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these new bots are NOT OK. Them having actual tumblr names is giving me psychic damage. I feel like curling up in a corner and crying.
yesterday "remainingforefinger" followed me and the fact that this ISN'T a nonbinary autist from Poland who works as a dentist's assistant, but A BOT, makes me want to SCREAM.
Pour one out for this choice bot url
So Arizona launched an “education hotline” that allows “concerned parents” to report “””critical race theory””” and other things like ~gender identity~ being taught in the classroom
It would be a shame if the number and email were spread to bad actors looking to prank call the AZ Department of Education
602-771-3500 or empower @ azed .gov 🤡
Horne said two staff members are sorting through the calls, and two investigators are working on credible leads.
and for the love of god, don’t just spam it with memes or le funny shrek jokes or whatever, they’ll just hang up
make plausible-sounding reports for things that don’t actually exist, so that they actually have to waste time/resources investigating false leads - the goal is to waste time they would otherwise be using to do their jobs, not to get tumblr clout for being an epic troll
So apparently the internet article said the superintendent wouldn't be deterred by the prank calls because they would 'taper off eventually'. It'd be a real shame if this post stayed in circulation via queues so they get a consistent list of prank calls to filter through. 😇
“In four years of medical school, three years of residency training, and nearly 30 years in practice as a family physician I have never been asked “what is the definition of a woman?”
Seems obvious that one could just look at the genitalia. You’re either a boy or a girl, right? Well, not always. Although it’s rare, many people are born with ambiguous genitalia. The OB/GYN and the pediatrician are simply unable to determine the sex. Historically, in consultation with the family, a sex would be assigned. Turns out that often as not the child would ultimately identify with the sex they were not assigned.
So it must be the chromosomes. The 23rd pair in humans is designated XX in females and XY in males. The Y chromosome determines male characteristics, so you are either a boy or a girl, right? Well, not always.
In embryology the default setting is female. The Y chromosome normally triggers male development. Ever heard of testicular feminization syndrome, now more properly referred to as androgen insensitivity syndrome? Sometimes an XY baby is born with essentially normal female external genitalia. The body simply does not respond to androgens associated with the Y chromosome. As the child grows and enters puberty there will be normal female breast development and other feminine characteristics. Unless genetic testing has been done at some point, the abnormality is not discovered until the teenage daughter presents to the doctor with concerns that menstruation has not started. Examination will reveal that the vagina ends in a blind pouch, no uterus, and undescended testes. They are often very feminine - cheerleaders, beauty pageant contestants, etc.
Nearly everybody is a “normal” XX or XY, has anatomy to match, and is perfectly at peace with themselves. But not everybody. Several studies have identified how the sexual diversity between men and women does not exclusively involve the genitals, but also the development of different brain areas. And just as genitals can be ambiguous, or not match what XY would predict,so can the brain in some instances develop in a different direction than the genitals. Animal studies suggest this is likely due to atypical levels of sex hormones in the womb.
One of several such structures studied in the human brain have involved an area of the limbic system known as the nucleus of the terminal stria. The volume of this area appears to be influenced by the stimulation of sex hormones during brain development, and in men the volume of this area is greater than in women. Scans of this area in transgender women (genetic/anatomic men who identify as females) resemble that of non transgender females. In this matter gender identity develops from the complex interactions between sex hormones and brain during its development; moreover, this appears to be genetically predetermined and is not influenced by hormonal stimuli during the adult phase. It is important to understand that at this point it is not known for certain what causes gender dysphoria or incongruence, just as we don’t know for certain what makes someone gay or for that matter, left handed.
Gender dysphoria often begins in childhood and can lead to severe distress, depression, and suicide. Treatment includes thorough psychological and medical evaluation and psychotherapy. Hormonal treatments in children are designed to delay puberty until decisions about desired gender characteristics can be made. The treatments are not permanent and are REVERSIBLE. Hormone treatments are not given to prepubertal children and in fact are not started until Tanner stage 2 of puberty. Sex change (gender reassignment) operations are not done on children. (Rare exception might be in the case of ambiguous genitalia where surgery may be done to make genital appearance more consistent with the genetic sex).
Unfortunately there are many people who cannot or will not understand that someone different from themselves might really be different for a real reason. I recently watched a video of a Fox News personality guffawing, in an arrogant and grotesque display of not knowing what one does not know, about how "woke liberals" were looking into the science of what makes someone a man or a woman. I hope the information provided here explains why that question is not quite as simple as it sounds.
