Matryoshka Boxes

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[theshitpostcalligrapher]

so i dont usually go on reddit

but has someone on the dungeon meshi subreddit figured out more detailed recipe amounts of the pan-steamed bread that senshi makes in the orc episode?

once we run low on bread in my household I wanna make some anime-ass bread

[bitternest]

This was gonna be a comment but it got too long.

So looking at the process, the steaming is completely incidental to the main cooking - it's the final step and I'm… genuinely not sure what it's doing. You do not steam baked goods at the end because it turns the crust rubbery.

I think what Senshi is actually doing is closer to baking - the vessel that far from the fire is as close to indirect heat as you're going to manage without an oven. I think what the writer means by "steaming," because we don't see him add any water to the pot neither in, is just letting the bread finish "baking" in the vessel. To get the finished product I think you actually want a dutch oven here.

And sure enough, if you google "campfire dutch oven bread" you get a very credible approximation of Senshi's final loaf.

You'd have to tweak it for a home oven and getting the "buns", but that process should yield you what you're looking for.

The extra bit of confusion is that the anime calls for "strong flour" in the English subs, which doesn't appear in the English dub, nor any scanlations I can find. That's broadly "bread flour" (as I'm sure you know, I'm just explaining for others), but the inconsistency is interesting. I'm also not convinced that bread flour is best for this.

If anyone has access to the original manga, they could check if Senshi says "強力粉" (strong/bread flour) or report what version of "粉" he uses.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

okay so disclaimer that I'm not a professional baker first but:

gave me an incredibly close visual representation of senshi's camp bread, and the new place I've moved into has a small backyard and one of the household's miniature bbq seems to be back there.

It's winter right now but I could theoretically get some charcoal briquettes and do this as close as possible to the anime bread without having to light actual fires.

the next issue is this:

vs

now, it's not the yeast adjustment that has me, since I know by vibes at this point how to raise starters and levains to make up for volume and bacterial culture differences.

it's the milk and eggs.

one of the defining things about rolls, I find, is the softness that milk and butter add. senshi's recipe barely has any fat in it other than the olive oil from the fire trap, so I'd be losing a lot of softness. His recipe doesn't have egg either, so I'd be losing structure.

in addition to that, the liquid:flour ratio is very different. Roll recipes usually have around a 1:3 liquid to flour ratio (eg 0.5Cwater+1.5Cmilk:6C flour). I don't know what hydration level Senshi's starter is at but it looks pretty 1:1 from the comic and anime, meaning that his has around TWICE the liquid in it proportionally, since 160:250 is abouuut 1:1.5

......

you see THIS IS WHY I WAS HOPING SOME SUBREDDITOR FIGURED IT OUT FOR ME

I JUST DROPPED EVERYTHING TO DO M A T H

[alcibiades-hacks-it]

I sense an opportunity to pass on one of the greatest lessons my Scoutmaster taught me!

Counting coals for Dutch ovens is the normal method, but it's also really inconsistent! Different size lumps or briquettes, coals getting smaller as they burn down, etc! So here's what you should do instead: Rings!

Basically make a ring around the perimeter of your Dutch oven under the bottom, and then put the listed number of rings on the top! You'll get much more consistent heat, and better cooking results!!

This blog post goes into additional detail if you want it!

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

were doing this folks were making this happen

also I know @bitternest irl so we're gonna have a proper go at trying to get close to senshi bread as possible without fucking up its structure some time this week fingers crossed

[bitternest]

Okay so, prelimnary-POC-that-I-didn't-think-would-work: done.

It, uh. Worked.

I legit cobbled this recipe together out of three separate ones, so there's a lot of room to improve, but here it is:

Ingredients

bread flour: 250g

water: 160ml

yeast: 1 standard packet

sugar: 30g

salt: 3.25g

olive oil: 35g

Steps (notice: if you don't have a stand mixer, I'm sorry, I'm useless at kneading and haven't done so manually in over a decade):

Warm water to 110F.

Whisk the warm water, yeast, and 15g of sugar together in the bowl of your stand mixer. Cover and allow to sit for 5 minutes.

