she wears short skirts i have feelers she’s cheer captain and i am a creature

Cat rave

We need to bring back antiwar shit I'm so sick of it. When did antiwar fall out of the leftie sphere. We never stopped being at war everybody just kinda forgot it's a bad thing for everyone

There will be self proclaimed leftists on here wholeheartedly agreeing that we should blow up all the russians or whatever and it's so, like. What if everyone just stopped blowing people up actually what if we tried for a moment of goddamn peace in this world. Do you honestly think you can end all of this by just Killing The Bad Guys?? You're as propaganda-rotted as anyone

Also those people who think being anti-military means just fucking hating veterans with 0 nuance. Leftism leaving people's bodies when you tell them not to be ableist to vets. Etc etc

DUUUUUUDE! Get it South Korea!

That's the article directly. Please give it a read.

If South Korean actors and writers strike against Netflix, Netflix would be COMPLETELY fucked.

If this spreads to animators it would halt the entire anime industry and severely affect the Korean and Japanese economies.

So let's get this ball rolling and fix some wage theft.

The Susan 128 Experience.

Excellent news, it's technically probably possible to beat the first level of Susan Taxpayer with 128 Susans at once!

Yeah so since it's SMBX2 the supermario128 cheatcode works just fine in Susan Taxpayer meaning you can do this, can't pretend this was my discovery or anything (imperfect-cherry-blossom pointed it out this morning) but it's fun to mess around with

What I didn't realize after playing with this was that it'd carry over into other levels and the hub world so when 127 Susans split from the first after I entered the hub, I decided to see if I could beat the first real level with them. Verdict: Probably?

The first challenge is that for whatever reason, at least when I was doing this, only one Susan could Briefcase Bash or Ground Pound. I dubbed her Alpha Susan, and she's the most important player on the field at all times. Do NOT let Alpha Susan die, otherwise your mission is impossible.

Alpha Susan basically needs to stay at the front of the party at all times which is easier said than done. Briefcase Bashing at the beginning can help at least for the first section which is important since the stage starts off with a wall of papers only Alpha Susan can destroy. The enemies aren't so bad as long as you keep track of where Alpha Susan is so she doesn't die.

The first real challenge is the papers you need to roll into because all the other Susans are guaranteed to get in your way. Thankfully, since this is built on SMBX2, you can do that cool Mario glitch where crouching under a 1-block tall ceiling will push you out the opposite direction of where you're facing, and Alpha Susan can at least destroy the first stack of paper with a Briefcase Bash. Once Alpha Susan gets pushed through, the problem becomes all the other Susans.

See, the camera won't only follow Alpha Susan, it follows ALL the Susans as a collective mass and any Susans that try to leave those boundaries teleport a bit closer to the group. So basically, you end up having to slowly push a group of Susans through the wall until any Susans that got stuck behind the last few obstacles get teleported back into your group. A feat that took me maybe 6 minutes to do because the camera REALLY tries to fight Alpha Susan.

Getting past that obstacle gets you to the donut and you really just have to hope Alpha Susan gets it, in my case she didn't and I have no idea which one of them did. Alpha Susan immediately died after that, which made the level impossible but I kept pressing onwards anyway.

The next biggest task is opening a door.

This door, to be specific. The Susans can handle the rest of this room pretty easy since they all push each other up but that works to their detriment in the end of the room since they need to go down to progress and the camera, as I said before, will respawn any that try to leave the group. This probably took me longer to get through than the rolling obstacle to be honest, it required me to push a third of the Susans behind the wall separating the previous obstacle from this door and then hoping they would keep the camera low enough to let a Susan get through the door.

The next room had no problem until I reached a wall of papers that none of the Susans could destroy without the Alpha Susan who died several rooms ago. The Susans DID manage to push themselves into the hidden door you use to escape during Crunch Time but unfortunately there's a floor blocking their path so they all just get bunched up into a corner.

This is right when I got stuck (and also apparently when I took the only screenshot of the attempt) and I didn't want to fight the Susan Horde to get past that one door again so I called it quits and ruled that this is probably possible for someone more persistent than me.

Rest in Peace Alpha Susan you did not deserve death by potted plant.

UPDATE: the funnel.

Update again: The Susans got through the funnel after literally an hour of button mashing.

