KALIMBA SLIM

[goawfma]

i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

[blatterpussbunnyfromhell]

Moroccan architecture (specifically, amazigh from Chefchaouen)

Post-colonial Algerian architecture (Algiers and Constantine):

Mozabite architecture (from Ghardaia, Algeria):

[lady-hibiscus]

>post by a person of color giving insightful commentary on racism

>opens notes

[ooppo]

I wish humans had monkey tails (most likely tail we'd have ngl) because it would be so cute. There's an alternate world out there where people are dying their tails and buzzing patterns into them and getting tail accessories and tail piercings. God could you imagine

[ooppo]

Does anyone else understand

[catboybiologist]

Honestly this is a bit stream of consciousness off another post of mine but this deserves its own post.

It's weird that there are transphobic conceptions of trans women predating on both cis men and cis women, and only the latter is consciously recognized as transphobia in many circles. Even though the former has YEARS of media and irl precedent of the "deceptive transsexual" archetype behind it, and is used to justify violence against us or imprison us more frequently.

Which, I do think ties into the compulsion to overuse the term "TERF", portray transphobes as "feminists that went too far", and drive a wedge between trans activism and feminism, two movements that have great benefit to each other.

Which is all misogyny. Both transmisogyny and old school misogyny.

[sleepyquietgirl]

I feel like I am taking crazy pills

[capricious-frog]

I couldn't believe this was true so I had to double check and I found multiple articles talking about it. We live in a comedy sketch.

Here's the link to the article of the photo:

Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’

Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

[kayla-denker]

Remember that time in 2016 that Harry Potter fans defaced the dolmen a Casa dos Mouros, a 5,000 year old neolitic tomb?

So an actual grave and important piece of world heritage doesn't matter. But the fictional grave of a fictional character from their beloved racist, fatphobic, transmisogynistic, mediocre book series? That's what needs protecting.

[goldcrescent]

My new pet peeve is people completely misunderstanding the term Male Gaze and making the term female gaze based entirely on that misunderstanding

[goldcrescent]

the white boy of the month pushing his hair back and reading poetry for the camera is not the equivalent of the dehumanization of women in visual media by way of presenting them primarily as vessels for sexual gratification

[timeless-ninenine]

[patientlibrarian]

Says it all, doesn’t it?

🙄🙄🙄

[girlballs]

okay so. officially starting a ko-fi goal to help with moving costs (shipping my stuff, physically getting me there, covering a bit of rent) so i can live with my wife . goal is at $3k which i know is a lot to ask for help with but hopefully i shouldn't have to ask tumblr for help like this again barring some catastrophe

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[girlballs]

Hi chat this has become a bit more urgent, like "I need to move ideally in early/mid September, October at the latest" kind of urgent. Gonna be more annoying about reblogging this post

[literally-black-jesus]

It pisses me off when people only count people killed outside of camps for ice kill counts. No ice hasn't just killed 4 people this year. People have been dying in camps and no one's said anything about it. They should count too. We should remember them too. They're victims just like everyone else.

[zmpl]

Compulsory Aliveness by Tabitha Lean

[kayla-denker]

I first realized this when I had my first brush with near-suicide in 2020. All of a sudden the entire world, my whole family and all my friends, all jumped to action to stop me from ending my life. But where was that action as they all watched my life deteriorate and push me towords suicide? And each time I've fallen back towords suicide this same scenario has played out.

There's a word for stopping someone from dying but not stopping them from suffering. That word is "torture."

[saszor]

[ID in alt text]

"Tutorial" on how to draw an OC with dwarfism (well, some of it).

Boring tired disclaimer: Keep in mind that this is an introductory "drawing" "tutorial" and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. Which happens to be true for everything in general.

You are heavily encouraged to do your own research because this does not contain everything you should know before making a character with any type of dwarfism.

Consider supporting me on ko-fi if you find this to be helpful.