Whisk remaining dry ingredients together in a bowl

Add half the dry ingredients to your now-bloomed yeast mixture

Using a dough hook, beat/mix ingredients together for 30 seconds

Scrape down the sides of the bowl, then add remaining dry ingredients and olive oil

Set your standmixer to knead, and let it knead for 5 minutes

Dough is done if it springs back if poked lightly, or passes the widowpane test

Cover bowl and let it rise for 1 hour (1st proof)

Oil up your dutch oven

Punch the dough down and form evenly sized balls. Place them equidistant from each other in the dutch oven

Cover dutch oven, leave to rise for another hour (can probably go for 2 hours here) (2nd proof)

Preheat oven to 350F

Place dutch oven, covered with its lid, in the oven for 1 hour, removing the lid for the last 10m (could probably stretch to 15m for more colour)

Remove from oven and let cool

Eat!

I think the double proof did the majority of the legwork here. The dutch oven is good for getting good steam early on, which is important for crust development and airiness, but there's no way in hell it would turn out this light and fluffy without a 2nd proof.

If others want to try variations, go nuts. Tomorrow I'll post the version of this made by a baker buddy using tangzhong, which was a "breakthrough" realization before this fucking recipe just... worked?!?!

Anyways, happy baking

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

wholly shit, TRULY

[sirfrogsworth]

Today I learned 3D animation is a horror show outside the camera's field of view.

[thefrogman]

Just to add context, the director wanted the scene to use an 85mm lens which is slightly telephoto. Telephoto lenses give a very intimate feel because they compress the scene. Background and foreground objects can appear larger at longer focal lengths.

But that compression can also make objects look the wrong size in context with the subject depending on the framing.

This is done in live action as well using another person's hands in front of the camera.

Or sometimes they create giant fake hands like in Hellboy.

[kylostantrums]

they did this in lord of the rings too!

[galaxywarp]

via @suppermariobroth :

“In the main menu of Mario Power Tennis, Toad is present to explain the selection options. It appears as though Toad is close to the background and roughly the same size as the icons. However, moving the viewpoint reveals that Toad is actually extremely tiny and extremely close to the camera (note Toad near the left edge of the screen in the bottom image).”

[ileolai]

Remember when Ursula K. Le Guin called JK Rowling a nasty basic bitch back in like, 2004? We should have listened

[legok9]

“This last is the situation, as I see it, between my A Wizard of Earthsea and J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter. I didn’t originate the idea of a school for wizards — if anybody did it was T.H.White, though he did it in single throwaway line and didn’t develop it. I was the first to do that. Years later, Rowling took the idea and developed it along other lines. She didn’t plagiarize. She didn’t copy anything. Her book, in fact, could hardly be more different from mine, in style, spirit, everything. The only thing that rankles me is her apparent reluctance to admit that she ever learned anything from other writers. When ignorant critics praised her wonderful originality in inventing the idea of a wizards’ school, and some of them even seemed to believe that she had invented fantasy, she let them do so. This, I think, was ungenerous, and in the long run unwise.“

[ileolai]

i found the specific quote i was thinking of x

Q: Nicholas Lezard has written ‘Rowling can type, but Le Guin can write.’ What do you make of this comment in the light of the phenomenal success of the Potter books? I’d like to hear your opinion of JK Rowling’s writing style

UKL: I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the “incredible originality” of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid’s fantasy crossed with a “school novel”, good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.

damn gurl :’]

[bodega-catgirl]

Anyone wanna spread animal ears like a fungus together

[bodega-catgirl]

Pls

[bodega-catgirl]

Wait people know this image right. Do I sound crazy

[southpauz]

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

[southpauz]

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

The Squeakquel

[southpauz]

🚨⚠️Rat yaoi live reaction ⚠️🚨

[pfeffaroo]

Don't worry, no one in our family is [REDACTED]

[pfeffaroo]

Found family

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

“X bodily fluid is just filtered blood!” buddy I hate to break it to you but ALL of the fluids in your body are filtered blood. Your circulatory system is how water gets around your body. It all comes out of the blood (or lymph, which is just filtered blood).

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

“Okay but why is it always so chemically roundabout and unnecessarily complicated” well buddy, that’s because your blood is imitation seawater. See? It’s very simple.

