The Supreme Court has decided to transform the very nature of The State this week and only a clear-eyed and massive movement can reverse what’s coming….
i kind of wish the anti voting people wouldn’t dance around the idea of what happens after the election. Like okay, the democrats lose, you taught them a lesson (and fwiw, I do think its a legitimate message to send- the people are not happy with the actions and status quo of the DNC). Now What. Trump, the multiply indicted crime president who incited a violent mob upon the capitol, is now President. He has all the qualities you hate about Biden, AND more, except he and his administration have even less reason to be sensitive to the wishes of their democratic constituents. He is a puppet for the far right and white supremacists and christian nationalists. I really shouldn’t even have to go over this- we LIVED it already. Genuinely asking, is this what you want? Because frankly I do not think 4 more years of Trump is worth it over Biden. Your hands are not clean, this is the future you want to choose. I just don’t understand why.
“The revolution” is not an acceptable answer.
“the revolution” will outright kill people, the very ones doomers and accelerationists claim to be most concerned about. I shouldn’t even have to qualify statements with “I don’t like Biden”. It isn’t about liking it not liking him. It’s about the fucking nightmare things will become under Trump. It’s about surviving and working relentlessly and thanklessly for incremental change until larger change can be made, and a great many people invested in doing that work will either not survive or will be too burdened scrabbling to that they become unable to do that work. People need to fix their shit about this. In four years the fucking shitstain could be DEAD. Let’s buy ourselves those four years for Christ’s sake.
like i am sorry you are uncomfortable with the possibility of being complicit in the atrocities perpetrated by the global north. but guess what, you already are. it’s the privilege of being a citizen in The imperial center that allows you to pretend that your uwu good person pilatepilled abstention of civic duty is morally neutral. citizenship in a power is complicity in its policy, and the only way to ease our complicity as citizens is to act with every means available to us. that includes voting.
People in the replies talking about all of the work they are doing in their communities “instead” of voting– the restorative justice and the mutual aid and the land back and all of the other good, useful, and necessary work–
Why is this an instead? Why can you not do these things AND take a couple hours out of one day of your life to vote? Do you think any of this organization is going to be easier under Trump?
“I am doing these other kinds of activism instead of canvassing / phone banking / get out the vote” – that makes sense! You have a finite amount of time and energy! No one can do all of the work!
“I am doing these other kinds of activism instead of voting” – Uh-huh. And are these other kinds of activism in the room with us now? Or is your “activism” actually just “yelling on tumblr?”
If you were doing anything tangible in the world, it would be affected by the laws and policies you live under–the ones that will determine whether and what your kids eat at school; and what they learn there; and how your communities and protests are policed; and the conditions in the jails; and how likely you are to see the inside of one for sheltering undocumented people or providing abortion pills or DIY HRT.
If you were doing that work, you would know real people for whom a second Trump administration would mean deportation or forcible detransition or quitting college or going hungry, and you would need to be able to look them in the eye.
If you were doing that work, you would know that working with other people to achieve a goal sometimes requires compromising, even on issues that are important to you, but that getting things done, even incrementally, is worth that compromise.
If you were doing that work, you would have the experience of making things happen in the real world–gardens planted, children fed, houses built–and you would know that getting your hands dirty working is so, so much more satisfying than sitting alone and keeping them clean.
“I’m doing ~real important activism~ instead of voting–” Bullshit.
remember what voting is: a mock civil war
it’s a battle where both sides count up how many people want one thing or another, and then instead of murdering each other, they agree to count the larger side as the winner. this is an improvement
if you can’t be bothered to show up for a vote, why should anyone expect you to show up for the harder approach? if you just keep waiting until someone perfect shows up, you’ll be sitting on your ass for the rest of your life
The brain does not magically mature at 25. Actual neuroscientists note some 8-year-olds even have a greater “maturation index” than 25-year-olds. The myth misunderstands basic neuroscience but is still used for anti-trans policymaking like the Cass Report. https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/brain-development-25-year-old-mature-myth.html
I would really recommend that ppl read “The Mismeasure of Man” for a history of how shaky pseudoscience was often used to confirm social prejudices.
