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Robin 🌓 | part-phenom, part-shitposter | senior resident of the tumblr retirement community

[innerchildabortionclinic]

why was I so full of hate and malice 17 hours ago

[innerchildabortionclinic]

I think I just hate the phrase golden retriever boyfriend

[r2x2]

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.

[cbarc]

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.

[spicyvampire]

The way all the 2020s have done so far have been making me categorically against every new generation of tech that comes out is insane. Like I'm from a technological boom generation, saw the first portable phones, nokias & blackberries & flipphones etc, and the first smartphones, and the first ipods & ipads & tablets in general while still having cassettes & DVD & MP3 players around so I know how all of it work, I had computer classes in high school, I did the transition between home desktop computers to laptops and back to gaming computers. But then they started to put internet in your printer & microwave, everything has ads & AI now and every update is worst than the last. I literally loved technology and they ruined it

[subaru-copilot]

im so sorry that you're doomed by the narrative but i really need you to answer my message on Microsoft Teams

[robin-vb]

My shaylas are feeling whelmed

[buddwyer]

ultra rare ice cream flavor: shoplifted and defallonated

[buddwyer]

[ndnbutch]

I get in theory why people complain about het ships or whatever, I get wanting to watch queer media I really do, but I guess where y’all lose me is like. I saw some asshole on a post about Sinners complaining it was “hetslop”—this person was specifically doing so while also claiming Remmick was a queer character and thus they were justified in caring more about him than the Black protagonists. which is a whole other disgusting can of worms that has been well addressed by others at this point. but even in the absence of that part of the argument, like, no, i actually don’t think that a hunger for queer stories is an especially good excuse to deride and dismiss a piece of landmark Black filmmaking, especially as a non-Black person. I have a post that’s been going around encouraging folks to engage with more Native stories and characters, and I had someone come onto that post saying in the tags that they’d need these stories to be queer in order to care. and I just think that, you know, sucks! like obviously as a queer Native I also want to see more of those stories too. but idk how else to put it other than to say that Black people and people of color shouldn’t have to be like you in order for you to care about our narratives and experiences. and I think some of y’all are using this disdain for heterosexuality as a cover for your unexamined racial biases. it’s not okay to be racist to people just because those people happen to be straight, and you continue to be white before you are queer.

[undying-princess]

they're executing the count from sesame street for violating the masquerade

[burner-of-ships]

every time somebody recommends Fagles' translations to people new to classics i die a little inside. i know it's in modern language and so more accessible to a modern audience, but. look.

i can't possibly compare every translation, but look at this scene from the Odyssey of Telemachus ordering the maids to be hanged from Kline, Rieu, Wilson, and finally Fagles.

one of these is not like the others. this seems to me like somebody with clear issues with women that are colouring his translation to the extent that he's taken a line simply saying "the maids slept with the suitors" and turned it to Telemachus directing misogynistic slurs at them.

i think Fagles is fine for somebody who has already read another translation and wants to compare, but it shouldn't be the first. not when he's ad-libbing, especially when those ad-libs makes Homer's text out to be far more sexist than it really is.

[burner-of-ships]

Fitzgerald too:

i had to google what a trull is, and apparently it's yet another derogatory term for a promiscuous woman. and then of course, there's the use of sluts again.

so much fuss has been made over Wilson "pushing her agenda" yet nobody can tell me what her supposed agenda actually is, meanwhile nobody seems to care as much about these men putting their misogyny into their translations. is that not an agenda? is it not misrepresenting Homer to pass these slurs off as his words?

[wiisagi-maiingan]

"America is so young compared to other countries, we have no real history!"

We have archeological sites that are thousands of years old with evidence that people have been here for much longer, you just don't consider Native people part of this country's history unless we're being killed by colonists.

[penny-anna]

Something I think ppl who aren't used to it struggle with when it comes to ancient history is that frequently 'we do not and cannot know this' is the only truthful response a historian can give. People severely overestimate how much we actually know about Ancient Rome.