[badwificonnection]

Blood is what now?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

It’s imitation seawater what part is confusing

[badwificonnection]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#are you telling me#humans are just sentient aquariums? 

Buddy if anything is living in your blood (except for more parts of you) in detectable amounts then you have a serious microbial infection and need to go to the hospital.

Humans are seawater wastelands kept sterile of all but human cells, with microbial mats coating their surfaces.

[badwificonnection]

Thank you that’s…very disturbing

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

It’s not my fault you’re human.

[apatheticshipwreck]

Ok but “It’s not my fault you’re human.” Is the best comeback ever.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

You can use it against anyone except children that you biologically helped to create.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#/blood is imitation seawater/ is the part that’s confusing 

Picture this: you are a Thing That Lives In The Ocean. Some kind of small multicellular animal a long time ago, before proper circulatory systems existed. “Wow,” you think, metaphorically, “it sure is difficult to diffuse chemicals across my whole body. Kinda puts a hard limit on the size and distance of what specialised organs I can have. Good thing I have all this water around me that’s the same salinity as my cells (they have to be that way so I don’t explode or shrivel up) so I can diffuse and filter chemicals with that.”

“Wait a minute,” you say a couple of generations later, because you’re not actually a small animal but an evolutionary process personified and simplified to the point of dangerous inaccuracy for the purposes of a Tumblr post, “instead of losing all these important chemicals to the water around me, how about I put it in tubes? I can keep MY water separate from the rest of the world’s water! Anything I want to keep goes in my water! Anything I don’t, I dump back into the outside water! I’m a genius! An unthinking natural trial-and-error process that’s a GENIUS!”

“Wow,” you think a great many generations later, “being able to have such control over such high concentrations of important chemicals is so great. Look how big I’m getting. I even have a special pump to move my seawater around, and these cool filter systems to keep the chemicals in it right, and that control and chemical concentration has let me grow so many energy-intensive, highly specialised organs! Being big is so hard. I need special cells just to carry my oxygen around now, to make sure my enormous, constantly-operating body has enough of it.”

At this point you are embodying a fish, and eventually, fish start straying into water with different pressures and salinity levels. (I mean, they do that since befor ehty’er fish, but… look, I’m trying to keep things simple here.) “What the FUCK,” you think. “My inside water is at a different salinity and pressure to the outside water?? How am I supposed to deal with that? I can’t have freshwater inside my seawater tubes! My cells have a set salinity and they would explode! I need to start beefing up my regulatory and filter systems so that my inside seawater STAYS SEAWATER OF THE CORRECT SALINITY even if the outside water is different! Fortunately, adding salt to my seawater is a lot easier than removing it, and I want to be saltier than this weird outside water.” At this point you beef up your liver and urinary systems to compensate for different salinities. (Note: the majority of fish, freshwater and saltwater, have a fairly narrow band of salinities they can live in. Every fish doesn’t get to deal with every level of salinity; they are evolved to regulate within specific bands.)

You also, at some point, go out on land. This is new and weird because you have to carry all of your water inside. “It’s a good thing I turned myself into a giant bag of seawater,” you think. “If I wasn’t carrying my seawater inside, how would I transport all these important chemicals between my organs and the environment?” As you specialise to live entirely outside of the water, you realise (once again) that it’s a lot easier to add salt to water than to remove it in great quantities. Drinking seawater in large amounts becomes toxic; your body isn’t specialised for removing that amount of salt. Instead, you drink freshwater, and add salts to that. The majority of your organs are, at this point, specialised for moving your seawater around, protecting it, adding stuff to it, or taking stuff out. You have turned yourself into an intelligent bag for carrying and regulating a small amount of imitation seawater, and its salinity (and your commitment to maintaining that salinity) is based entirely on the seawater that some early animals started to build tubes around a long time ago.

And that’s what a human is!

[elodieunderglass]

Well, there’s another few steps, of course.

Because at some point, operating along lines of logic that worked out perfectly so far, you did decide to be a mammal.

