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practicing self care less out of self love and more for the sheer logical reasoning of it’d be kinda stupid of me to expect myself to be able to function without proper maintenance
“oh i don’t deserve rest and relaxation, i haven’t done enough, i haven’t earned it” and my car’s breaks don’t deserve break fluid because they aren’t breaking well enough to earn it. that’s what you sound like!!!!!
not to gatekeep or anything but if the idea of protagonists heroically killing faceless bad guys without having any moral qualms or self-reflection makes you uncomfortable then Why Are You Playing Dungeons And Dragons
i love the x files cause it’s like what if the most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen (literal doctor and FBI agent) got slowly convinced into believing in the most bizarre things imaginable by the most beautiful man you’ve ever seen (big stupid doe eyes) (also top FBI agent) and now they’re wanted by the government for being hot. or whatever
in almost every other children's book where the main heroine is swept away to a land of whimsy she's shown having a lovely time; braving dangers occasionally, trying to find her way home, sure, but ultimately delighting in the magic around her. meanwhile alice spends her entire time in wonderland like
look, here’s the thing: alice in wonderland’s enduring fucking charm is that it perfectly captures the vibe of being a very tired and annoyed child who is nonetheless required to play along with adult nonsense.
alice is dragged from place to place without warning, forced to play stupid games with no good prizes, grilled over her schooling and manners and recitation and dress, scolded, judged, insulted to her face, sent away, given gifts she didn’t ask for and doesn’t like, corrected incorrectly, been subject to shifting and arbitrary rules, and then when she gets snappish with all this bullshit everyone acts like a little girl’s temper is the end of the fucking world.
alice in wonderland isn’t a drug trip or a nightmare or a metaphor, that’s just what being ten years old is LIKE. that’s why kids love it so much. even if they can’t quite articulate how, they recognize themselves in it.
I'm gonna go ahead and add - the reaction image is barely even a joke. This is the original illustration of her at the Mad Hatter's tea party.
look at how fucking angry she is
I think we should add extra rights for trans people. We should have equal human rights, plus some other animal, like lizards or horses. Trans rights are human rights plus also endangered California condor rights. We get the extra bird rights. Our breeding grounds are protected sites.
This one was an unexpected hit with the trans therians, fist bump, fist bump, nice.
i think people are starting to confuse class analysis with bioessentialism. like... no not all men do this, but Men as a constructed social class do do this. that's still okay to say. that is regular material analysis of the world around us.
forcefemming a pathetic girl who won’t do it herself, not as a sex thing but because it’s so fucking annoying to watch someone make herself miserable
Girl who has been staring at a full bottle of estradiol for 2 months: what kind of sick and perverted outfit are you going to make me wear!?
Me, holding a women’s cut t-shirt: oh my god shut the fuck up
There inventing a new kind of sadness and its called "the look in a trans woman's eye when she looks at a public swimming pool"
CODED BIAS (2020) dir. Shalini Kantayya
Not just “not progress”. AI algorithms will, by design, make things worse. These algorithms are really good at picking out patters and reinforcing them. Keyword: reinforcing. It will notice that only 14% are women, and instead of continuing to pick 14% women it will pick 0% women.
There are things AI algorithms do really well, which are useful and cannot be achieved (or at least not as well) with traditional algorithms: filtering background noise from a recording, finding cancerous cells in a biopsy sample, predicting how you will move next to ensure you won’t lose your cell phone coverage. But they should never, never be asked to make “value” judgments which directly or indirectly have the potential to discriminate against people.
How come it won’t continue with 14%?
Somewhat simplified: when the algorithm is trained, it looks at the training data it’s fed (here that would likely be CVs of people Amazon ended up employing) and calculates which factors in the data are the strongest predictors for a “success”. Then it will come up with a way to combine those factors into a score (a formula, which is typically not visible/understandable to the person who created the algorithm), which is then translated into “call for interview” and “not call for interview”.
