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Humanist philosopher dispensing lessons from her lonely mountaintop. Writer, autistic, transgender. Too much in love with all humankind to get involved in a relationship. If I block you, it is probably because I'd rather rub shit in my eyes than subject them to your lies. Definitely an Antifa ringleader and American pretending to be Swedish.

[digitaldiscipline]

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:

[itchy-9884]

[tehamelie]

Jesus wouldn't even appropriate AAVE

[tepkunset]

I feel like simply calling JK Rowling a transphobe isn't strong enough anymore. Like. This is not your grandpa calling you by your deadname at a restaurant kind of transphobic. This is her wanting to eradicate all trans people (with an extra special hatred towards trans women specifically). This is her trying just that by personally funding transphobic hate groups with millions to push around laws in the UK. It is not hyperbolic to call her a dangerous, genocidal maniac.

It's not about cancelling a problematic writer. It's about literally trying to save lives by denying her as much money and power as possible.

[phinarei]

A lot of cis people are treating her like an actress who pushes diet culture or a singer who is too sex forward for their tastes. Like she's an inconvenience to their moral comfort instead of the existential threat she is.

She is not that.

She is Elon Musk. She is Trump. She is a powerful monster with the money to end lives.

Giving her money and creating a demand for her books by engaging in fandom should be seen the same way owning a cybertruck is seen. Harry Potter gear is in the same category as MAGA gear.

I need to see the same disgust and outright hatred of her that I see about all the evil men in her category. I don't know if people see her as less dangerous because she's a woman or if people are worried that hating on a woman will get their feminist card revoked, but she needs to be taken more seriously by a lot of people. She's a big name heavy hitter with more money than anyone should be allowed to have.

This isn't a scandal, it's a genocide.

[tehamelie]

Sort of like calling Hitler and antisemite. Yes, Joanne doesn't command any armies, but her personal wealth is around 1-2% of the entire GDP of Nazi Germany, and she has the ear of many times more people than the 60 million or so who voted for NSDAP. And she has bent her entire life to exterminating trans people - to make us stop existing, in whatever bloodless way she imagines that's supposed to be accomplished - in the ridiculous belief that we somehow pose an existential threat to women. This, also, brings to mind certain ethnonationalist dictators who claimed they had to purge some classes of people from their country to save it. (Immigrants, queer people and women with opinions, in every case.) The difference is mainly that Joanne Rowling is fighting for cultural territory, all over the world, rather than terrestrial territory.

We don't need to call her names, we need to stop her.

[mydadisdracula]

My Dad is Dracula (and a Medieval Scholar) “I hate to break it to you Son, but in the real medieval times there was no Pepsi.” Illuminate that like button, raise a hue and cry in the comments, visit the falconry with a repost, and hark the notifications button if MDiD makes you go medieval!! 🏰 patreon.com/mydadisdracula

[tehamelie]

No Pepsi, and it would certainly be a stretch to call it medieval times, but Dracula ought to be interested in the tidbit that Coca-Cola was freshly developed in the period of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Easy to imagine, in any scene in the novel that doesn't explicitly contradict it, the characters are chugging original recipe cocaine Coke.

[animentality]

[opossum-mypossum]

[ryan-sometimes]

Working an office job will truly make you have the wildest enemies, bc why is my nemesis rn a woman I’ve never met and who exclusively haunts me by sending diabolical emails, and also a specific guy who left my company before I even worked here and made the system so fuckass that it ruined procedures for like a year

[ryan-sometimes]

Yesterday my nemesis (woman I’ve never met and whose face I’ve never seen) sent my office an email so rude, basically saying we had fucked up every project she ever ordered from us, one of the worst emails I’ve ever read in my life.

And it pissed me off so badly that I spent the ENTIRE WORK DAY today compiling evidence from every project my team has ever done for her, pulling past emails she’d sent us, putting together an entire case proving that she had been the problem all along. That she got projects mixed up, that she’d made requests that were nonsensical, literally everything you could possibly imagine. Screenshots of emails, reports we’d submitted, EVERYTHING.

This woman in particular has been terrorizing my team for years, her name is almost a slur in my office, I had simply had ENOUGH of her.

I put all of this evidence together and sent it to all of my bosses at 4:30pm. Then I took a long break to eat a sweet treat and drink some tea.

After my break, my bosses all called in an emergency meeting with me and they said they read my report and fucking loved it. And I sat on a teams call with my boss’ boss as she wrote my nemesis the scathing email I had always fantasized about sending, using the evidence I’d compiled, and hit send.

