Sel, CEO of Jade Harley

18+ --- she/her--- i post about: transfeminism, communism, queer liberation, tabletop RPGs, game development, anticopyright, open source, dadaism, writing he/they is cool too if I follow you or know you outside tumblr occasional shitposting, badposting, dragonposting. this blog contains some occasional NSFW and horny text, but no explicit artwork- that's on my side blog if you want to ask for it.

[jadeharleyinc]

welcome! i'm Sel, a programmer and game developer. i also write and run tabletop RPGs. my posts on this blog touch on the following:

(often) transfeminism, workers' rights, anti-imperialism, shitposts

(sometimes) queer liberation, technology, original jokes or essays

(sometimes) tabletop RPGs, game development, dragons

(rarely) writing, philosophy of art

i don't reblog nsfw art, but there may be occasional suggestive text. i don't go out of my way to discuss uncomfortable topics or reblog disturbing artwork- but i might, rarely. i don't tag posts very well (sorry!)

you are free to DM me, just remember my attention span is abysmal. have i not answered your ask? nothing against you, i probably forgot. i'm also on noterook! finally, if we're mutuals you can ask for my discord

eventually i'll list the posts i'm proud of. but for now:

tags you can check out include #shitposting, #badposting, #evilposting (all sorts of joke posts) #essay, #mini essay (my writing)

i accidentally gained a reputation as "the girl who looks at studies about AI to see exactly how bad the impact is, since nobody cares to read those apparently". might as well lean into it! links under the cut.

the scale of AI's ecological footprint - (various studies and raw data) - number-crunching, slightly rant-y. is it ecologically irresponsible to run AI on your computer? can we put those numbers in context? the "AI rots your brain" study - (Microsoft Cambridge & Carnegie Mellon University) - a paper frequently misquoted on purpose. what were they actually researching and what did they find? the "this is your brain on ChatGPT" study - (Braini AI & MIT Media Labs) - an extremely worrying paper, not for its findings but for its horrendous methodology and undisclosed ties to an AI startup.

[deepseasmetro]

draw more trans women with visible penises outside of porn. seriously. you haveto do this

[deepseasmetro]

if your push for women to be allowed to be topless, to be nude even, free of sexualization, free of objectification, does not include women with penises, then it is worthless!

[storyweavingspider]

You, yes you specifically reading this, are a pedophile.

This news probably came as a surprise to you. After all, you haven’t done anything pedophilic that you know of. Yet here you are, accused of being a pedophile.

It doesn’t matter whether you’ve been diagnosed with POCD or not, whether you’ve sought out material or not, even if you’ve been vocally opposed to pedophilia in the past. What matters right now is that YOU are a pedophile. Someone said it was true, and that’s what matters to most people.

Don’t worry, it happens to a lot of us, especially if you’re queer and ESPECIALLY if you’re transfemme. Hell, it’s happened to me before:

For some people, they become more vocally opposed to pedophiles to prove they aren’t a pedophile. Others develop radical compassion.

This is gonna sound like an unhinged comparison at first, but hear me out.

This whole “discourse” around ISFF has had me thinking over and over again about how Paul Robeson was blacklisted from being a prominent face of the civil rights campaign despite being possibly the most globally well known Black person from the US, bc he was a communist in a time it wasn’t just unacceptable socially but legally dangerous and would’ve brought even heavier crackdowns on the civil rights movement.

The result was an incomplete liberation because it was only uplifting the “acceptable ones” within a capitalist framework rather than uplifting the baseline total rights regardless of belief/existence.

The point there being is that so long as there are categories of human we view as unacceptable we cannot achieve total liberation. All trannies and faggots are pedophiles, addicts, bums, rapists, whores, etc. to those who see it convenient to get rid of us, and refusing to address this issue will only result in an incomplete liberation because we cannot leave behind those who are seen the worst by society when we ARE them too by default.

“But communist and pedophile is an unhinged comparison” they’ve been calling communists that, perverts, sexual deviants, etc. since McCarthyism anyway so.

We cannot be truly liberated until even those viewed as “the worst of society” have the same basic rights and ability to survive in society as everyone else. As humans, they deserve that much. If you cannot accept that, consider that all any of the rest of us need to become one of them is to be accused of it. Proof doesn’t matter. Reality doesn’t matter. You are a pedophile. You will become a pedophile as soon as it is useful for someone to make you into one.