However, algorithms are stupid. They are really good at finding “cheat” factors to get good at predicting, factors which a human might (hopefully) disregard. So in this case, the algorithm will learn that being male (whether stated explicitly or implicitly in the CV) means a six times larger chance of being hired in the training data.
This means that the algorithm will notice that sex has a major impact on what it has been told “success” looks like. So it will end up weighting sex heavily in the final formula it comes up with to score applicants, which means that a CV from a woman will only get a high score if the other factors the algorithm has decided are important outweigh the low score in the sex category. Since it’s unlikely a woman will be enough better in other categories to outweigh the low score on “sex”, she will likely not be called to an interview.
This is always going to be a massive problem whenever there is a bias in the training data. There is no reliable, proven-to-work way to strip that bias so the algorithm disregards those factors, which means the algorithm will reproduce and reinforce biases in the training data. Machine learning and artificial intelligence should therefore only be applied in situations where either the risk of adverse outcomes is very low (spell checking your text messages) or where the training data is reasonably likely to be unbiased (minimising number of dropped calls in a cell network).
Actually, I rather like being trans
I suppose being cis would be nice and all, but it doesn’t quite have the same “I will sieze Destiny by the throat and force it into the shape of my choosing” kind of verve
Emotional Walls Your Character Has Built (And What Might Finally Break Them)
(How your character defends their soft core and what could shatter it) Because protection becomes prison real fast.
✶ Sarcasm as armor. (Break it with someone who laughs gently, not mockingly.) ✶ Hyper-independence. (Break it with someone who shows up even when they’re told not to.) ✶ Stoicism. (Break it with a safe space to fall apart.) ✶ Flirting to avoid intimacy. (Break it with real vulnerability they didn’t see coming.) ✶ Ghosting everyone. (Break it with someone who won’t take silence as an answer.) ✶ Lying for convenience. (Break it with someone who sees through them but stays anyway.) ✶ Avoiding touch. (Break it with accidental, gentle contact that feels like home.) ✶ Oversharing meaningless things to hide real depth. (Break it with someone who asks the second question.) ✶ Overworking. (Break it with forced stillness and the terrifying sound of their own thoughts.) ✶ Pretending not to care. (Break it with a loss they can’t fake their way through.) ✶ Avoiding mirrors. (Break it with a quiet compliment that hits too hard.) ✶ Turning every conversation into a joke. (Break it with someone who doesn’t laugh.) ✶ Being everyone’s helper. (Break it when someone asks what they need, and waits for an answer.) ✶ Constantly saying “I’m fine.” (Break it when they finally scream that they’re not.) ✶ Running. Always running. (Break it with someone who doesn’t chase, but doesn’t leave, either.) ✶ Intellectualizing every feeling. (Break it with raw, messy emotion they can’t logic away.) ✶ Trying to be the strong one. (Break it when someone sees the weight they’re carrying, and offers to help.) ✶ Hiding behind success. (Break it when they succeed and still feel empty.) ✶ Avoiding conflict at all costs. (Break it when silence causes more pain than the truth.) ✶ Focusing on everyone else’s healing but their own. (Break it when they hit emotional burnout.)
Feeling very attacked by some of these
“is it weird to do this alone?” “is it pathetic to do that alone?” every day I pray you guys realize that sometimes doing things alone is the best way to do them
It's so fucking cool seeing people just doing shit!
I went to this guerrilla grafting thing (about grafting fruit bearing branches onto the non fruit bearing trees that the city plants) at the anarchist skill faire earlier this month and I went in expecting it to be purely theoretical (all like "I guess somebody could do this, but it would be illegal, so I would never tell you to do it" like YouTubers talking about NES ROMs) (and apparently last year it was), but they had the fuckin scions all ready and a map of several thousand compatible trees to work through and they were collecting emails to get people involved and going out grafting because this is the season for it right now.
