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[fluffy--tan]

I keep meaning to become active an actually post here instead of just reblogging, but, uh, I never got around to that.... However, I am now finally active on at least one social media! so if you want to actually hear me talk about stuff, or you just like me, go follow me on bsky https://bsky.app/profile/fluffy-tan.bsky.social

[tofu-rebecca]

seeing "protect the action figures" as a response to "Protect the dolls" is maybe the most insulting thing I've ever seen, to both trans men and trans women.

[tofu-rebecca]

First of all, the term "protect them dolls" exists because trans women, and especially trans women of color, are killed disproportionally. you are literally "all lives matter"-ing this. Secondly, can we stop this stupid fucking trend of giving gay/trans men the worse version of something that already exists for women?

[tofu-rebecca]

I still remember having to explain to a lesbian that the term sapphic comes from a real poet who was a lesbian and had droves of love poems about women and is so influential her home is what lesbians are named after and "acheillian" comes from a guy from a story who might've fucked his friend.

[tofu-rebecca]

"The mlm flag is only so ugly because its the lesbian flag but with boy colors" ok well that's lame as fuck actually

[suziewoosy]

Literally !! get ur hands off my things get ur own !!!

[godlessondheimite]

i’ve seen so many stories where revenge is awesome and cool and the best thing you can possibly do. just once i would like to see a story in which revenge has two victims, the target and the pursuer. but i guess society has not yet come as far as i have in deconstructing destructive notions of honor and valor entwined with hate. maybe someday someone will write this. not me, though.

[godlessondheimite]

thanks for the recs everyone. can you point me in the direction of things that are about how family doesn’t have to be your blood relatives, but instead can be people you have chosen. what about some creative works that are about the power of creative works. or where the main character is a writer. or something set in new york city where it’s like the city itself is a character. is there anything that is secretly about trauma, bonus points if it’s the way trauma is passed down. these are all ideas i yearn to see represented but i’ve never seen before and i don’t know if they’ve ever been done.

[ganondorf]

i wonder if this whole Calling Typical Misogyny "Porn Addiction" thing wasn't just a successful psyop to shift feminist critique into a right wing framework i.e. trying to make it about "modern degeneracy" and thus paralyzing discourse on the root issue

[ganondorf]

everything these people claim is "porn addiction" is literally just misogyny. porn could be dismantled globally and men will still view and treat women as sexual property because surprise! turns out men have expected sexual subservience from women loooong before porn ever existed

[auntiemira]

Sometimes I am like "We can't even manage basic gender equality let alone trans acceptance. At this rate consang liberation is impossible", but thats the wrong way to think of it. These fights are not consecutive, they are concurrent, and interdependent. Of course none of them have acheived full liberation, you cannot reach that until all have been liberated. This is actually all the more reason we must fight for consang rights, because they are connected to the rights of so many others. We will build roads between the marginalized, and we will save all of us someday.

[deadbirdlife]

Today my Advanced Clinical Pathology professor trailed off in the middle of class and said, “If I seem distracted, it’s because last night I was talking with a friend and she asked ‘Who’s that chick in Titanic?’ but all I heard was ‘Chicken Titanic,’ and ever since then I’ve been thinking about a chicken on the bow of the Titanic like Kate Winslet, wings held high. It’s all I can think about.”

[deadbirdlife]

My hand moved on its own

[magicratfingers]

so rare and beautiful when the art is exactly the image u saw in your mind

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[daughter-of-sapph0]

every "genderfuck" thing about trans woman has been one of two things. either discouraging us from fully transitioning and saying we shouldn't wear makeup or shave or make any effort to be feminine. or it's trans tmes looking at the parts of our bodies that are the most dysphoria inducing and getting jealous. most of the time its both

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Some policies from my interpreter job seem so stupid to me.

Yesterday I had a call where at the start of the call the doctor told the patient "I know you speak some English but I have an interpreter on the line just in case". So they asked me to stay on the line and they'd tell me when they needed me to translate something. The call lasted for like 40 minutes and most of the time they were just talking to each other normally, and there were only like two or thee times when I was directly asked to traslate.

And then my supervisor started to message me through slack all pissed off telling me that he had been listening in on that call for like 10 minutes and he never once heard me say something, and that what I was doing could be considered time theft because I wasn't doing my job.

So I explained the situation to him and he told me that in cases like that policy requires me to verbally remind them I'm still on the line every 3 minutes at most. And like??? Sorry but I feel like me interrupting their conversation every couple minutes to tell them I'm still there would be so annoying for both the doctor and the patient.

