Abraham. Pronouns? Mid 20s. ♋️. My gender is whatever makes me gayest in any context. Transphobes/Homophobes/Aphobes don't interact. Exclusionists choke. Icon & header by @dreampollens
Hi Apple users, Apple released a fun thing where they take your photos and Siri transcripts and use them to train AI! And they may be automatically turned on without your knowledge, because oh boy they sure were for me!!!!!!!!!!!!
Open the “apps” section in your settings (it’s usually at the very bottom), go to photos and scroll until you see “Enhanced Visual Search” and then turn that shit off. Then go to “Privacy and Security”, scroll until you see “Analytics & Improvements”, and turn off “Improve Siri & Dictation” as well.
I am an artist with hundreds upon hundreds of my artworks in my photo album. I also have plenty of photos with not only my own face, but the faces of my friends and my family. I do not appreciate that being used to train AI without my consent, and I’m pretty sure it’s the same for others too.
its interesting to me how peoples desperation to delegitimize anything they dont agree with by implying its christian in nature has resulted in people saying things like hating pedophiles, having feminist or anti-racist beliefs, or Not Supporting Sex Traffickers are all inherently rooted in christian ideology. which is incorrect to an almost unfathomable degree
oh yeah reminder not to give the evil fucking scum who run this website a goddamn cent this month when they inevitably roll out whatever theyre selling for it. Find a trans woman to pay instead
So Sweden used to give random citizens control over the official @Sweden Twitter account for like a day/week/month or whatever. As you can see why, it didn’t last long
what do you mean it didn't last long they did this for like seven years between 2011 and 2018 they didn't stop doing it because someone tweeted about cock sdfgsdfgsdfgsdf they kept doing it for four more years after this
in new zealand, our evil government are trying to legislate definitions of women and men, in ways that are legally incoherent but clearly trying to pave the way for more horrifically transphobic legislation. we have an election in a few months but our main opposition party, and all our mainstream news media, are so spineless and cooked that there's a good chance the ghouls will win reelection.
it took 2 whole months for local terf group 'speak up for women' to get 2,000 signatures on the petition that led to this new bill in our parliament.
it's taken five days for this pro-trans 'they don't speak for us' petition to get 17,000 signatures.
this is a show of support that is really heartening for a lot of trans people in our corner of the world.
cis/ish women, if you're from here but haven't signed yet, please do. and if you're not from here and you know any new zealanders, could you send them this petition? a full fifth of our population lives overseas, and there's a good chance they don't follow the news.
when i was a tiny baby queer (aka a 24-year-old), i went to my first pride festival probably three months after i kicked ex-gay therapy to the curb and came out to my parents. being the people they are, my parents came with me. they weren’t really sure about this whole gay thing, but they loved me and wanted me to be safe and happy and wanted to be involved in what was important to me, so they came along. (i also think my mother still might have thought i might get drugged or murdered or beaten by a protester of which there were plenty.)
anyway i wanted a memento of my first pride, you know, and this one vendor was selling keyrings, and i liked it, so i bought one. do you remember those italian charm bracelets that were all the rage like 10-15 years ago? it was a keychain like that, and it had a rainbow rooster, a rainbow cat, and then just a rainbow, and so I bought it.
i run into my mom a couple of vendors over and she goes oh you bought something? what’d you get? so i showed her, and i was like, “I’m not sure why it’s a rooster and a cat. Seems kind of random. But I liked the rainbows.”
and my mom, who was some form of minister’s wife for most of my childhood and teenagerhood, stares at me like she thinks i’m joking.
“What?” i say.
“…it’s a cock and a pussy, Jules,” she says flatly, and that is the story of how i died at the age of 24 while attending my first pride festival.
do you think bowser ever gets anxious after kidnapping peach again that he went too far this time and he calls mario up in the middle of the night to make sure they’re still on for tennis and gokarting next weekend
painstakingly dialing mario’s landline on a comically small telephone only for luigi to pick up instead and he has to ask him to put his brother on the phone. not that luigi isn’t part of weekend plans, but like this is really more of a mario & bowser situation and it’d be rude to drag his brother into it if there’s a problem. so anyway then luigi puts the receiver down to go get his brother and bowser sits there tapping his claws on his table and this is agony, actually, he shouldn’t have called at all, it’s late enough at his castle so it has to be even later over in the mushroom kingdom. but just as he’s about to put the phone down, mario answers all chipper—mario mario speaking, who’s-a calling? which is a ridiculous question because there’s no way luigi didn’t already tell him.—and bowser has to ask him. look, mario, i know i dangled peach in a bird cage over a pit of lava the other day, and when you showed up, i let my son throw giant flaming hammers at you, and there’s no hard feelings about that, right? and there’s a few seconds of silence before mario laughs and reassures him it’s all in the day’s work of a plumber, an explanation bowser has never thought to really question since he only knows two plumbers and it does all seem pretty in their wheelhouse. and then he’s embarrassed for worrying so much so he tries to end the call quickly, but mario just ribs him about how badly he’s going to lose the next race, and then he starts asking bowser how junior is, and does bowser want any of the leftovers since he and luigi really do cook way too much for two, be a shame to let it go to waste. and by the time bowser manages to hang up, this has gone from leftovers into him and junior and the koopalings all being invited over to the mario household for dinner, so long as they don’t park their airship on the front lawn and leave the cannons at home.
