In regards to Nex’s death do NOT erase the fact that they were Native American. Do NOT. They’re native identity is just as integral to this as their trans one, I ASSURE you. The Oklahoma Governor has been rallying against native people since he got elected.
“Mozart was autistic because he was a child prodigy who wrote whole pieces in a day” no Mozart was autistic because he used echolalia and always spoke the truth even though it got him violently ejected from his workplace and had no interest in marriage and had a childish personality and sense of humor and was routine-oriented and had a low frustration tolerance. the prodigy thing has almost nothing to do with it. I would like to see one scholar within my lifetime consider the posthumous diagnosis for ANY reason other than “little boy played music well.” I take personal offense to the fact that despite his utter genius he’s been considered immature by academics because of his mannerisms. where have I heard THAT one before?
A quote from his father:
“He was so extremely fond of me - I, of course, fairly doting upon him - that he would repeatedly enquire whether I truly loved him; and when in jest I would occasionally say ‘No,’ his little eyes would fill with tears, so sensitive and loving was his heart.”
From his sister:
“He loved our parents, especially our father, so much that he composed a little tune which he would sing every night before going to bed - for which purpose purpose father would stand him on a chair. Father was invariably required to sing the second part, and when this little ritual, which was never overlooked, was finished, Wolfgang would kiss our father very sweetly and go to sleep peaceful and contented. And this went on, every night, except when he was ill and already in bed, until he was in his tenth year.”
“Until he was almost ten years old, he had an insurmountable horror of the trumpet when it was sounded alone, without other instruments; merely holding a trumpet toward him terrified him as much as if it had been a loaded pistol. His father wished to overcome this childish alarm, and ordered me once, in spite of the boy’s pathetic pleading, to blow towards him; but, oh God! How I wish that I had not been induced to do it. Wolfgang no sooner heard the blaring sound than he turned deathly pale, began to collapse, and would certainly have fallen into convulsions, had I not immediately let off.”
But yeah let’s focus on his skill set like everyone else around him did
“Men should put the seat down when they’re done peeing so that I don’t fall into the toilet when I sit down to pee”
“Actually women should be putting the seat back up when they’re done peeing as a courtesy so that I don’t have to touch it and put the seat up before I pee”
Actually, both the seat AND lid should be down when no one is actively using the toilet, because this prevents things from accidentally falling into / accidentally being dropped into the toilet. Also having the lid down when you’re flushing is important because it prevents the toilet from spraying out bacteria.
So, y'all know what’s happening with Photomatt now, right?
He’s being lovebombed by transphobes, overloaded with supportive messages, and sent links to anti-trans articles and podcasts and videos and newspaper columns. He’s being told about the toxic TRAs and cancel culture censorship and the violent trans activists who “eat their own”.
Sympathic lips are telling him all about “children being sterilised”, about “unfairness in women’s sports”, about autogynephilia, about Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, about “gay conversion therapy”.
And because he’s angry, bitter, and has had his ego bruised, he is listening.
He’s been in the rare position of a CEO actually subjected to a similar treatment as the people using his service, and he did not care for it. He feels uniquely hounded, he feels alone, he feels deeply wronged. He was an Ally, he did and said all the Right Things. And even still, he was Cancelled, labelled a transphobe.
I don’t want to predict the future or guess to Matt Mullenweg’s character. I genuinely, deeply hope I’m wrong here. However, if within the next few months, he starts expressing some “legitimate concerns” with trans rights, I will not be the least bit surprised.
I’m repeating myself a lot here with other posts, but this is why its important to acknowledge that he’s not a frothing at the mouth, wrong speak transphobe. He’s a complacent person with power and biases that is too engrained to change them. And again, that is not a sympathetic viewpoint. He’s a hateful idiot who thinks that acceptance only goes as far as checking the boxes.
So, y'all know what’s happening with Photomatt now, right?
He’s being lovebombed by transphobes, overloaded with supportive messages, and sent links to anti-trans articles and podcasts and videos and newspaper columns. He’s being told about the toxic TRAs and cancel culture censorship and the violent trans activists who “eat their own”.
Sympathic lips are telling him all about “children being sterilised”, about “unfairness in women’s sports”, about autogynephilia, about Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, about “gay conversion therapy”.
