Osaka

Transitioning to: the https://osaka.zone/ Mechsploitation, mecha theory, and other things ʙᴇꜱᴛ/ɢɪʀʟ, ᴀꜱᴅ, ʟᴀᴛᴇ 30'ꜱ, ᴀɴᴄɪᴇɴᴛ ɪɴᴛᴇʀɴᴇᴛ ᴄʀᴇᴀᴛᴜʀᴇ Behind the thing that's behind you Have seen some shit in my time viscacha rabbity pervert thing This machine is killing fascists *right now* Never comply in advance Will doxx scammers MINORS DNI

[osakanone]

Hi, I'm Osaka

I'm a hobbyist designer, and I research esoteric concepts on the periphery of mecha to find new views nobody else is writing about. I also am obsesed with trying to push the genre forwards.

I also took up programming to build a game faster than ACFA, more airborne than Ace Combat, and more "art of the blade" than Zone of the Enders 2 by studying mecha games through the lens of published declassified military grade airwar and psywar human factors engineering and psychology concepts.

I want to make this game about mechposting and the trans experience, but I need your help: not money, but to speak with you about mecha.

The writing is simultaniously equal parts thesis to microfic a lot of the time, so your milage may vary.

Scroll through the mess below and find what suits you best.

Please.

Mecha Theory Writing

A comprehensive explanation of the evolutionary path from conventional ground and air vehicles, including a comprehensive outline of a functioning control-design based on the inceptor/software model seen in unmanned drones and 5th gen aircraft, complete with explanations.

The evolution of the walking thing called “mecha"  (original)

Chapter 0: Establishing terminology & Concepts Part 1: Defining "the mechaness" of something: the 8 principles of mecha Part 2: Feisability: Mecha aren't realistic, but not for the reason you think

Chapter 1: How does "mecha" come into existence/why would you want one? Part 1: An evolution from ground vehicles of today Part 2: Skating, to walking, to running, to flight Part 3: “Why transform in the vacuum of space?”

Chapter 2: Cockpit & Software Design Control Theory Part 4: On Mecha Control Theory: Considerations Part 4a: On Mecha Control Theory II: OKAWARA Part 4b: On Mecha Control Theory III: TOMINO  Part 4c: On Mecha Control Theory III: NAGANO

The World of Armored Core

An exploration of the world of Armored Core, using research into real phenomenon and engineering systems to infer how the world may itself function

Kojima particle physics (part 1): What are they? Kojima particle physics (part 2): The Human Consequences NEXT cockpit design (part 1): AMS and Lynx NEXT Cockpit Design (Part 2): G-force Tolerance Technocrat is SpaceX, and the legacy of Musk’s father (lmao) I am a 4th gen douchebag, and I love it (love-letter to ACFA) 4th gen shitpost: white gopnik

How To Domesticate Your Pilot

A husbandry guide for handlers, consisting of opinions and thoughts from various trainers and operators, as well as pilots. Includes practices, procedures, articles, stories and snippets.

I'm currently testing the waters with snippets and will likely be posting it out of order. I am extremely hungry for any and all possible feedback

If anybody knows the original source of the image of the eyes (which I first saw in a youtube ad) I'd love to know. I very much would like to commission them.

Inspired by mechposting

Chapter 3: Do not Abuse Your Wolves (Psychological patterning) Part 1: Action patterning (Initial Phases) Part 2: Action Patterning (Risks) Part 3: Once upon a mechanism

On mecha design: My personal thoughts on the assemblies of shape, form in the context of motion, action and function 1. Does anybody else have physical characteristics they find the most appealing? 2. Thoughts on self-altering dynamic form, and proportion designs 3. Shoji Kawamori and Armored Core: designers hallucinate, but do they hallucinate too? 4. Why is Gundam Gquuuuux called Gundam Gquuuuux?