It is also unfortunate in Texas that people with political power seem to think that trans people just want to get on the girls' track team
to win a lot of medals or get in the girls' rest room to watch them pee. Governor Abbott, Lt Gov Patrick, and AG Paxton have shown profound ignorance and cruelty in decreeing treatment for these kids to be child abuse. Even right wing columnist Mona Charen called Abbott's behavior "malice masquerading as policy making". They really no different than lunchroom bullies.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Medical Association, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the Endocrine Society have expressed outrage that government is inserting itself into a matter that should be left to families, patients, and their doctors. There are well established evidence based procedures that have been in place for decades. This is not a new phenomenon and it is not a fad. Treatment saves lives. Denying treatment is cruel.
I would hope that someone will share this with a conservative friend. For most of us it seems ridiculous that a guy would think he is a woman, or a woman to think she is a man. The human brain and human body are complex and wondrous and get it “right” almost every time, but sometimes they get it different. And different should not be wrong, and different people and their families should not be attacked by their own government.”
- Joe McCreight, MD
Spent a few hours writing a D&D campaign while watching CollegeHumor videos. I then decided to see if AI could capture the essence of CH sketches, and while the short answer is a resounding "no," I do think this prompt has legs (eight of them).
Shout out to everyone whose Spotify wrapped is just the Encanto soundtrack.
Things that will make your computer meaningfully faster:
Replacing a HDD with an SSD
Adding RAM
Graphics cards if you’re nasty
Uninstalling resource hogs like Norton or McAfee (if you’re using Windows then the built-in Windows Security is perfectly fine; if you’re using a mac consider bitdefender as a free antivirus or eset as a less resource intensive paid option)
Customizing what runs on startup for your computer
Things that are likely to make internet browsing specifically meaningfully faster:
Installing firefox and setting it up with ublock origin
adding the Auto Tab Discard extension to firefox to sleep unused tabs so that they aren’t constantly reloading
Closing some fucking tabs bud I’m sorry I know it hurts I’m guilty of this too
Things that will make your computer faster if you are actually having a problem:
Running malwarebytes and shutting down any malicious programs it finds.
Correcting disk utilization errors
Things that will make your computer superficially faster and may slightly improve your user experience temporarily:
Clearing cache and cookies on your browser
Restarting the computer
Changing your screen resolution
Uninstalling unused browser extensions
Things that do not actually make your computer faster:
Deleting files
Registry cleaners
Defragging your drive
Passively wishing that your computer was faster instead of actually just adding more fucking RAM.
This post is brought to you by the lady with the 7-year-old laptop that she refuses to leave overnight for us to run scans on or take apart so that we can put RAM in it and who insists on coming by for 30-minute visits hoping we can make her computer faster.
More weird: Missing Time
More weird stuff, this one is one of the few that actually gets to me. I’ve got a lot to say about this house, but I’ll stick with the weirdest one first.
It was Sunday, I was about six or seven. I lived in a house that was what I think is called a duplex. The house had a defunct “front door” that was against the sidewalk and street, which is where my room was. Above the door was small window that had the street number of our home on it. This door faced north. From that door moving south, was my room, a hallway that led to my parent’s room, sister’s room, and bathroom, which ultimately opened to the dining room and kitchen, behind which was our living room, and then, out the back door to the backyard.
One morning, I woke up early. The sun was just peeking into the room through the windows. I wandered out into the hallway to find my mother and her husband out in the dining room, drinking coffee and wearing bathrobes. His was blue, hers was pink. They told me it was too early to be up, and we didn’t have to be ready for church for two more hours, so I should go back to bed. Fair enough, I liked bed, it was where my stuffed animals were. So I walk back to my room and open the door.
I was blinded by a brilliant yellow light that filled the room, as if the sun itself was pressing against the window. I was filled with terror, but I don’t remember what caused it. I just remember being frightened in a way that I still have yet to experience to this day. I SCREAM and go running back down the hallway. The whole trek from the kitchen to my room took seconds, and yet when I burst out of my room, my mother and her husband emerge from their room, fully dressed for church. My mother’s hair and makeup was done, her husband was wearing dark pants, a white button up, a black vest and a bolo tie (I don’t believe this was really the style in the early nineties in southwest Ohio, but it was his style, at least).
I am in hysterics, and they are both asking me what’s wrong and why I wasn’t ready for church yet. I don’t remember much after that, but I do remember that even as a child I realized about two hours had passed in the span of what should have been less than a minute. I’m sure they chalked it up to imagination, but I still remember how terrified I was that day, and I still can’t account for the time lost. I’ve thought about one day getting hypnosis to see if something had happened my mind has just blocked out, but I’m not sure I want to know.
Deciding just to post weird things that have happened to me lest I one day forget.
