stuff I save for l8r

hiiii it's me @badlydrawnkarzin

[catherine-clover]

How many people do you follow?

No one. I just scroll the For You page, liking things I like. A true algomaxxer.

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Voting ended onApr 21, 2024

[catherine-clover]

Ok, question. Why not use the For You page at that point?

[godmybackhurts]

Because it sucks

[dreamsy990]

hi heres real options

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[catherine-clover]

boi no. go back while you still can. a good chunk of my answers are in the quads

[psych-is-the-name]

everybody out of the way!

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[transhuman-priestess]

We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.

[anoraktrend]

Linux is a very good and powerful alternative.

[transhuman-priestess]

[transarsonist]

reminder: you cannot Personal Choises your way out of an Intentional Structural Problem

[yurigirldick]

Fun fact! School Chromebooks block Linux. It's not an easy alternative. You are missing the point

[princesscolumbia]

That's the thing, though. Chromebooks run Linux under the hood. Google's basically saying, "Good for me, but not for thee!" They're, technically, running Linux, but it's a sanitized, stripped down version of Linux with the box closed and welded shut. You cannot learn the commands, you cannot study the engineering, you cannot pop the hood, you cannot fix the thing. You "get" to use the one browser. Only one. You don't get native desktop apps, you don't get to run adblockers anymore, you don't get anything that's not approved by Google.

And you never, ever, ever get to learn how to program for anything besides Google's walled locked garden.

Remember when Google had "Do No Evil" written on the wall of their lobby? Like, right when you walked in, there it was?

[puppygirl-hornyposting2]

Oklahoma proposal would make watching porn a felony, ban sexting outside marriage

A bill set to be introduced next month would ban consuming or producing sexual content and punish offenders with prison sentences of up to 2

Why is it always this state

[copiasforeskin]

Source that's not New York Post:

This Lawmaker Wants to Jail People for Watching Porn

Oklahoma lawmaker Dusty Deevers is a Christian nationalist who believes the government should “terrorize evildoers.”

[daglout]

[7kqe3j9fzdwm-deactivated2025110]

oh and also in the same document (project 2025) they make the claim trans people existing is pornographic. wonder what they're trying to do here. literally impossible to tell.

[headspace-hotel]

"Educators and public librarians" so. sex ed books

[strange-wanderings]

When I see this sort of thing, I find myself wondering how the hell they intend to enforce this? Online material illegal in your country is only a VPN away, and then for offline material, you have to settle on a definition of "pornography," which is nigh impossible. Then you have censorship dodging through coding, technicalities, and more.

I mean, the goal isn't actually to get rid of """pornography,""" it's to make creating sexual content difficult and scary, and, as mentioned above, criminalize trans people and sex education. Its supposed goal is impossible if you just think about it.

[puppygirl-hornyposting2]

Oklahoma proposal would make watching porn a felony, ban sexting outside marriage

A bill set to be introduced next month would ban consuming or producing sexual content and punish offenders with prison sentences of up to 2

Why is it always this state

[copiasforeskin]

Source that's not New York Post:

This Lawmaker Wants to Jail People for Watching Porn

Oklahoma lawmaker Dusty Deevers is a Christian nationalist who believes the government should “terrorize evildoers.”

[daglout]

[7kqe3j9fzdwm-deactivated2025110]

oh and also in the same document (project 2025) they make the claim trans people existing is pornographic. wonder what they're trying to do here. literally impossible to tell.

[headspace-hotel]

"Educators and public librarians" so. sex ed books

[bestrongbebrave49]

Thing is, you know damn well so many who are clambering for it to be illegal will be consuming it. Hypocrisy at its finest.

Ethical consumption is the best move, which means ethical and safe practices in the industry, not the atrocious things allowed to go on now.

Let’s be real; it’s about control on all counts.

[puppygirl-hornyposting2]

Oklahoma proposal would make watching porn a felony, ban sexting outside marriage

A bill set to be introduced next month would ban consuming or producing sexual content and punish offenders with prison sentences of up to 2

Why is it always this state

[copiasforeskin]

Source that's not New York Post:

This Lawmaker Wants to Jail People for Watching Porn

Oklahoma lawmaker Dusty Deevers is a Christian nationalist who believes the government should “terrorize evildoers.”

