I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.
He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense
Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia
TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…
TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike in solidarity. The Foundation is sitting on $296 million in reserves and a freshly profitable AI revenue stream. This is a confrontation with global implications.
It has been suggested elsewhere that if you are a Wiki Foundation donor, it would be a good idea to email and explain that this kind of behaviour will lead to you withholding future donations.
ppl use crab bucket metaphor to describe the lateral social violence of oppressed people, but tbh I think it's more like how sometimes when chickens are kept in such abysmal horrific close quarters conditions with no ability to make decisions or control any aspect of their lives, they just start violently attacking each other, to the point where some factory farms where this is a problem simply cut or trim parts of their beaks off so they can't do as much damage. because this is more cost effective than providing them with more space, species specific enrichment, appropriate lighting, etc, and the system we live under prioritizes cost effectiveness over the well-being of alive creatures.
it would be a mistake to think that this represents the natural behavior of chickens.
it would be a mistake to think that the social displacement harms we do to each other as marginalized people under a great deal of stress, under capitalism, represents the natural behavior of people.
human beings, however, possess the ability to learn to identify when we are engaging in this type of lateral social violence, and the ability to prioritize developing alternate coping mechanisms that cause less harm to the other people in our communities, and leave us with more energy to address the actual causes of our suffering.
hey can we be fucking honest with each other for a sec? the endless cyberstalking and sexual harassment that people on this website subject transfems to - building documents of information and networks of rumors and public harassment campaigns against trans women - is directly responsible for the kinds of suicides we're mourning today on trans day of remembrance -- this is not "discourse" this is not "infighting" this is real life or death shit
if you are on the side of cyberstalking random trans women (typically autistic, often twoc, often victims of SA), then we are not "in the same community" you are my fucking enemy. trans mras will often evoke the threat of "conservatives who want us dead" to gesture at unity (and try to shut up transfeminism); if you participate in or just support and agree with these disgusting fucking campaigns, YOU are the conservative who wants trans women dead.
Simon’s characterization and the fandom biases towards it
So, I love bloodymary and absolutely adore the fanfictions, however, some of Simon's characterization is… lacking, and exaggerated, and sometimes downright wrong.
Sometimes i see him depicted as being so clueless about everything and people justify it by saying its because of the Quiet Rapture, just so Grace can teach/explain things to him.
I like to give people the benefit of the doubt and assume they just haven't seen Iron Lung yet.
BUT, fanfiction is fanfiction and we are all free to write whatever we want.
I just feel like he is such an interesting character and has so much potential, and sometimes he is unfortunately reduced to Grace's pet project to fix.
If you are like me and would like to keep this character as close to canon as possible, I am gonna share my own notes about Simon that I am using for my own fanfic. Notes that I took while watching iron lung, containing some of the lines and how he behaves.
It's messy af keep that in mind, sorry.
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Simon is a smart motherfucker, navigating with the sm-13, he is nervous but reactive under pressure, and able to adapt when needed.
Curses only when frustrated and stressed, not all the time
“Stupit piece of shit you just had to chug the whole thing?” At himself
“Fuck that” at the eel.
He cares about others. Cares for the things around him, pats the chair and holds everything carefully, knows how precious things are.
“I didn't mean for that to happen, I was just scared” After harming people with the radiation. “How bad was it?”
“THAT-that wasn't supposed to happen” filament station.
Has lost hope for humanity (not really), but has hope to live. He seeks comfort and talks about what he is feeling. Has abandonment issues.
“can you just, keep talking to me?”
“I just want to live, is that so wrong?”
“I thought i died, i might have died...”
“I really don't want to be down here anymore please”
Despite not believing in Eden he cared about his brothers. (Again, abandonment issues)
Wanted to be part of the coi, not because he believed in it ,but because it's the option where he lives. Didn't choose Eden, didn't choose the coi.
Doesn't actually believe in the quiet rapture, thinks that the space stations were taken somewhere else, not that the stars disappeared.
“It doesn’t matter” repeats a lot.
“I traded one fancy metal box of dying for another!”
He is reasonable, explains things and asks questions, but aggressive when scared and threatened. Gets frustrated when things are kept from him.
“Sure, just give me a second”
“Can I not ask a question?”
“I know what a skeleton is, i am not a idiot”
“What is the POINT OF ALL OF THIS?”
“And then I am free?” “And then we bring you back up”
“I do what you asked and you let me free” at Ava “That is fair!”
“Just RAM IT?”... “alright, just ram it”
“I think i got it, one second” is polite.
“Alrighty” (absolutely loved him saying that)
Tries something, tilts head to the side “yeah that works”
“Dont mind me, pretend i am not here” to the blood eel.
“If you see anyone looking for Simon tells them i am still alive”
“Fucking aliens”
Talks to objects, and himself. Holds things in his mouth.
I can’t even explain how much it meant to have the first person Jesus interacts with be trans, and for that person to give Jesus food. Growing up in a Christian culture that and the entire miracle of the pizza scene just broke my heart open in the best way.
I really thought that Aziraphale and Crowley were going to rewrite the Book of Life.
I really thought they were going to become the Illustrator and Author.
I really thought that's why all the books in the shop were made blank.
I really thought God wasn't going to actually exist in a true form, and instead be a kind of omnipresent power of creation.
I really thought that they were going to have their forced-proximity-making-up-with-each-other as they were required to work together to write the new Book of Life.
I really thought that they were going to choose *their* humanity and not a new one.
I really thought they would still be themselves at the end.
I really thought the moral of the story was that the humanity they had was worth protecting, and that life itself (whether mortal or otherwise) was beautiful and inherently important.
I really thought this story was about a love that transcends.
I understand the path they took. However. I do think it missed the mark on what the show was really trying to say.
Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday
Not to be dramatic but y’all had better watch out because the second I watch Iron Lung my brain worms are gonna blast out a BloodyMary fic so engorged with yearning and speculative biology that it’ll level the tristate area.
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