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it should make you angrier how few black transfems are on this site let alone active

like i feel insane. why do so few people notice this disparity? so many black transfems have fled, deactivated, or been terminated. the few who are left are usually getting targeted by harassment campaigns, denied autonomy, treated as mere scapegoats, and are often forced to stay in this murderously hostile environment for mutual aid reasons. why do we not notice this more???

valleyhowler

There are hardly any female werewolves because they break all the classic rules of femininity. They force you to confront female violence, strength, size, grotesqueness and uncontrollability. Historically female shapeshifters always shift into something dangerous (snake) or sleek (cat) or dainty (bird) but female werewolves ignore the masculine gaze completely. They're distorted beasts that have no ulterior motive except to destroy. Nothing about them is nurturing or modest. They're the opposite of what a woman "should be." Their omission from pop culture is not an accident.

kirikomamura

whenever the conversation about difficulty and accessibility in games come up i want to slam my head into a wall because noone thats speaking has anything more than a surface level understanding of what "difficulty" even is

kirikomamura

your game should have accessibility options, but if your only accessibility options are "turn off central game mechanics" then you have made shit accessibility options.

kirikomamura

you know what accessibility option doesnt completely fucking butcher your game while allowing almost everyone to play it? an option that is not available in 99.99% of all games ever made? easy:

kirikomamura

bonus points: if you put a game speed slider in your game you can also allow Absolute Fucking Freaks to turn it higher than 100%

veronicas-junk-and-stuff

How I ended up coming out to my mom.

She was supportive.

aya--bb

genuinely I'm so sick of people wanting all fiction to be ethical. can we all just get a little gross with it. the point of fiction is that it's not real. we can be unethical in fiction; same goes with being perverted with fiction, being unrealistic with fiction, and being grotesque with fiction. not all fiction has to be ethical, not every character has to be ethical, and that's okay. can we stop with the puritanism. be gross. be unrealistic. be whatever. if I don't like it it's not my business as long as we're all clear that its fictional.

notemily

via ered.bsky.social, the only kinds of unethical fiction:

people in the replies are going "what about books glorifying unethical things" and "what if it's propaganda" and you, my friends, are who this comic was made for

paranoid-parakeet

actually the human skin that book was printed on was synthetically made in a lab with no spinal cord attached and therefore cannot feel pain

teaboot

The only downside to talking to small children like they’re normal people and treating them like normal people (as per my mom) is that as they develop into bigger children they are viscerally aware of every single moment in which they are pandered to like stupid little accessories (as per my dad, my teacher, the special ed aide, every adult in my middle school) and you end up getting a lot of phone calls from people reporting your kid for (checks notes) “undermining authority”, “disrupting the classroom environment”, “disobeying elder peers”, and “unionizing the grade eleven gym class with intent to incite a mutiny” (as per me) and you end up with a Grown Adult who will absolutely encourage and enable other people’s children to fuck the sustem

teaboot

Anyhow the most empowering shit you can say to a kid in my experience has to be

“Wow that adult was being a jerk”

“That sounds really frustrating”

”Good job handling that, I would have lost my mind”

“It’s cool, I don’t expect you to remember me”

“You don’t have to hug me if you don’t want to”

“Yeah sometimes (authority figure you can’t avoid) doesn’t know what they’re talking about, it’s not your fault, just do your best”

“I don’t totally understand what you mean but I get that you’re upset, is there anything I can do?”

”Wanna go yell and break stuff with me?”

“You don’t need to be friends with that kid as long as you can still be polite”

“If an adult tells you to do something that will get you hurt, you don’t have to listen.”

“My number one goal is to keep you safe, but I don’t know everything and sometimes I’m wrong, so let me know if I make a mistake.”

“Man. Today sucked.”

“Yeah I also kinda wanna cry right now”

“Whoops, yeah, my bad”

“I don’t know the answer to that but we can probably figure it out”

myirlnameiscloud

ISTG, IF I HEAR THE "intersex people can't have both :/" BULLSHIT ONE MORE TIME I'M GOING TO SCREAM.

Oh so we can't have both? Both WHAT?

Both a penis and a vagina? Sorry I have both a penis and a vagina I guess. Fuck you.

Both ovaries and testes? I guess people with ovotestes and similar gonad setups can just vanish I guess. Fuck you.

Both.... what? BOTH WHAT??? I CAN'T.

myirlnameiscloud

Reblogging because I'm just so fucking sick of all the erasure of people who have "both" within and outside of the intersex community.

The "intersex people can't have both" thing hurts people in real life. You have to understand the real effects of this.

Every time I see "it's a myth that intersex people have both a penis and a vagina, actually!" I feel sick to my stomach. Because they're trying to hide who I am. I'm too gross to be seen or thought of by them, so to put them at ease, they'll act like I'm a myth. You think my doctors didn't try to hide that I had a penis and a vagina too? You think they didn't try to act like that was a myth too? You're acting the same as the people who forced CIMI onto me.