[daglout]

[7kqe3j9fzdwm-deactivated2025110]

oh and also in the same document (project 2025) they make the claim trans people existing is pornographic. wonder what they're trying to do here. literally impossible to tell.

[puppygirl-hornyposting2]

people will call us entitled snowflakes for comparing the eradication of transgender people to the Holocaust but if you read history this is literally how Hitler slowly built up to having concentration camps

[cybermax]

You all know you can just walk up to him in public and fucking kill him right? Do you really think anyone will avenger him? You can just kill pricks. No one cares.

[uran8ate]

in Disco Elysium I was expecting there to be some kind of “addiction mechanic” that would add a long-term downside to taking drugs, and was surprised not only by the absence of any such mechanic but also that the benefits of drugs greatly outweighed the cost. anyways fast forward to the late game and I was downing three bottles of pyrholidon and smoking an entire pack of cigarettes before attempting any check, and it was only then I realized there was in fact an addiction mechanic

[tenorgender]

honestly, i think this is why i like the way the game handles substances so much. when i was looking up playthroughs of disco elysium i stumbled across one subreddit thread where someone asked “gameplay wise, is there any point to staying sober?” and just looked at it. like, yeah. yeah, exactly. we know that harry often does drugs specifically so that he can take on a superhuman caseload - as he puts it to kim, to be a “really good detective”. it was so chilling to see a player asking the same exact question that harry would probably be asking himself. without an external punishment mechanic, without being heavy handed about it, and in a way that (as OP pointed out) is so natural as to be almost unnoticeable, it manages to put the player exactly in his shoes as a recovering (or not recovering) addict. it’s a really well-designed mechanic

[snowyay]

“Things are harder without this substance, so there’s no reason for me to abstain” being a purely Player-Driven interaction is a phenomenal addiction mechanic. Absolutely fucking gorgeous.

[a3poify]

Easter egg for office workers: if you go onto Excel and press ctrl+left, then ctrl+down, you will reach cell XFD1048576. If you put a dot in there, then ctrl+A and fill every cell in black, you can then print 34 million black pages from your office printer and get fired

[telesticcoulromancer]

im gonna say it . its weird how many people immediately dismissed hussies coming out as like A Bit or them just fucking lying ?

[abysslooksaway]

also can I just say they did this with lil uzi vert and f1nn5ter too. we as a society have a very hard time accepting transfemininity when it's not something ironic or to be mocked.

[abysslooksaway]

actually

[brawltogethernow]

Thinking about the time I tried out a fiction podcast and got bored immediately but left it on for the whole first episode because my cat was visibly invested.

[brawltogethernow]

She likes the sound of measured human voices. One time I was talking and she got so enthusuastic she body slammed her side into my face, cutting off the sound and breaking the spell, which frightened her into the next room.

[chibi-blue-scapula]

OP's cat will love NileRed

[brawltogethernow]

This is the first time anyone's ever entrusted me with a media recommendation meant to be forwarded to my cat.

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

The straight woman is unsatisfied with straight studio porn. She wants to get off to something in which the actors actually emote and show passion beyond canned moans from the women and, at best, vacant grunts from the men. She turns to gay porn. She knows it's not "for her," but neither was the straight porn, and at least the actors look like they're enjoying themselves. And for a short while she is satiated by Sean Cody et al, but she runs into the same problems she had to begin with. She was not looking at sex but a simulacrum of sex, trapped in Plato's cave. Unsatisfied, she turned to vintage gay porn, harkening to a time when most gay bars still had darkrooms and reliably smelled of piss and Amyl Nitrite. Here was the real thing, in all its animalistic passion. But she still couldn't immerse herself in the fantasy. She wanted the media to engage with her own imagination and meet her half-way, rather than having it spoonfed to her onscreen. She turned to yaoi, with its elongated figures reminiscent of mannerist portraiture, then bara, including hardcore BDSM scenes. But the tactile sensations depicted in the pages didn't do justice to their real life counterparts. She turned deeper into her own imagination, this time reading erotica. No, not the poolside paperbacks sold at Barnes and Noble. The good shit. Why then, was she still not satisfied? She dug deeper, searching for the true meaning of eroticism. She studied the psychoanalysis of Freud, the cultural criticism of Susan Sontag, the feminist poetry of Audre Lorde. She took vacation time and flew to Europe, starting at the caves of Lascaux to explore the human urge to create, then traversed the Camino de Santiago on foot, along the way meeting a 56 year old carpenter from Burgos named Andrés, with whom she had an explosive affair. They both knew it couldn't last, which made them cherish each other's touch all the more. Upon flying home, she gave up. If her search for true eroticism never bore fruit this whole time, why would it now? It would take years before she stumbled upon the answer by pure happenstance: dubstep.

