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20 do not perceive me 🥰✨💕 t h e y / t h e m if you must

[ultrafacts]

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[majikkant-deactivated20180504]

The picture in the background of the second one

[pizzaismylifepizzaisking]

Tama is boss

[ultrafacts]

[cat-fandom]

THE TRAINS HAVE CARTOON TAMAS ON THEM

[ultrafacts]

Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]

[retro-geek-deactivated20220412]

For those who haven’t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. She’s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.

[karinanotcinerina]

Beautiful.

[system-fail-ure-deactivated2021]

Now I’m crying thanks

[sapphic-matriarchy]

and a new cat was hired right?

[clarenecessities]

yep! her name is Nitama (essentially ”second tama” or “tama II”) and she served under Tama as an apprentice before being appointed her deputy

she works very hard

[beasti]

Everytime this crosses my dash, I reblog. It is the law.

[lafayettelabaguette]

Law

[tooiconic]

I’m crying at 11pm over train cats

[sighinastorm]

Nitama, already now a mature cat (born 2010), has a protege named Yontama (fourth Tama, b. 2016).  There is no information available for either the physical befellment or tragic self-disgrace which has removed Santama from contention.

^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama

Yontama.

[linkislost]

a legacy

[bemusedlybespectacled]

okay but actually what happened to santama (or sun-tama-tama, which is her name because it’s a pun on santama) was that she was basically sent to train for the position in okayama and they liked her so much they refused to send her back

[kindaoffkilter]

“Sun-tama-tama” (a pun off of “Santama”, lit. “third Tama”) was a calico cat sent for training in Okayama. Sun-tama-tama was considered as a candidate for Tama’s successor, but the Okayama Public Relations representative who had been caring for Sun-tama-tama refused to give the cat up writing, “I will not let go of this child, she will stay in Okayama.” [25]

As of September 2018, Sun-tama-tama is working as the stationmaster in Naka-ku, Okayama and appears occasionally on Tama’s Twitter account.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Every time I see this post there’s new info and it gets better

[northeastartist]

You are only allowed to scroll pass this after you pay tribute to the great Tama Station masters.

[redchrominance]

The shrine of Tama Daimyōjin (Great gracious deity Tama), next to the Kishi station where she worked.

Nitama presenting her yearly offerings to Tama Daimyōjin on the anniversary of Tama’s Death, June 23 (The offerings are presented by the company president, as Nitama is a cat and thus can’t hold the offerings herself) (Not pictured, but also present, Yontama)

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post

[graduallywatermellon]

Hey so “all men are trash” posts help terfs

I’ll explain if one of you want

[graduallywatermellon]

Know what fuck it explaining as soon as I get off mobile this is important and I’m pissed and I need you people to hear it

[graduallywatermellon]

so i’m trans and i have been spoon feed this shit for years

There are more, but you get the idea. If you’ve been on this website, or any website really, you’ll know just how much of everywhere this is. You can not escape it. Men are Trash and Pigs and all that good stuff.  Recently, I found “Where’d you go?” a comic by Jason Porath, the man behind the Rejected Princesses book about a nightmare he’s been having since 2016 that seems, at least a little, connected to the “All men are trash” thing. Reading this kind of made me realize something about myself; all these All men are trash posts have given me internalized transphobia. I Actively hate myself for not being cis. For giving up womanhood to join the side of evil. And it’s not like i hate any other trans people, yall are great, it’s just me, and it’s my first time really realizing what internalized transphobia feels like or means. What makes it worse is this is something TERFs what. For those (lucky) few who have avoided TERFs, they are Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists.   They hate Trans Men for betraying woman by becoming part of the problem and they hate Trans Woman for being Men “pretending” to be woman to hurt them. They’re the kind of people making all the “If we let trans woman use the right bathroom they’ll assault cis woman!!!” stuff. Trashy people who think trashy things that only hurt people. But they made me have their ideology.  So, how many people in the above screenshots are TERFs or Radfem? 3. And those are only the ones who say it on their blogs. 3 out of 5 of the screenshots are from TREFs or Redfem and these are just the first few post i saw when I searched up “All Men are Trash.” This shit is everywhere I feel awful I hate myself They won I hope you all are happy

[graduallywatermellon]

a bonus:

note is in response to this 

[graduallywatermellon]

Listen. Please share this. There are already trans guys in the notes saying this is important. Listen to us.

