Not Much Going on in Here

[iamfitzwilliamdarcy]

once more, donate to organizations actually helping women

find your local crisis pregnancy center; if your diocese has other resources for pregnant women, find that too. 

and here is the national donation link for the Sisters for Life 

this is just the beginning

[catie-does-things]

The Sisters of Life are amazing. Some other good organizations to support:

Birthright International

Option Line

Standing With You

American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists

And you can find a local crisis pregnancy center using this directory.

[guns-in-the-valley-deactivated2]

Let Them Live is also a good one.

[sadsongsandwaltzes]

Human Defense Initiative helps everyone from expecting mothers to nursing homes

[regina-bithyniae]

Won my tourney ;)

[general-cerberus]

Yippe

[icehaus]

it’s 2026 i think it’s high time we left mind-body dualism behind us as a species. let’s go into 2027 with the full understanding that we are our bodies and that our consciousness cannot be separated from them thank you

[icehaus]

[ilovegirlssomuch123]

I need to save this reply this is the funniest shit ever. why would you just say this out loud

[evenlesssentimentaltranslator]

”You’re saying that my identity is made up” yes yes we are

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[moe-con]

i love her

[givingblood]

"My family thinks because im a leftist it means im radical but like whats radical about that? I just want everyone to hug, no bad things to happen, free healthcare and be nice to everyone" - the coldest, rudest most judgemental person you know.

[eesirachs]

I'm reading the bible for the first time and the song of songs has me baffled, why is it part of the bible?

because love is holy

[catholicapothecary]

it’s a grand metaphor for Christ and the Church

[darnitjack]

And a testament to what love should be like

[eesirachs]

I'm reading the bible for the first time and the song of songs has me baffled, why is it part of the bible?

because love is holy

[catholicapothecary]

it’s a grand metaphor for Christ and the Church

[catholicapothecary]

you say that you would go on a crusade for the Holy Father or be martyred for your faith but would you give your cloak away would you feed the hungry would you kiss the leper would you keep the commandments would you love your neighbor and yourself

perhaps one should cease wishing he lived in a time where he could ‘prove’ his faith in a way preferable to his dispositions and start looking for ways he can live his faith in the life he was given

you were born for no time except the present, as it is written: For if thou wilt now hold thy peace, the Jews shall be delivered by some other occasion: and thou, and thy father's house shall perish. And who knoweth whether thou art not therefore come to the kingdom, that thou mightest be ready in such a time as this?

[secundus-cinaedus]

so funny when people on twitter talk about tumblr and 1) assume we're dead, 2) out themselves as people who need to see porn on their social media feed. turns out the porn ban was literally the best possible way to filter out the braindead gooners and leave only the Real Poasters behind, in a sort of purifying reverse-rapture. also there's still porn on tumblr you just have to open up your dash in public

[luna-drinker]

The porn addicts turned out to be the unhinged people making tumblr suck, someone should look into that for science.

[maxknightley]

I think what really bothers me about video game difficulty discourse is the way that it equates "inaccessibility" with "artistic choices that may alienate certain disabled players."

[maxknightley]

like, okay, speaking as a musician and an autistic woman: there are certain sounds that I am simply not going to enjoy, right? I don't like music that's too heavy on the high end, because it sounds shrill. I've listened to music that had so much Stuff Going On at once that is literally made me feel sick from overstimulation. But that doesn't mean that music shouldn't exist, or that the creators should make a hypothetical pared-down remix just so I specifically can enjoy it. There's other music out there which I like! It's fine! I'll listen to that instead!!

and, idk, it bothers me because there are a lot of legitimate accessibility features that I think every game should have. there's no reason for a puzzle game to be inaccessible to colorblind people. there's no reason that an execution-heavy game shouldn't allow you to set up alternate control schemes. but the solution is not "make the puzzles easier" or "make the bosses do less damage" any more than the "solution" to a complicated piece of writing is "create a version where everything is written using simpler language." idk! it just feels like a refusal to engage with art as art and not Product.

