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i know i know my theme is sparse. can you see this on mobile? huh

[janmisali]

how many languages do you speak?

less than one thousand

at least one thousand, less than two thousand

at least two thousand, less than three thousand

at least three thousand, less than four thousand

at least four thousand, less than five thousand

at least five thousand, less than six thousand

at least six thousand, less than seven thousand

seven thousand or more

unsure

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Remaining time: 6 days 11 hours

[radiohart]

yk i really do love going to see a little gamelan i'm glad this was the trial run for mid-workweek-event-attending w the new shift we'll see if i'm as dead as i suspect i will be in the morning

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

Hi! I’m confused, will you please help me?

Why is sex-based oppression considered a bad framework? I sometimes see it compared negatively to the concept of transandrophobia, and I’m curious why. Thank you!

there is utility in understanding that different people have different relationships to reproductive rights, social norms, etc based on their biology and the societal forces that start acting on us literally at birth. I'm a trans woman, no matter how much I want to I can't get pregnant. the sex that I was assigned at birth did not cause that, but it is why my driver's license is misleading.

so what is sex-based oppression accomplishing?

conspicuously separating sex and gender

conspicuously discarding gender

tacitly asserting that sex is an immutable biological fact and not a social assignment

treating assigned sex as the most important factor determining someone's relationships to the things in the paragraph above

grouping trans people with the sex that they were assigned at birth

straight-up ignoring intersex people

literally nothing beneficial. it's just asking you to ignore all nuance in favor of the sex you were assigned at birth.

it is a dog whistle

TWERFs use it to court transmascs, so if I heard someone say it I would immediately wonder who their friends are. very large red flag. if they were my friend I'd speak up out of concern for them (and me).

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

There is ongoing scientific and societal discourse on the definition of biological sex. At this critical moment when misinformation about se

Lack of unanimity on how to define sex is not inherently problematic and we contend that a universal definition is not necessary to pursue. Scientists should be specific and clear when discussing sex and sex‐related traits to advance more accurate science and discussions. Active debate and discourse lead to better understandings of complex biological diversity. Regardless of how sex is defined, research that documents and describes the diversity and variation of sex in nature should and will continue in biology (Aanen et al. 2016). Our ultimate goal is to prompt critical thinking and discussion about how we operationalise sex in research, encourage consideration of the ethical and political implications of defining sex and urge acknowledgment that there is no current consensus on a single definition of sex. Most importantly, we assert that biology should not dictate human rights.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

the style of writing is not the problem, not the genre, not the subject matter, not even the words themselves. the SINGLE defining issue with the “Tumblr Prose” style i was trying to tackle is that it’s front loaded with imagery and metaphor and completely lacking in sense, reason, symmetry, motion, conveying information. i agree that plenty of writing can sound good and feel good to read when it’s all metaphor and visceral images but it needs to have a baseline that can carry it through or else the tail wags the dog and it’s all cool “quotable” lines and no substance, nothing to read between the lines, no character

[tumbwr]

[tumbwr]

music is literally so songs as fuck and dont you forget it

[witchofanguish]

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat:

me: where'd daddy go?

baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy

me: peekaboo!

baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

[archacovercosine]

when i'm five minutes late with dinner: truly this is a wake-up call for baby

[thestuffedalligator]

“When we were kids, the Phonics Wizard came to our town to show off how the letter E can change the sounds of vowels. He turned a can into a cane, a pin into a pine. This one kid had a cap and he changed it into a cape, that kind of thing.

“And we loved it, we were all having a great time, but then he saw my sister and I, and he just got this - this look in his eyes, and then-”

She hesitated, worrying the coarse material between her fingers. “Things got pretty bad after that,” she muttered. “I know it’s silly, but I try to keep - her - comfortable. We don’t know if she can still hear us, or see us, or if she’s even still in here, but I like to think she is. I talk to her when I can, I leave music on when I’m out of the house. I tried to convince my parents to bring her with us when we went to Disneyland, but they didn’t - didn’t really take that well.”

After a moment, she put the ball of twine back onto its pillow. “Anyways. They tried to arrest the Phonics Wizard, but he had a plan in case something went wrong and he turned it into a plane and flew away.”

