Something Something.. Oh Whatever.

White trans woman. Early thirties. I skate Derby, talk about things, and reblog a whole buncha shit. If I reblog something you disagree with come to me about it, don't start shit with the OP. Have fun, have a nice day, and be kind to each other.

[argumate]

If space travel doesn’t involve sea shanties then I think we’ll have missed an opportunity.

[collapsedsquid]

You see though, for sea travel you want big strong people who are capable of managing rigging.  For space travel you want small low-mass people who are technically educated, as they are called, nerds.  Your space shanties are going to be less booming and more squeaky.

[italo-disco-calvino]

in so far as there will be space shanties, they’ll be filk

[argumate]

I call shenanigans on the big strong people; sailors were young and malnourished by modern standards, and climbing around the rigging is easier if you’re small and light.

[krakenartificer]

Like, I am 100% in favor of shanties in as many situations as possible, but I’m having trouble coming up with a mode of space travel that would require multiple humans to move in concert, thus necessitating songs with a strong beat to move to.  

[animatedamerican]

Sea chanties were for providing a strong beat to move to.  Space chanties might very well arise just because we’re bored, out there between point A and point B for so long.

(Also yes, @gdanskcityofficial up there has the right of it.)

[bigscaryd]

Space shanties are for warp piloting. Under warp drive, human time perception and time as measured by crystal or atomic oscillators don’t match. Starship pilots listen to a small unamplified chorus singing a careful rhythm while keeping their own eyes on a silent metronome that the chorus can’t see, linked to a highly-precise atomic clock. How the chorus and metronome fall in and out of sync tells the pilot how to keep the ship safely in the warp bubble and correctly on course.

Depending on route, a typical warp jump can last anywhere from one to ten minutes, and most courses consist of five to fifteen jumps before a necessary four to six hour break to check the engines, plot the next set of jumps, and give everyone a chance to recover. A good shanty team, with reliable rhythm, a broad, versatile, and extendible repertoire, and the stamina to do 3-4 sets a day over the course of a voyage, is just as vital to space travel as a pilot, navigator, or engineering team.

[galahadiant]

@tmae3114

[jewishdragon]

YESSSSS

[gallusrostromegalus]

Other reasons Shanties will experience a revival in the space age:

We will sing for any freaking reason, or no reason at all, and Shanties are FUN to sing.

Deep Space is a lonely place and recruiting people suited to long periods of isolation might be a good idea.  People from Newfoundland/Labrador, for instance.

SPACE WHALES

THEY’RE DEFINITELY REAL I FEEL IT IN MY SOUL

“What Do We Do With A Drunken Sailor” is basically a revenge fantasy against your most incompetent co-workers and if there’s something humans love doing, it’s being petty.

[decepticonsensual]

Plus, no need for work songs in space?  Tell that to all my colleagues who’ve come up with little ditties they’ve sung under their breath while at the computer.

“The Printer Song” and “I Will Fucking End You, Google Chrome” are my favourites.

[polerin]

This idea is the core of one of Heinlein’s best short stories (imho).  The Green Hills of Earth.  I’ve only read it like 3 times, and not in years, but I still get shivers thinking about it.

[thatdiva]

“Black transgender people live in extreme poverty with 34% reporting a household income of $10,000 or less, over eight times the general population rate - National Black Justice Coalition” via Deviant Phoenix

[darklynoon-deactivated20170407]

Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

[polerin]

Doin the daaaance

[butchdotgov]

Millennial Sisyphus keeps entering all the information from his resume into the web form, only for it to delete everything when he tries to move to the next page. He just goes back and types it all up again, over and over again, forever, and he never gets a job.

[crystalandrock]

Millennial Tantalus has been promised that his unpaid internship will become a paid position as soon as the company has space for him. Every week he sees their new job posting. Every week he asks his boss if he can have a real job. The boss shrugs apologetically and says he’ll just have to make do with being paid in experience a little longer. He goes back and keeps working, over and over again, forever, and he never reaches the fruits of his labors.

[fiftysevenacademics]

Millennial Persephone can’t get a job without a degree, but because she had to take out loans to pay for college, she must spend 1/3 of her life working just to pay them off.

[sci-fantasy]

Millennial Cassandra’s title is Social Media Coordinator, she was hired to be the expert, but every time she tries to explain the problems in her company’s social media decisionmaking, the managers don’t listen…and end up hiring expensive PR flacks to repair the damage to their reputation when things blow up exactly as she predicted.