The 25 thing will be remembered alongside the “ape-like features of non-europeans”, “criminal stigmata”, the “missing ounces of the female brain” and the “average american’s mental age of 12” (that time IQ tests were misrepresented as a measure of general intelligence to prove it was impossible to educate the working class.. a patently silly claim now that many countries have near-universal literacy.)
It’s no coincidence that all this stuff is suddenly appearing at a time when younger ppl are kept from meeting typical milestones by a mix of helicopter parenting & a shitty economy
Neuroimaging is in its infancy. Just look at all those reports of “gender differences” that magically disappear with larger sample sizes.
i love how everyone on this website interacts with each other in ways that are so socially impermissible irl. how did we get here
like i know none of us call people we barely know “bestie” out loud. i know none of us say “i am kissing you on the mouth” in response to every mild compliment. but god i wish we did
(recent) tumblr exclusive linguistic phenomena:
bestie (said to someone you’ve never spoken to directly)
so false worstie
we are holding hands
i am kissing you on the mouth
you’re going in the soup
variations on “your dad looks gnc af” “YOURE INSANE”
mutuals (technically this exists on other social media but not in spirit)
[gunshots] (people say this on twitter but they say it wrong)
using periods incorrectly to. fine tune the cadence of a line
my beloved/my beloathed
hyperspecific day of the week holidays e.g. flat fuck friday
variations on gaslight gatekeep girlboss
and, of course, prev tags
I think my absolute favorite is “Thank you for the input, Tumblr user [[wildly inappropriate username]]”
fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk
As a european i sometimes forget furefkied are actually real and not american folklore/cryptids. Like you’ve got friendly little bugs that glow in the dark….. b r uh
in case europeans were worried: we love them very much! even tho they’re clumsy and slow and sometimes bump into you, no one swats fireflies here, or takes them for granted. even grownups sometimes reach out in the summer and gently catch a firefly for a minute before letting it go.
By “reach out” that’s meant quite literally–you just kinda. Stick your hand in their flight path and they land on you and will sit on your hand for a bit. Sometimes if you’re just walking or standing outside while they’re active you have to shoo them off you because they’ll just. Sit on you.
They’re harmless and very pretty and it’s always a treat to see because they’re out for a relatively short time each year.
The larvae live for 1-2 years in damp leaves or wet ground eating slugs and snails. If you want to see them they need leaf litter and pesticide free habitat…
You know what really fucking Annoys Me about internet censorship is stuff like swear words being heavily censored because that’s entirely an American cultural hangup being forced on the rest of us. I don’t know a single country where swearing is as taboo as it is in America. In fact most languages have swear words that would have the same effect on an American as giving a Victorian chimney sweep a pepsi max cherry.
Demonitizing Irish people’s videos for having swear words in them is a kind of hate crime and psychological torture I think.
in one way, governments regulating pornography is worse than the drug war because at least in the case of the drug war people can agree on what cocaine even is. There is no consensus on what pornography is. It would be like if the government decided to regulate “junk food” and then defined junk food as “food which appeals to the glutton’s hunger”.
The most famous quote wrt what pornography is centers on the phrase “I’ll know it when I see it”
“We aren’t raising kids; we’re raising adults. If you want a kind 16-year-old, teach a 6-year-old kindness and give them 10 years of practice. If you want a __ adult, teach a kid how to be __ and give them __ years of practice.” - Jon Acuff
When I was learning German my teacher pulled me aside to ask which of my parents spoke German. I was confused and said neither. Then belatedly I remembered that my dad did speak very rudimentary German after being stationed in Heidelberg for a few years.
This teacher was well loved but very strict, being questioned by her was always a little intimidating. I didn’t know why she was asking.
She pressed to ask if he spoke it with me and I laughed nervously and said no I asked him not to speak it because he couldn’t even conjugate verbs.
Apparently my accent was so good that she assumed I’d had more than one year of practice. The problem was my vocabulary. Ironically I needed her to translate the word for accent as I was unfamiliar with it. I was a decent student but some words tripped me up.
One day she conducted an oral exam and asked us to talk about the hospital. We could say whatever we wanted. In the middle of my nervous little monologue about how we go to the hospital when we are sick and the doctors and nurses help us she suddenly burst out laughing.
I had never seen her laugh before, at least not more than a sensible chuckle. But here she was, bent over her stomach cracking up leaving me baffled as to how talking about the nurses could possibly have inspired this extreme hilarity.
