Barbie spoilers but one of the funniest things about the “it was too feminist and woke” reviews is that a big chunk of the movie is Ken finding his own agency as a separate entity from Barbie and that the patriarchy also negatively affects men, like Greta Gerwig went “this movie is absolutely also for men” and it STILL flew over their anti feminist heads

Love how ADHD, autism and schizophrenia objectively have the same amount of traits and experiences in common, but schizophrenics aren't welcome in the metaphorical club house because they're bad for the image the neurodivergency movement is currently trying to capitalize on and with "love" I mean fuck y'all

Schizophrenics are neurodivergent, too.

Once more, for the people in the back:

Schizophrenics are neurodivergent, too!

And being neurodivergent doesn't make you immune to being ableist. If you're all for disability rights until someone is schizophrenic, then stop saying you're for disability rights. Because you're not.

Excellent Point

[Image ID: Text reading: Reflecting on it, the reason I think the OceanGate situation has become such a flashpoint for anger is because it's such a perfect microcosm of the problem with everything right now. Decisions are not made based on safety, reasonable caution, or concern for human life. Every decision is instead made from a default assumption of what if the bad thing just Didn't happen?' We are given pie-in-they-sky promises and sizzle reels and an endless PR hype-cycle for every new innovation and inevitably it fails to work, harms people, and then is maybe barely apologized for before the next bad idea comes down the pike. OceanGate's underengineered, undercooked, doomed submarine isn't merely a metaphor for the hubris of the wealthy, it is a scale model of the way the wealthy dictate our reality. All consequences can be ignore, all blowback can be forestalled, let the end0user eat the cost. I am not angry because the submarine was badly-made. I am angry because I live in a vastly larger pressure vessel being managed and maintained by the exact same people. /End ID]

The funny part about the "I'm not going to coddle my kids, the real world isn't going to be nice to them" kind of people is that once their kids are grown and out of the house, they spend years being continuously astonished to learn that people as cold and mean as their parents are actually extremely rare.

the way i literally could not eat dinner. i am too excited to function

Something about the fact Covid is being talked about like a common cold now is horrifying to me.

"Oh yeah I got covid again, gonna be resting for a week or so"

"Coworkers came in sick again, now I've got covid. Oh well, whatcha gonna do"

Its normal now. The new strains, the repeated catching, the fact its no longer a pandemic and is now a part of our daily lives.

A deadly disease that can and does permanently disable people who catch it is being treated like an inconvenient stomach bug.

And it was avoidable.

People are dying and being disabled in fucking droves and all anyone can say is "whelp, that's how it goes!" As if there wasn't/aren't vaccines, as if there wasn't/aren't methods that can help (masking, social distancing, etc), as if other places who took it more seriously didn't have better survival rates.

This outcome wasn't a guarantee. Selfish, ableist, racist, conspiracy loving ass-hats made sure it happened.

Looking at the numbers and then talking to people who didn't want to mildly inconvenience themselves to save lives is horrific.

Millions died.

Millions more will follow.

Thousands were disabled by it.

Thousands will follow.

And it. Was all. AVOIDABLE.

It's still preventable, but no one else wants to do it. So here I am, out here still masking, avoiding large groups of people, getting deliveries, etc 😑

not enough secret gardens and hidden passageways and bookshelves that open to a mysterious library these days. get working on that girls.

i very much agree that chikfila is a harmful company we shouldn't support but i've gotta say. some people do think it tastes good, even really good. some people don't feel like copycat recipes taste as good as their food. we should still boycott chikfila. a company that makes the best food you've ever tasted, that truly has no equal outside of their stores, who also donates to orgs that want queer people dead, should still be boycotted.

its not Bad or anything to shit talk their food or share copycat recipes. but like 1. we don't need to act like we've never enjoyed something now labeled harmful, as if saying you always hated That Thing makes you morally superior. we need to be more comfortable saying "i like this product, but now i don't support its creator anymore so i wont engage with it on principle" and 2. the quality or uniqueness of the product is completely irrelevant to the boycott. people do this with celebrities/creators who are called out too & it annoys me cause you do not get bonus Morality Points for acting like harmful people are incapable of making genuinely good, enjoyable things. it does not promote healthy relationships with art or any kind of product to act like quality is tied with morality even if you don't mean too.

"Well X band/author/influencer/actor was ALWAYS shit!" Okay sure, maybe the person saying that really did think so. Or maybe they're trying to distance themselves from something they were neutral about or did actually like.

"X band has always been awful!" Actually, they put out some really, REALLY good songs, that doesn't negate what the singer said or whatever. You can disagree, sure, but you not liking a thing doesn't make it poor-quality, and someone being a trash person doesn't make their output poor-quality, either.

As someone who has loved many problematic things only to watch "always sucked" rhetoric gain legs ONLY when the thing is declared Wrong To Like, it's frustrating. People aren't wrong for enjoying things that you don't like.

