Just so we're all on the same page with the writer's strike.
If during the strike, it's announced about AI generated shows. We are not watching them. Not even out of curiosity. Let them fail every AI generated show they try make.
The human voice can not be replaced by AI. Don't let them try.
i’m going to keep it real with you tumblr userbase… if we don’t want tumblr as we know it completely ruined you’re probably going to have to flood tumblr on the app store with 1-star reviews. we need to make their ANALYTICS hurt. we need to make management scared. we need to explain in those reviews exactly why we are mad. say what we don’t want changed (or do want changed back). i am so serious.
the tumblr app still currently sits at four stars, despite MASSIVE userbase and sitewide backlash to the current features and updates.
we need to change that.
If Tumblr goes through with the changes I will have to shut down the blog. I hope you all know that. Please help us get it through their thick skulls.
Things to include in your review since I’ve seen some people wondering in the reblogs:
why do you care so much about AMAB people when you're AFAB? fight your own fight
asks that were totally not sent by trolls trying to drive a wedge between trans people while also excluding intersex people from the conversation entirely.
do note that this will probably mean US phones will follow this standard as well, as manufacturing streams are much easier to maintain as streamlined as possible, and having two separate standards like this makes it more of an expensive hassle for a company
this is also known as the Brussels Effect, where a regulation in one part of the world (usually the EU) results in new global standards.
Let’s celebrate by keeping disabled people ALIVE and SAFE.
Want to know how you can help?
WEAR A MASK.
(FFP2/3 or N95 give best protection, especially the ones that fasten behind your head)
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I think we need to get serious about nuclear family abolition instead of the childfree meme culture of "we don't want your snot-nosed gremlins." I love kids. I love their joy, the insight of not yet being acclimated to capitalism and social norms. I had a certain naive wisdom as a kid, making crowns out of dandelions without knowing they were weeds. When my mom tried to explain gender reassignment surgery to me, expecting me to be repulsed, I instead blurted out "cool!".
But despite my love for children and sentimentality for my own childhood, I don't want to "have kids," as it's conventionally understood to mean, nor do most of my age peers. The expectation of children to be the property and sole responsibility of two parents (or as patriarchy would insist, one mother) is a cruel and unrealistic in any historical moment but especially the present. It is cruel, not just to people who don't want to be parents or shoehorned into heterosexual norms, but traumatic to the child. Surely we should know this better than anyone, and come up with a more mature response than just hating kids. There is a stark difference between this response and the queer legacy of mutual aid to support kids neglected by the nuclear family (the House Mothers of the ballroom community come to mind).
My issue with the childfree movement, as it exists online, is that it centers individual choice rather than a structural reevaluation of the family as we know it. We are told that queer life is purposeless and lonely, and that's without a genetic lineage we have no future. These arguments are in fact indictments of a system that has failed to produce collective visions of purpose, social fulfillment and futurity. None of us should be obligated to "have kids," nor tone down our culture or activism in their entirety to be "family friendly." But we should be driven by a desire to support those most disenfranchised by family norms instead of just hating them.
Prev tags: #i also incidentally think that #no criticism of the 'childfree' movement #is complete without acknowledging #the rampant misogyny in those circles
Seconding this because it's so true. I don't know where these people get off telling mothers or pregnant people "I'm not going to give you special treatment just because you let a man [sexual harassment]," or make fun of mothers for how hard it is to raise kids without adequate safety nets, parental leave, community support, or even their own husbands' support. They have a "sucks to suck" attitude towards parents almost similar to how pro forced birthers talk to pregnant people about the "consequences of sex." Legitimate feminist/queer critiques of the nuclear family are sympathetic to these struggles, and that to me is the difference between a political tendency and a meme.
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I hate the "nazi punks arent punk" and "punk is anti-authoritarian!" Which is like True but it largely overlaps with anarchism and self determinism.
So it really just feels like youre beating your own point when you talk about punk as a subculture.
"You MUST be punk in these ways, but we believe in self determinism and are anti-authoritarian" doesnt really hold up well.
You have to come to terms with the fact some punks are nazis. And you can and should beat them up (smartly) especially if ur white like use that privilege to punch some nazis.
But youre going to look like you dont know anything abt punk history if you keep saying this shit. Punks (esp brit punks) have been wearing swastikas for decades for shock factor. No this is not a good thing and no it does not make it better. Yes anyone wearing one is an idiot, amd they dont care. Getting mad is the point.
And in the case of an actual nazi. Its like. You cannot tell a nazi punk they arent punk. You will simply get laughed at by the skinheads in spiked vests.
Just fucking deck them already.
Theres unpleasant or dangerous people in every community. You cannot control it or gatekeep it when it is so well established, and id even say engrained in the very fibres of the subculture. You cannot pretend or will it away.
You must actively make the space a hostile environment to them. Before they make it a dangerous environment to every show they turn up to.
Punch them. Punch their friends. Tell them they arent welcome in that space.
How can you argue with someone verbally that they are not part of a group, when they fit in with the group, attend the group functions, and probably even am established friend network? You cant tell someone they physically cannot be a guest at a party if they are already in the ballroom. You have to kick them out.
And, dialectics...
You gotta come to terms with the fact that having authority or asserting yourself does not make you an authoritarian regime.
there aren’t enough posts going around about the swedish cryptid known as the skvader which is a rabbit with pheasant wings and also a very good boy.
like this one dude just made a fake taxidermy and spread it around as a hoax for a good ass while and it lead to this really cool fantasy creature and i am genuinely dissapointed that it never gets used in anything
Rabbirds, by the amazing @tkingfisher/Ursula Vernon (source).
The lack of skvaders is particularly frustrating when you realize it forms the third point of a wonderful cryptid trifecta.
