[manbuycow]

This sentence is correct - if you say it correctly (or add the necessary punctuation)

[manbuycow]

Henrietta clambered higher and higher, from branch to branch and - as they were becoming too thin to support her - she poked her head through the leaves and saw the sky. It was alight with red and orange clouds as the sun hovered on the horizon, and overhead was the dark blue of an evening about to turn into night.

  “Oink,” said a pig. “What are you doing up here?”

  Henrietta took a moment to look around herself. The treetops were littered with pigs. Hundreds of them, mostly staring at her. All hanging from the outer branches by stalks coming out of their heads.

  Like apples. But pig-shaped.

  “Um, investigating?” Henrietta told the pig, uncertainly. “I wondered what the noise was.”

  “What noise?”

  “Well, the... grunting.”

  “The pig noise? You wondered what the pig noise was?” said the pig grumpily. “You know, we Tree Pigs have a saying. It goes like this.” The pig cleared his throat, then spoke in a tired voice, as if he’d already explained this a thousand times. “If it looks like a pig, and sounds like a pig, and it’s shaped like a pig, and it is a pig - then you'll probably still have to explain what it is to a human.”

(from The Complete History (and Fistory) of Underspace - ebook currently free on smashwords, or read it on Wattpad, or buy the paperback or audiobook from manbuycow.com)

[cameralight-deactivated20180725]

Gross porn blogs:

What is it about my page that entices you? I’m not interested! Get lost!

[bitter-trans-lesbian]

The bots are using tumblr to scam Google.

Let’s say someone is looking for porn and they put “wife caught her husband cheating,” into Google. There are a lot of porn sites (and some news sites) with that title. So Google has to decide which order to show them in, because most of the time, people pick something off the first few pages of Google.

Google wants to have the very best “wife caught her husband cheating” (or whatever else you search for) sites on the first page of the search. Google has several ways to try and decide which site are the best, but one of them is that it looks at how popular it is by seeing how many other websites link to it. If a lot of other sites are linking to it, it was probably useful to them, so Google will put it on the front page.

So if I’m a sleazy pornsite owner, I could create like a thousand websites and make them all link to my “wife caught her husband cheating” site, and act like a whole bunch of different websites thought it was pretty great. They’d be like “xdfgt .com”, “xdfgy .com”, “xdfgh .com,” just nonsense addresses nobody else was using, or whatever. I’d try to make Google think my site was awesome, because all these other websites are linking to it.

But Google has already caught on to that. Google would know “xdfgt .com” was a crappy fake website, because nobody else is linking to “xdfgt .com”. Any website that is only linked to by crap websites is also crap, as far as Google is concerned. Google won’t put it on the first pages of search results.

So instead let’s imagine the sleazy pornsite owner creates a thousand fake tumblrs instead, like “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and “xdfgy.tumblr .com” and “xdfgh.tumblr .com” and just puts one or two posts on them to add links to the “wife caught her husband cheating” porn site. Google can still tell those tumblrs are crap websites, because nobody else is linking to them. But the difference is … on tumblr, the sleazy pornsite owner can make your website link to him.

Let’s say your tumblr is “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com”. If “xdfgt.tumblr .com” likes one of your posts, there’s link on your blog to “xdfgt.tumblr .com.” Somewhere on “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” it will say “xdfgt liked this” with a link from your blog to “xdfgt.tumblr .com.”

Google’s bot looks at “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” and it sees that your blog is a good website. People are linking to it (talking to you or reblogging from you), you write like an actual human being, you have nice pictures, you update sometimes, you aren’t a bot. So Google decides your blog isn’t a crappy scam website. Then it sees the link to “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and it thinks “oh hey, a nice website with good stuff written by a real human linked to this “xdfgt.tumblr .com” I guess maybe “xdfgt.tumblr .com” is a decent website too.”

Then it looks at “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and it sees the link to the porn site with “wife caught her husband cheating”, and it says, “well, I guess that “wife caught her husband cheating” site is a good site. I know that because there’s a good site linking to it here at “xdfgt.tumblr .com.” I know “xdfgt.tumblr .com” is a good site because “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” linked to it, and I know “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” is a good site because it is updated and writes like a real person and people talk to it and link to it.”

