Iris

"For when you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss gazes back." She/her

[friend-crow]

I am slowly losing my mind over the shift towards video as the default media format.

I do not find this to be an efficient way to absorb information. I am bored and distracted by the time the largely unnecessary introduction is over. I can't use ctrl+f to find the specific information I'm looking for. If there are instructions to follow, I don't want to have to constantly pause and back up to the part I need.

At least give me a fucking transcript.

[letmefixthatforyou]

I can read faster than you can talk and these videos are wasting my time.

[crossdreamers]

Scientists Behind the "Social Contagion" Myth Are Recruiting Trans Young People For Study, Community Leaders Warn

The project is called AYAGDOS—brought to you by the same names behind “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria” pseudoscience.

Do not take part in this transphobic study of trans youth!

A new research project, AYAGDOS, is recruiting transgender youth for a study that is bound to be used to invalidate trans people everywhere.

The study is led by Lisa Littman, Kenneth Zucker, and J. Michael Bailey, figures long associated with discredited, harmful and transphobic theories about transgender people, including “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria” and "Autogynephilia".

These theories are used by anti-trans activists the world over, and these researchers are actively helping them.

DO NOT TAKE PART IN THIS STUDY!!!

Do not respond to requests from Lisa Littman, Kenneth Zucker, J Michael Bailey, James Morandini, Kevin Hsu, Paul Vasey, Ray Blanchard, Scott Semenyna or Alex Byrne or anyone else associated with this clique of researchers. Be skeptical of any transgender study presented by people from Northwestern University.

Share this post with as many young trans people as you can!

Erin in the Morning has more

All you need to know about the “autogynephilia” theory

Everything You Need to Know About Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria

J Molay

[strawberry-crocodile]

its all worth it because ive got titties

[strawberry-crocodile]

this is not a joke ive always wanted to have titties and just didnt believe it was something i was allowed to want or ever able to get for twenty godawful years of my life. and i know some people would throw a full on temper tantrum if they saw a trans woman talking about how she loves her titties and always wanted titties and is so happy to have titties and thinks shes so sexy and cool and looks beautiful. but i think those people need to shut the fuck up because its my body and my happiness.

[technofeudalism]

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

A declassified World War II-era government guide to “simple sabotage” is currently one of the most popular open source books on the internet. The book, called “Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” was declassified in 2008 by the CIA and “describes ways to train normal people to be purposefully annoying telephone operators, dysfunctional train conductors, befuddling middle managers, blundering factory workers, unruly movie theater patrons, and so on. In other words, teaching people to do their jobs badly.”  Over the last week, the guide has surged to become the 5th-most-accessed book on Project Gutenberg, an open source repository of free and public domain ebooks. It is also the fifth most popular ebook on the site over the last 30 days, having been accessed nearly 60,000 times over the last month (just behind Romeo and Juliet). 

Link to the Guide at Project Gutenberg can be found here

A Wikisource entry can be found here.

Mirrors can be found here, here, here, here and here.

[breelandwalker]

Gosh it would be a shame if this got even MORE visibility.

Whoops my cursor slipped.

[dietofworm]

Egg prime directive is dumb as shit, do you know how many girls and enbies I've met who have expressed they want to get on estrogen but feel like they can't because of societal transmisogyny

[virtualgirladvance]

that shit delayed my transition over 5 years and almost cost me my life but "they should figure it out themselves" or some bs. fuck that! help that poor bitch out

[hallowedlore]

this is targeted tumblr content

[not-freyja]

Okay but this is actually a perfect translation into modern slang, with the rhythmic nature if the speech preserved?

[residual-fortitude]

Seeing the modern slang translation not a day after I translated it into Latin for an event is truly delightful

[skarabrae-stone]

[magiclilybean]

I think this might be the most beautiful meme I've ever seen. I just spent five minutes extolling all its virtues to my husband:

It doesn't even mention Julius Caesar or the Ides of March.

It's from a very different segment of the play

It's not even the famous part of that segment that everyone knows by heart

The "I'm just sayin'" attitude of all the Seinfeldians in the screenshot (although if memory serves, what they're actually saying is, "not that there's anything wrong with that")

It just comes at the whole situation in such an oblique fashion

I don't think I've ever seen an Ides of March meme do anything like this before

I love it and I love you for bringing it to me.

