[cowboy]

Don't even have sex

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

Unless you and your partner(s) want to, in which case: do have sex!

[cowboy]

Absolutely fucking not

[cowboy]

Oh I didn't realize you were a designated pro-sex star trek blog that's my bad. Sorry.

[dragongirlsweetie]

pro tip you can just grab a bunch of random parts from dumpsters and hardware stores and computer stores and just attach them together haphazardly and then put it in your suitcase and take it to the airport and get arrested pretty much 100% of the time

[septic-everlasting]

Tis the season

[gigabats]

[undeadentropy]

Time to get spoopy

[porcupine-girl]

[npd-vriska]

This whole thing about scanning your face to prove tour age is making me remember, in 2018 while out in paris we got our wallet stolen during a particularly busy night at a lesbian bar. It was very late and with no money to buy metro tickets we were effectively stranded, but some people helped us and we ended up staying the night at a really sweet older man's place. His face was deeply scarred and he was missing an eye. We chatted on our way and he told me about his life, probably to help calm me down. He explained he had been stuck in a house fire 20 years ago and had had multiple rounds of facial reconstruction and a skin graft, but there's only so much surgery can do so he just learned to live with it. I remember he said he liked the queer bars because they're the only place people don't really stare at him.

At some point I took out my phone, and at the time I was using face unlock. This prompted him to tell me all the ways this technology doesn't work on him. How his phone selfie camera doesn't focus right because it's not detecting a face. How he had to update his ID the old fashioned way, because the website kept rejecting his photos. And how it was becoming more and more common, and how it was making his life way harder.

This was 7 years ago, and now whenever I see this sort of technology I think of how that guy can't use it. And how house fires are pretty common, and how anything from being born this way to a skin condition to heavy tattooing can probably cause the same issue. Can these people get age verified ? Will they just lose access to all social media, which are increasingly necessary in society, if this becomes the norm ? These are people who are already driven out of public spaces due to how they look, and they're getting pushed out online too all in the interest of companies wanting more money.

[imactuallyagiraffe]

no i am not immune to early 2000s pop-punk music that fucks a little harder than everyone likes to admit

[simnonmmnnoomnbnnmnm]

you cannot claim to support jews and think that every israeli should die btw

[ventingfromatiredjew]

actually hold on very important addition from the tags

[thedreideldiaries]

Also: there are Black and Brown Ashkenazim! There are Mizrahim and Sephardim who look “white”! Traditions of Jewish ethnic and tribal affiliation and inheritance do not map neatly onto the blood-quantum-influenced cultural frameworks that Americans and other western cultures apply to concepts of race and ethnicity!

[beemovieerotica]

[soloh]

I hate when I say things like "oh I want an ipod classic but with bluetooth so I can use wireless headphones" and some peanut comes in and replies with "so a smartphone with spotify?" No. I want a 160GB+ rectangular monstrosity where I can download every version of every song I want to it and it does nothing except play music and I don't need a data connection and don't have to pay a subscription to not have ads and don't have popups suggesting terrible AI playlists all over the menus.

Gimme the clicky wheel and song titles like "My Chemical Romance- The Black Parade- Blood (Bonus Track)- secret track- album rip- high quality"

[foone]

Tangara is an open source iPod clone, which includes bluetooth:

Tangara

The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s

[piranya]

[galileosballs]

"Why is it a problem if students use AI to get through college"

Because if you demonstrate to me that you're willing to set aside concern for truth, evidence, and verifying things with your own eyes whenever it happens to be inconvenient for you, I have a solemn responsibility to make sure you don't get into medical school.

[galileosballs]

"oh, but this course is just a distribution requirement, it's not for my major"

Does saying things that are true and that you know are true only matter when someone is giving you a little prize for it?

[galileosballs]

Tumblr doesn't like to do this kind of ethics, so I have to phrase this carefully, but it's a question of character. And a person's character is clearest when they're being asked to do the right thing even when it doesn't matter to them.

I don't want to live in a world in which doctors and lawyers and politicians just ignore the responsibility to research and verify when it's inconvenient for them. When they're busy. When they have something they'd rather be doing. The world I live in is already too full of those people in positions of power. I'll be damned if I let there be more of them.

[galileosballs]

Some of the responses to this have been, in essence, "well, it's not our fault for being raised in a bad educational system that prioritizes grades over comprehension". And you're right, it's not your fault.

But you freely admit the system is bad. That it values the wrong things.

So why do you limit yourself to only achieving what it values? Do you not aspire to be better than a system you know is wrong? Don't you want to change the world?

[thetursithan]

In the 2000s, phones had quirks and class....

[prinnay]

Goldy locs

[cyber-corp]

Having your own personal blog is honestly quite a nice change of pace compared to Reddit. I could put a funny GIF of George Bush getting hit by a shoe on here and the worse case scenario is that no one even notices.

You put that on a big subreddit and you get your eyes gouged out and a heap of political discourse underneath your post.

[cyber-corp]

YOU HEAR THAT EVERYONE??? I’M A LIL GECKO BOY

[lyrslair]

The Redditors really are adapting well to the ecosystem here.