Mechsploitation thoughts

#Mechposting

My personal thoughts on piloting culture, and mechanical design

1. The eroticism of the machine: Megastructures 2. Beyond pilebunker: The Grind-blade and the legacy of Overweapons 3. FLAT/Touchscreens are an act of hate: I will teach you love 4. You do not need to pick between a big hammer or daggers if you are a robot 5. O'Socks combat mix (tw: substance abuse) 6. Team dynamics, addiction, conflicts of interest and marketing 7. Commuication is hard, and mecha feet are cool 8. Morrigan Aensland is mecha and you cannot change my mind 9. re: Last Exile is not dieselpunk; its post-steampunk deleuzian dreams 10. Mecha PMC promotion is back, in pog form 11. Bodies, corporeal schema, and the body language of pilots 12. The blessing of the hounds; main system engaging combat mode 13. Exotic doctrine: Grappling & Booster-fu // torsion, aspect and control 14. Osaka, why do you always want to talk about ACFA? 15. You walk, so they can run

# Miscposting: Immacullate vibe-topia Pilot, for you: Love. Love. The sound of the ideal cockpit Left Hand/Right hand [gone]-- Mechposting vibes soundwall 🇸​​🇮​​🇨​​🇰​​🇧​​🇪​​🇦​​🇹​​🇸​ ​🇹​​🇴​ ​🇸​​🇪​​🇪​​🇰​ ​🇦​​🇳​​🇩​ ​🇩​​🇪​​🇸​​🇹​​🇷​​🇴​​🇾​ ​🇹​​🇴​: A #mechposting playlist [ongoing] Cicatrix: A writing playlist Sounds for violence: Mecha games vs FPS games

# Pilotcore: Dress & attire 1. Attire concept (includes #mechposting patch list) 2. Crew attire for things other than piloting a giant robot 3. Singleton over-jacket 4. Radios, straps and whips 5. Wearable keyboard for pilots 6. What color should a flight-suit be? (#AskOsaka from @siveine)

The smart stuff

Reading this will help you grow as a person, or ask questions

"I experience depression as a failure of resource allocation systems" Adult social skills 101, because the world broke our ability to understand eachother Mental health: Things I wish I knew in my teens, my 20's or even my early 30's ​Sex-positivity, associations, critical thinking & deradicalization Crossing the hrt libido event horizon without libido heat-death by making biscuits Fool!: Your nostalgia isn't real: Your past has been stolen from you! Why Linux diehards are morons, and so is everybody else too On the ecology of slurs and the evolution of language Individualism can mean many things. The three fetishes of the human condition The real meaning of "you will not be an anime girl, you'll be your mom"

The dumb stuff

Insightful, but stupid.

The collapse of the anime ecology's biodiversity Cycles of Nostalgia: Nobody is going to be nostalgic for Corporate Memphis Europe doesn't teach the Odyssey: Americentricism's fetishism is already its downfall Feeling used: The eternal disappointment of the Sawano Drop Lame? Bitch please: Clubbing deserves to go extinct every pmdd transmasc is that badass hot painting of satan crying The reviewer made a major error The Maid's Paradox Bread real

The horrors

Robo ComBAT: Cactus Jaque (original)

The Fear

Concerning plunges into the ne plus ultra culture of tomorrow

Humbert complex: When people prefer what they imagine to what's really there White Diamond, fascism, projection, ego, how Steven Universe botched its end. Sandwich names: the internet sucks now and smartphones are to blame! Gatekeeping is weird and knowledge-checks are arbitrary nonsense "The internet feels gross now", a trajectory of human events Providing feedback is also a skill and not everybody has it. AI isn't evil but it does embolden the worst people economics is just twitter brain for worth Do you?

My actual projects:

Art (I'm kind of private about my output and don't post often, sorry)

Pixelart: A very silly computer design that makes me smile idk

Games:

Project Force: 6dof aerodynamic high speed robot action [ongoing] Inspired by Armored Core For Answer, Freespace 2, Zone of the Enders 2 & Ace Combat 3, this game aims to merge their elements into a high speed mech sim.

e: yeesh this pinned post is getting kinda huge, I should break it into sub-pages or something so nobody can ever see any of it lol

[porterr-robinson]

v.2

[usedtobehmc]

If I ever don’t reblog this, you can assume I’m dead. It’s just pure, sound-design gold.