A mammal is a machine for adapting to Circumstances. A mammal is a tremendously resilient all-terrain life-support system, with built-in heating, cooling, respiration, and incubators for reproduction. Mammals internalise everything (grudges, eggs) and furthermore are excessively, flamboyantly wet internally. Sure, everyone’s a bag of chemicals; but mammals slosh. Mammals took the concept of an internal ocean and took it in an unnecessarily splashy direction, added aftermarket mods and a climate-control system,

and just to show off, you leaned across the metaphorical gambling table and said: “my internal ocean is so good-“

“Bullshit,” said the shark, keeping it salty (ha)

“My internal ocean is so brilliantly resilient, more so than any of YOURS,” you said, holding their attention with a digit held aloft, “that for my next trick, I shall artistically recreate the ballad of evolution as a performance. I shall craft a complex chemical ballet depicting the origin of multicellular life - using some of my own material, of course-”

“Oh, ANYONE can lay an egg,” yodel the fish, and the ray adds: “ontogeny does NOT recapitulate phylogeny!!”

And you’re like, “yeah no, it’s an artistic rendition, not a literal thing. Basically I’m going to take some cells and brew them up-“

“Like an egg.”

“Like an egg. An egg but internally.”

“Yeah,” said the viviparous reptile, “yeah, like, that can work really well. I’ve always said it’s the highest test of one’s chemical know-how. It’s a lot of work. And forget about support from your family - forget about support from your PHYLUM - all you get is criticism.”

“I’m gonna do it on purpose forever,” you said. “The highest chemical, thermoregulatory, immunological, everything-logical challenge. It’s gonna be my thing.”

“I’m with you,” said a viviparous fish, stoutly. “Representation.”

You kindly don’t point out, once again, that you’re planning to do this outside the ocean, in a range of temperatures; carrying the dividing cells in a perfect 37.5• solution of saline broth in all terrains, breathing oxygen in a complicated matter, you know, bit more difficult; but you need your allies.

“It’s solid,” says the coelacanth.

“But is it metal?” says the deep-vent organism.

“Oh, it’s metal. I will feed the young,” you say, magnificently, “on an echo of the mother ocean. The first rich feast of cellular matter, the first hunt for sustenance, the first bite they sip of our liquid planet-”

Everyone waits.

“Will be a blood byproduct. My own blood byproduct.”

Everyone looks uncomfortable.

“But,” a hagfish says carefully, “don’t you outdoorsy guys still need your blood?”

You cough and explain that if you stay wet enough internally and hydrate frequently, you should be able to produce enough blood byproduct to sustain your hellish new invention until they can eat your peers.

The outrage that follows includes questions like “is this some furry shit?” And: “milk has WATER in it?”

And you won the bet. “My inner ocean is such a perfect homage to the primordial soup that I can personally cook up an entire live hairy mammal in it. And then generate excess blood byproduct from my body and give it to the small mammal until it gets big.”

That is an absolutely bonkers pitch, by the way, and everyone thought you were a showoff, even before the opposable thumbs. When the winter came, and the winter of winters, and the rain was acid and the air was poison on the tender shells of their eggs and choked the children in the shells; when the plants turned to poison, and the ocean turned against you all; when the climate changed, and the world’s children fell to shadow; your internal ocean was it that held true. A bet laid against the changing fates, a bet laid by a small beast against climate and geography and the forces of outer space, that you won. The dinosaurs fell and the pterosaurs fell and the marine reptiles dwindled, and you, furthest-child, least-looked-for, long-range-spaceship, held hope internally at 37.5 degrees. Which is another thing that humans do, sometimes.

[kyrosion]

It has been MONTHS, @elodieunderglass, and I am still mumbling “furthest-child, least-looked-for, long-range-spaceship” under my breath as a comfort phrase, and the FUCKING INDIGNITY that it came from this godforsaken post about THE HORRIBLE WETNESS OF MAMMALS!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

“The horrible wetness of mammals” would make a great band name.

[gallusrostromegalus]

“hold hope, internally, at 37.5 degrees” and “Mammals internalize everything (eggs, grudges)” Now live permanently in my vocabulary

[dduane]

Always reblog.

[thebreakfastgenie]

Voting for Democrats is the "leaving the house, getting some exercise, and drinking more water is good for your mental health" of societal change. Everyone keeps telling you to do it, worst of all your mom keeps telling you to do it, and it's not a magical cure-all, but it actually works and rotting in your room shitposting does not help in either scenario.

