TillTheEndOfTheApocalypse

[writersarea]

GOT A BOOK REC FOR MY ACES OUT THERE (especially my fellow white aces)

I heard about Refusing Compulsory Sexuality by Sherronda Brown from tiktok, not gonna lie, and I knew I had to read it. I just finished it, and I loved it.

It has a fantastic discussion of asexuality, racism, and sexism (especially the intersection thereof). Sherronda is a wonderful writer and does a great job exploring not only their experience but discussing the history of black people’s sexuality and aceness in a way that is educational and very interesting to read.

It also has a timeline about asexuality dating back to 1855 which I have never seen one that dates back that far before. The amount of research that must have taken floors me, and I love it.

They also sprinkle in really cool tidbits throughout the book that I’m not going to spoil except for my favorite one. Apparently, ace people are 2.4-2.5 times more likely to be left handed than the general population. (And I’m a left handed ace)

I’m hoping to buy myself a copy soon so I can mark it up like I did my copy of Ace by Angela Chen. I checked this out from the library.

So go see if your local library has a copy or if you can buy a copy!

[nudityandnerdery]

You're right and you should say it.

[vikingofficial-deactivated20241]

you ever take off your noise cancelling headphones and sounds are like, sounds, so you put your noise cancelling headphones back on

[vikingofficial-deactivated20241]

I know these tags were a joke but speaking for autistics everywhere, sound has done so much. TOO much. It deserves to be cancelled

[decommercializedfebreeze-deacti]

@catrillion how dare you keep a beautiful pun like that in the tags

[whimsical-catacombs]

Been seeing people say that we have to make Twitter completely unprofitable now that Elon owns it, and that's completely true. We need to do that. But we're not going to do that by just being so fucking annoying that no one else wants to be on Twitter. We have to be calculated, coordinated, and so fucking annoying that no brands want to be on Twitter. This must mark the resurgence of The Brand Wars. So if you're on Twitter, you must be completely insufferable to brands. Every brand account you find, comment "SILENCE BRAND" on their posts, block them, tell everyone you know to block them, and move on to the next one. This includes the brands you like. I don't care if Wendy's Twitter is funny; block them. If all the funny popular brand Twitter accounts lose even a quarter of their following in a decently short period of time, they will freak out, and they will blame Musk. If every time you see a sponsored post you immediately block the account that sponsored it, that's money that Twitter can't make off of you anymore, and that's money that Musk loses. We can do this, but we have to do it together, so let's show the world just how powerful a social media community can be and show them that billionaires have no place in that community.

[wielderofscythes]

I don’t have a twitter, but for those who do:

1. This is a moral thing to do, take the internet back from corporate accounts

2. It would be really funny

[liberaleffects]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

OBSERVE FOR TWELVE HOURS???

[baelatargaryen]

Ugh, how are people still pretending that the hate AH gets is not rooted in misogyny when no male perpetrator (who actually did it) ever received 1% of the public backlash she has. Where was this energy when Harvey Weinstain thing was happening? Cuz from how I remember it, his female victims were being invalided left and right. When one of my favorite actresses wrote an article about being harassed by HW, all the comments were attacking her. People never cared about the victims, they just want to see women suffer. This is just the MRA's revenge for #metoo and for taking their precious pedos and rapist directors and actors away.

this entire case in of itself is a misogynistic narrative, a literal caricature that women are gold-digging whores that we should not trust. how telling that the moment where all people gather around a supposed male victim of abuse, it is when the surrounding narrative is: "women lie, don't trust them".

that was the message the whole time, and depp's own team made that very clear with both their line of questioning, their victim-blaming, and their use of the #metoo movement in their arguments, despite the fact that amber's relationship with depp and her restraining order pre-dated the movement by at least a year.

how revealing of depp to read an op-ed about #metoo in which he is not named, and which pushes for change for victims, and to not only identify himself in it, but to then go out and attack that op-ed. this was his goal from the start, and not just for himself, but for his abusive friends like manson, who is also suing his victims.

[baelatargaryen]

depp fans have some gall trying to dismiss the uk libel case depp lost to the sun with their weird conspiracies, when that one had a judge as opposed to a non-sequestered jury who was free to browse social media the entire six weeks, not to mention the uk having two more high court judges also dismiss his appeals.

meanwhile, the judge in the virginia case:

had a jury that was not sequestered

accepted depp’s request to have it televised

also allowed fans in the court house, so this woman had to not only recount the abuse & SA she faced to the world but in front of a room of his supporters

had a person in the jury pool who’s wife called amber ‘psychotic’

blocked medical records of heard’s which includes reports of SA

blocked the texts of deuters, depp’s assistant who in the uk was shown to have admitted depp kicked heard

in fact, juries are more likely to fall for an abuser DARVO’ing than a judge

like the only thing that this case has proven to me is that virginia is gonna become a tourist destination for abusers wanting to destroy their victims with defamation and you people will congratulate them for it. 

also i have about as much respect for the virginia verdict as that man’s fans do for the uk one, because they were all to happy to ignore it and pretend it didn’t exist.