[lantaniel]

had this vision of Batman full-naming his kids, but he has to preserve the secret identities

[lantaniel]

this is how you get bat-approval btw

[lantaniel]

by popular demand, here's the others

i started drawing this right after posting, but people in the notes have been brainstorming some amazing name ideas too lmao

[canary-prince]

@thebibliosphere

[nflstreet]

[radiofreederry]

[jessicalprice]

Sorry, Christian atheists, but “Christianity traumatized me” is not a get-out-of-accountability-free card for upholding Christian supremacy through your treatment of members of minority cultures, reiterating Christian evangelism and colonialism but for your WASP brand of atheism, promoting Christian purity and hierarchy but with the serial numbers filed off, insisting that the Christian model of culture is the only one that exists and shouting down members of non-Christian cultures about their own cultures and experiences, etc.

Oh, you don’t like members of non-Christian cultures pointing out the ways in which your behaviors continue to normalize and uphold Christian hegemony?

THEN MAYBE STOP ACTING LIKE CHRISTIANS.

[azeriairis]

As an Atheist, there is a place for Atheists calling out Religious Harm, especially if members of that Religion fail to, but it actually has to be harm. A person believing in some god and/or choosing to abide by some rule system you don't understand isn't harm. The best way I've found to look at religious harm personally is control. Does the religion force their views onto other groups, and/or force their own members to stay. When we are talking about freedom, people should have the freedom to believe in whatever they want, and they should have the freedom to consent to any system of rules they want (even religious ones), however they should also have the freedom to decide not to, and when they decide to leave they should be able to live completely free from those rules.

[jessicalprice]

No, there’s a place for atheists in supporting and boosting the voices of people who criticize or want to leave communities said atheist isn’t part of.

When people who enjoy privilege from a hegemonic cultural background start going it on their own and criticizing the same minority cultures that their background marginalizes or tries to eliminate they, AT BEST, make fools of themselves and at worst align with white supremacists and other genocidal bigots.

If you want to mitigate or neutralize the harm done by minority cultures you’re not part of and whose practices don’t affect you, center the people who are actually being harmed. Don’t wank over theoretical harms.

[azeriairis]

I did specify Actual Harm did I not? I'm not one to support speculating on harm, but if there's people who are trying to speak out and their community isn't listening, there's absolutely a place for those outside to say something about what's going on. (Heck I even said cultural rules you don't understand doesn't constitute harm so long as nobody is being forced into following them). I'm sorry if I didn't make that clear enough.

[jessicalprice]

And I’m saying the only place for your voice is in echoing and boosting the voices of actual members of the community.

Because when people outside minoritized communities try to lead, we get things like banning hijabs instead of what Muslim women were actually asking for.

[enderlord99-deactivated20231104]

You seem to be mostly in agreement with each other, as far as I can tell. I could be wrong.

[jessicalprice]

Maybe. I deeply distrust gentile atheist interest in criticizing Judaism.

[trevel]

I think the trick is that there might not actually be such a thing as "Religious Harm". There's definitely Christian Harm, but it's hard to pick out a form of harm that's common to Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Scientology, the Cult of Reason, Satanism, Pastrianism, Jainism, Wicca, Sikhism, Chinese folk religions, Zeusism, Taoism, the Order of the Solar Temple, Jediism, Ashurism, et cetera, but never ever seen amongst agnostics or atheists. (Also at *least* three of the above are atheist-friendly religions, requiring no belief in any form of divinity. Jediism is included because people keep claiming it on censuses. Ireland had 1800 Jedi Knights in 2022.)

So if you're talking about the harm that Christianity does, call it Christianity. If the problem is authoritarianism, call it authoritarianism. Call it Christian Authoritarianism, if you like, when it's specific to Christianity -- but you do not require a religion to have authoritarianism, nor do all religions have a significant authoritarian faction.

[jessicalprice]

Yeah, antitheists like to make religion out to be something uniquely mind-numbing, but there’s nothing religion does that non-“religious” ideologies don’t do just as effectively.

[penrosesun]

I also think it's incredibly telling that in general, very few atheists who talk up a generalized concept of "religious harm" actively acknowledge the fact that most cults / high-control groups today are not even religious in nature. The US in particular is drowning in extremely culty MLMs and non-religious wellness gurus, and many of these groups take even the completely non-religious elements their playbook directly and explicitly from religious movements such as Evangelical Christianity, and especially Mormonism. If there's a category of "Religious Harm" that includes missions and tithes but doesn't include LuLaRoe, then why the hell doesn't it? And conversely, if "Religious Harm" does encompass both actual religious doctrine and also a secular legging-based ponzi scheme, then in what sense is it useful to categorize the harm as "religious"? I think a lot of this goes all the way back to the (incredibly Christian) idea that religion and culture are separable – that a religion and culture that share the same fundamental fabric are nonetheless two entirely individual entities, with entirely individual harms. It's a very eurocentric way to see the world, and what's more, it's factually wrong.

[pocketss]

big egg