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[quovadis-jasen]

[7062242]

My Life Changed When I Discovered Peer-to-Peer File Sharing at Age 10 by heart__rot

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Acrylic on Canvas

[maddoppelganger]

[dollsahoy]

It's largely airbrushed! That's why it doesn't look like you expect acrylic to look, if you're expecting it to have been applied with a traditional brush

[pandor-pandorkful]

I love how art programs have spent decades building tools to ape traditional materials and techniques digitally, while at the same time artists have gone ahead and aped the digital funk of MSpaint and bad photoshop in traditional mediums. That's just really fun to me!

[cripple-punk-dad]

Ok so at this point I've had two people roll up to me in manual wheelchairs, well, one of them was somebody pushing somebody who was nonverbal at the time, but it still counts. They asked me why I had zip ties around my tires.

It's winter where I'm living and we have really bad snow. And the snow plow people are really bad at their jobs probably because there aren't snow plow people who clean sidewalks. As a solution I got to thinking about how I could increase the traction on my wheels. And the most redneck thing I could think of was taking a bunch of zip ties and tying them around my wheels. They last surprisingly long, and work surprisingly well. It's basically the same premise as chains for your tires during the winter.

I chose to space them out pretty evenly so there's about one for every spoke. You could probably do more or less depending on how many you want and how much traction you get but I wouldn't go more than three per spoke. I realize that it's a bit later in the winter, and I probably should have made a post about this sooner, but I came up with it about a week ago. So please share this, even if you're not disabled, because there are tons of people I know who are stuck in their houses because they can't get around in the snow. A pack of zip ties costs about $5, which compared to $200 knobby snow tires is a big save, and if you want to invest you could get colored zip ties.

[fandomshatefatpeople]

Sharing for accessibility

[catgirlwheels]

Oh fuck yes. Thank you all the abled people between op and me this is exactly what I needed to see 💜

[wishuponastarion]

ooh sweet, thanks for the tip

(for anyone using their chair both indoors and outside, highly recommend wheelchair 'slippers'/wheel socks like these so you don't tear up wood/vinyl/linoleum flooring with the zip ties!)

[stormofneurosis]

! This is fucking amazing and I love it!!!

[beardedmrbean]

this sounds like a party to me

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

[alienlike]

people on this website are too flippant about DIY HRT. they “just diy” response is so ignorant. they are hardly ever considering laws outside of the US (and even though most of these people are american they don’t know US laws), how dangerous it can be to medicate yourself, and how some doctors in some countries will not like what you’ve been doing and will delay actual treatment. like this isn’t some inconsequential thing you’re pushing people to do. if you’re advocating for DIY HRT, you need to at least be telling people what can go wrong and be aware that some may not be willing to commit crimes just to get hormones

[malwareproductions]

THIS !!! ^^^^^^

daily reminder to everyone who thinks trans men can "just ask their gym bros" for T;

it is not the same kind of testosterone. you're thinking of anabolic steroids, which are artificially changed to enhance anabolic effects specifically.

not every trans man has gym bros. i'm a very feminine trans man. i don't have gym bros. i don't know anyone who has anabolic steroids

not all gym bros are safe to ask!!!

even if it WERE the same kind of testosterone, in america T is a schedule 3 controlled substance. if you are caught doing DIY testosterone, that is a felony. you will go to prison for as long as 15 years if you are found guilty.

do not just promote DIY'S positives without mentioning the negatives as well. do not forget to warn people of the possible consequences.

[narutwitter]

[thegreatyin]

every so often i look at pictures of baby fruit bats and i start sobbing.

peace and love on planet earth.

[no-borders-no-nations]

[captain-price-returns]

[transmechanicus]

Revealing the ignorance of my youth here, but who is this and what is she known for?

[boybeetles]

Anita Sarkeesian, feminist who interpreted media under a feminist lens. She did a series about video games and she was the subject of targeted harassment. That was the start of gamergate

[flurrin]

Minor correction, the start of gamergate was based around a different reporter, Zoe Quinn, but they were both absolutely violently threatened over their involvement in video game criticism and development. A hate campaign was started by Quinn's ex-boyfriend when he wrote a post falsely accusing them of dating video game journalists in order to receive positive reviews on their own game, Depression Quest, which led other bad actors to accuse all women in the industry (Zoe identified as female at the time) of perceived sexual immorality. Anita Sarkeesian's brilliant Youtube series Tropes vs Women in Video Games (which everyone should watch, right now) sparked a particular nerve for criticizing popular games of killing and/or victimizing any important female character (there is a CHILLING bit that borders on ludicrous where she describes the plots of a seemingly endless parades of games as "In [title], [male player character's] wife dies, and you then have to rescue [his] daughter."). That series did actually make a huge change in the industry, especially when touted by progressive legacy developers like Tim Schafer (Monkey Island, Psychonauts), who went on to expand hiring in his company to front women and minority voices, but the shift didn't really show for a long time and echoes of the sexism that plagues the industry at its core are still rampant.