[knighthearts]

i watched one (1) video on how to draw hands that changed my life forever. like. i can suddenly draw hands again

these were all drawn without reference btw. i can just. Understand Hands now (for the most part, im sure theres definitely inaccuracies). im a little baffled

[knighthearts]

for those of u asking for the vid!

[ankle-beez]

[awgeezitsthetoiletnator]

an interesting take on this from matt braly, creator of amphibia

[choppers-pink-hat]

Imagine being a business that has managed to get THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF CUSTOMERS IT IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE, and you've managed to make it so this is a bad thing.

[jasperjv]

You did it. That's late stage capitalism in one sentence.

[nimthirielrinon]

Are shareholders even real people? Because I cannot imagine a real person actually believing that infinite growth is possible. Not anyone who exists in the world.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Shareholders don't believe in infinite growth, no. But the company only has value to them while it's growing. Shareholders make most of their money from their shares increasing in value and that only happens when the company is growing; they want to buy when it's small and sell when it's large. So when it stops growing, it's to their advantage to pull out and spend that money on more shares in more smaller companies that might grow. This is why, when a publically traded company stops growing, it starts dying. Nobody involved actually believes that infinite growth is possible but infinite growth would be necessary to keep the company infinitely alive. The shareholders are only asking whether the growth has stopped yet, because once the growth stops, it's time to pull out before everyone else beats you to it and leaves you with nothing.

[orcboxer]

Things that work in fiction but not real life

torture getting reliable information out of people

knocking someone out to harmlessly incapacitate them for like an hour

jumping into water from staggering heights and surviving the fall completely intact

calling the police to deescalate a situation

rafting your way off a desert island

correctly profiling total strangers based on vibes

effectively operating every computer by typing and nothing else

ripping an IV out of your arm without consequences

heterosexual cowboy

[orcboxer]

This post breaching containment has taught me that a lot of people seem to think they can accurately profile complete strangers. For the record, no the fuck you can't.

[frogsinajar]

Happy almost 4/13, have some funnies

extra doodles under the cut

[sasukeologist]

[bibiana112]

I love when Tumblr has random funny bullshit videos without any description like this and I just have to trust either that my mutuals wouldn't put unfunny things on my dash or that I've made good decisions on who to follow

[running-batty]

Sharing the original video because nothing could prepare me for the offical sketch the police department sent.

[fatsexybitch]

NGL that is WAY funnier than Sasuke

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."

"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."

One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.

[june-egbert-official]

Someone who says they don't care if dudes wear dresses and makeup is a better ally than someone who says they're a safe space for women and non-binary people. I am not joking.

[redrook]

yeah I went to a gay bar recently with my husband tumblr user beemovieerotica, and a VERY confused capital S Southerner straight man in cargo shorts and a trucker hat showed up

apparently he (who through my drunken memory I remember only as Earl) liked some woman, and she told him that he wasn't cultured enough and needed to attend his first drag show (she also flaked on him)

Now I'm reasonably androgynous and was wearing makeup, a short leather skirt, and black heeled boots, but still when this guy came up to me when I was standing off alone and asked "So. Do you come here often?" with a very earnest expression, I thought. Surely not. This guy doesn't think I'm a straight woman does he????

Anyway I start talking with this guy and he has no idea what the fuck is going on but he is just a very kind and earnest dude and asked a lot of questions (while asking if it was alright if he asked those questions). I track down my husband and friends and I'm like y'all. We need to make sure that Earl has a Good Fucking Time tonight.

