I think cis people should also be their gender of choice. Like, if you’re a man, you should get to really enjoy being a man- have fun with it! If you’re a woman, take the parts of womanhood that really deeply make you happy. If being a little androgynous or ambiguous or hidden is the part that really makes you happy, you don’t have to be trans for that. If you wanna lean really hard into being femme or masc- do it! You have one life in your body, do what makes you happy. Ditch the stuff you don’t like.
My sinister queer agenda is I think that everyone should be the gender they like in the way they like it.
I call this Cis+ and I highly recommend people who have never had questions about their gender try it out.
i know. i know it’s been terrible forever and i’ve known that forever but i can’t stop thinking now about how every form of insurance is just like. it’s just paying taxes to a private corporation. like oh let’s all pay a little bit of money to these people so that if we need a lot of money later they can pay for it. and contribute to the public good by ensuring other people have enough money to pay for injuries/fix their car/house/get healthcare
it’s literally just
it’s just taxes it should just be taxes
Taxes are bad and evil so instead I pay money to a private corporation whose best interest is to resist giving me a payout at all costs and also a portion of that money goes to a CEO being paid millions of dollars. This is a better system. /sarcasm
i know. i know it’s been terrible forever and i’ve known that forever but i can’t stop thinking now about how every form of insurance is just like. it’s just paying taxes to a private corporation. like oh let’s all pay a little bit of money to these people so that if we need a lot of money later they can pay for it. and contribute to the public good by ensuring other people have enough money to pay for injuries/fix their car/house/get healthcare
it’s literally just
it’s just taxes it should just be taxes
Taxes are bad and evil so instead I pay money to a private corporation whose best interest is to resist giving me a payout at all costs and also a portion of that money goes to a CEO being paid millions of dollars. This is a better system. /sarcasm
Grian having black widow symbolism for always getting his friends killed and then calling his base where both of his teammates died “the spider’s nest” is insane actually
much better footage of the haka that shut down parliament today
this is on my blog at least 5 times already but i had to reblog it again, because i was catching up on local news from this morning (mostly following the hīkoi which i sadly couldn’t attend bc disability)
and maipi-clarke (the girl starting the haka) spoke briefly on this going viral
but instead they handed the bill to her. and this is speculation on my part, but given how our current right wing government has been pulling out a lot of dirty tricks lately to avoid māori protests, i wouldn’t be surprised if they gave it to the youngest member of parliament (she’s only 22), because they figured she would be the least likely to be brave and step up
so i just wanna congratulate her again for sticking to it, they tried to use her inexperience to shut her up and she just went okay, i’m leading this now, and good for her
i can’t stop thinking about this. this kind of shit is not like milsim plane nerds with their own super-expensive desktop cockpit recreations. that kind of hardware makes sense to exist.
this does not. they’re playing world of tanks which is like the “call of duty” of tank games (casual, players only slightly bad-smelling). it also doesn’t have support for tank peripherals. no game does. no trainers do afaik. which means that (assuming this isn’t just a video editing) all of that shit they are fucking with translates into mouse/keyboard inputs that the game understands. that’s weird/hard and perplexing, uh, and considering that “tank peripherals” aren’t a thing that exist i can only guess they built them theirselves
which is fucking hilarious because why are they so good. why does the fucking cannon breech have a little dry ice smoke effect when the breech opens like they just shot a shell. what. manual turret traverse crank?? did they build a fucking ready rack!! they’re even using the correct phraseology which means one of these mofos read a PDF file
gamecube was the best designed controller of all time exclusively for the button cluster that gave you easy thumb roll access to all buttons but also gave you the a button as a thumb rest (because it’s the one you press the most) and took into account the frequency with which each button gets pressed in its design rather than doing the stupid diamond design that gives no button priority and rests your thumb in the shitty blank space between buttons
The Diamond Button Layout Is The Bleeding Stump Where Form Cut Function’s Head Off
BTW i was wrong about this but in a cool way where it reveals somthing. gamecube controller was best Because it was on gamecube, because it could only be used for gamecube games that in turn could ideally rely on and take advantage of its unique layout and the design assumptions made by it. for a game where you really do press a the most and all the other shit i said the gamecube layout is best, BUT as consoles became less and less distinct from each other and games werent necessarily made for a specific console a standardized layout became necessary and good and while i still believe the button diamond is never gonna feel good as the gamecube cluster within its context, claiming that it was a matter of form over function was wrong of me because like. its not. this post has been an albatross around my neck ever since i realized i was wrong so i periodically come in and refine my understanding of why i was wrong as like a pain ritual/attempt to mitigate how stupid i look online
I’ve posted this before, but I will never be over it.
truth to this- i worked with a longtime director of law and order and he told me the guy who wrote the theme was an eccentric who made an obscene amount of money off that sound alone and is lesser known as the clarinetist from sonny and cher’s “i got you babe”
I’m going to add to this with advice for any teacher running into this situation.