[oppositionresearch]

Also like mental health, voting doesn't solve the whole problem! But if you aren't doing this bare minimum thing, the other tools you have aren't going to work as well as they should either. If you get medicine and continue rotting in your room shitposting, you will probably still be miserable. If you get a union at work but don't vote for politicians who support unions, the union won't be able to advocate for its members as effectively and work will still be miserable.

[mikkeneko]

Voting is maintenance. It's like doing the dishes or cleaning the leaves out of the gutters. You're never going to get to a point where you are Done and Never Have To Do It Again (alas,) because time will continue to pass and you will continue to eat meals and the trees will continue to drop leaves into your gutters and right wingers will continue to submit bad bills to every session of congress.

You'll never be done with maintenance. But if you don't do that maintenance, your situation can and definitely will get Worse

[foxofninetales]

[constant-state-of-self-discovery]

Finally a take on the 'vote or else' shit I can vibe with. It's currently like showering with dysphoria- miserable and annoying with no real positive outcome past the current state not rapidly getting worse, but that's better than the alternative of things rapidly getting worse

[prokopetz]

It just occurred to me that all those B- and C-sides that are set up so that you can reach the end and beef it at the last moment because you aren't correctly positioned to dash into the heart are literally the Celeste version of Maddy Thorson's strange obsession with ending Super Mario World kaizo levels with obnoxiously positioned up-pipes.

[prokopetz]

Shout-out to the person in the notes who apparently honestly didn't realise that the Maddy who keeps submitting unhinged troll levels to the kaizo Super Mario World races at GDQ events is the same Maddy who made Celeste.

[aokozaki]

Allegedly.

[prokopetz]

Levels of Maddy Thorson awareness:

Has never heard of Maddy Thorson

Knows that Maddy Thorson made Celeste

Knows that the Maddy Thorson who made Celeste is the same Maddy who's responsible for all those Super Mario World meme hacks at GDQ

Knows that Maddy Thorson is the creator of An Untitled Story (2007)

Knows that Maddy Thorson arguably originated the modern precision platformer genre with 2004's Jumper

[prokopetz]

(Point 3 isn't just there to be cute, incidentally. If you're like "well, I knew about 2, 4 and 5", then you have a very serious gap in your understanding of Thorson's work. Hell, without the Kaizo Mario shit I'd argue that it's straight up impossible to fully understand what's going on design-wise in Celeste!)

[treefrogsoup-deactivated2026042]

An untitled story rolled out a tree and cracked, so Celeste could have a tiny pride flag in the corner.

[prokopetz]

The funny thing about trying to retrospectively interpret An Untitled Story as as trans allegory is that not only was it made a solid decade before the Thorson figured out she's trans, it was made before the term "egg" as slang for a trans person who doesn't yet know they're trans had been popularised. The fact that it has you playing as a literal egg and a major mid-game powerup involves collecting a blue orb that causes you to hatch into a chick is apparently just a huge coincidence.

[ishootcops]

[bleedingedgeavoidancetactics]

If this is true for you, you grew up in the greatest period of tech literacy. Which is awesome! Schools literally stopped teaching children the basics because there was a 10 year period where students did better than teachers, so it was a great spot to cut spending. Now, we have teachers who assume kids know technology, students who don't have exposure to anything except their phones (Chromebooks are big phones from a software perspective, so a lot of free laptop programs double down on the problem), and a world of technology that they haven't been exposed to.

Be the change, not the smug guy in the back saying "back in my day".

[fipindustries]

>be me, massive egg

>kind of a 6/10, mid looking, glasses, nerdy clothes, scruffy beard, baggy eyes

>have a type that i have to hots for

>gothy wth bangs, slightly chubby

>egg cracks, transition, dye my hair, change my fashion style, gain weight do to eating healthier

>mfw i became my type

>always was a little bi but now with hormones i start developing more of an attraction for men

>find out i like nerdy, scruffy guys with glasses and baggy eyes

>mfw past me is now my type

>wtf

[heyitschartic]