There is no option but acknowledging they are still human and cannot be simply removed from society, because as long as there are stigmatized demographics, we will be able to remove the basic rights of anyone.

I don’t have a “solution” and I will not answer requests for one, because I’m not here to offer one, I’m saying that humans remain human and we cannot achieve true liberation as long as we are willing to allow demographics of “acceptable ones to harm”. We have to start here. Everything has to start from here.

[mechanizeduucy]

Threatening violence against people who have harmed no one is unhinged behaviour btw. You don’t need to belong to a group to recognise they’re being treated unfairly - insinuating that’s the case is Fascist behaviour. As long as there is a group of people whose mere existence renders them worthy of violence in the eyes of others you will be accused of belonging to said group in a (probably successful) attempt to smear you. Judge people by their actions not what minority group they belong to. Stop protecting abusers and helping them deflect attention from their actions.

[storyweavingspider]

You called it about accusing me of being a pedophile for this lmfao - like, I’m a CSA victim who came around to this point of view after years of having at worst violent rhetoric towards them and at best still dehumanizing. I was wrong then and I’m willing to say it.

Meanwhile seeing shit like this from former moots and comments on their posts now:

This is my point. We’ve been watching conservatives slander every trans person they can as a pedophile to try and remove us from public life, to justify harm to us, and this can only keep happening as long as they’re a demographic this is acceptable to do this to. They did the same type of moral panic accusations to gay men, to communists, there’s a rich fucking tradition of using pedophilia accusations to remove other “undesirables” regardless of whether they are or not.

You’re scared. I understand that. I was too when I posted this and it’s already led to harassment, threats, and attention from the freaks that doxxed me a while back.

The fear of this weapon is why so many trans women are terrified of taking jobs in education, in child care, of HAVING THEIR OWN FUCKING CHILDREN WHILE OUT AS TRANSFEMME. Because we know that there’s an invisible countdown clock until we get smeared as pedophiles for working in that role while transfemme.

The only way we can stop it from being a weapon is to stop enabling its use as a weapon. This does not mean to cease protecting children either, we must make sure that children have the knowledge and language necessary to not only protect themselves, but communicate when someone is trying to harm them.

I understand being afraid of this weapon. Of being smeared as a pedophile for choosing no longer to wield it as a weapon. I was fucking terrified of it too. But as fascism gets worse globally this weapon WILL be wielded against the marginalized more and more, and the only options are to blunt its effectiveness as a weapon, or to abandon every single person it is leveled against in the hopes it takes longer for it to be pointed at us.

It shouldn’t take it happening to you for you to give up this weapon. We must make it so that it no longer happens to anyone, because that’s the only way it stops happening to us.

[aceynk]

i want to append tags from @womenintheirwebss

the issue must be understood as a systemic one. why is it so easy for other issues but impossible for csa. liberating youth, decaying the power of the parental figure, effectively addressing misogyny and patriarchy; these all are more effective for preventing csa than the treatment of pedophilia as an individual evil ever will be. embrace materialism, learn materialist analysis, discard idealism.

[cholerascum]

>be a REDDIT MOD >see a womans post thats criticizing men >tell her "we're not serving these today" >silence womans complaints

hmm yes lets start shit with THE ARTISTS IN OUR SUBREDDITS BANNER

[cholerascum]

and then I woke up to a 3 day site wide ban because me saying "ofc the people bitching about me not liking when men impose think I'm doing misandry" is apparently harassment (it wasn't, my ban was appealed, but even still. trying to ban me for NOT LIKING MEN IMPOSING is the kind of behavior this sub festers)

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

This shit drives me crazy. Putting aside that they pretty much say “not all men,” just with some slightly changed vocabulary, everything here is just showing a fundamental misunderstanding about the point of your original comic.

Queer people need to remember that, just because they’re part of a marginalized community, doesn’t mean they’re removed from biases. They need to be constantly examining their assumptions, prejudices, and privilege. And seeing someone who helps run a queer space so incredibly fail at that is incredibly frustrating.

