all of this age verification stuff is ultimately security theatre. its easy to lie to these systems and to find workarounds. all of the companies that rushed to comply did so gleefully. enmeshing themselves further with the state is a good way to hedge bets about staying afloat. and granting that these third parties are true to their word about not storing data, there is still information to be mined about who passed verification and who didnt. tch.
[ID: first image is a tumblr post by @/ultradracula that reads, “controversial opinion but i don’t think people should go to jail” and the rest of the text is blacked out.
second image is text that reads, “free everyone incarcerated” with the rest of the text blacked out.]
not to be maya on side but please do not call someone or something “mayan” when talking about our people, culture, etc. “mayan” refers to our language family (a language FAMILY, in which there are plenty of unique languages). we are the maya, not the mayans. i am maya, not mayan. it is the indigenous maya community, not the indigenous mayan community.
the only reason the registry exists is because we culturally view sexual crimes as inherently more evil and unforgivable than any other kind of violence. people are more willing to believe that a murder can grow and change than a flasher. if you’re woke enough to believe that ‘innocence’ is a fascist concept and sex is just another thing the body can do, then you should believe the corollary: hurting someone with your genitals is no different from hurting them with your fists
and yet, murderers and other violent offenders do not have their full names, faces, and addresses put on a public database for the rest of their lives. there is no such thing. they are not legally barred from watching movies containing violence, or owning imagery containing violence
in my state, sex offender probation means you can be searched, at any time, without a warrant, and owning a copy of playboy is a violation. it means you’ll be arrested if a family member comes to stay with you and you don’t register their vehicle with the sheriff. the dehumanization is beyond the pale
Multiple people have brought up the point that the sex offender registry disproportionately targets marginalized people and is used to criminalize the existence of queers, etc. That is true, and it's important to know, but, I cannot stress enough:
This post is about rapists.
The sex offender registry is not bad because innocent people are on it. It is bad because it is a gross abuse of human rights. Rapists are human beings. They deserve human rights. They deserve privacy. They deserve free access to media. They deserve the opportunity to grow and change.
Too many of you are only interested in protecting Unperson's rights as a means to protect Good People's rights, and it shows.
Say it with me everyone, rights are for everyone, that's what makes them rights. Even if you wish they weren't, even if you really wanna make that exception for that kind of person you find really gross, shut up, no, I don't care. They get rights too. Grit your teeth and curse them the whole time if you must, but everyone deserves safety, comfort, and happiness.
if you were a king/queen/etc. and an avatar of the goddess of eternal torment asked for your daughter's hand in marriage/your blessing on their marriage, how would you respond? On one hand, she's a goddess. on the other hand, she's the goddess of eternal torment.
i would like to be on her good side
i do not want to get on her bad side
i'm not blessing a marriage where she'll be tortured forever!
i think that's the princess's decision (see under cut)
i have a more nuanced answer/i'm balder than jabroni mike
i want to marry the goddess of torment myself actually
Voting ended onMay 8
details on the situation below the cut
the princess says she wants it but it's unclear if she does
the goddess can already do whatever she likes with her, whether they're married or not
eternal torment does mean eternal life... or many, many short lives, depending on how you count things
the goddess does say she actually loves the princess and this isn't a power/politics thing
the goddess can pop in and out of the eternal torment realm as she wants and will probably be hanging around your castle (she's already interested in the princess and hanging around your castle anyways, but it's less likely to stop if you say yes)
it's 100% the princess's fault for summoning the goddess of eternal torment to dinner (it was not meant to be romantic) knowing that there was a pretty good chance that she was in for eternal torment at some point, she just expected for that to take the form of her suddenly vanishing into the realm of eternal torment (as usually happens in this ritual)
she is like, fourth in line to the throne, and was doing this to try and contribute to research on the goddess/realm of eternal torment and be more important than just a footnote in the royal family's history
it's unclear if the torment is a sex thing for the avatar, she's flirty about it but that might be entirely because of how the princess reacts
the larger inscrutable goddess entity is basically a living idea that also contains a world, and isn't really something to which the idea of "a sex thing" can even be applied
it's very clear the torment is a sex thing for the princess
however on top of that fun she IS still also experiencing excruciating pain on a regular basis as well as various other unpleasant things
the goddess's avatar is kinda hot. really hot actually. right on the edge between butch and not-butch
this isn't about any piece of media, whether in progress or released, unfortunately. this is about all the info i can think of, honestly i just kinda got lost from providing context to the poll into just taking notes
have you noticed. ableds seem to operate on some kind of strange video game logic where doing something at least once unlocks the ability to do it with ease forever. if you can walk unaided once then you can walk! if you can eat that food you're intolerant or allergic to once then you no longer have that dietary requirement! if you can say one word at least once then you'll be fully verbal and speaking! like. it doesn't work like that bestie beloathed
For years after 9/11 we were constantly told “NEVER FORGET” and the idea was basically “keep feeling sad and afraid and especially ANGRY forever; don’t let time dull your emotional response like it’s naturally supposed to; continue to justify the injustices by feeling this way all the time.” And the 3000 deaths were constantly pointed to as this huge deal that justified any lengths to go to.
