mate im just tired

Bubs. they/he. 32, edinburgh-based enby with an ax to grind

[the-attic-to-the-left]

nothing further your honour

[fotojournalismus]

Chengdu, China

[all-the-lovers]

"We do not have the responsibility of making gay life look good to straights so that they will accept us. I am not at all interested in promoting a cleaned up image to a straight world which is twice as corrupt and ten times as sick."

Vito Russo

Photography by Betty Lane, 1978

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Why should a French or a German citizen be born with access to world-class services and well-protected rights (actual implementation on the basis of minority status may differ), while a Somalian citizen is not only denied those things, but also faces huge obstacles in becoming a citizen (or even a resident) of anywhere else? If you are born a citizen of Japan, there are 190 countries you can travel to freely without a visa; if you are a citizen of Afghanistan, there are only 25. If you are born a U.K. citizen, and feel like a change of scene, you can pay $7 for permission to go to Canada, hop on a flight, and stay for up to six months without anyone bothering you. If you are born in a refugee camp, it can take years before you even get a chance to live in a place like Canada. So how can we possibly consider ourselves to be people who care about freedom and autonomy, when thanks to borders our destinies are practically assigned to us at birth? Is it absurd to form your own state? Or is it more absurd to have states in the first place?”

— Aisling McCrea, No Man Is An Island?

[afeelgoodblog]

Why hasn’t this been done before?

[autisticexpression]

You know why.

[petrosapian]

Mind the Gap: a handbook of clinical signs on black and brown skin

Second year medic, Malone Mukwende, has been working with staff members as part of a student-staff partnership project looking at clinical t

[missmixx-a-lot]

Cause racial health disparities…

[xmagnet-o]

I hope this gets published

[algorizmi]

It is available for download as a pdf from their website. www.blackandbrownskin.co.uk/mindthegap

[imperatorsapphiosa]

Hey, if anyone’s curious, this IS making a serious impact — this handbook was taught as standard practice for my EMT license course, as well as several other programs. A lot of new providers are being taught this as a matter of course.

[diversehighfantasy]

How White People Handle Diversity Training in the Workplace

As a former professor and current facilitator and consultant, I am in a position to give white people feedback on how their unintentional racism is manifesting itself. In this position, I have observed countless enactments of white fragility.

One of the white participants left the session and went back to her desk, upset at receiving (what appeared to the training team as) sensitive and diplomatic feedback on how some of her statements had impacted several of the people of color in the room. […] [Later] her friends wanted to alert us to the fact that she was in poor health and “might be having a heart attack.” Upon questioning from us, they clarified that they meant this literally. These co-workers were sincere in their fear that the young woman might actually die as a result of the feedback. 

All of this is going to feel very familiar to anyone who’s blogged about racism in fandom.

[theotheryongbok]

“White fragility functions as a form of bullying: ‘I am going to make it so miserable for you to confront me — no matter how diplomatically you try to do so — that you will simply back off, give up, and never raise the issue again.’ White fragility keeps people of color in line and “in their place.” In this way, it is a powerful form of white racial control. Social power is not fixed; it is constantly challenged and needs to be maintained.”

[danikriatura]

Elon is experimenting with brain implants on immigrants detained by ICE and without consent. Elon is experimenting with brain implants on immigrants detained by ICE and without consent. Elon is experimenting with brain implants on immigrants detained by ICE and without consent. Elon is experimenting with brain implants on immigrants detained by ICE and without consent. Elon is experimenting with brain implants on immigrants detained by ICE and without consent.

[glossyfeathers]

"I don’t know with certainty what’s happening in these facilities. I know what the infrastructure looks like. I know what the incentives are. I know what history tells us happens when you combine captive populations with ambitious medical research and deliberately removed oversight."

Who TF Is In My Head? | Part 1: The Neural Network

I’m starting a new series today, and I wish I didn’t have to.

Parts 2 through 4 cover the history of Neuralink

Who TF Is In My Head? | Part 2: Past It’s PRIME

“He’d operated on an almost permanent adrenaline high, a byproduct of youth and proficiency, jacked into a custom cyberspace deck that proje

Who TF Is In My Head | Part 3: Who TF Approved Neuralink?

In Part 2, we left off with Benjamin Rapoport and other co-founders walking away from Neuralink, citing vague concerns about safety.

Who TF Is In My Head?? | Part 4: Where TF Is Patient Four?

I’ve been staring at a GoFundMe page for 6 days now, and I can’t stop thinking about the word “storybook.”