[boybeetles]

Thanks for the correction! I was like 8-10 years old when this all went down (2014-2016) so I only know vaguely about it. I’m still learning about this.

[loregoddess]

Zoe Quinn also has a book called Crash Overdrive, which I feel should be required reading for literally anyone using the internet in any capacity, especially as more and more things get moved to online spaces, and especially for people who use the internet for their livelihoods. It's a fairly short read (I read the entire book in a single day, although I will note this was during and for grad school, so actual reading time may vary for normal, non-grad-student readers), and can be a bit depressing--Quinn details the years of harassment they received due to gamergate, it's not a pleasant read, but I do think it's an absolutely necessary book to understand what happened and why and how, and Quinn has a surprisingly resilient sense of resolve come the end of the book, which details all the safety measures someone can and should take with their online activity.

If you can't get out to your local library to borrow the book, you can also find it here on the Internet Archive (though it looks like the lending is limited? it doesn't appear to be an open text at least, so a library might be your best bet if you can't purchase the book). Of all the books I was required to buy and read for college classes, this is probably the most important and impactful, and it's the only one I'd strongly encourage everyone to read for themselves.

[aoya]

now we’ve got this beauty of @nihilismbot

[nihilismbot]

She looks beautiful!! Thank you so much for this lovely rendition of my kitty!! ❤️❤️❤️

[cpericardium]

hey everyone "I" have something to show "you"

[cpericardium]

[cpericardium]

[dabouse]

I have never once, in all my years, thought that someone could be so dense so as to think a book in first person POV is meant to be the reader’s pov.

Like bitch that’s what second person POV is. There’s a reason why it’s so rare

[open-sketchbook]

also second person fucking rules and people are cowards. imagine being unable to imagine being somebody else for a while

[aoya]

As I mentioned before, I don’t have a cat anymore, so I have to draw the ones I happen to meet outside… which isn’t very often. Anyway, if the thought of me possibly drawing your cats doesn’t gross you out too much, I’d love to get some photos of them — especially motion shots.

[nihilismbot]

I don't have motion shots, but here's an excellent photo of my kitty. Even if you don't want to draw her, at least I got an excuse to show everyone this photo :D

[giragirameganedan]

dreamt that itch.io released their own special adaptable accessible super thin flexible silicon game controller called the Butterfly you could also fuck (they packaged each one with lube and toy cleaner) but there was no specific obvious way you were supposed to fuck it they encouraged everyone to find their own special unique way to fuck it. and they ran these ads for it that were different people from all walks of life saying what they do with it . sunburned rural dad who folds it hotdog style and jacks off into it. biracial masc lesbian with undercut who tribs with the joystick. young amputee in wheelchair who lets it vibrate on his lap while he works on his novel. etc. beautiful supermodel woman whos like "and me? i just game. hard." it ended with them all triumphantly saying into the camera "and thats how *I* fuck #MyButterfly"

[rainintheevening]

Okay, we got a new one, boys.

[fleshengine]

Close enough welcome back Chekov's gun.

[comma-souptra]

Prev you can’t bury this in your own tags

[hope-chest-resources]

ID: A screenshot of tags left on the tumblr post. They read "#it's actually kind of a reverse Chekhov's Gun #Chekhov's Gun says "If there is setup there must be payoff" #Asimov's Tail says "if there is payoff there must be setup" #and I think the tail is also important #a tail is not something you'd expect to see on a character unless explicitly pointed out #someone stepping on the tail not only reveals its existence but also tells us things about it #eg it's floor length sensitive and the character either can't or won't keep it out of the way of foot traffic #the upshot seems to be "acclimatise your audience to things they don't understand before you use them" #you don't need to explain how a gun on the mantelpiece works in the same way you need to explain how your protagonist's tail does" End ID.

[gothicprep]

heartening saga honestly

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[renthony]

Being nonbinary and intersex is...hard. It's hard for a lot of reasons, but today I'm thinking specifically about the way that the two get conflated, and being intersex gets called "biologically nonbinary" by people who don't understand either. My experiences as a nonbinary person and my experiences as an intersex person are entwined, certainly, but when I see people saying that nonbinary intersex people are "basically cis," it really chaps my ass.

I was not assigned "intersex" at birth. The doctor didn't look at me and say, "it's a nonbinary baby!" Being both is not "basically cis." I had to fight, and STILL have to fight, to be seen as anything other than a "defective female."

I am not "biologically nonbinary." I am not "basically cis." I am not "non-transitioning" just because I don't want HRT or surgery and had a purely social transition rather than medical. I fought extremely hard to love my intersex body, I have reached a place where I am happy and comfortable in it. I don't want to change it in order to satisfy intersexist and truscum narratives about what it means to be trans.

Gender-affirming surgery and HRT are vital, life-saving things for a lot of people, but for me, they would invoke the trauma of being treated as a freak in need of medical intervention. I don't want that at all, and I deeply resent the way truscum discourse has gone unchecked in trans spaces, to the point where even other trans people say things like, "if you don't want HRT, what's the point of being trans?"