[principaliteas]

leftist goyim don't want to centre jews, the primary victims of the holocaust, in discussions about the holocaust because they would need to acknowledge this:

the world that allowed the holocaust to happen, this world, hasn't changed much. antisemitism didn't disappear when the camps were liberated. for thousands of years, jews have been targeted by anybody who needs a scapegoat - regardless of an individual's political affiliation or professed values.

if non-jewish progressives acknowledge jewish suffering, historical & modern, they might just need to do something about it. but then... they'll lose their scapegoat. we can't have that. so, what to do?

the obvious answer is historical negationism: to remove jews from the holocaust entirely. to reshape the shoah into a fable, a lesson, a unit of measurement. the holocaust follows every jew like a shadow & goyim appropriate our trauma to make shadow puppets. it's horrific.

[trans]

This has done more positive impact for the autistic community than any autism organization has.

[creekfiend]

gender essentialism is soooo funny bc it's like "this is what women are like" and you're like "I've met women and many of them, if not the majority, have not been like that" and it's like "well women SHOULD be like that" and you're like "why should women be like that" and its like "because that's what women are like"

[wiigiwaamcore]

european white gentile cottagecore enthusiasts when someone mentions the percentage of the eastern european countryside that used to be jewish before wwii.........

[wiigiwaamcore]

this is the michael chabon essay i mentioned in tags (this is also the origin story for his book The Yiddish Policemen's Union

In this Europe the millions of Jews who were never killed produced grand-children, and great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren. The countryside retains large pockets of country people whose first language is still Yiddish, and in the cities there are many more for whom Yiddish is the language of kitchen and family, of theater and poetry and scholarship. A surprisingly large number of these people are my relations. I can go visit them, the way Irish Americans I know are always visiting second and third cousins in Galway or Cork, sleeping in their strange beds, eating their strange food, and looking just like them. Imagine. Perhaps one of my cousins might take me to visit the house where my father's mother was born, or to the school in Vilna that my grandfather's grandfather attended with the boy Abraham Cahan. For my relatives, though they will doubtless know at least some English, I will want to trot out a few appropriate Yiddish phrases, more than anything as a way of reestablishing the tenuous connection between us; in this world Yiddish is not, as it is in ours, a tin can with no tin can on the other end of the string. Here, though I can get by without them, I will be glad to have the Weinreichs along. Who knows but that visting some remote Polish backwater I may be compelled to visit a dentist to whom I will want to cry out, having found the appropriate number (1447), eer TOOT meer VAY! What is this Europe like, with its twenty-five, thirty, or thirty-five million Jews? Are they tolerated, despised, ignored by, or merely indistinguishable from their fellow modern Europeans? What is the world like, never having felt the need to create an Israel, that hard bit of grit in the socket that hinges Africa to Asia? What does it mean to originate from a place, from a world, from a culture that no longer exists, and from a language that may die in this generation? What phrases would I need to know in order to speak to those millions of unborn phantoms to whom I belong? Just what am I supposed to do with this book?

[wiigiwaamcore]

@tzimtzum and also as a note for other people who are now encountering this post outside the context I made it in:

To clarify, I made the original post as part of a convo with some Native mutuals who were talking about a thing that has happened to us in the height of the Cottagecore Wars where our critiques of cottagecore as relying on a romantic notion of rural belonging that frequently verges on ethnonationalist were being “challenged” by white gentile Europeans in Europe who were like “oh but that’s just in North America, in actual Europe we didn’t conquer any Natives here so our cottagecore is fine” which. is not quite accurate.

I then tagged the post with a reference to the Chabon essay because when I first read it years ago, it was a particularly moving reminder of how the Holocaust derailed entire families and communities that otherwise could have continued to exist in Europe but no longer do. (I actually read the article originally because I was interested in his comments on minoritized languages—which I don’t totally agree with—but anyway long other story)

So it was mostly just a citation of where I was drawing that from. And then I decided to quote the essay bc it’s very poignant. Hopefully this helps anyone who in the notes who might be wondering about the context of this post!