Getting through the barrier to Crunch Time was a bit annoying but really not too hard, especially since the game lags enough that the timer slows down.

The problem is that you need to go down to get through the door.

Whatever strategy you went into for the first time? Won't work here. There are just too many to fit down into the hole.

You will need to kill some Susans.

Which is much easier said than done because enemies really don't stand much of a chance of actually killing many Susans when there's so many in the air that can accidentally stomp on them.

oh my god.

I am determined to complete this level but killing Susans is a hard task both emotionally and in practice.

"Amerikkka runs on genocide"

Sticker seen in Chicago

By 2030, 90% of "funny boys who are good at posting" will have transitioned into women

This has basically already happened on Tumblr I mean what was the last time you saw a 2010s "funnyman". They've all left the site or transitioned

Don't worry Ryan I said you have to be good at posting

I NEED TO LOOK MORE FEM SO I CAN LOOK MORE MASC

HUH?

I NEED TO LOOK MORE FEM SO I CAN LOOK MORE MASC

no this is literally what im talking abt

some dipshit uploaded my book to an AI site, so suffice to say, I will fucking kill them

emailed my agent cuz our contract states she has to protect me from shit like this, so we'll see what she says

but I will still kill these ppl

LMFAO THE SITE IS BEING TAKEN DOWN

hey so, just so there's no ambiguity about what just happened-- this was about Prosecraft, a website that would help you compare your writing to your favorite author by analyzing the "vividness" of the words used, passive voice vs active voice and the number of adverbs used in a given section.

unfortunately, the service is dogshit for various reasons but that's not the issue here.

the issue is that the website had trained an AI on 25,000 books, one of which included mine. and i definitely did not give anyone permission to use my work to train an AI. it's literally stated in my contract.

and if i didn't give permission--i can imagine quite a number of authors didn't give permission either. (oops, i don't have to imagine--because hundreds of authors came forward and said they didn't give permission either!)

so i emailed my agent about this. my agent directed me to my publisher which has a legal department that looks into piracy on this scale. all of those authors did the same, emailing their legal team, getting The Authors Guild involved.

EVERY AUTHOR pretty much roasting this guy named Benji Smith on Twitter for claiming to "support authors" yet clearly using pirated work to train an AI.

of course, he decided to take the website down. authors are now talking about getting AI protection clauses in their contracts going forward. i already have one with my agent, but I imagine I will have to get it instated into every publishing contract moving forward.

source: it happened to me lol (but if you don't believe me, here's a link)

kitten

man. what on earth.

ok i flipped it. sorry

i wish we could go back to she/her being the default assumption for trans womens pronouns. yes it sucks to not be referred to the way we like, but hey, at least if were getting called "she" then they see us as a woman instead of trying to pretend they dont with "they"

remembering when people got into an argument with me and referred to me as "they" when my bio included "she/him/it". you had EVERY other fucking option. couldnt even misgender or dehumanise me like a man

undersea animals when a whale dies

Luv how terfs frame transition as a lifelong medical burden when I literally spend all of 10 minutes every 2 weeks doing my testosterone shot, and sometimes at night when I am a bit itchy Down There, I take 2 minutes to apply A Cream.

If anything, the regular bloodwork and checkins with my healthcare provider have done wonders for my overall wellness and transition has indirectly helped me stay on top of (and even diagnose) congenital and hereditary issues I struggled with before finding a trans-friendly GP.

I am 46 and 13 years on T; my wellness risk factors due to my HRT are pulled from an overlap of the venn diagram of menopausal cis women + middle-aged cis men. It's a little unusual, but not difficult to navigate.

Nothing in that wedge is really extraordinary; "eat well, sleep well, be mindful of stress, stay active, report anything strange asap" remains the overwhelming defacto medical advice for both cis medical cohorts, and as such, to me, and the tradeoffs I made when starting testosterone are pretty medically mundane.

Like. When I started T, my endo literally "warned" me that my heart health risks would be closer to that of a cis man and I responded, "ok, they manage, I am sure I can, too."

