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20s | it/its or she/her if you’re lame

[desinteresse]

I know this is gonna piss off nerds but paperbacks are superior to hardbacks

[desinteresse]

Moodboard

[desinteresse]

Are you guys okay? Like in the head?

[vacuouslytrue]

I guess if you want to treat books like marginalized peoples you can but ..

[desinteresse]

HELLO????

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

not to add onto a post from 2021 but do you guys remember when I made this post recapping a lecture by Dr. Emily Knox about how books get fetishized as something far more important than the mass-produced consumer goods they are and people acted like that was totally unreasonable. this is that taken to, like, the most unhinged possible extreme.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

People hear about "book burning" and learn that it's evil and act like that means that like, the books themselves are sacred objects

[catboybiologist]

This is a tangent but I feel like in the era of digital information and digital censorship, a visceral reaction to the imagery of a burning book distances yourself from the actual crime: suppression of information and art.

Does a server getting taken down invoke the same guy reaction in you as a burning book? If not, ask yourself why.

[tsscat]

I don’t think people realize what keeping the internet running and producing most tech they use entails like. Physically, labor-wise, energy-wise.

[tsscat]

Purposefully included some older articles here so people can see how baked in this is:

Labor Conditions of Content Moderators (2021)

Inside AOL's "Cyber-Sweatshop" (1999)

Digital Labor and Imperialism (2016)

Amazon Mechanical Turk: The Digital Sweatshop (2012)

Gig Economy, Algorithmic Control, and Migrant Labor (2022)

The Rise of Cyber-Coolies (2003)

Ecological Impact of Computation and the Cloud (2022)

The Environmental Sustainability of Digital Content Consumption (2024)

Carbon Footprint of the Internet (2010)

I think a lot of times I see people talk about this stuff in relation to AI. It's right to talk about it, but I hate when people act like AI is the only tech that has these problems. What you see with AI now is a reflection of the broader tech and internet industry that has grown for the past 20-30 years.

[ycoil]

when a mommy and daddy love eachother vrry much a stork will show up and they will have an inter-species 3 way and its very horrible how your father pounds the cloaca, but if thats what god wants, who am i to argue?

[thomasmomwell]

[apollos-boyfriend]

the thing about cis people is there’s nothing they love more than outing a trans acquaintance for literally no reason

[apollos-boyfriend]

had a guy i met not even 10 minutes ago turn to me and go “so i have this mtf friend-” then proceed to tell a story that had absolutely nothing to do with her gender/transition. they’re truly fascinating people

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

My good friend who's a very supportive pediatrician and raising a trans child was telling me a story about her friend and was like "they're an AFAB nonbinary" and I had to be like. It's great that you're learning the terminology but why are you telling me about your friend's genitals. Is their birth certificate relevant to the story.

[diehellasrache]

this generation's equivalent of my aunt who tells me the race of everyone involved in this wholly unracerelated anecdote

[beef-estrogenoff-deactivated-de]

the crimes committed against the indigenous peoples of latin america were always to build british railroads, usamerican plantations, canadian fracking. and yet the blame is to lie always in the nations that emerged out of the independence struggle and not in the imperialist powers

[dazeylily]

noticing that for mono relationships you hear stuff like "they weren't right for each other" or "it just didn't work out" but for poly relationships it's always "this is why I could never do polyamory"

[fairuzfan]

In the UK if you protest genocide or wave a Palestinian flag you get arrested on terrorism charges

[fairuzfan]

You do realize the explicit mention of "chanting" or "flags" is pretty obviously a way to criminalize expressions of palestinian identity right. There is no noteworthy "Palestine action flag" they clearly mean Palestine flags themselves

[nuclearhearts]

liberals that believe “protesting” is allowed in america…well yeah, maybe the kind of protesting you do, which is holding up a poster that’s hermoine saying down with drumpf, but the dead ferguson activists would beg to differ if they could

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of "I'm a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS" girl no it doesn't. that's meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I'd say that rejecting biological determinism in favor of space gas determinism isn't the slay the astrology queers think it is but if I'm being completely honest I fear that many members of our community haven't even really rejected biological determinism so much as sprinkled a layer of glitter on it

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

yes that's how confirmation bias works

[warlockofagnesi]

hang on this is way too good to leave in the comments

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I mean. yes, I do. it's frequently necessary in the United States, where very specific religious groups keep trying to encode their specific beliefs as laws.

