The Life & Times of Blah Blah....

30-something queer pancake. Rambunctious disposition."Que sera, sera" perspective. Also nervous as shit. Lover of funnies and good feels. High hopes. Low expectations. Simple. Contradictory. Me in a nutshell.

[dankmemeuniversity]

[peculiarphoenix]

My feelings will probably still be hurt tho.

[blackqueerblog]

she loud and correct

[onlytwitterpics]

[peculiarphoenix]

I’m live-streaming with friends for charity!!!

I hope you’ll be able to stop by (and donate) :) 

(list is not all inclusive)

[randomweas]

[airportrunwaymodel]

This is like a Renaissance Painting 🖼

[cowpokeprose]

You hate yourself so loudly. You hate yourself at the top of your lungs. Your loathing for yourself permeates your speech. “Sorry I’m just rambling.” “Don’t worry about it.” “Just ignore me.” “Sorry if I’m annoying you.” “Sorry I don’t make sense.” “Sorry about that.” Sorry, sorry, sorry. You act as if you have to beat everyone else to the punch. As if the punching bag is you. If you hate yourself first, if you hate yourself loudest, then nobody will hurt you. You clapped your hands over your ears and shut your eyes and balled yourself up so that you’d never have to experience people’s loathing for you. And it meant you never heard their love. You drowned it out. You screamed your hatred over it. And you never got to hear it. 

[void-milf]

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals.  protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

[void-milf]

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity.  make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged.  and strike. attack.

[37womenwieldingknives]

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

[afraidofamericans]

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

[queeranarchism]

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

[anarchopuppy]

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

[mayflower-gal]

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

[eintsein]

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[peculiarphoenix]

It was not wise to watch this on break. 

Frick.

[peculiarphoenix]

I don’t know who needs to see this but you’re not crazy.

You’re not an asshole for ending things because it would do more harm than good to stay, despite loving the other person. 

Learn and grow. You can miss someone but still understand you deserve better. Sometimes two people are just not meant for eachother in a certain capacity, and that’s okay. 

[replicariku]

[raedmagdon]

You’ve got to understand that this was 2014. I’ve seen some younger lesbian, bi, and queer folks today going, “So what? They held hands. They didn’t even kiss.” Or people watching it for the first time, saying, “I don’t see what the big deal is. There wasn’t any build-up!” 

But the landscape of children’s TV was very different six years ago. Like, that moment when they looked into each other’s eyes in a beam of golden light was revolutionary. I was living in a house with other queer people and we ALL screamed and cried, just like this.

Korrasami paved the way for Steven Universe and She-Ra to do what they did in the following years. And, yes, those were leaps forward whereas this was a step. But I saw it on another post, and I’ll echo the sentiment: Korrasami walked so Catradora could sprint.

[korra-comics]

Same-sex marriage wasn’t legal in the US in 2014.

Not until 2016. Before that, the marriage was only recognized in a few states.

It might not seem like much now, but HOLY FUCK this moment in the finale was huge in 2014.

[thewillowtree3]

Legend of Korra was the first Western animated kids’ TV show to portray a same-sex relationship. Not only that, but with a lead character.

It was legendary in 2014 and will always be important in LGBTQ+ media history.

[nevaehtyler]

26-year-old Jamarion Robinson’s grandmother Beverly Nixon said her grandson was bipolar and schizophrenic. Still got shot 76 (!!!) times. Would a white person get the same treatment?

The witness said he saw more than a dozen patrol cars at the complex where US Marshals killed Robinson on August 5, 2016. Why were there no behavioral specialist? Surely one of them would know how to interact with a bipolar schizophrenic better than the police.

I’m absolutely disgusted.

Here’s Jamarion’s mother’s GoFundMe in case anyone is willing to help.

#JusticeForJamarion   #BlackLivesMatter

[kingrudegyalchina]

Oh god ..

[ordeal-moved-deactivated2021020]

this is how much they’ve raised as of June 26th, 2020.

[homojabi]

The amount of lesbians who know that they’re lesbians from a young age versus the amount of gay men who know that they’re gay from a young age shows a staggering difference in that most lesbians take way longer to realize that they’re gay.

Girls are told that dating men is supposed to be hard and essentially unfulfilling. That it’s normal to expend emotional and sexual labor without receiving anything or feeling anything in return. Girls are told that their attraction to men and relationships with men should be difficult and sometimes feel forced because men are so emotionally lacking or otherwise “hypermasculine”.

Realizing that you don’t like men because you’re gay versus just feeling emotionally exhausted or unable/unsure of how to “please” men is part of the reason why compulsory heterosexuality is so damaging. It forces many girls to continue to date men and to keep trying to feel attraction to them long after they’ve realized that there’s nothing there—particularly blaming themselves for the reasons why relationships with men don’t work out instead of thinking it’s an indicator of being gay, which most (though of course not all) gay men are able to recognize as an initial indicator early on.

[peculiarphoenix]

That last paragraph though.. 

[peculiarphoenix]

"A key difference between the quirky black girl and the previous archetypes is that the quirky black girl was created by black women, not by white people who wanted to keep black people oppressed." 

So what you’re saying is, I need to go watch Insecure? 

[peculiarphoenix]

Rp and it’s so true.

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Even in meditation you’ll face unpleasant truths - sit with it. Stare it face on. Acknowledge it. Let it flow.

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Some days I look forward to it and others I wince knowing my mind isn’t the best place to be... doing it anyway helps to sort through it all... even if it is only bit by bit.

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Small progress is still progress. Revel in the small victories but don’t rest on your laurels.

[tolstoyevskywrites-deactivated2]

Toph’s delight during this scene is incredible

[whitepeopletwitter]