[airprime7]

also what the fuck does "we're not serving these today" mean? Are we a fucking drink? Or are you doing a "we don't serve your kind" because that's what it feels like

[cholerascum]

LITERALLY.

[generalissimo-kneedeepincynide]

It really doesn't matter if you present yourself as a moderate. In this day and age, any opposition to capitalism is met with force and violence, you just don't see most of it. Working with the system is impossible, the system will either break you and make you submit or dispose of you. Yes even your favorite center left candidate is not immune to this he/she will either bend or die. This is an age that require radicalism. They already hate you, your moderate position will get you killed, the choice is either to bend the knee or become more radical.

[anonymusbosch]

People often react to the phrase "carbon footprint" with something about how it's coined by the fossil fuel industry to direct blame from producers to consumers, but I think there's still something extremely valuable about looking at emissions per capita -

graph one: total CO2 emissions, NOT per capita, by region. By 2020, China, the US, the EU, India, and Russia are the largest players, with the entire rest of the world barely surpassing China's emissions.

Graph two: The same regions but weighted per capita.

The US is unique in being extremely emissions-intense per capita while also being large and wealthy. This graph doesn't count emissions generated in China to produce goods shipped to America - it counts those under China's emissions.

[anonymusbosch]

It's really hard, I think, for people in the US to have perspective on how wealthy they are on a global scale. Of course no one feels wealthy if they're struggling to make rent or commuting an hour and a half to afford housing - but on a global scale, when over 700 million people live on less than $2 per day, the median American is one of the richest people on the planet.

If you look at the median individual across the OECD, take out their taxes, and adjust for cost of living by using purchasing power parity to the US dollar, the US median individual has $46,000 of disposable income a year. Only Luxembourg surpasses that (within the OECD)! Germany is at around $33k, the UK at around $25k, Japan around $21k, Mexico around $6k, and the two most populous countries in the world come in with China at $4.5k and India at $2.5k!

(I do need to note that this is disposable income and doesn't account for the value of services provided with tax money, so countries with a stronger investment in public infrastructure look worse here relative to the US than their inhabitants experience.)

I need to emphasize that while purchasing power parity isn't a perfect measure, its goal is to allow comparison of how much someone can afford given both cost of living and currency conversion rates.

Someone making federal minimum wage in the US is still able to afford more than twice as much (depending on location within the US) as the median person in Mexico and six times as much as the median person in India. The median person in the US has more than 20 times as much disposable income as the median person in India! When it comes to global warming and the disproportionate impact of the rich on the poor, the issue needs to be viewed in global perspective

[lilkakow]

"Leninism - a powerful weapon of the international working class", East Berlin, 1976.

[kalichnikov]

I refuse to reblog callout posts because I'm a prison abolitionist

[kalichnikov]

In all my years in this website, and I've been here a long time, I can't recall a single instance of a callout post leading to actual restitution for the victims of the alleged harm the person was accused of. Even in cases where the accusations were true. Even in cases where there was legitimate harm done to another person.

Remember the sixpencee child slave thing? What happened there, exactly? Was the kid freed? No? They were just run off the website? OK so what good exactly did that do?

Remember the bone stealing witch? What exactly did that witchhunt accomplish? The person got arrested, oh that's great, the american justice system surely rectified the situation

And again, those are instances where the accusations were true and involved real substantive harm to another person. We used to joke on here how callout posts were shit like "receipts below: [several paragraphs of petty fandom drama] [three paragraphs of petty interpersonal drama involving cheating on partners or stealing food out of the fridge or something] [fabricated evidence that the person is responsible for the murder of JonBenét Ramsey]"

And that was back in the 2010s. The meta has changed. Callouts used to be a tool people used to point out actual harm a person had done, rarely, and more commonly were used as a means of bullying somebody over petty drama. Nowadays they're used to manufacture outrage and harassment against marginalized populations. They are a weapon bigots use to turn us against each other. A few manufactured accusations here, some out of context or clipped screenshots there, and people who should be standing in solidarity with each other against white supremacy, patriarchy, cisheteronormativity, are instead devouring each other.