Terfs want folks to think that being trans has Huge Consequences on every aspect of your health, but I have had so many experiences where it is non-issue. My dentist doesn't care, nor does my optometrist. The ortho treating my sprained ankle and torn rotator cuff didn't care, nor did my physical therapist. The x-ray tech gives me the 1-size-fits-all body shield. The tech giving me my covid booster asked if I was pregnant or breastfeeding, but those are questions she asks everyone these days. Hell, even my colonoscopy team didn't care when I was like, "hey, fyi, don't worry that you misplaced my dick or anything", joking back, "oh, we're not worried about That end."

So far, my HRT has only been something potentially Concerning in 2 places:

1) I take finesteride to combat my receding hairline and have to make sure it doesn't exacerbate my depression (a known side effect for cis folks, too). So far, it has not!

2) I have congenital heart issues, so I have started some maintenance meds for my heart rhythm a little on the early side, out of caution.

Can extraordinary problems arise from HRT? Sure, all meds have a risk, and a huge part of your treatment plan is mitigation and monitoring.

So really, what terfs are telling you is that men are icky and the ways in which they do so frequently throw women (especially those who are not thin, white, cis, young, and abled) under the bus as well. It's just absolute collateral damage concern trolling.

Honestly, the biggest danger I've found from being on HRT is running into healthcare providers who instantly think testosterone is to blame for any and all of my ills. So, I just use the magic words, "please indicate on my chart that you are refusing to investigate [x] as I requested" and that tends to change their tune.

Anyway, the whole point of terf rhetoric is to sow doubt and fear and my advice for those considering HRT is to talk to as many trans people as possible who are willing to share the pros and cons of their time on HRT. Then, you can have more productive conversations with your healthcare providers and decide (and regularly revisit) what is best for you.

Hi, I'm on T and I have chronic pelvic dysfunction

I was having this dysfunction since I was a child, it is not a result of T. It's entirely possible that T has exacerbated it, but the treatment for it is stuff in already doing (I've been in pelvic floor physical therapy since before I started T) (i cannot use estrogen cream please do not suggest it)

It makes me fucking angry that TERFs treat vaginal atrophy as a punishment for the sin of transitioning. Are they trying to make life better for people with atrophy? For cis women post-menopause? For intersex women? For women that have chronic pelvic pain? If they did, it would no longer be a moralistic consequence for straying from womanhood.

You can't bemoan the misogyny of the medical system and how poorly our bodies are understood and treated, that doctors don't take us or are pain seriously, and then also say "enjoy your vaginal atrophy lol"

I'm a cis intersex woman with vaginal atrophy from my natural hormones. I've taken oral estrogen for years and that made me insane and sick. I was on suppositories until I got an update that my precancerous cervix looks worse and I need biopsies in my cervix AND uterus. Because estrogen speeds up cancer growth, I've had to stop taking it in the last month and I'm in pain. I'm dry. I can't enjoy myself. And I'm constantly worried about cancer on top of it all.

Again: I am a cis woman with NCAH. I've never considered myself anything other than a woman or girl, aside from adding the adjective intersex. I've never taken testosterone. I want to, not to trans my gender, but because it can actually help people with NCAH if estrogen made them worse. Testosterone has also been shown in some studies in post menopausal women to help vaginal atrophy rather than make it worse.

TERFs hate trans people, this is known. But they're unironically more violently misogynistic than most cishet men on this planet. They uphold misogyny and anti woman violence and use it as a bludgeon against anyone they want. They are fascists to their very core. I've personally had more terfs say horrible shit to me or about my body than men and I'd swear on my fucking life that that is true.

amazing

you'll never guess what I found more of

MEN do NOT have a PELVIS that is just SCIENCE you GODLESS LIBERAL

more people should be reblogging this version, because I think it's terrible that men just sort of trail off down there

I am slowly losing my mind over the shift towards video as the default media format.

I do not find this to be an efficient way to absorb information. I am bored and distracted by the time the largely unnecessary introduction is over. I can't use ctrl+f to find the specific information I'm looking for. If there are instructions to follow, I don't want to have to constantly pause and back up to the part I need.

At least give me a fucking transcript.

I am hard of hearing and these fuckers can't even bother to caption their videos. I can't even get auto-generated captions on most of these sites, which is already bottom-of-the-barrel.

Or worse, they censor the captions but not their own speech. Just because we can't hear, that doesn't mean we have to be treated like goddamn children or pearl-clutching people who can't handle a fucking swear word. If it's said, it should be captioned. It should only be censored if the spoken part is censored.

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