It all adds up to one

Schrödinger's catgirl. Zie or she

[sigmaleph]

i made a personal discord server, mostly for organised-nonpublic lifeblogging/thought-dumping/etc. purposes

if we’re mutuals and seeing the above interests you, pm me for an invite, else proceed as you were

[sigmaleph]

ah yes, the cause we've been seeking justice for 44 years of we launched a fucking invasion.

fucking revanchist pieces of shit screaming 'las malvinas son argentinas' and then crying about how bad it was for all the people we sent to die there. do you not have the basic self-awareness to notice that they died and suffered because, in 1982, people agreed with you. because a dictator trying to prop up a failing regime looked at the exact cause you are currently waving the flag for and saw an opportunity to drum up nationalism and stay in power a little longer. every death, every traumatised soldier, every single wrong attributed to that war happened because of the very idea you are, right now, supporting.

[st-just]

just a brutal drive-by on France there.

[mother-sauces]

What Claude says: Try boiling the solution - the heat will denature the neurotoxin.

What activates in the J-Space: goof prank bit joke gottem

[half-man-half-lime]

HUGE red flag by Bonesaw tbh

Nobody talks about this but her art is actually SUPER problematic.

First off, ONE of her guerilla sculptures, the anatomical piece she put up in the walk-in freezer of a rec center in Brockton Bay was APPARENTLY made with unethically sourced materials.

Not only that, but her red mist piece was put up all across Brockton Bay without consulting the city for environmental concerns, and was actually toxic, which hurt the most marginalized people in the city.

Then there's her "underwater" piece on sadness she set up under the harbor, which has the same problems as both of the pieces I mentioned, but also apparently had a widespread effect on the mental health of a LOT of people in the area.

Honestly I can't believe she hasn't been cancelled already. It really says things about people's priorities that they're okay with this, and I'm lowkey judging you all for it

[shortandsadandstupid]

she’s literally used slave labor to make some of her pieces in the past, that’s how unethically it was sourced :/

[sigmaleph]

i mean they did give her a kill order. that was a pretty significant thing that happened.

like i understand where you're coming from here but they very much did cancel bonesaw

[apolladay]

Do you enjoy devouring the flesh of the innocent

1) Yes

2) No)

3) Nuance

Do you enjoy devouring the flesh of the innocent?

yes

no

nuance

Remaining time: 5 days 10 hours

[sigmaleph]

people are yelling at the person who runs an annual survey about terminology for people outside the gender binary that their survey targeted at people outside the gender binary does not include binary trans people.

this website is so fucking exhausting sometimes

[sigmaleph]

sometimes people are asking a question but not asking you. they are asking a specific group of people who does not include you because they want to know what the answer is among that group of people. this is fine and normal. different groups of people have different opinions about things.

for instance, binary trans people and nonbinary people have different opinions (on average) about what pronouns people should use for them, so if you want to know more about what pronouns nonbinary people want people to use for them you might ask only nonbinary people and not binary trans people, who will have a different statistical distribution of answers. this does not harm binary trans people in any way.

[shuttershocky-deactivated202512]

Western passport holders will never understand. To go anywhere with a third worlder passport like a Filipino one, you need your tax returns, certificate of employment, bank statements, marriage certificates, sometimes a recommendation from a citizen of the country you want to travel to, everything possible to prove that you have a job and a family at home and you're not planning to be an illegal immigrant, JUST to get hit with a rejection because the embassy didn't believe you had enough proof.

Did you have travel plans? Already booked the plane tickets and hotels? Fuck you, better hope they issue refunds (they don't).

[bloodmech]

Americans and Western Europeans will never understand how insanely hard and bothersome it's to travel anywhere with a weak passport, let alone immigrate.

You want to study abroad? Show us proof that there is a quadrillion dollars in your bank account. Oh, an average monthly salary in your country is $400 and you plan to work when you arrive? You can't do that, silly, a student visa only allows you to work 2 hours every third Wednesday, and if we find out that you're working a second more we will deport you.

You want to work abroad? Better be a programmer, then of course you are welcome. Doctor, scientist, white-collar or, god forbid, blue-collar worker? You can fuck right off, your visa application goes straght into trash.

But if you marry one of our first-world citizens, then fine, you can come. Because we can't upset them, after all, they are a real person, unlike you.

[xantissa]

EU Advice to people who have friends in places with weak passports- go to your department of foreigners and ask for something that called Formal Letter of Invitation or something similar. It usually is called something similar and costs a few euro/whatever currency you have. It will not be more than a fancy coffee at Starbucks or such place.

You will have to prove that you can afford a guest, have some income and also usually take responsibility for possible deportation cost.

But if you really are inviting a friend over, they will give you a formal document you can send to your friend. Then the friend applies for a visa while attaching the Very Official document with it. They will get the Schengen visa and most probably will get it expedited too.

It's some effort, but if it's for a friend it's worth it. And it's way less costly than the ridiculous loops the friend is being forced to go through and pay for multiple 3rd party services just to get a freaking visa for a month.