It's sinister as shit, dude, and people will still share these accusations without a second thought. So, why? What is the point? What's the best case scenario here? Raising "awareness?" what the fuck is that supposed to accomplish? Will we get the oh-so-trustworthy authorities involved? Are we hoping for an arrest? A conviction? Throwing a queer or poc person in prison so they can be abused and assaulted and humiliated behind bars? Is that who we are?

Callouts and the like don't serve any real good in the world. At a macro scale they divide us when we should be standing together, and at a micro scale they result in deeply traumatic never-ending harassment and threats and doxxing and worse to a person who almost definitely does not deserve it. And again, for what? A sense of "justice?" this is not justice. This is retribution. It is punishment.

It's fucking cop behavior, and I'm not gonna participate in it.

[angelicbolshevik]

I will make one thing clear, I think there is effectively no value in the legacy of the feminist movement, it was a movement that accomplished nothing and developes it's sole justification of existance from effective coopting several other semi-effective movements. I am not reffering to any specific aspect or wave of feminism but it's entire character, my only concession here is i think judith butler came close to describing reality. However this is not to say there is no value to women's organizing, this is hardly the case women's organizing is central to developing an understanding of gender and the challenging of negative impacts in gender, while prioritizing the progress towards the end of gender. I simply think these organizations can not be about the mysticism of gender the worship of "femaleness" these are simply reinforcements from the women's side of the patriarchy, what women's organizations must do is actually advocate for a group of women within a larger group this is where the sufragettes suceeded, by representing the bourgousie women of england, where earlier women's organizations in the usa were based around yougn women in the workplace who advocated for their conditions. This legacy in the modern day has developed into the women's wings of socialist organizations. ps. i specifically think there is no value to "transfeminism" as it not only purports to defend the concept of women but the idea of a seperate "transwoman" ! terrible!

[liquidstar]

yknow its interesting how something can impact one demographic in a completely different way than everyone else. in the exorcist when the demon starts speaking in greek, to most people its creepy. but if youre greek and you suddenly start hearing the demon speak perfect fucking greek its genuinely the biggest scare of the movie. you just do not expect to ever hear your language in american movies so it catches you so badly off guard, it feels like the movie is talking directly to you

[liquidstar]

the first time my dad saw it, it was with his american friends. and when she started speaking greek he turned to one of them and was like "re malaka did you hear that in english?"

[tpwrtrmnky]

If you're trying to understand the development and spread of online hate movements you do actually have to go to more websites than just Tumblr. Most of the specialists who work on that kind of thing don't maintain an active presence on Tumblr, and the movements they track operate across a variety of platforms.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Do you know how much serious European trans activism is being done by 40-year-olds whose primary social media presence is on fucking Facebook?

"Well if they're on Facebook they can't be that serious!" Wrong! I'm talking about exposing large-scale malpractice by monopolistic, gatekeeping-model gender clinics and pursuing actual legal action on behalf of the affected patients.

Actual, tangible, systemic actions with meaningful real-life impact.

Done by people who primarily communicate with the public on Facebook, and secondarily through the debate sections of online newspapers that also do most of their publicity on Facebook.

That's the pro-trans activism.

The anti-trans activism is even more Facebook-oriented.

You do not have to go on Facebook, but you do have to look into what organizations are working for trans rights where you live, and try to get a grip on what the actual political landscape looks like in more detail than what "Everywhere is blue state US urban centers: The Website" says it is.

[tpwrtrmnky]

If you think a newer branch of some hate movement originated on Tumblr, you're wrong by default until you can prove that the first seeds of it actually showed up here. The only things that typically originate on Tumblr are erroneous folk etymology and obsessions with skinny cartoon men based on nothing that's actually in the source material.

[brownscaleddragoness]

dragon hrt but you have someone put it in a dart and hunt you in the woods to shoot you with and and they have to higher calibres and be smarter the longer it goes on because your scales are getting thicker and the predatory instincts are kicking in. If you catch them first they get a good demonstration on how flexible your tongue is now.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

but also why are people at office jobs getting free donuts more than jobs where you're actually hungry as fuck 😭😭😭 give donuts to anyone doing manual labor and the performative dieting issue will disappear immediately #truthnuke

[innerchildabortionclinic]

