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onetwofeb

Simon Weil's 'The List of Temptations (to be read daily)' from her diary.

ruuling

baugfingur

@mmmthornton

It’s not a tinfoil hat. Back in 2018 there was a medium article that laid out and detailed a vast network of astroturfing in the trans rights movement. It ended up being taken down by medium and is now on substack with additional notes.

How the LGBT community got suckered by Big Business and Big Philanthropy.

oranges-are-not

Behind every gay/black/disabled/poor man, there is a gay/black/disabled/poor woman who is more oppressed and faces more discrimination than that man.

Misogyny is the one thing that unites men all over the world, an activity every man, no matter his race or class or sexuality or physical/mental ability, can partake in. Men are not oppressed on the basis of being men. Being part of a minority does not cancel out a man's ability to cause harm. Being a white straight rich woman also does not mean that woman is free from misogyny. A white straight rich man is safe and admired, while a white straight rich woman is still seen as property and a lying bitch and someone with too much privilege, someone who doesn't deserve her status. Men of any kind will group together to belittle this woman, and then they will go home and beat their wives or mothers or sisters or daughters because these men do not face any consequences for their behaviour.

Men are never oppressed on the basis of being male. Misandry is not real. Men can only extend their empathy to other men. Don't fight for "men's rights", they have too many as it is.

siberiannette-deactivated202301

daily reminder that like a whole lot of male saints are on record saying misogynistic shit

"any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder" - st augustine

"woman is defective and misbegotten" - st thomas aquinas

"the [female] is weak and fickle" -st john chrysostom

"the woman together with her own husband is the image of God so that that whole substance may be one image; but when she is referred separately to her quality of help-meet, which regards the woman herself alone, then she is not the image of God" -st augustine

"women's very consciousness of their own nature must evoke feelings of shame" - st clement of alexandria

"it is still Eve the temptress that we must beware of in any woman… i fail to see what use woman can be to man, if one excludes the function of bearing children." - st augustine

"woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. therefore she is unsure in herself. what she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. and so, to put it briefly, one must be on one’s guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil... her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good" - st albertus magnus

"woman is the root of all evil." - st jerome

"it does not profit a man to marry. for what is a woman but an enemy of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a domestic danger, delectable mischief, a fault in nature" - st john chrysostom

"so by such a kind of subjection woman is naturally subject to man, because in men the discretion of reason predominates" - st thomas aquinas

"woman is less qualified for moral behavior. for the woman contains more liquid than man, and it is a property of liquid to take things up easily and to hold unto them poorly. liquids are easily moved, hence women are inconstant and curious. when a woman has relations with a man, she would like, as much as possible, to be lying with another man at the same time. woman knows nothing about fidelity." - st albertus magnus

and this is a small collection. i'm just tired of all the idolization of saints

ihatemenandtherearereasons

Exhibit 1553

luxen-r

Men coping hard with their womb envy

girlsmoonsandstars

me: is this observation i'm making about men too mean?

men:

#christianity

liberate-women-now

Since 2005, there are more registered female drivers than males and for the past 30 years male drivers account for 70% of all fatal car accidents.

kawaiigardenerwolf

this one is particularly good because whenever I present vehicular fatalities by sex stats I usually am hit with "well men drive more/there's more male drivers than women" which always struck me as particularly stupid even before seeing the numbers of registered drivers. Nice to know that even with MORE women drivers than men men are still taking the lions share of reckless driving. Males really are bad at driving and they are fucking idiots too. This is the sex that thinks wearing seatbelts and driving sober is gay.

guerrillatech

technofeudalism

i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

technofeudalism

since this post blew up, i've been wanting to do an addition with all of the recommendations from the comments and tags. but there's a lot of them. some people might be crazy enough to sit down and seriously put them all in one post with descriptions. those people are honestly sick in the head.

anyway, here's all of the recommendations from the reblogs. not all of them are text-based, but it's a great mixture of styles. also don't forget the links in the second paragraph of the OP which will take you to FMHY where there are a bunch more games listed.

Games

A Dark Room - text-based science fiction role-playing game.

corru.observer - science fiction adventure web game.

Improbable Island - old-school text adventure game.

Candy Box 2 - incremental clicker game that evolves into RPG.

Arcanum - open source wizard clicker game.

sandspiel, Powder Game, Powder Game 2, The Powder Toy - more sand physics games.

Orb.Farm - fishtank simulator.

Façade - experimental game with a real-time interactive narrative where you try to fix a failing marriage.