The cuts, the slow ramp-ups, how it matches his dance moves.

MWAH.

[jasmineiros]

[shitswiftiessay]

also, its sister tweet:

[dandalfthe-gay-deactivated20251]

How could you forget:

[galacticism]

[slushi-chan]

Had to add this gem

[therobotmonster]

Pouring one out for Poison Junior.

[bespangeled]

In the 1960′s Legally a woman couldn’t

Open a bank account or get a credit card without signed permission from her father or hr husband.

Serve on a jury - because it might inconvenience the family not to have the woman at home being her husband’s helpmate.

Obtain any form of birth control without her husband’s permission. You had to be married, and your hub and had to agree to postpone having children.

Get an Ivy League education. Ivy League schools were men’s colleges ntil the 70′s and 80′s. When they opened their doors to women it was agree that women went there for their MRS. Degee.

Experience equality in the workplace: Kennedy’s Commission on the Status of Women produced a report in 1963 that revealed, among other things, that women earned 59 cents for every dollar that men earned and were kept out of the more lucrative professional positions.

Keep her job if she was pregnant.Until the Pregnancy Discrimination Act in 1978, women were regularly fired from their workplace for being pregnant.

Refuse to have sex with her husband.The mid 70s saw most states recognize marital rape and in 1993 it became criminalized in all 50 states. Nevertheless, marital rape is still often treated differently to other forms of rape in some states even today.

Get a divorce with some degree of ease.Before the No Fault Divorce law in 1969, spouses had to show the faults of the other party, such as adultery, and could easily be overturned by recrimination.

Have a legal abortion in most states.The Roe v. Wade case in 1973 protected a woman’s right to abortion until viability.

Take legal action against workplace sexual harassment. According to The Week, the first time a court recognized office sexual harassment as grounds for legal action was in 1977.

Play college sports Title IX of the  Education Amendments of protects people from discrimination  based on sex in education programs or activities that receive Federal financial  assistance It was nt until this statute that colleges had teams for women’s sports

Apply for men’s Jobs   The EEOC rules that sex-segregated help wanted ads in newspapers are illegal.  This ruling is upheld in 1973 by the Supreme Court, opening the way for women to apply for higher-paying jobs hitherto open only to men.

This is why we needed feminism - this is why we know that feminism works

[galacticdrift]

I just want to reiterate this stuff, because I legit get the feeling there are a lot of younger women for whom it hasn’t really sunk in what it is today’s GOP is actively trying to return to.

Did you go to a good college? Shame on you, you took a college placement that could have gone to a man who deserves and needs it to support or prepare for his wife & children. But if you really must attend college, well, some men like that, you can still get married if you focus on finding the right man.

Got a job? Why? A man could be doing that job. You should be at home caring for a family. You shouldn’t be taking that job away from a man who needs it (see college, above). You definitely don’t have a career – you’ll be pregnant and raising children soon, so no need to worry about promoting you.

This shit was within living memory.  I’M A MILLENIAL and my mother was in the second class that allowed women at an Ivy League school. Men who are alive today either personally remember shit like this or have parents/family who have raised them into thinking this was the way America functioned back in the blissful Good Old Days. There are literally dudes in the GOP old enough to remember when it was like this and yearn for those days to return.

When people talk about resisting conservativism and the GOP, we’re not just talking about whether the wage gap is a myth or not. We’re talking about whether women even have the fundamental right to exist as individuals, to run their own households and compete for jobs and be considered on an equal footing with men in any arena at all in the first place.

