I am one with the bug

Donovan. he/they. I'm in my mid-20s. I'm multiply disabled, plural, intersex, transmasc, nonbinary and queer. I post about a lot of shit so good luck finding a theme, I lost it years ago. I love small yellow fluffy creatures. icon/header by biweeklyjoltiks

[anarcho-catboyism]

Idk what trans man needs to hear this but you're NOT evil or disgusting for being a man. You do NOT have to suffer for the sins of the patriarchy committed by cis dudes. Being a man doesn't invalidate the misogyny you experienced growing up or experience now. Being a man doesn't mean you deserve to be isolated. Being a man doesn't mean you're inherently predatory or scary. You didn't "choose" this, and finding your true self is NOT "betraying the community" because you happen to be a man and/or masculine rather than a woman and/or feminine. You ARE allowed to be upset when people "affirm" your gender by malgendering you.

You DO deserve a community that uplifts you. You DO deserve to experience trans joy. You DO deserve to have your voices heard and your struggles recognized. Wanting the bare minimum of solidarity is NOT "making everything about trans men".

[blackberrys0da]

Genetic mutations and different conditions on pokemon

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[t00thpasteface]

patron request for ingo and sneasler

[zylahbee]

sexism in medicine kills people. racism in medicine kills people. fatphobia in medicine kills people. queerphobia in medicine kills people. classism in medicine kills people. ableism in medicine kills people.

do not downplay people’s fears about being mistreated because they are a part of a marginalised group. it is a matter of life and death and you should be angry about it.

[ambidisastrous]

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional ill

Key points:

the paper was obviously fake to a human reader: it starts by saying it's fake and says it multiple times throughout

the paper says it was funded by the Professor Sideshow Bob University of Trickery and thanks contributors from the USS Enterprise and the Fellowship of the Ring

the paper has already been erroneously cited in a real research paper

LLMs give different information depending on the prompt, so sometimes they mention that the fake condition is "perhaps pseudoscience" and sometimes they tell people to see a doctor because they have the fake condition

absolutely no one is taking any responsibility for this shit, except maybe Nature, because they retracted the paper that cited the fake paper

LLMs don't think. They can't analyse. They can only repeat and remix thoughtlessly.

[decemberwinter]

man I hate this fuckass country so much

[decemberwinter]

reblog if you hate your country

[pangur-and-grim]

I felt bad accepting financial aid for my medication, but also, I DID NEED THE FINANCIAL AID. so maybe that’s alright.

and now I can finally get my immunosuppressants and pay zero dollars for them, so that’s good!

[pangur-and-grim]

this is very good advice, boosting this so more people can see

[pangur-and-grim]

I'm also mad at myself for not accepting assistance on another medication. to be fair, I was in a better financial spot when I started it, but also I think my too-literal brain interpreted the question as "would your card bounce if you tried to pay for this?" and not "would you benefit from aid?"

[pangur-and-grim]

the literalism was also a problem when I was applying for aid for the Cosentyx, because the person organizing my case had to first check off that everything else had been tried before resorting to a biologic immunosuppressant. and one of their questions was "have you tried taking over-the-counter anti-inflammatories (like Advil) to solve the problem?" and I answered no, because I was in pain every minute of every day, and if I was just popping Advils like Tic Tacs my liver would turn to sludge.

but what they were actually asking was "has Advil not been a solution for you", in which case I could've answered 'yes'. anyway, because of this fuck-up on my part, my claim got denied twice in a row, and the third time it was only accepted because the person assisting me said very wearily "maybe Advil gives you stomach aches, and that's why you can't take it" and I finally cottoned on and was like "yeaaaaah......yeah, that's it."

I used to think I didn't have autistic literalism because I understand metaphors, but it is actually a deficit that impacts my life lol

[politijohn]

Source

This is pretty cool

[mbta-unofficial]

Greater Boston Tenants Union – Fighting Landlords since 2020

I’m not a member but only because we never drafted the papers. I intend to be once I move into my next apartment because we’ll be there for more than a year hopefully.

[cock-holliday]

a guide to tenants unions in the u.s. | abolition notes

a guide to tenants unions in the u.s. | abolition notes

Directory of tenant unions in the US. The list is incomplete but it has more resources as well

[feldfrog]

[souplover13]

images: two tweets by stand-up comedian Benny Feldman.

the first picture shows a tweet:

"Don't police comedy" Well. I'm not going to arrest anyone. I'm not even trying to cancel anyone in the 2010s sense of having them lose their job. My goal for comedians who make regressive jokes is for them to change their minds. And for everyone to understand why jokes matter.

the second picture shows a quote retweet. twitter user ChoppedBeef says:

"All I want is for everyone to agree with me"

to which Benny Feldman's response is:

I would like everyone to be not racist instead of racist, yes

end image descriptions.