I had a hard time accepting I had a penis and a vagina because of this exact sentiment. Reading about it in medical documents about me made me SO CONFUSED. That confusion could have been avoided had I not been exposed to the sentiment that "intersex people can't have both". Hell, if intersexism weren't a thing, I wouldn't have to go digging around my medical records to find out this information in the first place.

If it disgusts you to think that intersex people can have a penis and a vagina, or if you spread the idea that intersex people can't have a penis and a vagina, you need to change that. You are allowing the world to hide information from intersex people about our own bodies.

INTERSEX PEOPLE CAN HAVE "BOTH" WHETHER IT MAKES YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE OR NOT. Intersex people can look like ANYTHING. And frankly, I am sick of having my intersexuality hidden from everyone, including myself.

I'm not going to stop talking about this.

prokopetz

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

somethingusefulfromflorida

Thou wouldst not downloadeth a car

dubiousdisco

prguitarman

Happy Left Handers Day!

caressthosecheekbones

nasa is using a 3D world graphic for the solar eclipse thingy today where germany is still devided in east and west adjfglkafdhgadfg. buddies, it's been almost 40 years.

chthonion

So I showed this to a physicist and they were like "Oh! Yes! It's a figure from Fred Espenak's very old paper where he did a bunch of eclipse graphics! I've been looking at these my entire internet life, basically, for every solar eclipse! They called him Mr. Eclipse. He just passed away recently 🥺"

Anyway apparently Mr. Eclipse made 5000 years' worth of solar eclipse graphics, which you can find the simpler versions of here

So now instead of laughing at NASA for their outdated graphics I'm emotional about Mr. Eclipse and his hard work

josephskeery

My mom just sent me this video without any context??

animentality

thanks mom, how’d you know what i was doing today

paganinpurple

For the love of Gods, unmute this please

gayvampyr

[transcript:

Tomato ketchup is a popular condiment, used on everything from french fries to meatloaf. Fans of this red pasty sauce dribble it on almost every food you can think of. Ketchup begins with a combination of organic ingredients. Coagulated blood, urine, cocaine, nutmeg, more cocaine, and rubbing alcohol. As coagulated blood is the base ingredient, workers start the process by using a box cutter to uncover the giant vat of imported gore. After peeling back the biohazard protection cover, one of the workers scoops some out into a cup like ice cream. This part isn’t crucial to the manufacturing process, but it’s a required ritual to keep the gods at bay. Once the lords of the underworld have been appeased, the vat of guts is slowly pushed underneath an air-driven pump, while the machinist eagerly awaits to press a button. (pause) There, he pressed it.

Tentacles above begin to suck out the gore, sending bits of the blood to larger holding tanks located on the other side of the warehouse. Intricate hydraulic piping mashes the former bits of human in a nightmarish way. However, this step readies the base ingredient for the kettle cooking phase. Technicians continuously observe the sadistic stew from above, making sure the mixers properly thin out the crimson mash. Now, it’s time for the cocaine. This particular company uses 100% pure, uncut Colombian cocaine. And they use a whole lot of it. The worker continues to add a lot of cocaina to the mixture until it’s ready for the pee. It can take a fully staffed warehouse over 2 days to fill each bucket with urine, so sewage lines are sometimes used as backup.

The last ingredient is the rubbing alcohol, a critical component to its astringent flavor profile. Meanwhile, the packaging line prepares 100%, non-recycled package for shipping. A bunch of machines do a bunch of things with the bottles, but who’s to say what is actually going on here. They continue down the line until they reach the filling stations. Eight mechanical syringes pump gory mash into the bottles, as the never-ending cycle of horror continues over and over. Some say the echoey screams of the souls inside can be heard as they make their way into their plastic. But the scooping ritual from earlier prevents any actual ghosts from making their way out into the warehouse.

The next machine, a capper, carefully seals the mix of human life and narcotics, insuring there’s an airtight fit on every bottle produced using automated circular belts. Decorative neckbands are sliced and diced on a separate assembly line, which are then slipped over the containers, in what workers affectionately call the Colombian necktie phase. A quick blast of 800 degree steam shrinks the plastic neckband, which is also probably made from non-recycled materials. Friendly-looking labels are printed and affixed to the front and back of the bottles, in an effort to liven up the horror show that comprises the inside of each and every container.

This machine grabs each bottle and sends it to the packaging department, which resembles a ski lift—albeit with more pain, suffering, and hazardous waste. It’s hard to believe there are no actual tomatoes in a ketchup recipe. But this pasty red goop continues to be one of the most popular condiments of all time.

end transcript]

songsofwaterandnight

No, app on my phone, I don't want to edit it with AI. I don't want to generate with AI. I don't want to ask the AI. I don't want to make AI wallpapers. I don't want to rewrite with AI. I don't want t-