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apparently u can't add polls to posts from 12 years ago so i'm screenshotting it
what "level" are you
egg
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UNHOLY OFFSPRING OF LIGHTNING AND DEATH
I really should stop arguing with this terf but like...
What in the world is red on?
I said that everyone should have access to the same opportunities.
Does... Does Red think that any minorities that are being discriminated are inherently worse people / at least performing inherently worse?
What?
"Women can do everything a Y chrome (sic) can"?? Well, first of all, not having a Y chromosome is not a defining factor for womanhood, even IF we limit it to cis women. Second of all, yeah, mostly we can? What is limiting us mostly isn't biology, it's being held down systematically by patriarchal structures of society. (Periods still suck tho, but they're not causing us to get paid less for the same work, they just make doing the same work even more annoying)
"and minorities can do all the same too" Uh, yes, definitely they can, unless the minority we're talking about are literally disabled people. For all other minorities the reason they on average don't get as far in life is that they have to jump through 20 hoops of discrimination, not that being gay or having a certain skin color or whatever else makes them less capable. For disabled people there actually are objective factors making things more difficult PLUS jumping through 20 hoops of discrimination.
DEI isn't there to counteract individual minority people's personal failings, it's there to try to counteract the societal structures failing *them*
Red is (probably accidentally) showing a hell of a lot of -isms they have here. Jeez
Wanted to draw this for quite a while and finally did it.
Not everything quite as I wanted it, but I am pretty happy with it.
Tried to do a proper scan, but my scanner does not like the high saturation, high contrast situation that is going on, lol
I have no idea what the german text says (neither the czech title tbh)
*yelling* NEN!!!
@nencheese
Quick translation with some liberties:
"This wonderful and strange bird
The kind of which has never been seen
Painted(?) bird came flying in the city of Paris
At 4 in the evening it flew into the mayor's window and all heard that it was a (can't make it that word) of god"
My rough translation would be:
"This wondrous and strange bird, the likes of which have never been seen Said bird came flying in the city Paris, in the evening at 4 o' clock. At the governor's it flew in through the window and from there it is heard it was an act of providence from God."
The word you have as 'painted' I think is 'Bemelter', which is an older form of 'besagter' And the word you couldn't make out is "Schickung", I think.
I definitely might be a bit off though, that German is a wee bit outdated, lol
"Schickung", of course! It's obvious from context but the letters just wouldn't cooperate for me XD
Oh, I also stared at it for a solid minute or so, lol
And for the 'Bemelter' I just flat out googled it :D (as in, those were the individual letters I thought there were and I went 'is that actually a word?' and since it was and it made sense in context I assume I guessed the correct letters)
I have no idea what the german text says (neither the czech title tbh)
*yelling* NEN!!!
@nencheese
Quick translation with some liberties:
"This wonderful and strange bird
The kind of which has never been seen
Painted(?) bird came flying in the city of Paris
At 4 in the evening it flew into the mayor's window and all heard that it was a (can't make it that word) of god"
My rough translation would be:
"This wondrous and strange bird, the likes of which have never been seen Said bird came flying in the city Paris, in the evening at 4 o' clock. At the governor's it flew in through the window and from there it is heard it was an act of providence from God."
The word you have as 'painted' I think is 'Bemelter', which is an older form of 'besagter' And the word you couldn't make out is "Schickung", I think.
I definitely might be a bit off though, that German is a wee bit outdated, lol
"Pride month is over"
WRONG! Your pride month is over! Me and all the other disabled queers are having pride month two: disability edition
Reblogging this again bc people in the notes are asking a lot of "Am I included? Am I disabled if I have x?" and I just wanted to add the flag here to show people who the pride month is for.
This is the new flag, the old one was more vivid and in a z shape, but it's been made more neutral to be inclusive of people with seizures or sensory issues.
Each stripe represents a different aspect of disability:
Red: Physical disabilities
Yellow: Cognitive & intellectual disabilities
White: (And this is the key one I think) Invisible AND undiagnosed disabilities
Blue: Mental illnesses
Green: Sensory disabilities
If you're autistic or have ADHD? this is your pride month. If you have a mental illness, it's your pride month. If you're hard of hearing, this is your pride month. If you have an autoimmune disorder, this is your pride month. If you are not diagnosed with anything but you know something is up with you: THIS IS STILL YOUR PRIDE MONTH.
"'Nanna, do you have an interface for Janity? She lost hers.' Apparently the juvenile's name was Janity so I updated my tags."