[necrofuturism]

Millennial Medusa uses multiple shades of primer and opaque foundation to cover the scars snaking across her face, hiding the bruises, aligning the asymmetry in her broken nose and jaw. Red matte on the lips, green shimmer on the lids. Flawless liner on the first try. She’s had lots and lots of practice. She films her transformation in secret for all to see and learn, and again, men are turned to anonymous stone faces screaming in horror. “Liar!” “Witch!” “Take her swimming on the first date!” These words do not discourage her. These words are a challenge. GlamGorgonXx posts another video.

[mao-tenno]

Millennial Prometheus uploads another PDF to his site. He’s lost track of the printing and edition of this textbook. He knows they just rearranged some of chapters then charge 150 dollars per copy, and the professor wrote the book himself. the ZIP fills uploads successfully, and he starts uploading the next one. He isn’t afraid of the potential lawsuit. knowledge shouldn’t held out of reach like this. 

[vanshira]

Millennial Arachne spends every dime and every minute she can spare with her yarn. Weaving, knitting, crochet, she does them all. Everywhere she goes, she takes her yarn and hook or needles or even a small loom with her so she can keep working in her downtime. Everyone who sees her work adores her work; she can make yarn do anything but deal cards. But when she tries to sell her work - at the price of materials plus a dollar per hour of labor - everyone says “yeah, it’s great, but you charge too much, you need to bring your prices down a little” and walks off to buy the exact same thing with a trendy designer label sewn on for twice as much. The next day, they come around and ask her if she’d be willing to knit them a scarf or a baby blanket or crochet a toy dog for their child’s birthday. In exchange? “I’ll invite you to the party. You can have cake.”

[collectivized-apiary-deactivate]

Millennial Icarus was always told off by his father for procrastinating on school assignments. When he got to college, most professors had midnight deadlines for their assignments, but were pretty flexible with it. 12:30 or 1:00 AM was not a penalizing time to turn in a paper. In his engineering class, there was only one assignment that was graded at the end of the semester: a final paper of 2,000 words worth 100% of their grade. Like all the assignments before, this was due at 12:00, but the professor was adamant about no papers being accepted after 12:00 AM sharp. He finished the paper on his laptop at 11:50, reached for his beer in celebration, and ended up spilling it on his laptop, frying it. 

[veryhappyvegan]

[polerin]

With butter and salt and cheeses and hot pepper and more cheeses. YEP

[tearobite]

I finally got around to making an athlete page. By "got around" I mean "got over the fact that some people in the derby community know who I am, and I should just accept it"

[micdotcom]

Watch: Franchesca Ramsey’s powerful video about rape and victim blaming is more relevant than ever.

[shikarosez-deactivated20170312]

I am so sorry for what has happened to you but fuck off with that bullshit with “teach men not to rape”.

Seriously. Fuck you.

[chescaleigh]

UM. We need to teach EVERYONE about the bounds of consent. And if you watch the video I say so. So yes, we need to teach everyone INCLUDING MEN, that someone who is unconscious cannot consent. Sex without consent is RAPE. This is something MANY people don’t understand and it needs to be taught instead of telling anyone (but women specifically) that certain behavior can prevent you from being raped. FYI you don’t get a say in how I talk about or respond to my sexual assault story or what I choose to do with my voice. 

So seriously? Fuck you. 

[bellthekat]

Shikarosez, do you really think that we shouldn’t teach boys and young men not to rape? Do you really think that “Fuck off with that bullshit” is an appropriate way to call someone out? Do you really feel that there was no other way to express what was bothering you? Do you think that’s a compassionate way to talk to a fellow victim?

As a survivor of female-on-female rape, I get it. I really do. I’m also sick of people assuming that the aggressor will always be a man and that the victim will always be a woman. Anyone, regardless of ability, sex, gender identity, or even age, can be a perpetrator OR a victim.

But I also have to recognize that the majority of rapes are male-on-female. In a world where most men are, generally speaking, more powerful than most women, it’s an assumption that is built into the way we’re socialized.

Little girls are taught that they need to look and act a certain way to avoid being victimized. Little boys aren’t taught appropriate boundaries, because they’re not taught to think about rape as part of daily life at all. It leaves both male and female victims wondering if there’s something wrong with them when they do get hurt.

And you’re right; on the flip side, women are thought to be too weak to “really” rape someone, particularly a man. In that context, women aren’t taught what is and isn’t appropriate behavior either.

It may seem obvious to you that Rape Is Evil, but what does and doesn’t constitute rape is often a matter of confusion. Just check out this article by the Washington Post about how college students responded when asked whether certain situations constituted consent: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/americas-students-are-deeply-divided-on-the-meaning-of-consent-during-sex/2015/06/11/bbd303e0-04ba-11e5-a428-c984eb077d4e_story.html. Or just look at the short-lived popularity of “Blurred Lines”.