[graduallywatermellon]

Hate to make a long post longer but here are some important takes from the notes

[ms-demeanor]

I have a friend who is constantly racked with guilt about being attracted to women since he started transitioning because posts like this have taught him that men’s attention to women is always predatory. I have friends who are cis dudes who feel the same way. I have a transfemme friend who constantly questions whether they are actually just fetishizing women because being “socialized male” means they can never unlearn the predatory nature of their AGAB.

This sort of thinking also trains straight and bi women to expect to get treated like shit by their partners instead of believing that men are compassionate, kind, generous people who should be expected to treat their partners well.

And, not to get all “what about cis people” on this but there are young teen boys on this blogging platform who are learning that they are “trash” simply for looking at or being attracted to women and there are adult men on this platform who are  trying to turn themselves inside out to try to “make up” for their maleness and framing men as terrible, unsafe, selfish, bad people is the exact kind of gender essentialist bullshit that says all women are compassionate and good communicators and naturally maternal caregivers.

It’s crap! It’s garbage!

You can write off all cops as bad because they all looked at an abusive, corrupt system and went “I want to be a part of that.”

If you write off “men,” the type category, fifty fucking percentish of the goddamned species, as trash you’re looking at a little boy or a black father or an autistic teen or a gay pensioner or even just a totally run of the mill cis straight white dude and saying “you were born wrong.”

And you know what, for fucking YEARS I’ve been saying “feminism benefits men too” and “feminism helps everyone” and there has been this loud minority of utter fucking assholes saying that men are trash and there’s no such thing as misandry and I’ve been trying to say “yeah, okay, those people are assholes but they’re not really a huge part of the movement” and but now it seems like their shitty ideas about purity culture have crossed over to the mainstream and their shitty sex negativity has crossed over to the mainstream, and radical feminism in general and TERFs in particular are brimming with misandry that is an exact fucking mirror to the misogyny of blackpilled incels and we are very calmly letting it infect our discourse and discredit our philosophy.

ALSO all of this bullshit broadcasts and spreads the idea that women must always be protected from men (which is exactly how JK Rowling justifies her transmisogyny) which does NOTHING to accomplish the equality that feminism is nominally about.

“Men are trash” and “kill all men lol” is a memeified, gender-swapped version of Mike Fucking Pence refusing to meet with women unsupervised because they might contaminate or tempt him. 

And it *also* paves over the shitty, rapey, abusive, power imbalanced, oppressive things that women do. “If men are trash and women aren’t then clearly the abuse or sexual assault I’m suffering from my female partner must be *different* in some way because she’s not harming me through patriarchy or oppression.”

[sun-cult-son]

The “men are trash” posts are exactly how many boys/men get sucked into supremacy groups.

When young boys see those posts everywhere and start to get (rightfully) upset, the most “understanding” groups seem to be ones that are proud of being men. They’re told that they’re special or superior in some way and after such a blow to their confidence, they want to believe it. They’re told to read books written by women exposing how “manipulative” women are. It becomes an obsession and that pride becomes rampant misogyny.

You are helping to create the problem. You are kicking a dog and yelling “I told you so!” when it bites.

[krakkenchaos]

Also, this isn’t something you can just log off and escape from. It’s just as pervasive in person as on the internet.

[juicylights]

THANK YOU for having this discussion. I’ve felt a general unwelcome within modern progressive feminist circles, but I couldn’t quite place it. Glad to hear men aren’t absolutely abhorred in most circles, just some.

[frodododobert]

THIS. Especially the point about radicalising young boys. I would know because it was pretty damn close to working on me. As soon as these kids are even slightly towards the right, right wing radicalisers will exploit all of the ‘kill all men’ posters to make them as unlikely as possible to get off the train to the alt-right (after all, do you really want to be with those ‘snowflakes’ who want you dead just for being a man?) until they’re at a point where they feel like they can’t go back. I managed to get off that train in time, but many others haven’t, in no small part because of all of the ‘kill all men’ shit

[lichen-punk]

hey i’ve been seeing this implied a lot in trans support posts so i wanna make it clear: binding and tucking are not equivalent

i know that to an outsider eye they may seem similar—they’re both trans things where you wear a special garment that squishes you into a shape you want to be.

