[togainunochii]

ORCA / MAJOR • Any Pronouns

18+. Queer. Mixed. USA. Taken. Plural. Pro-Fiction. Intersex.

I have a personal sideblog with more fandom-centric posts, feel free to ask for it if that interests you.

Ask me about marine biology, especially cetaceans and marine ecology / conservation! I also know a little about aquascaping and aquarium keeping, however I do not currently maintain one myself so please take all information with a grain of salt and do your own research.

I like coding (CSS, HTML, marginally JS), illustration, photography, oceanography, mental health, and also anime. I especially love sci-fi, horror, and mystery thrillers. I blog about whatever I want and I block freely and liberally.

Mutuals can ask for my other socials (Discord, Twitter, Bsky) via off-anon asks or DMs.

Some of my beliefs include: Anti-Zionist & Pro-Palestine. Land back for all colonized and occupied nations. Transandrophobia, transmisogyny, and exorsexism are all real frameworks to discuss oppression towards transgender people. Intersectional feminism is the best form of feminism. It isn't enough to simply be "not racist", you must also be anti-racist. I am pro-prison abolition and anti-death penalty on every level. I am anti-psychiatric establishment, although I believe in the importance of recovery and harm reduction; psychology and psychiatry should be for the betterment of the individual, not "society". I'm pro-fiction and anti-censorship without exception.

I am anti-authoritarian and an anarcho-communist. Not interested in arguing about either of these, I know what I believe in.

I hope we can get along!

[raqualswonderfunblog]

[kropotkindersurprise]

oh no, not "society as we know it", that thing that we all love and agree shouldn't change!

[natalieironside]

"Society as we know it is at risk" yay wahoo yipee hip hip hooray!

[rot-city]

the world that telegraph writers inhabit is so funny to me, i pop in sometimes to study them. some that are peak telegraph:

joy and whimsy sucked from the nation as we can no longer *checks notes* boil animals to death

very normal policy idea

my heart weeps for dodgy dave

anyway i hope the angry leftie women win

[captain-price-returns]

gentrification is when trash goes in trash cans

[teaboot]

(walking down a street and not stepping in any needles, glass, rotten food, loose bags or bottles of piss) this whole damn place has gone to shit

[thebellekeys]

europeans be like “omg north americans are so racist it’s horrible” and then elect fascists

[thebellekeys]

I would like to emphasize that I agree with all of these tags by the way. My post wasn't aiming to pin all of Europe's grotesque racism on the new elections.

[dailymanners]

A few weeks ago I was at a board game night with some of my old classmates from various mainland European countries. They started talking about how horrible Trump's treatment of immigrants is and how they're so glad to be in Europe where nothing like that is happening right now. I asked them what they thought about the fact that their own governments were complicit in turning the Mediterranean into a mass grave of asylum seekers, and some of them legitimately didn't even know and were surprised to hear that their own governments had enacted policies that caused the deaths of thousands of asylum seekers.

Even here in Iceland, almost nobody has been talking about the fact that some of the far right populist parties have legitimately been talking about wanting to establish detainment camps to keep asylum seekers in.

[barishal]

Additional readings:

Greece suspends asylum applications for migrants from North Africa by Laura Gozzi (BBC).

Greece passes draconian legislation with prison terms for rejected asylum seekers by Helena Smith (The Guardian).

Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say by Lucile Smith and Ben Steele (BBC).

Bill on Detention Centres for Asylum Seekers Published by Jelena Ćirić (Iceland Review).

Italy sends 40 rejected asylum seekers to Albania by Karl Sexton (DW).

Record number of migrants, refugees reached Canary Islands by sea in 2024 (Al Jazeera).

Portuguese government announces major migrant expulsion plan by ANSA (InfoMigrants).

[dailymanners]

This post is a few months old now, and the bit about Iceland is now outdated, because Alþingi (the Icelandic parliament) passed the bill approving the detention center for asylum seekers. It will be legal to handcuff and detain children there.

