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It’s important to realize that platonic love can sometimes seem a lot like romantic love.

It can make your heart pound and your stomach flutter. It can make you nervous to act upon it. It can be just as full of meaning and desire as any relationship, and it can be confusing at times, but that’s alright.

If it brings joy, that’s all that matters.

This is super important. Platonic relationships can be extremely moving and very emotional. Some people would literally give anything for some of their friends and that is an amazing part of humanity.

NATURAL HARMONIA GROPIUS - Pokémon Black and White

PROPAGANDA:

Please for the love of god vote N i’m begging you. You cannot comprehend how much this silly little goober has changed my (and many other’s!!) brain chemistry

Replacing physical buttons and controls with touchscreens also means removing accessibility features. Physical buttons can be textured or have Braille and can be located by touch and don’t need to be pressed with a bare finger. Touchscreens usually require precise taps and hand-eye coordination for the same task.

Many point-of-sale machines now are essentially just a smartphone with a card reader attached and the interface. The control layout can change at a moment’s notice and there are no physical boundaries between buttons. With a keypad-style machine, the buttons are always in the same place and can be located by touch, especially since the middle button has a raised ridge on it.

Buttons can also be located by touch without activating them, which enables a “locate then press” style of interaction which is not possible on touchscreens, where even light touches will register as presses and the buttons must be located visually rather than by touch.

When elevator or door controls are replaced by touch screens, will existing accessibility features be preserved, or will some people no longer be able to use those controls?

Who is allowed to control the physical world, and who is making that decision?

This reminds me of the elevator in my friend’s apartment building, it has completely flat touch screen style buttons, with no ridges or edges in between.

But there’s Braille under every number, except that it’s impossible to actually touch the Braille without accidentally pressing the buttons, peak accessibility

This post makes good points, but even if not for blindness-accessibility, I would still fully-oppose touch screens. They’re just so bad! You can’t tell if you’ve pressed the button! The software to which they’re connected is always so laggy! There’s no proper feedback! You can’t tell what you’re doing! Give me big, clicky buttons! Let me feel if I’ve made the input!

My point is, everyone can use proper input devices, more-easily than they can use touch screens!

curb-cut effect

Also the elderly can’t use touch screen as well. Most people don’t know this but touch screens rely on your hands being warm and slightly moist. As you age you lose those two things. Here’s an article.

hate it when I call myself a girl and then someone goes "you're not a girl you're nonbinary/agender" and it's like. I am whatever I say I am. freak. I am a girl I am a little guy I am the man of the owl. I am nothing. I am everything. do not presume to know me in anyway I do not know myself

earbuds: have tips that go directly into your ear canal

earphones: rest on the outside of your ear canal

headphones: two ear cups that either go on or over your ears, connected by a headband frame

airpods: giving apple (+copy cats) their own category seeing as they're considered "''the default"" and are so popular etc. Also they're closer in style to earphones than earbuds and it's nearly impossible to find true wireless earphones etc. If you use wired earpods then they're under the wired headphone category.

wireless: have a wire connecting the two earbuds but not to the audio source

true wireless: no wires at all, what you usually think of when someone says wireless. include styles with ear hooks etc. to keep them in place

(definitions from here)

Found this reddit post. This kinda makes me feel better. And it’s something I think about sometimes because I always feel like regardless of how hard I work on something I don’t get anywhere.

Nice summary. If you’re curious, the anon here is referring to studies over the last decade that have pointed to major impacts on pattern separation with depression, and how depression can have major impacts on nonsynaptic plasticity. 

this quiz is so cute omg 🥹

Did ypu have beaded curtains in the late 90s or early 2000s?

TREE! LAW! UPDATE!

"... “I’m taking action because I feel desperate,” said U.S. climate scientist Peter Kalmus, who along with several others locked himself to the front door of a JPMorgan Chase building in Los Angeles. A recent report found that the financial giant is the biggest private funder of oil and gas initiatives in the world.

“It’s the 11th hour in terms of Earth breakdown, and I feel terrified for my kids, and terrified for humanity,” Kalmus continued. “World leaders are still expanding the fossil fuel industry as fast as they can, but this is insane. The science clearly indicates that everything we hold dear is at risk, including even civilization itself and the wonderful, beautiful, cosmically precious life on this planet. I actually don’t get how any scientist who understands this could possibly stay on the sidelines at this point.” ..."

