hello I am a virtual fox ⁠

[PLUR] I am an adult system. We use it/fae pronouns. Call us Moss! Expect lots of solarpunk and hopecore 🌷☄️!! Also I am Ren and projecting Law onto our irl partner. 🔏This profile is a WIP so please be patient!

[virtualfoxguy]

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Democratic Socialist from US. 🌹

Climate first. 🌻

Vehemently anti unschooling. Extremely homeschool critical. Youth rights interested.

I think calling yourself aplat and love less and anti-empathy in a world of hyper individualist capitalism is pointlessly tone deaf and you're kind of a goober. We all have a unique relationship to relationships and emotional experiences. I don't reclaim the ideals of anti communal ideology.

I hate pitbulls and large cars :)

[virtualfoxguy]

i felt kinda vulnerable ever since moving some of my photos to my laptop only.. i have a really hard time not having everything on my phone. it makes me feel safe in a weird way like i can always have everything i need on me. but i want to be less phone addicted. i mean someday if it's even possible. im kinda recovering from hoarding right now in a way. cuz therapy helped me get to a point where i know I'm safe to exist in my own house with my own stuff and i didn't even know that was so hard, that all my internet and phone addiction, it makes me do safety behaviors like "only play games on your phone" "only listen to music on your phone", like nothing else is mine..growing up i had to look at a phone 24/7 to escape my real life and im becoming aware of that more than ive ever been.

[virtualfoxguy]

progress and healing is so much slower than i thought.. it's almost worth holding a funeral service for past versions of my idealized self i made. like im saying goodbye to so many possible people i could have been under different circumstances.

goodbye to the version of me that became the best journalist or author or figure of any kind for any number of issues that havent defined my identity, goodbye to all of the intimate details of every point of intersectionality. wanting to make friends..with a person..and know them as an individual, deeply. acting within the human culture not researching and observing it. all i can do is very little compared to what i thought i needed. to prove myself. i just really want to prove myself as someone worth taking seriously.

I have to trust there are people out there doing things I'm not capable of or aware of or have access to doing. Someone else has that database, that study. I don't need my phone to be mine or anyone else's Alexandria. I can leave pieces of myself on my body, in my notebooks/sketchbooks, on the places Ive lived..and i just feel. fear. at wanting to shrink myself and not be able to. i. cannot compete with ai, or jesus christ, i just cant. i only have like a century and i can only settle in a handful of places on earth throughout my lifetime.

[virtualfoxguy]

i felt kinda vulnerable ever since moving some of my photos to my laptop only.. i have a really hard time not having everything on my phone. it makes me feel safe in a weird way like i can always have everything i need on me. but i want to be less phone addicted. i mean someday if it's even possible. im kinda recovering from hoarding right now in a way. cuz therapy helped me get to a point where i know I'm safe to exist in my own house with my own stuff and i didn't even know that was so hard, that all my internet and phone addiction, it makes me do safety behaviors like "only play games on your phone" "only listen to music on your phone", like nothing else is mine..growing up i had to look at a phone 24/7 to escape my real life and im becoming aware of that more than ive ever been.

[plushiepngs]

[bug-lovers-island]

Today's beetle progress. It should not take long at all to finish it at this rate. You can see where I improved while making it lmao

[s4dpngs]

[sodashorts]

genuinely if u post things like "TMEs do xyz" "TMAs are abc" i need you to go your local library and sign up for a library card and go to events for your age group planned and facilitated by the library. ok?

[lastvalyrian]

> medical problem > unsure if it's serious or will go away on its own > sees a doctor to be sure > "why the fuck are you here. this is nothing. it will go away on its own"

[lastvalyrian]

> medical problem > unsure if it's serious or will go away on its own > decide to wait to not overreact > problem remains > sees doctor with concrete problem after all > "why did you wait so long. we could have done something if you had come immediately"

[makingqueerhistory]

Seeing generative AI in queer spaces is chilling for a lot of reasons. Not least among them being that it's an easy way to edge out queer creators who are already in a precarious position, facing book bans and attacks from all sides.

As a queer history resource, watching an AI try and fill the roll that has taken so long to carve out for actual people, is disheartening. It's great to know that there is demand for queer history resources, but after so many queer people have worked so hard to build a space for themselves, it feels disrespectful to watch that spot be filled by machines.

Queer people have won the battle in a way, convinced the world that our stories are worthwhile. I suppose it shouldn't be shocking to see that the response is to try and find a way to not compensate queer people for any of their work and value.

[makereadgrow]

If I could sit down every single new sewist who wants to learn and improve their skills I would tell them the following things

Read the manual. Work through the manual from front to back. Read the troubleshooting section even when you're not having a problem. Read it. Keep it handy. Maybe download a PDF too, just in case the hard copy walks off.

Buy an iron and ironing board. They don't have to be fancy, a bigger board is only better if it is stable. An regular Ikea board has worked for me for years. A $20 iron from Walmart will noticeably improve your work. Press every seam before another seam intersects it. Don't just iron at the end.

Sewing machine needles have sizes AND types and you need to match them to your fabric. They also wear down. The often quoted rule is 8 hours of run time and its a pretty good rule.

The problem is almost never the tension settings, and even less often is it the bobbin tension. The problem is almost always your threading or needle.

Clean your machine. Do not use canned air. Take off the plate under the foot and use a brush and or a keyboard vacuum to get the fluff out.

[atelier-tamamoland]

sixpencee got less hate for straight-up admitting to owning a child slave than I do for saying children shouldn't be treated as property

[atelier-tamamoland]

like i'll say "parents should not be able to unilaterally override their child's consent" and some dipshit will see the word consent and the smoke from the hollowed-out crater that used to be their critical thinking skills will immediately coalesce into a message in my ask box calling me a pedo. no fucking hope for any of you

[atelier-tamamoland]

which I say, by the way, because one of my closest friends was able to be effectively disappeared off the face of the earth and sent into the woods to be sexually abused and tortured into being straight due to parents effectively owning their children as property. if you are a minor your consent simply does not actually matter - whether you get vaccinated, whether you get to go to school, whether people get to hug touch you, what you wear, how your hair is cut, what your hobbies are, whether you get to have friends, and yes, whether you want to be sent to a torture camp in the woods or not - your consent is entirely meaningless because your parents can simply override it, and there's fuckall you can do about it, because you aren't a person, you're just property. the family dog has more protections against being abused than children do

but! if you ever point this out you get called you a rapist

[helenvaughans]

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.

–Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

[fairrytype]

a hop a skip and a jump event is really cute

[calciumcryptid]

I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.

[dogpuppy]

[dsudis]

Maybe... can have shit in Detroit?

Historic wild rice restoration underway in the Detroit River: ‘Living tribute to the First Nations'

Historic wild rice restoration begins in Detroit River as tribal partners work to bring back sacred grain that disappeared from ancestral wa

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE