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Constantly Tired, Occationally Witty

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Hi! I'm Zelda, sometimes known as Odelta. NY \\ 25 \\ Sapphic \\ Transfem  (She/Her). Feel free to say hi!
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The ACLU has launched a petition against Mastercard’s policies on adult content!

Mastercard put into effect a new policy regulating adult content sellers that makes it extremely hard for sex workers to earn a living online. It must be stopped.
The policy itself imposes strict and invasive requirements on adult content websites using Mastercard’s financial services – including pre-approval of all content before publication, forbidding certain search terms, and monitoring the age and identity verification process for all performers.

Sex workers’ livelihoods shouldn’t depend on the whims of corporations. Numerous banks and companies already single out sex workers – forcing them to pay higher fees and interest rates. And public platforms like PayPal and Venmo continue to boot sex workers off their platforms with little due process.

Laws and policies like these – that criminalize and stigmatize sex work – make sex workers more vulnerable to abuse by clients, law enforcement, and others who target and harass sex workers or those perceived as sex workers, particularly trans women of color.

Mastercard’s latest actions are only a continuation of this history of discrimination and it must be stopped: Sign this petition telling Mastercard to reverse its discriminatory policy now.

They NEED more signatures on this!

It's the ACLU, they have the reach to actually shift the needle on this so we need to show our support.

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"the only queer spaces I feel safe in have a pet cishet dude" neat! the only queer spaces I feel safe in are the ones I can get reviews from multiple trans women I trust about the vibe and even then we find out the owner of the space that was profiting off our patronage or whatever was actually a trans woman hating terf. Glad about your thing though.

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skitterstan

“Pet cishet dude” = trans woman locked firmly in the closet through strong applications of transmisogyny nine times outta ten btw

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scifiseries

This shot of a giant excavator in Germany slowly making its way to a coal site 25km away. [March, 1999]

the hatred for coal mining and coal power leaving my body when i see bagger 288

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meckamecha

Bagger 288 being made to devour mountains for coal is abuse, like the robot equivalent of K-9 units. It should be fighting monsters with Ultraman

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plaidos

you should read Scraps for Laika, a collection of non-linear fragmented fiction exploring mental health, transsexualism, and werewolves with problems. Updates on the full moon 🌕🖤🐕

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goat fight. non-negotiable.

I think it’s also very important that this is a fight in which the characters *actually interact with their environment* in a way that feels real. Like, yes, have superpowers but there’s no cartoon physics involved, no obvious sense that this was filmed on an empty set with a greenscreen and the background was added later, or that they’re filming without even the people they’re fighting being present, just ‘look over here and make a hand gesture’. The shield gets stuck in a car, there’s that awful moment of the knife sliding along the side of the van that cues up with the mounting tension in the soundtrack. Bucky’s arm impacts the pavement and actually dents it, etc. They’re jumping over/behind the cars and getting thrown into them/into the pavement in a way that feels more visceral than just ‘whoosh there was a wire & we CGI’d in the rest’. t has a sense of real world space to it, and that adds to the feeling of real world stakes.

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linemonty

it's interesting no? how tme feminists in the west will make excuses for the transmisogynie of previous feminist movements, saying of course if we had known then what we know now it would've been different but we didn't so we just kinda have to take the good with the bad, and then they will look at other countries with the western-chauvinist double assumption that their feminism is behind western feminism and that there are no trans women there as there were no trans women in the west back then – İ mean, we didn't know – and so we have to accept transmisogynist tendencies if we want them to get to our level so that one day tme feminists in the global south and in east asia, too, will be able to say, if we had known about trans women then it would've been different, but we didn't, so we kind of have to take the good with the bad

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txttletale

[least racist poerson in the world voice] well. its not fair to criticize korean radfems, theyre just foreigners they dont know any better :/

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txttletale

what the fuck has happened in 2024 i feel like i've faced more transmisogyny on here in the last three months than i have in my entire time using this fuckin website before that

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i love the many little yet multifaceted ways in which cisfeminists will let trans women know that their participation in feminist movements is a privilege and not a right, and that for trans women to participate in said movements, we must first be willing to align ourselves with cis women who want to assault and rape and kill us, even if that means none of the issues which affect trans women specifically are ever addressed. just shut up and hold a sign until the sex worker slaughterers show up and decide you're too male looking for the demo and dont make any noise on the way out. what? you AREN'T gonna hold a sign? you DONT want to participate in cis women-lead movements then? what are you, an antifeminist?