[redportrait]

me, having deeply fallen out of the practice of writing poetry: I can’t write any more, I am now a Talentless Hack

the voice of my 11th grade journalism/12th grade creative writing teacher who rly did know everything: if you stop writing for a while the words will build up and stagnate. to clear the water, you will have to open the dam completely, and accept the fact that what initially comes out will not be palatable

[m-s-harris]

This. This is so true. Starting again is more important than what you actually write. You are rusty. You’ll build up momentum again. All you need to do is start.

[identitty-dickruption]

somatic symptoms of anxiety are so fucked. what do you mean I got so scared my body decided that it needed to add nausea and headache and dizzy to the situation. how is it helping

[puppygirllaika]

Instructor who gave U of Oklahoma student a zero on anti-trans paper removed from teaching

Graduate assistant Mel Curth found Samantha Fulnecky's paper unscientific and offensive in referring to trans people as "demonic."

They fired her.

The university also placed another teacher on leave for allowing her students to leave class to attend a protest in support the instructor.

[bonniebugsy]

Completely unrelated, but current students of OU are transferring out and alumni are wanting refunds for their tuition, since OU has made it abundantly clear that their degrees aren't worth the paper they're printed on.

[canary-prince]

If you call the university's main number and express polite confusion over the situation, they will transfer you to someone to talk to about it. So if you feel like playing Concerned Parent: 1-405-325-0311

[hesperocyon-lesbian]

And here’s the business of the mom who orchestrated this whole plan to get a trans woman fired from teaching, in case you want to let her customers know what a lying sack of shit she is

Fulnecky Law · 4.9★(69) · Attorney

2627 W Republic Rd Suite A-108, Springfield, MO 65807

[captain-price-unofficially]

Samantha Fulnecky admitted that she didn't really read the article she was supposed to be responding to and just threw something together in 30 minutes.

[pluralfluid]

Transgender plurality is so awesome.. Like, more girl per girl, more boy per boy.. fuckin sick as hell...

[abortedabortionlover]

Homeschooling should be completely illegal imo, but at the VERY least, we need a national standard of testing and check ins with mandatory reporters. The HSLDA will send you bomb threats if you try, though.

[abortedabortionlover]

You think I'm joking about the bomb threats? I'm not.

[abortedabortionlover]

Another reason for homeschooling to be banned/regulated out of existence: the annoying homeschooled adults in the notes arguing that, yeah ok, SOME homeschool kids might be horrifically abused, denied a basic education (and therefore making it nigh impossible to seek higher levels of education), isolated, and in the worst circumstances, don't even SURVIVE.... But I think I turned out fine, and as the main character of the universe, I think my individual experience should hold more weight.

[cassandracalin]

[anglerfl3sh]

University really is about looking at the worst pdf known to man huh

[anglerfl3sh]

the professor uploaded this sideways. I'm sparing you at least that bit

[shieldfoss]

Image from the best pdf I ever saw, [Elliot 2025]:

[Elliot 2050] - The Utterly Unhinged Elamo-Minoan Hypothesis https://www.academia.edu/128559713

[hymneminium]

[depsidase]

[socialistexan]

In a recent poll, American think that:

21% of the US is transgender (the actual number is between 0.5% and 1.6%)

30% are gay or lesbian (3%) and an additional 30% are bisexual (4%), meaning the average American thinks that only around 19% of them are cisgender heterosexuals. The actual number of cisgender heterosexuals is around 90% of the population.

30% Muslim (1%) and 30% Jewish (2%), however contradictory to this they also think 58% are Christian, equaling 118% of Americans are of the abrahamic religions to the average American or some people are both Jewish or Muslim and Christian.

33% atheist (3%), meaning the abrahamic religions+ atheism is 141% of the US population.

41% black (12%), 27% (1%) native American, 29% asian (6%), and 39% Hispanic (17%), but also 59% white (64% actual)

30% live in NYC (3%), 30% live in Texas (9%), and 32% live in California (12%), meaning only 8% live in the rest of the country (actual 76%).

And lastly the average American believe only 62% of us have a high school education, actual number is 89%.

People vastly overestimate the general knowledge of the average American, let alone political knowledge and critical thinking skills. We live in the consequences of the children left behind.

[bungerc0re]

hard hat cats discord has yielded bounty once more

[puppygirllaika]

new bottom surgery just dropped.

country tgirls make do.

[puppygirllaika]

i think about this every time i see anyone do inadvisable shit with shocks.

[chaosroid]

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