*Doctor Who Theme plays*

Autistic + ADHD Adult Scifi nerd and now a rabid book collector. (Icon is a Faction Paradox reference) *Free Palestine* DNI if you are a Zionist, Proship, TERF, Anti-Endo, Aphobe, Exclusionist, Ableist etc.

[x23innocencelost]

Oh for fuck’s sake, people calling out racist writing in fanfic isn’t “censorship”. I say this as a fic writer but some of you need to get off your high fucking horse.

[x23innocencelost]

Truly some of the most irritating culture has sprung up around fanwork and fanfic in specific like… no, making something for free does not in fact make it sacrosanct or immune to criticism! Your right to “do whatever you want forever” or say “fandom is for fun” stops the second you’re being bigoted and making fan spaces unsafe for marginalized people!

[lautakwah]

"fandom is for fun" except for poc who have to deal with rampant racism and white people unable to acknowledge let alone take accountability for their racism

[novella-november]

If I have to read the term "hot liquid" again I am going to mcfreakin lose it, friends.

[novella-november]

The worst thing about this is the power of keyword search on kindle.

"drink" is used as a descriptor by Murderbot *twice* in the second book, which came out in 2018 along with its next two sequels, all published three months apart.

"hot liquids", and also "liquids" did not become a descriptor of drinks until Network Effect which came out in 2020.

That means the first four books in the series referred to drinks as.... Drinks. When they're not specifically water, which is described as water by name.

So from 2017-2020 (4 books), drinks were "drinks" and "water".

Now, 2020-2026 (also 4 books) suddenly everything is "Liquid" and more irritatingly, "Hot Liquids".

It a half-assed attempt to make the prose more machine-like, but it just makes the narration even more juvenile sounding, especially with the fact that there's no machine-like-ing away the Edgy Sassy Teen narration from the protagonist that just keeps getting worse and more forced with each book.

[dr-archeville]

[dr-archeville]

[ nola_prepared New Orleans, Louisiana

Reminder that this weekend downtown New Orleans will simultaneously host GalaxyCon, Naughty N'awlins, the American School Counselor Association Annual Conference, and the Running of the Bulls. That's roughly 30,000 superheroes, 3,000 swingers, 5,000 counselors, and hundreds of people voluntarily being chased by roller derby skaters dressed as bulls.

The overlap of those worlds is where the real magic happens. It is entirely possible that somewhere in the French Quarter, Batman and Catwoman will successfully recruit Ms. Jones from some place called Crabapple Middle School to be their third, moments before all three instinctively scatter as a roller derby skater dressed as a bull rounds the corner.

If you're looking for humanity in all its weird and wonderful forms, this is your weekend. Anyway, thanks for coming. We're glad y'all are here.]

[qcharlie]

i wish we were able to talk about women's rights without someone mentioning how much they do or don't want to have sex with them. i don't care if you're a lesbian Stop finding worth in women purely from their perceived attractiveness

[qcharlie]

"I think women should not be expected to shave for societal respect / to avoid discrimination" "yeah🤤 i love bush" ok well that's not what we're talking about is it.

[qcharlie]

i hate how many posts about trans women deserving respect always devolve into "I love girldick" or "trans rights but I don't want to date a trans person" because that's entirely unrelated to the topic at hand. you should not respond to feminism with "YESSS I loveeee you because I see you as nothing but a sex object" you people sound like other men I get stuck talking with that end up saying "free the nipple so I can see boobies in public" and thinking they're feminists. why can't we just respect women regardless of your attraction to them or not. why does it need to be brought up in every conversation regarding their rights

[unadulteratedhideouttrash]

[aw-tysm]

Some autistics have an odd view on what a special interest within autism actually is, and it's a very damaging take.

Special interests within autism can cause clinically significant impairments in one's life.

Special interests can borderline obsession and addiction and compulsion. They can even run inline with addiction, obsession, and compulsion.

Special interests aren't always knowing everything about it, researching it, and infodumping, or engaging in it in multiple ways.

Sometimes autistics don't know much about them, some will not research them, some autistics won't infodump about them. Some autistics only every engage in their interest in a very restricted and fixated way, a very limited way.

I honestly think some autistics get special interests and hobbies mixed up. You are allowed to have hobbies you are very passionate about, love to talk about, and have a vast knowledge on them. There are many allistics in this world who have hobbies just like that and with such an intensity.

Special interests for autistics aren't always cute and quirky and fun. They can be damaging and impairing, and cause stress/anxiety. They can be inappropriate, dangerous, or bad.

[scribeherself]

“they never explicitly looked at the camera and said ‘i am experiencing immense grief’ so how was i supposed to know??” i don’t know what to tell you, man. if a story doesn’t spoon-feed you the character's internal emotional state like a jar of mashed peas, you guys just willingly starve. subtext is not a myth, i promise it won't bite you.

[theanoncollective]

Seeing a not insignificant amount of people discussing transandrophobia reblogging from vaspider and other zionists/zionist sympathizers is really disheartening as a transmasc who's been negatively impacted and traumatized by Zionism. Why is it "we must fight for all oppressed and racialized people" in so many spaces that advocate for transmascs until it comes to the oppression of Palestinians and Lebanese? Attempts to call people out on continuing to platform known zionists and people who are sympathetic to zionists in spaces that talk about transandrophobia will often have you met with people calling you antisemetic and it's deeply frustrating to deal with as a Levantine transmasc who's been watching his country get blown to shit and be actively colonized for the last three years.