And because he’s angry, bitter, and has had his ego bruised, he is listening.
He’s been in the rare position of a CEO actually subjected to a similar treatment as the people using his service, and he did not care for it. He feels uniquely hounded, he feels alone, he feels deeply wronged. He was an Ally, he did and said all the Right Things. And even still, he was Cancelled, labelled a transphobe.
I don’t want to predict the future or guess to Matt Mullenweg’s character. I genuinely, deeply hope I’m wrong here. However, if within the next few months, he starts expressing some “legitimate concerns” with trans rights, I will not be the least bit surprised.
I’m repeating myself a lot here with other posts, but this is why its important to acknowledge that he’s not a frothing at the mouth, wrong speak transphobe. He’s a complacent person with power and biases that is too engrained to change them. And again, that is not a sympathetic viewpoint. He’s a hateful idiot who thinks that acceptance only goes as far as checking the boxes.
So, y'all know what’s happening with Photomatt now, right?
He’s being lovebombed by transphobes, overloaded with supportive messages, and sent links to anti-trans articles and podcasts and videos and newspaper columns. He’s being told about the toxic TRAs and cancel culture censorship and the violent trans activists who “eat their own”.
Sympathic lips are telling him all about “children being sterilised”, about “unfairness in women’s sports”, about autogynephilia, about Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, about “gay conversion therapy”.
And because he’s angry, bitter, and has had his ego bruised, he is listening.
He’s been in the rare position of a CEO actually subjected to a similar treatment as the people using his service, and he did not care for it. He feels uniquely hounded, he feels alone, he feels deeply wronged. He was an Ally, he did and said all the Right Things. And even still, he was Cancelled, labelled a transphobe.
I don’t want to predict the future or guess to Matt Mullenweg’s character. I genuinely, deeply hope I’m wrong here. However, if within the next few months, he starts expressing some “legitimate concerns” with trans rights, I will not be the least bit surprised.
I’m repeating myself a lot here with other posts, but this is why its important to acknowledge that he’s not a frothing at the mouth, wrong speak transphobe. He’s a complacent person with power and biases that is too engrained to change them. And again, that is not a sympathetic viewpoint. He’s a hateful idiot who thinks that acceptance only goes as far as checking the boxes.
tried to vent in a trans space about how, as a trans man who’s been on T for a long time (over 7 years now), i have noticed that the more i pass as a man, the less welcomed i am in queer spaces unless i go out of my way to feminize myself. and how that sucks! and it’s isolating!!! and it feels horrible to see ppl who used to like you and be close to you drift further and further the more masculine (& therefore more comfortable in urself) u become…
only to get ppl replying to me and saying “well if you dressed more fem then ppl wouldn’t be intimidated by you. you signed up for this”
i’m sorry but i didnt sign up for social isolation when i transitioned, i signed up for gender euphoria and comfort in myself and my life. and i had hoped that the ppl in my life would be able to see how much joy that brings me and continue to love me.
i need ppl to realize that telling trans ppl to change the way they present to make other ppl comfortable with their gender is fucking transphobic. it’s transphobic when it’s telling a trans woman to dress more femme or feminize her voice so she doesn’t ‘intimidate people’, it’s transphobic when it’s telling a trans man the same. it is explicitly and inexcusably transphobic and it is literally never okay. trans people belong in queer spaces. period. there is no dress code. we belong there bc we built those fucking spaces.
would also like to add that as a fat, balding, very passing bear of a trans man who DOES dress and present very femme, the whole “if you were more femme people wouldn’t be uncomfortable” thing doesn’t even fucking work for me because i pass as the Wrong Kind of feminine man. i’m not a skinny little 20 yr old twink, so it’s gross and offputting when i crossdress, but if i go full masc i’m even more offputting, and even if i out myself i still get Looks or am treated coldly lmfao. you’re only allowed to be a cute little genderbending boyprincess if you’re palatable: thin and pale and hairless and harmless. i’ve said it before but the root of this problem, and the problem OP faces, is that queer people need to get the fuck over their fear of people who look like they might have a penis because it is isolating to trans men and fucking deadly to trans women. it’s all “gender is fake you can do whatever you want forever” until you set off too many Penis Haver alarms and suddenly you’re treated like a loaded gun. anyway butch tgirls and tboy fembears i love you
The audacity of staff members acting as if this site was a golden holy safe space for trans people before popular blogs started getting nuked.