[arctichotch]

how a jury looked at this mountain of evidence and said amber heard was not abused one single time by depp is actually insane.

this case sets a precedent. that a abused woman can not and should not speak out about abuse without expecting to be absolutely destroyed in the process.

it goes so far beyond these two celebrities. it goes so far beyond “oh she said she hit him” but “he also said he hit her”

it goes into what can legally said by those who have been abused and that they can’t speak about it publicly (while not even mentioning their abusers name) without being drained of everything they have.

i’m heartbroken today for all abuse survivors still suffering in silence. feeling fear of coming forward lest they be accused of abuse themselves or defamation. truly heartbreaking.

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

Hell is a place where companies make bank off the aggrieved father of a dead child for the removal of the child’s organs for donation.

[baelatargaryen]

you people are actually sick in the head *edit: actually have worms for brains if you don’t see that this entire trial was a form of revenge and a pr move on depp’s part to globally humiliate his ex-wife with bogus allegations and by forcing her to testify in a televised trial (which depp requested) about her sexual assault. 

the man has harassed this woman through the courts for 4 years, and caused her financial difficulties by causing her to spend up to 6 million in legal fees, as well as smearing her reputation so she can hardly ever work again.

that he is demanding money that he knows his ex-wife doesn’t have, is, in fact further financial abuse from a man who would get angry at her for working and who often made her swear to not take movies or meetings while they were together. 

*edited b/c it was not my intention to make anyone uncomfortable with the phrasing or imply an actual mental disorder. apologies y’all 💖

[baelatargaryen]

it would have been one thing for depp and heard to both lose the defamation case and the defamation counterclaim. that i could understand, and would, arguably even, prefer. 

but for depp to win this with a unanimous verdict is incomprehensible to me like… to do so he would have to prove both that the statements were not true (there is a lot of evidence, including witnesses to the abuse, that it did happen), that they were made with malice (heard had a lawyer actually look over the op-ed and followed all instruction), as well as proving damages (depp has been losing money for years, he showed up to set late and drunk/high, his movies were a flop, he assaulted people on set and in fact has an upcoming lawsuit, he blew cash by the millions recklessly on ludicrous things) 

nothing about this unanimous verdict makes sense b/c even if you believed the first or second, there is no question that hollywod has no problems working with abusers and will cover for them! this is well known! the implication that an op-ed which didn’t name depp, which largely flew under the radar, and which disney itself didn’t take note of or knew about, was the thing to destroy his career and not his addiction, his behaviour on set and the lawsuits both brought against him and by him is insane! 

the man ruined his own career, no one had to do it for him!

[rylandsgrace]

If you want another actress for Annabeth, just remember what Rick Riordan said

[perplexedhedgehog]

Hey, I've seen a lot of people saying that you should support smaller-scale abortion facilities instead of spending on Planned Parenthood because, according to them, PP already has plenty of money.

While I totally support donating to local abortion care facilities, I think it's really dangerous to be spreading around misinformation about Planned Parenthood, so here are a list of reasons that Planned Parenthood is a really worthwhile resource right about now:

Planned Parenthood has a large legal fund and they know how to use it. Not only will they work on-the-ground to provide reproductive health services, they will work on the legislative level in every state to fight the legal battles that are about to become very fucking necessary. Donate directly to abortion services, yes - but if you want to protect the legality of abortion and the right to privacy in the doctor's office, Planned Parenthood's legal team will fight in the places where you, as an individual, cannot.

I've heard some people saying that Planned Parenthood actually does damage to the reproductive justice community because they "take up all the talking space" and then they'll say "well, abortion is only a small amount of what Planned Parenthood does" thus stigmatizing abortion. While I can't speak for every PP facility, in my experience during my volunteer trainings, THIS IS MISINFORMATION. Outside supporters of PP will say this ABOUT Planned Parenthood, but at my volunteer trainings the workers actually had us do spoken activities to de-stigmatize abortion for anyone who needed it. We were given multiple "abortion is good, actually" talks.

