i get that people are more comfortable with defined rules and structure but i also think queer people lost when they started resorting to dictionary definitions for what labels mean
the queer umbrella is meant to deviate from the norm of rigid boxes and definitions and to decide that lesbian means Only this, bi means Only this, etc, is directly contradicting what queer means. each and every label is going to have a unique meaning to the person using it and that is how it’s supposed to be. if you’re not comfortable with that…sorry?
basically if someone tries to tell you you’re using a label wrong:
no you’re not
eat them
[image description: a set of tumblr tags from @/elinaline, reading: “#there is a way to use a label wrong actually; #its when you force it on someone else”. end image description.]
this is the only answer i’ll accept thank u everyone for your participation <3
I love getting unaccompanied minors (kids flying alone) who so clearly just. Don’t want to be here lol. Sometimes I get to know a little of their story, like their parents are divorced, or a family member died and they’re heading to the funeral, but usually they just don’t want to talk about it and that’s fine. But I always treat the flight like it’s a challenge to make them smile. I offer them snacks and soda but that’s never enough, that’s whatever, they could get those from an airport vending machine. Chump change. So then I tell the worst jokes. Just the most embarrassing, kindergarten teacher, annoying dad jokes you can think of. And those always get a groan, or a “Seriously??” And that’s my in! Now I can say “Why, what’s your idea of a good joke? No, come on hotshot, make your best joke, let’s see it.” And they hem and they haw but of course they eventually tell me their very best joke because kids are little competitive comedy goldmines. And it’s always super funny, so I laugh, and that’s where they slip up. Because you know what you almost always do when your joke successfully makes someone laugh? You smile. And I’m like. Gotcha. Rookie move. Now you’re going to end up having a good time in spite of yourself. I win.
Did this with an 11yo u.m. today and he said “What did the ghost say to the other ghost?” And I said “What?” “Nothing. Ghosts aren’t real.”
I’m literally a flight attendant, offering snacks and drinks is my job
Ah, but yes you can! Ordinary Sausage on youtube has spent years providing content for anyone who’d like to see just what would happen if you made a sausage out of whatever you can think of:
Recently Mr. Sausage has also been putting more time into his non-sausage videos, including stuff like Chicken Boiled in Nuclear Green Kool-Aid and Carbonated Eggs. Check it all out if you aren’t prone to being easily grossed out.
anytime a woman starts talking about the “bonds of sisterhood that inherently exist between all women” you just know they bullied the weird girls in high school
of course the TERFs found this and of course theyre pissed cuz they are exactly the kind of woman this post is about
why does viva la vida by coldplay always go so hard. i hear those opening strings and instantly im a cynical and mournful king walking through his overthrown kingdom like oh shit I totally did used to rule the world!!! I used to roll the dice and feel the fear in my enemies’ eyes but now im literally sweeping the streets I used to own!!!! idk what it is about this song but for some reason i can’t explain
@syls-uplink makes a very important point here! It’s always good to be wary of things that gets you outraged AND neatly fits your pre-existing worldview.
Which is why I googled the headline. And I found the article.
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It is in fact real and very recent. September 16 2024. The full story is more centered on how autistic adults communicate their emotions and how neurotypicals misinterpreting autistic people causes issues.
Though it did also have this “fun” quote:
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Now if I’m sharing that quote, I do feel compelled to also share this conclusion, which I did quite like.
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And for good measure, here is the link, so you can read the article yourself :] It is not actually very long
Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1
The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.
So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.
So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.
Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it’s so far away that it took that long just to transmit.
And the probe is working again.