Corporate media will not cover the climate crisis.

Sometimes twitter be hitting

This is even funnier with context attached

oh seems very suspicious to see the barbie movie tumblr pop up on my dash after the strike. maybe it was made before, but I’m actually seeing it now

remember:

there’s no boycott on going to see new media

but there is a promotional blackout

don’t do the studio’s marketing work for them

I just checked their archive. They created it Today, July 17th.

prior to the strike they did not have an official tumblr lmaoooo

don’t reblog their shit

why?

Isn’t the promotional blackout only on the actor’s side? Actors can’t do interviews, can’t film promo material, can’t go to cons…

But none of that prevents the studios from using premade marketing material online for their film?

Is the comms person making a tumblr account crossing a picket line? They aren’t an actor and they’re using promo material that was made prior to the strike, so even the actors aren’t scabbing?

I don’t see the issue.

Yeah, this post is misinformation. Marketing teams aren’t striking. Don’t reblog promotional material if you don’t want to (I personally think it’s weird anyway) but you’re not crossing a picket line by doing so.

Sharing misinformation like this hurts the cause and you could be putting innocent fans in danger of harassment/doxxing for doing a thing that SAG-AFTRA has said specifically is not scabbing.

Allow me to elucidate, @a-sour-nectarine

When most people "roll their eyes", they flick their eyes directly upward, usually as far as they comfortably go, then resume looking normally.

When someone who learned the phrase before the behavior does it, they usually go in a circular (ish) motion. Since most eye movements are lines, it's usually pretty triangular: the key points are usually a diagonal up one way, then to the far other side, then to a diagonal low the first way. Thus, the eyes basically make a loop, so they "rolled".

I've found that when people who learned the up-down way first try the circular motion, they might risk motion sickness, so experiment carefully.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN MOST PEOPLE JUST LOOK UP

IS THIS WHY PEOPLE THINK I’M ROLLING MY EYES WHEN I THINK AND LOOK UPWARD

to cis artists, yr allowed to draw trans characters to be clockable, in fact i encourage it. it's not politically incorrect or offensive to depict trans people as being obviously trans, especially if you're drawing cartoons. its not a stereotype a lot of us just look like that

i mean, i know a lot of trans people disagree, but eventually every ally has gotta bite the bullet & use their judgement to decide what's best for the group they're allied with. literally just give her stubble, it's quick, it's easy and it's free.

coding is neutral, it's just aesthetic, framing is what actually matters. no one's out here calling ms frizzle an antisemetic caricature. its not racist that u can tell the one car in Cars that sells gas is black. when cartoons show a man in a dress & treat the contrast between makeup and body hair as being self evidently funny, that's transphobia. but that doesnt mean its bad to have a big hairy man wear makeup in your illustrated works, thats just normal hot guy behavior

my opinion as always is that there are two important things we'll regularly leave out of the conversation- everybody fixates on the simple look of a character (ie curves on a trans guy), but what is actually important is variety and characterisation. so, you might think "ugh another show about gay people where their arc is the bigotry they face", the issue isn't "depicting what we often really experience is bad", as some people frame it, the issue is the lack generally of variety. when a character wears a dress as a joke, it's framed as a simple aesthetic issue of the show, but it's really the inadequate characterisation to show this is a guy who likes to be dressing in a gender non-comforming way, and whether or not it results in judgement from others- heck, in school guys often did wear dresses as a joke on non-uniform days (I'm not american, it normally is a thing in my country that schools have uniforms), so having a guy wear one as a joke is possible, the world just needs variety in reasons and characters that carry those reasons in the shows, where you can tell the intent isn't to mock trans/gnc folk. going back to op's example, we need trans characters who don't actually pass, but we need variety and characters that work with however they look- guys with curves who aren't being made the simple butt of the joke, but rather are just a guy with curves, and both trans and cis guys like that (I know cis guys with hourglass figures pretty much). like op said, the aesthetics aren't bad, they simply are badly executed a lot of the time. I'm a hairy person in makeup, and it has been a relief meeting people in hospital who actually don't treat that as weird and funny, but just "dude, your eyeshadow is so well blended" and that's it, and it'd be nice if we could see that energy in tv shows more. sorry to ramble btw op.

