This is my friendâs fault

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Not today Justin
we're not kids anymore.
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This is my friendâs fault
Inspired by Fourth by Kyn
This fic has me WEAK, part of it is Prowl and the structies being adorable and the other part is all of them going through the horrors, and one of my favorite horrors is Jazz and Scrapper quite literally haunting the narrative (or more specifically, Prowl).
We need to talk about tumblr's systematic fatphobia.
Posts of fat people are being marked as "sexual content" even more frequently than they used to, but now we have this fun little addition as brought to my attention by a friend;
That's right. Not just blatant kink-shaming, but now, if you make posts about or with fat people, you can now be flagged as "promoting disordered eating"! Multiple completely innocent posts of fat people literally just existing in their own bodies have already been flagged this way.
Raise hell about it. Reblog and share fat content more than ever. Don't let this shitty website tell you that your bodies are "wrong" or that you aren't allowed to exist publicly.
Tumblr staff, if you care about eating disorders (you fucking don't), stop promoting this sense of shame and fear and disgust towards the idea of weight gain. Stop shaming and censoring people for posting about their own bodies and experiences. Fatphobia kills. Fatphobia causes disordered eating. Fatphobia is the disease you should be worried about.
This has also been disproportionately affecting fat trans people, because of course it has.
Don't stop talking about it. Don't let this bullshit ceo silence you.
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For anybody not caught up: Tennessee just passed a new map that pretty much makes it so black neighborhoods have no power in local votes. Two things about this. While protestors were chanting "No Jim Crow", white Tennessee lawmakers were caught laughing on video. On top of this, Representative Justin Pearson and his brother KeShaun Pearson were arrested for trying to give their takes on the matter (which is not only their legal right but literally his job). If you give a shit about black people, help fight this. We can't allow a return to Jim Crow.
Heyyy guess where I live
A local paper had some great photographs, all taken by Nicole Hester:
The day before, Rep. Justin Pearson tries to attend a Senate Committee meeting and is barred access by the Sergeant at Arms.
Lawmakers and protesters link arms as the descend the capitol steps.
Once inside the chamber, Democratic representatives continued to stand together with arms linked.
They continued standing together with arms linked as votes were cast.
Democratic representatives take a group photo protesting the redistricting.
Rep. Justin Jones burns a photo of the Confederate flag with the words, We will not go back.
And stomps the ashes.
KeShaun Pearson being escorted from the building by the Staties.
KeShaun Pearson (left) being taken into custody. Rep. Justin Pearson (right) showing his support of his brother.
Additional information: State lawmakers have been gunning for Pearson and Jones nearly their entire terms. Most notably, in 2023, the House expelled them for participating in a protest at the Capitol. Their districts had to have special elections to have them reinstated.
Pearson is one of the plaintiffs of a lawsuit seeking an injunction against the redistricting.
The city most affected by the redistricting is Memphis, where locals are fighting against xAI's data center, which has been operating with very little oversight and is poisoning the people who live there. Here is a previous post on that with more information and more sources.
i think completely pre transition trans people should be able to wear one tiny little pronoun pin and get gendered correctly every time. i think cis people should be transitioning just for the fun of it if they want to. i think you should be able to walk into any pharmacy and just buy hrt. i think that little boys should be able to sit in circles and play with dolls and paint each other's nails and make friendship bracelets. i think that little girls should be able to play with flaming monster trucks and play football and get competitive over video games. i think that arson (he/it/paw) should have paw's identity respected and treated as completely normal. i think that we should normalize neopronouns and weird genders and being weird or unusual in general. you should be able to explain your weird one of a kind xenogender to the least queer person on the planet and they should say "oh that's cool!! haven't heard of that gender before". you should be able to wear a tail in public you should be able to make out with your computer if you want i don't fucking care. i love transgenders i love neurodivergent people i love furries i love everyone outside the norm i love freaks i love nerds i love everyone.
Everyone say thank you black women
THANK YOU BLACK WOMEN
LOUDER!!
god's weakest soldier is scrolling tumblr instead of being productive or participating in any of their hobbies
A handful of things my wife has said... Only, drawn as Autobot Jazz from the hit franchise Transformers
It looks like theyâre dropping a teaser trailer for the new Harry Potter reboot tomorrow
Just a few important and gentle reminders:
đ«¶đ» DO NOT WATCH THIS FUCKING SHOW đ«¶đ»
If you claim you support human rights - not just trans rights but human rights in general - yet still plan to watch this show, unfollow me. Youâre a fucking hypocrite and I donât want you following me.
Do not watch it even if youâre hate watching it, it still contributes to streaming revenue and views!
The adults in this reboot of the franchise are FULLY accountable for choosing to do this show and accepting a pay cheque over supporting a minority group. Even if they claim they support trans rights, theyâre cowards and donât actually support them at all.
The kids do NOT deserve abuse or hate, whether itâs because youâre comparing them to Dan/Rupert/Emma or because youâre boycotting due to the authorâs views. They are literal CHILDREN.
Your nostalgia over a childrenâs series about kids going to school is NOT more important than trans people being respected and having rights. As long as JKR is still alive, she profits off of this.
ALL OF THIS... and remember, it's not just a matter of wanting JKR to have less money for herself - she uses her profits to fund attacks on trans rights.
so. not to doxx myself (i've talked about this here before though) but i live in Kansas. and my license was just revoked very suddenly and immediately because i'm trans and had changed my gender marker.
so now i cannot legally drive or vote until/unless i let them force me to carry around a card that misgenders me and outs me as trans, because i certainly don't look female anymore.
so hey if you have the means and want to help with any of this, please consider donating to the ACLU of Kansas because they are at least going to try to do something to push back against this, and i'm such a panicky wreck that the only thing i can do to get through my immediate gut reaction to having my license revoked tonight (i cannot stress enough that i received the letter today saying that my license is no longer valid tomorrow) is focus on the fact that there's at least one entity trying to protect me and my fellow trans kansans.