[getvalentined]

That last bit about writing is particularly on-point right now, because this is take is going around:

So yeah there are people who genuinely believe that "accessibility" means only making things that are unchallenging. This is incorrect in any form of art, whether it's popular media or something more traditional. Accessibility in writing means printing in larger text, use of readable fonts and formatting, translation into Braille, and recording in clear audio. Accessibility in gaming should mean colorblindness filters, toggles to deactivate strobing in cutscenes and environments, scalable text, custom keymapping, and the ability to modify graphical settings including framerates, motion blur, fixed versus free camera, and so on.

To truly engage with any form of art, one must at least be willing to be challenged. To claim that challenge is by its nature inaccessibility is at best ignorance to the purpose of accessibility, and at worst a gross infantilization of people like me who actually have disability-related struggles that could be mitigated with some fairly basic control of settings.

[coochiequeens]

I already shared the first two pictures but there was so much more to this. Are they really advocating practicing with people doing nothing in the same room, doing nothing aside from using a walker 🙄.

[girlbossbunny]

LMAOO this shit is so fucking stupid 😂😂

They have to practice being victimized in their living rooms?!?!!!

[you-cannot-shut-me-up]

People who are holding power over you, such as the DMV clerk (??????)

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

That, um...that last one is uh...something.

If you were alone when you were harassed, talk about the incident to your friends ASAP.

-Verbally recounting the incident helps with your trauma processing so you don’t get stuck replaying the event in your head.

-This will start building a support base if the assaulter tries to accuse you of something later. “I Believe Survivors” was created for cis-het assaults--it doesn’t go well for trans women*, even worse for BIPOC, so head off the gossip when you can.

Emphasis mine.

[hating-alison-ashley]

This is just what Becker was saying - about how you give abusive men therapy, they just use it to be more manipulative and better abusers. And I can never get over how they think there is a rash of 'cis' women just desperate to grope them. It highlights how this whole thing is fuelled by enjoying the fantasy of being a victim.

[theresagooseinthemainframe]

“Attacker”

[radgoblin]

Is this really telling transwomen to fake being sexually assaulted when someone correctly identifies them as male? Jesus fucking Christ.

[sapphic-schizo]

where’s the option to act like a sane adult instead of causing a huge scene as part of your victim larp?

[femsolid]

Is this serious? Because it looks like MRA propaganda to me? Even more than usual I mean.

This guy is scared and giving her money against his will = women are golddiggers and men are victims of domestic abuse.

= Women get away with it when they misbehave. Only women get empathy from the public. Women are privileged.

[illalwaysbehere]

Trans rhetoric reeks of men's rights rhetoric.

[shamelessbananasportshound]

I’m glad I’m not the only one that noticed the totally irrelevant “dude is forced to pay”. It’s especially interesting since supposedly this new BF is also misgendering our Stunning and Brave protagonist but only he is shown any empathy.

Almost like this is thinly veiled MRA nonsense.

[blue-gwen]

Also notice in the panel where there's "dude hands off my boobs" etc that the "attacker" has her hands no where near his "boobs" and is visually confused. It isn't said but the advice here is to claim she sexually assaulted you even when it isn't true

[adsfwgyhc9iime-deactivated20250]

can we just talk abt

[gender-machine-broke]

for a pamphlet (?) that is teaching people how to act like victims when they are not, it’s pretty violent

[muinthel]

ah yes, homeless people and dmv clerks are at the top of the societal-power food chain of course🙄

They're just trying to justify their attacks on women-only homeless shelters it's fucking disgusting. Also poor dmv clerks just random ass people doing a fucking job with CAR licenses supposedly "holding power" over trans people by asking for your ID 🙄🙄

[illalwaysbehere]

I know I keep reblogging this, but this is absolutely disgusting. Trans people and their activists are fucking vile.

[lesbian-lizards]

Am I reading that right. They have to “de-escalate” to keep from bashing their intimate partner’s head with an ash tray? Fucking yikes.

[radicallyreidentified]

Also the fact that it even ENCOURAGES lying about being groped or touched in public. It encourages lying about being sexually assaulted.

Not only is this because they obviously have to ESCALATE the situation because misgendering actually isn’t serious enough, but imagine the harm this will do for when women want to talk about public sexual assault!?

What if this shit gets normalized and now we have to question if this woman is getting assaulted or misgendered???? They’re right that you can’t change peoples opinions but NONE of this was self defense. This was all about how to dominate random scenarios where someone’s what ... “misgendering” you!?

