i don't think this is what my family had in mind

hi, i'm jewels ~ 27 ~ they/them ~ tme ~ bi ~~Working Men of All Countries, Unite!~~ 18+ ~ no minors

[thottacelli]

[lesvegas]

passing in public makes me feel like white shrek

[lesvegas]

literally how it feels

[welpnotagain]

[psychotic-gerard]

i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said "your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service you’re organising" one of the tags responding said "this isn’t about proshippers in here you’re not welcome" like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.

[orchidvioletindigo]

There's a disconnect happening here because the primary function of social media for most casual users is to form a circle of friends around the usual things that friendships are built on: shared interests and lifestyles and ideas of what is important and what is unacceptable. When people are mainly doing leftism on social media, this encourages thinking of leftism as centered around establishing high-minded social clubs.

For anyone who still isn't getting it from someone who helps people IRL: There's a difference between whom you're helping to feed at the mealshare and whom you're choosing to hang out with for fun after the mealshare. You don't have to invite a hungry person with opinions you don't like to play board games with you, but you do have to help keep them from starving if you're serious about leftist organizing.

[trials-era-sam]

[brightlotusmoon]

[alfa-papa]

[categorical-abstract-ml-blog]

ok but if you go to the actual article the person was buried with women’s accessories and in the manner reserved for women and from that they decided it must be a gay man which is sort of hilarious

[rainbowobsidianbutterfly]

So basically what you have here is a skeleton of someone that we’d assign CAMAB in modern, binarist colonial societies

being presented with accoutrements and signs of social recognition that are legible to us in said societies as “female” due to their association with skeletons we’d parse as CAFAB in the same cultural tradition

and the take is “it’s a gay man”

And yet people don’t wanna listen when you point out that part of transmisogyny is assuming that trans women are just weird men

like people just don’t think that’s a thing or the statement bounces off because they literally can’t see how it could be otherwise

[innerchildabortionclinic]

anorexia as class signaling in the US needs a dissertation atp because that's genuinely why celebrities are like that. it's not just being thin but underweight to the point where if you didn't have proper resources, you would be unable to function in daily life. that's where class comes into play. it's a way of saying you can afford to live on the edge. I fully believe this

[innerchildabortionclinic]

to be clear i'm not saying that's the only factor at play here, just a more blatantly emerging one in modern times

[fucktheflagandfuckyou]

its been 6 months and im still not over this. easily best and most hilarious play in baseball history

[mohdayesh]

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[savemohdayesh]

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[mohdayesh]

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[a-shade-of-blue]

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[tpwrtrmnky]

I think the word "transmedicalism" needs to be reserved for ideas that support giving authority over trans identity to medical institutions, actually.

The political project of trans self-determination can't be transmedicalist, no matter how much someone says "we need to prioritize access to medical transition," because increasing access in pretty much every real-world context is the same thing as attacking the authority of institutional gatekeepers.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Like when you're calling DIY advocates "transmeds" you have Lost The Fucking Plot. You have decided that "transmed" means "trans person whose vibes I don't like." Words actually need to mean things to be useful.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Anyone who's never had to deal with trans healthcare in the gatekeeping model especially needs to put in work to learn this: What transmedicalists are advocating for, whether they understand it or not, is a system where a cis man with a history of sexually harassing patients determines if you're "trans enough" to transition.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

I have a theory that certain niches of zoosadist content are political, and the viewers are using the animal as a replacement for who they actually want to hurt. It's just easier and less risky for them to access content where animals are used. This is based on an exposé a while back that involved a lot of Trump supporters paying for animal torture content, I will let you know if I find/remember the article covering it

[innerchildabortionclinic]

Found what I was thinking about

It's not just the flags in the background of this particular video distributor that made me suspect such motives, but if you read the article, the way viewers are talking about and engaging with the content. It's hateful.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

[dogpuppy]

[milf--adjacent]

[captain-price-returns]

All time great.

[caspien-see]

Celebratory photos regarding Soviet victories in WW2

[queercanelady]

how it is apparently

[1five1two]

[decadent-hag]

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[hope-for-the-planet]

New Solar Tech Makes Desalinating Seawater Cheaper Than Producing Bottled Water

Engineering teams around the world have been attempting to develop new methods of seawater desalination.

Scientists in China have developed a more efficient form of solar desalination that uses 47.4% less energy than alternatives. After the first year of testing, the scientists believe that at scale it would be able to desalinate water more cheaply than producing bottled water.

The goal is now to scale the technology for use in coastal areas and islands experiencing water insecurity.

[sapphling]

the sex binary is socially constructed and not actually descriptive of any biological truth. you know that, right? it's important to me that you know that

[sapphling]

i know people can be a little overzealous in describing political backslides ("this used to be the feminism website!!!" etc.) but it's disturbing to me how much incredulity i've gotten from other trans people as of late just for, like, saying that "biological woman" is neither a real category nor a phrase that should ever leave your mouth uncritically