but binding consists of compressing the breast tissue against the chest to flatten ones silhouette. it is not without its risks, ofc, but when done properly is not innately permanently damaging. tucking, by comparison, usually consists of pushing the testicles up into the body via inguinal canals and then holding them in place. it can be incredibly painful, and even if done correctly can cause an inguinal hernia (an injury in which the intestines actually protrude down into the scrotum, which, left untreated, can be fatal) and other injuries.

conflating the two hurts transmascs and transfems alike, especially younger trans people. it hurts transfems by normalising tucking and minimising it’s dangers. i’ve seen “tucking resources” and how-tos on lists of tips for transfem children. arguably nobody should be encouraged to tuck, but to encourage children to do something so painful and potentially life threatening so that they “pass” better is just unacceptable. and it hurts transmascs by making binding sound scarier! binding is not particularly dangerous or painful if done right, and the idea that it carries similar risks to tucking is an old terf myth to scare transmascs out of transtitioning

the fact that transfems are EVER expected to go through such pain and even risk our lives just to hide the natural shape of our bodies is despicable, but if you absolutely must encourage tucking in your resource posts please PLEASE make it clear that it carries serious risks and trade-offs that binding simply does not

[lichen-punk]

@socksmaybe only just saw this tag but yes!!! using tucking to refer to any shaping of the crotch area is an equally harmful conflation to make, as it both normalises actual tucking and makes gaffs/compression underwear seem scarier! same fucken problem!!

gaffs/compression underwear are garments you wear which, unsurprisingly, compress your external genitals and flatten out your silhouette. they can be worn with your genitals tucked as described above, but also can be worn as is, operating on more of the mechanics of a binder, and will make most folks as flat as they need to be without tucking.

[lichen-punk]

reblog this version actually

[queerly-heere]

i ask alexa what’s my wellness tip for the day? and she says wear a fucking mask and grows legs and beats my ass into the kitchen floor

[bimbodemon-deactivated20210909]

So, recap on SISEA:

Would require sex workers to practically dox themselves in order to upload to sites like onlyfans

There's no recourse for sex workers to report their stolen/nonconsensual content, as you either consented to every piece of content featuring you, or you're a victim, meaning that a sex worker reporting say revenge porn of themselves would get ALL of their work pulled.

The ID requirements also apply to art, meaning old art depicting nudity or that is otherwise deemed as pornographic (which would disproportionately target queer art) would be wiped off the net unless you can provide the models ID, even if said piece was created decades ago and the model is long dead (which again, would disproportionately old queer media)

Would in general get rid of all user-generated adult content, giving more power to big porn sites and putting sex workers in an even more vulnerable position

Would be based on the states' age of consent laws, meaning said porn sites could hire 16 year old performers in most states (yikes) and lawyers that went through the bill agreed that in some cases it could be superseded by underage marriage laws, as in, a married minor (because those laws still exist in some states) could """consent""" to appear in adult content if this bill, that claims to protect minors and victims of sex trafficking, passes.

I don't give a shit if you think people with an OnlyFans should be hanged, this shit WILL harm adult consensual sex workers while in some cases enabling actual abusers and pedos

Please contact your senator to oppose SISEA if you're in the US

[crafty-butch]

having one of those executive function days where everything is too many steps

[crafty-butch]

by which i mean, like, here's how my brain parses the steps in making coffee

good day:

make coffee

regular day:

put water in coffee maker

put coffee in coffee maker

turn on coffee maker

bad day:

take pot from coffee maker

turn on sink

fill up coffee pot

turn off sink

pour water into coffee maker

put coffee pot in coffee maker

open cupboard

get coffee filter from cupboard

get coffee beans from cupboard

put filter in coffee pot

measure coffee

pour coffee into filter

close coffee maker

turn coffee maker on

anyway this is a "14 steps to make coffee" kind of day

[queerly-heere]

if you ever doubt the power of manifestation, just remember susannah summoned sheila just by thinking abt her while talking to “some really young people” after not seeing each other for twenty years 🥰😌✨

[queerly-heere]

today’s mood: kitty minx

specifically referring to these iconic statements (but tbh kitty is a whole mood all by herself 😌):

the system doesn’t have to be broke/because unlike us the system has a choice

i am my own weapon!

don’t put me in a box dorothy!!

