would you rather be comfortable, or human?

kyle | it/he/any neos | 20 yrs old

[latestageyouth]

peopleare-overrated -> communist-tubbo -> thefallbylovejoy -> despairdiseases -> latestageyouth

my name is kyle (nebo hezky česky jarda) 😎 20 yrs old. i am a drug user and sometimes i post abt it, if youre uncomfortable with that dont follow me.

it/its + any neos. go wild go nuts. im white & european (czech republic). in czech: střední + mužský rod.

dd/lb sideblog @stickerbookdad filthblog @coldhotsteel

not welcome here:

⚠︎ terfs/anti conflicting labels/transmeds

⚠︎ anti objectum

⚠︎ umbrella academy fans + MCR/Gerard Way-centered fanblogs (personal reasons sorry)

[tlirsgender]

People use agab terminology like they don't know trans people are actually materially real and different from cis people of their assigned sexes Like at this point the crazy fucking misuse of the concept is just transphobic innit ? I feel like we're well past the "well intentioned but kind of clumsily worded" stage

[tlirsgender]

Like the thing about transness is that it's not just a vibes based ~identity~ thing we're actually for fucking real about being the genders we are. Afab/amab are not nouns they're something that happened to you as a baby. The idea that everyone of the same assigned sex has anything in common is patently absurd if you're not a transphobe

[latestageyouth]

euugghh its friday????? i thought it was saturday. fuck me. fuck me truly.

[iwannabeaswampwitch]

Lots of drama in our household

[byjove]

elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants than shrews

[trashbagscollection]

[byjove]

it’s shrew. I mean true.

[latestageyouth]

Love my mom but god please can she stop doing this shit its 3 am i cant live like tjis

[latestageyouth]

the activity 3 isnt even true

[latestageyouth]

HGGHGHHHH fucking piece of shit staff broke my stupid fucking custom theme AGAIN!!!!!!!!!§§§

[latestageyouth]

cotards syndrome nonbinary transitions into a skeleton

[carbomcoco]

"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

[carbomcoco]

they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.

[aphony-cree]

people always go "Instead of spending all that time on a study they could have just listened to us when we said these thing happen"

they did listen, that's how studies work, they asked people about their experiences and put all the data together in a nice package that can be cited

[lastoneout]

People forget studies typically start with a hypothesis and the hypothesis is usually "the people who deal with this are right about their experiences and we should listen to them"

[rah-moo-neh]

green tech 💚

[byjove]

I do not agree with veganism as a moral standard. If it is your personal moral stance, that is fine. If you think humans eating meat is inherently immoral, I don’t want to deal with you, you’re hopeless. Vegan ideology behaves more like a sect of evangelical Christianity than a dietary choice.

[literallycrashingoutrn]

Veganism is better for the environment, but claiming that it's a morally superior choice ignores cultural and economic factors that make people eat animal products.

[byjove]

It is not inherently better for the environment. That is the thing. When you begin trying to explain that local, sustainably sourced animal protein is better for the environment than imported plant proteins that are farmed 3,500 miles away using slave labor, they start tuning you out. Down is better for the environment than polyester stuffing, leather is better for the environment than pleather. We should work on making animal agricultural practices more sustainable instead of trying to shame everyone into eating plant products that are also farmed unethically and unsustainably.

[michaelwaev]

I really think we should stop saying "kid-friendly" and start saying "ad-friendly". We shouldn't indulge these companies and their excuses anymore. I also think that continuing to pretend that this is about "protecting the children" pushes a lot of the blame onto kids and teens, who don't have the political power to push through any of this censorship legislature. Corporations and governments are to blame.

[grimeclown]

I got a job at a gas station across from a casino and a guy keeps coming in to buy whole cartons of cigarettes and talks in the third person calling himself "snake eyes pete" and every time I tell him his total hes like "tell ya what if old Pete rolls a snake eyes why dont you give it to him for free?" and he rolls the same set of loaded dice on the counter and it does not matter how many times he rolls snake eyes I will not give him the cartons for free he gets so mad

[puppygirllaika]

I know that, as Americans, we live awash in a sea of anti-China propaganda and as such a lot of us on the left want to course correct and cut through the lies to stop seeing China as some great evil, and that is definitely a good instinct and desire, but in the process of unfucking ourselves from US propaganda it's important to not then immediately walk into supporting Chinese propaganda. I feel like I've seen more and more folks in my communities jump on the rather concerning trend of uncritically accepting Chinese news and the word of the Chinese government as the antithesis of Americas lies about the country, but the truth is that both the US and China are massive imperialist nations with major skeletons in the closet, whom have committed atrocities to attain and sustain their power, and who continue to exert their influence on the global stage in pursuit of their own ends, and who are constantly attempting to shape narratives about their own countries, their governments actions, and the world at large. Please apply the same critical thinking skills, skepticism, and standards you would hold US news to when talking about other large and influential nations, China very much included.