Never let anyone from Europe feed you the lie that racism and fascism are unique to North America in the 21st century.

[dailymanners]

This post made racists angry enough to harass me over it, which all that's going to do is make me bring this post back and reblog it more.

[yotzuyu]

[arachnerd-8-legs]

prev: #u forgot the best part#the artist figured out the gig and was like#i draw for u for the rest of my life#these chinese netizens are having shojou level romances

[tevyaa]

[edgar-allan-homo]

Honestly not enough people are treating conditions like endometriosis and PCOS like disabilities. Not surprising considering ailments associated with the menstrual cycle are so normalized that affected people are pretty much just expected to live with it, but still. It's pretty damn debilitating actually.

[pangur-and-grim]

I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything

[spirkkock]

my friend just had an art show and they were communicating with the gallerist over email. They could clearly tell that the gallerist was using AI to respond to their emails, but just rolled their eyes and moved on.

and then on the day of the show, my friend asks, "where is the camera I requested?"

gallerist: "you didn't request a camera"

my friend: "I did, and you confirmed that you would have one here."

gallerist: "that isn't true."

and then she proceeded to pull up the email thread, and my friend could see that every single email they had sent had been summarized by AI, and that the gallerist had then had AI write a response to them based on the AI summary, and that the AI had detected that they needed a camera, and confirmed on behalf of the gallerist that they would bring a camera, but because the gallerist had offloaded the work of actually reading and responding, she simply hadn't actually made any note of it herself, therefore didn't bring it, nor did she even know one was needed.

so my friend had done all of this communication about their needs and expectations to be able to make the show possible, and the person whose job it was to read that information and get it done had simply.... not read the information and not done it. because AI.

[exhuastedpigeon]

Having "a lot" of followers on tumblr is funny because probably 80% of them are ghost blogs who haven't been on here in like a decade.

It's like, no no, those aren't my followers, that's a graveyard! I'm the caretaker of a thousands of tombs. I love them, but they've been dead for seven years.

[autisticautonomy]

Hey does anyone remember when a transgender adult man with cerebral palsy got top surgery of his own accord and then posted about it in celebration, and then transphobes:

Lied and said he was non-verbal

Lied and said he was incapable of communication

Lied and said he had not gotten the surgery of his own accord

Lied and said his "guardians decided [he] was trans"

Got MGT to call a procedure done on a consenting adult "criminal" just because he had cerebral palsy

Mass reported his video and his account, which he ran, until facebook terminated his account for "child exploitation" despite it being his account, him being an adult, and him not being exploited

Ableism and transphobia are inseperable. Just like ableism was used to prop up bigotry throughout history, now it is being used to deny transgender people bodily autonomy the same way it is used to deny disabled people bodily autonomy. It's not a coincidence that so much of the rights transphobic rhetoric is focused on labelling us as "mentally ill". They don't think any disabled people, let alone mentally ill people should have independence or liberation.

A disabled college student was bullied for posting about his transition. Meta removed his account

<p>Micah Leroy, who ran the account known as “Disabled Trans Boy” on Instagram, became the subject of a right-wing hate campaign after he po

[a-polite-melody]

“I think that it’s impossible to be feminist and believe that transandrophobia is real, actually.”

And I think the problem we’re having is that both feminism and transandrophobia have a wide array of what people mean when they say those things.

If you believe that feminism is primarily about prioritizing women over men, and you think transandrophobia means that trans men think trans women are their oppressors, then I see how you’ve come to that conclusion.

Meanwhile when you’re defining feminism as primarily about dismantling patriarchal systems, and transandrophobia as how the cultural ideas of men, as defined by the patriarchy, can compound upon trans men in such a way that it creates oppression and in a way which has been historically overlooked, it’s really not hard to hold both a feminist position and believe that transandrophobia exists.

[weavemama]

SHE IS A TRUE HERO 

[fluffy-luffy]

No, she’s a bitch is what she is

[weavemama]

what do u mean???? it was clearly an accident she even said “Oooppsss”

[blackmodel]

LMFAOOOO

[reducedrose]

Look, rather than being petty and destroying it, why not talk to the girl. Really ask them why they are using the confederate flag. But no, low level terrorism is the answer.