[fatsexybitch]

transgirls are out here doing some kinda parthenogenesis

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

re: censorship discourse

yeah yeah obviously try to be the kind of parent or guardian whose kids feel safe coming to you when they’re confused or disturbed by stuff they read in books but also oh my god don’t get weird about it if they don’t want to talk to you about sex scenes. I can just about guarantee that there’s nothing your kid could read that would be more traumatizing than being cornered and pressured to do talk therapy so you can pat yourself on the back for being a Cool Parent™️.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

when I was 9 I was reading one of the Tortall books and paused to casually ask what “rape” meant and my mom Sat Me Down to Talk About What I Read and I was like well forget I fucking asked and started carrying a pocket dictionary on me wherever I went specifically to avoid having this kind of forced adult intervention ever again

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I gotta be real I think if a parent had said that to me unprompted I would have faked my death and moved to the other side of the world to avoid ever speaking to them again.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

Maybe other people weren’t as proud or as sensitive to condescension as I was as a child, but if someone had observed me reading a book of my own volition and just assumed, without any input from me at all, that I Needed Help Processing It, I would have felt deeply betrayed and offended and would not feel comfortable going to them in the future if I ever did need help processing what I’d read. I’d immediately have switched to hiding books and keeping secrets.

Obviously making sure your kid is informed about sex and consent and abuse is important but I really don’t think that benevolent policing of their internal reading experiences is going to do anything but backfire and damage their ability to trust you.

[jiokuy-k]

Children go to their parents unprompted if they need it, it's like 70% of being a child. The only time they stop doing that, is if they've been taught not to. usually unintentionally. The way to encourage children, especially yours, to come to you when they need help, is to be someone they can come to when they need help. so you don't need to proactively offer anything.

[theconcealedweapon]

I see a lot of posts saying "teach boys about consent".

While that is true, a lot of parents will do that and fail to see how their own actions are the problem.

If you've spanked him, he's less likely to understand consent.

If you've forced him to sit on Santa's lap, he's less likely to understand consent.

If you've forced him to give hugs and kisses to family members, he's less likely to understand consent.

If you've grabbed him in order to force him to sit still, he's less likely to understand consent.

If you've labeled him as "too sensitive" for not wanting to be touched, he's less likely to understand consent.

If you've assumed he's okay with something because he technically allowed it even though he felt pressured, he's less likely to understand consent.

If you're only going to criticize his actions but not your own, it won't work.

[doberbutts]

I am a firm believer that it's not just what he experiences in his life, but what he witnesses too. Okay so you don't do any of those to him but you do those things to his sisters? His cousins? His mom? He is learning consent is for him hut not for women.

One of my sisters has young children, both of whom are some flavor of neurodivergent. She is too, and as a result she often lost patience quickly with some of their quirks. The biggest offender is that her kids are extremely wary around anyone they deem to be a stranger, making social connection very difficult for all participants.

When I first met her daughter, she was 3 or 4, and was extremely reluctant to come and meet me. My sister began to shame and push and pull her towards me and I stopped her. I said "don't force her, don't teach her that she has to let men she doesn't know touch her, she doesn't need to hug me"

My sister froze in place, processed it for a moment, and let her daughter go. She went back to hiding behind mom. We continued our conversation and her son slowly approached me, hugged me, and climbed up onto the chair I was in to sit beside me and partially in my lap. After a few minutes, her daughter joined him. She didn't hug me, but she came over to touch and talk to me.

My sister was speechless. Her kids DON'T do that. I've heard many complaints from many family members about how antisocial they are. All I did was stick up for their right to offer or withdraw consent- and really just her daughter's, as her son had met me pre-covid and had already gotten over the hurdle at 2 years old, but her daughter was born during covid and thus it made her severe distrust of strangers even worse.

Now her kids are in elementary school and making friends easily and I regularly get stories from her about how she witnesses them connect with other socially withdrawn kids and stand up for both themselves and their quieter friends. She took my advice to heart and started allowing them to voice whether they consented to something and now her little boy will approach a crying kid on the playground and say something like "do you want to play, or do you want me to just sit with you, or do you want to be alone?" and then actually listen to what the other kid tells him.