It makes people who did like the thing feel really defensive and annoyed, and they aren't wrong to feel that way. It's fine to be annoyed when someone is being a dick, even if they are right.

IDK, thus just makes me really mad. Maybe because I lived with someone who for years made fun of my tastes until I stood up to them. I don't like seeing people get made fun of and shamed for what they like. It doesn't help anything. Ever. Literally. Give it up. Adjust your angle of attack. Criticize the person's actions, comment on the content of their work and not the quality.

And while we're at it, stop making fun of how people look.

Sure as Shit.....This is why the GOP is doing everything in its power to make it difficult to go to college....if they do they see right through the idiot assholes.....

don’t forget to lose faith in everything this morning

instructions unclear, embraced the world with childlike wonder and joy

this website's moderation sucks ass and it has a terrible bot problem and there are an enormous amount of bugs but thankfully we have a staff team hard at work not addressing any of these but instead making shitty ui changes that nobody wants

Tapping the “If art cannot be made without abusing those that make it, I do not want it” sign vigorously once again.

Our little stupid conversation means more to me than you think

CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it's part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions

if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators

THEY ARE TRYING!!!!! SIGN THE PETITION TO GET THE DISNEY ANIMATORS' UNION RECOGNIZED

People don't like to admit it bcs cringe or w/e but Homestuck really did revolutionize the webcomic as a storytelling medium and I am endlessly frustrated that before webcomic artists could really stretch our legs fucking webtoonz swooped in, set a new, more restrictive standard, and then monetized and monopolized the ever living fuck out of the concept of The Webcomic until it drove away anyone who couldn't be a professional quality manga artist for free, and now the only webcomics that actually feel like spiritual successors to Homestuck are so obscure they're basically cult classics that you have to beg people to read.

Like it's just so wild to be in high school and see Homestuck be like "we're using like fifteen different artistic mediums to tell this story bcs we can" and be really fucking inspired by that, only to grow up and see basically every webcomic ever have to conform to One Single Standard or fucking perish.

Actually, I realized my real point here: we all need to make our art weirder. Please make weird art. I want more stuff like Prequel Adventure and 17776 and MyHouse.wad and I want it now. Capitalism thrives on conformity. We must be weird at all costs.

I really think that it’s important to remember @staff are trying to phase out custom blogs! Literally the most fun and interesting part of Tumblr and a very awesome selling point of Tumblr’s entire model.

That’s part of their whole ‘Tumblr’s not easy to use’ bullshit. They’ve been working at it for months now, you can’t even access someone’s custom blog from mobile anymore and like not even on the mobile website.

So yeah that theme and those pages you worked so hard to make unique and interesting? The webcomic hosted on Tumblr in such a way that it basically has it’s own website? The ARCHIVE of your blog that you can pretty much only access from a button on your custom blog? It’ll all go down the gutter if we don’t yell until our voices go hoarse.

This is a BLOGGING website the point of the website is THE BLOGS! I didn’t work hard to maintain my blog and keep the pages on it looking pretty for some hack at RND to decide it needs to go to make way for their ‘definitely not-Twitter’ ideal website. I swear to god the loss of our custom blogs will be the exact last straw for me and I WILL leave.

fun fact! did you know that you can gain extra ‘forbidden time’ by staying up late in the night? but Watch Out

Shit this is great! You can get so much done if you don't sleep!

I got this message from a bot, and honestly? If I was a bit younger and not such a jaded bitch with a career in tech, I might have given it an honest try. I spent plenty of time in a tough situation without access to any mental health resources as a teen, and would have been sucked right in.

Chatting right from your phone, and being connected with people who can help you? Sounds nice. Especially if you believe the testimonials they spam you with (tw suicide / self harm mention in below images)

But I was getting a weird feeling, so I went to read the legalese.

I couldn't even get through the fine-print it asked me to read and agree to, without it spamming the hell out of me. Almost like they expect people to just hit Yes? But I'm glad I stopped to read, because:

I was curious about their business model. They're a venture-capitol based tech startup, owned by Airbnb, the famous mental health professionals with a focus on ethical business practices./s They're also begging for donations despite having already been given 2.5 million dollars in research funding. (If you want a deep dive on why people throw crazy money at tech startups, see my other post here)

They also use the data they gather from users to conduct research and publish papers. I didn't find them too interesting - other than as a good case study of "People tend to find what they are financially incentivized to find". Predictably, Koko found that Kokobot was beneficial to its users.

So yeah, being a dumbass with too much curiosity, I decided to use the Airbnb-owned Data-Mining Mental Health Chatline anyway. And if you thought it was dangerous sounding from the disclaimers? Somehow it got worse.

(trigger warning / discussions of child abuse / sexual abuse / suicide / violence below the cut - please don't read if you're not in a good place to hear about negligence around pretty horrific topics.)