Worked as a counselor in a summer camp. We did field trips to local rec spots on Wednesdays. The public pool, library, etc. One day we took about forty kids to a public event center (rented out by the city). There wasn't really anything to do there, but we played music that may have been age inappropriate for a bunch of elementary kids. They danced and did whatever it was that kids do until it was time to go home. We lined the kids up for a head count on the dance floor. When we were getting attendance, we heard huge crash come from near the entrance/bathrooms. All the kids had just been accounted for, so we were a bit freaked out. We poke around, nothing in the coat room, nothing in the men's room, but the women's room? Shattered glass all over the floor. The wall length mirror over the sinks had shattered outward all over the floor. We were the first in the room and check the stalls to find no one. The mirror was mounted with screws from the outside of the mirror, and the screws in the wall still held pieces of the mirror under them. It looked like the mirror had shattered from the center out, as if someone had pushed it from the other side. We, being minimum wage teenagers, decide we'll report it and let it be the city's problem. When we come out, we find a bunch of the older girls hysterically sobbing. As it turns out, they were convinced they had summoned Mary, albeit with some delay. To be fair, we didn't have a better answer, so we made up a spell that would undo the summoning that these girls quietly mumbled to themselves as we headed back to camp. That building has since been torn down, or was potentially dragged to hell.
i feel like no one really wants to hear that sleep/exercise/nutrition/hydration are major factors in treating mental health issues bc we’ve all talked to that person who thinks your depression would be cured by one good session of goat yoga or whatever but unfortunately they do help and i’m chronically annoyed about it
“Eat Cops”
Garfield graffiti seen in Indianapolis, Indiana
will never understand jigsaw. to do that to another person doesn’t seem very nice or kind. sorry this is just how i feel
ok maybe I will make a slightly pretentious uquiz
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Every reblog removes one HP from the queen
i cant wait until she actually dies and everyone freaks out saying the final reblog did the last hit
This is so fun its just like Jenga
Some rando: This character should not have the chance to become a better person
Me: Why
Same person: Because they are a bad person!
Me: But what if that character was allowed to become a better person so that they are no longer a bad person?
Same person: You’re an abuse apologist
I would love for every bad person to become a good person. I’d think most humans think that it’d be a cool and great thing if all bad people became good.
A cool and great thing, which we can play pretend with in fiction, knowing it’s not realistic, just to feel a little better about the shitty real world we live in.
tbh, I think the problem is that people confuse “getting a redemption arc” with “being rewarded with what comes after a redemption arc”
like, redeemed villains are generally friends with the heroes. they get to experience love and The Power of Friendship for the first time, if they haven’t already. they generally get to experience forgiveness. if their motives are based off of some kind of trauma or pain (like a lot of redeemed villains) then they will probably have that resolved and get some sense of closure or inner peace from whatever is hurting them.
so when they say that “this character doesn’t deserve a redemption arc” what they mean is “this character doesn’t deserve to be loved. they don’t deserve happiness, peace, or companionship”. the alternatives I have seen are:
“I hope that this character realizes how awful they are and they kill themselves”
“I hope this character is redeemed by a heroic sacrifice” (meaning they would be redeemed but wouldn’t be alive to experience the “reward” afterwards)
“I hope this character begs and pleads for forgiveness over and over again, but is never forgiven”
it’s pretty disturbing tbh, to treat basic things that every human needs (like being loved) as a “reward” that you get for good behavior. or more accurately: never being bad in the first place. that once you fall from grace you’re damned for eternity.
I think this post exposes a really gross underbelly to purity culture bullshit that I don’t think I examined quite this way before.
If redemption is unacceptable, if bad behavior can never be forgiven, what is the alternative?
Because it sure seems like the alternative is “Indefinate suffering = justice.”
BINGO.
That’s what purity culture has always been.
“Everyone who who has ever made a choice I disapprove of should suffer for eternity” is the origin of the concept of Hell. Fandom purity culture is fundamentalist Puritanism without the religion.
This also creates a dilemma: they don’t want redemption, but they do want morally good characters. With redemption arcs, they would have more “good” characters. In fact, redeemed villains should know better what is morally right and is not, for they have seen, and have been on the other side. Also, since they don’t want their characters to be “corrupted”, they need the “not so pure” characters for the necessary actions in that regard. Thus, this fandom purity culture is sabotaging the same agenda they try so hard to push.
My quest for immortality is born from hope and belief in the human ability to change the fate nature has given us. And also, the desire to live long enough to see J.K. Rowling's rights expire so I can rewrite all her books and make every character canonically trans.
I haven't read in a while, but when did Sinfest turn into whatever it is now?
