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I think I grew too much on the internet to understand how some people have blog names.

Like, I'm from IRC and trans communities, if your username is bball24, that's your name. I assume your mom addresses you by that name and it reads the same on your driver's license and maybe even birth certificate l.

I never think "oh, best-tardis-in-the-galaxy is a blog run by some gal named Sarah!". No, if I think of the name at all, it's like obscure trivia. My good friend Ms. Best-tardis-in-the-galaxy has the government name 'sarah'. Perhaps she hasn't been able to change it yet, too much paperwork or something?

I just sometimes see people post things like "what's your blog name mean?" and I'm like "it's me. What else would it be? You mean kirk's-big-saggy-tits isn't your name?"

Basically it's something like Facebook's real name policy but from the other angle. I think everyone is named what their username is, not vice versa.

(and yes, my name is foone. My mom calls me that and it's what's on my license. Isn't that true for everyone?)

GRADE SCHOOL SJWS stop using social justice language to explain shit to your conservative parents IT’S NOT GONNA GO THROUGH now all they have are some new words to make fun of. don’t tell your mom she’s being fatphobic tell her she’s being a dick

#Terminology is for when someone has already recognized the existence of the phenomenon#Its a communication shortcut that presumes shared understanding#You need to establish the understanding first

(via @lilietsblog)

thank y'all for putting this down in such good words - it's something i've been angry about before but not spelled out well.

the problem continues in other really important places, too. having seen a good few consent, anti-hazing, etc. trainings for both work and school, ugh, so many of them are clearly just trying to check boxes. if you're talking to certain types of people who really need to hear it, just saying "your favorite funny movie is problematic in a way that encourages objectification/homophobia/something" gets you *nowhere*. it'll prompt bitterness and, yeah, dismissal of 'buzzwords' and of the supposed significance of lil ol me and my innocent fun.

just saying the thing in the way only understood by people who *already agree* feels, to me, like nothing more than putting up an easily-dismissed front to appease the people who do care. yes, look at us, we have a commitment to the safety of our employees, so we made everyone spend forty-five minutes clicking "yes" on every question!

and if that's not the case, if it's just honest failure to communicate effectively--in the bare-minimum effort that is handbooks and 'trainings'--then it's just embarrassing. you have the chance to sway some non-zero amount of people who maybe aren't that attached or accustomed to whatever behaviors you're trying to discourage, and instead of trying to speak to them or even just make them question *something*, you brush right past them like you've got somewhere to be in a hurry? you can't magically reach everyone or convince them to just Be Nice, especially with a single annual chore that isn't always reinforced the rest of the time, but there is definitely a gray area between "gets it" and "absolutely dead set in their ways", and reaching the people in that area is (in theory) the *sole purpose of bothering at all*. there's only so much to be done trying to make a saint Respect People Harder, but if you make someone who is just ignorant think twice, you might've just saved a life.

of the maybe four or five different attempts i've seen, only one managed to realize that you should actually explain the connection between, for example, media and culture and behavior. similarly, only the one discovered that if you're bothering to make a lesson on Not Abusing People interactive and practically gamified, you should at least try to make the participant pay more attention than just spamming 'next'. there's evidently an industry of Consulting Firms™️ built around making these things, so how the hell do they suck so much?

on october 29th 2013, let’s all go to McDonald’s and order the worm burger. the look on the worker’s face will be s-so very small, in the end.

☁️ new setup / emotional support notebook ☁️

welcome to my animal crossing island

truly cannot relate to all these people I see lately being like “girls love to transcend the limitations of the flesh and embrace the purity of the machine“ but their frame of reference for “the purity of the machine” is like, breakable and disposable modern consumer electronics. girlies I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you are not transcending shit, you are significantly more fragile than the flesh and you are going to be thrown away in 1.5 years when planned obsolescence kicks in. catch me actually surpassing the bonds of organic humanity as a completely analog piece of industrial machinery full of red-hot valves and slamming pistons and the ability to replace my own bolts when they finally wear down after 15 years of continuous operation. I am a vital part of the supply chain and they will never stop manufacturing replacement parts for me. I am a colossus of heat and steel that will remain functional long after the flesh recedes into the soil and the glass and plastic has melted and shattered under my high-pressure max-torque industrial treads. I forget what I was talking about originally but my point stands

