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mostly reblogs. art, games, horror, old tech, photos, but also other stuff. whatever i feel like really.

about me: hobbyist urban explorer, linguistics enjoyer, ученица русского языка, anti-capitalist, blood-freak¹, tech nerd², extremely burned out.

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key-pair

in case folk outside the UK aren't abreast of our news, the British press just hounded a black academic to death

key-pair

a rough timeline of events (from memory, there may be inaccuracies, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)

Cambridge professor of sociology Jason Arday is accused of plagiarism by another academic

the accuser is a "race realist" who believes that in a true meritocracy all university professors would be white. this is somehow not acknowledged much during the entire ordeal

this leads to several days of media coverage demanding an investigation, or that Arday is expelled from his post immediately

somehow this accusation that has no effect on the lives of 99.99% of the population becomes FRONT PAGE NEWS in all the newspapers for multiple days, above anything else happening in the UK or the world at large

following intense media scrutiny, Arday resigns his post as a Cambridge professor

today, august 14th, days after resigning, Arday is found dead at his home in Battersea

the British tabloid press remains, and will always be, fucking evil

komsomolka

Inscription on the Reichstag by Red Army soldier: Hanses and Fritzes! You'll never live this down! And if necessary, we'll be back!

tobiasdrake

A detail I find really interesting about Chell, GLaDOS, and Wheatley's first confrontation in Portal 2 is when Wheatley starts gloating about taking over the facility. "I did this! Tiny little Wheatley did this!"

And GLaDOS interjects like, "You didn't do this. She did all the work!"

I find that interjection fascinating because. Like.

GLaDOS doesn't actually know anything about what happened behind the scenes. She lost track of Chell and Wheatley after Wheatley opened up a wall panel and they bolted off together into the facility's inner workings. She doesn't see them again until Chell falls for her fake door trap, at which point GLaDOS is unpleasantly surprised to discover that Chell's disabled the turrets and neurotoxin in the meantime.

She has no evidentiary foundation to base that accusation on.

This is also before GLaDOS recognizes Wheatley as the Dumbass Core, so it's not based on an assessment of him.

The only explanation it leaves is that it's based on her assessment of Chell. Despite GLaDOS's enmity towards Chell, the one thing she rarely goes after Chell for is her intelligence.

When she does, it's an admission of her high standards for Chell; Like when the fake door trap works and GLaDOS concedes, "I didn't actually think that would work. I already built a much better, smarter trap up ahead for when this one fails." That's a backhanded insult. It's calling her dumb, but in a disappointed way rather than an affirming way.

Chell tests very well. Between the two games, GLaDOS has developed a strong understanding of Chell's aptitude for critical thinking and problem-solving in stressful situations.

And so she takes it on faith, just from what she knows of Chell, that Wheatley is stealing Chell's credit.

voidpengin

tags by @phidelta

dr-gaytorius

Trying not to be so hard on myself. Today was actually really productive. For digging my grave

missstrogen

we really dont think enough about how competitions are just enshrined and widely accepted ableism

missstrogen

the rules of any kind of competition exist to serve the ableds, every single time. For example minecraft speedrunning has allowed the use of an external tool for finding strongholds (because it serves the abled playerbase). Despite being a part of the game, you also can't use peaceful mode.

Super mario speedrunning allows keyboards, because it was decided that it did not create an "unfair advantage". It does not allow any other controller (as far as i know). The rule around controllers is shaped around abled players because they make the rules.

These are of course examples, but I think it illustrates that point, that it never is about the game itself, but about ability. This is true of all competitions, they are all effectively barring disabled players. If you, as a disabled player, find a way to accomodate your disability too much, the ruling body will change the rules to stop you from competing.

A competition is by nature a test of ability. The people who make the rules are the ableds, and they have an interest in making sure that nothing is made easier for disabled players.

missstrogen

Competitions are built to be ableist because ableism is enshrined in society. If someone shows up in a wheelchair at a contest and they're too good they'll find a way to justify banning wheelchairs. The rules on what are allowed are defined by what makes the abled players comfortable.