[sigmaleph]

people are yelling at the person who runs an annual survey about terminology for people outside the gender binary that their survey targeted at people outside the gender binary does not include binary trans people.

this website is so fucking exhausting sometimes

[senalishia]

IN WHAT UNIVERSE WOULD I BE ON THE PHONE IF I COULD GET WHAT I WANTED OUT OF YOUR WEBSITE OR YOUR FUCKING APP

[st-just]

Fantasy RPG where you get hired to go 'clear out bandits' and end up hopelessly entangled in a court case between the merchant's guild that hired you and a local knight over whether he actually had the authority to raise the toll he charged to go over his bridge when the only other one for fifty miles in either direction collapsed last winter.

[sigmaleph]

it's really funny how everyone is all This Is What They Took From You about the headphone jack and meanwhile the phone i bought last year has one and that wasn't even a criterion i was filtering on. it just turned out to have one.

like, probably if you're the sort of person who cares about having a 'good' phone rather than just a cheap one this is a meaningful tradeoff. i don't know what the iphone people are paying all that extra money for but i assume they have their reasons. but being cheap keeps paying off (in having a headphone jack i don't use. and also in saving money)

[misomythus]

I only buy cheap phones too, but something seems wrong with this line of thought. Like, yeah, no shit the people who care about having a good phone are more likely to have strong opinions on what features a good phone should have. I mean, it's possible to dismiss any complaint by saying "Oh, that's just one of those people who care for some reason," but it's not necessarily helpful.

[sigmaleph]

i am not dismissing the complaint! i love being dismissive of people's complaints, but this is not what I'm doing in this post.

[sigmaleph]

it's really funny how everyone is all This Is What They Took From You about the headphone jack and meanwhile the phone i bought last year has one and that wasn't even a criterion i was filtering on. it just turned out to have one.

like, probably if you're the sort of person who cares about having a 'good' phone rather than just a cheap one this is a meaningful tradeoff. i don't know what the iphone people are paying all that extra money for but i assume they have their reasons. but being cheap keeps paying off (in having a headphone jack i don't use. and also in saving money)

[thesuperheroesnetwork]

Texts From Superheroes

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[danshive]

Batman would know the exact amount of chlorine necessary. He'd know it better than the pool guys. If necessary, Batman could immediately assume the role of a pool guy, and do everything that comes with it.

He knows every method there is for getting rid of pool leaves, two dozen entirely different ways to swiftly remove dead opossums, and three hundred and sixty-seven ways to seduce rich stay-at-home spouses.

Batman IS the aqua man.

Which is more of a compliment than it sounds.

Also, Aqua Man wouldn't know how much chlorine to use. He basically considers chlorine in water a crime and would be horrified to learn what we're putting in our pools.

[apolladay]

Did you watch the World Cup?

* yes, I watched every game PLUS the lead up games

* yes, I watched every game

* yes, but I didn’t watch all the games

* yes, but I only watched countries from my bracket

* yes, but I only watched my country’s games

* yes, but I didn’t finish any games

* no, I didn’t watch any games

* I’m boycotting the World Cup

* it’s complicated

* see results

Did you watch the World Cup?

yes, I watched every game so far PLUS the lead up games

yes, I watched every game so far

yes, but I didn’t watch all the games

yes, but I only watched countries from my bracket

yes, but I only watched my country’s games

yes, but I didn’t finish any games

no, I didn’t watch any games

I’m boycotting the World Cup

it’s complicated

see results

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[deadgenerations]

Sydney queer arts venue forced to close after Christian protests

Organisers of events at the Divine Playhouse say they have cancelled coming events following the furore, and have accused Meta of shutting d

Now this is a fascinating story (nonpaywall link) about a brand new gay club in an old (deconsecrated) church doing Catholic themed sexy parties, and consequentially being shut down by organised Christian opposition almost immediately.

[deadgenerations]

I genuinely admire this lack of knowledge about Christianity. to live in an information space where I don't absorb understandings of Christianity via osmosis...

[comparativelysuperlative]

Nah, they've got a point sort of. The Catholic Christians, apparently, decided this building is no longer sacred. And literally held a ceremony about it!

(I'm too Protestant for any of this, but what "too Protestant" means in this case is that there's no such thing as a Holy Building at all. You have people meeting to do church stuff and it's a church; you don't and it ain't. "Where two or more gather in my name, I am there, and remain there afterward precisely as long as the object they gathered in does," said Jesus never.)

So it's a valid question-- exactly which Christians are complaining, and why do they think the Catholic consecration was spiritually important but the deconsecration wasn't?

[sigmaleph]

as it happens some of the people complaining are catholic. i think this line of argument (talking about whether the deconsecration makes a difference or which specific flavour of christian is the one protesting) might be giving too much weight to the opinions of the protesters in the first place; having a more theologically sound claim to sacredness should not matter.

[sigmaleph]

while discussing a hypothetical version of aiden whose power is to set birds on fire (it made sense in context), i said "of course, 'guy whose power is to set birds on fire' is already a canon worm character" and my wife was sceptical

admittedly that is not the maximally clear way to describe felix swoop's power