[peppylilspitfuck]

LOW LEVEL TERRORISM?

[capacity]

Low level terrorism

[wereralph]

ICONIC

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post

[breadandm]

somebody posted this Calvin and Hobbes strip and i cannot overstate just how topical this fuckin thing is

[antigyro]

@isuggestrevolution ?

[isuggestrevolution]

i suggest we need to slow down

[cloudofbutterflies]

A 19-year-old black trans girl was shot to death this month, and there has been absolutely no media reporting on it - despite extensive reporting on almost identical incidents in the same part of Florida, at the same time. The police, as usual, misgendered her in the police report and have done nothing to find her killer. Her name was Jayla Mcgee. Black trans people deserve to grow old.

A Black trans teen was shot and killed in Florida. Almost no one reported it

Police misgendered Jayla McGee, local media overlooked her homicide, and her community was left to make sure she was not erased.

[razziecat]

The site notes that McGee was the 15th reported transgender person of color killed in the United States this year.

[sweetschizo-deactivated20190808]

Hey if you’re schizophrenic/psychotic I just want you to know that you’re a wonderful person and that you deserve so much better than the demonization, marginalization and stigmatization you face in this society.

[sweetschizo-deactivated20190808]

Please consider reblogging this/other positivity posts for schizophrenic/psychotic people every once in a while. If you have more than 100 followers, odds are that a couple of them experiences psychosis and that they rarely see positivity posts for people with their symptoms.

[crafblr]

btw I’ve found these stretches from the WAK blog very helpful when knitting a lot:

Plus make sure to take breaks regularly - and stop if anything starts to hurt!

especially with gift knitting I know it can be tempting to push through it for a deadline, but it’s really not worth causing long term injury. (And anyone knit-worthy should be understanding of that, imho.) Stay well :)

[gingersnappish]

Also good for artists drawing with pencils/on a tablet/with a pen!

[not-poignant]

Also good for writers

[sageiswherethemageis]

And crocheters (that word looks wrong)

[eyesinthecrypt]

Say hookers coward

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge! More hands!

[caseyscraftycorner]

watching my husband get diagnosed with and treated for sleep apnea over the last year was not the thing that radicalized me re: weight and healthcare but my goodness it has solidified my stances.

sleep apnea is more common in people who are fat.

society decided for some reason that this meant that being fat causes sleep apnea. its often difficult to get referrals for sleep apnea treatment if you are fat, because some PCPs will tell you try losing weight first.

turns out!! having untreated sleep apnea causes weight gain in a not-insignificant number of people. it also makes it fucking impossible for many people to lose weight.

my husband worked out the same amount before he got a cpap as he does now. there have been no major diet changes either. yet he has been losing weight -- and gaining muscle tone -- consistently since he started using a cpap in january.

also, his blood pressure -- which was high, which docs blamed on his weight/diet -- went down significantly within one month of starting cpap treatment, before his weight changed significantly.

ANYWAYS. this is getting long. two final thoughts.

- I Want To Strangle Medical Fatphobia With My Bare Fucking Hands

- if you are exhausted constantly for "no reason", and especially if you snore, you should probably ask your doctor about getting tested for sleep apnea. it is extremely common -- estimates are around 1 in 10 people -- and is also wildly under-diagnosed. like, some estimates suggest that 80% of people with moderate-severe sleep apnea are undiagnosed.

[funnier-as-a-feedist]

Insurance companies are also really shitty about covering CPAP machines and will try to make you lease them for hundreds a month before you own one, and they reserve the right to repossess it if you don't wear it enough! But there are cheaper ways to own one ⤵️

💬 0  🔁 12  ❤️ 45 · Let's talk sleep apnea and cpaps · (I am a US American so mileage may vary) Hey friends! If you get diagnosed with sleep

[psyduckworld]

the cpap guide linked here is so good