Coming from first-hand experience, many of us get death threats weekly on here. I’ve had harmless posts brigaded by terfs with 0 recourse. Porn bots I’ve reported months ago *still* haven’t been banned.
The double standards are clear - the transmisogyny here is systemic.
Here’s the video version of my discussion of the leaked emails that prove the Hugo Awards removed finalists (me, RF Kuang, Paul Weimer, Neil Gaiman & Ep 6 of Sandman) for political reasons, despite us having the required votes. Because too many of you are making assumptions without bothering to read the full exposé.
There’s a lot of nuance in this case that I hope people can acknowledge. No, it is not “sinophobic” to criticize the Chinese government’s severe censorship policies when anyone who’s spent more than ten minutes on the Chinese internet knows how bad it is, and there IS evidence of pressure in this case. There’s nothing to accomplish by pretending like it’s not a thing. You’re not furthering the world proletarian revolution by speaking over the lived experiences of Chinese comrades and denying factually shitty aspects of your favorite AES.
Yes, the Western and presumably white members of the Hugo admin team DID circle back to racism by trying so hard to appease the Chinese government that they preemptively censored Chinese diaspora ~ to be safe ~ on extremely flimsy reasons without even reading our books. And of course, confusing Nepal for Tibet.
It’s really not one or the other.
Remember, if someone asks you to censor something, you can say no. If they ask you to compile dossiers on problematic individuals, you can say no. You are allowed to not do the censors work for them. You can tell them to go [censored] themselves.
effeminate gay males and italian women are ensouled by the same type and quality of spirit energy. in the 4th dimension and higher there is no difference what so ever between fem gay boys and italian ladies.
I was reading something about Whitestown, Indiana and my eyes nearly popped out of my head thinking it was one of THOSE comically racist towns. Nice to know, at least the name, wasn’t that.
Racisttown, named after the abolitionist Stopbeing Racist,
That’s nothing. Check THIS shit out
WHAT THE HELL
George Washington Hitler and his son Dr. Gay Hitler,
when you call your reps to ask them to pretty please stop taking away your rights, remember:
In deep red areas you’re a republican who is thinking of voting for someone else if they don’t vote what you want on this specific bill because it impacts your republican ideals so very much
In swing states you’re an undecided voter who’s gonna go blue if they don’t vote how you like
remember to call because that way their phone is going off and their peers can hear it because their offices are close together (emails and letters don’t work like that), so it can rattle them if they get high volumes. remember that you gotta make them feel like they’re losing something.
Talking points I’ve been using in my blood red state:
“I’m a small business owner and [example: anti-drag bill] is making me lose money!” OR “[Anti-drag bill] is going to cost us millions in taxable sales” - If you talk about how it’s making you personally lose money and absolutely need to bullshit, you run a bar or do freelance photography. The intern they have on the other line does not have the resources or the know-how to check that.
“I’m concerned that [anti abortion bill] is the government infringing on my personal rights.” - Self explanatory.
“[Anti-gay bill] goes against family values in my church.” - They aren’t going to call your local Pentecostal chapter to fact check this. You don’t even need to be Pentecost, you just need to assert that you’re part of a community and a major voting bloc.
Remember: In smaller towns, literally every vote counts. And voters generally don’t call in, so your call can carry quite the advantage.
Religious art leaves out the best part and it’s such a goddamn shame.
Livestock, Agriculture and Food is an integral part of any culture and we all need to be pushing for more realistic sheep in religious art. #FATTAILSFORJESUS
“How think ye? If a man have a hundred sheep and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains and listen for the clappeth of it’s itinerant cheeks?” - Matthew 18:12, the bible
CLAPPETH….
I made this post a long time ago and never posted the follow up post, so here it is. Additional info on Fat tail sheep
Fat tailed sheep is not a single specific breed of sheep. It’s a catchall word like “Health care worker”.
There’s tons and tons of different breeds.
They all store fat in their tails, but fall into two main categories: WIDE tails and LONG tails
Wide tails store fat in the rump area and have no visible tails.