So basically the porn bots are using the fact that you have a good blog to make themselves look better and to try and trick Google’s bot into thinking they’re very popular and it should put them at the top of its list when people search Google for porn.

It’s really annoying! It would be really nice if the people running tumblr figured out a way to not be free advertising for every sleazy porn site on the internet

source.

[hollowedskin]

hey wow thats actually really useful! and its written in a way that i (a bird with no knowledge of the wizardly internal workings of a website) can understand!

[alkjira]

FINALLY AN EXPLANATION

[theconcealedweapon]

Pride was originally a riot. It's not supposed to be "family-friendly". Those who want family-friendly LGBT spaces are free to just create them. Take places that are already family-friendly and make them LGBT-friendly also. If you don't want to do that, then that's why Pride is still necessary.

[catchymemes]

[andrewbelami]

That’s a cute foot fetish you got there, would you mind keeping it 25796323689432 feet away from me?

[pendejx-deactivated20200323]

25796323689432 feet you say?

[severalbadpunslater]

this is literally my favorite post on tumblr

[reallyndacarter]

I recently found out that there was a page dedicated to me on WikiFeet. No thanks.

[funnytwittertweets]

[everythingfox]

Helping out the little kitten to drink water

(via)

[princess-viola]

for real tho why do allos make 'sex' such a big part of their personality like goddamn.

[pocketcasts]

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[manbuycow]

Pocket Casts featured us in the early days - just because someone on their staff listened to our little show and liked it

Nothing has ever given us such an immediate boost in listeners

Also, I use their app to listen to podcasts because I like it more than the alternatives

[manbuycow]

The Worst Writer in the World is a podcast about stories

Available free from all the usual podcast places

For a school assignment, teenage Howard had to write a story about SURVIVAL - so he wrote about two men who didn’t survive so much, one of them actually ate the other’s skeleton....

[manbuycow]

The Worst Writer in the World is a podcast about stories

Available free from all the usual podcast places

In this episode, we read a short story that Howard wrote when he was 12 - called "Little Red Riding Hood: The Wolf's Tale" OR "Blood Red Terror Hood"

[unbesoadistancia]

Jixy | DeV Sketchs

[palabraspoeticas]

All the time

[closet-keys]

“A TERF is a white supremacist whose gateway to white supremacy is anti-trans bigotry, instead of anti-Semitism or anti-Blackness or anti-migration or misogyny. As with any gateway, many people engaging in this ideology may not be aware of their proximity to white supremacy. This is the standard radicalization pathway that we have seen over and over and over with, for example, anti-Islamic sentiment. Personally, [I] find it is most comparable to how anti-Semitism gateways are used. Often, we see white supremacists exploiting legitimate grievances with the financial systems by turning into an anti-Semitic issue. White supremacists take legitimately frustrated and class-oppressed people’s anger at banks, and carefully plant the seeds of anti-Semitism. They’ll point out the irrefutable fact that there exist Jewish people in executive positions in banking and vilely twist this. TERFs take a legitimate grievance: patriarchal oppression of women and homophobia and turn it into a movement based on systematic exclusion of a specific class of people. This is the redpill. [We] need to stop the good-faith engagements with their ideology and start treating it like the gateway to white supremacy that it is.”

— Emily Gorcenski, Source: https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/1088180524504571908

[jenniferrpovey]

I don’t think a lot of people understand that transphobia is, in fact, inherently racist.

[ihearducksaregoingquackers]

it never would have occurred to me that transphobia has roots in racism or that TERFs are a gateway into white supremacy.

information like this is vital.

[jenniferrpovey]

It’s inherently racist because it assumes all cultures follow the western concept of the absolute gender binary rooted in what genitals you have.

[nonbinary-hawke-deactivated2021]

It’s also racist because it defines womanhood using conventionally attractive white women as the baseline.

