarding them. It’s not possible to learn about salmon and trout in the Pacific Northwest without learning this, and it’s unambiguously racist to dismiss this symbiotic relationship.

The white vegans are trying to get all hunting and fishing banned in Oregon, and that’s quite possibly the single most catastrophic thing that could be done to the animals here because we killed off all the major predators of creatures like deer and without anything hunting them their numbers will explode, eat all the vegetation, destroy the ecosystem, and then die along with everything else in that failing ecosystem. Controlled hunting of deer is vitally necessary for the deer to survive. This is something Native people know, but patronizing racist savior-complex white people refuse to listen to.

I have a whole collection of Oregon’s Public Broadcasting’s documentaries about Klamath River or the larger story of fish and people in the region. If you watch nothing else, watch Klamath Dams Are Coming Out, First Salmon Ceremony, After The Dams, and First Decent (Native made). It could not be clearer that the salmon are being protected and nourished by the people who eat them, and that stewardship is a massive part of their creation myths. But it contradicts political vegan dogma so they don’t listen.

The Klamath River Runs Free

The Klamath River Runs Free

[supreme-leader-stoat]

#also do you have any idea how much conservation is funded by people who want to eat those animals#at least in the us anytime someone buys ammo or hunting equipment or hunting licenses that money goes directly to state wildlife agencies

[prokopetz]

Hey, mind if I bypass your stagger resistance with an untelegraphed grapple whose animation takes like ten seconds to play out? Yeah, no, it's totally noninteractive for its full duration, and it specifically lacks a regular knockdown's property of rendering you immune to splash damage from other attacks. Cool, right?

[prokopetz]

There's literally nothing you can do about it because it's implemented entirely on the animation layer and doesn't interact with any of your traits. I really feel like this could be the next big thing – I tried explaining it to the zone boss, but they just said I didn't "get it", whatever that means!

[prokopetz]

#extra funny version: it's a oneshot #extra EXTRA funny version: it barely does any damage so you have to sit through it like five times a fight sometimes (via @lapsedmathematician)

[molabuddy]

the magic growing dinosaur and the housefly (happy make a terrible comic day!)

[greelin]

being alive is great because there are so many different vegetables you can sauté. but then there are also the horrors

[yves-and-scessernee]

with faith and perseverance, one day we will sauté the horrors

[so-much-to-read-deactivated2025]

[half-giant-fighter]

[prokopetz]

My unpopular sci-fi/fantasy opinion is that "humans are the best community-builders" is just the old "humans have the greatest Will to Power" trope wearing a progressive hat.

[jukashi]

To be fair, there's not a lot of traits humans have, that other sophonts wouldn't have, that can't be squeezed to 'superior Will to Power' by an audience looking for it. Good colour vision is eye for detail is inquisitiveness is Will to Power. Being good at throwing things is Man The Hunter is ambition and drive is Will to Power. And I don't need to tell you what happened with 'relatively oversized penis'!

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

I follow you because im a Black, mentally ill teen and I feel like your posts give me more ways to articulate to others how im seeing psychiatry as a treatment from my perspective. I try to tell people im not comfortable with it but they see it as a necessity, and it’s like all my autonomy stopped mattering at all with those issues. My parents might consider not taking me to therapies and such, but if they did, they could risk me getting taken by cps because it’s “neglectful” of them to not take me because of my mental state, even though they’re great parents. For my white peers in my area, this is significantly less of a concern.

i see the same playbook of Cop Bullshit being used by these therapists and then I just be expected to just deal with it without questioning anything. Your blog makes me feel like im not alone. I really love your posts and I hope you have a good day !!

Yeah I think many white people completely disregard how much more dangerous engaging with these systems are for people of color and how the intersection of racism and ableism and antiblackness means that a white person interacting with psychiatry and a black person interacting with psychiatry are going to face very different risks even if none of us are guaranteed to be safe.

[shiftythrifting]

I found this geeked ass lookin cat at Wildest Dreams consignment in Bakersfield CA.

That's Bill the cat from the Bloom County comic. That's just how he is.

[outlaw-monarch]

[shiftythrifting]

Long time listener first time caller, technically on Vinted but ive seen fb marketplace so i thought it was fine. Sexy mouse, as seen on TV, also on the back there’s a furry mouse wearing leather and fishnets

the only desktop entertainer I need is bonzi buddy

[prokopetz]

RPG where it's very easy to overcome all of the bosses nonviolently through correct dialogue choices, but actually doing so locks you into the bad ending; in order to get the good ending, you need to do a bunch of obtuse side quests in order to goad them into fighting you.

[prokopetz]

#honestly this sounds fun #gimme the options #i wanna know what my choices are #how ambivalent can i be? #but also it's so much funnier that this concept makes violence the correct answer (via @cuzosu-blog)

Yeah, you could definitely play a scenario where violence is the morally correct answer for laughs, but you don't have to.

If you wanted to play it straight, one might imagine a game about fighting a fascist state where all of the bosses are The One Good Nazi types with very sympathetic, human reasons for collaborating with the regime – there's the Sad Dad who's only committing mass murder because they're holding his kid hostage, the idealist who genuinely believes they can reform the system from the inside, the moral coward who rationalises their atrocities as harm reduction because if they quit, whoever replaced them would be even worse, etc. – and all of the talky nonviolent options for dealing with them involve compromising the player character's principles.