[busket]

ice is beyond the pale of evil but we already knew that. I want to know why people reporting on this and stories like it wont say "trans men"

when discussing "transgender individuals" inside a "female detention center" who are being abused and told "arent you a man?" or "ill treat you like a man", those are trans men. call them trans men. they are not just "transgender individuals" or worse, "transgender inmates" or "transgender detainees". I also watched the video attached to this tweet, a news clip, and not once do they say the words "trans men". saying anything else is more insidious attempts at erasure and dehumanization

[parkchanwoohoo]

Inability to cope with humiliation (personal humiliation, gendered humiliation, cultural/historical humiliation, etc) is pretty much the tipping point for when you become an unhinged freak incapable of experiencing positive emotions, strong relationships, and proportional responses to anything. You become hopelessly fixated on correcting the humiliation, except you can't really do that without a time machine, so it just becomes an endless, borderline Sisyphean obsession as the more decoupled you become from consensus reality and norms of polite behavior the more humiliations you experience. The only other people who understand you enough to tolerate you are other lunatic people with similar chips on their shoulder who tell you you're doing a great job, funneling you further down this path until you can't so much as see like, clipart on a flyer without deriving a nightmarish Rorschach interpretation involving wholly imagined political implications, all the while convinced you're a Warrior For Your Kind

[parkchanwoohoo]

Guys I'm not saying the answer is "become immune to humiliation," "become impossible to humiliate" etc., this is a natural thing that will happen to everybody at some point in their lives, I'm saying learn to handle your bad feelings and discomfort instead of stewing over it until you let resentment consume you

[innerchildabortionclinic]

I don't think the ultra rich are uniquely depraved, but rather have the right amount of resources and audacity to act on depravity without consequence

Plus they're always going to receive more public attention when they are exposed because they have so many connections

Epstein for the middle class in the US is sex tourism, Epstein for the lower class in the US is the foster care system

[innerchildabortionclinic]

Most important. Even wealthy celebrities will sell out their kids to continue getting ahead.

[bijoumikhawal]

Two things I've also noted about the public reaction

1) multiple countries have a sex trafficker that mainly focused on minors and had wealthy clients, sometimes called "the Epstein of the Philippines/Jamaica/etc". Most people do not know who they are unless they're from those countries, and as such the idea that this is unique or unprecedented comes from lack of familiarity.

2) a lot of the fucked up things Epstein did and believed are things white Americans have been doing since the days when they were born in Europe. Grotesque sex trafficking and violence was integral to first contact in 1492. Sex crimes were regular occurances during the Trans Atlantic slave rrade. People thinking this is unprecedented and the result of the US being "controlled" or "corrupted" straight up don't listen to Black or Indigenous people. Epstein was your regular rich American white supremacist sex offender. (And because it must be said apparent fucking ly: he was not basing his supremacist attitudes or crimes on the Talmud. His own emails have him showing he doesn't understand why pigs aren't kosher, a question a child should be able to answer from even the most basic Jewish education. He probably never read the Talmud).

3) people commit sexual violence when they have power. People thinking that clients had to be blackmailed into committing sex crimes or later taking actions to preserve their power, wealth, and the current world system don't understand how abuse works or how people with extreme systemic privilege think. The royal family members that were clients would have found other ways to rape people (some of them did!), and still would have made reactionary political decisions to preserve power even if they'd never met Epstein. The American politicians are much the same.

[themysteriousthem]

some people need to relearn what words mean, i promise you trans men do not have systemic power over trans women. we don't even have systemic power over our own bodies. come the fuck on.

[tlirsgender]

We need to abolish child stars or at least not allow them to be on social media because teenagers do not need to be having their dubious political opinions & questioning their sexualities in front of millions of people. Nobody is happy about this and I don't need to know

[tlirsgender]

Child stars lately are just like "teenager from a netflix show that went steeply downhill after the first season weighs in on international conflict" or "pop star who's barely old enough to drink changes her mind about if she's a lesbian or not; is she the devil?" & honestly I don't think anyone in the world is benefiting from any of this

[tlirsgender]

They should be on a fully anonymous account and not doing interviews or anything until they're like. 25. Like the brain development thing has been debunked and all but jesus christ

[tlirsgender]

Teenagers practice Having Opinions like when toddlers start running and immediately smacking their heads full force into coffee tables & this is a necessary part of maturing but it does not need to be done extremely publicly under the scrutiny of think pieces and video essays n shit. Like yeah the child was wrong about something. Fork spotted in kitchen

[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.