The word I was trying to use for nurse was “Pfleger” but I’d said “Fluger”. (Possibly fliegen? It’s been a long time) What I said was close to fly, and the teacher was imagining flying nurses drifting along the hospital wing.
She apologized and tried to compose herself but she admitted that hearing my extremely competent accent saying absolute nonsense was the highlight of her week.
My DARE officer was arrested for possession with intent to distribute.
in elementary school the DARE officer mentioned that you shouldnt sniff sharpies or white-out and everyone in the back two rows immediately took out their sharpies and liquid white-out to see if they would get high DURING THE DARE PRESENTATION
Again, congrats to drugs for winning the war on drugs :)
Before DARE, I knew nothing about drugs and trusted authority. So, maybe it did solve some problems…
me, quietly whispering to the ao3 page of an author who doesn’t even know I exist: I am obsessed with you
me, whispering to the ao3 page of an author who hasn’t updated anything in four years: I think about you often and I hope you’re alright
me, whispering to the ao3 page of an author who wrote one life altering banger and nothing else: I hope your pillow is cool and your skin is clear and you find money in a forgotten jeans pocket
me, whispering to every single person on this post: please leave one singular comment saying literally any of that
Willingly waive your constitutional protection against double jeopardy and lose the same trial twice. Somehow I’m sure this is Spider-Man’s fault, of course.
wanting to post screens of the goofy things i’m working on but having to deal with the caveat that these will often never get past the point of private prototypes and no you can’t play them
perhaps i enjoy being mean to people? have you considered that?
have been informed this is a terf & i’ve decided i actually enjoy being mean to this person specifically
Reminder that your dash should be your space and my dash should be mine. Don’t like someone’s art style? You can block them. You liked someone’s content in the past but you don’t anymore? You’re not obligated to follow them. You see a post with an opinion you don’t like? There’s a block button for a reason. Just don’t post about your dislike because now it’s on my dash. (Don’t like this post? Block me and leave me alone. See, it’s really that simple.) Thank you.
avoid conforming to traditional gender norms by avoiding this common palette:
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try using these palettes instead!!
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Not to be mean but they’re right. None of these would ever fit together
They’re DISGUSTING, op. I’m sorry, it’s better you hear it here than have your grandma say she likes your clothes.
i actually disagree! not to bring back a certain children’s hospital and say “it’s literally color theory” unironically, but… it’s literally color theory. both of these color palettes are virtually complimentary and look pretty nice together
youve got reds, greens, and blues:
and purples, blues, yellows, and oranges:
(you’ll have to click on the images to see the full thing, i don’t want to put them one after the other and make this post even longer than it already is. sorry for the low resolution im doing this on my phone)
of course there’s variation in the values and saturation, but imo that’s a bit of a given ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
wait actually fuck this post. what the hell is going on between you two
not to re-rail a post that OP himself intentionally derailed but I wanted to try out the palettes. The first one is made with the Girl Colors with no changes made to the values/saturation.
i think its ok.
The second one I tweaked the saturation and values a to my liking. Both are very low effort but as you can see I kinda got into the second one. Anyway I really like orange/purple/yellow as a color scheme so I had fun with this
hey op i hope u dont mind but i made some boys and girls in these colors ^v^
wait omg it would be so cool if there was a different character for each color and they were all in one friend group together, i would LOVE to read a story about that
omg someone should make a Kickstarter for this!!!!!
it’s interesting that there are twelve of them! you could like, based them all off of the zodiac. you know, tiger, rat, rabbit, dragon, etc
HUH
This post took so .any left turns we got back on track and turned left again anyways Homestuck on the dash again good morning everybody
Terrible post everyone, hit the showers
There’s everything in that post. Colours I can’t see because I’m colour-blind. Homestuck jokes. Casual transphobia. A children’s hospital. That’s history
This post is like trying to do an olympic sprint through a fucking minefield
it’s not even a year old yet??
what about not gendering fucking colours
IT’S SATIRE
I’M THE OP
Achievement unlocked!
A rail road back into into a full circle
There are so many things here what do I give the achievement for?
in one way, governments regulating pornography is worse than the drug war because at least in the case of the drug war people can agree on what cocaine even is. There is no consensus on what pornography is. It would be like if the government decided to regulate “junk food” and then defined junk food as “food which appeals to the glutton’s hunger”.