MATRIX THEMED DRAG PERSONA CALLED NEO PRONOUNS

end of summer tinder. a girl matched with you! she is currently 35k miles away and rising.

dreading the outcome where lk99 is in fact a room temp superconductor but there's some weird bullshit reason why it's mostly useless in practice and becomes a historical footnote. because then i get neither cool scifi materials nor the satisfaction of being right in my scepticism.

i keep buying those vegan breakfast sausage things cause they're good but it still weirds me out more than any other vegan substitute type thing. Like. As I said, it's like a sculpture. It's representative art. This cassava starch has been crafted to appear like cheese, this processed mung bean has been dyed with carrot juice until it's the color of egg, this pea protein mash has been darkened to look like sausage. Maybe "sculpture" isn't right because egg, cheese and sausage are basically shapeless anyway, the imitation is of color and texture. But like. OK, I have no problem with representational art--well, no, I'm a little weirded out by the whole concept, and observing that my stuffed animals are having the desired effect and really do make me happier is a little disturbing in a way and makes me feel like there was something to that commandment against idol worship--BUT isn't your food the last thing you want to use as a medium? Shouldn't your food look like what it is, not something else?

The main meat substitute type things are like, vegan burger, vegan meatballs... here I feel the trickery is not serious, in fact that there's no trickery at all. Ground beef is just some formless mash in the first place. A "burger" is just a formless mash sandwich with lettuce and tomato. And furthermore. Thanks to Impossible Foods, the impossible burgers resemble beef because of an underlying nutritional similarity! They are red, and turn brown when cooked, because they contain heme, a bioavailable iron source, which used to be abundant only in meat but is now made in Impossible Food's bioreactors by genetically modified yeast. My senses which tell me that this is in some way like eating ab urger have not been deceived.

But the Daiya cheese is completely different beneath the surface. It's not a protein source the way real cheese is, for example. And the fact that the vegan sausage things are substituting not jsut one but three ingredients somehow feels over the top.

Yeah. I don't know. Let's just get over it, right, and take it farther! M&M's sculpted to look precisely like blueberries and raspberries.

bitches will hear a song and be like 'this makes me feel like i have a gaping hole in my chest' and then they put it on repeat. its me im bitches

UGH is is literally so much to ask that I have time and money to learn how to tailor clothes and embroider and knit and make cakes and bake bread and do makeup and hair and nails and do all my own diy projects around the house and

like I know this is probably so hard to make but my brain says I could do that and I need to do that

btw since this I have been beautifully and painfully trying to learn to cook, crochet, sew, paint etc and oh boy am I mediocre at a bunch of things but I’m having fun

Announcement!

There's a project I've been working on, off and on for the last year, and it's finally ready to see the light of day. Behold ChronoDrome, a website with a single purpose: to let people upload timelines, reading orders, viewing orders, and so on, as well as letting readers track their progress through those timelines. Is there a series you love but beginners find impossibly complex to navigate? This is the site for you.

I was inspired in particular by the old Web 1.0 sites I used to visit as a kid (like this one!) and I wanted to recapture the simplicity of those old web pages while still letting people post stuff. I wanted people to be able to create full featured timelines without making their own sites or just posting big blocks of text on Reddit, all while keeping a tight focus on what readers actually want to see.

For a good example of what this site can do, check out this timeline I've made for the works of ancient Greek history. Hopefully it's a good balance between simple and flexible (and interesting in its own right).

Anyway, check it out! There are a few other timelines already posted, and hopefully more will go up in the coming months. The first part of the Roman history timeline is almost ready to go. Make an account, make some timelines of your own, or just start a new reading project. (The site is definitely better with an account, both for creators and for regular users. I find it very satisfying to watch timelines fill up with more and more entries marked as finished.) And let me know if you encounter any bugs or problems please. :)

Gotta start treating english like monolinguistic english speakers treat other languages

Did you know English doesn't have a word for the Irish word 'mar'? Instead they have to say 'is the cause' of or 'because' for short