The Catacombs of Solaris - trippy art game.

Yume Nikki Online - online version of the surreal classic plus fangames.

The Barncle Goose Experiment - combine element/alchemy game based on antique theories of abiogenesis.

Fallen London - free-to-play text-based open world RPG.

Nested - very unique text-based universe expanding game. described as possibly @orteil42's favorite thing he's ever made.

The Process of Elimination - interactive web novel (by @hypertextdog)

Discworld MUD - multiplayer, text-based, online game (a MUD, or text MMORPG) based on the Discworld books.

Horse Master - surreal text game about training a horse.

EYEZMAZE - flash (RIP) or HTML5-based puzzle games.

You Are Jeff Bezos - text game. spend Jeff Bezos' fortune.

The Password Game - challenging puzzle game where you have to meet password requirements (by neal)

Universal Paperclips - incremental paperclip making game.

Half-Earth - planetary disaster planning game where you try to save the world using socialism.

ChooseYourStory - community-driven website centered on CYOA style story games.

PhD Simulator - random event based text game. make your choice each month and see if you can graduate on time.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - open source roguelike.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - turn-based survival roguelike set in the modern day.

Nethack - open source roguelike originally released in 1987.

FarmRPG - simple, mobile-friendly, text-based farming RPG.

Kingdom of Loathing - browser-based community MMORPG.

PokeRogue - browser-based Pokemon roguelike

Tools

Text Game Builder - works in your browser, with just a little bit of Python (by @grumpygandalf)

Twine - great (free!) tool for making text-based games quickly.

Ink - scripting language for interactive fiction (also free)

Flashpoint Archive - a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.

PICO-8 - fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs.

Non-Games

Library of Babel - interactive illustration which attempts to simulate what it might be like to browse The Library of Babel.

Superbad - technically not a game, sprawling website full of secrets.

17776 - serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative about football in the far-future. beautiful, creative, legendary. created by Jon Bois, a legend and one of my favorite writers of all time.

Choice of Games - text-based, choose-your-own-adventure games (interactive fiction). some free-to-play, others can be bought like an ebook.

The Deep Sea - scroll to the bottom of the ocean. encounter the humble squid and his friends (by neal)

Space Elevator - like The Deep Sea, but up instead of down. you can equip your avatar with a scarf (by neal)

Internet Artifacts - an interactive history of the early internet (by neal)

If The Moon Were Only One Pixel - scroll through an accurately scaled model of the universe.

r/incremental_games - reddit community for incremental games.

r/WebGames - reddit community for web games in general.

thank you to everyone who contributed and the creators. please be sure to show them some love where possible.

gnomebutch

why do so many males sincerely believe not getting laid is a human rights violation

bittermarching

Because it's the one area of their lives where women have some degree of power over them. They don't face discrimination for being male in employment, housing, socially, or any other aspect of their lives. The scenario women are most likely able to deny men something they want is with sex.

antiporn-activist

👆🏻

lesleygorgasm

the most misogynistic man you knew from high school now identifies as a woman

meangan-thee-lesbian

Followed closely by; the most homophobic woman you knew from high school now identifies as queer. She is married to the above.

fuckyeahanarchistposters

"How to reason with a War CRiminal"

Graphic designed by Rafeal Pereira

donnabrutta

The founders of Jane, an underground network in Chicago, US that assisted people in getting abortions. From the left moving right: Martha Scott, Jeanne Galatzer-Levy, Abby Parisers, Sheila Smith and Madeline Schwenk.

Martha Scott was 19 in 1965, when her friend's sister became pregnant and Scott helped her find a doctor to perform an abortion. The group connected individuals seeking abortions with doctors, and later, performed abortions themselves. Their clients were informed they were not doctors, but doing abortions themselves allowed them to keep costs low. They made people aware of the services through signs with slogans like "'Pregnant? Don't Want to Be? Call Jane." The group operated for seven years and performed an estimated 11,000 abortions; no deaths were ever reported.

Quote from Scott: "You're messing around inside somebody else's body. It's not necessarily given that you won't do harm. It wasn't perfect, by any means. But we were dealing with women who really didn't have other options."

Quote from Galatzer-Levy: "I hadn't had so much as a speeding ticket [when I joined]. But abortion really was the front line, it was where women were dying."

In 1972, two women reported Jane because their sister was seeking an abortion, and the women believed it was murder. All seven founders were arrested. Six months later, Roe v. Wade was decided and the charges were dropped. Read more here (link).