So, something I realized while listening to Platform Decay again (the murderbot series are my emotional support audiobooks to fall asleep to - nobody tell it):
Murderbot still does not fucking read it's client¹ files!
At first I thought it might be sort of waiting for Janity to introduce herself, like Tula had, for it to call her by her name, but no, it updates the tags as soon as it learns her name. From Farai.
Now, how does Farai know Janity's name? Farai and Janity are only ever physically together in spaces where Murderbot's drones can listen, so we know Janity didn't tell Farai herself. She also couldn't have told Farai via the Feed, because -see above- Janity didn't have an interface at this point.
Hypothetically Farai and Leonide could have had a talk about their respective children at some point before Murderbot came for the rescue, but I don't feel like that is something Leonide would have done. The whole interaction between Leonide and her captives seemed very pragmatic and Leonide has taken great care to keep her children out of the dangerous bits of her life.
The much more straightforward explanation is that Farai knows the children's names from Leonide's file. And why wouldn't their names be in the file? There's a codeword for potential rescuers to identify themselves to her family, not also giving the rescuers the names of the rescuees seems... unlikely. So, conclusion, if Farai does know the names and Murderbot doesn't:
Murderbot. did not read. the file. in it's entirety. Again!
¹ Granted, they're not technically clients, Murderbot just got maneuvered into their rescue by Leonide, but that's beside the point.
Hey, you, cis girl that's very (correctly) vocal about women being allowed to talk about their periods, do you include trans women in that?
I ask because every single time I've tried to talk about it to anyone that isn't a trans woman they get fucking angry. Which has caused me to have to just suffer in silence every single month. So I really relate to cis women when they talk about literally the exact same thing; being shamed by everyone around them their whole lives for talking about their periods, so they just suffer in silence every month as it negatively impacts their work and social lives. But I don't even feel like I can voice that I am literally dealing with the same exact thing because most of y'all react like you want to throw me in front of a bus for saying it, even those of you who act like your such big great transfem allies.
I guess I'll take this opportunity to talk about trans women periods. The first thing any tme person thinks when they hear this is always "how can trans women have periods? They don't have uteruses!"
The answer is: the uterus isn't what causes your period, it is effected by your period. What causes your period and what causes trans women's periods is the same thing: the endocrine system.
HRT changes the sex of your endocrine system. Feminizing HRT makes it a female endocrine system, giving us a 28-day hormone cycle just like cis women. At the end of that cycle, the hypothalamus floods the body with prostaglandins. Those are what cause all but one of the period symptoms, because they make muscles inflame and contract. They are what make the uterus shed its lining, they are what cause intestinal cramps, they are what cause body aches, they are what cause headaches and migraines. The only period symptom not causes by the release of prostaglandins throughout the body is depression, and that is caused by your endocrine system simply not processing as much estrogen and from simply feeling like shit.
So, the only symptoms trans women don't get every 28 days is menstrual cramps, because yes we do not menstruate since we don't have uteruses. But migraines, depression, body aches, intestinal cramps, and the infamous "period shits" don't exactly add up to us having any better of a time. Except we have to pretend that we're fine and nothing is different because no one believes that we get periods, not even cis women.
"But you can't call it a period then because that refers to MENSTRUATION!" is another one I hear all the time. This is incorrect. You use the word "period" instead of just "menstruation" because it doesn't just refer to menstruation. It refers to a period at the end of the hormone cycle where we experience a host of symptoms. And not all cis women experience all of the symptoms that encompass the period. Not all cis women get migraines, or body aches, or have severe depression. If a cis woman gets a hysterectomy she doesn't menstruate either! In that instance she experiences an identical period to what trans women experience. Yet, I doubt you'd insist that cis women who've had hysterectomies don't have periods.
Oh, another thing that I personally discovered after bottom surgery: vaginal odor changes for trans women during our periods too. I was not expecting that because I always thought it was just from menstruation. But nope, the ph levels of a trans woman's vagina are the same of as a cis woman's vagina, and it changes during our periods just the same.
I wonder if changing the wording from 'period' to 'cycle' might help a little with the reactions? (I mean, for some people nothing will change that reaction, but one can't cater to those)
Because 'period' in a lot of contexts just is used synonymous to the blood part. When my gynecologist asks me when my last period was he wants to know when my body last ejected some uterine lining¹, not when my body last changed its opinion on whether or not all water molecules on earth should ideally be stored in my legs. So I kind of get why people might get a 'hold up' moment there.