[tim-official]

there's a lot of memeing about "walkable mixed-used neighborhoods" especially by people from the US to whom these concepts seem as impossible as "fully automated luxury communism" or whatever. but i live in a walkable mixed-use neighborhood and it fucking rules. no amount of money would make me move. there is this new strawman of the "obnoxious internet urbanist" who won't shut up about how bad cars are or whatever but the problem is that they (we) are 100% right about everything

[tim-official]

in the future, you will see the term "transit bro" or "urbanism bro" used disparagingly by lib bluesky posters who don't believe in anything. it is your moral imperative to attack anyone who thinks urbanism is some kind of elite, out-of-touch flight of fancy

[wolfertinger666]

very awesome that your OCD or autism or audio processing issues only come up when it comes to engaging with black art totally not suspicious at ALL.

[wolfertinger666]

love it when non black people weaponize their neurodivergency against black art despite the fact that black neurodivergent people exist and know it's all bs (For example: ME)

[wolfertinger666]

but seriously, don't be afraid to engage in black art or draw black characters please please don't be scared. black people get so happy to see us represented especially if it's positive

[petzah394]

People will say they can't listen to rap cause of auditory processing disorder then listen to vocaloids that are so poorly tuned it's barely perceptible as speech

[animentality]

[guerrillatech]

[spillthejuice-deactivated202207]

This is revolutionary

[broadminded]

[argumate]

Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered.

Some therapists are using AI during therapy sessions. They’re risking their clients’ trust and privacy in the process.

Declan would never have found out his therapist was using ChatGPT had it not been for a technical mishap. The connection was patchy during one of their online sessions, so Declan suggested they turn off their video feeds. Instead, his therapist began inadvertently sharing his screen.

“Suddenly, I was watching him use ChatGPT,” says Declan, 31, who lives in Los Angeles. “He was taking what I was saying and putting it into ChatGPT, and then summarizing or cherry-picking answers.”

Declan was so shocked he didn’t say anything, and for the rest of the session he was privy to a real-time stream of ChatGPT analysis rippling across his therapist’s screen. The session became even more surreal when Declan began echoing ChatGPT in his own responses, preempting his therapist. 

“I became the best patient ever,” he says, “because ChatGPT would be like, ‘Well, do you consider that your way of thinking might be a little too black and white?’ And I would be like, ‘Huh, you know, I think my way of thinking might be too black and white,’ and [my therapist would] be like, ‘Exactly.’ I’m sure it was his dream session.”

Among the questions racing through Declan’s mind was, “Is this legal?” When Declan raised the incident with his therapist at the next session—“It was super awkward, like a weird breakup”—the therapist cried. He explained he had felt they’d hit a wall and had begun looking for answers elsewhere.“I was still charged for that session,” Declan says, laughing.

omg that's so funny, all the worry about patients therapising themselves with ChatGPT when a real human therapist can do it for them 😂

[argumate]

So had Hope, 25, who lives on the east coast of the US, and had direct-messaged her therapist about the death of her dog. She soon received a message back. It would have been consoling and thoughtful—expressing how hard it must be “not having him by your side right now”—were it not for the reference to the AI prompt accidentally preserved at the top: “Here’s a more human, heartfelt version with a gentle, conversational tone.”

Hope says she felt “honestly really surprised and confused.” “It was just a very strange feeling,” she says. “Then I started to feel kind of betrayed. … It definitely affected my trust in her.” This was especially problematic, she adds, because “part of why I was seeing her was for my trust issues.”

it was never about the words, all about the person

[bane-of-technology]

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

and another one to hurt me specifically

are you from the US

yes

no

Voting ended onSep 14, 2025

non-US folks please i know they'll win but we can't let them win THAT much

[thedeafprophet]

I saw some weird ass conspiracy video thing today of like 'we were never meant to have access to yeast, that was cultivated in a lab and it harms us' bullshit and I was like well first off there's no such thing as 'meant to' and second of all um? the long history of acquiring yeast from beer foam stretching so far back ??????

[moniquill]

....you can acquire yeast FROM THE AIR.

If you want to make sourdough started from scratch, the process is 'mix water, flour, and maybe sugar if you've got it, then WHIP IN AS MUCH AIR AS YOU CAN' and let it sit. And this works. Because there's yeast there. In the air.

[turtlesandfrogs]

Not only is there yeast in the air, it's on a bunch of fruits, too. Ever rubbed a blueberry, plum, or grape, and it was slightly darker underneath? That thin film is wild yeasts. There is also yeasts that live on human skin (and not just pathogenic ones!). We are never without yeasts.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[knighthawkchapter]

You do not have access to yeast; yeast has access to you.