29 | he/xe (no they) | garrett/Mainframe system | "patronizing dickwad" | queer as in fuck you | radfems/self-identified baeddels, self-hating transmascs, exclusionists, and shitlibs fuck off | assigned shrimpdick at birth | if you're blocked it's probably because I think you're stupid or annoying or because you put that tme/tma shit in your bio
I'm the annoying faggotgender transandro truther they warned you about. solidarity between all oppressed peoples. trans men are trans, transmasc rights are trans rights, fuck off if you disagree.
I don't have a DNI because I think they're stupid but I will block over whatever I feel like. I also softblock minors. I'm realizing I have way too many followers to meaningfully enforce a "no minors" policy, so if you're a minor, just keep it to lurking and please respect my boundary of not wanting you to interact with anything sexual or overly personal that I might post.
I don't remember to tag everything but I do try to get some of the more common triggers. message me if I've been posting a lot of something that you would like me to tag and I'll probably oblige, but I won't be tagging things like "discourse" or "politics" because what counts as discourse to one person is a Tuesday for others.
if you DM me please open with something other than "Hi"/"Hey"/"Hello" unless we follow each other or I will assume you're a bot
I do not post fundraisers except from trusted mutuals, please do not send them to me or tag me in posts/comments. if you message or tag me about fundraisers anyway despite this message explicitly requesting you not do this, you will be blocked. I do not have any money to donate, I can't even afford my own expenses most of the time. Do not ask.
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backup account is @transcyberist
plurality info (ignore this):
- we are a semiogenic system. this origin broadly falls under the quoigenic umbrella. don't do origin discourse. I will block you.
- we prefer the terms "member" or "sysmate" but accept "headmate" or "alter" and have varying feelings about parts language (I[Garrett] am indifferent/sorta identify with the term "ANP," others don't like it so much)
- garrett = primary front of the Mainframe system. if you're not plural or the post I'm making isn't plural-focused I usually just use the name collectively + singular pronouns as part of masking. I probably won't be very open with you if you're not plural. this is not really a conscious choice or something I do on purpose, just a comfort thing.
- host subsystem = Garrett, Jenna, Martin, S, and Ego. [Edit: S has been dormant for several months now and may have merged into Garrett and/or Martin.] Garrett and Jenna are body age (=29), S is ≈ 15, Ego is like 4-5, Martin is... idek honestly, but definitely an adult, usually 30+ and sometimes older. Most of the time it's Garrett posting here but it's sometimes Jenna or Martin in tags. Jenna runs @peepsnuff, Martin runs @shit-hdb-would-say and @entroponaut
- others that are routinely active (not an exhaustive list): Delphi (ageless), Data (unknown age). Delphi runs @deleuzians. Data is pretty quiet but usually he's the one talking if you see some persnickety nerd shit in parentheses.
- Data and Martin are both fictional characters but Data is a fully introjected fictive while Martin's situation is more complicated/something like fictionkin.
- I don't like to get involved in syscourse that much, I don't care why you're like this/what your origin is, I'm not even sure why *I'm* like this and I don't think it would be public information even if I did know. I don't think origin has anything to do with validity and I don't really believe "traumatized" vs "not traumatized" is a firm dichotomy that makes sense to apply outside of a strictly clinical setting. people should have access to whatever resources they would benefit from as much as possible.
- "CDD" (="complex dissociative disorder"; the acronym is actually more commonly used for "childhood disintegrative disorder" which is an ASD-like developmental disability) also isn't actually a defined term that is found anywhere in the DSM just fyi; it's a common term in certain forums but has no official definition per the APA. all dissociative disorders fall under the same section within the Manual, described as a spectrum ordered roughly by typical severity. not that I should need to tell you my diagnoses for you to believe I have credentials to be speaking on this, but I know for a fact I met the symptom criteria of at least DPDR as evaluated by a clinician, and that was without reporting any info about my sysmates because I wasn't comfortable sharing that part of myself in a medical setting at the time. in short, whether or not I have a "CDD" depends entirely upon who you ask and how much "proof" you require and what your agenda is, so I don't want to hear gatekeeping on that basis. I need you to understand that diagnostic taxonomy is clinically descriptive, not ontological.