But I'll believe the actual symptoms bit in a heartbeat. Because as someone with PMOS (recently renamed from PCOS), who has had to take years going through like 5? 6? different kinds of hormonal birth control to find one that would not majorly fuck me up in some way or another² I am intimately familiar with the fact that
hormones are a fucking menace.
¹ well actually he probably wants to know where in my cycle I am, but that is not what is getting asked. Also it technically isn't even a period in that sense with me, since I'm on hormonal birth control, so the blood is just an 'oh, we're not getting the extra hormones right now' of my body and not an 'oh, the egg didn't implant' - there is no egg...
² we got a fun variety pack to pick and mix from, including fun things like: worse depression symptoms, everything being so fucking emotional that I almost cried over a fairly dry news article on the bus, liver blood-work that had my doctor try to have a conversation about my alcohol consumption (which actually is close to zero), rapid weight gain, libido so thoroughly gone that for a bit I deadass forget it was a thing I used to have
Imagine you've got two toddlers.
You get up in the morning and realize they've both slept terribly and are cranky and tired from the start, but you have a full day ahead of you and won't be able to even let them nap today.
The toddlers get into screaming matches the entire day.
One toddler is tired and wants to go home and have their stuffed toy and favorite blanket and everyone is mean and everything is too loud and terrible. The other toddler is boooooored and why is the other toddler so boring and why do we have to do stuff that is boring and go places that are boring and can we do interesting stuff now, PLEASE?!
And meanwhile you have to get groceries and drag them to a doctors visit that they both hate, so instead of screaming at each other they're now screaming at you.
Oh and you also have to go to work today and take the toddlers. Your coworkers get annoyed at you the entire day, because why are you so distracted all the time and why can't you just do the thing they asked you to do and why aren't you listening and what the hell is your problem, just focus for once! Your coworkers cannot see the toddlers. They just see you and you're clearly not doing enough and not trying hard enough and why are you so childish, you're an adult, grow up already!
The toddlers actually wake up like that every day. The toddlers will never grow up. You'll never get a babysitter for the toddlers, not even for a few hours. Sometimes, very rarely, you get lucky and they actually both want to do the same thing and you get a few, precious moments, where they're happy and things are quiet.
The toddlers are actually just both you and they're stuck in your head. You don't even know that not everyone has those toddlers, you just think you're failing terribly at raising yours and being a proper adult.
And that's what undiagnosed AuDHD is like, basically.
ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds
I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study
after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines
et voila
and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)
and now, the birds
Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus
Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius
hoo boy, ok *out of breath*
GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!
this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render
speaking of obnoxious coverts:
bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata
the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it
Madam....
birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female
pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr
*melts into goo*
BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus
genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??
nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)
in other news, I am losing my mind hairline
SHE'S DONE!!
Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis
my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on
this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏
*does a little jig*
BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos
the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise
ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!
Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹
aaaand another one bites the duck,
we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos
the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you
power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,
the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis
and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.
Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp
thanks for the reminder, kid
at long last, we've reached the end...
Bird number 14 out of 14,
The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius
thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.
i'll see y'all soon :')
This is so fucking cool!
Everyone you've ever had sex with gets put into the same room, and they're only freed once they figure out what they all have in common. How long will it take for them to figure it out?
Never. They are all tragically stupid.
Odds are low, they are very varied, but they might figure it out in under 24 hr
A few hours, tops. I have a type.
Unclear. There's very few of them.
Unclear. There's too many of them.
There are too many things they all have in common with each other.
Empty chairs at empty tables (never been fucked)
I've only slept with one person so this scenario can't apply to me
I'm too bald and vanilla to answer this. Results please.
Few hours tops, not necessarily because I have type, more because there's a couple really smart ones among them. Also quite a lot of them know each other already. They DON'T know that particular info about each other though.
There also might be one or more fistfights once they get it...
Birthday card I made for friends of mine
Any time someone starts some bullshit about how humans are hyperindividualistic and inherently selfish and exclusively motivated by self-intetest, I'll just tell them to go ahead and go do it then. Go live alone. Fuck off into the woods to make sure that no society ever benefits from your presence. See if you can teach yourself how to make a spear out of a rock or a shelter for one from nothing but your own wits and the nature around you. Go see how natural that feels, how happy it makes you to know that you don't need nobody and that nobody's life is improved by your presence.
