More Gross To Love

They/She. Anarchist. House-entity. Goth Beekeeper. 30 or 40 years old and don't need this.

[big--naturals]

⚠️warning⚠️ this transgender faggot on the internet will permanently alter your vocabulary options. would you still like to befriend them?

[sapphling]

many will attempt to "end" the hug after only five to ten seconds of holding you. crucially, this is where the claws come into play

[mutantrenegade]

You know Jones soda cap, as a tumblr user i can actually say i think I have.

[insomniac-arrest]

I think we should figure out what age we’re living in now so we can say how it’s collapsing to each other

[insomniac-arrest]

Our age of plastics is collapsing

[insomniac-arrest]

Our age of information is collapsing! *remembers generative AI, nods to self* our age of information is collapsing.

[witchmarsh]

Romance option?? (no)

Wishlist Witchmarsh on Steam now!

[storyweavingspider]

*speaking from a ghostly web in a corner of the room* Remember your roots this pride month young queer,,, paying to get into a city-sanctioned pride party and walking in a pride parade where DHS and police is advertising how lgbtq friendly they are isnt who you are,,,

[storyweavingspider]

342,500,000 of us in this damn country and somehow not a single white person with an accuracy stat above 10% and basic planning abilities willing to take one for the team again.

Like yeag I’m sayin shit more bluntly on main rn but the fact that I see news of a Black person being lynched more often than I see news of someone at least trying to do something more useful against any piece of our current state of affairs is wild.

[storyweavingspider]

I try very hard to ride the line of not saying/doing things that will get my account of 13 years terminated but it’s like.

The right wing is constantly doing vigilante shit and imposing life, interpersonal, economic, and mental consequences on marginalized folks and those who support them for the crime of existing and being oppressed. They’ll publicly lynch 16 year old Black girls, 19 year old trans girls, burn down abortion clinics, shoot up literally anywhere, destroy/damage houses, and so much more.

And we.. protest and maybe do graffiti. Organize to “vote blue no matter who” type bullshit. We don’t even punch Nazis anymore lmfao. A lot of the non-white organizers and activists who became publicly known for stuff like taking down confederate flags, action in 2020, etc. in the past decade are dead or in jail now, often likely because of vigilante/cop action.

Iunno. I’m one Black tranny cripple and my literal ability to do.. anything, anymore is minimal. But I feel like I’m losing my mind watching almost nothing happen here while elsewhere resisters are literally dismantling weapons factories piece by piece until they can’t function.

And I just know if I hop on Facebook or Twitter and scroll for a couple minutes I’ll see another lynching and no meaningful material action and I’m so fucking tired.

[storyweavingspider]

I just tested this. I opened Facebook, scrolled for 11 seconds, and learned about Paris Harris, a Black trans woman, being shot in Dallas. She was 21.

“Paris was loved, remembered as “unapologetically Paris,” and deserved to be named with dignity.”

They won’t stop killing us, harming us, hunting us.

[storyweavingspider]

TW; child death, racial violence, racial violence via the court system, torture of a child

Opened Twitter, scrolled for 27 seconds, learned about Jor’Dynn Duncan, a 7 year old Black girl who was tortured to death over months with 90 stab wounds, by three white women (step-grandmother, step-mother, and step-sister) in Long Island after courts granted the step-mother custody over her.

[storyweavingspider]

This isn’t even counting the swaths of missing Black and brown children/teens, the trans/queer people nobody cares enough to report, the people we won’t know were gone until a body is found, the immigrants disappeared into concentration camps, the cities like Memphis literally under occupation right now.

They will keep doing this to us, all folks like us, until they can’t anymore. And I don’t understand why nobody is taking more than the most milquetoast action while we die and die and die

[madam-melon-meow]

The link provided for Jor’Dynn Duncan appears to have died, so here’s some more articles about her:

Alleged abuse, torture and death of 7-year-old on Long Island raises troubling questions

A 7-year-old girl died in December on Long Island after prosecutors say she was abused and tortured by the people who were supposed to care

Loved ones of 7-year-old girl who died after alleged torture say "no one had the chance to save her"

Loved ones of a 7-year-old girl allegedly murdered by her caretaker say they're haunted by how they learned of the little girl's death.