OP, I'm a trans woman and seeing clockable trans women in media gives me dysphoria

This is not a joke, I'm not exaggerating, I literally turn off what I'm watching

What now?

I'm sorry but your dysphoria isn't anyone else's problem. if someone else "gives you dysphoria" thats your cross to bear & not on them.

hi :3 the goal of trans liberation is not & will never be getting every trans person to pass. i'm autistic, i had a good ass chance to figure out that i was trans early in life considering my older sibling was trans & i had ample opportunity to learn what that meant, its just that i have a hard time identifying my emotions in the best of circumstances & don't put much stake in how i'm perceived anyways. i take hormones to feel internally in balance with myself, but i didn't voice train, i don't wear women's clothes, i don't feel the need to shave regularly, i haven't been gendered correctly by a stranger yet & that's fine. i no longer feel like i went through the wrong puberty, so to speak, i'm just having a 2nd one now. we'll always exist, representation isn't just for you. we're not just fighting for trans youth, we're fighting for trans adults too.

and like, cis people are allowed to draw what literally exists in reality & always will. like yea they should consult a sensitivity reader but like, if your sensitivity reader tells you to make a character less visibly trans on the basis that its offensive to trans people who want to be invisible then i will veto that sensitivity reader lol

the thing about passing is that for the vast majority of trans women, it’s not something that just *happens.* a cis woman with short hair, no makeup, wearing t shirt and jeans, putting no effort into appearing conventionally “feminine” still gets gendered correctly most of the time. which is as much of a nightmare for trans men as the opposite is for trans women. for a trans woman to pass effortlessly, she almost certainly has to have transitioned early or have one of those perfectly non-clockable body types, which is genetic lottery and super rare. for most trans women, passing at the high end requires expensive surgeries and procedures like laser hair removal/electrolysis, facial reconstructive surgery, hair transplants, and at the low end requires hours of makeup, voice training, posture discipline, outfit coordinating, etc etc etc, and not a lick of it will matter if you’re even in the neighborhood of six feet tall, because most people don’t choose how they gender people they just do it automatically based on silhouette. so if your goal is to pass, you have to build your entire appearance and aura around that abstract ill-defined social instinct.

that’s a lot of money and time for a population that’s chronically impoverished! for someone like me, a 34 year old trans woman who didn’t realize i was trans until 27 and started hrt at 28, the baseline expectation for getting gendered correctly in public just feels impossible. my hair is thinning, i still haven’t been able to afford LHR on my face let alone better clothes or shoes or jewelry or makeup etc etc etc.

so when i see a fictional trans woman who passes perfectly, never gets misgendered, whose gender isn’t a point of contention or conflict, that isn’t good representation to me. that isn’t even representation, as far as i’m concerned that’s just a cis woman that you’re calling trans for brownie points! when the only trans people i see in media are drag queens and cis-passing rich celebrities, i see the binary society imposes on my femininity. if i’m not one, i must be the other. no hate to anyone in either group but that’s just not me! i don’t WANT the surgeries, i don’t WANT to get good at makeup, and i feel like the right of a woman to be respected regardless of how she presents is a cornerstone of real feminism!!

you want to know what’d make me feel less like shit about myself, about my place in the world and society? if there were more clocky trans women in media. not only would i ACTUALLY feel represented, that would also help to normalize the existence of clocky trans women to cis people who only ever see the drag queen / celebrity side of transness. if there were more clocky trans women in media getting aggressively gendered correctly, their pronouns defended and enforced by other characters in the show, that would ACTIVELY make my life better because it would make normies aware that this tension even exists. because i know it’s not intentional nine times out of ten! if we all agree that media plays a huge role in shaping how society sees minority groups, then we should be advocating not for media which only shows the glossy happy perfectly prettily acceptable side, but media which accurately reflects the lived experiences of real trans people in the real world.

also clocky trans women are hot and i like looking at them

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