[ofdreamsanddoodles]

at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what you say about some fictional character. but if you watch a story written by a trans woman that is clearly about the closet and the intense pain being unable to escape from it brings, and insist that a character who clearly has complicated desires about wanting to be more feminine isn't transfem because no one ever looked at the camera and told you the character's pronouns than i think there IS a problem of, as a viewer, finding the idea of someone being transfem so outrageous and unrelatable that you cannot see the most obvious hansel and gretel bread crumb trail of a character arc then there is absolutely SOMETHING in your heart you have to fix

[trans-masked]

So for context what happened was yay bunnies reblogged a typical tumblr absurdity post that said like “I’m glad the gods granted you sentience but I’m not sure I wanted such a complicated relationship with my sex doll” and tagged it “transmen”. When someone responded to the effect of what the fuck, bunnies replied “what’s not clicking”. The original post was a joke but that kind of tag from someone hateful towards trans men who frequently denies sexual violence against them is incredibly disturbing

People who hate us are perfectly capable of viewing us as sex objects. Objectification is kind of impossible without hate for the object

[yay-bunnies-world]

[tme voice] the trans woman is actually literally pinning us down and raping us with his disgusting male cock when he posts about being sexually abused

Reblog by @yay-bunnies-world · 1 image

💬 9  🔁 1431  ❤️ 2534 · listen um. i think its great that the gods imbued you with life as a testament to the fervent passion and peerless sk

[trans-masked]

Interesting thing to say to a stranger

[jadeharleyinc]

funny how it always works out like this huh? "you can't possibly be talking about the sexual abuse marginalized men inflicted on you as an equally marginalized woman, clearly you're bragging that you want to rape maginalized men" was a neutral action, gossiping "we thought she bragged about being a rapist because she's a man-hating meanie" was a neutral action, and when she calls out your misogyny she's invading your boundaries.

very subtle.

[fuck-philip-banks]

here is this person interpreting "using afabness as gender cred is a red flag" as "amabs have the real gender cred" for the purpose of painting transfems as misogynistic men's rights activists.

op's blog exists to launder transmisogynist darvo bullshit like this. he knows what she meant. the entire purpose is to muddy the words of transfems speaking out about victimization, to make people believe any instance of such is in fact declaration of intent to victimize others.

anyone operating in any good faith would show instant contrition and embarrassment at the revelation they were calling someone a rapist for venting about having been raped. no matter what else. trans-masked has instead doubled down and continued to post about how clearly yay-bunnies is a rapist for saying that in this reblog!

this is the entire modus operandi of this cryptoterf. he despises us and posts about it exclusively in "look how much transfems despise us" ways. he knows what he's doing.

[captain-price-returns]

[suigintou]

listen um. i think its great that the gods imbued you with life as a testament to the fervent passion and peerless skill i constructed you with but i was kind of hoping for a less complicated relationship with my sex doll

[isuggestrespecttranspeople]

Hi what the fuck?

Yay-bunnies what the hell?

[yay-bunnies-zone]

whats not clicking

[isuggestrespecttranspeople]

Calling transmen rape dolls is a choice you for sure are making!

[yay-bunnies-zone]

youve got to have some incredibly bad assumptions of me to read that and conclude that i think transmen are "rape dolls". rape isnt even mentioned in the post. you people are just ITCHING to accuse a black tgirl of being a predator

[yay-bunnies-zone]

hey. hey. @isuggestrespecttranspeople. what happened? you dont wanna reblog this one? dont wanna acknowledge your racism and transmisogyny?

[yay-bunnies-zone]

like to read this as me desiring to rape transmen youd have to be going into it with an assumption of me as a sexual predator, and of course this assumption was founded on my black and transfeminine identity. you really have to be doing mental backflips to not realize that this is about how i have been mistreated (including rape fwiw) by transmen in the past.

[nullwronskian]

I'm gonna say what ur being too polite to. This is clear cut racism. Calling black people rapists is something white people have been doing for centuries. This person is a racist troll.

@isuggestrespecttranspeople did that 100% on purpose. Their goal was to post that and then spread the claim that "yay-bunnies thinks trans men are rape dolls". It's intentional. And its why they havent reblogged your response. They want their followers to only see them call you a rapist and in the absence of your response they want their target audience to think "well she didnt deny it, must be true". Its really disgusting worm behavior.