[ayeforscotland]

Tumblr is doing some stupid AI shit so go to blog settings > Visibility > Prevent third-party sharing.

[jondoe297]

also use Nightshade and Glaze to protect your artwork and images!!!!

here's a link to Nightshade

here's a link to Glaze

best combination is usin Nightshade then Glaze on your images. Glaze creates a protective layer and Nightshade poisons the A.I. software.

[stupidpetface]

[virtualgirladvance]

[penelopepennington]

It's the Royal Academy of Art Young Artist's Summer Show. One of my favourite exhibitions of the year. Like. Not only are the older kids insanely talented, the younger ones' artist statements will just punch you right in the face.

Jeffrey is my cat and he feels like my heart

Click [here] for the full online exhibition

[occupationalperspective]

[jaffacake6]

[ID: A TikTok from MollyBurkeOfficial showing a woman with a cane for the visually impaired in front of a sign labelled "Female Ambulant Toilet" with braille and a braille-labelled diagram below.

She goes on to describe her problems using public bathrooms as a blind person and how the sign is incredibly useful, gesturing at relevant parts of it.

Audio transcript: "I'm at the Guide Dog Centre here in Australia. This is a legend, a tactile and braille map of the bathroom right outside the door.

Do you want to know what the hardest part of my day is as a blind person? Because it's probably not what you expect. It's not the fact that I can't drive, though it's not ideal. It is the fact that public bathrooms are all designed differently.

Do you know how stressful it is when I have to pee in public on my own? My boyfriend leaves me at the door of the women's room and I have to walk into the great unknown. Is there going to be a line? Where in line am I I'm supposed to stand when I find the toilet?

Well, first off, when I'm with my guide dog, I need the accessible stall, so I have to feel my way to the big stall. Then I get there, hopefully it's open. If not, I stand, I wait. Again, I have to find where is the toilet paper? Where is the toilet? I have to hope to God it's clean because I can't see it. Then I have to find the flusher.

Is it a pull? Is it automatic? Who knows? Then I have to find my way to the sinks. Where is the soap? Where is the dryer? Hello, we have found the solution. Up here, it says female and ambulatory toilet map.

Then it tells me A, T means it's the ambulatory, which means it's the larger accessible stall. T means toilet. Down here we have D means dryer. Then I go here and I know that this stall would be the one that my guide dog and I would use because this is the A, T, the bigger stall.

Next to it, the two ones to the right are both normal-sized toilets. Down here, we have D, so this means it's the dryer for drying my hands. We have B, S, and B, which means I now know if I'm at the sinks, the soap is in between the two basins. I want this.

I know, look, here, I walk in the door, so I immediately orient myself. Toilets are right in front. I would go far left. Right next to the door is going to be my sinks. This is a game changer. This is a game changer.

I want these everywhere. This is my plea. My next campaign, How to make toileting more accessible." End ID]

[rustmarty]

the way everything is so male centered when is the last time there was a lesbian movie in theaters

[waitafrikk]

i hate when a book describes a pause as pregnant. get your dick out of the pause

[lunyselene]

terry pratchett is the only person who actually knew how to use a pregnant pause

[toroprincess]

What do i even do .

[tragicburnout]

[iris-of-the-lambs]

toph in the new atla movie...can i get a hell yeah

[eraserheadadult]

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this

[its-always-sunny-in-city17]

[dramatic-dolphin]

and if i said nolan's odyssey starring no greek actors and with no recognizable aspects of greek culture or involvement by greeks, is the direct legacy of white supremacist colonialism that treated ancient greece as not just the pinnacle of ancient culture, but of an artificially created "european" culture, which white western europeans and their settler descendants, as the new pinnacle of culture, were the sole spiritual inheritors of.

[kayleerowena]

new on my bonfire shop: alongside all my usual ghosty wares, there's also now some cool my chemical romance-inspired shirts! (if people buy enough of them maybe i'll be able to go see mcr when they're in my city next summer?)

kaylee rowena | shirts for ghosts | Bonfire

comic artist, illustrator, & fan of ghosts.

[the-tired-tenor]

So uh….some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.

Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!

[adv3nturelust]

Give credit to the 30-year-old who worked on this for free and offers this service for free!

[marsh-mallow-adopts]

WHAT?!

[triona-tribblescore]

I study graphic design and my tutor recommended and used this in his classes at art college last year, it’s so good it has SO many features for free, I really recommend it, even if you’re just trying to learn the basics of PS, such a wonderful thing <3

[naamahdarling]

I use this and it’s fucken great. No bullshit. Really works. Sometimes the world is kind.

[our-queer-experience]

helen “trans people are perpetuating gender steriotypes” joyce is now upset that the scientific american is writing about how women were hunters too back in the day, not just mothers and caretakers. feminist win!

[the-gummy-worms-have-me]

I think I found the article!

The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong

The influential idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not isn&rsquo;t supported by the available evidence

Read it if you have the time, it's very interesting.

[mikkeneko]

Reading the article I see why TERFs are mad about it; it explicitly makes the distinction between gender as a social entity and sex as a biological category, and defines biological sex having multiple factors, both of which are anathema to TERF philosophy.

It also includes these fascinating paragraphs about the role of estrogen in different types of physical activity, directly debunking the widespread notion that estrogen is the weak human's hormone and only does weak human things:

Given the fitness world's persistent touting of the hormone testosterone for athletic success, you'd be forgiven for not knowing that estrogen, which females typically produce more of than males, plays an incredibly important role in athletic performance… The estrogen receptor—the protein that estrogen binds to in order to do its work—is deeply ancient. Joseph Thornton of the University of Chicago and his colleagues have estimated that it is around 1.2 billion to 600 million years old—roughly twice as old as the testosterone receptor. In addition to helping regulate the reproductive system, estrogen influences fine-motor control and memory, enhances the growth and development of neurons, and helps to prevent hardening of the arteries. Important for the purposes of this discussion, estrogen also improves fat metabolism. During exercise, estrogen seems to encourage the body to use stored fat for energy before stored carbohydrates. Fat contains more calories per gram than carbohydrates do, so it burns more slowly, which can delay fatigue during endurance activity. Not only does estrogen encourage fat burning, but it also promotes greater fat storage within muscles… which makes that fat's energy more readily available. Adiponectin, another hormone that is typically present in higher amounts in females than in males, further enhances fat metabolism while sparing carbohydrates for future use, and it protects muscle from breakdown. Anne Friedlander of Stanford University and her colleagues found that females use as much as 70 percent more fat for energy during exercise than males. Estrogen's ability to increase fat metabolism and regulate the body's response to the hormone insulin can help prevent muscle breakdown during intense exercise. Furthermore, estrogen appears to have a stabilizing effect on cell membranes that might otherwise rupture from acute stress brought on by heat and exercise. Ruptured cells release enzymes called creatine kinases, which can damage tissues… Linda Lamont of the University of Rhode Island and her colleagues, as well as Michael Riddell of York University in Canada and his colleagues, found that females experienced less muscle breakdown than males after the same bouts of exercise. Tellingly, in a separate study, Mazen J. Hamadeh of York University and his colleagues found that males supplemented with estrogen suffered less muscle breakdown during cycling than those who didn't receive estrogen supplements.

The article also talks about sexual dimorphism in different species, concluding that "Modern humans have low sexual dimorphism compared with the other great apes," and that overemphasis on averages obscures the wide dispersal of individual traits, which is what I keep saying.

[aethersea]

Anthropologists also look at damage on our ancestors' skeletons for clues to their behavior. Neandertals are the best-studied extinct members of the human family because we have a rich fossil record of their remains. Neandertal females and males do not differ in their trauma patterns, nor do they exhibit sex differences in pathology from repetitive actions. Their skeletons show the same patterns of wear and tear. This finding suggests that they were doing the same things, from ambush-hunting large game animals to processing hides for leather. Yes, Neandertal women were spearing woolly rhinoceroses, and Neandertal men were making clothing.

I also thought this part was cool :)

[segamascott]

[ka-hi-witchfinder]

i think im gonna start complaining in haiku so i feel less willing to focus on negative things.