the stars are the same as ever

i have crossed the face of the universe, i poison it to match my grief 27 - she/her - nonbinary butch lesbian 🏳️‍⚧️

[thisaintasceneitsfob]

[charl0ttan]

the main issue with problems is how bad they suck. but what if there was a app that let you bet on child surgeries

[transmutationisms]

what are your thoughts on space exploration? I got curious bc of your anon on nasa

i'm not inherently categorically opposed to it but it's deeply unserious how many people, even nominal communists, presume it to be socially salubrious or enlightening because they simply don't think about 1. the extraction of resources, which is obviously no different to extraction for any other industry and should be treated the same way analytically and 2. the relationship between national space exploration programs, military technocracy, and nationalism. wrt nasa specifically this is of particular import because of the sheer size and global hegemony of the us military, and to be clear, nasa has always been tasked with sharing its technologies with the department of defence, and has worked jointly with dod on a great many very expensive projects, to the extent that changing nasa's budget typically has a noticeable inverse effect on us military expenditures. refusal to acknowledge or interrogate these facts in favour of a positivist narrative of space exploration as some kind of heady accumulation of knowledge for the good of the species is naïve.

[deepseasmetro]

the masses only care about the girls starving themselves when its not something they can ignore anymore; ariana grande used to be "just naturally petite" - only now once they can see her skeleton does anyone feel the need to express their concern. and, of course, the fattest of us will starve ourselves constantly, months at a time, for years of our lives, and the only thing we ever get out of it is a congratulations. starvation is ugly, but thinness is chic - i mean, ariana grande wasn't even actually fat before! her mind is sick so she just thinks she's fat. she's starving herself wrongly. thin people are not supposed to starve. only fat people!

[deepseasmetro]

our suffering is simply our rightful punishment for the crime of being fat

[nepenthean-sleep]

half of the other posts on the butch subreddit (the ones that are not non-butches being annoying and treating butches like a type of exotic pet) are like "um is it... normal... to be a butch... and to be attracted to other butches..." like how did we gay so hard that people are getting internalized homophobia when they're already gay. this is crazy.

[nepenthean-sleep]

our age of neoliberalism is collapsing

[eskildit]

reading through my usual terrible substacks and its all them complaining about how ridiculous all the criticisms of the odyssey are meanwhile on tumblr im scrolling through the 199743940th our age of ____ is _____ meme post in a row

[real-uwu-hours]

Yall when I found out rich people have special therapists to help them cope with the guilt of hoarding money I literally considered throwing away all the morals I never had to become a psych major for like an entire day like I would have emotionally damaged them so badly

[feastofsnakes]

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From an article about these "therapists"

[anarchistmemedistro]

Call it Rich Asshole Syndrome—the tendency to distance yourself from people with whom you have a large wealth differential.

[mychemicalraymance]

Schluub = the americana parody counterpart to Draag

[trangoldin]

I'm ngl it kinda kills me that the thing that is killing Hank Green and making him go through mass cancellation is him saying that he sometimes uses AI for research.

Like not the horrible video on hrt, no of course not. Loudly and proudly declaring "we don't hire transfems here at scishow"? Nobody gives a shit!

But say "i used Claude as a search engine for academic articles" and every creator on youtube takes turns shitting you as you go into fucking witness protection.

[trangoldin]

There is a connection here with that post I saw the other day about how being performatively anti-AI can be a way to loudly declare one's commitment to "good values" without actually having to care about uplifting any marginalized communities

[tolovaj]

THANK YOU

[dykepuffs]

Friendly unfriendly reminder that "Ovulation is like an animal being in heat and makes you stupid" has been a keystone of western misogyny pretty much since Europe worked out what periods are.

[nepenthean-sleep]

straight white people making a romance movie: haha what if it was illegal to have sex? wait what's lawrence v texas. wait what's mclaughlin v florida. wait what's loving v virginia

[fromkenari]

Don't forget their "Wouldn't it be wild if there was thought police?" or "Wouldn't it be wild if there was a ban on doing things that make you happy?" movies, and then they get really mad when you start talking about the lives of disabled and impoverished people and people of color, like these things don't already fucking exist and don't need Tom Cruise and Christian Bale to make them Real Issues for people. Yeah.