It was the most satisfying workday I’ve had since I got hired.

[winnie-wine]

[tehamelie]

Interesting. See, my cousin's worked in disability care all her adult life, mostly one on one with clients in their homes, but her new job is in a care home where you "do office work" in between wiping butts and such. And now she has coworkers who absolutely loathe her and spread stories about her beating clients and stealing drugs and tell her to her face nobody likes her 30 times per day, apparently because they're all really bad at making the phone calls and answering the emails and writing records and my cousin ends up doing most of it. Broadly, they think she's terrible at the job she has been doing for 28 years because they "view her as an office worker." But if office jobs makes people crazy and antagonistic as a rule maybe it explains some things.

[draconym]

I just saw an acquaintance use "👖🛝" in place of the word genocide and. like. at what point are we going to decide that this kind of self-censorship is too degrading to abide anymore.

[draconym]

"grape" "sewer-slide" "the panini" I feel like I'm surrounded by Rugrats who overheard the grown ups talking about the news.

[draconym]

I'm tired of seeing people excuse algospeak because "corporations are making us do it." Why are we all letting them do that. The Internet is real life. Get mad about it.

[tehamelie]

If you're worried the algorithm is going to make you unpopular if you use the bad words, you deserve to be fucking unpopular. You're acting like a nervous kid trying to guess what the asshole cool kids want you to say so they'll think you're a cool asshole, when you could act like a teacher.

[depsidase]

[tehamelie]

Berensten truthers are almost funny. Like hmm I'm gonna use this new-fangled Internet to look up the books I remember my parents reading to me so long ago. Berenstain Bears? That's not how you spell that name usually. Am I remembering wrong? Did I maybe not even ever read it myself? No it must be the universe that's wrong.

[evilwriter37]

Insane to me that disabled people will say: "Hey, your glorified idea of revolution is going to get us killed" and then be treated as collateral damage or a necessary sacrifice. Like, yeah, the systems in place now are oppressive and literally based on eugenics, but a Revolution™️is not going to save us. How are we supposed to trust you (abled people) to put good systems in place if you're ready to kill us to get rid of the old one. That's not saving people. Treating disabled people as if they're ridiculous for not wanting to die and pointing out how bad a revolution would be for us is insane. You're actually a horrible person if you do this.

I don't know, folks, I'm just so fucking tired of us disabled people either being ignored or told to shut up. We're treated as worthless and expendable. I'm not dying for your Great Revolution™️. I need my meds.

[jayalaw]

This is what I said! A revolution needs to save everyone or we save no one. Lives aren’t expendable.

[tsarina-anadyomene]

it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there

[gsot]

[drmajalis]

[tehamelie]

Bluesky post going "What are books that mean a lot to you" and someone quote posted that with a picture of the cover of like The Great Gatsby and nothing else, no comment, no discussion, not even an image description and it has 20,000 reposts

[pengosolvent]

Edit: the title for this comic is “Puzzle Rat” this one’s a few days late due to having a lot of doctors appointments sorry it’s  just 9 pages, and about some rats… it’s more symbolic than anything really

(it’s completely unrelated to any of my songs that have to do with “puzzleboy”) Patreon: www.patreon.com/PengoSolvent

[tehamelie]

What about hoping for the best AND preparing for the worst? Well, they're only mice, that's pretty complicated.

[byjove]

idioms are always funnier in languages you do not understand, especially when a native speaker is struggling to explain and actively digesting how ridiculous it is in real time

[georgeismyprincess]

me when my partner tries to explain what suskikusen (I don’t know the spelling that’s the phonetics of it) is in Finnish and why the blazing heck they names our cat it.

[georgeismyprincess]

for references, they named our cat “ski into a pine tree” or “ski straight into a tall tree” depending on who you ask. It’s a “get lost” in Finnish. very useful saying

…when we’re not naming a cat

[byjove]

That is such a Finnish way to say fuck off and a hilarious name for a cat. Paints a vivid picture of the cat’s personality.

[tehamelie]

"If you don't eat, you die" is a great old idiom I learned at my mother's knee. It's more poetic in Swedish, of course.

("Äta bör man, annars dör man.")

[mutant-what-not]

[tehamelie]

[liberalsarecool]

She called it.

Unqualified Republican appointments and GOP 3pstein capitalism have abysmal consequences.

[coffee-n-kush]

[tehamelie]

God?

[lizclimo]

[tehamelie]

Life goals