[gehayi]

I was a child in the 1960s, a teenager in the 1970s, a young adult in the 1980s. This is what it was like: When I was growing up, it was considered unfortunate if a girl was good at sports. Girls were not allowed in Little League. Girls’ teams didn’t exist in high school, except at all-girls’ high schools. Boys played sports, and girls were the cheerleaders. People used to ask me as a child what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said I wanted to be a brain surgeon or the first woman justice on the Supreme Court. Everyone told me it was impossible–those just weren’t realistic goals for a girl–the latter, especially, because you couldn’t trust women to judge fairly and rationally, after all. In the 1960s and 1970s, all women were identified by their marital status, even in arrest reports and obituaries. In elementary school, my science teacher referred to Pierre Curie as DOCTOR Curie and Marie Curie as MRS. Curie…because, as he put it, “she was just his wife.” (Both had doctorates and both were Nobel prize winners, so you would think that both would be accorded respect.) Companies could and did require women to wear dresses and skirts. Failure to do could and did get women fired. And it was legal. It was also legal to fire women for getting married or getting pregnant. The rationale was that a woman who was married or who had a child had no business working; that was what her husband was for. Aetna Insurance, the biggest insurance company in America, fired women for all of the above. A man could rape his wife. Legally. I can remember being twelve years old and reading about legal experts actually debating whether or not a man could actually be said to coerce his wife into having sex. This was a serious debate in 1974. The debate about marital rape came up in my law school, too, in 1984. Could a woman be raped by her husband? The guys all said no–a woman got married, so she was consenting to sex at all times. So I turned it around. I asked them if, since a man had gotten married, that meant that his wife could shove a dildo or a stick or something up his ass any time she wanted to for HER sexual pleasure. (Hey, I thought it was reasonable. If one gender was legally entitled to force sex on the other, then obviously the reverse should also be true.) The male law students didn’t like the idea. Interestingly, they commented that being treated like that would make them feel like a woman. My reaction was, “Thank you for proving my point…” The concept of date rape, when first proposed, was considered laughable. If a woman went out on a date, the argument of legal experts ran, sexual consent was implied. Even more sickening was the fact that in some states–even in the early 1980s–a man could rape his daughter…and it was no worse than a misdemeanor. Women taking self-defense classes in the 1970s and 1980s were frequently described in books and on TV as “cute.” The implication was that it was absurd for a woman to attempt to defend herself, but wasn’t it just adorable for her to try? I was expressly forbidden to take computer classes in junior and senior years of high school–1978-79 and 1979-80–because, as the principal told me, “Only boys have to know that kind of thing. You girls are going to get married, and you won’t use it.” When I was in college–from 1980 to 1984–there were no womens’ studies. The idea hadn’t occurred in many places because the presumption was that there was nothing TO study. My history professor–a man who had a doctorate in history–informed me quite seriously that women had never produced a noted painter, sculptor, composer, architect or scientist because…wait for it…womens’ brains were too small. (He was very surprised when I came up with a list of fifty women gifted in the arts and science, most of whom he had never heard of before.) When Walter Mondale picked Geraldine Ferraro as a running mate in 1984, the press hailed it as a disaster. What would happen, they asked fearfully, if Mondale died and Ferraro became president? What if an international crisis arose and she was menstruating? She could push the nuclear button in a fit of PMS! It would be the end of the WORLD!! …No, they WEREN’T kidding. On the surface, things are very different now than they were when I was a child, a teen and a young adult. But I’m afraid that people now do not realize what it was like then. I’ve read a lot of posts from young women who say that they are not feminists. If the only exposure to feminism they have is the work of extremists, I cannot blame them overmuch. I wish that I could tell them what feminism was like when it was new–when the dream of legal equality was just a dream, and hadn’t even begun to come true. When “woman’s work” was a sneer–and an overt putdown. When people tut-tutted over bright and athletic girls with the words, “Really, it’s a shame she’s not a boy.” That lack of feminism wasn’t all men opening doors and picking up checks. A lot of it was an attitude of patronizing contempt that hasn’t entirely died out, but which has become less publicly acceptable. I wish I could make them feel what it was like…when grown men were called “men” and grown women were “girls.”

[drst]

Know your history.

[hedwig-dordt]

So this, too, is what they mean saying “make America great again” and/or the good old days.

[shatterpath]

REBLOG FOREVER.