[crafty-butch]

anyone else notice how when "digital assistants" were just supposed to do specific tasks when you asked for them we had Alexa and Siri and Cortana, but now that they're being marketed as smart enough to take actions and make decisions on their own they've got names like Claude and Devin

[crafty-butch]

@namanie @tsunderrated the point isn't "fake names -> real names," it's "feminine names -> masculine names"

[bimyheel]

This is one of the funniest things I've found on tumblr and I've seen some shit

[teaboot]

What if my chosen profession, which is largely based around non-judgemental compassion, acceptance, and seeing life from other's perspectives, with the purpose of harm reduction, puts me in a situation where people tell me they like things I don't? Do I kill them in self-defense? Can I have a gun

[sins-of-sodom]

describing psychology as non-judgemental, compassionate, accepting, considerate of other perspectives or focusing on harm reduction is nearly a more insane take to me than the one poster in that screenshot had

[meowsapow]

"Friends with benefits" and the benefit is being my friend :)

[meowsapow]

We can also fuck nasty or whatever

[cugzarui]

as a chemist i would like to say BWAHAHAHAHAHA

[alexseanchai]

image description at explainXKCD:

explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.

[flareonfloof]

its a bit easier for astronomers

[nerdynonnativenarnian]

NO! Where’s the non-metals and metaloids?!

[flareonfloof]

are they hydrogen or helium

[nerdynonnativenarnian]

oxygen, carbon, sulfur, xenon, iodine, neon, etc etc.

[flareonfloof]

ooo okay i see the confusion. you're listing off a bunch of metals there

[nerdynonnativenarnian]

…. You’re breaking my chemistry nerd brain. Hhhuuuhhhh???

[flareonfloof]

im an astrophysicist

[nerdynonnativenarnian]

but but, science is science?!

[flareonfloof]

and different fields of science have different conventions and definitions for their unique contexts

[katzeregi]

[nacht---hexe]

[ritahayworrth]

happy fourth of july to the philippines ONLY

[ritahayworrth]

link to article

[cassiterite-tenring]

hi, filipino here. just want to say that our independence day is june 12, not july 4. july 4 is when the united states government decided that they would recognize our freedom, specifically because it is your independence day and they wanted to cement their cultural hegemony over our country. and because of their influence on our country this was recognized for a time as our independence day. we still commemorate it, but i hope you can understand why we don’t want our independence day to be associated so closely with our former colonizer. it wasn’t even a work holiday for us.

june 12 is the day that we filipinos declared our own independence for ourselves, and that is what we celebrate as independence day

[houseofglass]

happy june 12 to you

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

literally nothing and i genuinely mean absolutely nothing in this world quite encompasses corporate detachment from the consumer quite like peggle_2_ode_to_joy.gif

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

upon its release to the xbox live arcade in 2009, peggle was THE top selling game for two solid weeks. within a month, more than 100,000 players were on the leaderboards. before it got to live arcade, it had been downloaded 50 million times.

and when it released for ios? holy fuck were they DROWNING in money. when they took a weekend to put the game on sale for a dollar, down from five, a couple months after release, they made as much in that one weekend as they did since its release. it was among the top paid apps for weeks.

with critics, peggle was among some of the top downloadable, mobile, and general best games of all time at the time of its release in 2007 and onwards, and it only shot up in popularity as they made it more accessible to more people. and this was in a time before candy crush.

the thing about simple addictive puzzle games is that they make you feel competent, confident, smart, and cool for being good at them. not everybody can learn how to aim in a shooter or the best strategy in an rpg. but anybodys grandmother or baby brother can play a simple puzzle game, and the nature of these games and the way they make you feel only makes you want to play more and more.

however very very fucking few people who play simple puzzle games that you can master on the toilet would be going to E3 in the early 2010s. remember in 2012 when every ~hardcore gamer~ would screech about ‘fake gamers’ who only play candy crush? thats what peggle was. it was THE crack mobile game from the pre-candycrush era.

no one who was excited about peggle was going to E3. the hundreds of thousands of people who played peggle were not the type of people who would consider going to (or even giving a shit about) E3.

but it sold like hot cakes, and candy crush was churning out content like a madman, and EA owned popcap now, so because the game sold amazingly, and because they wanted to keep cashing in on it, and because corporate drones who controlled the scripts didnt comprehend that their consumerbase isnt one homogeneous mass, they decided to announce peggle 2 at E3 2013.

but not just “oh by the way peggle 2”, no. peggle sold like skyrim, it sold like black ops, clearly they should be saving the best for last, they should announce it like it was the craziest most incredible announcement of the night!

thus:

but in all honesty it doesnt quite have the same impact without hearing ode to joy overtop of the deafening silence of the crowd. so heres a link too. timeless.

[sunflowerfaiirygf]

I'm literally little girl

[fleshengine]

the future isn't electric cars or even self driving cars. the future is robust public transport systems

[fleshengine]

I will take streets webbed over by bus powerlines before I take the inevitable suffering the materials in an EV will cost. I want my ugly utopia.

[fleshengine]

Have I talked about my ugly utopia idea on here yet? I don't think I have.

Basically, compare a suburban subdivision and the classic commie block. One is an expensive, very pretty hellscape, and the other is an ugly, barebones solution to a homelessness problem. Subdivision ticky tacky houses start falling apart the day they're built. Commie blocks built immediately post-ww2 are still being lived in. Density wise the commie block is incredible, while the subdivision is a laughingstock.

The future doesn't have to be pretty to take care of everyone. I want my ugly utopia.