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Natalia M. Millenial nerd from Poland. Graphic designer/Cartoonist (for hire!) Creator of Bikini Armor Battle Damage she/her they/them sexually frustrated loveless fuck Things I ALWAYS take seriously (in no particular order), so look out: -rape culture -the art of visual storytelling -character design -blatant double standards of society -freedom to criticize entertainment OzzieScribbler on deviantArt Tags:

[ozziescribbler]

Tongue Mining

The fourth issue of the anarcho-sci-fi literary journal featuring 20 profound authors exploring humanity and beyond.

For people rightfully concerned about big tech perpetuating literacy crisis via AI summaries and the like... please don't forget about the monolingualism crisis. Making people rely on machine translation instead of letting them learn foreign languages or giving job to professional translators is another facet of the same fascist project. And companies like Google are accelerating it at the speed of light by FORCING it on us via AI bullshit like auto-dubs which nobody asked for and setting them as default if your IP is not in the anglosphere. I have to stay vigilant about my apps resetting back to Polish unprompted, sometimes even when I set my entire device UI to English. YouTube keeps condescendingly assuming I need everything translated to my first language, no matter that most things I watched over the 20 years of its existence were in English.

Please read this Jack Morton short speculative story for an idea of how letting capitalism run the universal translator would influence the society. And in case you can't read-read right now, I got you covered with Margaret Killjoy doing audio version on her podcast (brisk 28 minutes):

CZM Book Club: "Tongue Mining" by Jack Morton Cool Zone Media Book Club | iHeart

<p>Margaret reads you a story about AI, translation, and love across languages.&nbsp;</p><p>See <a...

And when you're done with that, and I know it's a fucking cliche, go read 1984. Orwell had a lot of things to say about how controlling the language serves a totalitarian project.

[cat-skull]

imo the term "walkable" in "walkable cities" should be understood to mean "wheelchair accessible" as well, not just literally "possible to walk in". the act of walking in a city doesn't automatically make it walkable

[yaoiblackmold]

It's so nice being on tumblr because you don't even have to make your own post but people would still follow you anyways if you're good at rebloging posts they like

[booksandberries]

[i-once-was-a-bird]

Question for fellow AFAB/People without penises: Do you think about having a penis?

Yes - I am afab Transmasculine

No - I am afab Transmasculine

Yes - I am afab Transfeminine

No - I am afab Transfeminine

Yes - I am afab Transneutral

No - I am afab Transneutral

Yes - I am afab cisgender

No - I am afab cisgender

Yes - other

No - other

Im amab/other

Remaining time: 5 days 20 hours

Just a curiosity (definitely not questioning things about myself)

[angels-all-sin]

“ask me about” button PNGs credit not necessary but appreciated!

[depsidase]

[wenchyfloozymoo]

[water---damage]

Dr. Gachet with foxglove, 1890

[mini-wrants]

Outdoor in sun perfec t place for president to do speech! Outdoor very warm very soft put old man on green lawn under sun. Put old man in warm sun. no problem ever in warm sun because good view and audience can see long speech. Nice podium outdoor sunny perfect place for old president can trust warm sun to give nice view to President good luck to President. friend sun.

[crowtrobotx]

[womenintheirwebs-archived]

lesson of the day:

[depsidase]

[ozziescribbler]

Not as ready as last year, but I'm still doing Art Fight this July!

[ozziescribbler]

Not as ready as last year, but I'm still doing Art Fight this July!

[vexatiousvic]

Listen. If you tell people to kill themselves because of the pronouns they use for a fictional character, it's seriously time to log off and go outside

[autiebiographical]

I keep up with the news because I have to. Since my rights are seen as less important as cis-straight, neurotypical, non-disabled mens' rights, mine have a higher chance of being taken away.

Yes, I live in Canada, where my rights aren't nearly as threatened as those in the US, but US politics have a nasty habit of seeping up north, so I need to stay informed. It's stressful, it's panic inducing, but it's necessary.

[vexatiousvic]

I honestly don't understand how hard it is to accept that sometimes, just sometimes, minority groups want to talk about issues *specific to them*, and only about those issues, without mentioning how hard life is for every other minority group.

Sometimes, things just aren't about YOU. And just because they aren't about you, doesn't mean someone is oppressing you, or taking anything away from you, or is harming you.

In fact, it just doesn't have anything to you with you at all. Not everything is about you. Nobody is thinking about you.

And if you get offended by that, you might just be a bigot.