And then Covid hit. And there were several points during the height of the pandemic (because fun fact, according to the actual definitions of a pandemic, *it’s not technically over yet!* ) where we were having a 9/11’s worth of deaths every week or so. And suddenly 3000 deaths were not a big deal at all. Instead of being enough reason to go to war far away and strip us at home of many rights too, they weren’t even enough justification to make people wear a damn piece of fabric over their face.
3000 people died once and now the government can legally wiretap anyone without a warrant, and hold people at Gitmo under suspicion of terrorism (no need for due process)… 3000 people dying every week but we should all still be going out to brunch and concerts and who cares about the disabled and immunocompromised?
Something in me broke. Make all the 9/11 jokes you want.
Betting I’ve reblogged this before. Betting I’ll reblog it when it turns up again.
In addition to the print terminology stuff: the visual shorthand icons and ad graphics for something about writing are still often pen-nibs, fountain pens and typewriters…
…while graphics of a monitor, keyboard and mouse remain visual shorthand for computing…
…even though most writers now use monitor / keyboard / mouse or even laptop / touchpad.
In addition, headers for “this blog / website is about writing” are often in one of the many imitation typewriter fonts complete with smudges, or just Courier.
The start and end call icons on most / all smartphones is still the handset of a classic desk telephone, and sometimes the open-app icon is a complete phone.
The term “hang up” for “end the call” refers to something even older - one of these…
And of course the Save icon is indeed a 3½ inch floppy disc.
Why it wasn’t a 5¼ floppy is a mystery. The icon version is just as distinctive.
Also, why various OP updates never changed “Save” to the graphic of a CD / DVD or flash drive is another mystery, and nowadays a Save icon should probably be a cartoon cloud.
"just as distinctive" i'm curious if everyone agrees with that. 3 elements each, 2 colors each. consider also that you're seeing these way way larger than you would as an icon
its interesting being a weird autistic tranny as a kid and letting yourself get accustomed to the idea that youre just some magically antisocial loser who is "introverted" and is happy being alone and then you grow up and realize that actually you love being social you love hugs you love going out and hate being alone you just hated all of the social opportunities available to you growing up so much you let yourself romanticize solitude as a slightly less miserable state than interacting with people
a scene must be included PRIOR to sex where the characters READ their birth certificates OUT LOUD so the reader will know they were born on the SAME DATE to avoid any disgusting AGE GAPS
do you think bowser ever gets anxious after kidnapping peach again that he went too far this time and he calls mario up in the middle of the night to make sure they’re still on for tennis and gokarting next weekend
painstakingly dialing mario’s landline on a comically small telephone only for luigi to pick up instead and he has to ask him to put his brother on the phone. not that luigi isn’t part of weekend plans, but like this is really more of a mario & bowser situation and it’d be rude to drag his brother into it if there’s a problem. so anyway then luigi puts the receiver down to go get his brother and bowser sits there tapping his claws on his table and this is agony, actually, he shouldn’t have called at all, it’s late enough at his castle so it has to be even later over in the mushroom kingdom. but just as he’s about to put the phone down, mario answers all chipper—mario mario speaking, who’s-a calling? which is a ridiculous question because there’s no way luigi didn’t already tell him.—and bowser has to ask him. look, mario, i know i dangled peach in a bird cage over a pit of lava the other day, and when you showed up, i let my son throw giant flaming hammers at you, and there’s no hard feelings about that, right? and there’s a few seconds of silence before mario laughs and reassures him it’s all in the day’s work of a plumber, an explanation bowser has never thought to really question since he only knows two plumbers and it does all seem pretty in their wheelhouse. and then he’s embarrassed for worrying so much so he tries to end the call quickly, but mario just ribs him about how badly he’s going to lose the next race, and then he starts asking bowser how junior is, and does bowser want any of the leftovers since he and luigi really do cook way too much for two, be a shame to let it go to waste. and by the time bowser manages to hang up, this has gone from leftovers into him and junior and the koopalings all being invited over to the mario household for dinner, so long as they don’t park their airship on the front lawn and leave the cannons at home.
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