[toooldforthissh--stuff]

I am 70. I remember all those things. I was a student nurse from 64 to 67 and we were not permitted to “finish” a bed bath on a male or insert a catheter in a male. Seeing male genitals might cause us “harm” or upset our delicate sensibilities. Imagine when we graduated and were “thrown” to the wolves. Imagine if you were a male patient who had to be the first to be “practiced” on by a graduate nurse. (Ha!) At the school I attended no student nurse could be married. Only one school in my city (Atlanta) would even admit married women and Male Nurses weren’t even thought of. What man would want to be a nurse when he could be a Doctor. In all my training I only remember 3 or 4 Women who were Doctor’s and a very few, (less than 5 or 6) female interns or residents (and this was a teaching hospital) and most of those were OB/Gyns and one was a pediatrician.

When I graduated and was going to get married I wanted to go on birth control pills. You needed to be on them for a least one cycle before they were effective. I won’t go into what hoops I had to jump through to get a prescription from my Dr. (a man, natch) but when i went to the drug store to get the prescription filled I ended up having to get my future husband to “accompany” me so the pharmacist “interview” him and see if it was okay with him for me to be on the pill.

Even when we went to get a marriage license I had to get my Father’s signature and we had to go before a Judge because I was not yet 21 (I was 20 and 9 months).

I could go on and on, getting a credit card in MY name, etc., but I will tell you that WE MUST RESIST.

[casper-the-friendly-being-blog]

The number of people I know who romanticize gender inequality is frankly terrifying. A world never existed in which the lives of women were simplified by benevolent men who saw to her every want and need. That was not a thing. A world never existed in which women were all ladies, men were all gentlemen, & everything was some great big cishet fairytale. Feminists aren’t a bunch of upstarts who want to destroy a perfectly wholesome and non-harmful system. Just…look at history. Look at the posts above. We. Must. Resist..

[rivergst-deactivated20191102]

About 8: The State of New York only added No-Fault Divorce as an option in 2010 (!!!)

[systlin]

I want to repeat here. 

This is what they mean, when they say “Old-fashioned values”

When conservatives start waxing lyrical about the ‘good old days’, this is what they mean. They are fully aware how much things blew for women, and they would like to return to that. 

[whatbigotspost]

At first I re-blogged this with no commentary added because it’s already so thorough and good.

But then I realized I actually do want to add something. This was written nine years ago. In the 9 years that have come to pass the white nationalist Christian fascism ultra right agenda of misogyny has had many victories.

In the United States just off the top of my head a very few examples: there’s no longer a legally protected right to abortion. Countless laws across our country police, how woman you must look or be to enter a public bathroom. We know with certainty the president and countless people around him are pedophiles and rapists. Women’s participation in the workforce has been rolled back to 1980s levels. The pressure to be thin is higher now than 10 years ago.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[anoxthon]

[anoxthon]

[anoxthon]

[anoxthon]

[osakanone]

little bird

even if you break easily

you are not disposable

[toskarin]

lining a yaoi paddle with dollar store razors in some crude approximation of a macuahuitl, for the fujoshi wars

[transgenderer]

I made it! It immediately took some of my blood

[cryptotheism]

Enchanted weapon

[osakanone]

why does this yaoi-paddle say yuri/yaoi?

shouldn't it say uke (bottom) and seme (top)?

did we move far enough now that yaoi is bottom and yuri is the new top?

I admire the guile. This is an excellent weapon. It hungers.

[imminentchaos]

The Artemis II mission is making me feel things

[notbecauseofvictories]

SUPER TOP SECRET WORK HACK!!! If you explicitly tell people, "You are an adult and a professional, I trust you to do your job; just keep me in the loop and let me know if there are questions," then thank and/or praise them when they accomplish your mutual goals? they will keep doing things for and with you. Sometimes they will even side with you over other people in the organization, because you've taken the time to establish that baseline respect and trust! hashtag winning or whatever

[sonneillonv]

I just want to say this can work with kids too, mostly because of the 'respect' thing.

This past month, Parks & Rec has been doing a lot of work on the field adjacent to my school. They have trucks with flatbeds, mowing/tree-cutting/postholing machinery, etc. And when they arrived, I (campus monitor) was told I would need to herd the kids away from the trucks/machinery and basically prevent them from creating a dangerous situation.