More info on what's been happening in Kansas:
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
HEY.
HEY YALL.
USAMERICAN DEMOCRATS SUCCESSFULLY REMOVED EVERY ANTITRANS RIDER FROM EVERY FUNDING BILL
Spread the fucking word because LORD knows democrats fucking suck at spreading it themselves and will fail once again to inform their base
But just in case youâre sitting there going âthe Dems arenât doing anything,â THEY ARE
IT IS JUST SLOW
AND MOSTLY INVISIBLE
BUT THEY ARE
If your language lost, it should die with dignity, not be put on artificial life-support because âreasonsâ
#Sorry but I have no sympathy for that fight#let the dead languages be dead#grumping#controversial opinions#because people always get annoyed with me when I say this#but Gaelic (for example) shouldnât still exist
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Gaelic hasnt been lost. Itâs never died or been brought back. Thereâs an unbroken line of native speakers going back to the beginning of the language. That doesnât seem like a âlostâ language to me. Furthermore Iâm not sure what âartificial life-supportâ means in this context. Gaelic is given funding for schools because thereâs still native speakers of the language. Itâs no more artificial than money being given to schools for English language lessons.
If anything is âartificialâ its the imposition of a foreign language (English) into a Gaelic majority zone and native speakers having to fight for decades to be able to be taught in their own language. Native speakers being forced to learn English to exist within their own regions because a central government would not allow services to be given in a peopleâs own language.
But then the clock only goes back so far with people who wish that minority languages would just die. Thereâs nothing artificial about shooting someone but suddenly it becomes an âartificialâ act to maybe phone an ambulance?
âThereâs nothing artificial about shooting someone but suddenly it becomes an âartificialâ act to maybe phone an ambulance?â â THIS RIGHT HERE
Also just gonna point out here:
In the UK, the languages Gaelige, Gaelic, Cymraeg and Kernewek (thatâs Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Cornish respectively) didnât just âdie out.â There was a concerted effort by the English to kill them off.Â
For example, in Wales, if a child was heard speaking Welsh in a classroom, theyâd be given a âWelsh Notâ, a wooden plaque engraved with âWNâ to hang around their neck. Theyâd pass it onto the next child heard speaking Welsh, and whoever had the Welsh Not at the end of the day was punished - usually with a beating.Â
Kernewek was revived after a long hard struggle by the Cornish folk, and is now being taught again, but a lot about it has been lost because everyone who grew up speaking it has died.
And languages are never revived âjust because.â The language of a place can offer so much insight into its history, so if youâre content to let a language die then youâre content to let history die.
People talk about âdeadâ languages as if they dwindle away gradually, naturally coming to an end and evolving into something else, but thatâs rarely the case. Languages like Cymraeg and Gaelige and especially Kernewek didnât have the chance to die with dignity, they were literally beaten out of my parents and grandparents.Â
Is it any wonder every other country hate the English? We invade their country, steal their history, claim pieces of their history as ours or flat out re-write it, and kill every part of their culture that we can.Â
Itâs a miracle that any of the Celtic languages survived, so even if you donât see the point in keeping them alive, the actual natives of each country weâve fucked over are clinging onto what heritage they have left through the only thing they can: their language.Â
âI always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that âstraight white menâ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer⊠the computer⊠THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!
Alan Turing - Gay man and âfather of computingâ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and âHuman computerâ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmerâ
- Sacha Coward
Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero
Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term âbugâ Â
- @robinlayfield
Grace Hopper did more than coin the term âbugâ. She invented the first program linker in the early 1950s, for the UNIVAC I. A program linker translates instructions from one language to another (for example, numerical codes that represent instructions translated to machine code that computers can read), which is the very foundation of how computerâs operate independently. she also pulled a steve rogers and tried to enlist in the military a bunch of times and was denied. then, an exception was made for her when she joined the navy reserves, and she ended up serving for over 40 years (half of which was active duty). she retired from the navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. she was born in NYC in 1906. Grace Hopper was a fucking badass.
also computing was typically a job for women (many of whom were black women that made incredible contributions) back in the day, so itâs absolutely fucking wild that straight white men think they are the foundation of computer innovation. men PUSHED women out and took the credit.
Reblogging to do what the failed education system never did.
Reblogging to do
what the failed education
system never did.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Adding Wendy Carlos to the list! Trans icon and pioneer of synthesized music!!
Also, just about every computerized device outside of desktops is running ARM chips now. Your phone, your keyboard, your car, your watch. Basically everything.
And ARM was primarily designed by Sophie Wilson, a trans woman.
Also gotta throw on Lynn Conway, whose work brought about VSLI [Very Large Scale Integration] in chip design in the early 80s. Basically all modern microelectronics depends on Conwayâs work, which got logic gates on a single chip up from thousands to millions.
BTW all of this was after IBM fired her in 68 for disclosing she wanted to transition. They apologized in 2020.
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, who who worked on COBOL, Hedy Lamar, who patented frequency hopping, the underlying principle of WiFi.
Delia Derbyshire over there building a synthesizer from scratch to play the Dr. Who theme on.
The game cartridge? A black guy called Jerry Lawson.
Baby Donnie lol
Is that a mecha au comic?? After all those years??
Lmao okay but seriously. I missed drawing those two:D Can Jazz actually treat a mech like a vase? Spoiler - no one treats vases like that. But Prowl doesnât know that yet haha
Also! Donât look too close at the architecture of the cockpit I am not good at keeping it consistent and geometrically correct. If anything. Feel free to ignore it and make up your own design
TEAM RODIMUS
so much effort was poured into this