From a programmer’s perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.
using “what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament” to mean “yeah i made an embarrassing reference but you understood it which is also embarrassing” is very funny to me
my favorite part is that absolutely nobody says this except here. so if you use it in public, it’s a dead giveaway that you spent the last ten years on tumblr. but then again, they recognized it, which means they were at the devil’s sacrament
I would really like to make cool art but tragically my artistic capabilities are not up to the same standardas the media I consume. in order to remedy this feeling I will continue to create absolutely nothing
Is there anything realistically preventing Xi from: Step 1) Organising a naval blockade of Taiwan. Step 2) After making a passable legal techinality of an excuse, stopping mainland's own trade with Taiwan until a "constitutional order" is "restored" there. Step 3) Unofficially making an ultimatum to the Taiwanese "submit to CCP or starve" ?
only the question of whether this would spiral into a shooting war or whether it would be easier to do it later, I think
a naval blockade of taiwan…
so if something tries to come through the blockade… attack it?
like, fire the first shot, when the US navy has already arrived and is hanging out nearby?
this is directly opposite to conventional wisdom of how china would take over taiwan, which is occupying it faster than the US navy can show up
this is like, saying, “hey US navy, get over here, watch this”, waiting for them to show up, and then starting an attack. Not on Taiwan’s defenses, but on a cargo ship.
it might be similar to what happened last year: announce military exercises in the waters completely surrounding the island, ban commercial shipping from entering, then periodically fire off missiles into those empty waters; technically not declaring war or attacking any cargo ships, just coincidentally cutting off the island.
that would require the US to essentially send in a military convoy to supply the island, which would be expensive and awkward even if China let it through, and then they could wait a month and do it again: is the US willing to repeat it indefinitely?
“not attacking any cargo ships” only works if no cargo ships approach. It’s not a blockade if you won’t attack cargo ships.
commercial cargo ships generally don’t sail into waters that people are shooting into, right? given the insurance considerations?
and the Chinese navy doesn’t need to sink the cargo ships, just sail in front of them and tell them to fuck off, or land pilots on them via helicopter and forcibly redirect them, if it comes to that, which I don’t think it would (or ram them with the “fishing boat” militia).
I think a blockade of the island is quite feasible if no other nation’s military is willing to get involved.
Computers are very simple you see we take the hearts of dead stars and we flatten them into crystal chips and then we etch tiny pathways using concentrated light into the dead star crystal chips and if we etch the pathways just so we can trick the crystals into doing our thinking for us hope this clears things up.
How does it feel to be the most Galaxy Brained person in this entire thread
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why would this distress you friend the dead star crystal chips are just singing to each other with invisible ripples in the fabric of reality itself perfectly normal stuff
Computers are very simple you see we take the hearts of dead stars and we flatten them into crystal chips and then we etch tiny pathways using concentrated light into the dead star crystal chips and if we etch the pathways just so we can trick the crystals into doing our thinking for us hope this clears things up.
How does it feel to be the most Galaxy Brained person in this entire thread
Well that certainly belongs on the post
why would this distress you friend the dead star crystal chips are just singing to each other with invisible ripples in the fabric of reality itself perfectly normal stuff
we should be able to have clickmap polls that are on a 2 axis / 4 quadrant grid.
my MS paint recreation
I love the implication that there’s a direct correlation between gayness and liking salty foods - or, more specifically, the straighter you are, the more you dislike salt for some reason
people can be so disingenuous when telling people with EDs that they want them to heal. It’s only when the person is anorexic AND skinny that they have sympathy, and they only want people to heal if they stay skinny.
When I started eating again during my ED recovery, I started gaining weight and holding onto it because my body was likely terrified of going without food for so long again.
And guess what? A lot of people in my life talked negatively about my weight gain either to my face or behind my back. People who *knew* that I had been starving myself. They claimed it was about my health, but I know now that it was fatphobia. It was much healthier for me to be eating 3 meals a day than starving myself 90% of the time, but they just saw that I had gone from skinny to fat, and to them, the fat was worse than the malnutrition.
I’m fat now, and much better off. No one who had bad things to say stayed in my life. And I’m better for it. But I worry about fat people with ED’s who don’t have the support I had. I worry about people who are ready to heal but the shaming from outside sources keep them in their illness or push them back in if they started to heal.
Me: Exercise does not cause weight loss. This is a fact that has been demonstrated so robustly in research that even doctors, who hate and fear evidence, are grudgingly starting to admit this.
Someone reading that post: Cool, but have you considered that exercise leads to weight loss?
does it? not for people exercising for their non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Interactive computer-based reminders to diet and exercise are useless.