So when recess came around and the kids stampeded out the door I held them up and I said (being funny but at the same time serious, you know how it is, kids listen better if you're funny)

"Okay, I know that you're all smart AND mature, right? And talented and good looking? Definitely the smartest and most talented class in this school? (I say this to every class, they're all 'my favorites'.) And because you're SO intelligent and mature, I don't need to actually TELL you that these guys have vehicles and machinery that you need to stay clear of, right? Because I know you figured that out already, and I also know that YOU know how sad I would be if any of you were run over, or squashed, or had a pole fall on you. I would be SO SAD, like, I would probably have to lie down on the floor and cry. So you're not going to make me cry, right? I can trust you to stay away from the trucks and machines no matter where they are on the field? Because you're wonderful and amazing? My favorites? My inspiration?"

And they're laughing at me of course, because I'm being so dramatic. Some of them are "Yes, and-"ing my dramatics and inventing more involved mourning processes I should undertake if any of them get run over. Some of them are yelling at me that they are NOT mature yet and they are VERY STUPID and I should know this.

It's been three weeks. We had one conversation about it. None of them have gone anywhere near the trucks. This is actually in excess of the typical elementary-schooler's working memory and I'm very proud of them. I haven't had to blow the whistle at ONE person for getting too close even when the trucks were literally 40 feet from the actual playground.

"I know I can trust you to do this", even when phrased with humor, is like a magic key that unlocks teamwork+cooperation.

[onbearfeet]

I usually phrased it to middle-schoolers as, "I was a weird artist before I was a teacher, so I don't understand how children work, really. So I am going to treat you guys like adults unless and until you give me a reason not to." It's amazing how far they'll go to keep that adult status.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

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

[gulyas069]

[gulyas069]

hmmm

[lovehael]

One of their last Tweets before the account got suspended:

With an update since getting it back:

[transcriptroopers]

Veteran here, can confirm that you can get "failure to adapt"ed practically just by asking for it. It's even easier if you're still in basic or AIT. You may face some harassment, but that's leagues better than being a killing tool.

Happy to talk if anyone needs guidance.

[shamebats]

[3liza]

[shamebats]

Meanwhile this was what various medical professionals in that reddit thread had to say about it.

They do not, in fact, love it.

[the-whitmore-excursus]

Wasn't chiropracting invented by a guy who claimed to have learned it from a ghost, or is that a tumblr myth?

[shamebats]

Daniel David Palmer - Wikipedia

As an active spiritist, D. D. Palmer said he "received chiropractic from the other world" from a deceased physician named Dr. Jim Atkinson. "The knowledge and philosophy given me by Dr. Jim Atkinson, an intelligent spiritual being, together with explanations of phenomena, principles resolved from causes, effects, powers, laws and utility, appealed to my reason. The method by which I obtained an explanation of certain physical phenomena, from an intelligence in the spiritual world, is known in biblical language as inspiration. In a great measure The Chiropractor's Adjuster was written under such spiritual promptings."

He did, in fact, claim to have learned chiropractic from a ghost of a dead doctor.

[gayteensupreme]

"queer-owned business" means nothing anymore. OpenAI and Palantir are both queer-owned businesses.

[gayteensupreme]

if this is how you find out that both sam altman and peter thiel are gay im sorry

[osakanone]

they're gay, but they're not queer.

not even a little.

to anybody confused, they don't actually mean the same thing: gay and trans people who are assimilationists are definitionally not queer.

if you uphold the power-structures that abuse us and throw our future under the bus (most currently liberalism , but it has had many names throughout history if you study it), you aren't queer.

despite how badly altman and thiel want it, they do not invent the future.

the queers do.

[sisterreisaid]

No True Scotsman

[osakanone]

False charge of no true scottsman: I think you're fundamentally misunderstanding me.

To clarify, I'm not defending a generalization by denying the validity of a counter-example (what No True Scottsman definitionally is): I'm providing categorical seperation of subtype to create a semiotic contrast.

I needed language to tell things apart, so I used it in the way which made sense to me.

I'm trying to use this as a means to explain a thing which is an attribute (you either are, you aren't or you have multiple overlapping attributes) is not the same as a thing which is a quality (which is defined as a proximity to an attribute, either toward or away from it).

