[kennator64]

Mech or ship thoughts, call it

I can feel it. Reactor's thrum Engine's roar. Force and momentum and armor sloughing away like rain into bright beautifully blazing beads tones and screams and lies whispered to both and the void and every tracker all at once to desperately convince them there's nothing here. or that there's something, but it's there, or there, or ove burning out truths, clouds of glittering diamond. a different kind of scream, blinding range, blinding ears. systems burning from use, heat unable to leave something snapping. something crashing something triggering something

Waking up to stare at a ceiling. A heart, beating, lungs that inflate. I get up, and go about being a small, frail thing.

[tahthetrickster]

just so we’re clear if you’ve never actually seen a cybertruck in person and have only seen photos of them i cannot stress enough how much worse they look in real life. like i honestly don’t know how it’s possible. most things look basically the same in pictures and in real life. but as stupid and ugly as cybertrucks look in photos, every person i’ve spoken to who has seen one in real life agrees that they somehow look even worse in person. and i know you’re thinking to yourself “tah they already look so bad in photos, how can they possibly look even worse in person?” I DONT KNOW. the first time i saw one on the road i was on a phone call and i literally cut myself off in the middle of a sentence just to be like “oh my GOD.” just an incredibly, laughably, unbelievably bad vehicle. i’ve never experienced anything like it. they’re just so bad

[kennator64]

see them kinda regularly in my area and yeah, nah, fuckin, HOW. Thing looks like a highschooler's project they built in a garage, on a good day.

[scruq]

This study is being done by Dr. Lisa Littman, Dr. Kenneth Zucker, and J. Michael Bailey. The same people behind the “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria” and other Transphobic pseudoscience. Do NOT give information to them via ayagdos, they have a long history of retractions and reported misconduct.

Report this ad wherever you see it. The fact that staff allows this kind of shit yet still turning a blind eye to everything else is just pure hatred.

Burden of Proof:

Scientists Behind the "Social Contagion" Myth Are Recruiting Trans Young People For Study, Community Leaders Warn

The project is called AYAGDOS—brought to you by the same names behind “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria” pseudoscience.

Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access

[thevulturesquadron]

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

[rudjedet]

And they're absolutely specifically pushing it, make no mistake. It's not just a matter of "it's there, it's convenient, so people are going to take the path of the least resistance", but it is a legitimate and concerted effort on the part of these companies to get people to outsource all these things to their models.

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.

AI companies are heavily invested in making themselves relevant. They want people to believe they can't do the things they have done unaided before and make them become reliant on the AI models, so the AI models' existence is artificially justified.

[systembomb]

Somebody give above a parenting award. Too many of us didn't get "failure is morally neutral" and it shows.

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[forcewild]

ragebaiting my fellow nonhumans by petting your fur/feathers/scales the wrong way.

[forcewild]

success.

[ratantics]

I needed to see this today.

[peachfromcmbyn]

People on Tumblr love sharing information about themselves no matter how asinine it is. And I'm the same way. Everybody tell me what the last thing you drank was.

[bluering8]

listen to me, this is so so important: you've gotta get used to really giving it your 60% as a default. like don't half-ass it necessarily but try not to go over 70% or so of an ass. you'll feel better and live a happier more fulfilled life, and on the rare occasions where you do need to lock the fuck in you'll be able to pull off bullshit that the sad miserable wretches giving it their 100% can never dream off, because they're busy draining themselves dry and you have energy reserves to spare.

[smokingchagga]

This is actually what I was adviced to do at the work rehabilitation program I went to. Hasn't left my mind since. 10/10 solid advice

[jjjandhermusicbank]

i really hate puritans alot

i get not liking porn or whatever, i get not being into sex stuff, its fine, thats okay. im not into alot of things too, thats fine. thats preference, everyone has it. some are into it, some are not, thats ok

what im not okay is when censorship gets involved, or when you mock it or tell people theyre disgusting for it. you say you're into liberal things, that you're into free speech and the likes, but god forbid you see a big boobie and all of the sudden you call it goonerslop? call us disgusting freaks? mock us on youtube? tell kids to go to adult sites just to harrass sex workers and porn artists? eat a fat one, you fucking cunt

you're just a christian preacher, "oh but im against religious stuff, oh but i have very liberal thoughts" no you dont

you either shut the fuck up about it or not even get into it. the moment you start screaming blasphemy over sex, the moment you start having a pissy fit because you see an exposed boob or a dick, you're walking down into a dark path that ends with facism

and i get it, the porn industry is fucked up, i get it, some people in the porn world is fucked up, we get it, we understand, that happens in all kinds of media, porn is just one of the many that tends to get into the darker half. maybe lewd things remind you of bad things, and thats ok, thats trauma, im not going to yell at you over it

but to just banish and censor them instead of like, i dont know, find ways to reform the industry or whatever?? thats fucking stupid

and i also get it, you dont want minors to access porn, thats fine, i draw porn for a living, i dont want those little shits to look at it too

but really? banning it all? hey parents, do you know how to raise your own fucking kids? you know how to have the talk? or do you need big brother to do the parenting for you?

