Tobias

UK based literary fiction author. Asexual, Left-Wing.

[tobrez]

Notice:

This blog belongs to a depressed young queer writer who has opinions on absolutely everything, doesn’t let a thing not affect him, and is completely uncompromising an dedicated to his politics. If you don’t like any of this, leave now.

For those staying, just a heads up that works I make holding specific philosophical or theological positions are not representative of my personal position. I do have my own beliefs and values around theology, philosophy, metaphysics, consciousness, etc, however my writing on it is primarily focussed on trying to explain various concepts and ideas whether or not I find it personally plausible, primarily for educational purposes.

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my favorite phenomenon on tiktok is when all the comments will line up and start doing the same bit

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[tobrez]

I… wow I’m really starting to hate this guy

[mosabahmad1]

I will not forgive anyone who sees this post and ignores me without offering even a word of support.

I write these words with deep sadness and pain because my wife urgently needs a surgery we cannot afford, and she is suffering from severe malnutrition and a serious vitamin deficiency. Her condition is getting worse day by day in the hell of Gaza, and with the lack of food, medicine, and basic supplies, her chances of survival are extremely slim.

All I am trying to do is gather enough donations to survive the hell of Gaza and escape at the first opportunity to save my wife. Your support could be the difference between life and death. Please donate and share this plea every minute matters.

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Hello, I'm Ahmed, 23 years old. I was studying computer science at the Islamic University in Gaza before the war. I aspired to build a brigh

Hello friends, I'm Ahmed from Gaza. The war is over now, but our pain and suffering haven't. I studied computer science at the Islamic University of Gaza. During the war, I lost everything: my home, my job, my car, and my tablet. I'm now homeless and without shelter. Despite all that, I tried my best to finish my university studies during the war and take my exams under difficult circumstances, under bombardment. Now I'm about to finish. I need your help to complete my studies abroad and cover the travel expenses. Therefore, I need your support and assistance to achieve my dreams and ambitions. If you can't donate, you can share this post and talk about me and my dreams.

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In 2012 I painted the top image: Rise

In 2026 I am saddened to have to repaint this update: Fall

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I started following Yuumei back in 2011-2012 when I was in high school. Her painting "Rise" was such a huge inspiration for me. Now, to see "Fall", I cannot help but feel that this is an important, tragic, and monumental moment in our history as Americans - as a world.

Thank you for painting "Fall", Yuumei. I think it's really important and powerful, even if it breaks my heart to see such an important painting I've loved for over a decade update in such a way.

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[tobrez]

No we did not learn the human body was 70% water from Unit 731, we’d already known it for decades by the time Unit 731 started and it was discovered through legitimate scientific study. Idk why this myth persists but it’s just… wrong.

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Lately - I guess because of the upcoming TV show - I've been seeing loads of people using the phrase "inclusive" to describe the original Harry Potter books and movies. And it's bothering me. I read the books, I watched the movies - before I knew what JK was really like and where that money was going, obviously. Admittedly it's been a hot minute. But I'm really struggling to recall the "inclusion" people keep mentioning. Nobody was queer in the original books. The characters from non-British cultural backgrounds were cut-and-paste stereotypes. I don't recall anybody depicted as neurodivergent. Where is the inclusion??? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?

[tobrez]

A lot of people genuinely believe Dumbledore being declared to have loved Grindelwald (the literal Wizard Fascist) after all the books released without any actual mentions or implications in the story is good queer representation lol

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I like how during COVID people still referenced the Black Death like “Y’know the funny thing is the Plague is much weaker than COVID it’s just it came at a time where our immune system and medical attention is weaker”.

Bro Plague still exists, by Septicemic stage it’s already 100% fatal without treatment and by Pneumonic stage it’s a coin flip to whether or not you survive WITH treatment… this fucking thing is not “easier to fight”.

Sure basic Antibiotics make the Bubonic Plague fairly treatable and there’s like… a 40% chance you can just shake it off without treatment, but in most cases without treatment you are looking at either death within a few weeks or progression to the Septicemic plague, at which point you need immediate medical intervention or you WILL die or potentially progress further to the Pneumonic Plague at which point human-to-human infection is possible and around half of those you infect will also die within the next 72 hours because catching the thing from Pneumonic plague carriers leads to immediate Pneumonic plague symptoms which develop fast and are much harder to treat.

Like yeah I get it’s not a Pandemic and the Bubonic stage of the disease is incredibly easy to treat, but the way people weirdly minimised this as “basically flu” in comparison to COVID is… strange.

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only thing I take issue with is you have this in past tense. like covid isnt still happening and killing and disabling people. when its a virus that also attacks both the brain and immune system.

and as someone who is immunocompromised, who gets worse every time ive had covid despite doing my best and masking and not doing nearly as many things as I wish I could do. its disheartening to see that people talk about covid like its passed. but it hasnt.

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Yeah I get that, I was more referring to the fact this was primarily used in 2020-2021 during the major lockdown period of COVID but sorry if it didn’t come out well. I’m aware the thing continues to be pretty horrible.

If anything COVID itself still gets treated less serious than it should both now and at that time, this thing can be permanently disabling and killed so fast multiple countries were using mass graves, hospitals were stacked to the point people deemed “less important” (mainly elderly and disabled) were being pulled out of care to make space, people dying alone because of careless lockdown measures that should have avoided exposure at all. It’s actively killing and disabling people now while people just… forgot about it and often forget or never even realised there was and is so much happening.

It’s kind of a problem with diseases generally, when it’s a smaller outbreak or Epidemic people kind of just… ignore it completely, while if it’s a Pandemic it’s often minimised or weirdly romanticised right after things die down, despite and honestly probably partially because they show off a LOT about how people and governments actually react to mass death events.

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This coming out just days after it was revealed in the Jeffrey Epstein email dump that powerful people manipulated American and British news, political figures and forums to push transphobia to distract from people looking at their child abuse ring.

This includes chief anti-Corbyn-ite in Labour Peter Mandelson, directly feeding anti-trans stories to UK and US newspapers, actively bullshiting "biological studies" that trans people are idk ontologically evil (we have proof of Epstein pitching this exact thing), and creating /pol/ and then feeding anti-trans conspiracy theories for years until it all boiled over.

And over and over we found out each plank of this argument was rotten from the start but people are choosing to keep the bigotry.

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official anti terf post

[theoldtentacledgods]

As it turns out, being trans doesn't make you a pedophile, but it does make you the enemy of pedophiles.

[tobrez]

The thing I find weird about the claim that Isaac Newton was Christian so Christians are smarter is that:

1. The typical Materialist counter-argument is terrible

2. The argument itself is inherently flawed

Like on one hand Materialists deploy “he would have been prosecuted otherwise”, which show they fundamentally misunderstand what Newtons theology actually was. He was a heretic, by the definitions the Churches typically followed, he privately shared interpretations of Christianity that were risky to have at that time. On top of that he was more involved in alchemy than science. So unless you think he privately shared prosecuted views to avoid being prosecuted for different prosecuted views and put effort into things he held no belief in, none of this makes sense.

On the other hand… Newton was wrong about almost everything, like, Laws of Motion and Gravity are his big credited things that defined classical Physics and continue to be used today, but his views on cosmology, time, neuroscience, chemistry? Wrong, most replaced with newer often opposing models. Claiming his Christianity makes Christianity more valid is often specifically used to try and explain why “genius scientists who understand the universe are Christians”, but most of Newton’s theories outside his major players go everywhere from fringe to utterly debunked by modern science.

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Jkr just proves time and time again that she's a billionaire that doesnt give a shit about anything and has no morals as long as she gets more money.