Then yesterday I saw a friend (who like had been talking last year about wanting to manufacture injectable estrogen to give to girls for free or cheap) and she handed me a fucking homemade vial of e! Apparently there are already bitches in this city getting their estrogen from her! Bonkers stuff! It's so badass!
Damn, bro, you're right! What a loser I am for going to a furry convention! What a loser I am for spending time around like-minded people, going to raves and having sex with my girlfriend. I should've remembered this is loser behaviour and stayed in my room to whine about woke in video games instead
every time a young gay person quits smoking or makes the decision that they want to quit, the sun shines on us all with the promise of happiness and beauty.
i appreciate everybody that’s sharing the sentiment that it’s good for anyone to quit smoking (it is) but i very specifically wanted to highlight and encourage LGBTQ youth because lesbian, gay, and bisexual people are about 1.5 to 2.5 times more likely to smoke cigarettes than heterosexual people, and the statistics for transgender people are even higher than cisgender people. this is due to tobacco companies marketing heavily and aggressively to LGBTQ communities and exploiting the higher rates of mental health struggles prevalent in our communities.
i want and hope to see all my LGTBQ people live long, healthy, fulfilled lives despite how predatory and punishing this world can be. you should stay around as long as you can to make it a little better in your own way.
I wanna specifically shoutout trans men here because back in the day (I don’t know if it’s still prevalent) there was quite a common rumour going around that smoking could make your voice deeper, which meant a huge upstick in young trans men taking up smoking.
So, if any trans men are being told about this, it’s not true!! Smoking will not change your voice, at least not until you’re about forty years down the line and you’ve already irreparably destroyed your lungs and throat and mouth and pretty much every other organ in your body. When you hear heavy smokers with deeper, scratchier voices it is literally because their vocal cords have been ruined. This is not a passive effect of smoking, it is a very very damaging one!
It’s simply not worth it! There will be no meaningful changes except terrible ones. Voice training will do a lot more for you than cigarettes will, I promise that the people urging you to start smoking as a voice training method do not have your best interests at heart!
(And you know what, this also goes for not eating due to the idea that starving yourself will decrease your chest size. Like with smoking, there will be no meaningful changes except terrible ones. Your body is worth so much more than that and there will always be healthier alternatives!)
I wanna see trans people thrive, and one day when things get better and you’re able to start your transition, you’ll want a body that will last as long as possible so you can enjoy every little moment of your life. Please take care of yourself!!
As for trans women and other trans people taking estrogen HRT, smoking has been proven to reduce or even cancel out the effects of estrogen on the body. If you quit smoking, your transition will be faster, fuller, and smoother. I know that it's hard, but your boobs will thank you!
(Btw, afaik smoking only has this effect on estrogen from HRT. Estrogen that AFAB bodies produce naturally is not affected, so smoking is still bad for trans men)
In addition (and this applies to all trans people), smoking increases risks of complications during surgery, so doctors might refuse to let you get whatever surgeries you want if you smoke. They'll at least tell you to quit for a while beforehand, which will be easier to do if you'd already quit to begin with.
The not smoking before surgery thing is no joke. I met a guy once who stopped smoking at the time his surgical team recommended and they STILL had to call off the surgery because his oxygen was too low. Can you imagine finally getting your GCS/top surgery/FFS date but then waking up and it’s still there?? (IIRC he’s fully quit now and he got his top surgery with no issues because of it!)
I think also in that conversation, I had a couple people tell me that the book The Easy Way to Quit Smoking is, despite the gimmicky title, genuinely helpful.
If quitting for yourself seems too abstract and it’s hard to care, think about everyone around you. Someone with asthma or migraines will breathe easier if they’re not risking an attack from standing near you.
Lastly, some queer history: a 90’s tobacco marketing campaign that targeted gay men was literally called Project SCUM. That’s what they think of us. Don’t give them your money.
The tobacco industry’s marketing has “systematically targeted” the LGBTQ community for decades…
There's a different kind of disparity in the LGBT community that is often overlooked: disproportionately high smoking rates.