- Do NOT message/harass us on our other blogs over discourse or other stuff posted to this blog or vice versa. We keep them separate intentionally; if you stir shit in the wrong place we will definitely block you. I post a lot of discourse and for the most part my sysmates do not. Address your problems with us to the one that you have the problem with and leave the others out of it. They'll step in if they feel it's necessary but that's our boundary to set.
do u think Harry liked to be involved in the school plays when he was a gym teacher. do you think they would always relegate him to bit parts because they wanted the leads to be actual students but he would ham it up big-time and end up an audience favorite anyway. I do
Many people feel that LLMs are a fundamentally unethical technology because they are built on the theft of intellectual property, rely on exploited labor, waste natural resources, spread misinformation, deskill workers, stunt the cognitive development of students, and contribute to a consolidation of power that is unhealthy for a democratic society.
I feel like this critique applies to YouTube and Google, among other things.
imagine being éowyn in the lord of the rings trilogy. your uncle the king is being mind controlled by an evil wizard until said evil wizard's cooler version shows up and frees him. he is accompanied by an elf, a dwarf, and the hottest guy you've ever met. the hot guy also happens to be 87 years old and maybe still not over his immortal elf girlfriend but he respects and listens to you so you're shooting your shot. your geriatric hotguy situationship turns you down the night before the biggest battle ever then goes ghost hunting in the mountains. you decide to go to battle because you'll either help save your people or die in a really cool and honorable way. you then kill middle earth satan's number one henchman with the power of loophole and being a woman (you are also helped in doing this by a 4 foot tall stoner). then you get to marry faramir. 10/10 no notes my girl went through it all
this is what the phrase social murder referred to before self-centered white Tumblr users started misusing it to refer to getting their blogs deleted btw - murder perpetrated via policy decisions; usually recorded as "natural causes," erased and made invisible.
My kid's clothing store went out of business last month, but I did a pretty successful clearance sale. Now all I have left is this shipment of brand new baby shoes that came late. IDK what I'll do with'em, maybe put out an ad in the newspaper or something.
there's this thing in Gattaca where people like the main character, genetically imperfect "in-valid" individuals who use the fake credentials of genetically-superior "valids," are called "borrowed ladders" on the basis of the fact that they get ahead in life not based on actual genetic superiority but merely the illusion of having it - assumptions people make upon viewing them as valids. They're seen as con-artists or grifters, faking their way into positions they don't deserve.
(The main thrust of the movie's plot, of course, is that it takes painstaking attention to detail and a huge amount of work to even pull off such a scheme, nevermind also having to actually perform as well as one's peers to avoid being found out - the in-valids, of course, are in a massively disadvantaged social position as a result of systemic injustice, not as a natural consequence of their genetic differences.)
I this idea offers such an elegant deconstruction of the idea that trans men "transition to privilege" when we go stealth.
We never should have been disadvantaged for the way we were born in the first place.
i know i keep going on and on about it but the ai witchhunts are so fucking wild to me like. i know that they were lying when they said "the sky is green." you can tell because of the font.
yall are killing me PLEASE just judge information as information. you dont need to call in character witnesses to prove theyre the Type Of Person that lies. you aren't on fucking Numbers finding the secret pattern to some overblown dramatic serial killer. you might as well do handwriting analysis.
we are so so so desperate for there to be a way to KNOW something is "true" without actually evaluating the claims made. i'm sorry, but it's not gonna happen.
planned parenthood offering laser hair removal which is a really necessary gender aligning procedure for many trans women!
it being introduced alongside botox and fillers and multiple of their clinics suddenly saying that they won't perform abortions on anyone above a certain BMI even though it's against their own internal standards
beyond the reinforcement of beauty standards and body fascism like, idk how many people realize Botox is a specific brand name, and that brand in question has donated over $135,000 USD to Republican politicians in the past year alone. yknow the people that regularly vote to defund planned parenthood.
and another thing but like this is also why all feminists need to be pro fat liberation cuz shit like this puts pregnant fat people's lives at risk, even when they do access abortions they are often referred out to a hospital with a longer wait and a steeper bill, and often denied pain management. these stories coming out from fat women lately tryna access care alongside PP now selling the beauty standard to women feels interconnected and predatory.
