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sorry it’s actually so fucking crazy thinking abt how certain places have banned burqinis like literally making a woman take her clothes off in public like that shit is so fascist
genuinely horrific like that’s law mandated sexual assault & we just let it happen. hello. can anyone hear me.
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sex testing isn't making people discover that they're intersex, it's making people intersex. if someone's sex characteristics are imperceptibly different to what sex defines they should have, it wouldn't have placed them in a different social category until both the technology and the drive to test were there. ppl just don't really believe that sex categories are also socially constructed and fluid. things like hormone levels naturally wildly range between people before it gets to a point where someone looks noticeably "different" for their sex—a cafab person with testosterone levels deemed high today would not have been intersex 200 years ago unless they displayed noticeably masculinised features, because nobody would have known anyone's testosterone levels and therefore can't use that as a basis for treating someone differently!
I love Universal Basic Income but I need people to promote it in addition to other solutions and not as a substitute for them.
"Corporation stole your life's work? Well if there were UBI you wouldn't mind!"
"Robot stole your job? With UBI you wouldn't need your job!"
"Not enough help for disabled people? If we all had UBI that would replace disability payments!"
"Corporations conglomerating into a few huge unregulatable cartels which hike up the prices of everything forever? Just tax them and do UBI!"
Like, yes UBI would certainly help those problems. I'm not at all saying it wouldn't.
But if we do not actually fix society in a few key ways, we're going to end up right back where we are now.
For instance, if we had UBI nationally (instead of just in test areas), these big colluding megacorporations would simply raise the prices of everything to recapture the money. The only limit in the money they extract from us right now is how much we have. If we had more, they'd take more, and monopoly gives them the ability to do that efficiently.
UBI isn't going to hire a special ed teacher in my kid's school or make your apartment ADA compliant.
UBI shouldn't be a consolation prize for destroying a job someone loved. Humans like to work, and we like to benefit from our own work. I do not want to have my industry demolished to be done worse by a word salad machine, and be compensated by a check.
And of course, with corporations so huge they can buy politicians, they will soon vote the taxes down and UBI back out.
We need, for starters:
robust anti trust
money out of politics
regulations that protect ordinary people without a lawyer
I could go on and on but I think I've made my point. UBI and other laws and systems that promote justice, not just one or the other.
The reason technocrats are often weirdly okay with promoting UBI is it has the potential to be the entitlement equivalent of a flat tax, which is less corrective of inequality than progressive taxation. They're looking at UBI as a way to control per capita spending on us. Some of those savings would come from cutting out the layers of bureaucracy that currently means-test and gatekeep access to benefits like disability and food stamps, but a simplistic UBI system could leave the most expensive care cases in the cold to make up the difference on their own. UBI needs to be additional to other safety nets (or be sophisticated enough to adjust individual income payments to cover disparate living costs e.g. medical expenses, regional variations in cost of living, etc.) in order to be a real concession to the working class.
I think about The Man of the Hole so often. 27 years alone. 27 years with no one to speak to but strangers to wave to. Survived a genocide, a massacre that killed everyone he had ever known and later, an assassination attempt. He still tried to warn researches about the traps he built. He was only about 60 when he died in 2022. The people who tormented him in life later desecrated his grave.
I do think it is important to share the stories of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island and Ishi and the countless other indigenous people who experienced the profound trauma of being the last survivor but it is important to remember that the last Aboriginal families in Australia to be contacted by Europeans were resettled in the 1980s and the Indian government has proposed a plan that will mean total genocide for the Shompen people. The total eradication of indigenous peoples, their cultures, their languages, their ways of life, is not something which occurred in a distant ugly past but an ongoing process.
sooo I wanna know what the deal is with these two
The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.
It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.
Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.
The entire point of, OK, my phone really wants to call it Anastasia so I guess we’re doing that? The entire point of Anastasia (as administered by a board-certified Anastasiologist) during sugary. Sugary? Haven’t I suffered enough? The entire point of Anastasia during augury. Jesus Christ. Hold up. You know what, augury is preferable to sugary. Augury is obviously performed by an auger (makes sense if you give it a think) whereas sugary is performed by…? A sugardaddy? NO THANK YOU. Anyway. The entire point of Anastasia is so that you don’t know what music your sturgeon. Fuck right off. Was playing. While you were under. You’re not supposed to wake up from Anastasia and immediately realize you managed to get earwormed by Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades” during your sugary.
TERFs being serial sexual abusers/harassers should not shock anyone. latest jkr news should be expected. these people are violently fixated on women's genitals & sex lives, harboring what amounts to a fetish for violating peoples' bodily autonomy, collaborators with the christian right. right down to the constant, baseless accusations of sexual perversion against deviant Others. they fit the profile of the powerful, reactionary rapist who is able to abuse with impunity perfectly. and they do.
reminder that if you are unable to understand that cis women can be rapists, and that trans women can be (and disproportionately are) victims of all manner of sexual violence, your feminism is worth than worthless, it's actively reactionary + dangerous to the most marginalized women in your life.
Can everything stop being racist I'm so tired
I'd really love to have one day where I'm not having to live in the reality everything around me is designed to kill me slowly and painfully
For once I'd like to feel like a person who can just exist rather than a thing that needs to be eradicated because it doesn't fit into this white supremacist world
Kitties are so important‼️
Kitty bellies are ESPECIALLY important‼️
You HAVE to rub her belly!!!! You must!!!!
⁽ᴵᵗ ᵐᵃʸ ᵒʳ ᵐᵃʸ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵇᵉ ᵃ ᵗʳᵃᵖ ᵇᵘᵗ ʸᵒᵘ ᵐᵘˢᵗ ᵃᵗᵗᵉᵐᵖᵗ ʳᵉᵍᵃʳᵈˡᵉˢˢ⁾
"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s
i'm still deeply into making fake porcelain things -> here's a little fox. also featuring hollow filigree joints which i have wanted to make for a long time but haven't had the right project or motivation for.
I'm getting a lot of "people who only like the "americans explaining a concept to each other: ok so imagine a burger..." meme explaining the "guy who has only seen The Boss Baby before watching his second movie: I'm getting a lot of Boss Baby vibes from this one" meme to each other: okay so imagine the "americans explaining a concept to each other: okay so imagine a burger..." meme..." vibes from this one
thank you dear mutual
Corollary:
Tumblrina mathematicians upon seeing any sufficiently abstract poast: I'm getting a lot of category theory vibes from this
HI I HAVE AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE
CUPSY CONCEPT ART
its of cooky★yummy not cupsy★yummy but!!! this is maybe useful to you. unforchy i dont know japanese so i cant translate it but i found this while looking at the card gallery for the yummies....
bWAAAHHHH!!! LOVE...... uncupsy★yummy in the top right is hilarious what a creature
POV u called me a good girl
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