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

Yeah, that’s what I think of when someone says ‘use their power to punish you’ - the elderly…

[radicalreclaimation-deactivated]

The levels of constant self victimization and instilling of fear of the general public hating and wanting them gone that goes on in trans communities is absolutely cult behavior and it’s disturbing. It very much reminds me of the ways that some churches use door to door or other forms of proselytizing not so much as a means to spread their ideas but to use the rejections to instill the idea to believers that everyone else is scary and bad and your community is actually the only safe one that will protect you as the clear “victim” of everyone elses hate..

[old-school-butch]

This is some crazy stuff - what’s the source?

[whyyoualwayssoradical]

A Self Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinary AMAB Folks

Published in coloration with Transfighters/Traction Project, A Self-Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinar

[hyperdemona]

There's a lot more. But especially -

These men intend to attack women. They unironically think using weapons to "defend" oneself against a domestic partner (read- their female partners almost in every case) is acceptable.

[nicenormalwitch]

This entire thing is insane, but the first image posted really does floor me. "Try victim body language" the reason victims have that body language is because they're being victimized!!

It really shows how these men are genuinely convinced the women they terrorized are just pretending to suffer to hurt their feelings.

The women you terrorize who react with "victim body language" are like that because they're scared of you!! (for good reason since you're fantasizing about violently attacking them, but will settle for lying about being sexually assaulted instead 🙄)

[unrespectability]

Ethics of Recuperation: An alternative feminist approach to non-conforming women in history

"Maybe what we are or aren't doesn't matter much at all."

"This text is about Joan of Arc. She lived, and she strove for freedom; and as long as she was, indeed, free, she fought. She rejected femaleness in the same breath as she rejected the chains placed on femaleness. Her protest was politically minded, practically minded: she could not be free unless she had defined herself in opposition to every other woman she had met, trading material sisterhood for the images of ascended female saints in her mind."

read my long-winded essay on the controversies surrounding historical female cross-dressing and non-conformity, influenced greatly by Andrea Dworkin's writing about Joan of Arc 🙌🏻 huge thank you to @alicelawstan for very kindly providing me with some paywalled research material and especially for recommending one of the central sources used in the writing of this :)

[thatladyeve]

to read

[general-cerberus]

Haven’t quit twitter yet and the algorithm has decided to start giving me a new wave of Falkland Islands discourse caused by the World Cup. Lotta tankies arguing in favor of Argentina a lot more people dunking on them, and some leftist trying to do damage control. Nearly all the argument an are either ‘it closer bro’ or people making up alt histories where the islands were some combo of conquered from early Argentinians, ceded by Britain in the 1800s, or , best of all, conquered by the US in the 1900s and given to Britain, which is almost as funny as the amount of Irish Leftists using the ‘but it’s closer’ argument

[catholicapothecary]

important point that i haven’t seen anyone talk about really

[general-cerberus]

Going to the UN to present my “Bro it’s right there come on’ proposal, which would see the Falkland islands given to Argentina, Cuba to the US, New Zealand to Australia, and Taiwan to China. It will also unify Borneo and give gilbalter back to Spain

[yokelfelonking]

Hate to be That Guy but New Zealand is a good ways away from Australia, it just looks close `cause there's nothing else around NZ but water. If Australia's gonna get something that's Right There it should be New Guinea

[general-cerberus]

Thank you for your advice. The revised proposal will now include a unification of New Guinea and Australia. Also the part of New Guinea owned by Indonesia will also be transferred, but they still get Borneo so even trade

[general-cerberus]

Going to the UN to present my “Bro it’s right there come on’ proposal, which would see the Falkland islands given to Argentina, Cuba to the US, New Zealand to Australia, and Taiwan to China. It will also unify Borneo and give gilbalter back to Spain

[orcboxer]

kinda bullshit the English language doesn't have a discrete word for an unlit campfire. you light a campfire, but what is it before you light it? also a campfire, I guess. I need to invent a word that can be intuitively understood as "the arrangement of wood that is intended to become a campfire"

[dorian-they]

well "an arrangement of wood that is intended to become a campfire" sounds like it's just a bundle of sticks and I think there is a collective word for that maybe

[orcboxer]