I mean, I literally went to Cochrane Reviews, one of the best-respected sources for massive meta-analyses, and I just input the keywords “weight loss” and “exercise,” and I’m tooling through the results. Every one of the damn things shows that we do not have high-quality research indicating that exercise leads to weight loss. So no. I’m right, and you need to adjust your worldview–ask yourself, if not for weight loss, then why? Re-read those sources: exercise improved muscle density, insulin sensitivity, and cholesterol. It’s good for your blood vessels, it’s good for your strength, it’s good for your brain.
But it won’t make you thin. Maybe two pounds, maybe five, but that’s about it. If you’re looking at short-term, like a year, sure, you can lose weight–but the effort will almost always result in your body going “oh shit, we’re living in a famine” and you will regain it, and now, with your body at a new set-point, losing it will be harder. Regaining will be easier. Welcome to the life-destroying yo-yo.
#then what the fuck are we supposed to do?
Exercise and eat lots of fruits and vegetables and whole grains because those things will keep you healthier longer, regardless of how much you weigh, and pick up your pick-axe in the ongoing horribly slow and frustrating fight of chipping away at the idea that being fat is a bad thing that means you’re a bad person. I recommend the book Fat Talk for a good place to start.
I want to be clear with my maidposting that I have zero interest in being a maid myself. What I’m really doing is laying the proper groundwork for maidgirls to flock to my blog so I can eventually trap a small collection of them in my mansion
Listen, SOMEBODY’S got to. The feral maid population is totally out of control. I heard about some poor girl that got mobbed and served tea and cakes for hours… I heard she couldn’t sleep for a month, after. Drive-by Mistressing is at an all time high. They need proper enrichment!
Fortunately, one spoiled heiress is enough for at least three or four maids. Perhaps as many as a dozen, if she knows what she’s doing.
A truly talented heiress can handle as many as fifty or sixty if she has a very precise handle on almost knowing what she’s doing
the one fun thing about if the PRC naval blockades Taiwan would be half of America comparing it to the Berlin Crisis and the other half comparing it to the Cuban embargo.
that lets the nearby major power control the regional sea
formally sovereign territory but they’re a friendly vassal right?
It continues to be underappreciated the extent to which Crimea was Russia’s Cuba
well for a while it seemed like Cuba might be Russia’s Cuba
Cuba was Russia’s Palestine.
Something you can use at tremendous leverage a very very long away to provoke terribly expensive responses… but they’re a very very long way away and there’s limits to that strategy.
Pictured: The Cuban Missile Crisis
metaphor and analogy, humanity’s greatest gift, greatest curse
Anon, ten years ago gay people couldn’t get married in large parts of the US. AIDS was an almost certain death sentence when I was in high school. I was looking at job boards the other day and found a part time gas station job that had health insurance as a benefit, which NEVER would have happened 15 years ago. When I was a kid, hitting your child was extremely normalized in the US and my parents were the weird ones for not doing it. There is a vaccine for chicken pox. I didn’t meet anyone who had transitioned until my 20s because it was so uncommon to transition in the aughts, and now there are some states that protect your right to have gender affirming care provided by your health insurance. It’s not all states, but it’s better than the number of states that had it in 2010, which was zero. THERE ARE TENANTS UNIONS NOW. WE HAVE A VACCINE AGAINST CERVICAL CANCER.
And all of that has been the work of a lot of individuals and organizations and research teams and activists.
Do you know how bugfuck insane the words “Unionized Starbucks” would have sounded to someone in 2005? Baristas getting union-mandated breaks could have been a throwaway joke in part of the Scary Movie franchise as something ridiculous.
RALPH NADER WAS AGITATING FOR A FIFTEEN DOLLAR MINIMUM WAGE IN 2004 AND SHIT IS MOVING SLOWLY BUT MY STATE HAS A TWENTY DOLLAR MINIMUM WAGE FOR FAST FOOD WORKERS. WHEN I STARTED HIGH SCHOOL THE ONLY OPTION FOR AN ABORTION AFTER 7 WEEKS WAS SURGICAL AND NOW THERE’S A PILL.
