living on an island made from faith

rowan ▪︎ he/him ▪︎ late 20s ▪︎ genderqueer transsexual ▪︎ still a card-carrying dyke ▪︎ gael-lit enthusiast ▪︎ ☆ exclusionists of any kind fuck off

[faithisland]

I have got to remember that I love bad art, that bad art is better than mediocre art, and that if all I do is make earnest bad art for all of time, it will be good

[unadulteratedhideouttrash]

[street-dog-bread]

[autisticautonomy]

Hey does anyone remember when a transgender adult man with cerebral palsy got top surgery of his own accord and then posted about it in celebration, and then transphobes:

Lied and said he was non-verbal

Lied and said he was incapable of communication

Lied and said he had not gotten the surgery of his own accord

Lied and said his "guardians decided [he] was trans"

Got MGT to call a procedure done on a consenting adult "criminal" just because he had cerebral palsy

Mass reported his video and his account, which he ran, until facebook terminated his account for "child exploitation" despite it being his account, him being an adult, and him not being exploited

Ableism and transphobia are inseperable. Just like ableism was used to prop up bigotry throughout history, now it is being used to deny transgender people bodily autonomy the same way it is used to deny disabled people bodily autonomy. It's not a coincidence that so much of the rights transphobic rhetoric is focused on labelling us as "mentally ill". They don't think any disabled people, let alone mentally ill people should have independence or liberation.

A disabled college student was bullied for posting about his transition. Meta removed his account

<p>Micah Leroy, who ran the account known as “Disabled Trans Boy” on Instagram, became the subject of a right-wing hate campaign after he po

[nutmargaret]

before the first

[nutmargaret]

"Dunk"

[yellowlikelemons]

Idk if this is a totally unhinged thought but i feel like the increase in "not to be a DISGUSTING WHORE but i would like to hold hands uwu" jokes are an indication of rising purity culture

[yellowlikelemons]

We should start doing the inverse. Not to be a WHOLESOME PURE PSEUDO-CHRISTIAN SOFTBOY but i would like to pretend to take my sisters virginity against her will

[faithisland]

as much as I hate Lucas for being the scum of the earth that he is, I do appreciate how he refers to Max as a professor

[sickerfxck]

Trying somno but we both fall fast asleep expecting the other to do something and end up both having a beautiful nights rest

[jamesusilljournal]

@davidvonbahr

[thechanelmuse]

Hazel Scott playing two pianos at the same damn time with ease

[erinbowbooks]

Hazel Scott was a musical sorcerer and a civil rights hero.   She:

 was admitted to Julliard at 8.  

was performing in top venues by 16.  

pioneered “swinging the classics” and made the equivalent of a million dollars a year doing it.  

was the first person of color to have their own national TV show.  

went to Hollywood but refused to be cast as a “singing maid.”  Demanded and got control over her casting, her wardrobe, and how footage featuring her was cut.  

refused to perform in segregated venues and led charges for integration in several northern cities, notably Spokane.  

She was brought down by the House Committee on Unamerican Activities, and has been largely forgotten.  But she was a sorcerer, and a hero.  

[domduongart]

@theladyragnell

[violent-darts]

Let’s un-forget her.

[dream-piper]

So I learned something new today!

[thelaurenshippen]

[meret118]

Meta Suspends AI Image Feature After Days of Backlash

Meta said on Friday it would discontinue an AI feature that allowed users to generate images using public Instagram accounts following days

[onlytiktoks]

[sickerfxck]

Trying somno but we both fall fast asleep expecting the other to do something and end up both having a beautiful nights rest

[covid-safer-hotties]

[knitmeapony]

Over 96% Of Airplane Flights Had Covid-19 Coronavirus In Their Wastewater

The wastewater from 28 of 29 airline flights in in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, collected from June to December 31 of last year contained the sev

I am guessing this is the study! It's a single airline but we're talking inbound flights, too. Not repeated since 2023, or at least no additional data has been published. I still agree 'mask on every flight', especially on high-traffic weekends and during things like flu season, but worth taking a peek at the data.

[fabiansociety]

one bit of advice i would give folks is to buy n95s with straps that go OVER YOUR HEAD instead of behind your ears. hugely more comfortable. instead of feeling like every three hour flight is going to pull your ears off you just have to worry about moisture buildup

[bucketofdeltav]

So fun fact plane air is super fucking dry due to the nature of, y'know, the upper troposphere. I found a while ago that wearing a mask on a plane, especially long-haul, also helps with the dehydration and horrific 'sinuses so dry they're bleeding' I used to get. For me 'moisture buildup in mask' is a feature, not a bug.

If you needed any more reasons to mask up before boarding.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[echojulietfoxtrot]

Hello, I work for a large moderately evil corporation and for at least five years now I have to sign a yearly thing to say I will never ever have one of these devices in the same room as me while I work.

My large moderately evil employer takes it for granted that these things are spying on me at all times, and you should too.

[boethiah]

this reads like disco elysium dialogue

[autismgod-deactivated20250912]

this is something an NPC says to you at a bakery in the witch alps version of disco elysium