The Fluffiest of Walruses

Mostly a mix of my writing, fandom stuff, education, and social justice. Feel free to follow, and reblog anything unless specified otherwise Mid Thirties | She/her | Canada Land | Trans Lady | White | Lesbian

[strawberry-crocodile]

boys i swear to you you can just use the word "transphobia" to talk about your issues. gay men don't have a counterpart to lesbophobia. black men don't have a counterpart to misogynoir. it's really really fine.

your issues very much ARE being discussed under the umbrella of transphobia, and anyone telling you otherwise is trying to make you an enemy of transfeminism.

[strawberry-crocodile]

I am in my mid twenties, I was there for the 2010s Gamergate shit, let me make myself perfectly clear; "No one is talking about Men's Issues but us, the feminists are trying to silence us, we need these spaces for Mens Issues" is MRA shit, and it's the start of a conservative pipeline.

[elbiotipo]

Actually nauseous when I remember how much data Google collects on me and how much it STILL wants to collect

Why do you want to know my adress you little pervert

[elbiotipo]

Did you know that Google now saves your internet and search history (you know, that thing people used to joke that nobody should see under penalty of death) on its account, and also in Chrome by default? It's there somewhere in the privacy options, and I had to manually deactivate it, otherwise it would have straight up collect information on every website I visit. Little fucking pervert.

[elbiotipo]

Stop using Google Chrome. Install Firefox, and go to search options and choose Duckduckgo as your default search engine.

If you are a writer or work with documents in any way, STOP USING GOOGLE DOCUMENTS. Go and write in your PC and don't save it to your cloud, save it to your hard drive, that you have, in your house. If you have a tablet or mobile, install Collabora Office which is a version of Libreoffice that allows you to save locally, in the memory of your tablet.

Don't save your life inside Google Drive. Use it, if you must, to share work stuff, but save your personal files in your hard drive or flashdrives, away from any fucking "cloud".

If you have a Chromebook I don't fucking know, burn it.

Don't give Google any more power that it has.

[pallasinine]

if you need remote file sharing across your own devices, it's pretty doable (and worthwhile) to set up a service that will just sync your files, over an encrypted connection, on a schedule you set. no more storage limits, no companies scraping your metadata, no permanently losing access to your files for violating terms of service that can change without notice

i personally use Syncthing between my windows desktop, android phone, and linux laptop and have never had even a little issue. a jailbroken microsoft office copy lets me keep all my files locally and has more features than google's dogshit editing software, but libreoffice is probably better for most people.

if you don't have the wherewithal to set up syncthing (or the ios port fsync, but if you're using ios you have a whole parallel set of problems and should probably see above for chromebooks) Proton has its own whole ecosystem of secure sharing tools.

the original post is right on the money but if you're already enmeshed in google's ecosystem (as most people in the US & its sphere of influence have become without realizing or caring) and aren't going to make securing your shit a hobby project (as most people everywhere won't) just remember that every little bit you extricate yourself now makes it easier to do more in the future. every piece of your digital life that won't be totally wrecked if google has a single big failure is a piece you can lean on to rebuild the rest!

[patrochilles-or-bust]

Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.

[patrochilles-or-bust]

Yes, nonblack people can reblog. I'd appreciate it, in fact, if y'all took the time to vocally support your Black friends/fans in fandom.

[eldritchbauble]

Do you use your original astrological sign, or your updated/correct one?

Original, even though I know it's incorrect

Original, but I'll always believe it's correct

Updated

They've been updated???

Voting ended onSep 1, 2024

[eldritchbauble]

What's your (new) astrological sign? Yep, the zodiac has changed

The astrological signs have shifted, according to a blog post from NASA. Here are the new zodiac sign dates to use for your next horoscope.

[eldritchbauble]

I love that everyone is looking at the objective, scientific evidence that celestial bodies move over time and that therefore their position in space is no longer the same as it was thousands of years ago, meaning you were most likely not born under the same sign you thought you were, and going. Nah I dislike that I am NOT an Aeries. Fuck that noise.

/affectionate

[kuromi-hoemie]

insufferable article, here's the point:

[analytically]

Can astrologers use astrological charts to understand people's character and lives? Our new study put astrologers to the test

Astrology is very popular — both Gallup and YouGov report that about 25% of Americans believe that the position of the stars and planets can

Astrology doesn't seem to work.

[intimate-mirror]

[performativezippers]

Some highlights:

Astrologers helped design the study

No one did better than random chance, even though they only included people in the study who are experienced with astrology and stated that they expect themselves to do better than random chance

They gave every astrologer a set of 50 things about a person and 5 birth charts to choose from. They weren’t even coming up with the chart themselves!

After taking the test, most thought they nailed it. Zero out of 152 did better than 5 out of 12. None nailed it

Astrologers who rated themselves highly experienced (“world class experts”) did the same or worse as those who said they have limited experience. Both performed the same as random chance

This is hilarious

[the-real-seebs]

this is one of those very unsurprising results but i do love that someone went and tested.

[27-moons]

I feel like I'm going insane. Multiple massacres in Gaza right now and no one is paying attention.

[acepumpkinpatrick]

^^^ Tonight alone, many people in Gaza are reporting carpet bombing that "rivals the first days of the war" and it has been going on for days now. Thousands are forcefully displaced. The thing every reporter is saying right now is that the streets are filled with people because "nobody knows where to go. No Place is safe"

(X) (X) (X) (X) (X)

[weonsinnombre]

[adamsmasher]

What I love about this is seeing that he's clearly a hockey skater. Now, I don't know shit about fuck when it comes to cold slippy antics, but what I notice is different between hockey skaters and nearly all other skaters is that hockey skaters essentially run on the ice. Any other skater is trying to glide, perform, or be otherwise smooth. Create a new type of mobility, but on ice. But hockey skaters? The floor is slippery but that's why they've got knives on their feet, so it's running time. Run run run run.