why is it that ppl hear "fetish" and immediately think "devoid of morals" like ur genuinely not making sense. ppl dont actually become inhuman and beast-like when theyre turned on, thats something we are told bc it aligns with christian patriarcal values, u know that right? desire isnt actually bad. it doesnt make you evil, or incapable of having/respecting boundaries
i got a response to this abt how men get horny and "lose their minds" and "causes" them to behave vile. i rlly rlly neeeeed ppl to understand that men behaving inappropriately when turned on is something they are *choosing* to do, and when you equate that to human nature you are enabling them and diminishing the seriousness of that choice
I don’t know if this is an obvious take or a hot take, but I think people need to start re-framing feminism as the fight for body autonomy as opposed to whatever this second wave revival gender essentialist bullshit we have going on right now. Once you reframe it in this way, it’s easier to understand intersectionality and why cis women are not the only people who need feminism. The lack of body autonomy effects cis women, trans people, intersex people, disabled people, poc, homeless people, sex workers, etc. and your feminism needs to include and prioritise all of these groups of people (which will include men btw) because feminism is about autonomy, not about establishing a matriarchy. Body autonomy is the biggest threat to the patriarchy, both with reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and even the right to not be drafted into military services. Once body autonomy is established for everyone, the patriarchy no longer has a leg to stand on.
And body autonomy does include things that you don’t personally like either. I was prompted to write this post after a series of bad takes from progressives, but one of them was re-hashing the Sabrina Carpenter album cover drama with “I don’t think it’s conservative of me to think that the album cover is a bad look when we’ve seen images of women being abused in this way” because I do actually think you’ve failed to understand feminism by projecting your morals onto a woman who was consensually expressing her own autonomy just because she expressed it in a way that you didn’t like or that made you uncomfortable.
Body autonomy also means unhealthy choices. Body autonomy also means regret rates. Body autonomy also means freedom of sexuality. Body autonomy also means mutilation. If you believe body autonomy has limitations and exceptions, then your feminism is most likely surface level.
TERFs are some of the biggest opponents to body autonomy, and if you find yourself thinking “oh people can do whatever they want with their bodies as long as it doesn’t harm them or make others uncomfortable” then you are far more susceptible to TERF propaganda than you think.
To use just example, the draft is antifeminist and unethical NOT because it denies the extremely true fact that women are just as strong as men, but because it is antifeminist and unethical to force someone else to risk their life or die period, much less for the military goals of the state*
*Major military goals of the state, historically and currently, include imperialism, self-enrichment, stealing oil, forcible extraction of resources, forcible acquisition of territory, inflating Donald Trump's ego, etc. etc. (with some variation depending on the particular state). All of these either
Note: I'm using state here in an international political context, meaning "a politically organized body of people usually occupying a definite territory; especially: one that is sovereign," (source: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, state, entry 5a)
And of course, the military goals of the state extremely predictable endanger and kill the most vulnerable people among us - and women are one of the most legally vulnerable classes on the planet.
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Feminism is for everyone who needs bodily autonomy - which is everyone!!!!!
Bodily autonomy is life or death, directly or indirectly, in a thousand different ways - as a hell of a lot of women, trans people, and/or disabled people can all absolutely attest
This includes all people who fall into any legal classification of "woman," including but not limited to: cis women; trans women; nonbinary people whose identities or experiences intersect with womanhood in a great many different ways, especially trans femmes; anyone with an F on any government documents currently; anyone with an F on any current or outdated government documents that the government still has official record of*
*Look, forget about tumblr trans discourse for a moment. Conservative assholes and authoritarian governments and alt-right politicians are persecuting people based on what they think that person's gender ""actually is""/""should be.""