FUCKING. ELECTRIC CARS. SO GODDAMNED MANY PEOPLE HAVE SOLAR PANELS ON THEIR HOUSES OR IN THEIR PARKING LOTS.
WE DON’T HAVE SMOG DAYS IN LOS ANGELES ANYMORE UNLESS THERE’S A FIRE AND IT’S BECAUSE OF CARB STANDARDS.
LITERALLY MILLIONS OF FUCKING PEOPLE TURNED OUT TO PROTEST POLICE BRUTALITY IN 2020 AND YOU CAN SAY “NOTHING HAPPENED” ALL YOU WANT BUT THE WAY PEOPLE TALK ABOUT IT NOW IS FUCKING DIFFERENT THAN THEY DID AFTER RODNEY KING AND NOW PEOPLE WILL STOP AND WATCH OUT FOR EACH OTHER INSTEAD OF GOING ‘NOT MY BUSINESS’
THERE IS A MALARIA VACCINE THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO OVER A MILLION CHILDREN IN JUST THE LAST FIVE YEARS SINCE IT WAS APPROVED FOR USE OUTSIDE OF TRIALS
Something that struck me the other night as truly incredible—I grew up during the height of the AIDS crisis in the ’80s and ’90s. I remember around 1990 or so was when people really started working to bring HIV/AIDS and the search for a cure into public view and begin the really, really long work of destigmatizing it, even a little bit. The homophobic terror people had of even being NEAR someone who had the so-called “gay disease,” I really cannot understate this. A diagnosis was considered an absolute death sentence.
The other night I was watching whatever random thing on YouTube, and I got yet more of the constant ads that irritate the fuck out of me. But this one was for an HIV maintenance medication. It was a long ad, probably 60 seconds, and so help me, I watched the whole thing. It talked about this drug (forgive me, I can’t remember the name) that would let you live a happy and fulfilling life (while mentioning that of course safe sex is important). And it showed queer couples, straight couples (to break the stereotype), people who looked single and happy, different races and genders and presentations and body sizes, going out to lunch or cuddling on a couch or going out for a date, whatever it was the scene was implying. Bright colors, soothing optimistic music and voiceover, physical affection including kissing—you couldn’t even tell who among the actor couples was or wasn’t portraying an HIV patient. It blew my fucking mind to just see a whole minute of this between ads for Pizza Hut and car insurance. I’m not even sure anyone would have shown a gay couple kissing, full stop, on TV in 1990. And this ad was just out here like, if you’ve contracted this illness, there’s help for it, and you can live a good happy life among your loved ones. But also, you deserve to have that happiness, out in the open, and there will be people who love you, unafraid. Even if, and especially if, you’re gay. This is a world where this is possible. Like I’m honestly tearing up right now. I could not have imagined this in 1990. I could not.
You will swim for decades, and suddenly you will look up and see islands that you never would have dreamed of.
I remember when I was a kid, the “hole in the ozone layer” was all anyone would talk about with regards to climate change. Now it’s rarely mentioned anymore. Want to know why? Because it’s getting better. It’s projected to be fully closed by 2066.
My first protest was in 2004. I was in middle school, and Ballot Measure 36 was being run statewide in Oregon, to define marriage as being between a man and a woman. We protested, we marched, we fought, and we lost. Ten years later, I was sitting in my apartment the day after graduation, when the news broke that Oregon would now recognize same-sex marriage. I remember sitting on my bed and breaking down in tears, thinking of my partner of a year and how maybe we could have a legal future together. Ten years beyond that, I’m looking at the save the dates on our kitchen table. I’m inviting the family who I swam with at Lake Erie, my parents who taught me to protest No on 36, my friends from all over the world, to our wedding. Things change. Things get better.
It’s 2024. Oregon is a sanctuary state for trans people. My parents use they/them pronouns for my partner with ease. My sister called to check up on us the morning after the election. Things seem dire. Things seem like they’re never going to change.
But I thought that in 2004. Dr. Seuss thought that in 1986. Climate scientists thought that in 1976. And the ozone layer isn’t fully healed yet, and there’s still pollution around the world, and queer rights are still threatened, but it’s better.
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