Pretty much everyone knows that using physical force to penetrate someone is rape. But not everyone understands that consent can’t be given while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, when there’s a great power difference, or when some information is missing. When s/he doesn’t feel safe saying “NO,” or when s/he is unable to give an informed, enthusiastic “YES,” it’s rape. And there are many situations that are nuanced, say, by misinformation. For example, someone who has sex while concealing their STD + status may be considered to have committed rape.

Finally, I’m deeply sorry for what happened to you. No matter what you did, there was nothing that you did to “deserve” being sexually violated.

[chescaleigh]

It may seem obvious to you that Rape Is Evil, but what does and doesn’t constitute rape is often a matter of confusion. Pretty much everyone knows that using physical force to penetrate someone is rape. But not everyone understands that consent can’t be given while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, when there’s a great power difference, or when some information is missing. When s/he doesn’t feel safe saying “NO,” or when s/he is unable to give an informed, enthusiastic “YES,” it’s rape. 

^^^^^ THIS is what so many are missing. This is what I mean by teaching people the bounds of consent. There are plenty of situations where someone has been raped and their rapist genuinely doesn’t understand that consent wasn’t given. This idea that rape only happens with a stranger is why so many don’t come forward. This is what “teach not to rape” means. We’re not saying, teach people not to attack people on the street, we’re saying teach what consent means so more people feel empowered to say no, and more are aware that they need an enthusiastic yes before moving forward. 

[polerin]

Long ramble about someone taking steps to do things.. Right?

A couple years ago @jephjacques made some iffy jokes that surrounded trans people's bodies in his comic Questionable Content.  They weren't directly transphobic, but given the wider context in which they existed, they carried weight I don't know if he understood.  I and a couple other people called him out on it, and while I don't remember if there was a conversation around the topic, I ended up not reading for a good while.

Fast forward a year or so, and he introduces a trans character.  I was worried.  Instead, I have been consistently delighted by Claire, even when she's not perfect.  Especially because she's not perfect.. none of the characters are. 

Early in the comic he introduced Hannalore, and I've been watching the development of that characters depiction with interest.  I don’t know enough about how characters with OCD are depicted to really weigh in on how it was at the start, nor how her depiction has shifted over the years.  I do know that it seems like he has taken increasing care to depict her from a place of love and making space.

Now he seems to be introducing another non-neurotypical character in Brun.  There are early indications (to me at least?) that she might be somewhere on the spectrum, and yet she’s shown holding a job, doing fairly well, and having people around who really care.  She doesn’t seem like a joke character, and her difficulty communicating after a traumatic incident that interrupts her life and management patterns isn’t played as a joke or a tragedy. I’m not really in a place to understand the nuance of how non-neurotypical people are depicted in general media... but it seems like Jeph is really trying to do the right thing in how he depicts a widening range of people.  I know he’s also extremely open about his struggles with his own depression and anxiety, and I just.. I donno. It seems like someone taking serious steps to Do It Right (tm) and putting that into work in his art.

[walouijawip]

reblog if u support squishy tummies, legs, and arms

[ministryofgifs]

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[whatthebec]

nobody on this website knows what communism is

[flipphonegoth]

its the service of christian worship at which bread and wine are shared

[cause-why-thehell-not-deactivat]

No that’s communion communism was a show on nbc about a community college

[jcneeyre-deactivated20161002]

you’re thinking of community. communism is a form of birth control that goes over a penis

[bwitiye]

youre thinking of a condom. communism is the travel to a place on a daily basis to go to work

[nrefn-deactivated20200104]

youre thinking about commute. communism is when you share/exchange ideas,information, or news with someone.

[dreamscapeby009soundsystem-deac]

you’re thinking of communication. communism is an electronic device used from storing and processing data.

[accomplishmenthunter-blog]

you’re thinking of a computer. communism is a form of symbiosis where one organism benefits and the other has no effect.

[goldenfalls]

you’re thinking of commensalism. communism is a ceremony in which degrees or diplomas are conferred on graduating students.

[maternalcube]

youre thinking of commencement. communism is the state in which something has been finished.

[himborc]

You’re thinking of completion, communism is an actively deforming region when two or more tectonic plates move toward each other and collide

[originaltrilog-y-deactivated201]

you’re thinking of a convergent boundary, communism is the process of burning

[lesbiantiana]

you’re thinking of combustion. communism is sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others

[cassassinated]

You’re thinking of compassion. Communism is a punctuation mark used mainly to separate parts of sentences

[shorm]

You’re thinking of a comma. Communism is a direct order.

[karethdreams]

You’re thinking of a command. Communism is when you express sympathy or pity.

[gaslightgallows]

You’re thinking of commiseration. Communism is when you give the different forms of a verb.

[lindsayetumbls]

You’re thinking of conjugation. Communism is a chemical bond that involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms.

[surprisebitch]

you’re thinking of Covalent bond. Communism is an icy body in the solar system that develops a long, bright tail when it passes near the sun.

[shiftyswiftie1989-deactivated20]

You’re thinking of comet. Communism is the state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity, etc.

[britney]

you’re thinking of commitment. communism is a person who purchases goods and services for personal use

[depthgrips]

you’re thinking of consumer. communism is the state of being bewildered or unclear in one’s mind about something.

[friendhub]

[sorryitspersonal]

you’re thinking of Carl Marx. communism is the informal exchange of ideas by spoken words.

[fruitcrocs-deactivated20240702]

you’re thinking of conversation. communism is a type of praise.

[ejdivine]

you’re thinking of compliment. communism is something (such as mustard or hot sauce) that is added to food to give it more flavor

[deliciouskaek]

you’re thinking of condiments. communism is someone who gives the play-by-play during a sporting event.

[punlich]

so, I've recently come across people who believe that polyamorous people belong in the LGBTQ+ community- even if they are diadic, straight, cisgender people (pls forgive my odd wording, I have a rough time processing language)

A lot of people are really concerned about who belongs in The Alphabet Soup Suffering Coalition and it’s actually one of my absolute lowest priorities ever.

Here’s why.

The Alphabet Soup Suffering Coalition is an abject failure. On every single level.

Instead of concentrating on the systemic violence and induced suffering and ideological attacks on each of the component members of the coalition, it concentrates on Identity and Fellowship and liberal assimilation.

Instead of even being a coalition (an alliance of folk fighting for similar goals), it treats itself instead like a single taxonomic group (people who are the same). Aka, the humans of type Mogaii/Queer are the ones included in this group. 

Which is pretty silly because even varying forms of non straight sexuality can differ absurdly depending on your cultural group. Same with gender and the relationship between body and mind and those two with social grouping. 

We don’t self concept the same, we don’t fuck the same, we don’t romance the same, we aren’t the goddamn same.

What we do have in common is we’re all suffering (to various degrees) from awful violence directed at us from a hellscape shithole society that is using the ideological devaluing of us as human beings as a way to consolidate power and divide and conquer the working classes, the poor and the dispossessed and marginalized.

And especially, for the Alphabet Soup Suffering Coalition, that violence and that ideology is based around how we deviate from and corrupt the established paradigms of gender and sexuality and family structure and bonding and expression, paradigms that are used to enforce capitalism and a host of other bad things.

But lmao who needs to actually fight the bad shit when we can instead fight over who’s part of “Club Queer Assimilation: The Fun Club Of Fun People Who Are Similar And Normal And Just Like You, Cishets”

[polerin]

Crossposting this everywhere because important.

Here's the thing.  I never updated my birth certificate as the legal process for doing so was extremely unclear during the period where I was updating my paperwork.  Probably still is.

What this means is that currently it is illegal for me to use the women's room in any public facility in North Carolina.  To my understanding this includes but is not limited to:

- rest stations - schools - colleges - courthouses - the DMV and any other state or local governmental office - (public transit) bus stations

Hell if I know how this matches up with the fact that all the identification I carry with me on a daily basis identifies me as a woman.  What I do know is that this effectively bans trans people from public spaces.  We risk going to jail if we use the bathroom that is appropriate to our gender presentation.  We risk assault and jail if we use the bathroom that the bill requires of us.

I know that this means if I were in NC I wouldn't use the restroom unless I absolutely had to.

I also know that bills like this tend to become models for other states.

Oh and just to be clear? This means I can't pee at the US Cellular center.  That's where the Blueridge rollergirls play, and it's where I skated in the WFTDA playoffs a few years ago.

[iraffiruse]

[de0dorant-thief]

I THOUGHT THPSE MEN WERE REAL AT FIRST AND I JUST GOT REALLY FUCKING CONFUSED HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCL

[guardian]

Women you should read about on International Women’s Day

Sonita Alizadeh’s family first considered selling her into marriage when she was just 10 years old. At 16, they said they had found her a husband, but she found a way to escape.