Three Generations of Bayport Women Arrested in Connection with Indictment Charging Murder Of 7-Year-Old Child in Their Care - Suffolk-County

(SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y.) – Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney today announced the indictment of three defendants stemming fro

[filmphotofranz]

you cant call it that

[mallowmaenad]

her cookie make me pitch a tent because shes fat & weird and now I will expire in 1-3 days

[mumblesplash]

actually while i’ve still got this soapbox stuck to my shoe i also wanna say i think culturally we gotta start conceptualizing physical fitness as a productive hobby rather than an obligation

[mumblesplash]

it’s sort of like clothes. there’s a baseline level of involvement with clothing necessary to stay safe from the elements and participate in society. having a variety of different clothing isn’t *strictly* necessary but pretty tangibly helpful. knowing how to do some minor mending and tailoring is nice. once you get into sewing your own clothes, you’re in hobby territory. if you’re making your own textiles from scratch, that is not only definitely a hobby but not something you can expect other people to want to do

the sort of nonsense fitness influencers get up to is sort of like people showing off their homemade silkworm farm and then pointing at everyone else and going “what’s YOUR excuse for wearing a TSHIRT from the STORE???” and actually nvm that would be fucking hilarious. god i wish that was an actual thing can you imagine

[mumblesplash]

that’s what i’m talking about!!!!!

[captain-price-returns]

So it turns out that Flock cameras have a button on the back.

And if you press it down long enough you can just connect to it like an access point. There’s also NO 2FA on signing in to the network.

There’s better protection for your Steam account than a network tracking millions of people.

[sneakyspades]

Flock Safety's Camera Network Is Not Secure – How Physical Hotspot Sequences Allow Anyone to Hijack Flock AI Cameras

Flock Safety cameras had no passwords, allowed root access in 30 seconds, and shared data with federal agencies — across 100,000 US deployme

awesome

[byjove]

When you hear the news that there is a growing life expectancy gap between republicans and democrats partially because of the right-wing anti-science conspiracies that have taken hold (especially after COVID) you’re like “Lol. They owned the libs so hard they died.” and then you remember these are the same people having 6+ kids to populate the polls with their white Christian children and medically neglecting them. Then you squint at the data and realize it is not measuring voter data and life expectancy but life expectancy in red areas vs. blue areas and you realize that voter suppression, corruption, racism and poverty is actually killing the people in these places faster than the national average, not their own reactionary views. And you’re so angry it’s being presented like it’s their fault they’re dying.

[soup-mother]

all in all I take a complete disarmament and non-proliferation stance on boyfriends. Do not use them. Do not create them. Dismantle the ones you have and repurpose their material for peaceful civilian use. This is the only way the world can know peace

[kushblazer666]

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[navigatorsnorth]

Phenomenal spare wheel cover I walked past the other day

[fox-bright]

Ooh, the yellow is retroreflective glass tape. That stuff blazes when light shines directly on it (for my first experience with the stuff, see Fiks Reflective, a friend's attempt to keep so goddamn many bicyclists from getting run over by cars at night). That thing must light up like a follow spot.

[rockergiirl]

i hate how pervasive the r-word has become again

its like the 2000s to early 2010s again where talking to anyone theres a good chance they'll casually say a slur without any thought

[rockergiirl]

and whats even more annoying now is people who'll try to weasel out of being called out on it

'oh its fine because i'm legally mentally disabled so i can say it' NOT HOW RECLAMATION WORKS

[rockergiirl]

AND SAME WITH DEGENERATE

STOP TALKING LIKE A FUCKING NAZI

[villapaitalepakko]

Anti-homeless architecture makes cities hostile to everyone, but we understand that the driving force behind this phenomenon is specifically anti-homelessness.

The curb-cut effect makes streets better and more accessible for everyone, but this is still the result of combating a specific type of ableism in city planning.

This is easily understood by many, that even though a social force may affect many people broadly, it does have a specific target.

So why does this become so difficult to understand when we're talking about transmisogyny?

Transmisogyny can be weaponized against anyone, but as a social force it specifically targets transfeminine people, and thus non-transfems can leverage their position to mitigate the effects of transmisogyny, or indeed, exempt themselves from it.

This is why we have the terms TMA and TME, so that we're able to discuss this phenomenon.

If there's one salient criticism against this terminology, it's that the specific words used can trip up people unfamiliar with the terms; "affected" is pretty broad, and "exempt" is rather particular. This can be remedied by simply providing the definitions for the terms, however.

Maybe terms like "transmisogyny targeted" and "transmisogyny exemptable" would communicate the terms' meanings more immediately, but this would amount to little more than language policing that detracts from the actual discussion of transmisogyny and how it functions in society.

[plaguedocboi]

I remember when I was younger, anytime I watched a movie where the characters have to kill a scary monster/alien, I always thought the act of killing it was intended to be part of the horror. Like there’s this amazing creature that we’ve never seen before, and maybe under different circumstances we could’ve coexisted with it, but it’s trying to attack you and you have to defend yourself, but by destroying it you also destroy the ability to ever understand it and that’s sad and is supposed to make you feel conflicted.