The final boss is naturally a totally unsympathetic Hitler 2.0 type, but before you can fight him he hits you with the old Mustapha Mond monologue, and if you've let even one of his buddies off the hook, he turns the tables on the conversation-fu trope and persuades the player character to stand down.

The achievement for getting the good ending is, of course, titled "The Only Good Nazi Is A Dead Nazi".

[b0tster]

learning in real time how upset non lesbian ppl get at u when a piece of ur lesbian art goes viral lol 🫠

[hemipenal-system]

the differences between alcohol, tobacco, and anything else in america is kind of absurd and it’s hard to wrap your head around without going kinda insane

[genderkoolaid]

reminder that i, as an anarchist and an agnostic, am firmly against anti-theism (the stance that religion is inherently bad and should be abolished). spirituality and religion are normal parts of humanity. they are things that we make and will continue to make. some people do really just have an innate sense/desire for Something Beyond Them and that's not just going to go away Because Marxism. if anything you are throwing away a powerful organizing force that can and has been used for leftist goals, yes, even christianity. there is no part of human society that cannot be used to harm people, there is no social system that cannot be used to exploit people, there is no social construct that cannot be used to justify that harm and exploitation.

the ways in which we think of religion as a concept have been fundamentally shaped by systems of exploitative power. that does not mean this is the only possible way to think of or engage in religion/spirituality. religion has been a major push factor for many to socialism and anarchism. im so sick and tired of y'all. it's not my revolution if i must sever a core part of how i understand myself and the world or else be named an enemy.

[faithfulunsure]

#and there is no way to abolish religion that doesnt involve genocide. people dont want to hear this but its true #<-#prev #there’s no way to abolish religion without cultural genocide too #there’s no way to do it without it getting insanely racist real fast #there’s a conception that My Experience of X Is Universal #and all Christianity in the whole world takes the form of white American evangelism #I’m not saying other forms of Christianity are all better or faultless #but I am saying they’re different and they’re practiced by different people #and you can’t be making blanket statements about Christianity when you’re talking about the specific Christian experience you had #‘but obviously I mean -‘ I don’t care SAY that then #everyone here is able to recognise that the words you use are an important part of shaping your thought process #until it’s about something you cant be arsed about via @teacupsandcyanide

[genderkoolaid]

#fascinating that OP equates atheism with being actively against religion#I’m atheist but that’s only for me. people can express their desire for/belief in Something Else#all they want as long as they don’t insist that I do the same#I also don’t think that religion should be abolished

anti-theism =/= atheism.

[punkitt-is-here]

you play the new deltarune chapter and they do the mike thing again but this time its just different dess designs. do you see the vision

[punkitt-is-here]

a lot of you really want the desses to lez out with each other

[hemipenal-system]

even if jk rowling wasn’t a bigoted jackass i think i would not associate with harry potter just because of how over-the-top embarrassing the fandom is

[hemipenal-system]

and to be clear the idea of “separating the art from the artist” is kinda bullshit because:

1. the artist is still alive and benefitting from you engaging with the art

2. the art is deeply fucking reflective of every single (and there’s so many) way(s) the author is bigoted as fuck.

compare hp lovecraft, who also wrote a bunch of stuff that was obscenely racist. however, hp lovecraft is dead as shit and can’t do anything bad with the money. jk rowling is using your money from harry potter merch to wreck the lives of minorities

also harry potter really just is bigoted in every way possible. i don’t think i can think of a single minority that doesn’t at least have a problematic depiction alluding to them

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[snailkites]

Crested Caracara being allopreened by two Black Vultures! This is such an interesting behavior and one that's typically one-way (preening by vultures to caracara). Here you can see the caracara either attempting to reciprocate but getting rebuffed by both vultures, or telling them to stop for now.

[Video source]

[teaboot]

Black Vulture couple locate Crested Caracara bisexual unicorn across the bar in a rare W for all parties

[lastoneout]

I do think the Hank Green AI thing makes it abundantly clear that if you have ADHD or any other mental illness and/or you are prone to addiction you need to avoid AI at all costs. This shit will rope you in, and if you have a mental illness that say, starves your brain of dopamine, you're gonna be extra susceptible to that. I won't use AI for a lot of reasons but one of the big ones is knowing how it would fuck with my ADHD and bipolar. Like yes, it's bad for the environment and giving money to rich scumbags and runs on plagarism, but even more than all that, it's straight up not safe at all and you really shouldn't use it if for no other reason than to protect yourself from whatever the fuck it might do to you.

[lastoneout]

Guys AI is bad but it doesn't give you irreversible brain damage, jesus fucking christ?? Be against AI but don't tell people if they use it they'll never be able to feel joy again??? Convincing people to be against the lie machine by lying to them isn't really what we wanna be doing????

Human brains can recover from horrific and profound trauma, people can be shot in the head and live, my brother cracked his skull open and survived and is fine!! The only way AI can permanently harm you is if it convinces you to kill yourself, and it does that often enough I'd argue that alone is the only reason anyone needs to stay the fuck away from it forever. You don't need to make shit up, we have plenty of real, concrete proof that this tech is evil. Yeesh.