The most famous quote wrt what pornography is centers on the phrase “I’ll know it when I see it”
“your honor, this hard working phd student was simply resting her head after a long day at work. the evidence presented by the prosecution was already present when she arrived at the table. it’s an anime convention, people lose and forget things all the time. there is no connection between her and the yaoi paddle”
If you’re new to me yelling about this: my neighbors feed a feral cat colony but provide no other care to the colony like neuter/spay or vaccination. They free feed the cats, which attracts skunks, and they have (at the moment) about 20 cats in the colony, which attracts coyotes.
My dog has been skunked twice, she can’t be outside in our yard unsupervised for even a minute because otherwise she’ll try to eat cat shit because there’s cat shit everywhere in my yard because the neighbors also haven’t provided litterboxes or a sandbox for their ferals (their entire yard is paved) and if she has to go outside at night I need to clear the yard for coyotes before I let her out even in the small fenced area by our bedroom.
Also there are fleas fucking *everywhere* and even though my dog is on medication to prevent fleas I need to de-flea her twice a week in the summer; this is the case for every dog owner on the street.
The street I live on has a speed limit of 25mph but I hear cats getting hit frequently, so frequently that we have a resident group of crows who hang out and wait for them to become roadkill.
I have a collection of photos on my phone that show kittens with broken legs, kittens with missing eyes, kittens with horrible ear mite infections, and I have a dedicated shovel that I use for moving cat corpses that show up on my property. The cats that die on my property die from abscessed wounds from fights with other cats, respiratory infections, renal failure, and injuries from being hit by cars.
My spouse is immune compromised, and while toxoplasmosis is not a serious risk for most people, it IS a serious risk for people who are immune compromised (as are all the other infections that cats can potentially carry), which means that it’s unsafe for me to grow vegetables in my yard for us to eat and it’s unsafe for him to work in the yard.
I’d love to maybe open my windows at night and keep down the electricity costs of using the AC, but I can’t because the entire side of my house that faces my neighbor’s yard reeks of cat shit and piss year round.
Those are my next door neighbors.
Last week I was walking my dog as a neighbor around the corner was pulling out of her garage; she paused and rolled down her window and pointed at the cats on her lawn and said “Head’s up, my cats are weirdly aggressive about small dogs and they just got let out so they’re full of energy right now” and I nodded and crossed the street and didn’t yell at my neighbor but *the temptation was there* because A) why are you letting your aggressive animals roam and B) Why are you letting your cats shit all over the neighborhood and C) Why are you exposing your owned cats to the risks of the large and territorial feral colony that is a literal stone’s throw away from your house?
Anyway, and as always, Keep Your Fucking Cats Indoors.
People acting like slavery was good at literally any point in history kinda drive me crazy. There’s been many different types of slavery and indentured servitude all throughout human history all with a lot of difference and nuance to all of them and all of them have been bad. Like it’s fundamentally wrong to take a person’s personal ownership of their own body and life away from them and/or to make them work for no compensation against their will.
Slavery has been a bit different in every society that has practiced it and it is always a different kind of bad with that core immorality of stealing a person’s personal autonomy from them at the center of it. People throughout history have always preferred owning themselves to being owned by others. There’s no ethical way to own another human being.
Like people talk about slavery in ancient times like more modern examples of slavery should’ve been more like that. No, they shouldn’t have. Because they shouldn’t have been practicing slavery at all. Perhaps a third of the Roman Empire’s population was enslaved. It was incredibly normalized. Did that make it right? No. That was a third of the population that could legally be killed or sold or raped by their enslavers at any time for no reason. That had no ownership of themselves or their labor.
And to be clear, slavery still exists and it’s still bad. The excuse now is just that it’s only being done to prisoners. Like all the forms of slavery before it, this justification does not make it right. People being punished for their crimes, whether you think prison time is a justifiable punishment or not, are still people. They need to be given control over what work they apply to do and be paid for their work. This is basic stuff and yet. Forced unpaid labor is still happening. It’s all bad. It’s all nuanced and and complicated and different and changes with culture and time and it’s bad.
Like as someone who loves studying history I hate watching other people who study history try to justify these things. Face your actual history. There’s a lot of bad in it. We can’t change the past but we sure as hell can stop ignoring it.
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