Long tails store fat in the tail itself, which vary in length in different breeds.
In the olden days, people took pride in breeding sheep with the longest tail. They are not so popular today as it’s hard to find a decent tail cart on Amazon.
Speaking of Tail carts, they come in different styles and designs. We dont have any that are actually preserved, but old drawing of them show different wheels harnesses.
Some of them are literally just skateboards
Back in the day, breeding sheep with long dragging tails was all the rage.
Nowadays different tails types have been developed to prevent them from dragging their tails on the ground.
Such as the “folded tail” or the “Only fat at the base” Tail
Despite fat tail sheep being the most common sheep breeds in the world, most people in the west have never heard of them.
The West likes Wool Sheep. Fat tails are strictly meat sheep and have little useful wool. They also do poorly in colder climates
There’s a huge community of shepherds on youtube that script, choreograph and shoot elaborate videos for their sheep complete uplifting music to highlight their best qualities (for sale and stud) It is fantastic. Such as this one:
People kept bringing up Fat Bottomed Girls. Ya’ll are wrong. These are fat bottomed BOYS. Sheep are often continuously bred, so the females are constantly getting pregnant, giving birth and nursing.
That’s very hard on the body, so they can’t build up as much fat as the boys.
The fattest sheep, the ones with the truly VAST tails, rocking them little carts are ALWAYS males.
This is why the Bible specifically states that ONLY the rumps of the Males are to fit to be offered to the lord……
Picture: God desiring the tail
“And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the WHOLE rump” -Leviticus 3:9
I mean… look.
Arguably these are just minor details and doesnt matter….
But beyond it’s teachings the bible is also a work of literature about life in the ancient world. And on some level these kinds of small details bring a sort of richness to these depictions of real…
Ancient people bred out sheep with huge butts, took the largest sheep butts, set them on fire and prayed over the burning butt. It checks out.
Hey bro/ster I’m super sorry to have to be the one to break this to you, but uh sometimes being a socialist means, you know, putting your dreams of terrorism down for a minute and talking about public policy and how your proposed form of government would like, uhhhhh……………. work.
a lot of yall wanna be leftists until you have to treat drug addicts and the homeless like theyre human beings deserving of dignity and respect
and no, forced institutionalization is not treating drug addicts with dignity and respect (and also doesnt help them), and the majority of homeless shelters take away so much of your personal autonomy that it causes many people to “choose” to remain unhoused. hope that helps.
people vaguely saying ‘the horrors’ as shorthand for 'life problems, don’t worry about it’ in conversations where the problems are not going to be delved into has got to be one of my favorite new Ways Of Speaking that has emerged. like it’s polite and vague and succinct enough for impersonal conversation but also extremely honest. it’s very funny. The Horrors. we all know of them.
God I hate these fucking floating monoliths. They always go, like, 10mph below the speed limit and if you try to pass them they just fucking distort reality around them until you’re back behind them again. One of them cut me off on the highway once and when I honked it banished me to a hoary netherworld where I wandered, lost and alone, for untold centuries, trapped in the liminal space between what could have been and what never was, black stars dotting the bright infinity yawning out around me as I drove out of thought and time, through endless ruined cities and blighted lands unmarked by the sun’s cold rays, and when I finally got out I was more than 20m late for my dentist appointment and they had to reschedule me.
“I wish ancient people preserved their writing and artifacts better” I write in electronic signals on a piece of hardware that can’t retain its efficacy for more than a few decades.
Time to laser-print my entire blog on titanium plates and bury them underground.
brb etching my one-star yelp review of the sheet metal supplier that sold us shitty copper on a granite slab
We are never going to give this guy a fucking break are we
Ea-nasir knows what he did.
But more importantly, WE know what he did. Because it got written down in some rocks.
The funny part is that clay tablets are supposed to be ephemeral. When you’re done with them you just soak them in water, smooth them out, and re-use them for a different message. They weren’t meant to be any more permanent than an email.
The only reason we still have that particular clay tablet is because a. Ea-nasir was a huge weirdo who collected all of his hate mail, and b. his house later burned down, and coincidentally did so at exactly the right temperature to bake the collected tablets into pottery rather than destroying them.
It’s basically the equivalent of an email getting inscribed onto a steel plate by accident.