I remember talking to someone at a party once about the debate over Septimius Severus's ethnicity (whole other can of worms) and they asked if genetic testing of his remains was not a way to settle it and I was like oh. Oh okay you are under the impression we have the physical remains of Roman emperors from the second century AD alright then. (We. Do not.)

[penny-anna]

Can't stress how much of high level study of Ancient History is devoted to trying to make sense of what actually factually happened. When I was at university (10+ years ago now) the discipline was embroiled in the lengthy and ongoing process of trying to unpack not just the biases in ancient sources but the centuries & centuries of biases within the field itself. I don't imagine this process is ever going to Stop. It's not uncommon for historical accounts to be so garbled & contradictory that it's not possible to reconstruct the real events behind them.

Once in an introductory lecture one of my professors was talking about this problem and articulated it very simply as 'we know real things happened between real people, but we aren't sure what they were'. Sums it up really!!

[thekimonogallery]

Tatsumi Shimura (志村立美, 1907-1980)

花吹雪 Hanafubuki (Falling Cherry Blossoms)

1980

[terpsikeraunos]

most english translations of the odyssey embellish the existing sexism with additional misogyny, so simply not doing that, while being female, has caused wilson's translation to be dubbed "feminist," seemingly to her bemusement.

i would love to see her take on a feminist translation as an intentional project! i think the hate and harassment she would get for that would be intense, unfortunately.

[hot-german]

Картинка со скелетоном. Скелетонов я люблю рисовать, как-то несколько лет сидела в аске по ван пис за Брука. Когда-нибудь я вернусь в этот аск, но уже за Шанкса. Аминь

[mabelsguidetolife]

i’ve only read tumblr posts and undertale fanfiction. can i write the spicy young adult novel to change the world.

[roscolux]

need to beam this tweet directly into everyone's minds right now

[mapswithoutwyoming]

Starting to think all the backlash to the idea of the trolley problem is just people trying to hide the fact that, deep down, they know they would be too scared to pull the lever.

[astra-the-dragon]

I suppose one of the advantages I've gained from having been in the military is that I went from a suspicion I would have the conviction to make those kinds of calls, an absolute certainty that I do have it. I've held lives in my hands, but thankfully I rose to my training and my convictions. I chose the best of the options I had available to me at the time.

There is nothing shameful about being too afraid of making the decision, in my view. But yeah, it's cowardice to project your anxiety by claiming the philosophical quandary itself is meaningless.

[zaprowsdower27]

No reason to wonder. A ton of people openly bragged about how morally pure they were for not pulling the lever in 2024. They just hate it when you contextualize it like that and insist they were taking a third option to sound less terrible when their actions are 1:1 compared to the thought experiment.

[nitpickspot]

If anything, the reason I reject it is because I consider the thought experiment ITSELF to be cowardly.

All human lives are worth the same amount, and any LOSS of human life is as large a tragedy as any other amount of lost human life. You aren't doing a GOOD thing by condemning one person to die to save four more, you're not even doing a BETTER thing. It might be the more valuable thing in a coldly utilitarian point of view, but from my moral stance death is death. You don't get to compare and contrast your way out of that.

[dappercat123]

You’d be too scared to pull the lever huh?

[darkladynyara]

People hate the trolley problem because it is inherent to the problem that choosing not to act is an active choice. That's why they reject the problem itself rather than making an argument for choosing to not pull the lever. They aren't afraid to pull the lever- they're afraid to admit that their priority is keeping their own hands clean.

[doomhamster]

Hear hear.

You can tell by the "well I'M too moral and pure to think killing one person to save five is good - ". If that person had engaged with the experiment honestly they'd know that it's not ABOUT trying to establish one course as the moral one. It's not about being able to, as @darkladynyara says, come out with your hands clean; you won't. It's about making you consider what you should and would do when all the choices available are bad ones.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

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