Ask to borrow the kid’s computer for a second, and use the AI. Pick a word, then pick a letter that is not in that word. Ask chatGPT how many times that letter appears in said word. (Avoid “how many Ns in Mayonnaise” because that went viral and got trained out.) Hell, give ChatGPT multiple tries. Ask it to demonstrate each time that letter appears in a word.
Let the entire class witness chatGPT fail. Because it cannot count. It cannot spell. It cannot think. Please put your lesson plans aside for a class and use it as a learning opportunity.
To add to your arsenal for educating these kids, please look into the concept of AI hallucination. AI cannot perceive things and has no ability to think critically, which means it cannot tell what’s real and what’s not. Really drill into these kids that they are better off asking advice from a toddler.
I used the characterAI bot instead of chatGPT in this case, but chatGPT has the same issues, because neither bot is capable of thinking about what it’s saying.
Cause we can hear all of your internal monologues that even you don’t listen to, and we chatter hysterically to drown out the noise of your hatred for us (plus feeling everybody else’s feelings for them all the time is like doing emotional speedballs). We can’t help it, so just shut up and hate us like you always do since we can hear your thoughts anyway (you have that nose ring ‘cause your mother didn’t love you, but we love you, we have to)
when a mutual posts a poll you know nothing about, but they say “orangutan johnson my beloved, orangutan johnson sweep!!!!” you vote for orangutan johhnson. it’s called loyalty.
I feel like plushies come alive under low light. Look at the way her eyes are illuminated! There’s a little bit of magic in that border between light and dark.
my first queer experience was when i was 17 and playing spin the bottle at a party and it landed on a girl. the thing is, the version we were all playing was a seven mins in heaven one rather than a simple kiss one.
the girl was all for it, i was not. i was in no way homophobic, or so i thought, at the time. my brother and aunt were both queer, so to me it had never been an issue. but the thought of a pretty girl being all game to kiss me in the closet of my best friends bedroom made my skin crawl.
spoiler alert: i had a big fat crush and didn’t know how to deal with it.
and so i panicked, and went into the closet. we both started talking at the same time. she let me go first, i rambled and thought i had really fucked up when she simply put a hand on my arm and asked if she could kiss me. i let her.
we are both now 24 and 25 and have been living with each other since last november. i still sometimes struggle with my internalised homophobia, but she’s there through it all and i’m so grateful for her. i’m going to ask her to marry me sometime this year :)
thinking about that german tik tok I saw that was like “maybe ai can do my job, but can ai replicate my Arbeitszeitbetrug? No that’s real craftsmanship”
Excited to announce my new feature film adapting Homer’s Odyssey, an action packed mythological epic following famed hero Odysseus on his 10 year long journey home, starring Chris Pratt as Odysseus
it’s so funny to me when I talk about being trans to a cis person and they go “man, I wish I could change my name… i always liked the name [whatever] for myself.” like. you know that you can change your name as a cis person, right? you’re an adult, you can legally change your name to literally whatever. or you can just ask people to call you by a different name if you can’t afford the new name ID/passport bureaucracy shit, or if you’re a minor. you can do it, I believe in you.
In the N64 era, “Big Head Mode” was invented (or at least popularized) and there were several games that implemented it as a cheat code or unlockable setting.
But since then, thousand if not millions of games have been released, and the vast majority of them have not included this feature, despite it being easy to implement in a 3D engine, especially with the advent of skeletal animation.
I’m tempted to start a new patreon where I just release patches for games to have Big Head Mode re-added. With the commonality of Unity and Unity Marketplace assets, a large number of games could be trivially big-headed all at once!
I forgot to mention that the point of the patron was to be so people could vote on the next game to be big-headed.
Ppl who wanna change their name but don’t know what name they wanna change it to or don’t know what sounds good/suits them or whatever should be able to get paired with a girl who has 5,000 hours logged on the Sims. Like going to see an ancient oracle or something.