[souplover13]

benny feldman's the man who gave us 'it's just a joke dude. and the joke is just rooted in ideas. that i'm enforcing' and also 'it's just a joke dude. it's just one of the most digestible and powerful forms of persuasive rhetoric my guy'. he posts a lot of his one-liner sets online. he's a very good person to check on occasionally if you're interested in the philosophy of humour.

[jabberwockypie]

The problem with so many of these regressive, right-wing people is they view social censure as equivalent to an attack on them, personally.

If you say shit that's mean or racist or transphobic, some people will not like you! Some people may, in fact call you an asshole.

Freedom of speech is not freedom from social and economic consequences! Somebody calling you a dick and refusing to give you money is not the same as throwing you in a gulag.

You are not owed an audience and you are not owed access to people.

[normalmammal]

I’m so pro abortion I feel insane hearing any other take on it

[normalmammal]

Even lefties I know will eventually concede to some situation where they think it’s right to force someone to carry a child against their will as if that’s not one of the most inhumane and cruel situations to put someone in regardless of any other factors

[thulium]

[ddeck]

there's like a thousand ways for a shower to work and you wouldn't even imagine half of them until you have to take a shower at a new place

[rottencore]

This post keeps making me cry laughingg

[seafooms]

commissioned wiggly biggly dance

[nervoussyoungmutt]

not all corpses are in coffins. for example im usually in my room

[coffee-without-anesthetics]

to be honest any discourse ever in the wider trans community on tumblr makes me wanna go "ok now what about systems. how do systems fit into this wonderful categorization you've got going on. you don't know any systems, you say? think long and hard about why that is. really. sincerely"

[coffee-without-anesthetics]

#REAL #also not just trans discourse tbh. any qieer discourse #queer* #like y'know the mspec lesbian discourse? #completely fails to take into account plural experiences

EXCELLENTLY BROUGHT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[oddball-1-2]

OH OKAY IF YOU'RE BRINGING MY TAGS HERE I WILL ELABORATE!!!

i actually made a post alluding to this, but something about the mspec lesbian discourse that always interested me was how often i saw systems being pro mspec lesbian compared to singlets, who were more frequently against them. more specifically — it interested me to see how many systems (ours included) heavily benefited from the label due to the complexities of attraction and gender that comes with being plural, and how many singlets just never considered this to be a possibility.

queer singlets tend to have this mindset that your queerness needs to be "clear cut" in a way that often erases plural experiences from the equation — because plurality, suprise suprise, can cause many complications when it comes to identity. singlets want your identity to be chopped down in a way which is palatable and easy for them to digest — any sort of complexity which would require them to stop and try to understand experiences aside from their own is something they tend to be heavily against.

[lizardywizard]

This!

And those things - plurality and nonhumanity - can overlap in unusual ways.

"Mspec lesbian" is actually a fairly good catch-all for how our system ends up on the scale! But personally, I'm a dragon. I'm aroace and have non-human and non-normative transition goals. I'm also the "core" of the system, or one of them. People don't expect a non-human headmate to be one of the ones born here, or to have such strong feelings about transitioning.

I've changed this body to be more masculinised (top surgery, some T) because that aligns with my nonhuman feelings. But there are also a fair number of humans and humanoids who are also heavy fronters. If I continued to change the body in the few limited ways that I can (I really want blue skin, for example), I'd be making them uncomfortable.

Many of said headmates are also fem-aligned in some way, and have a range of feelings on our top surgery and the inroads we've made into transition. For those of us who have some attachment to girl/womanhood but lean more towards multigender, lesboy, mspec, etc., or for those with less mammalian body plans, it's fine and even welcomed. But for the more human-fem-aligned of us, it creates a strange experience where even though we're afab and can pass as a woman, we still feel dysphoric about the body. We're not laying claim to the transfeminine experience, but there's something there that simply calling us transmasc doesn't cover.

Because of all this, we present as fairly androgynous. We can't have the body reflect all of our genders and identities, or even strongly reflect one of them without causing dysphoria for others, so we settle on something in between that we can dress up as we like. We've noticed a lot of other systems have similar presentations; we've known a handful whose headmates all align strongly enough to one binary gender that they could transition, and a handful who stuck with the body's agab, but the majority of other systems we've met in person have cultivated an ambiguous look for this reason.

Needless to say, this isn't something that goes down very well in the larger trans community, which is still incredibly binarist/exorsexist and demands you have an unchanging, singular relationship with oppression and gender.

[lizardywizard]

I think systems are also really important to note under the category of "detransitioning"!

