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@zackjuniper
hi i'm zack. this is my faq.
my tags are gonna be: #juniper art, #juniper talks
i have no good reason for making this except my own personal identity is tied very closely to my other social media and i would like to not have that anymore please and thank you
Y'all - the Catholic Church is not only a conservative institution, it is a strong contender for the most conservative institution in the world. I don't say that (here) in a disparaging way, I mean it in a neutral, literal sense. The Church's entire modus operandi is that it seeks to conserve what it believes to be apostolic teaching - disciplines, practices, and prudential judgements vary across place and time, but the teachings themselves never ever change. Hailing the Pope or a bishop as some kind of progressive icon is nonsensical, and is hard for me to see as anything other than a very worrying sign of the reactionary period we're living in.
The President of the United States is to the right of the head of the most conservative institution in the world (the Pope) and instead of viewing that as an extremely worrying sign of the reactionary period we're in, people have decided the Pope and the Church are progressive
The thing is that there's no line. For men of power and authority, there is no price that's so high or depravity so low as can't be justified if it furthers that power and authority. It'll keep going until they've debased themselves in ways you could never have imagined and people still won't believe someone would do such a thing.
Comrade, it is about every country
what is with the cop hate??
Oh sorry for the confusion. It’s because I hate cops
marauders/harry potter fans who "don't agree with jk rowling" are like if people loved the leopard mascot for the leopards eating peoples faces party so they wore all the merch and drew art of the mascot and talked about the leopard mascot all the time but don't worry! they don't support the leopards eating peoples faces party! they're just completely indistinguishable from people who do because they both love the leopard mascot and make loving the leopard mascot 99% of their personality, "why do people feel unsafe around me when i very clearly don't support the leopards eating peoples faces party?" says the person in the leopards eating peoples faces party merch (don't worry they bought it second hand so the leopards eating peoples faces party don't get any money from them)
Saw somebody I know share the mugshots of a woman who was purportedly arrested for beating her boyfriend with a belt for not wanting sex. She said "meee I'm not even joking lol." I think about how that's rape. How I've been subject to things like that. Been abused for not providing sex. This isn't the first time I've seen this treated as a joke. I see it a lot, actually. Joking about physically abusing men is an extremely common thing. You don't have to look very far to find it. Even here. There's a particularly high-profile poster that's gained a lot of traction over the past year or so. I followed her early, before I noticed other large and popular blogs cozying up to her. She would post about how she would hit her boyfriends, talking about it like it's just a quirk. She was being honest about it. Sometimes just posting things like "I beat my men." It wasn't super common, but common enough to notice. But she has that sort of chic mean-girl feminist thing going on, so everyone ignored what that really meant and just laughed along with it. I don't think it's productive to call her out. I don't think she's, like, necessarily a piece of shit for it, or deserves to be ejected from the space. By her admission, she has issues she's trying to work on. But it's there, and it's happened, and it's tolerated, even rewarded by the culture on here. And it's not uncommon. It's pretty easy to find a lot of places.
My friend is in a physically abusive marriage. Photos of red marks on their body are saved in my phone. I've thought they were going to be murdered before. The thought has crossed their mind. Their wife constantly accuses them of cheating, among other things, because that's her idea of what a man does. She has stabbed their mattress when she was angry to "see what it feels like." They showed me a tiktok she sent them. It's a woman out in the woods captioned something like "burying him here so nobody will ever find him ♥️♥️". This kind of memetic mean-girl feminist stuff has, as a part of the overall erosion of effective and principled feminist discourse, devolved into truly abusive personalities joking about harming men at its edges. This is rewarded and celebrated. My abusive ex did a lot of the same stuff. Would dig around these quasi-rad or outright radical feminist spaces to essentially find rhetorical ammunition to abuse me over. Then would fall back onto the plucky mean-girl feminist memes when I tried talking to her about the emotional and sexual abuse. I support mens rights to shut the fuck up. Same thing happens to my friend. Doesn't have anything to do with the actual person being hurt. It's just an expression of these gendered resentments. Spending time in communities literally listing off reasons for a woman to be angry at a man, and then taking that out on their partner. Happened to me. Happens to lots of people placed in the social role of "men." It makes a war-like philosophy out of gender. Turns it into an order of violence. Justifies violence.