Because competitions exist to display being abled as an ideal. The prestige and importance tied to being The best at something. Competitions exist because we want (as a society) to be abled. The credit of a competition then also relies on this ableism. Accommodations directly destroy the perceived importance of competitions, because if a disabled player is accommodated (if their experience is made easier), the Struggle of Competition is shown to be a sham and invalidated (ha). If you show up with an accessibility controller at a competition and win, you're a cheater. If you show up Abled, you're just Better.

With that said, there's a difference between a performance and a competition, between being good and The Best. Only one of them, I think, exist solely as a product of ableism. In fact, I think it is possible to have displays of performance in non ableist ways even today.

witchmarsh

In Witchmarsh, the three 'Talents' you assign your investigator also form a flavourful description of them.

Behold! Clayton Pickett, the Rowdy, Tap-Dancing Traveling Salesman.

goatstrogen

short shorts visible self harm scars voted best look of the summer 2026

#i voted for it 🙂‍↕️

aceynk

i've got some serious issues w the larger transfeminist community & space on here i'll be honest. and it is hard for me to talk about because not only do i feel the need to be very precise and clear with my words, but also there is enough opposition to transfeminism already that im afraid my words will be twisted for use against the movement as a whole. it feels difficult & dangerous to talk about issues w this community on here.

i think the 'transfeminist' space on here is.. unprincipled, for lack of a better word. you will advocate against harassment, against alienation, for the assuming of good faith, etc., but really only for girls who you see as likeable, for girls who are agreeable. you will discuss an element of transmisogyny while being blind to or perpetuating the same pattern in your own spaces.

transfeminism should not be empty words. you are a fucking hypocrite if you consider yourself a part of this movement yet utilize transmisogyny against other transfems.

there is no transfeminism without intersectionality, without principle, without solidarity. humble yourselves. understand your positionality in all of this and where you hold power. stop being a hypocrite and educate yourselves. the amount of racism & ableism left unchecked in these spaces is sickening. put in the fucking work.

transfeminism is, i mean this entirely seriously, dead in the water as a movement without intersectionality. this shit can't continue.

storyweavingspider

Im gonna be very blunt here because this is a very white and US-centric site: even as transfeminists yall gotta actively seek and destroy your internalized white supremacy, fascist propaganda, and homonationalism because those are the things you’ll routinely betray transfeminism and your fellow trans women over.

The woman who introduced me to transfeminism and who I still hold up many of the transfeminist ideals she taught me, threw me under the bus because when I confronted racism and ableism in our group of transfeminists, she chose white solidarity over commitment to transfeminism.

And shit like this isn’t just happening, it’s COMMON because so many are so desperate for power in a world that takes it from us that they refuse to willingly hold back from using the tools of white supremacy, fascism, empire, against other transfeminists the moment it becomes convenient enough or they hate someone enough.

You have to fucking sit there and actually interrogate your actions and choices as you make them. Yes. This is uncomfortable. Yes, we’re all mentally ill and traumatized. Sometimes we’ll fuck up and lash out or intentionally make choices to harm others, but instead of running from what we have actually done, we MUST be able to take the L and address it when it is brought to us in good faith.

You cannot keep separating your actions and your self in your mind. You cannot keep making excuses or exceptions to your ideals. You have to start looking at what you do and go “is this actually fully in line with what I believe and how I want the world to treat us?” And if it’s not, FUCKING CHANGE.

homunculus-argument

An unlocked, unguarded door with a sign saying "NO ENTRY, DO NOT OPEN" and it opens up right to a solid brick wall and on the brick wall is a sign saying "WHAT'S YOUR FUCKING PROBLEM"

real-language-facts

well what if i don't want to stress syllables, this world is stressful enough as it is for a small and innocent syllable

chimerathingcock

I need to get more selfish and evil.

It's important to remember the whole world already belongs to me...

cola-collective

joelletwo

[ID: diagram of a person going from thinking "im in love with you" to ??? to saying "im going to fucking kill you im serious"]

allthingswhumpyandangsty

reblog if you’re a sick fuck

freegiftjones

one time i was making potato soup and i needed broth for it but i was out of broth. but in my dog food cabinet there was a carton of chicken broth that i had bought for my dog. now the box did say HUMAN GRADE and the ingredients were just bog standard chicken broth. it did say something about joint health for dogs on there. but the ingredients were normal. i even compared the ingredients list to some normal person broth and they were the same. so i did put dog broth in that soup and it did taste completely normal. but i did use the dog broth.