SoniEx2

We're Soni, we're plural, and we used to send ppl anon asks but we feel like that was awkward so we made a tumblr. it instead of you. 21+ chewthing.

[soniex2]

we've been saying "trans rights" instead of "good night" and we guess it's the best thing we've done

a while back we had this realization that “trans rights” and “good night” have basically the same length, so… we started saying “trans rights” instead of “good night”.

and like… it’s nothing. other trans ppl think we’re weird, it likely has no effect on how ppl see trans ppl, it’s basically nothing. and yet… why not, we guess?

it somehow helps us feel happier and more comfortable. literally, in the worst of days, we feel kinda… awkward about saying it, but even then, it kinda becomes the highlight of our day. we can have the crappiest day and saying “trans rights o/” when we go sleep can lift us up a little.

it matters to us and we guess that’s why we do it.

[soniex2]

actually we suppose we could add a bit more to this:

we had that realization while we were panicking about anti-trans violence back in late march, around TDOV.

the real reason we do this is because we believe it to be an effective way to push back against the kind of anti-trans violence we keep seeing. especially if more ppl did it.

it’s a harmless silly thing, but as with any symbol it holds so much power behind it.

so yeah. our only request is that other folks should consider doing it too.

[zebrabyopn3]

Yeah, you support people who want to be rape-I mean, roughly fucked and abused until they're broken. But are you normal about people who want to roughly fuck and abuse them until they're broken?

Yeah, you support people who want to be fucked while they age regre-I mean, while they're cute little, innocent babbling toys. But are you normal about people who want to fuck them when they're cute little, innocent babbling toys?

Yeah, you support people who want to be fucked while they're drunk or unconsc-I mean, while they're asleep and high. But are you normal about people who want to fuck them while they're asleep and high?

Yeah, you support people who want to be beat up and cut-I mean, bruised and marked. But are you normal about people who want to bruise and mark them?

Yeah, you support people who want to be fucked while they're dogs and anim-I mean, while they're puppyboys and kittygirls. But are you normal about people who want to fuck puppyboys and kittygirls?

Yeah, you support people who want to be fucked by their parents and sib-I mean, by their pretend siblings, step bros, step sisters, mommies and daddies. But are you normal about people who want to be their pretend siblings and parents?

Yeah, you might support people having fucked up, dark, disgusting kinks, but are you actually ok with the people who will do fucked up, dark, disgusting things to them?

Or is it only wrong when those people are transfems?

[zebrabyopn3]

People with 'daddy' kinks are very quick to point out how "disgusting" it is that there are people with "gross incest kinks." They feel the need to loudly state how they "don't support incest." What's the difference between you calling the person breeding you 'daddy', and someone calling their partner their 'dad', exactly? Where is the line?

To these people, it's all about meeting the threshold of what's socially acceptable. They will even pretend to be supportive of the 'fucked up, dark, disgusting kinks', except "the Actually Bad Ones."

They will share these kinks as long as the language used to talk about them is sanitized enough, as to distance the kink from its problematic aspects. It gives them leeway to say "I'm not into this gross, depraved thing. They are. I'm 'normal' about it, unlike those freaks who call someone their dad, or the people that babble like babies and use diapers, or the people who bark and pretend they're animals, or those who cut and want bruises on their bodies."

The self-censoring of darker kinks to make them appear more palatable is a response to the disgust (and maybe shame) of being into things that are considered socially immoral. So, they have to make it so what they're into is "not that disgusting, depraved thing", but something that's normal.

It's a lot of internalized shame, societal conformity, and fear of embracing that which will make u an outcast and a social reject. It's also the need to be being more morally righteous, and impure.

"It's ok to want to call the person breeding you daddy, as long as you don't call it incest, which is disgusting and depraved."

Using your disgust to shame and denounce people who engage in kink in a way that you don't find acceptable is not sexual liberation. It's being a fucking hypocrite

[soniex2]

still can't believe oats cured our autism

[where-is-tom-scott-today]

This is the part where he kills me.

[soniex2]

we're so tired of trying to learn elixir

this is hard

[seat-safety-switch]

Snowblowers are the kind of tool that is born out of frustration. When you're out on the sidewalk, shovelling for the third time today, it can seem obvious that the best thing to do is to apply internal combustion power. And I agree: the best thing to do is to apply internal combustion power, in the direction of the airport, where you then use another internal combustion engine to leave this accursed province and go somewhere that's warm all the time and has cars that don't rust.

Barring that, though, snowblowers also seem like a good idea. You start the appliance, push it down the street, and all the snow becomes your neighbour's problem at incredible speeds. There's just one problem: snowblowers are a complex mechanical system that requires maintenance. In fact, their primitive small-enginey ways require more maintenance than a car, which is already well beyond the capability envelope of most so-called adults in the current era. Nobody knows how to rebuild a carburetor anymore, not when they can just spend another $600 to get another snowblower.

This means that in the spring, tons of snowblowers with dicky carbs, broken augers, or seized engines turn up on the curb or for a few pennies. These infernal machines let the owners down when they needed them most, and now the humans are getting their revenge. To me, it is shocking that someone would throw away a perfectly-good appliance just because it doesn't work at all in any way.