Please just like, actually call out bigots within our communities and spaces. Stop platforming people who defend genocide and colonization and please actually follow through with your own ideology when you say "we have to defend and stand up for transmascs of color". As a Levantine transmasc I shouldn't have to choose between people who fight against genocide but hate transmasculine people and people who fight for transmascs but don't give a shit about the active genocide and colonization of Palestinians and Lebanese.

[theanoncollective]

Post by @walks-the-ages · 3 images

💬 0  🔁 25  ❤️ 15 · Imagine being so into strawmans you gotta pretend that Vaspider is not a known zionist and instead have to vaugeblog abou

Sharing this again with a source from @walks-the-ages in case anybody is (validly) concerned about people using zionism as a bludgeon against random jewish people.

[walks-the-ages]

Imagine being so into strawmans you gotta pretend that Vaspider is not a known zionist and instead have to vaugeblog about "people are calling this jewish person The Zionist" without saying who in order to try to frame someone as antisemitic.

Listen fucks, if you gotta defend israel's genocide of Palestinians in order to shut down critique of your pedophilic and racist kinks you've already gone so far down the drain you're rotting in the sewers.

Listen to Palestinians and stop defending horrific shit

[saturniandragon]

A new method for bypassing face scan age verifications.

PrivacyPuppet — Interactive 3D Avatar

Real-time interactive 3D human avatar with face tracking, blinking, and jaw animation. Built by PrivacyPuppet.

Interactive 3D avatar viewer with real-time head tracking, jaw animation, and idle breathing. Built with Next.js, React Three Fiber, and Thr

This should work on any web browser.

Use your mouse to control the head angle. Press M to toggle mouth open/close.

Don't forget to press I in order to hide your cursor and the surrounding UI elements.

It may or may not work on all sites, but worth a try.

Stay safe.

[lizardsfromspace]

Game review discourse is amazing bc you'll see people dunk on some negative rant and comment at length about refuting the haters who want to destroy the game and then you'll look up the review and it's largely positive (but it criticized it at all! You were supposed to give it rapturous acclaim like they always did in Nintendo Power)

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hydrachea]

> turns on my computer

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

> disables a new AI fea

[sluttygrandpa]

Honestly, at this point, if you're still bitching about AI but not moving to open-source and nonprofit software/tech/services, you deserve it. Shut up or stop using it. Those of us who've put in the effort to switch to non-evil tech are sick of the purposeless whining.

[hydrachea]

I've been nicely letting everyone suggest open source on this post because it might genuinely be useful to someone but because you've decided to be a condescending little bastard- this might be a hard concept to grasp, but some of us actually have jobs. Some of those jobs also provide us with computers equipped with an OS we have zero say over, to use software we also have zero say over. Kindly get off your high horse and suck my dick.

[ollie2point0]

the doctor told me aliens keep killing his companions so I asked how many companions he has and he says he just goes to earth and gets a new companion afterwards so i said it sounds like he's just feeding his companions to aliens and then he started crying

[tearsofrefugees]

Clerks smile and 'flip off' security camera while 'sneaking' immigrants out of courthouse: DOJ

Two Utah court clerks have been dubbed "anti-ICE vigilantes" after they were allegedly caught "sneaking" immigrants out the back door of the

[antifainternational]

That's how you show real solidarity!

"After they overheard that ICE was at the courthouse to arrest someone, they improperly accessed court databases to determine who was not born in the United States," a DOJ detention filing says. "They then snuck every suspected illegal alien who was at the courthouse out a back door, where ICE, who was waiting in the parking lot for their target to leave the building, could not see them."

Think about what you can do at your job or in your daily life to resist fascism when the opportunity presents itself!

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

It can be easy to confuse the two, but you don't actually "wish you were more disabled", you wish your disability was taken seriously and was properly accommodated and that you had access to the support and resources you need - and that desire is so valid. You deserve more. But the sad truth is that no level of disability actually guarantees a sufficient level of support. So you have to work to separate your very understandable desire for more support from the incorrect assumption that other disabled people are consistently receiving what you aren't. All of us are getting fucked over in this society, and no group of disabled people actually has it easy.

[selene1311-f]

Okay, since somebody asked, I think it's important that I post just explaining the issues with TMA and TME.

TMA is a term meaning Transmisogyny Affected. TME is Transmisogyny Exempt.

In its usage, anybody that is not transfem is considered TME; in more extreme cases, anybody that is not a trans woman might be considered TME. I've gotten the sense that I'm getting pretty close to the transandrophobes declaring me TME, as the term is very inconsistent.

Here's the elephant in the room, TME is a slur; it is a new slur, and I've not seen anybody really label it as such yet, so I'm taking some responsibility for making that call and getting the word out.

TME is not used as a helpful, educational, empowering, or even consistent label. What it is used for is solely to attack transmasc and nonbinary people. It exists to silence them, to other them; that is its purpose.

TME is also built upon a falsehood; the truth of the matter is that no trans person, not a single one, is exempt from transmisogyny. We are all affected. People using TME as a term like to claim otherwise, as a means of centering themselves, but the claim is completely unsubstantiated and borders on self delusion.

Knowing this, I believe we need to recognize TMA and TME for what they are, unacceptable terms with no valid usecase, which exist solely to cause harm to our community.

Edit: Also feel free to use the tag or reblog or make your own posts about it; I just want to see this term die, so gotta get the word out about what it really is.