ojovivo
Love Begins
#extradirty
Product Placement
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
Kaledo Art
shark vs the universe
One Nice Bug Per Day
trying on a metaphor
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Xuebing Du
KIROKAZE
taylor price
Janaina Medeiros
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
wallacepolsom
blake kathryn
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NASA
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@polygnostia
Honestly I don't think you should need a diagnosis of anything to get HRT. I think you should just be able to go buy it at CVS like it's ibuprofen.
I can buy cigarettes at any 711 and get lung cancer and waste thousands of dollars, but I can't get estrogen because I "need to be sure its what i want, so i don't end up hating my body?" But I'm free to cough up tar from my lungs as soon as I'm like 21?
Dust Storm on Planet Earth
Credits: SeaWiFS Project, GSFC, NASA
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This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.
This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).
Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct
Do you ever think about how so much of the deadly anti-science rhetoric that fills America today and is killing countless vulnerable people can be directly traced back to one fucking guy who decided to just straight-up lie about vaccines causing autism because it would make him a profit? Do you ever think about that? Because I think about it a lot.
A couple of weeks ago I posted about how arguably children and minors these days are arguably more oppressed than pretty much ever as a specific group. Don't get me wrong: childhood in "ye olden times" sucked probably generally more than childhood today in an industrialized country. But at the time there was less specific oppression of the class "children", because childhood as we know it is a fairly modern invention. Because until fairly recently a lot of some basic freedoms were actually further developed for children. Children did have more freedom of movement, freedom of association, and so on. Many of those legal changes are so new, that I grew up in a time before them. And while I whine a lot about "being old"... I am not that old.
Either way, I am getting distracted. The point was actually: someone dropped into my comments at this going: "Ha! I would argue children were more oppressed when it was legal to beat them!" And mind you. This person was American. And, uhm... Well.
I do not know how I should tell y'all. But you... do understand that it is still legal in all of the US to physically punish children as a parent, right? Like, the US never ratified the rights of children. A lot of places never did that, actually.
This is the map from Wikipedia about where children can legally be beaten by their parents or in some cases even teachers. The key is: in Green countries it is illegal alltogether, in yellow countries it is legal for parents/guardians at home to physically beat children, bright orange allows it for parents/guardians and within private schools, dark orange is generally parents/guardians and people at school, and red countries allow violence against children in pretty much any institution.
And, like, you might say: "Oh, that is actually more green countries than I thought." But... I should remind you that in the end, even in the green countries, the law against violence through parents/guardians tends to not be enforced until it reaches a level where adjacent adults will be uncomfortable.
And pretty much no country protects children and minors from non-physical stuff. Having your privacy stripped? Yeah, tough luck, nobody cares. Your parents or teachers verbally abusing and humiliating you? Yeah, tough luck, fuck you.
And many of the rules that are currently pushed for to "protect" children from evil things like *checks notes* porn and horror movies and serial kidnappers that do not actually exist pushes children into a situation where they have way, way less abilities to escape abusive homes, or abusive schooling situations. Because children and minors in general are right now heavily restricted in their freedom of movement and freedom of education.
This is most noticeable for children who are queer and are raised in queerphobic households. But it affects all children. It is oppression. Nothing else. And worst of all it sounds reasonable.
hi. did you know australia has a fairywren species called the superb fairywren
and another species called the splendid fairywren
...and one called the lovely fairywren
They just named these by showing pictures to some elderly woman and noting down her first delighted exclamation.
(confidently) no, that's a self-tolling bell. it tolls automatically, signifying nothing for the hearer. why
A real page on the White House website
The American century of humiliation is goin great 👍
pride button concepts
not guaranteeing anything, but…
(the general design language will be applied to different hazard symbols and pride flags)
(from left to right) which one do like most?
white background, flag symbol
black background, flag symbol
flag background, black symbol
flag background, white symbol
...and what size? (all are the same price)
1.5 in
2.25 in
3 in
okay now if you HAD to choose between these two
white
black
here are my current ideas:
(the colors definitely need a lot of tweaking so ignore them for now)
feel free to give me your suggestions btw
maybe they should all have hands or figures in them? and each year I could pick a different theme?
what about all hands?
...and one with all bodies
all hands, all bodies, or no theme?
all hands
all bodies
no theme
the sewing machine is like if a horse and an inkjet printer had a child
You guys ever see a DNI that makes you break out into laughter and almost cry
If graphic design is your passion then !!! GET OUT !!! 🚫🚫👎‼️🥶🥶🚫
this speaking as a cis person. Nothing brings me more joy seeing people find gender euphoria in becoming a mediocre representation of humanity. And I mean that so genuinely. Local boy finds joy and fulfillment wearing a cargo shorts and t-shirt combo. Local girl has transitioned to look like someone's disheveled aunt, has never been happier. Local person experiences gender euphoria rocking the world's worst bowl-cut. Without a scap of irony, this shit makes me see the wonder and whimsy in just, being a human. An average, person going through their day-to-day, is a wondrous thing? That's amazing. And heteronormativity has stripped these experiences of their joy. Like you're right, wearing a basic girlypop skirt should make my heart sing. Why not? Why are these expressions lesser because they're normal? All this to say. Shoutout to all the basic bitches out there. Yes that polo shirt does make you look like a divorced golfer dad. Yes, that too is kind of a slay, now that I think of it.
you are fifteen thousand generations removed from stone tools
to be clear you are fifteen thousand generations removed from the invention of stone tools. not from the end of stone tools. modern humans are still using stone tools.
Flawless tags, @baddywronglegs
I thought you meant we were descendents -of- stone tools
your father was a handaxe and your mother smelt of microliths
not sure what to put as the caption but. yeah!!!!
Here’s my take on this.
Intersex bodies do not need correcting, intersex bodies are not unnatural. Intersex people deserve autonomy.
Stop nonconsensual intersex surgeries.
The Sumiciu is a peculiar house-spirit from Asturias. These ravenous creatures are often blamed for the disappearance of household items and are known to swallow and disappear whatever they get their hands on. With an all-consuming void for a mouth they eat and eat and are never sated. Their true, ghostly form remains a mystery as they are never seen by mortal eyes.
"girlboss" this, "girlboss" that, whatbout the GIRLWORKER huh? bet you didn't consider that.
we must overthrow the girlgeoisie #girletariat
he would not fucking say that!!!!