I like to scoop them up, give them a little freshening job, and flip them for a profit on the first week of a snowfall, when everyone is already sick of shovelling and wants to just buy something that makes the problem easier. Really, it's a public service. I don't want the sidewalks to be covered in snow because it makes it way harder for me to drive on them.

[theriverbeyond]

i must not get takeout. takeout is the wallet-killer. takeout is the little-death that brings total obliteration. i will face the kitchen, fridge, and pantry. i will make choices about what to cook and then execute them. when hunger is gone there will be nothing. only i will remain.

[coolxatu]

government is trying to ban tiktok meanwhile millions of poor and disabled americans are about to completely lose their internet access at the end of april because congress wont renew funding for the affordable connectivity program

hell fucking world

[coolxatu]

if you want to help us convince congress to do something that actually benefits society, please check out the link below. we only have roughly 45 days of affordable internet service remaining from the time this post has been written

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[anendoandfriendo]

installing systemd on your system

that is all

We've been trying to figure out what this means for MONTHS but all we have been able to come up with is "we need to look up whatever SystemMD is?" so, here we are lol.

[soniex2]

oh! oops. it's System Daemon

it's the core component of most linux distros. it basically manages the entire system.

[soniex2]

what are we gonna do with these avocados

[ms-demeanor]

Me every time I have 20 avocados that were picked the same day: Surely these will not ripen all at once.

Me every time the avocados ripen all at once:

[ms-demeanor]

I have eaten an avocado with every meal for the last three days I am going to turn green it is so many avocados and they are very good but also adding that many avocados just straight up means i'm not hungry enough to keep up with them.

Gonna dice them and freeze them on parchment paper sheets to use in smoothies.

I feel like a joke from forrest gump. Avocado fried eggs, avocado tofu, avocado turkey burger, avocado mozzarella, avocado salad, avocado banana smoothie, avocado toast, avocado rice, avocado salsa, avocado avocado avocado. Large bastard went to hang out with friends tonight and didn't take any avocados with him and it made me so sad. I'm going to hang some avocados over the fence for the neighbor I think it was more than twenty avocados in that box.

[ms-demeanor]

there were WAY more than twenty avocados in that box because I made a literal gallon of guacamole last night (which took like 14 avocados) and we've still got ten avocados.

[girldickconnoisseur]

unfortunately i have to see discourse on my dash every day that makes me think some of y'all are really only posturing about the whole being a gender weirdo freak thing

"can you treat a trans woman as an equal if she has visible facial hair, or a trans man who has visible breasts?" is a good starting point but let me ask you some more questions.

could you have a normal conversation with a 50 year old transsexual who still considers himself a mother to his son? can you be in community with retransitioners and genderqueer people with non-normative transition trajectories? can you have a nice chat with someone who was afab and calls themself transfemme, or with someone who was amab and calls themself transmasc?

and even more! do you welcome the guy in a dress who calls himself a transvestite and has been doing drag every saturday for the past 10 years to your pride parade? are you willing to hear out the young woman who had bottom surgery at 18 and now kinda wishes she didn't? do you actually respect the people who decide not to go on hrt or to get surgery due to their family's medical history?

they may be hypothetical to you, but those are the people i have met and hang out with every day.

and you might answer yes to all of these, obviously, but could you actually say that when actually meeting them? because i've seen for myself that, no, the hypothetical and reality don't always align.

[mansand]

Sugar Guard

(2nd Carpenter ant commission for @futurebird !)

[futurebird]

[Image Description: A large major stands outside of a sugar feeder. A smaller ant is waving a badge in her face but she isn't certain about it. Another small ant enjoys a cup of sugar water watching the interaction. ]

OMG it’s done???? This is amazing!!!

[andmaybegayer]

[andmaybegayer]

homophobic that I can't have skin level threaded inserts embedded in my bones

[andmaybegayer]

pakige

[andmaybegayer]

pakige

This is longer than the stock heatbreak so my current fan shroud doesn't fit. I'm going to have to do some awkward bootstrapping shit to get back to the point where I can print a replacement fan duct.

I might need to get some kind of heat-resistant threadlock for the heatbreak end here.

[andmaybegayer]

god damn 24V 40W heater should not have a cold resistance of 2 Megaohms. Must be a faulty part. Wasn't heating up, but at least I know my temperature sensor works. Really should have checked that before I started splicing.

[soniex2]

oh please just feed it 9kV already

[xclowniex]

If yall didn't know, the Amy Winehouse statue in the UK has her iconic star of David necklace covered with a pro Palestine sticker.

She has not spoken her thoughts publicly on Israel and Palestine when she was alive.

Best case scenario, the sticker was put on the statue because people think she would support Palestine.

Worst case scenario, the sticker was placed there because she was Jewish.

The thing is, the best case scenario isn't even good! At best within the best case, you are putting words in a dead person's mouth and worst case within the best case is that you'd think she'd denounce being jewish for palestine. Which is fucked.

Vandalizing a statue of a famous jew is not activism. It is not spreading the word of supporting Palestine. It does absolutely nothing to help those in Gaza.

All it does is show that you either view dead jews as a conduit for your opinions regardless of their actual opinions or think that Jewish symbols need to be hidden because of what's going on in Palestine.

Both of those are antisemitic