[randomishnickname]

Tiny steps to fight capitalism in your day-to-day life

1. remove or cover all visible brands on your belongings. unless you’re actively rooting for a brand there’s no reason to do free advertisement for them. avoid clothes with highly visible trademarks (e.g. the adidas stripes) 2. unfollow every corporate newsletter (scroll to the end of the mail, there should be a link). you might miss out on special deals, but you will be less primed for purchase and your inbox will be less clogged. Bonus: less e-mail traffic = good for the environment 3. install adblockers on all your mobile devices. mute tv advertisement or switch the channel when there’s the ad break. put a “no ad” sticker on your mailbox. Our daily world is polluted with appeals to buy things and define yourself through those things you buy - in this context, avoiding advertisement by all means necessary is basic self-care. 4. similarly, block every corporate account you encounter on social media. yes they’re sometimes funny. yes they’re still trying to sell you stuff and ingrain themselves into your brain. don’t offer them reach and an audience 5. switch to e-mail accounts, browsers and search engines that don’t collect and sell your data, but focus on privacy and data security instead. 6. if you’re very resolute and have a few like-minded friends, put on some high-vis vest and go bust outdoor ads in your neighborhood (e.g. replace the busstop ads with artworks) 7. if you have the time/resources, hunt Bezos for sport (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

[determinate-negation]

if you want to bring up how horrible gulags were (and yeah they were horrible) but dont care about people unjustly imprisoned in american prisons RIGHT NOW, being forced to work for almost no pay serving ridiculously long sentences then you dont actually give a shit about prisoners. if you use famines in the ussr or maoist china as reasons why communism fails but you dont want to say homelessness, deaths caused by austerity, deaths caused by preventable disease bc people couldnt afford healthcare in america, or the poverty in 3rd world countries caused by capitalist exploitation are all bc of capitalism then you dont actually care about poverty. all you care about is reiterating the points youve heard about communism while refusing to look in a mirror. i can recognize that stalinism is wrong and that the ussr was a distortion of what socialism actually is. and there are plenty of other leftists who recognize that too and are striving for actual liberation from exploitation, poverty and misery. are you as well?

[anfem-cripplepunk-blog]

Fuck this narrative.

It erases disabled people. The elderly. Children.

It’s classist, ableist, racist, and just wrong.

NOBODY DESERVES TO LIVE IN POVERTY! Period.

Fuck capitalism, liberalism, and political ideas of worth and value.

1. “How is it racist?”

It’s racist due to white supremacist policies. POC make significantly less than white people. It’s a big wage gap. Redlining. Gentrification. The New Jim Crow. Systemic and institutional racism. Discrimination in hiring and promoting, housing, loans, and so forth. Whites in general owe a lot to generational wealth, something POC were long excluded from. POC often don’t get the same recognition or compensation for their work. School to prison pipeline, racist policing, unfair sentencing, the much higher percentage of Black, Indigenous, and other POC in prisons compared to their resourcing respective general population percents is a huge problem. It makes it much harder for POC to “move up the ladder,” more likely to live in poverty, and have a harder time escaping poverty. 2. Why liberalism? Because liberalism has become neoliberalism, moved farther right, become less interested in effective measures and actual justice. 3. But communism kills people and anarchism doesn’t work! Okay, I’m not going to debate this point, only say that there is enough food, housing, and other basic needs to take care of everyone. To be continued…

[stellartype]

thinking about ‘oh well’ and starting to cry is just the gay experience baybe

[lezterer]

this moment in “The 3 failed escape attempts of Sheila Nail” rb if you agree

[queerly-heere]

thinking abt becoming a lihn fan account

[parkchanwoohoo]

gender is a performance and i’m an overenthusiastic extra who plays 11 different characters, and whose stupidly energetic line delivery makes me an audience fave and also widely despised by the rest of the cast

[tscosi-week]

Hello everyone!

I was thinking of running a starship iris week sometime before season 2 starts! I have some prompt ideas already but first I want to see if people would actually be interested in this so if you would be interested if participating please fill out our interest check which will be in the reblogs. 

Thanks!

[tscosi-week]

interest check! 

[queerly-heere]

can we have an option on the interest check that says

i am interested in creating but also know that as soon as i create any fan work i will think it needs to be immediately destroyed and with this self-awareness i know that only a great fool would choose the first one and i am not a great fool so i can clearly not choose the first option. but you must have known i was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so i can clearly not choose the last option...*cue vizzini poison sequence from the princess bride*

[liberaljane]

Nothing ‘radical’ or ‘feminist’ about transphobia. 

Art by Liberal Jane