im not saying porn should be everywhere, fuck no, boundaries exist for a reason, but saying porn should be nowhere is fucking dumb too.

to bunch up all the bad actors in porn and combine it into one big bad? to get all pissy over boobs and ass, to shit bricks just because someone is jorking one out? really? are we serious?

for many people, men, women, transfems, transmascs, whatever, porn is freedom, its a break to indulge into lewd fantasies, its a time to enjoy yourself, to discover yourself, to forget the world for a while. to not conform to rules and just let your wild side out for a while before returning back to the bleak world we all live in

censoring it just destroys one more vice, like alcohol, and we know that didn't end well for anyone. you know what might happen if we ban porn? make it illegal? congrats, you just made porn worse by putting it in the black market with no regulations or boundaries! would you kill someone for a bottle of whiskey? would you kill someone for a porn magazine?

banning porn might not even fix anything, it might make things worse. we all know how much people love using loopholes to shut others up. we all know how much people love using loopholes to ruin other peoples lives

proper education, good parenting, and a basic idea of "shutting up and let people be happy" will always triumph over the government controlling your every fucking movement

why are you so scared of a basic human urge?

why are you so scared of a dick going inside someones ass?

why are you so scared, to the point that you want to destroy it and censor it from ever existing to begin with?

whos afraid of dicks, tits, and cunts?

whos afraid of red, blue, and yellow?

[emptypanelcomics]

reblog of this old rant i made

[hemipenal-system]

dragon tip: a trans girl is a kind of hatchling you can put under your wing and keep warm and she’s very soft and smooth

[hemipenal-system]

trans girl tip: if a dragon lays down and puts a big wing over you, when she sticks her head under and goes ^V^ at you, reach up and pet her snout! she’ll make a very cute happy trilling sound

[hemipenal-system]

dragons who are very protective of trans girls because those are our temple priestesses damnit

[hemipenal-system]

dragons can’t be regal and stately and imperious ALL the time. sometimes the Great Scaled One really wants a shy veiled girl to scritch behind her frills for a few minutes and wants some privacy to be scritched, or perhaps she wants to curl up in her nest with a soft warm thing that smells nice. what are priestesses even FOR if you can’t do that

[weaver-z]

How the media depicts the Apollo 11 mission:

Actual quotes from the Apollo 11 mission:

[georgieharrisons]

also according to michael collins when the three of them were discussing what neil armstrong should say when he first stepped on the moon, collins suggested armstrong say “Oh, my God, what is that thing?”  and then scream and cut out his mic.

[little-scribblers-heart]

Everyone forgets Michael Collins and it’s fucking tragic.

[qqchurch]

obsessed at how she properly ties up her hair then drags the tie down for the Style alskgfnfsdkafnalknskd

[kennator64]

Not familiar with the anime it's from but do that all the time to just, have it back but not tight. Easier to do it up high then slide it down. Lets it still breathe more than just down without pulling and shit. (also it's better for your hair for longish durations.)

[anarchocommunist-nosferatu]

“It’s easier for trans women to pass/be stealth!!”

“It’s easier for trans men to pass/be stealth!!”

Actually it’s easier for people with very specific bodies (white, thin, average height) with large incomes and supportive families to transition medically in a way which is more likely to conform to strict ideas of ‘man’ and ‘woman’

I swear every time I see someone try to make the argument for one of us having it better they exclusively either cite celebrities (again, see white, rich, thin) or assume that the people they know irl are representative of every trans person.

It also begs the point that YOU DO NOT KNOW IF SOMEONE IS STEALTH UNLESS THEY TELL YOU. No one actually knows how many trans people successfully live as stealth.

Most of the passing trans people I know personally are women, but most of the trans people I know to be stealth are men. I also know far more trans women than I do trans men. Not to ignore the fact that these arguments completely erase non binary people who are pressured to just pick a binary gender to ‘pass’ as because it is functionally impossible to be a ‘stealth’ non binary person.

It is completely possible to have important conversations about the specific oppressions that different kinds of trans people face without framing one group as being completely objectively better off. Stop trying to pit us against each other. It isn’t easy for *anyone* to be trans in this world.

[t4t4t]

Reminder that "movement is medicine" isn't a "vegan hippie phrase" but something actual physical therapists say all the time, and that nothing improves lifespan like flexibility and muscle strength. Strong is a better goal than thin in every way.

[puppygirllaika]

I'm not experienced enough to speak authoritatively of this, but I feel like if you're doing RACK stuff that's potentially harmful either physically or emotionally, both domme and sub alike should have people in their lives besides each other that they can talk to about it instead of just each other. People whom they can both trust to take it with the nuance and understanding it deserves, and to not treat it like an inherent reason to dissolve the relationship or spread information about it around. Like, if something bad happens, it's probably gonna fuck *both of you* up. and you might not have the capacity to be fully emotionally available to support each other through that right away. and having outside people to go to who you can trust to say "oof, i'm sorry that happened, I know you knew the risks but it still definitely sucks when things go sideways. let's get you healing up a bit so you can discuss it with each other safely and figure out how to move forward." seems kinda important. It feels like an important part of addressing those risks.