[karrakazz]

UNFORTUNATELY THERE IS A PERMEABLE BOUNDARY BETWEEN JOKES AND REALITY

[afloweroutofstone]

My favorite category of government program to run across is "program you've never heard of doing extremely important work to solve a major problem which you have also never heard of." On that note, the US drops millions of pounds of sterile bugs over Panama each week in order to prevent a parasite infestation from moving into North America. Everyone say thank you to the Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of the Cattle Borer Worm (COPEG)

[afloweroutofstone]

This program had its funding cut during the DOGE cuts last year and now the parasitic worm they were trying to slow the spread of has officially arrived in the United States.

[this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it]

This insane update from Neocities

[radiohart]

i wish i slept literally in any other context as well as i sleep when it's monthly training video time. i swear theyre putting melatonin in the mp4s

[northstareclipse]

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

[literaryreference]

someone reblogged this from me saying that this is making out like the biggest problem in a post-revolution society would just be weirdo loners and downplaying the actual nazis. and while i've been known to hold forth myself about "even if you think all bigotry is caused by capitalism (which i do not personally believe to be true, but even assuming that it is), the people who are bigots now are not going to stop being that way overnight because The Revolution happened and you do need to think about how you're going to deal with that", it did not occur to me to bring that up here because that's not what i read the post as being about at all.

i interpreted this as being about the conflation of politics and/or "being a good person" with specific aesthetics and social modes, such that a lot of people are imagining a utopia in which there would be no space for certain real people who agree with them politically but just don't enjoy the same things they enjoy. we are not at the level of "how do you handle the continued existence of people whose beliefs you find morally repugnant?" here, we're at the level of "can you learn to tolerate the fact that the person sitting next to you at the activist meeting doesn't like the outdoors or folk music and doesn't agree with you that technology has brought nothing but evil into the world? can you imagine a better future that includes them without them having to fundamentally change who they are as a person?"

[teaboot]

My mom likes to tell me about how when I was a little kid riding public transport with her I'd always smile and giggle and chat with weird old ladies who smelled like cat pee and homeless folks and strangers dressed in bizarre outfits but any time a tidy and respectable businessman in a suit and tie waved at me I'd immediately clam up, and she takes a great deal of pride in my supposed inherentability to clock personalities but the truth is I do vaguely remember those bus rides, and it was never about the clothes or the hair or the smell, but more because everyone "strange" asked interesting questions and listened to what I had to say and seemed to think about what I said while the neat and tidy and rigid folks only ever acted like they were going through the motions, which was boring as hell and also pretty annoying

[teaboot]

Well-to-do finance manager with tidy shoes: "Why hello, sweetheart. Can you say 'hi'? Aren't you cute. Are you on a trip with your mom?"

4 year old me: why must we do this

Fantastic old woman in the leopard print coat: "Why yes, my tooth IS real silver! Nobody ever asks me that. Do you like cats?"

4 year old me, suddenly paying attention: Finally, A Person Of Intellect

[mortalityplays]

thanks for asking, I'm actually pyrusleaning demicitric, mostly malus aligned but recently exploring non-gustatory olfactory musa play. oh you mean the other kind of...? oh yeah no sure I'm a faggot

[mortalityplays]

unidentifiable fruit cause I'm not into labellllllls

[closet-keys]

the medical system is constructed as an incredibly complicated obstacle course that facilitates the social murder of anyone too disabled or poor or abandoned of social support to get through it

and then doctors have the audacity to talk about patients who are “trying to game the system” to get access to treatment. it’s like, yeah if the medical system is set up like a game that only awards healthcare to people who play it well enough, patients will try their best to win that game. what is their other option?

of course people are going to learn exactly what to say and how to perform to get the treatment they need. if there is no other way to survive than fawning and soothing doctors’ egos and listing off textbook descriptions of things in order while acting like they have no knowledge at all of their own body and no capacity to make decisions on their own —then people will do that. to survive.

if you want honesty then you have to prove that honesty will not get patients killed. this issue is not on patients. it’s the medical system that needs to change.

[letterful]

[radiohart]

starting to get legitimately worried the building thats been undergoing mysterious renovations we've been joking is for a cult is actualy for an honest-to-god for-real straight-up cult