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A blog for anything I feel like posting. Also I should update this with about me info since mobile can't access my about page | J | queer | They/She/He (but that last one’s more out of convenience I’m some sort of nonbinary transfemme girlboy manwoman) | March 27 1991 currently 35 | <3 moveslikebucky | fixate on a lot of things but they're all pretty constant throughout just sometimes bomb tags | lichrally just stuck with this url the past nine decade plus change because "Great Vest Bro Han Solo shrugging gif" is my biggest most impactful online joke and I wasn't OP on the original post I made the joke on so I'm kinda stuck with this to link myself to it | Hi this is actually a little bit longer than my actual about page that I haven’t touched in years so thank's for sticking with it this far have a lovely day

[ilynpilled]

ASOIAF POVs by EtceteraArt

[thequantumranger]

Rose Da Silva (Radha Mitchell) and Cybil Bennett (Laurie Holden)

Silent Hill (2006)

[forgamers]

[taragrimface]

oblivion is an abysmal game and everyone should play it

[lesbyterianchurch]

Farewell!

[quinzelade]

The comedic timing in this is Oscar worthy

[captain-price-returns]

Navajo Code Talker on Tarawa, Nov 1943

[minmos]

making my own post in a similar vein to this one because i don't want to derail, but:

i just need yall to know that, if you ever message the mods of a reddit, reddit now automatically includes an AI generated summary of your entire post history with whatever message you send. yes it includes extremely personal information. i mod a support group for victims, the AI summary will regularly list out peoples' child abuse histories along with information on shit like them using reddit to seek out extramarital affairs

i don't think reddit has put out any official statements letting people know this is happening, so just as a heads up

[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

[storyweavingspider]

2015

[frayed-wind]

[questions-within-questions]

I really wonder what the demographic outcome would be of trans people involuntarily getting "the body you'd have if practicality wasn't a concern" like what percentage of the resulting bodies would be obviously nonhuman?

[tparadox]

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams she found herself transformed in her bed into a cyborg werewolf with dragonfly wings.

[anarcho-catboyism]

We really went from "free the nipple" to "um the public didn't consent to you wearing a choker"

[thestuffedalligator]

Human Is is a 1955 Philip K. Dick sci-fi short story where a guy goes to another planet for work and when he comes back to Earth his personality has flipped from an asshole to a sweet, kind, considerate man. Everyone's immediately convinced that an alien has taken over his body, this goes all the way to court, and in court his wife testifies that she's noticed no changes at all and so the charges are dropped.

And then there's a bit right at the end of the story as the wife and the husband are walking out of court:

Jill turned abruptly. "What is your name? Your real name."

The man's gray eyes flickered. He smiled a little, kind, gentle smile. "I'm afraid you would not be able to pronounce it. The sounds cannot be formed..."

Jill was silent as they walked along, deep in thought. The city lights were coming on all around them. Bright yellow spots in the gloom. "What are you thinking?" the man asked.

"I was thinking perhaps I will still call you Lester," Jill said. "If you don't mind."

"I don't mind," the man said. He put his arm around her, drawing her close to him. He gazed down tenderly as they walked through the thickening darkness, between the yellow candles of light that marked the way. "Anything you wish. Whatever will make you happy."

And I. God. There's something there. A soupcon of monsterfuckery. To tell your partner in a moment of intimacy that yes, you're something so inhuman that the lips you're stealing can't speak your actual name. You're a parasite that not only had the ability to burrow under this man's skin and take over his life, but you were so desperate to escape a dead, dry, blasted planet that you did.

And for your partner to then turn around and go "I know, I've always known, and I love you" is just. God I know it's not a great Dick story but something about it is making me lose my mind

[inthefallofasparrow]

It was adapted into a TV episode with Bryan Cranston.

[assiraphales]

one of the biggest tragedies of early 2010s tumblr is that the devil (bbc sherlock) took root as the face of johnlock when the guy ritchie films were RIGHT there

[assiraphales]

like come ON

[nyantara]

things that would exist if intellectual property wasn't a thing

so much cheap generic medication. reverse engineering compounds would be even more financially profitable.

fewer people dead of vaccine preventable illnesses in the global south bc the greatest barrier to distributing some vaccines like hpv is their ip

plant seeds and grafts that come from the plants instead of licensing them. don't invest so much in preventing cross contamination. more localised experimental breeding.

library of the world: every book and journal article in the world could be digitised and be searchable for every person in the world to read regardless of where they live. cheap reprint runs and local translations everywhere.

an online interface where every citation could actually lead to the text in question

freedom from the hell that is DRM software

everytime someone reverse engineered your shitty proprietary software we would all be freed from it instead of them getting DMCA'd

so much hardware would be opened up & therefore made so much cooler.

so many more songs that riff off and sample and interpolate shit from this decade instead of like 70 years ago and more analysis of music that didn't keep getting nuked off the internet

preserving movies and tv shows and games as long as someone, somewhere has the desire to host them

just go publish your fanfic/art/vid as is instead of all us pretending it isn't fanwork or begging the corporation for mercy / licensing

a world without ip lawyers. im getting chills just imagining it.

[stillnaomi]

under the dictatorship of alberto fujimori, USAID funded peru's "family planning" program, which was used to sterilize 300,000 indigenous women, often through deception or in exchange for basic necessities such as food or medical care

A system of incentives and sanctions reinforced the policy: healthcare providers received cash or in-kind payments for each sterilized woman, while promotions, demotions, and the allocation of medical equipment were tied to the fulfillment of sterilization targets and quotas. The program was also implemented through mass campaigns. DEMUS reported large-scale operations aimed at recruiting women for tubal ligation, including so-called “ligation festivals,” which promoted sterilization as a path to happiness and often offered food or money as incentives.

Deceptive practices were widespread. Many women were misinformed about the nature of the procedure or told it was minor. In other cases, they were offered debt forgiveness related to childbirth or abortion in exchange for agreeing to be sterilized. Within a broader context of poverty and exclusion, sterilization often became a transactional means of accessing healthcare or food, services the state was already obligated to provide.

source

not coincidentally, US president george h.w. bush's administration was very pleased with the mass privatization fujimori's regime was implementing

[natalieironside]

I dunno, stranger, we ain't got a whole lot to offer ye on accounta t'other day them Yankee cavalry done rode down and requisitioned plumb near all we had, and then the day after that them rebel cavalry done come up from t'other direction and done did the same damn thing, so no, stranger, I's just a humble Miss'ssippi rat farmer and I ain't know a damn thing about no "time machine" or no "2037 eSports World Championships disaster" anymore than I know about no damn Charleston guv'ment. But when you see that Jeff Davis you tell him I want my damn horses back or I'll head on down to Gulfport and take 'em outter his yeller hide.

[natalieironside]

And this mornin some boys in teal uniforms done come through and said they was from "a secret third thing." I ain't even know what the world's comin to no more. Say, you ain't no reb, are ye? You better not be no reb.

[moldavite]

hopefully i'll get to do something other than endure soon. that would be really nice

[judgejudyofficial]

stop letting miserable people on the internet convince you that you must have a concrete, well-constructed opinion on everything that has ever existed.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[judgejudyofficial]

everybody say thank you Marcus Aurelius

[mogielnik]

✤ medieval inspired tattoo flash i made for pride ✤

[swagophile]

important reminder that most people you follow online are significantly lamer than you think they are including me. and if you feel insecure comparing yourself to someone online: DON'T. theyre probably also lame and weird. most people on the internet are

[most-sane-classicist]

reblog if you're also lame and weird.