This whole thing cost me $5
Okay so, in honor of pride month, I want to talk to you, my fellow queers about 1) if you are not polyamorous, including us in your queer activism, and 2) if you are polyamorous, insisting on being included in queer stuff. Poly people are queer. I don't care if you only date the opposite gender and you're otherwise not queer. The same applies to hetero trans people, hetero aces, hetero aros. And the way polyamorous people can lose their jobs, their children, their reputations if it becomes well-known that they are poly is very queer, and in some ways, still more marginalized than other queer people (just talking about, for instance, a custody case for children... even now, I like to think that no judge who valued their career would, at this point in time, rule that a gay or trans parent is inherently a bad parent because they are queer, whereas MANY judges would happily and freely rule against a parent who was openly polyamorous).
I came out as queer to my parents when I was sixteen. I still haven't told them I'm poly. I'd sooner tell them I'm genderqueer and trans than I would that I have been in a relationship with two people I love very much for over a decade.
...I do recognize that the old poly flag is bad. The color grading, the weird pi symbol, the harshness of the colors... I always hated that thing. I am here to bring you the good news of a new poly flag, that is not JUST the boring stripe patterns of queer flags (which I do have a major beef with, we could do anything and we just choose stripes? we're better than this), but is so much more visually appealing than the previous version. I present to you the new polyamorous pride flag:
GOOD COLORS! GOOD DESIGN! DISTINCT! IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZABLE! REPLICABLE COLORS IF YOU WANT TO MAKE PRIDE MERCH OUT OF IT! Let's have a round of applause for the polyam flag design team, because they knocked it out of the park.
In conclusion, polyamorous people are queer, please do not leave us out, also our pride flag is cool as fuck and I want a sweater in these colors.
im gonna say it.
you cannot separate monsterfucking from queerness.
& for the love of fuck i don't need babygays coming at me with "you're equating being gay with being a monster!" go back to tiktok, this is for the adults.
monsterfucking is so queer bc so many of us feel unlovable, so many of us can't relate to real world affections & attractions. (aces & aros in particular)
so yeah, i wanna fuck that monster, bc deep down, i hope someone will love the monster i think i am.
also monsters are Very Hot & that needs no explanation so.
Monstrousness is also not necessarily indicative of internalized whatever, it can just be a desire to be powerful and able to make people too afraid of you to mess around with you. It's aspirational. Queer people are ANGRY and some of us want to RAGE. And we need people who want to fuck us.
I never go on twitter (because, you know, it’s twitter) but I just had a look at it to check up on Hank and I’m glad to see he’s being *extremely* Hank about this
My fat horse pin by @pangur-and-grim arrived today and I cried actual tears thinking how thousands of years ago, someone painted this horse, and that person had a name, and they got paint on their hands, and they had friends, and when they painted it they had no idea that down the line when their people and their names were long forgotten someone would lovingly recreate their art and now I will wear it every day, connected by their art to the continuity of our species
Anyways, buy beautiful pins at https://greerstothers.shop/collections/all
That sure is an fucking animal.
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Clean the mold out of your reusable water bottle including the cap and straw
Mold poisoning will kill you and has a high chance of causing severe hallucinations and nightmares while it's doing it. My final message goodbye
Oh, hey, yea that's a good reminder! Wait a second tho
A year or so ago I saw someone who studies bacteria on food surfaces talking about how she never ever uses a water bottle for longer than 2 days without washing it with hot water and soap or running it through the dishwasher and I've become really adamant about it ever since. Everyone has enough water bottles to keep them cycling through the dishwasher and in use.
Also please don't die.
"Bodily autonomy for all, by any means necessary"
Absolutely a sucker for the “ARE YOU HURT” once over. The wandering hands, frantically checking for blood or pain just SOMETHING. ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED of what they might find while searching. The panicked look on the face of the person doing the checking, the glossy, confused “I’m fine” from the person being checked. HOO BOY just inject that shit right into my veins
Throw some "it doesn't matter, what about you?" in there, mmm, the battered and bloody mangled figure weakly trying to reciprocate? The hands coming up (shaking and exhausted) to touch the searcher's face? The intimacy of reciprocal concern? The huddling together in tenderness in a world capable of such violence and harm?
i would kill for the confidence of novelists who write genius-poet characters and then actually write samples of the “genius” poetry in the book. if i were a novelist writing a genius-poet i’d just be like “trust me, the poetry’s real good.”
also I promise this is unrelated to anything else I've been posting about but like. We're not doing the "rainbow capitalism" complaint this year. Sorry. I know pitching this particular hissy fit is really important to some of you. But years when the conservative movement du jour is to have a literally identical tantrum about any company that's putting rainbows on drink cans or reusable grocery bags because they view that as "supporting groomers and pedophiles," we don't get to throw fuel on that fire. Even if you disagree with the fire on an ideological level, it doesn't matter to the fire! This year, feel however you want to feel about any given company making their logo into a rainbow flag, but I promise the "boycott Anheuser Busch because they're supporting Deviants by making our beer gay" people do not give a shit whether you're supporting their cause from a gay standpoint or a homophobic one, they just care about the net result, which is that by getting outwardly mad about this, you are lending them support
Rainbow capitalism is what happens when the soulless money-hungry engines that dominate the world economy conclude that the Queer Side of The Force is winning. That the money lost by alienating hateful shitweasels is less than what they expect to gain from reaching out, in their infinite hunger and cynicism, to queer people.
Like, it’s crass as hell, but it’s still a good sign and we should encourage it, as it may help to drive the people who hate us for being alive back in to their holes.
So it turns out that ChatGPT not only uses a ton shit of energy, but also a ton shit of water. This is according to a new study by a group of researchers from the University of Colorado Riverside and the University of Texas Arlington, Futurism reports.
Which sounds INSANE but also makes sense when you think of it. You know what happens to, for example, your computer when it’s doing a LOT of work and processing. You gotta cool those machines.
And what’s worrying about this is that water shortages are already an issue almost everywhere, and over this summer, and the next summers, will become more and more of a problem with the rising temperatures all over the world. So it’s important to have this in mind and share the info. Big part of how we ended up where we are with the climate crisis is that for a long time politicians KNEW about the science, but the large public didn’t have all the facts. We didn’t have access to it. KNOWING about things and sharing that info can be a real game-changer. Because then we know up to what point we, as individuals, can have effective actions in our daily lives and what we need to be asking our legislators for.
And with all the issues AI can pose, I think this is such an important argument to add to the conversation.
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#don't
I feel like the only person not tempted to use ChatGPT like it doesn't even occur to me as an option
Anyway shoutout to the person next to me who just got GPT to do their whole essay. I know you're in the trenches.
HELLO ??????
He asked ChatGPT if it was lying to him and it said no so he figured he was in the clear.
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This is one of the most adorable Pride posts I’ve ever seen
What I love about the imagery of the turtle is that it’s sending the message that they are protecting themselves by being in their shell. It’s not about deceiving straight people (like we are often told), but about the turtle’s own safety. They’ll come out when the time is right and they feel comfortable. 💕🏳️🌈
