Missy

40s. She/her. Gay as in happy. Queer as in fuck you. Will post random shit I like. Will rarely tag it.

[mioxenoblade]

trans women don’t have to be pretty to deserve your respect

[genderfuckt]

It sucks that this is such a revolutionary concept but oh boy am I glad someone said it

[embervoices]

And to approach the same problem from the other side: It is entirely possible to willfully and deliberately expand your understanding and appreciation for human beauty beyond what Hollywood and Victoria’s Secret dish up for you.

Trans women don’t have to be pretty, but godsdammit, their beauty is worth actually taking the time to see.

If you can’t be bothered to respect people who aren’t performing pretty for you, the skill issue is at your end.

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

@embervoices you don’t get to keave this in the tags:

#if beauty is in the eye of the beholder#then it’s on the beholder to develop their skill in witnessing beauty

[embervoices]

Hail Freyja!

[thediamondarcher]

oh I'm sorry this AROACE character exists and you can't ship them with any other character because they're AROACE, must be so sad for you

[trans-tsukihanemon]

If ONLY there was a way to write a compelling character duo that doesn't involve romance or sex... Oh the horror!

[kanna-ophelia]

Oh my fucking God the comments. 2026 and you still have Puriteens going "you can't write THAT you naughty person!"

Thank God for AO3, where you can write a character who has a romantic heart and has fucked their way through half the cast as aroace, the straightest of straights as raging lesbians, and anything else your heart desires. And puriteens can put their big girl panties on and write their own stuff.

[kanna-ophelia]

And for extra context, a little dear who had decided a character I wrote harmless romantic smut about was aroace was high on their self-righteousness enough to send me a death threat on AO3. Over a story. Antis are the worst and should not be allowed to try and control discourse.

(They lost their account, if you're wondering)

[laurenthemself]

I was wondering, actually, because I read 'death threat on AO3' and went 'oh HELL no' out loud. I'm glad that the terms of service were enforced. AO3 doesn't have such a comprehensive TOS explaining what is and isn't okay for people to just ignore it like that.

[elexecution]

if i was born 500 years ago i would have been speculating that the two dudes who went to get firewood together were fucking

[neaborealis]

chat, how long do y’all think 500 years is. Romeo and Juliet was written in the 1500s. 500 years is not the Stone Age.

[elexecution]

why do u think people stopped collecting firewood after caveman times

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Many such cases

[probablyasocialecologist]

Not enough water for UK’s datacentre plans, trade body says

Industry says government’s failure to address cooling demands means AI growth plans are ‘fatally flawed’

“There appears to be an assumption that the country will always have enough water for its economic needs,” the briefing said. “Nothing could be further from the truth.” In May, a House of Lords report said England faced a 5bn litre a day shortfall for public water supplies by 2055. Water UK said datacentres were already being built in water-stressed areas, with more than three-quarters located in the south and east of England. Millions of people in these regions have been placed under a hosepipe ban by water companies after prolonged extreme heat and lack of rainfall.

[...]

The government has designated datacentres as critical national infrastructure, on the basis that their loss or compromise could result in “major detrimental impact on the availability, integrity or delivery of essential services” and “significant impact on national security, national defence, or the functioning of the state”. Oliver Hayes, head of big tech and campaigns at the campaign group Global Action Plan, said it was not clear why datacentres had been given this status, but that water companies may be powerless to restrict their water use as a result. This could risk datacentres being prioritised over households at times of peak water demand. “I think it is highly likely that we’re going to end up seeing datacentres that are actually running chatbots, or enabling people to do benign and very wasteful, pointless things, protected and given favourable treatment when it comes to resources,” Hayes said.

21 July 2026

[captain-price-returns]

The difference between "There used to be hot summers too,” and a climate crisis.

[propheticfire]

Look, we all know this is true. But there isn't a SOURCE for this, and the graph itself is basically illegible beyond "ooh colors". If we want to be good stewards of our informational resources, we need to cite our sources.

From a reverse image search, I found the website Show Your Stripes, run by the University of Reading in the UK, which is likely where the above graph originated. It provides temperature data for various regions of the world from approximately 1900-2025. For example, here are graphs for Canada, India, and Papua New Guinea:

All clearly show a sharp rise in temperature beginning around approximately the 1980s, which corresponds with the graph in OP's post. But now we know where this data came from, and we can verify its validity accordingly.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[muttsandmustelidae]

“hey this dog looks to be struggling to perform very basic functions and that is very worrying” “well ACTUALLY if you STUDIED THE BREED STANDARD you’d see that this dog is actually the IDEAL ______” YEAH. THIS TOO IS THE PROBLEM. WHAT ARE YOU NOT GETTING.

[muttsandmustelidae]

“you can’t blame breeders for breeding to standard :/“ i actually find it very easy to blame them. they are the ones creating the dogs on purpose, you see

[teethwreath]

[excusethequality]

While watching a DVD from the library my TV popped up a message saying to press a button if I wanted to watch this from additional providers.

It's never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked.

One of which being they take screenshots from what you're watching and send them to third parties to identify it.

Fucking hell! Remember when every fucking device in your life wasn't a spy implanted in your home and working against your interests to try and sell your data? Remember how nice that was??

Remember when the TV was just a tool that would play the things you plugged into it?

Why must the future suck SO much?

[excusethequality]

How to Turn Off Smart TV Snooping Features - Consumer Reports

TVs collect a huge amount of data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit the surveillance on TVs from LG, Samsung, TCL, and every othe

A good rundown on what each brand of TV is up to and which settings you should turn off.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[lytefoot]

PSA - Do not buy an LG smart TV. They just added a line to their terms of use that it's the user's responsibility to inform any guests in their house that by entering they consent to be recorded, in order to comply with wiretapping laws. That thing is literally recording you.

You can find tutorials online telling you how to open that thing up and physically remove the mic and wifi module. Frankly I don't trust anything less.

[mookimooks]

Please watch the Gamers Nexus video on LG Smart TV's and monitors! It's basically malware at this point.

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[bestiolin]

Catstronomy - Lim Heng Swee.

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This post is joyful and whimsical!

[frostedmagnolias]

Suit

c. 1947

Black and white wool gingham skirt suit. Jacket with padded shoulders and insertions on right torso and sleeve. Four sizes of check fabric used in jacket.

by Adrian Ltd., Los Angeles

Drexel University

[smsomah]

Toni Nuvamsa from Second Mesa wears the traditional Hopi Butterfly Dance Costume. Scanned from the magazine Arizona Highways; May 1975

[oflightningandstars]

"actively hungry" + "none of the foods sound good at all" is one of the worst combinations. who let this happen

[ot0rin]

Little toph🪨

[cylunny]

Being the firelord is hard but being a big brother may be harder… (Have some adult Zuko and teenage Kiyi) 💛

[evs3467]

TOPHEE TOPHEE TOPHEE TOPHEE TOPHEE TOPHEE TOPHEE TOPHEE

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[ivy-michaels]

the thing about "people have talked about it you're just 21" is that it's not really "young people are stupid" it's more "if you come into an academic discussion you should know what people have said on the matter lest you talk out your ass"

[lynati]

Research is the PPE that prevents you from taking sick burns during a flame war.