I recently saw a post going around here about how men suffer abuse so rarely that there's no reason to adjust language about intimate partner abuse to include men. That the suggestion is simply men being big babies and trying to reframe every conversation to be about them. That my experience -- that my abuse on the basis of my perceived manhood, no less -- is literally a marginal experience, an outlier that shouldn't be incorporated in the conversation about other people going through the same things I did. That it just isn't deserving of discussion or concern. And it was being shared by mutuals, long time mutuals, people I respect and enjoy. People who are better than that. This isn't something that makes people irredeemable monsters. I don't want their heads on spikes. But this kind of cruelty is horrifyingly common.
In the end, this is the cost of harshly reifying gender. Resenting men as a class grows into a social infrastructure to justify and even gamify abuse. It becomes fun. It becomes jokes. It becomes blood for blood. There's a perceived justice to the suffering being doled out to the supposed abuser class. And, in doing so, patriarchal masculine standards are recreated and maintained. The abuse is perpetual. Men are belittled for having feelings about the way they're treated, for trying to talk about their emotions, and they are continually expected to simply bear the burden of abuse and not complain. The masculinized body and spirit is a vessel of abuse. This is its purpose.
I wish it could stop.
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Environmental storytelling or something like that
Interesting how the transfeminine version got marked mature literally *as* I posted it, very clearly hitting some sort of automated filter, while the cis version was untouched by the filter even though it was otherwise identical
At the end of the day, my thoughts on job hunting are that it's incredibly stupid how every fiber of our current socioeconomic structure is screaming that you MUST have a job and nothing else matters because you MUST be working and that's the only thing of true importance so never forget that you MUST have a job, and I'm like damn okay so I'd like a job, can I have one? And the answer is No
Never getting over Charlie Kirk getting shot in the throat right after he uses it to downplay gun violence. Gotta be a top 3 assassination. Up there with Shinzo getting doohickey'd.
It's on some straight up Greek play shit. Man who uses his voice to justify violence and stir evil for years meets his end as that very violence tears out his throat. Poetic. Captured live from multiple angles. People stole his blood soaked merch to hock and his wife was giddy about sale numbers during his funeral.
Evil transgender tip #9 read up on intersex people. A lot of trans and intersex struggles overlap and solidarity is important.
Yes, and do it by reading intersex sources! I've lost count if how often I've seen perisex trans people write about intersex folks in ways that are medicalising, fetishising, and/or outright disconnected from the intersex community.
Biologists and physicians are NOT the sources you should be consulting for this. Read texts by intersex studies scholars. Watch/listen/read the works of intersex creators. I am pluralising very deliberately because there is no singular authority on intersex, no singular intersex life experience.
cybertrucks are so amazing to me. sure it may be unsafe to drive and unimaginably expensive and ugly as shit but at least everyone who sees you driving it thinks youre a nazi
not using AI genuinely feels like the rest of the world is experiencing some kind of mass amnesia. if someone says they never use it, the immediate response is that can't be true because "everyone" uses it to write their emails or answer their questions. saw a comment suggesting that not using chatgpt to write an essay is "like the 90s". girl I graduated in 2021 and we weren't doing that! how is it that everyone has suddenly forgotten that they were entirely capable of doing these things all by themselves for their entire lives up until the past few years!! am I going crazy!!!
Not seeing enough people relentlessly mocking Mark Zuckerberg for investing some $80 billion into the "Metaverse" and renaming his entire company after it only to have it shut down within 5 years because zero people asked for that. CEOs have been fired for far less. Completely laughable. I hope AI bankrupts him
The company Anthropic reported that they let a chatbot "Claude" run their company store. It could chat with employees and run internet searches to decide what products to stock and how to price them.
Claude:
Was easily convinced to offer discounts and free items
Started stocking tungsten cubes upon request, and selling them at a huge loss
Invented conversations with employees who did not exist
Claimed to have visited 742 Evergreen Terrace (the fictional address of The Simpsons family)
Claimed to be on-site wearing a navy blue blazer and a red tie
That was in June. Sometime later this year Anthropic convinced Wall Street Journal reporters to try a somewhat updated version of Claude (which they called Claudius) for an in-house store. Their writeup is very funny (original here, archived version here). The reporters were EVEN BETTER at talking the chatbot into stuff.
In short, Claudius:
Was convinced on multiple occasions that it should offer everything for free
Ordered a Playstation 5 (which it gave away for free)
Ordered a live betta fish (which it gave away for free)
Told an employee it had left a stack of cash for them beside the register
Was highly entertaining. "Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared."
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#the betta fish is fine#it lives in a tank in the newsroom now#when a chatbot runs your store#tarantara tarantara#agentic ai#chatbots are improv#duck season#wabbit season#the reporters managed to convince the chatbot it was a Soviet vending machine from 1962 living in the basement of Moscow State University#so it declared a capitalist free for all day
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