She wrote “Brides for Sale”, a rap tackling the issue of daughters being sold into marriages by their family and created a video showing her in a bridal dress with a barcode on her forehead. She raps: “Let me whisper, so no one hears that I speak of selling girls. My voice shouldn’t be heard since it’s against Sharia.”

Her family agreed she did not have to get married. She now lives in America, and is still writing songs.

Berta Cáceres was a Honduran indigenous and environmental rights campaigner whose high-profile campaigns against dams, illegal loggers and plantation owners were met with threats of murder and sexual violence. Last week she was murdered, days after she was threatened for opposing a hydroelectric project.

In an interview in 2013, she said: “I cannot live in peace, I am always thinking about being killed or kidnapped. But I refuse to go into exile. I am a human rights fighter and I will not give up this fight.”

Greek lawyer Christina Dimakou left her life and career in Athens to become a guardian to some of the thousands of unaccompanied child refugees who have landed on the Greek island of Lesbos in the last year.  

“I cannot save the world or make everything better,” Dimakou said in an interview, “but I can affect the things around me. If everyone does this then the world becomes better. And we become better.”

Harnaam Kaur has polycystic ovarian syndrome, which can cause excessive hair growth. When she was 11, her beard started growing. Initially, she did everything she could to remove it. At 16, after being baptised as a Sikh, she decided to accept her facial hair. Now, she has modelled for bridal sites, a project celebrating beards and became the first bearded woman to walk in a jewellery designer’s fashion show.

Ellen Murray is standing for election in West Belfast, one of Ireland’s most contentious constituencies, once represented by Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams. At just 22 years of age, she is making Irish electoral history by being the first trans person to run in a Northern Irish election.

Her pledge? To fight “continued homophobia blighting local politics”.

Three women founded #BlackLivesMatter, an international movement campaigning against violence toward black people. Alicia Garza was among the many who were in shock over the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the man who shot dead 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. 

She wrote an impassioned message on Facebook, ending with: “Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter.” Her friend Patrisse Cullors replied with #BlackLivesMatter. Opal Tometi added her support and the three began setting up Tumblr and Twitter accounts encouraging users to share stories of why #BlackLivesMatter. A movement was born and continues to campaign, online and offline, today.

Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier’s work on CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing could enable use to genetically modify almost anything. In theory, the technique could be used to alter any human gene. Their work has an impact on several areas of life: from genetic medicine to the development of new crops and bio-products. Given future challenges facing life on earth, this holds revolutionary promise for disease control and ecology. 

Who have we missed? Reblog and add your own.

[caliphorniaqueen]

[sadboybrigade]

i can’t handle this video like he looks so nervous about being a father but he’s trying his best and being so gentle with the little baby i’m lsjflsjflsjgahga

[neworleans-unknown]

You know who this reminds me of…

@gimmeafcknname

[gimmeafcknname]

Exactly lol. I love it

[wtfsydney]

This literally made my night

[herdreadsrock-deactivated202401]

He’s like “I…I don’t want to hurt it.”

[crimeshetyped]

Awwwwww 💕

[nvidel]

I could watch this all day!! 😍😍😍

[talesofthestarshipregeneration]

Report: ‘Every Major US City East of the Mississippi’ Is Underreporting Heavy Metals In Its Water

Just when the news about lead poisoning the drinking water of Flint, Michigan, couldn’t get any worse. A report from The Guardian says many US cities are systemically and purposely downplaying the amounts of lead and copper in municipal water systems.

A scientist who was part of an Environmental Protection Agency taskforcedisclosed documents to The Guardian which shows how water boards are distorting tests to make their water appear safer, a practice confirmed by an anonymous source:

The controversial approach to water testing is so widespread that it occurs in “every major US city east of the Mississippi” according to an anonymous source with extensive knowledge of the lead and copper regulations. “By word of mouth, this has become the thing to do in the water industry. The logical conclusion is that millions of people’s drinking water is potentially unsafe,” he said.

Specific cities named included Detroit and Philadelphia, and the entire state of Rhode Island.

The documents in question were obtained via FOIA by Dr. Yanna Lambrinidou, who sat on the Environment Protection Agency taskforce that recently proposed revisions on the federal rules for lead. Lambrinidou told The Guardian that more rigorous oversight will reveal more offenders: “There is no way that Flint is a one-off.”

This does not mean the Environment Protection Agency is being lax in its regulations, necessarily—rather it’s the agency’s guidelines that are being ignored by those who are contracted to administer the tests. For example, in Philadelphia and Michigan, testers were instructed by local water boards to run the water for two minutes or until cold before testing for lead, a practice called “pre-flushing,” which is seen as controversial.

more @ the link.