You got the jackalopes, which are rabbits with antlers.
And you got the wolpertingers, which are rabbits with antlers and wings.
And then… what? Do you escalate? That’s unbalanced, those two rabbit cryptids don’t have the same number of extra things, the wolpertinger is clearly the jackalope But More.
BUT with the skvader on the other side, balance is restored. Antler rabbit, winged rabbit, winged antler rabbit. It’s a classic Venn diagram of imaginary lapine beasts, and it’s only complete if you acknowledge the fucking skvader.
Good thing Ursula’s got our back, at least.
This is a really excellent point and I applaud your advancements in Cryptid Theory.
Gentleman, if I might add:
yes you may add this
I think balance in crypdids is VERY IMPORTANT.
“how could you have forgotten that” i forget Everything. unless i remember
"how can you remember that" I remember Everything. unless I forget
man call me crazy or whatever but i'm not very thrilled with the fact that the takeaway that all of y'all are getting from the titanic submarine crisis happening right now is
"People able to spend exorbitantly for some tourist trip thing deserve to die a horrific and torturous death via suffocation after spending 96 hours in mounting dread and awareness of that oncoming reality, all inside a 20 foot long windowless iron casket lost at sea"
and how it isn't
"There is no way in fucking hell that it should be legal to take people into such high-risk environments with zero regulations and shoddy work which almost certainly factored if not is the cause of this crisis to begin with, and the problem isn't that people will spend lots of money on dumb shit, it's that there are companies allowed to prey on that with no oversight"
'people can write whatever the fuck they want' and 'its good to approach writing about sensitive topics with some diligence and forethought' are statements which can and do coexist
Making a weighted velvet baikal seal plushie :3
Head and tail end are stuffed w ultra plush fiber fill and the bulk of the body is packed full of weighted pellets that have a nice crunchy sound when you squeeze it. Not weighed yet, but it feels between 1.5 - 2lbs?
She doesn't even have her mouth and flippers yet!!!! She's fucking embarrassassed...
Smelling you
Finished! My mom named her Beans this morning lol.. She's around 1.2lbs and soppingly pitiful
everybody loves beans
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Post by “Mike I Guess” @mike_i_guess:
The lack of boomer LGBTQ+ people isn’t because it’s “more popular now.” Many were murdered by their peers, died from government inaction during the AIDS crisis, committed suicide due to lack of social supports, or have had to live in the closet due to their peers’ cruelty.
“The men in white are the surviving members of the Original San Francisco Gay Men’s Choir. Those in black represent the members lost to AIDs. Remember this when people say the gay community survived the epidemic. We had to start over because we lost a whole generation.” (original post)
So my post on Oklahoma making it legal to take indigenous children from their parents without tribal consent is blowing up, and I'm glad people are horrified. But what I need people to know is that this might happen on a national level.
The Supreme Court is debating overturning the Indian Child Welfare Act.
What this act does is give Native American and Alaska Native tribes and nations control over the foster and adoption placement of their children. To overturn it would be to say tribes and nations aren't sovereign, and it would also allow the U.S. government to forcibly assimilate indigenous children into other cultures.
Please:
I feel like, regarding the recent shit with the laws in FL, this is a really important time to say y'all should be for the whores and the hookers too, because y'all did not say shit when SESTA/FOSTA was goin on, y'all kept quiet when new banking laws rolled out that specifically targeted sex workers (from FSSWers to cam workers to strippers to professional pornstars) and I need y'all to understand that a straight line can be drawn between the censorship/deplatforming of sex workers and what is happening regarding legislation against trans people now. mainstream leftist orgs and individuals scrambled to distance themselves from sex workers and sex worker organizations and catch it! that's now biting y'all in the ass
“anti-trafficking” “anti-sexual exploitation” “child safety” are all euphemisms for pushing censorship and criminalization of sex education, LGBTQ+ ID and existence, abortion, anything right wingers deem unsavory; it is so easy to deplatform something by calling it "pornographic" or "exploitation" and if you give a fuck about liberation for all that needs to include the decriminalization of sex work because we (queer non-white SWers) were the TRIAL RUN; now trans people are the next step and after that it's going to be other LGBTQ+ people, and best believe that will also eventually include POC, LGBT+ or not.
you can understand the timeline of the deplatforming of sex workers by reading this thread by the amazing Ashley Lake. because believe that this is the same playbook that will be used, is being used, on other people the GOP deems "undesirable" (like trans people)
this is ok to rb btw bc as someone whose sex work is keeping my lights on and funding the MAJORITY of Decepticon Disaster Relief/Kaon City Medics rn I'm fucking tired of beating this drum, I'm the first to rock with ANYONE else who needs help but y'all don't like the yucky whores and hoes and hookers when we're the ones who need help even though our liberation is INTRICATELY entwined with y'all's so get with it
I need folks to understand that "conflict resolution" does not mean
"every time I accuse someone of something":
Sometimes, conflict resolution means you learn that your accusation was unfounded and you were in the wrong. You misunderstood something, you overreacted, and YOU caused harm.
Sometimes, conflict resolution means YOU end up apologizing.
best thing i ever accepted about people is that most people are just kind of gross like, physically
like most people have gross little bad habits and let the laundry go a little too long and sweat in weird places and are messy eaters and have weird laughs and are a little greasy and asymettrical and have stains and tears and wear on the things they own and its like literally fine and human. we dont need to worry about that stuff and frankly we should kill whoever is responsible for making us think humans are even capable of being perfectly polished made up hygeine machines 24/7. we are little animals we came from the dirt and sometimes you scratch your buttcrack or pick at scabs or what the fuck ever it is literally normal animal behaviour !!! let the soft animal of your body ect ect nd sometimes the soft animal of your body is a little yucky.
