Jewish Trans Dyke

Ashkenazi Jew. Trans woman. Queer lesbian. Polyamorous. ADD, Tourette's Syndrome, Depression, Social Anxiety, Long COVID, maybe AvPD, probably autistic. Socialist. Millennial. Los Angeles.

[jewishtransdyke]

A detail I never see people talk about in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 6x19 "In the Pale Moonlight" is that Grathon Tolar (the guy Ben Sisko hires to make the fake recording of Weyoun plotting against Romulus) initially thinks that Sisko wants to commission some bespoke porn.

This is not just some random artist he found on the Space Internet, mind you. Tolar was on death row in a Klingon prison, and Sisko somehow convinced Chancellor Gowron to pardon him, even though he wouldn't have been able to specify the *reason* he wanted this particular death row inmate pardoned.

And Tolar's first thought, when he meets the man who saved his life (with an extremely non-trivial feat of international diplomacy), is that he did it because he really really wants some very specific pornography custom-made to his specifications and is willing to call in no-questions-asked favors from a foreign head of state in order to get it.

Idk, that's just kinda fascinating to me. Have people gone to similar lengths to commission porn from Tolar before? If not, why is that his assumption? It raises some very weird questions about the porn industry in the Star Trek universe.

[jewishtransdyke]

Nope, different episode. That sounds vaguely familiar, but I can't remember which specific episode you're thinking of.

Porn doesn't really come up in "In the Pale Moonlight" outside the one scene I'm talking about. And it's really just a brief exchange within a longer scene, but it stuck with me because the implications are so baffling.

[cringecorp]

[spacedocmom]

09/07/2026 Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom Incoming Transmission…

If you think taking precautions during your ongoing pandemic plus other viral outbreaks is a political stance, I have news for you: viruses don't know about your politics. All they want is to get in you and reproduce. Mask up, stay safe. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked, spoon

[muckmagister]

faraday cages are so funny to me. what are we gonna do about all this dangerous radiation? let's put it in a little dog crate. and it works

[muckmagister]

yeahh. can't melt my organs from in there can you? fuckig idiots

[enki2]

[elexuscal]

The Good Place is an excellent show for many reasons, but one that doesn't really get talked about enough, probably because of how the season 1 twist obscures it, is that the 'No Exit'-esque "Hell is Other People" scenario for an afterlife of eternal torture is an avante garde experiment from an Auteur demon who's trying to convince the other demons of his Vision while they're like "idk man flaying genitals works really good"

[innerchildabortionclinic]

realistically what purpose can glasses that secretly record someone have when it comes to prosocial behavior between humans

these just shouldn't be available

[ibetteracethatinterview]

Peter Thiel is the antichrist here

[jewishtransdyke]

Just cut to the chase and appoint an antipope already.

[godlessondheimite]

What is your main public transport pet peeve?

Loud conversations (in person and speakerphone)

Feet on the seats

Music/sounds on phone with no headphones

Dogs

Rowdy drunkenness

Bags taking up seats

Strong scents

Blocking the way

Remaining time: 5 days 13 hours

[nerianasims]

[jewishtransdyke]

My public transport pet peeve is when there's other people there.

[sarah-maclean-completist]

🧵

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

i wouldn't necessarily have a problem with seeing a doctor whose name was dr skull. but if his office was in a cave i'd be alert for signs of a lair

[mariacallous]

“The more I occupied myself with the individual cases of war criminals, the less I believed them to be monsters. What if they *are* ordinary people, just like us, who found themselves in particular circumstances and made wrong moral choices? What might this tell us about *ourselves*?”

—

From “Why We Need Monsters” in They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague by Slavenka Drakulić.

She goes on to say:

You sit in a courtroom watching a defendant day after day and at first you wonder, as Primo Levi did, “if this is a man.” No, this is not a man, it is all too easy to answer, but as the days pass you find the criminals become increasingly human. Soon you feel that you know them intimately. You watch their faces, ugly or pleasant, their small habits of yawning, taking notes, scratching their heads, cleaning their nails, and you have to ask yourself: what if this is a man? The more you know them, the more you wonder how they could have committed such crimes, these waiters and taxi drivers, teachers and peasants in front of you. And the more you realize that war criminals might be ordinary people, the more afraid you become. Of course, this is because the consequences are more serious than if they were monsters. If ordinary people committed war crimes, it means that any of us can commit them. Now you understand why it is so easy and comfortable to accept that war criminals are monsters, rather than to agree with Ervin Staub that “evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.”

(via mariacallous)

[teathattast]

[aropride]

please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy

[bladespark]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[atwotonedbird]

This spell has a very low hit ratio, so we need a lot of us to do it.

[artemissoftstepper]

make your subtitles accurate to what’s being said or i will kill you!!!!