[puppygirllaika]

Hey real quick, can anyone tell me why i'm still trying to have honest, direct, good-faith discussions with people on the internet in the year of our lord 2026?

bonus ask from someone else:

[puppygirllaika]

girl... what?

[puppygirllaika]

okay having looked through about half of these videos just to be thorough, all of them seem to be pretty horribly researched/sourced and many make their arguments in extremely bad faith. I'm not going to try an argue individual points here, this is deeply unconvincing and i'm tired of this fight already.

If you seriously thought this vomit of youtube videos would be enough to prove that china should be some kind of exception to the idea that you should think critically about the news you read, especially when it's coming from major news networks that operate with the explicit or implicit support of their governments, then you're out of your mind. no government is beyond manipulation of the narrative. i genuinely do not get why this is inviting the kind of response that it is.

[puppygirllaika]

I've gotten a lot of messages asking why I'm not getting into specific pieces of propaganda, specific accusations, or responding to peoples points about individual events, or even why i blacked out the links in that last ask. The reasoning is that if i believe what I said, I should be willing to debate the particulars. And that's understandable.

The reason I'm not sharing the links and articles I'm being sent, nor debating the specific issues people in this post are bringing up, is because none of it matters to the point I'm making. All large organizations, all governments, all world powers, will inevitably try and shape the narrative of world events in their favor. That has always happened, and it always will, and that is why it's so important to take these grand narratives with a grain of salt. I don't believe there are any governments in the world that can claim innocence here, though the largest powers are those most guilty.

This post is not about debating the details of any one specific event. This is me saying, broadly, that in my circles i have noticed an uptick in stories minimizing China's faults and emphasizing their achievements based primarily or even solely on the word of sources i personally find unconvincing. I don't feel the need to wade deeper into those waters other than to remind folks to think critically and question the narratives of large organizations when reading the news.

People have responded to this by delivering unto me an onslaught of questionable "proof" delivered by individuals and organizations I neither know nor trust, many of which take hard line stances that the things China has been criticized for are complete fabrications (something which I do not believe to be the case based on the evidence I've seen and heard from both sides of this discussion). To debate these individual sources, these individual events or the veracity of specific accusations, is to ignore the point that, as the great lasagna lover tells us, you are not immune to propaganda.

I, for one, don't feel like platforming these people who read a call for better research and reading comprehension, and hear a leveled threat they must defend against. I am sincere in my call for critical reading. I am steadfast in my belief that very little, if anything, separates the people of America from the people of China, and likewise little differentiates the government of America from the government of China. People are exploited. Powerful organizations exploit. The narratives delivered to us are impacted by the power structures they exist within. I don't have a lot of faith in people who would try to convince me that one nation above all others is the exception.

[unwelcome-ozian]

[roach-works]

when i was getting trained as a welder the guys started playing sneaky grabass with each other and with me. i almost hit a few people while holding dangerous tools in my hand because they wouldn’t stop grabbing me from behind, then laughing that i ‘almost’ hit them, so i finally had to go to the instructor and say, look, i’ve had years and years of self defense training due the fact i’m a very small weirdo who is in legitimate danger of getting hatecrimed and at some point one of these guys is going to goose me again and im going to bury a wrench in his eye. get them to stop grabbing me, because i don’t want to get kicked out for hitting people.

the next day i ended up punching someone in the face with a doughnut in my fist because she thought i was being a big fucking buzzkill who tattled to teacher about a harmless game, and, guess what, grabbed my butt. i got icing all over her hair. she complained to teacher...who let everyone know that this was why they weren’t supposed to be playing grabass in the fucking shop.

anyway don’t fucking sneak up on twitchy little queers with hypervigilance, it fucking sucks and you’re lucky if you get a doughnut to a face instead of a hammer.

[kyraneko]

given that this was a welding class, I was expecting this to end up so much worse

[latestageyouth]

i think those 4tran4 ropefuel tgirls and lowkey terf-y hardcore misandrist tgirls should kiss. i think.