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[karinyosa]

just found out that there is a sudanfunds website! like gazafunds, it is a compilation of funds for people facing genocide

[misterand]

André 3000

[decompose1]

lightning round:

Trans women are the exact same gender as cis women.

Trans men are the exact same gender as cis men.

When someone mentions women, it applies to trans women as well, because they are women.

When someone mentions men, it applies to trans men as well, because they are men.

Trans women's attraction is the same as cis women. A lesbian or straight trans woman is the same kind of lesbian or straight as a cis woman.

Trans men's attraction is the same as cis men. A gay or straight trans man is the same kind of gay or straight as a cis man.

A trans woman is a woman in a patriarchal society.

A trans man is a man in a patriarchal society.

I do not want to see my brothers as "lesser" men because it makes you uncomfortable that men are men.

[str-ngeloop]

you will struggle to say the unsayable thing for five years straight. and then it will suddenly become easy on a Wednesday morning

[viralfrog]

[littlemiss-stardust]

i hate ai and the government

[kosmogrl]

my jaw is on the floor

[wifislim]

[phoebebyers]

[girlcodedhamlet]

it's very frustrating seeing otherwise well-structured posts about media literacy and critical thinking bookended with statements about "nowadays", "nobody has literacy anymore", "this generation is so anti-intellectual", and the like, unquestioningly falling into better past fallacies.

Do we really think the 80s and its Satanic Panic were better at critical thinking? what about the 40s? the Victorian era? societies have always had problems with critical thinking and literacy, because most societies have dealt with propaganda, corrupt leadership, difficulty providing education (due to poverty or discrimination or other issues), and/or people who resist critical thinking (due to privilege or circumstance or what have you). we can criticize media trends without pulling a "well back in the GOOD OLD DAYS" about it.

[alphacrone]

i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.

[lascitasdelashoras]

Optical Art - Tadasuke Kuwayama

[hayaosmiyazaki]

Who is you, Chiron?

“We weren’t necessarily trying to find actors who looked alike or had the same build; we were looking for actors who had the same feeling. [Walter Murch’s] thesis was, ‘The eyes are the window to the soul’… I thought if I could find actors with the same eyes, the audience would connect with [Chiron’s] soul.” — Barry Jenkins

[withnailrules]

Eartha Kitt performing in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1955

[achillesinhighheels]

Solange via instagram

[iusedtobecharming-deactivated20]

Do we have a franz kafka diary entry for july 1st, i want to know what he thinks!!!

[rehearsing]

happy too tired July everyone

[eggshells-and-simple-spells]

A rest day isn't enough. I need one billion years alone in a crystal.