[sycamorality]

really cool example i have of someone making youtube subtitles that both include how something (in this case, a username) is spelled, and how the narrator pronounces it. i think more people should do this

[psychoticallytrans]

Here is a skill that many of us are going to need for survival: how to tell if someone is offering to let you lie.

The tip-off phrase is "If [circumstance] was true, then we/I could do [helpful thing.]" This is not a guarantee that the person is offering, but it should tell you "I am being informed of a way to improve things."

Your confirmation phrase is "What documentation would that require?" This is essentially asking them "if people come asking me to prove this, will I be able to? Or will they not come at all?"

The answer you are hoping for with the confirmation phrase is "Just tell me if it's true, and I'll put it on the form." Note that this is not a direct instruction to lie, because they can't tell you that.

If they didn't mean to extend an offer to lie or this is a situation where they can't, then they'll list off something like your paystubs or your birth certificate. Your response back in that case is "Thanks, I'll tell my friends who qualify." This clears you of any concerns that you may have been considering lying.

The more complex answer is when they answer by giving you a form on the spot. Your job, in this case, is to scan the form and see if what they are asking you can be meaningfully verified by an official source.

Things that can be verified by an official source include, but are not limited to, your age, legal sex, income, veteran status, and place of residence. It's not generally a good idea to lie about these on official documents.

Be smart, and be practical. Do what you need to in order to stay alive, and keep an ear out for the people offering to help you do so.

[ulysses-but-somehow-more-transer]

im having trouble understanding this in the abstract, could someone give an example of a hypothetical situation this would apply to?

[time-travel-toke-up]

"This medication is covered for FREE if you are quitting smoking. Are you working on quitting?"

*me, thinking about how I quit smoking in 2018 and it is now the year of our lord 2024* "Oh yeah, still working very hard. You know how those cravings can hit."

*please note, how I omitted the truth in the example. I didn't ANNOUNCE it been 6 years SINCE I ALREADY QUIT. I said that I was working hard because cravings are still a thing (6 years later not said out loud). The fact I haven't have a SINGLE one in 4 years [I was Weak during lockdown but could not finish a cig anymore] is irrelevant. The doctor asking me was *nudge nudge wink wink* pointing out that labeling my cig use as "not quite quit yet" would cut some costs on medications.

Sometimes the 'lies' you are being an opportunity to nod along for are just ommissions of truth. Like- still being an active smoker for easier access to other treatments or random pains being worse than YOU personally find them. "If X is true, Y could be an option for you" is a way to allow you to snip off details to make X TECHNICALLY true. They are asking you to be a VAGUE fuck- not a pedantic one. For BOTH of y'all's plausible deniability.

"So these symptoms prevent you from doing [X, Y, Z] activities?"

Even if YOU think you are mildly inconvenienced at best, 'OH YEAH- the generalized fatigue/nagging pain/light headed feeling just makes it so hard to [whatever activity you just find more choresome in those circumstances]!'

I have also had it happen at random coffee shops. Or vape shops.

"How much cash do you have on you? Conveniently this is on sale RIGHT NOW for you for 5 dollars less than that IF it happens to be your birthday. It's your birthday... RIGHT??????"

Is the exact same concept. "You have a coupon right?" "And you saw the BOGO deal and remembered to mention it, RIGHT? Cuz mentioning it before I complete the transaction will make these BOGO..."

[sunspotpony]

You may ask, “why would someone ask me to lie?”

You all ever seen that scene in the Incredibles where Mr. incredible basically tells this little old lady to get her stuff approved? It’s a cartoonish example of what happens all the time in real life.

You ever seen a cashier conveniently forget to ring up baby formula for a single mother, and then wish her a lovely day?

Sometimes, people look out for each other. Pay attention and let them. The world is spooky out there; we’re all in it together.

[earsandtailsarefeet]

This is a good read and worth paying attention to. The human urge to help out other beings is strong, and people are prone to trying to indicate things like this to you.

This post gives some good steer on tasting if that's what is happening, a good read.

[dancing-crow]

My partner needed my signature on a thing for the insurance company. I was out of the country. The nice lady looked at him and said "you should go check in the parking lot" and he explained that I was Out of the Country and she shook her head and said again (more patiently, and enunciating clearly) "you should CHECK in the PARKING LOT" and nodded at him, handing him the form and a pen.

He finally understood.

[aiyexayen]

this is the number one reason i miss being a cashier. helping people and sticking it to the man at the same time, in tiny little ways every day. 😌

[westiec]

Important addendum:

If somebody does this for you, and you are at any point in a position to give Feedback On Your Experience — no they didn't. Don't tell Yelp, don't tell the customer satisfaction survey, for the love of fuck don't tell their boss, even if you mean it as praise. "Employee was friendly, knowledgeable, and professional" end of review.

Don't accidentally narc on someone doing you a solid.

[log6]

big problem on here is a lot of people seem to think just being transgender makes you a sensible political theorist

[juneberryjammin]

being transgender doesn't even make you a sensible gender theorist