[sev-wildfang]

"Calling (your) representatives" was a 21st century US-American prayer, most prominently used from the early 2010s throughout the 2020s. The prayer and the associated ritualistic act of using a cellular or landline telephone to attempt to contact a servant of the local chapter of the civil capital-orthodox aristocracy were believed to be able to influence these servants in order to ward off evil from the person invoking the prayer or practice. It was most popular with adherents to the doctrine of liberalism, to whom interfering directly (or physically) with matters of their own government and its aristocracy was anathema.

[tboy-trash]

gotta be honest with you, i'm not too sure about this thing ppl say of "conservatives" being irrationally opposed to "trans people just existing" or whatever. i guess controversial take but no they actually have very concrete reasons to oppose bodily autonomy and the destabilization of sexual roles we represent considering their views on sex/gender and social reproduction overall actually. obviously we must oppose those views as they are 1. wrong and 2. oppressive but like. it's not like they just chose a random minority to hate. i mean otherwise why do you think it's specifically us.

[tboy-trash]

idk been watching usamerican liberals react to the latest EOs which are so obviously oriented towards preserving white fertility and sexual roles among other things and go "trump is so stupiddddd why does he care about poor transes living freely </3". well. do you want a list of reasons.

[russianimperialist]

People actually freak out when you mention this. Like you just can't mention the fact that the fascists have a coherent worldview that must be opposed by coherent, organized worldviews. Treating fascist actions that don't make sense to you as irrational actions of the mentally ill or disabled is ableist and hurts the wrong people. Like yes the fascists are evil but they have a goal they work towards. If you carry only fragmented reactionary views to fascism, you are ill-equipped to oppose it or even prevent yourself from regurgitating fascist propaganda. If you say this to liberals and even leftists, they will scream at you about how you're being brainwashed by the alt right and probably misgender you immediately after. It's infuriating.

[perfect-immortal-machinegirl]

I think it was bad actually for Morpheus to try to wake up Neo. He should’ve let Neo figure it out on his own, really none of Morpheus’s business. It’s kind of problematic to make jokes about waking up from the Matrix, it pressures Matrix-aware men to wake up when maybe they don’t want to.

[rneliflua]

fandom approaches male characters from a watsonian perspective and female characters from a doylist perspective

[rneliflua]

by virtue of being made up constructs everything about fictional characters only exists as far as what is told about them, and yet underdeveloped male characters are assumed to have rich inner lives that the writer have simply not tapped into - when they actually did not give them any - and it's therefore up to fans to rescue the character from the writer's assumed negligence and explore him themselves through headcanon-ing the shit outta them picking up small bits of characterization and expanding from it, whereas female characters are taken at extreme face value: if the writer did not give them an inner life then she doesn't have one period, even within the universe of the story where everyone is a living breathing person, and it's not worth exploring. even when the small bits of context and characterization about her insinuate something interesting about inner world and leave room to spin an interesting backstory and motivations there seems to be no interest in fandom to do so.

[chuplayswithfire]

and 9 times out of 10 this only applies to the white male characters. black and brown male characters are assumed to be as shallowly written and imagined as all female characters are, sometimes even when the show DOES depict their rich inner life.

[knucklesex]

there is a non-zero chance you will see the US empire fall during your lifetime. do not kill yourself.

[0ryza13]

With the announcement of the Copper Golem being added to Minecraft after all, I am once again petitioning all games calling various robots and created lifeforms "golems" to Stop Doing That and rename them "Constructs" instead

[transfemme-shelterdog]

FYI for any iPhone users who live in the USA, there's a new app out called IceBlock, which allows you to anonymously report ICE agent sightings

Worth a download if you've got an iPhone.

‎ICEBlock

‎Stay informed about reported ICE sightings, within a 5 miles radius of your current location, in real-time while maintaining your privacy.

[iwilleatyourenglish]

do not download this app or any like it.

it's going to be linked directly to your account and phone. it will not be anonymous, because apple can see anyone who downloads it. tech companies will happily sell your data.

i could not be more serious when i say y'all need to keep up on tech literacy. you cannot trust random apps, especially ones that claim to assist with antiestablishment activism.

use sites like this: https://latinxtherapy.com/report-ice/

[iwilleatyourenglish]

[plaidos]

we need to take away "misgendering" from people who dont know any gender theory lmfao. trans girls seeing themselves in fictional characters is not "misgendering" them. it is not "misgendering" to tell a cis boy he might be a trans girl. misgendering is specifically a sociopolitical act of violence to reaffirm & reinforce a cisnormative status quo.

[txttletale]

100% -- crucially, 'misgendering' is not just 'getting someone's gender wrong'. misgendering a trans person is an implicit threat -- telling them that you believe they are stepping out of their rightful place in gender hegemony and you think they should be violently and forcibly put back in it

[plaidos]