In this case, gay and trans are attributes, and queerness is a quality.

My personal belief is that queer is socially cultural and personally cultural as a model for viewing and experiencing the world informed by a certain set of experiences you typically have to be gay or trans to have.

Not everybody who has those experiences adopts that model.

Many go in the opposite direction, away from what I've come to understand queerness as both inside myself and others.

I firmly believe queer liberation and aggressive assimilation (specifically types which come at the cost of those like the self) can't co-exist in the same person. Their goals are inherently oppositional.

As an example, I think bioessentialists are less queer than non-bioessentialists. I think nonbinary people are more queer than binary people. I think trans people are queerer than gay people.

I want to make it clear, I don't view it as "you are better" -- more "you are further from the enforced norms of the straight patriarchal dominated social system, if we picture queerness as a gradient".

I am not using it as a set, I am using it as a measure of proximity based on how it was originally used. It isn't a club, its a distance of how far away from "the gender and sexual (gene expression and gender expression) and sexual (attraction) mainstream of the people who run things" you happen to be.

No True Scottsman is about sets and classifications and this is about measures and connections. The function of No True Scottsman is the rejection of examples. The examples aren't being rejected, they're being contexturalized.

These dudes have more cultural straightness than cultural queerness.

Thiel literally broke American journalism by establishing a new legal precedent over that fact, because he didn't want anybody to know he was gay out of fear they'd think he was queer.

That with his relationship with the US government, it would some how queer the deal.

Sam Altman said he doesn't think about the fact he's gay. He never has to. He is so isolated by wealth and he hides his gayness that he never has to consider gayness, so he never collects the prejudicial experiences that inform the sensitivity and consideration that fundamentally form queerness in the first place.

Queerness is weird soft little moments between people. Its when a trans woman rants about spiders. Its when a T-Boy makes wrestling tender. Its when a gay dude drops the affectation of a straight man's way of speaking (look it up, the way straight men talk isn't found in native populations, its a factor of colonialism). Its the way a lesbian will use the language of violence to describe her yearning. Its seeing more than seven colors, and more than twelve emotions.

Its the need to find sensitivity so when you find any kind of joy you can get as much as possible out of it because it might not come so quickly.

Its the sensitivity to listen and consider someone who is not like you, because you are not like others.

When an astronaut looks at the Earth from afar and says "Trust us, you look amazing, you look beautiful. From up here, you all look like one thing", that's damn queer compared to the establishment's view of the world.

To quote @joansilence

You can see a lot of this if you go back into the etymology of straight or queer as originally indicating conventional or unconventional. We narrowed down to focus on them as sexualities, but a "straight" sexuality has a lot conceptually in common with being "straight edge" "straight laced" "straight and narrow" with queer being an antonym indicating unconventional, eccentric, outsider, etc. Peter Thiel is extremely straight. You can parallel the "straightening" of gay men to the way whiteness was extended to the Irish and Italians. Many gay white men engage in separate culture, separate spaces, and separate politics than queers. Even in my town we have a gay bar and a queer bar owned by a queer bar: different vibes, different patrons, different spaces, different culture. There are many gay men, particularly trans men, who are part of queer culture, but sexuality alone is not an indication of cultural affiliation.

[osakanone]

Queer is an adjective and an attribute, not a noun and a group.

When someone says "Oh I'm queer" -- I'm like "A queer what?"

Straightness and whiteness as adjective and attribute are part and parcel of the same thing. They are exclusive, insider, conventional.

A lot of people think queer is a slur, because they see it as exclusionary. They obsess over being kicked out, not realizing what they were kicked out of.

Guys like Thiel and Altman weren't kicked out. They run the show, seemingly paradoxically. How? Simple: These things are the sociological expressions of class.

Remember: No war but class war.

[gayteensupreme]

"queer-owned business" means nothing anymore. OpenAI and Palantir are both queer-owned businesses.

[gayteensupreme]

if this is how you find out that both sam altman and peter thiel are gay im sorry

[osakanone]

they're gay, but they're not queer.

not even a little.

to anybody confused, they don't actually mean the same thing: gay and trans people who are assimilationists are definitionally not queer.

if you uphold the power-structures that abuse us and throw our future under the bus (most currently liberalism , but it has had many names throughout history if you study it), you aren't queer.

despite how badly altman and thiel want it, they do not invent the future.

the queers do.

[sisterreisaid]

No True Scotsman

[osakanone]

False charge of no true scottsman: I think you're fundamentally misunderstanding me.

To clarify, I'm not defending a generalization by denying the validity of a counter-example (what No True Scottsman definitionally is): I'm providing categorical seperation of subtype to create a semiotic contrast.

I needed language to tell things apart, so I used it in the way which made sense to me.

I'm trying to use this as a means to explain a thing which is an attribute (you either are, you aren't or you have multiple overlapping attributes) is not the same as a thing which is a quality (which is defined as a proximity to an attribute, either toward or away from it).

In this case, gay and trans are attributes, and queerness is a quality.

My personal belief is that queer is socially cultural and personally cultural as a model for viewing and experiencing the world informed by a certain set of experiences you typically have to be gay or trans to have.

Not everybody who has those experiences adopts that model.

Many go in the opposite direction, away from what I've come to understand queerness as both inside myself and others.

I firmly believe queer liberation and aggressive assimilation (specifically types which come at the cost of those like the self) can't co-exist in the same person. Their goals are inherently oppositional.

As an example, I think bioessentialists are less queer than non-bioessentialists. I think nonbinary people are more queer than binary people. I think trans people are queerer than gay people.

I want to make it clear, I don't view it as "you are better" -- more "you are further from the enforced norms of the straight patriarchal dominated social system, if we picture queerness as a gradient".

I am not using it as a set, I am using it as a measure of proximity based on how it was originally used. It isn't a club, its a distance of how far away from "the gender and sexual (gene expression and gender expression) and sexual (attraction) mainstream of the people who run things" you happen to be.

No True Scottsman is about sets and classifications and this is about measures and connections. The function of No True Scottsman is the rejection of examples. The examples aren't being rejected, they're being contexturalized.

These dudes have more cultural straightness than cultural queerness.

Thiel literally broke American journalism by establishing a new legal precedent over that fact, because he didn't want anybody to know he was gay out of fear they'd think he was queer.

That with his relationship with the US government, it would some how queer the deal.

Sam Altman said he doesn't think about the fact he's gay. He never has to. He is so isolated by wealth and he hides his gayness that he never has to consider gayness, so he never collects the prejudicial experiences that inform the sensitivity and consideration that fundamentally form queerness in the first place.

Queerness is weird soft little moments between people. Its when a trans woman rants about spiders. Its when a T-Boy makes wrestling tender. Its when a gay dude drops the affectation of a straight man's way of speaking (look it up, the way straight men talk isn't found in native populations, its a factor of colonialism). Its the way a lesbian will use the language of violence to describe her yearning. Its seeing more than seven colors, and more than twelve emotions.

Its the need to find sensitivity so when you find any kind of joy you can get as much as possible out of it because it might not come so quickly.

Its the sensitivity to listen and consider someone who is not like you, because you are not like others.

When an astronaut looks at the Earth from afar and says "Trust us, you look amazing, you look beautiful. From up here, you all look like one thing", that's damn queer compared to the establishment's view of the world.

To quote @joansilence

You can see a lot of this if you go back into the etymology of straight or queer as originally indicating conventional or unconventional. We narrowed down to focus on them as sexualities, but a "straight" sexuality has a lot conceptually in common with being "straight edge" "straight laced" "straight and narrow" with queer being an antonym indicating unconventional, eccentric, outsider, etc. Peter Thiel is extremely straight. You can parallel the "straightening" of gay men to the way whiteness was extended to the Irish and Italians. Many gay white men engage in separate culture, separate spaces, and separate politics than queers. Even in my town we have a gay bar and a queer bar owned by a queer bar: different vibes, different patrons, different spaces, different culture. There are many gay men, particularly trans men, who are part of queer culture, but sexuality alone is not an indication of cultural affiliation.