My niece has an incredibly traumatized boy in her class who escaped war with his family, and he doesn't talk to anyone. But he visibly relaxes when my niece goes to sit next to him when he's too scared and curled up in the classroom's Quiet Corner. She reads to him and shows him her toys and holds his hand on field trips and yells at anyone who is mean to him. I'm told she's the only person who can approach or touch him without causing a meltdown besides his family, and it started because the first time she sat with him she asked if it was okay if she did so and she waited several minutes for him to nod before she sat down.

But they still avoid the family members that forced them to interact even when they were uncomfortable. I still hear those complaints, hundreds of miles away, and the jealousy that I've only met the kids a few times but they talk incessantly about me. If I call one of my family members and the kids are over, I can hear them in the background trying to talk to me if they figure out it's me on the other line.

Anyway. Long story short I didn't have to advocate for my nephew the way I did my niece, but advocating for my niece in front of the both of them dramatically changed the way both of them were taught to manage social interaction. Consent isn't just about teaching the boy. It's also making sure he sees that consent being practiced with everyone.

[whatbigotspost]

YES.

People who think consent is a topic of sexuality have missed the whole point.

The topic of consent is about being an autonomous human with a body and mind of your own. It needs to be role modeled, respected, and taught from birth and should extend into every part of life.

[ayeforscotland]

The Onion pulling zero fucking punches.

[cryptognomicon]

So this is a fun fact. I apparently went to high school with the Onion’s managing editor. Didn’t really know him then; it was a big high school, though stands to reason that we had people in common.

Anyway, I saw him at our high school reunion recently, and I told him that I really really appreciated that the Onion did this. He got kind of quiet and said that they weren’t sure if they should make it, because IIRC none of them were trans, and they weren’t sure it was their place. It felt kind of nice to say that, no, literally every trans person I know who saw this appreciated the hell out of it.

I might hate many things about my home state, but it has produced some truly wonderful people.

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It is Journalism's Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible" bit.ly/3S5Lh6r

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"Quentin" is a 14-year old assigned female at birth who now identifies as male against the wishes of his parents. His transition was supported by one of his unmarried teachers, who is not a virgin. He stole his parent's car and drove to the hospital, where a doctor immediately began performing top surgery on him. Afterward, driving home drunk from the hospital, Quentin became suicidally depressed, and he wonders now, homeless and ridden with gonorrhea, if transitioning was a mistake. We just made Quentin up, and that's okay. It doesn't mean stories like his aren't potentially happening everywhere, constantly. Good journalism is about finding those stories, even when they don't exist. It's about asking tough questions and ignoring the answers you don't like, then offering misleading evidence in service of preordained editorial conclusions. In our case, endangering trans people is the lodestar that shapes our coverage. Frankly, if our work isn't putting trans people further at risk of trauma and violence, we consider it a failure.

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Article link:

It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible

The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions

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Every line is gold

It is against free speech to stop us from fixating on the genitals.

Research shows that trans people are over four times more likely than cisgender people to be the victim of a violent crime. We salute our colleagues across the media who are working tirelessly to make that number even higher.

[nakamatoo]

I'll be the one to neutralize Kaiju no 8

[imagination]

There is nothing prettier than a city at 5 am with it’s empty streets and cold wind.

[theauspolchronicles]

Labor's latest housing policy: EVEN MORE TAX BREAKS FOR PROPERTY INVESTORS SO THEY CAN BUILD UNAFFORDABLE APARTMENTS!

Labor says Greens disagreeing over this means they're not really in favour of helping renters - but that's a lie. Greens are constantly fighting for Labor to actually help renters, and for some stupid reason Labor insists on focusing on helping landlords get richer and saying that should count as helping. It doesn't.

[theauspolchronicles]

Meanwhile, Labor is trying to sew division and lie about how this is playing out by pretending Liberals and Greens are one in the same.

Liberals don't like the buy to rent scheme because it appeals to foreign investors and attacking foreigners is Liberal tactics 101.

Greens don't like it because it's tax breaks to help wealthy landlords make even more profit off an unregulated market that allows rents to skyrocket at the whim of those landlords.

Labor is trying to tell you Greens are getting in the way of helping renters because they know ONLY Greens care about renters and if everyone realised that then Labor voters would switch over to the real progressive party in Australia.

Labor is worsening the housing crisis for the sake of throwing their political opponents under the bus and trying to convince you they're the heroes while your rent goes up and up and up under their policies.