On that note, the things PP does aside from abortion are actually very important. One thing they do is distribute INFORMATION on a widespread scale. This information will often focus on important things to know about pregnancy health, when abortion might be needed, and communicative campaigns to spread abortion stories with specific participants' consent in order to de-stigmatize abortion and spread awareness.

A number of smaller "Pregnancy Crisis Centers" disguise themselves as abortion providers, but are really fundamentalist Christian centers in disguise. These centers will abuse and psychologically torture people who were planning on coming in for abortions. However, a Planned Parenthood is always what it says it will be. I support Planned Parenthood because I know exactly what my money is going to when I make donations.

If you do know of a smaller abortion facility that needs funding, by all means, donate! (Also if you go on PP's website you can choose a PP facility to fund directly, if you don't want your donation to go into their large legal fund.) But if you're supporting a smaller center, do make sure that they really are a legitimate abortion provider before you donate.

Let's not spread misinformation or be divisive, people! That will only hurt reproductive justice, in the end. If you want to support small-scale abortion care centers, absolutely do that. It will be very much needed in the coming months. But you can do that without dunking on Planned Parenthood and all that they do for reproductive rights, justice, and healthcare. It is entirely possible to be supportive of both.

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Justice is removal of the problem

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

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@drukhari

[shego1142]

[Audio Transcript: I just want to talk about why I wear sunglasses as a blind individual.

I actually had one experience where I was at a barn hanging out, having a couple drinks and uh, because I’m blind I just stare straight ahead.

I didn’t realise that there was anyone in front of me, I was just staring and had no idea.

I didn’t know until a security guard came over and asked me to leave “ for being creepy”

Uh I stood up with my cane, because I didn’t know what was happening and I found out,

everyone started laughing and didn’t know like, that I was blind,

I guess what I was doing was staring at one of the bartender’s chests, and I had no idea.

So ever since that one time, I wear sunglasses now to kind of hide what my eyes are doing since I don’t control them anymore.

It was a very embarrassing… and Uhm made me really insecure about my eyes and that’s the reason I wear sunglasses as a blind person.

End Audio Transcript. ]

[snowie-skyes]

*watches this badass blind dude fucking make Tony Hawk proud af assuming he wears the shades cuz he’s cool AF*

*scrolls down to find the audio transcript*

….oh

[elumish]

What's Going On With Roe v Wade (5/3/2022 - 2:45am EDT)

On the night of 5/2/2022, Politico released a leaked draft abortion opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito, a conservative justice on the Supreme Court, that would overturn Roe v. Wade--this was a majority opinion, meaning that, in a preliminary vote, at least 5 justices had voted for it.

What this means:

A majority of the Supreme Court (at least 5 of the 9 members) are currently voting on the side of overturning Roe v. Wade. Given that the conservatives have a super-majority (6 members) on the court, this is not a huge surprise. Justice Stephen Breyer is the one who will be voting on this, not Ketanji Jackson Brown. This will make no difference in the vote--they are both liberal votes.

If the result of this vote holds, Roe will be overturned. The New York Times covers what the end of Roe would mean (likely behind a paywall, you can likely get around that by using Incognito mode).

Someone leaked this opinion. That is very small compared to the massive impact of Roe potentially being overturned, but in the history of the Court it is a huge deal. Whoever did this is incredibly brave and will most likely lose their job and their career from this.

What this doesn't mean:

That the Supreme Court has released a decision. June is the last month of the Supreme Court's term, and it's when they release a lot of their decisions, especially the major ones. This was a leaked draft opinion.

That Roe has been overturned. Again, no decision has been released, and the vote is not final.

That this means that abortion will become illegal nationwide. You can look at the NYT explanation above, but in summary, there are 13 states with "trigger laws" which will make abortion illegal if/when Roe is overturned, and there is an estimate of somewhere between 24 and 26 states that will ban abortion if Roe is overturned.

That the majority of the country wants this. Based on basically every recent poll I can find, the majority of the country opposes overturning Roe, including many Republicans.

What's happening now:

The Women's March is calling for nationwide protests on 5/3/2022 at 5pm local time. (not sure if there's alt text on the image, but the tweet it's replying to links to the details)

As of 1:30am EDT people had gathered outside of the Supreme Court. Barricades have been up in front of the Court since a scientist self-immolated in front of the Court on 4/24/2022 to bring attention to climate change.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Shumer (D-NY) put out a statement condemning the draft opinion.

There will almost certainly be a huge amount of movement on this in the next few days and weeks, including a resources on what you can do to help support reproductive rights in the United States.

Some resources:

New York Times: Live reporting Women's March: Info on 5/3/2022 protests Planned Parenthood