And they are persecuting people on that basis using three main types of documents: People's birth certificates, people's applications for a change of gender marker, and, if relevant, people's immigration documents. (That last middle one applies to multiple types of documents, but especially to a person's passport, driver's license, and birth certificate.) That is how Kansas invalidating trans people's driver's license en masse: application/approval records for a change of gender marker on a person's driver's license
Being a woman, being TMA/having to deal with transmisogyny, having an F on your birth certificate, and having an F on any of your current identity documents all make people legally disadvantaged and politically vulnerable in distinct but highly overlapping ways
And then we circle back around to one of feminism's biggest, longest fights, and another major point of legally and material vulnerablility: Anyone who can be forcibly impregnated, forced to bear children, or forced to give birth.
Even without any government involvment, those are material conditions that can make you physically In the last of those cases, one example of the dire stakes when it comes to bodily autonomy, feminism, reproductive rights, and women's rights is the horrific story of Adrianna Smith, a young Black woman who was declared brain dead following racist medical neglect in February 2025 - while pregnant.
Thanks to Trump's hand-appointed judges destroying abortion rights and overturning Roe v. Wade, the Georgia legal system forcibly kept on life support for over 4 months without the input or consent of her family, until the fetus she carried was born. At which point, the US and Georgia stuck her family with all of the enormous medical bills for 4 months of intensive life support, high-risk pregnancy, high-risk delivery, an emergency C-section, and at least another 8 months of NICU support - to start!! All under United States health care price regimes!!!!!!! For a fetus that was frankly highly unlikely to be born alive, and ultimately delivered prematurely via emergency C-section weighing less than 2 pounds (0.9 kilograms), who was "clinging to life in the NICU" for 8 months, before his grandmother brought him home while still on oxygen, as of the latest update I found (March 5, 2026). His family asks for continuing prayers for his life and health.
The infant, named Chance, was born Friday, June 13, around 4:41 a.m. by emergency Cesarean section.
Oh and then Chance's father was forced to sue his dead wife for custody of his own son in order to avoid the state of Georgia dumping Chance in foster care while he's literally not even off oxygen yet.
Adrianna Smith's family has created a fundraiser to cover medical, legal, childcare expenses, which you can donate to
Link to the official fundaraiser is sourced from the news article with the latest update from her family (March 2026):
This journey has been deeply saddening and heartbreaking since F… April Newkirk needs your support for Help Adriana's Family During This Hea
So, for all the reasons state above and more:
Without bodily autonomy, there can be no true women's liberation
And so bodily autonomy must be a core pillar of feminism
Or, put another way (I am paraphrasing someone but for the life of me I can't remember who, and it was a tumblr post, sooo it's not like a search engine will help me find it. but pls drop the link if you know the post I'm talking about):
If you don't own yourself completely, you own nothing at all. All other freedoms can be traced back to that.
Traditional weather forecasting models are physics-based and rely on supercomputers. AI-based models base their predictions on past weather instead, giving them faster run-times–and some serious blind spots. (Image credit: B. McGowan; research credit: Y. Sun et al.; see also S. Nath and T. Palmer; via Gizmodo)
real talk, i saw this other vid 7 years ago where a trainer like this lady gave some of the most important physical health advice I ever heard that changed my life:
#1. You should be able to lay down on the floor (face down or back) and be able to get up without your hands. If you can't? Spend a little bit every day just doing that, laying on the floor and getting up again no hands style, then laying down again (you'd be surprised how fast it wears you out after a few times)
#2. You should be able to get up out of a chair without using your hands or grabbing on to anything. Can't? Fucking start training mother fucker! Just a few uppies every day could save your damn life when you get older!
#3. You should be able to turn your neck to the side without twisting your upper body in the same direction, you should be able to turn your head freely without moving your shoulders, chest or torso! Start looking up loosy goosy neck exercises! It makes such a HUGE difference!
#4. You should be able to motherfucking stand on one foot and keep your balance for longer then 15 seconds. Haha sounds easy right? Thats what I thought when I tried after watching that vid, i was horrified to find how hard it was! I started doing "one leggy style" standing any chance I got, when I'm in line somewhere, when I'm watching a video... just do a few rounds of 10 seconds on each leg for like 5 min every day!
You get older and you think you still have all the same limberness as you did when you were 8, but whens the last fucking time you ran around and played like an 8 year old? You loose that flexibility so subtlety and then one day when you need it? BAM ITS GONE
Start getting into these habits now, i don't care if you're 18/25/30/45/50 OR WHATEVER JUST START YOU WON'T REGRET IT!
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
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