[kayforpay]

history fucked me up

oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built

[kayforpay]

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

[archaeologysucks]

You mean like this?

The Timetables of History by Bernard Grun

I grew up with this book, which is frickin’ enormous, and it was endlessly fascinating to young me to pour over the side by side comparison of events taking place concurrently under different headings and in different parts of the world.

Or if you want something you can put on your wall, there’s this:

World History Timeline

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

I had this book! My grandpa gave it to me and it was really freakin useful!!

[mckitterick]

I loved this book! Same for The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science.

Same for The Timetables of Technology: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Technology. Great references!

[lepetitpoete]

okay but here’s an even cooler (free!) visualization that goes a step further and tracks ideas, devices, infrastructures, and systems of power

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500

✨️with a special focus on colonialism, militarization, automation, and enclosure✨️

You can spend hours upon hours exploring this

[manfrommars2049]

UBI needs to happen. via antiwork

[hasufin]

I think most importantly, it would give us the leverage to say “no”. To walk away from bad jobs and abusive managers. To refuse to work in unsafe environments. To demand better pay.

To demand better, because the options are no longer “suck it up” or “die”.

[tehamelie]

The counter-argument: Not having UBI is in the interests of those in power who want to do anything to the people they are in power over in order to remain in power.

If the greed of the few should come before the need of the many.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

1,025 days left

[rmhashauthor]

Hundreds of studies from all over the world, from wealthy European countries to countries in the trenches of extreme poverty, show the same thing: Recipients of UBI spend that money on food, housing, education, paying down debt, investing in the future and generally improving their lives, pretty much universally.

They use the money to pay the first and last month’s rent on a better apartment. They buy school supplies and clothes for their kids. They go to the doctor for preventative care, seek mental health support, and get their kids glasses. They start a retirement fund. They can afford better quality food and repairs on their homes, appliances and cars. Many use the money to start a business or invest.

Know what they tend NOT to do? The vast majority do not buy drugs, they don’t drink it all away, they don’t gamble it away and they don’t blow it all on scratchers, iPhones or garish clothes. They aren’t disincentivized to work. None of those things are morally bad or wrong, but they are the most common arguments against UBI: “MEEEHHHHH WE CAN’T GIVE PEOPLE FREE MONEY THEY WON’T WORK AND THEY’LL BUY DRUUUUUGS!” Take a wild guess who is most often accused of spending money on drugs, scratchers and jewelry. Yep, POC. The mythical “welfare queen” we were all told to hate is a racist stereotype based on a handful of anecdotes during Reagan’s presidency and perpetuated by conservative white people who can’t handle the concept of sharing resources with someone who might be a little poorer, sicker, or darker than they are. Using the term “welfare queen” is a good indicator to me that they watch Fox “News” every day and haven’t had a thought of their own since the Gulf War.

Poverty is a failure of society, not the individual. Trapping people in shit jobs by tying their healthcare to employment is yet another way to abuse people just trying to (barely) survive. Stripping a disabled person of their social security for getting a job (because disability pay is such a pittance it’s embarrassing) is bullshit. UBI doesn’t disincentivize people from working, the way that capitalism works does. Creating a safety net won’t turn us all into lazy layabouts sitting at home on the couch eating chips all day, making it more of a pain in the ass just to live by jumping through endless hoops, meeting ridiculous job-hunting quotas, and peeing in a cup for the privilege of a few dollars a month in food stamps does. Learned helplessness is a result of a broken system that punishes you for following the rules.

[lizluvscupcakes]

Also if people wanna spend their money on drugs, that ought to be their business; I mean, aren’t Americans all about “I don’t want no governance scienticians observing my life and telling me what to do,” shouldn’t someone else taking drugs be just, them expressing their freedom the way you do?

[fading-bisexual-queen-milkshake]

Not when…it’s a dangerous addiction…that can kill them?… /nm just confused

[lizluvscupcakes]

We let people do the same thing with alcohol; THAT’S so prolific people feel comfortable making jokes about their chronic drinking problems.

And if you’re further confused, I recommend this video for details:

[daysleftofsecondterm]

my GOD, the notes on this post are APPALLING!

Setting aside how the “Facts And Logic” about why people shouldn’t het their basic needs met is all complete and utter horseshit (I know that’s a big ask already, just try), everyone in here is being unapologetically, unashamedly rude. It’s despicable. Your mothers raised you better than that. And if they didn’t, learn to BE better than that.