It was not until well into my adulthood that I realized most people do not have complicated feelings about movies where people have to kill a scary alien monster, nor is that necessarily meant to be part of the narrative (unless it very obviously is). They just want the scary thing to die because it’s scary. I don’t have a real conclusion to this I just started thinking about it for some reason.

[plaguedocboi]

1. This reply is two words and they managed to misspell both of then

2. Yeah. Duh.

[the-haiku-bot]

1. This reply is

two words and they managed to

misspell both of then

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[simon-newman]

There usually is a person who wants to preserve and study the Xenomorph in every movie.

Their actions always lead to more deaths.

Pity not the monster whose only communicated goal is to kill you. It doesn't care about understanding you or preserving your life.

Being concerned with it's life in turn is suicidal empathy.

[eric-coldfire]

"The real horror is killing the violent monster."

OP is the guy in a zombie movie who just locks their infected family in the basement because "I can't kill them," and then they break out and eat them and the passing team of survivors.

[beaked-whales-in-exile]

OP is the best kind of monster food.

And I don't know why there's a stereotype of neurodivergents (for lack of a better word. Fucking hate it) all being monster fuckers.

I've got the monster slayer neurodivergence. Give me some Van Helsing or Solomon Kane any day. Or better yet, a monster that overcame their nature to protect humanity from other monsters, like Hellboy or Alucard from Helsing.

[plaguedocboi]

God forbid people have complex emotions related to the permanency of death and the desire to understand the other I guess. Everyone’s mad about this post lately lmao

[transcyberism]

wait wait back up a couple replies. hold that thought. @eric-coldfire you know the choice to kill your zombified family in zombie movies is almost always depicted as emotionally gutwrenching and difficult right. why did we jump straight to making fun of people for not wanting to shoot their own children in the face right off the bat, why is that being treated as a reasonable thing to say on this post unprompted. or am I over empathizing with (*checks notes*) the victims of apocalyptic disease outbreaks. Jesus what is happening in the zombie movie slash prepper fandom rn

[eric-coldfire]

I'm not saying it can't be emotionally upsetting, I'm saying OP's mentality is akin to people who don't kill their zombified family out of a misguided sense of understanding or "no, I can still reach them", and their empathy only results in further death down the line.

Like, I can understand, to an extent, that it sucks to have to kill a monster, but either because of it's nature or mere presence is a threat, it has to be done. Kinda like seeing a rapid dog wandering a neighborhood. It sucks you have to shoot it because "aw puppy", but at the same time if you don't, it's only going to make living worse.

Not to mention how this applies to creatures that are either outwardly violent or sentient enough to be malicious. Like OP's stance of "what if we just studied the creature killing us to better understand them" is shared by so many scientist characters that either get killed or get others killed because their need to "understand" outweighed their survival.

As mentioned above, it's suicidal empathy.

[transcyberism]

people having emotions isn't a "mentality"

[bleedingfae]

The guy's description is "incoherent patriotic rambling", I don't think we're going to get them to agree that just killing the scary thing because it's scary is bad or that empathy even for your enemy is "good".

[toloveviceforitself]

Studying monsters is useful because sometimes it lets you learn things like the fact that "suicidal empathy" is a fascist catchphrase that they're all obsessed with, and then you can spot fash in the wild.

[toloveviceforitself]

Also like. To engage with the dumb fiction takes on a fiction level: you know there's no way to save the zombified family in the basement because you know you're watching a zombie movie, you've been promised all the standard tropes apply, and therefore the narrative purpose of the zombie family in the basement is to turn empathy into a liability within the story.

The guy with his family in the basement doesn't know he's in a zombie movie. He just knows his family got sick one day and then they got violent. He doesn't know they're "dead" (quibble: zombies in most zombie horror don't actually meet the definition of dead, but that's neither here nor there) and he doesn't know they're incurable. Even if he's genre-savvy and knows that this looks like a zombie movie, he can't just blindly assume all the accompanying tropes apply.

You're making fun of OP for being "the guy in the zombie movie who [endangers the survivors for no reason]", but you're the guy who takes his family out back with a shotgun and paints the walls with their brains at the first sign of sickness because he thinks he's living in a movie, only to find out they would've made a full recovery in two weeks and he's a mass murderer.

Rather hang out with the first guy, to put it mildly.

[toloveviceforitself]

This does suggest two movies, one incredibly annoying one potentially interesting:

1) zombie movie where everyone correctly assumes they're in a zombie movie and immediately does all the stuff the zombie apocalypse preppers like to jerk themselves off about (insufferable)(I think this might be what world war z was, I didn't watch it)

2) movie where everyone incorrectly assumes they're in a zombie movie and immediately does all the stuff the zombie apocalypse preppers like to jerk themselves off about, then have to deal with the logistical, moral, and societal fallout of bringing zombie slop solutions to a public health problem (potentially interesting)