If (when) you repost this on pinterest at least put a link to the original post somewhere..

[vanglaggle]

notice how they're always talking about fat boys but the second you mention fat girls it's a fetish

[tzikeh]

More examples of the WORST mansplaining here.

[useyourblinker]

This might be my favorite

[lotsofcatsandcheapwine]

This is mine

[stockyardsyndrome]

[soft--dogs]

artists, have you ever drawn something that’s just so extremely powerful and moving that you’re worried that for the rest of your life you’ll never be able to create another drawing that evokes that much emotion, that much feeling? that for as long as you live you’ll never be able to make something better, and anything you create afterwards is just a waste? anyway this is mine

[psychotic-gerard]

love seeing revisionism in the wild “free the nipple never meant you can walk around topless every where that’s still sexual harassment it just meant for like breastfeeding and stuff”no it literally means you should be able to walk around topless anywhere because get this. breasts aren’t fucking sexual organs.

[roguebombshell]

I remember when I was about 12, I watched a show on TLC that followed people as they got somewhat uncommon medical procedures.

There was one episode with a trans woman getting different gender-affirming operations, including breast implants. It showed the procedure, and (what I found so fascinating that it's stuck with me for decades), as soon as the doctor put the implant in, a censor blur popped up on the nipple.

And you just know there was a meeting between the TLC lawyers and the editors and producers of the show to discuss what the difference was between a "man nipple" (can be shown) and a "woman nipple" (no no must obscure, 'tis naughty). And they decided that as soon as the implant goes in and the nipple has more mass behind it, that's the moment when it becomes a woman's nipple and must be hidden to comply with TV rules.

But it's the same nipple. On the same person. I know what it looks like; I just saw it. But TV and obscenity rules are rules, and the rules say woman nipple = sexual and therefore explicit, but man nipple = neutral, just fine.

"Free the Nipple" was calling out arbitrary bullshit like that, because someone just existing with their body parts should not be considered obscene, and the double standard that men can be topless but women can't is so blatantly ridiculous. All nipples are just nipples. If you get turned on or bothered by them, that's on you.

[jacobwren]

"But AI can't do your job. It can help you do your job, but that doesn't mean it's going to save anyone money. Take radiology: there's some evidence that AIs can sometimes identify solid-mass tumors that some radiologists miss, and look, I've got cancer. Thankfully, it's very treatable, but I've got an interest in radiology being as reliable and accurate as possible. If my Kaiser hospital bought some AI radiology tools and told its radiologists: "Hey folks, here's the deal. Today, you're processing about 100 x-rays per day. From now on, we're going to get an instantaneous second opinion from the AI, and if the AI thinks you've missed a tumor, we want you to go back and have another look, even if that means you're only processing 98 x-rays per day. That's fine, we just care about finding all those tumors." If that's what they said, I'd be delighted. But no one is investing hundreds of billions in AI companies because they think AI will make radiology more expensive, not even if that also makes radiology more accurate. The market's bet on AI is that an AI salesman will visit the CEO of Kaiser and make this pitch: "Look, you fire 9/10s of your radiologists, saving $20m/year, you give us $10m/year, and you net $10m/year, and the remaining radiologists' job will be to oversee the diagnoses the AI makes at superhuman speed, and somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it's catastrophically wrong. "And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist's fault, because they are the 'human in the loop.' It's their signature on the diagnosis." This is a reverse centaur, and it's a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it's what Dan Davies calls an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes. This is another key to understanding – and thus deflating – the AI bubble. The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. This is key because it helps us build the kinds of coalitions that will be successful in the fight against the AI bubble." - Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI

[lesvegas]

you can only reblog this if you're not racist

[towerologia-sideblog]

huge coming from the site who is so against black art that 'tumblr users are afraid of rap' has been a meme for the best part of a decade. You know that yall are 4channers with pronouns right?

[lesvegas]

addendum: you can only reblog this if you're not racist part 2