So this is like playing tag on ice, except the one guy you're trying to get is magically not on ice. And I think that's pretty neat.

[jackironsides]

He’s also making really good use of the stoppers on the front of his skates. You can clearly see several times that when he starts juking and running he’s not actually running with the wheels in contact with the ground – he’s tipped forward to run on the rubber stoppers, which will give him more traction on the slippery surface. He can change direction faster because none of his kinetic energy is going into countering the inertia of spinning wheels.

I don’t know if the picks on the front of ice skates are used similarly (because ice hockey is not so much of a national pastime in Australia) but I wouldn’t be surprised. But I spent a bit of time with a roller derby team, and I recognised that particular stopper run :)

[brightlotusmoon]

[ghelgheli]

Anon because I feel wildly stupid for admitting this, I'm afab and I wish I was transfem. Not like "Oh, I reaallyy want to assume this label and speak about being transfem and transmisogyny as if I've experienced it, because I was called not a real woman once!" but this little thing in the back of my head that I've never told anyone about that tells me I'd be happier if I was transfem. I know it's wild and I'm worried it will grow to hurt those around me that are tma... but I really don't know what to do about it, and I can't get it to go away no matter how much I ignore it. Am I just being crazy?

something fitting about being used as an oracle behind the veil of anonymity—as someone without sufficient agency to give you an awareness of "showing your ass"—as the already promised hope of giving you your seal of innocence

are you being "crazy"? who cares? but you know your world is too small for you. you see another world that is vast because it is out of reach and you desire it. but it will never be your world. you have to bubble up out of your own constraints and, honestly, just leave us alone

did that sound mystical enough? blows out my candles and disappears in a cloud of weed smoke.

[ghelgheli]

a Person visits a Priestess and says through the veil: "there are people like you i love, and i wish to be of them, but i know i can't. what do i do?" the Priestess (who is not a Person), nonplussed, does a little twirl and answers, "you know what you want is impossible, but there must be reasons you want it. attend to those. there is nothing we can do for you." the Person (who is not a Priestess) feels scorned and retorts with false apology, "i came because i believed you could know me better than myself. you were to tell me how to achieve the impossible. the greatest love i have felt is with the likes of you, but you are of no help. if you can't answer my questions then you are of no use." the bewildered Priestess, who has never once achieved clairvoyance in her life and certainly possesses no interiority, wonders why you came to her and not to the ones you say you love, the ones who surely know you better than a stranger behind a curtain. but this is nothing new. she is always lighting candles for the people who want to become Persons by using her and giving nothing back.

[dalishious]

Dragon Age has always been queer. Dragon Age has also always been "controversial" for it. The homophobes and transphobes now throwing a fit over The Veilguard's queer cast are no different than than the assholes who came before them.

[thedeadflag]

Much as I like what I'm seeing so far regarding Dragon Age: The Veilguard, I'm keeping my expectations low.

Only if Maevaris is revealed as a major advisor, and romanceable, will I truly invest myself. I've been waiting for ~12 years for her to play a major part.

They're in Tevinter, spending lots of time in Minrathous, with Shadow Dragons fighting the Venatori. There's no excuse now, with her being a Tevinter magister that fights the Venatori.

Give me Maevaris, Bioware, you cowards!

[kaedien]

americans think ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN of driving 7 hours. they’ll drive 7 hours just for dinner. they’ll drive 7 hours just for chips and dip

[roarykooper]

i went to england to visit the family of this boy im dating in birmingham. one of his sisters lived in manchester and his whole family kept being like we wish lila was her you would love her blah blah blah lila would just lobe you blah and I was finally like well why couldn’t she make it? everyone was like lol as we said she’s in manchester??? that’s it. i looked up the distance and it’s like less than two hours away and when me and my dude went to grab a beer later that night I was like so does Lila not get along with your parents like what’s up? again, he’s like babe I told you she’s in manchester. I was like are the villages at war????? he goes “it’s too far. this isn’t holiday.” I was like babe we’ve drivin 4-5 hours for weekend trips to the beach Im just confused- and he cuts me off and goes “that’s American me. We don’t do that here”

[thedeadflag]

That poll just reminds me of how much I wanted and expected Succession to be a good show. It's such a bummer for it to be a dramatized Real Housewives-type schlocky show that sacrifices everything under the sun for blatantly artificial tension, to its own great detriment. I guess that does provide a noteworthy parallel to what the .1% will sacrifice for wealth and power, but there were ways to accomplish those same ends with good writing instead of aggressive laziness and piss poor writing.

[dykecinema]

Round 2 (16 of 16)

Lottie Matthews (Yellowjackets)

Gerri Kellman (Succession)

Voting ended onMay 14, 2024

[koloocheh]

forget about touching grass, i need to touch THE SEA I NEED TO GO INTO THE WATER I NEED TO DIVE INTO THE SEA!!!!!!!!!!!!

[koloocheh]

I NEED TO GO IN THERE ⬇️⬇️⬇️‼️‼️‼️

[androdragynous]

internat habits that are good to learn

[notlikingbestgirl]

Out of Touch

[is-it-out-of-touch-thursday]

Yes

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

it’s Out Of Touch Leap Day! you won’t be able to celebrate this until 2052 so celebrate while you can

[swarnpert]

is a man not entitled to the sweat dripping down his own balls?

[swarnpert]

‘No!’ Says Lil Jon, ‘it belongs to the window.’

‘No!’ Say the Ying Yang Twins, ‘it belongs to the wall.’