Man was completely out of his depth. At one point they put on a puppy auction to raise money for Pride, that started with a 6 ft drag queen in all her glory leading a leather pup out on a leash to the tune of that damned RSPCA "in the arms of the angels" song

We look at Earl. Nervous. He squints, laughs, and then goes "I was wondering why people were dressed like that!" He turned to me and asked "So they're like dogs?" And I said yeah pretty much. And he just chuckled and went "Yeah I thought so with the tails! Never seen this before!"

When the first drag king came out, Earl looked at me wide eyed and went "There's a dude version too?!" And I said yeah they're called drag kings. And he said, low, "Drag kings."

During one of the queens performances, he frowned, shook his head and told me, "Your legs are better than hers." in a tone that implied he thought there was some travesty taking place and I should also be getting paid

When he found out I was there with my husband (and that I am not a woman) he profusely apologized and said "I'm so sorry, it's dark in here and I thought you were a hot chick! I wouldn't have said nothing if I knew you had a husband, I'm so sorry about that."

When beemovie invited me to the dance floor with him later and I still had a drink in my hand, Earl said "Oh don't worry about that I can hold your drink, you get on out there and shake your ass with your husband!" Then before we left, Earl bought me drinks for "Putting up with me all night and answering everything. Y'all helped me have a great time tonight."

like. You gotta recognize there's going to people who have never had interacted outside of their of their own community. This includes you. And just because your community is familiar with all the right vocabulary and how to correctly say something, it doesn't mean they're actually going to support you. If someone like Earl shows up, confused and out of their depth but kind and curious and earnest, you gotta have patience and truck through the small things, so when he goes back to his friends and his coworkers and they snicker asking how the drag show was, he can genuinely talk about how included we tried to make him feel and that he had a great time

The person matters more than the language

[little-trash-ghost]

I will reblog this EVERY TIME.

Sanitized language is a tool of oppression, always has been and always will be.

And yes, I get being pissed off by slurs. I do. But in the times we are living in right now, we really need to all pivot our priorities to safety.

"Earl" will talk to all his Busch drinking, tractor-pulling, gun toting, conservative voting friends about the nice and friendly and harmless trannies he met, and they will understand him.

They do not know what gender non-conforming, trans-femme/masc, demiboy, agender genderqueer bisexual lesbians are, and quite frankly, they do not need to.

What we need from Earl and his friends is for them to feel neutrally enough about us to not become violent with us, and to spread the idea that violence against us is not necessary or warranted. They are simply not going to do that in a language that is not their own.

[little-trash-ghost]

I'm gonna be soooooo real with you rn. This isn't about workplace sensitivity training. The reason why the Earl story is so captivating is because it's so unusual. People are not going to ask you to teach them. When you get the opportunity to influence someones perspective and make the world a safer place, grab it by the fucking throat and don't waste it by lecturing about the no-no words. There are very real threats. Being referred to with an outdated word is not going to kill you.

Earl needs to use the language his peers are used to in order to acclimate them to having neutral feelings about us. If that language is "slurs," then he needs to use slurs.

We are so far from bridges. We can start thinking about bridges when we're no longer at risk of being hunted for fucking sport.

[torpidgilliver]

weve seen that the friendsim trolls dont adhere to any sort of rules when selecting screen names so are we just supposed to assume that the hivebent trolls just… Did That

[torpidgilliver]

most likely karkat hit everyone up and bothered everyone until they all agreed to make up dumb names based around the A-T-C-G DNA pattern but the question is WHY

[torpidgilliver]

carcinoGeneticist: YOU HAVE TO DO IT. WE’RE ALL DOING IT. equiusZahhak: D–> I do not care what you all do carcinoGeneticist: EVEN NEPETA IS ON BOARD, AND SHE SAYS YOU HAVE TO. equiusZahhak: D–> …Fine –equiusZahhak is now centaursTesticle!– centaursTesticle: D–> Are you happy now carcinoGeneticist: YOU KNOW, I DON’T THINK I’LL EVER BE HAPPY AGAIN IN MY LIFE.