[eskildit]

our of of the is is

[nepenthean-sleep]

you can write a post on tumblr that's like "it sucks how this situation affects both queer people and black people" and people will be like "oh yeah its so bad for queer people it really sucks for the gays it's so bad for lgbt shit this is really hurting queer people" ten thousand times over in your notes

[insomniac-arrest]

I think we should figure out what age we’re living in now so we can say how it’s collapsing to each other

[insomniac-arrest]

Our age of plastics is collapsing

[insomniac-arrest]

Our age of information is collapsing! *remembers generative AI, nods to self* our age of information is collapsing.

[nepenthean-sleep]

straight white people making a romance movie: haha what if it was illegal to have sex? wait what's lawrence v texas. wait what's mclaughlin v florida. wait what's loving v virginia

[ninewheels]

As preposterous and stupid as this fucking movie's premise sounded (for a light-hearted rom-com, and not The Handmaid's Tale) I didn't want to think about it too much until the movie actually came out, and then I could see if it was somehow more intelligent and subversive than the trailer let on, but guess what, it's even worse!

One Night Only review: Pull out from this sex-negative rom-com

If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die.

Sex workers are thrown under the bus, shown only as thieves who fleece men in the woods at night, while queer sexuality is relegated to a few scenes with Allie’s roommate (a woefully underused Quintessa Swindell) and a handful of pans past blurry same-sex extras making out in the background. “This night is for the straights,” Swindell’s character says to Allie, before saying that queer people have worked around straight laws for centuries.  This is supposed to be a nod to queer resilience, but largely comes off as straightwashing the history of anti-LGBTQ legislation in this country that led towards raids of queer clubs and incarceration of queer people in the not-too-distant past (let alone the current barrage of anti-Trans and LGBTQ legislation currently in the works and on the books). It’s also ignorant of the long and fraught fight for the normalization of age-of-consent laws, which, by the way, did not happen in all states in this very country until 2003. Yes, that’s not even thirty years ago.  By the end, our intrepid protagonists have not had sex with anyone, because this is a film about Romance with a Capital R (and I guess sex is not part of romance!) and for that very same reason they ultimately embrace the fascist state of things. They aren’t the only ones who refuse to fight back. No one in this cursed film is protesting this mandate beyond “repeal” signs in various windows and some creative graffiti (...) (...) If we are supposed to believe that the film is making some subversive statement about the state of sex and bodily autonomy in this country, it cannot end with its leads embracing their chains. That’s just warmed-over conservatism running around in sheep’s clothing.

[nepenthean-sleep]

yeah i wrote this post having only seen the trailer, but jesus christ. was this movie a psyop LMAO??

also, for the unaware: mclaughlin v. florida was a 1964 supreme court case that struck down a florida anti-miscegenation law that criminalized cohabitation (and thus, as implied, sex) between white people and people of color of opposite genders. anti-miscegenation laws made marriage and sexual relationships between white people and people of color, most often specifically black people, a FELONY in several states in the united states up until the 1950s and 1960s. though it was already struck down by the supreme court, the state of alabama didn't repeal their law until 2000! there were THREE ATTEMPTS at codifying anti-miscegenation into the us constitution!

like yes, the issue here is partially straight white people's ignorance on the united states's history of homophobic policy, but it's also really important to recognize that arguably the majority of the issue here is straight white people's ignorance of the united states's history of codifying eugenics and antiblack racism.

the premise could have been interesting as a serious dystopian story, especially taking that history into account, but it wasn't written that way at all. this movie should never have been a fucking romcom making light of the violence the united states (and many other countries) has enacted on any kinds of sexual relationships it deems undesirable.

[nepenthean-sleep]

can y’all maybe reblog this version i feel like people are forgetting about the racism and just focusing on the homophobia

[zarahartist]

Interview with the Vampire ❤️