For a while we were pursuing a more binary-aligned masculine transition path. We stopped doing that when we decided we wanted to try and have a different main fronter.

From the outside, what we did - transitioning up to a certain point, then stopping, seeming unsure, using different feminine names - looks like detransitioning. In actuality, it was just different people taking the collective body and life in different directions.

[thetadelta]

[image ID: Screenshot of tags reading: yes yes yes # and if you're a nonhuman system people lose their fucking minds # I'm a dog and people are insisting I hold privilege over them in the binary they're forcing me into but # and I can't emphasize this enough I am not a human with a binary gender I am a trans dog with non-normative transition goals #woof woof bark bark baby! if I make you uncomfortable then good! die mad! # I am not binary in any form and neither are the other ppl in this system! that's life! it's complicated! # Stop shoving me into binaries that don't apply to my real lives experiences just so you can have Hot Takes about me! End ID.]

[knifedog-machina]

Oh yeah, our existence is a Controversial Topic Of Endless Bad Faith Arguments on here. We're a transfem and two trans men who live together in one body - obviously, our lives are affected by this! We can pretend that it's not and act like we're a singlet with a simple queer identity, but that's not actually true!

Honestly, a lot of the problems with Queer Discourse on this site can be boiled down to 1) refusing to believe other people when they tell you about their lives, and 2) believing that anyone with an identity you don't understand is labeling themselves that way to harm you.

"You say you're transfem, but I think you're a filthy liar who's faking your gender for influence and credibility. I think you're actually a fake transfem who's sneaking into our community and stealing our resources while making a disgusting mockery of our oppression. You have no idea what you're talking about, you can't possibly understand the real transfem experience! You live in a trans man's body, it's impossible for you to be transfem!"

There's a lot that we could say in response to this argument, some outpouring of real life experience and trauma and hardship to prove that it's not a joke being played for laughs, but we don't need to bare our souls to angry strangers on the internet looking for a fight.

My main question is just - what kind of incredible power and benefit do you assume anyone would get by pretending to be transfeminine? Why do you think that someone would go through the trouble of pretending to be transgender to prey upon a community of defenseless women?

(Do you see the parallels to the common transmisogynist argument that transfems cannot be who they say they are, because they're just lying predatory men who are mocking real women's oppression by claiming to be women? Something to think about.)

[thepluralmaster]

Wait actually, maybe we’ll add something to this too.

We have never really transitioned in any “significant” way. Medical transition is forbidden where we live and social transitioning is impossible at our current living condition, so we live our life as if we’re a cis woman who wears unisex clothes and binds once in a while. We do know Transgender 101 from the internet but because of this background, we often still feel that we’re not “trans enough” for several reasons. Even our trans members feel this way at times.

Our system has cis people and trans people on both sides of the binary, nonbinary people, you name it. Sometimes our gender identity is inseparable from our alterhumanity, often in weird ways (for example, cistransfem werebeast girls. One in particular relates to a ton of transfem experiences even though her gender has always matched the body). Some other times, we just know, for whatever reason, that we’re cis or trans without taking our body into account. We typically only transition in our headspace if we choose to do so, because even something as simple as purchasing a binder or a packer is difficult to do here.

Our cis guys acknowledge that they face basically the same problems as an average transmasc person, but they themselves don’t transition in headspace so they don’t feel that they’re trans. They’ve always been the same gender, they just ended up in the “wrong” body.

Queerness can be very messy in a system in ways that might not be easily digestible to singlets, and this often makes us afraid to talk about it outside of alterhuman spaces because what if people refuse to understand? What if they choose to hate us because it feels “easier” than trying to understand others?

[navelgazed]

We ourselves have a complex little thing going on where we all feel affected by transphobia even though the vast majority of us are cis (ish) women who exist in a vessel assigned female at birth. We all identify as politically trans, because for all intents and purposes our goal is to look neutral. Not only because our host wants this but because it would be easier to express our various genders with a 'blank canvas' so to speak. We have had several people realize they were trans after they arrived here, and one who specifically realized she was a trans woman. We have been told that it's impossible but she very much did transition and has the experience of gender dysphoria.

Our body also naturally leans towards sex neutrality to sex repulsed asexuality, but different members have different sexualities that express themselves differently through the filter of our body, and this makes a lot of people very unhappy because they would like to be more sexually active. But everything about our gender and sexuality is always in flux from the outside.

[ghosts-and-glory]

I’ve been relistening to the adventure zone balance and I forgot how not normal I am about this podcast. Like genuinely the amount it’s taken over my brain in such a short time AGAIN is incredible. But some doodles.

I first listened to balance in jr high and have periodically listened to it again but it’s been a few years. I’m like half way though the eleventh hour and it’s like I can sense it getting back into my head.