[buffalo-tracks]

We need members of Congress to ask why DOD neurological surgery contracts are flowing through shell companies to civilian hospitals. We need the remaining FDA staff to explain what oversight exists for experimental procedures at military facilities. Because right now, all we have is infrastructure that looks purpose-built for something we’d rather not name. All we have are patterns that keep appearing in different cities but with the same components. All we have are gaps in documentation where accountability should be. And we have Elon Musk’s announced timeline: from 7 brain implants to 1,000 in fifteen months. Sixty patients per month. In a technology that’s experimental, risky, and requires extensive informed consent. Unless it doesn’t.

[huariqueje]

The Root Cellar - David Carmack Lewis ,  2024.

American , b. 1965 -

Oil on panel , 48 × 32 in. 121.9 × 81.3 cm.

[thlayli-rah]

Hot take but I really do think that some of y’all need to consider how/why/when/how often you’re making fun of straight people for being straight

I do it too, I’m not going to pretend I don’t make jokes about the hets, or the down with cis bus, or whatever

But I recently befriended a cis, straight dude and I have watched him be dismissed, degraded, and unambiguously insulted for the perceived “crime” of being straight — all in queer environments where he is allegedly “completely welcome” and surrounded by “friends”

This guy is not a toxic person! But I have seen him be made to feel so small and like his comfort and safety in those spaces are conditional on his silence and acceptance of being treated like a human dunk zone, and I think that some of y’all have had so much shit from straight/cis people that the second you feel like you’ve got an inch, you want to luxuriate in the perceived catharsis of bullying someone who— actually —doesn’t deserve it

And until he very, very carefully mentioned to me in private that it makes him feel bad, I didn’t even clock that I was involved in doing that, that it had become so instinctive for me to make casual jokes like that, and that— well meaning or otherwise —I had been contributing to an environment that made someone I really really like feel like shit

So, I dunno, I think maybe some of y’all should think about that too

[thlayli-rah]

Coming back to say that while a lot of the responses to this post have been mainly positive, some folks have an attitude that it should be something that my friend— or any cis, straight man —should just be able to get over, because fuck ‘em, that’s why, because they’re in a queer space and they should shut up and accept it, because you suffer as a queer person and they should have to suffer too— regardless of whether or not this specific person has done anything to wrong you

I’m gonna say this point blank— you’re a tar pit if you think this way

Your suffering does not make you special, you are not granted brand new permissions to be belligerent and cruel because you have been treated poorly, straight people aren’t an oppressed class, no, but they’re people who are entitled to the same amount of basic decency that you, yourself, are entitled to

It feels good when you’ve been treated like shit to then go forward and treat other people like shit. That’s what you’re admitting. Does it make you feel good to do harm? Are you proud of that? Are you comfortable with being that kind of person? Because I dunno about the rest of you— but I realized I wasn’t, and it turns out it’s pretty fucking easy to change

[therubberducker]

[dailyflicks]

These surrealists who made the early films were shooting in the dark, they were feeling their way. But they've left behind a sign on a door that said: once this door is opened, in the future, it will make a way for a brand new kind of film. I'm very happy to be a fellow traveler with any of these guys. David Lynch in Arena - Ruth, Roses and Revolver (Feb 20 1987)

[namedvesta]

Daniele Accossato, wrapped nº𝟤 (jesmonite, rope, wood), 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟣

[sevnofnines]

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION 6.09 “The Quality of Life”

[1five1two]

'Young woman embracing a thorn bush'. Kay Nielsen. c. 1910.

[90-ghost]

Israel has just opened a “new” road for people to leave Gaza City for southern Gaza.

The road is open for only 48 hours from now.

what kind of sick evil is this. israel’s evil surpasses all evil ever committed on earth. this is the full truth. there is no other truth.

My brother still stuck in gaza city because of how crowded the roads 💔

Go to paypal.me/bushrabo and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

[90-ghost]

I can’t reach to my brother because Israel is completely isolate Gaza, they cut the internet connection To completely make it with zero data being posted from gaza

[90-ghost]

They killed 300 journalists for a day like this.

Today, the death sentence is executed upon what remains of flesh and stone in Gaza

[90-ghost]

If Gaza has no internet, remember: it’s because Israel doesn’t want you to see what it’s doing to the people of Gaza.

[antifainternational]

"Two groups conflate Zionism and Judaism: Zionists, who want to legitimize Zionism by pretending that it is Judaism; and anti-semites, who want to delegitimize Judaism by pretending it is Zionism." -Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro

[alexandreanarchive]

The Maiden's First Love

Robert Gavin ~ 1879

[athena5898]

(Quds) At least five journalists were killed in two consecutive Israeli strikes targeting Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza on Monday morning, one of which was captured during a live broadcast.

Who are the five journalist?

Who Are the Five Journalists Killed in Israel’s Live-Broadcasted Attacks on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital? - Quds News Network

At least four journalists were killed in two consecutive Israeli strikes targeting Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza on Monday morning, one o