Women who have facial hair, have thick or “excessive” body hair, have broad shoulders, have “masculine” facial features like angular jaws, have deep voices, are taller than “average”, have receding hairlines, are muscular, etc are immediately assumed to be men because they don’t fit white European ideals of womanhood. And these standards do affect white women of course, whether they’re cis or trans, but they mostly target Black and brown women.

There’s a reason why Black women, particularly athletes, are the ones who get targeted with so many accusations of being men. Why they’re expected to undergo hormone testing. Why they’re accused of having “excessive” testosterone. Why they’re expected to undergo physical examinations to “prove” that they’re “real” women.

Radical feminism, trans inclusive or not, is based around biological essentialist white supremacy whether radfems want to admit it or not.

[oopsabird]

All roads of bio-essentialism will eventually lead back to the white supremacist cause that shit was invented for. And I am speaking directly to white women (and those who were raised as white women, like me) when I say you NEED to learn and understand this. You need to know where the gateway goes before you walk through it unknowingly.

If you are willing to believe that “men” (as defined by white cisheteronormative standards) are inherently, genetically, irreversibly predisposed to be more violent, less intelligent, less compassionate, less morally “good”, less worthy of existence/safety/resources, less human, then it will be that much easier to slowly convince you that the same is true for any other groups you feel threatened by (regardless of how irrational or bias-based that feeling of threat might be). Black men. Black women. Asians. Latinos. Indigenous people. Jews. Muslims. Disabled people. Immigrants. All those others, the people who are not you, the unknowns. That ideology of essentialism, once it gets you to buy in to the base idea behind it (that our genetics are the final and most important determinant of our worth), can then sell you a pitch that feels validating and encouraging for your fears on any and all groups of people you have some kind of discomfort about.

From there it is easier to convince you that you are one of the special ones, who is predestined by your special perfect genes and your special perfect (white, normative) body parts/physical characteristics to be “good”, that you are superior, that the world is yours because of how you were born.

It is easier to convince you that it is your obligation to engage in some kind of great struggle of violence against those who are inherently “bad” and universally threaten “good” people like you.

It is easier to convince you that you can spot these supposed threats on sight simply because they do not look like you, that there is a universal roadmap of physical characteristics and telltale cultural signs that can predict who will enact violence against you.

It is easier to convince you that people with those characteristics (that mix of genes) cannot be trusted, that the only morally acceptable course of action is proactive violence, that you will never be safe until these threats (never people, always “threats”) are eliminated from “your spaces” once and for all (and this ideology will tell you that because you are one of the Good Ones, because you are chosen and blessed and Right, that your spaces are everywhere and everything, that is is your world and they are just living in it).

It is easier to convince you to enact that violence throughout your life without hesitation, and to believe that you are righteous and good in doing so.

It is easier to make sure you don’t think twice about how you got here from where this began.

All these ideas build up on top of each other, each fallacy supported by the one that came beneath it like jenga blocks. That all escalated pretty quickly, right? So does the pathway into this fascist white supremacist ideology from stuff like “gender critical” or “misandrist” politics. Don’t get sucked into that vortex just because the opening pitch comfortably affirms your gut instincts and least charitable fears. And don’t give that flame room to breathe.

[everythingfox]

Jumpy boy

(via)

[everythingfox]

All aboard the guinea express

(via)

[daughter-of-sapph0]

I think that all terfs who call themselves "females" should watch this video

[unicodepepper]

Video transcript:

This is page 45 in the book "Females" by Andrea Long Chu.

In the United States the man known as the father of gynecology, J. Marion Sims, built the field in the antebellum South, operating on enslaved women in his backyard, often without anesthesia — or, of course, consent. As C. Riley Snorton has recently documented, the distinction between biological females and women as a social category, far from a neutral scientific observation, developed precisely in order for the captive black woman to be recognized as female — making Sims's research applicable to his women patients in polite white society — without being granted the status of social and legal personhood. Sex was produced, in other words, precisely at the juncture where gender was denied. In this sense, a female has always been less than a person.

[random-acts-of-education]

Acknowledgement of this, however, would require terfs to give a fuck about black women. Which they never do.