more people have been to russia than i have

she/her | trying out a new URL for the first time in over a decade | currently redoing my theme pardon the ugly layout for the time being. I tag for CR Spoilers until the Tuesday morning following each ep I have an sca sideblog I should probably just merge with this and might do soon

[thesixthstar]

maybe gonna try this pinned post thing bc folks on mobile can’t see sidebar links

Here’s my about me

Here’s all my original posts

I feel that those should be sufficient lol

[stjohnstarling]

Having proved that they will respond to bug reports about inappropriately applied content warnings, my plan is now to continue submitting them until I have built up a stock of evidence that the system disproportionately wrongly flags LGBT content (type of language a tech company will respond better to), then see if they’ll respond to a well documented bug report (or series of reports) about that. 👍 All I care about is getting the problem fixed and if this is the correct series of hoops to jump through then I will do it.

[stjohnstarling]

Honestly this is the type of thing that might work best as a collaborative project, with a lot of people working together to compile records of wrongly flagged posts and what percentage of them are LGBT-related (ideally this would also include data about what percentage of posts overall are LGBT-related but I think this might be too difficult.)

[stjohnstarling]

Having proved that they will respond to bug reports about inappropriately applied content warnings, my plan is now to continue submitting them until I have built up a stock of evidence that the system disproportionately wrongly flags LGBT content (type of language a tech company will respond better to), then see if they’ll respond to a well documented bug report (or series of reports) about that. 👍 All I care about is getting the problem fixed and if this is the correct series of hoops to jump through then I will do it.

[stjohnstarling]

Honestly this is the type of thing that might work best as a collaborative project, with a lot of people working together to compile records of wrongly flagged posts and what percentage of them are LGBT-related (ideally this would also include data about what percentage of posts overall are LGBT-related but I think this might be too difficult.)

[orteil42]

90% of google search ai summaries feel like this guy leaning uncomfortably over your shoulder and pointing at stuff on your screen reading out the exact same text you're already looking at

[tanuki-kimono]

[Cyber Effect] astonishing modern raden (mother of pearl inlay) by Terumasa Ikeda. A nice pun on the classic Ghost in the shell ;)

Raden is a very old decorative craft (see video below), usually used on lacquer bases with floral or traditional motifs. It’s so great to see it used this way!

[energyprison]

ive been going out late at night alone to wander about until i find somewhere to spend money needlessly. which i think is a classic sign of a positive mental state

[energyprison]

[crossing a dark streetwhile the red hand is up] im like a bomblebee of the night...

[enoughtohold]

do you ever just suddenly feel the weight of more years of exhaustion than you’ve been alive

[enoughtohold]

#yeah except i lived through it #i may have been a kid but 2000 was traumatizing

i regret to inform you that this was george h.w. bush, 1988

[enoughtohold]

[beardedmrbean]

[nathanielbuildsatesseract]

This is what having auditory processing issues is like.

[petewentzisblack1312]

we seriously need to stop conceding to the personhood trap when it comes to abortion rights. is a fetus a person? thats a spiritual question. i dont care about the answer. should another person dictate what someone can do with their body? simple answer: no.

[petewentzisblack1312]

like if a fetus isnt a person it has no right to my body and if a fetus IS a peson it also has no right to my body because there is no other context in which we are required to put ourselves at risk of physical harm to preserve another persons safety or even life.

you dont have to save someone from drowning even if youre a strong swimmer. even in death youre not required to donate organs and that could save several people. you can kill someone if you truly believe your safety is at risk. we dont mandate preservation of life over autonomy in any of these circumstances.

[urie]

[annabelle--cane]

yes that fifteen-year-old has just said something remarkably dumb and socially ill-informed but I can tell you for 100% certain that publicly shaming them to your peer groups of people mostly aged twenty-five and up will do nothing but make all aspects of the situation immediately ten thousand times worse in every conceivable way

[mockva]

[silveve]

Imagine being hunted for sport in this fucking house

[greatlordfluffernutter]

So this is what rich people do with their 5th house.

[gardensandghosts]

This isn’t a rich person house, this is a regular house that this dude lovingly modified the shit out of. Every bit of the actual architecture looks normal, it’s the doors and custom walls that he would have had to spend money on.

[chronivore]

Lustige Blätter (German magazine, 1932)

[pmamtraveller]

Textile art featuring a school of koi fish, by artist Lin Xia.

[acorviart]

hope you guys like trash

socks in da shoppe

[gothhabiba]

in response to people saying things like "men aren't allowed to cry in public, unlike women" other people will then say things like "women are penalized, not rewarded, for public displays of emotion—the fact that women are presumed to be overly emotional & irrational is misogyny, not a privilege"

which is often true but like, it's contextual innit. lest we discount the phenomenon of White Woman Tears

[gothhabiba]

I've recently had white women in professional contexts tell me that they were quote "hurt" and "gutted" by what amounted to very minor professional faux pas on my part. I remember reading a white woman academic's essay on Jane Eyre that began with recounting her emotional upset upon having Jane Eyre "taken away from her" by postcolonial / anti-racist scholarship. white women's emotions do have currency in personal and professional spaces in selective contexts, i.e. when wielded against people of colour 🤷🏽‍♀️

[femmchantress]

I don’t care if Monday’s yuck

Tuesday, Wednesday tread through muck

Thursday maybe eat a duck

It’s Friday, Flat as Fuck