…I want to just draw a fashion zine of just Miss Piggy, oh my god. she is so underrated and underutilized, where is my succession-like muppets satire thing LOL I want it so bad. let me do it disney call me pls
coffee shop by my house hired a new barista who is extraordinarily hot and flirts with me incessantly but she also makes the worst - and i truly mean the worst - coffee i’ve ever paid for. atrociously bad. just another of god’s little jokes
just remembered the barista who worked there last year and treated me with an attitude generally reserved for children and the incompetent to the point where she would frequently adjust my drink order in front of me and every single time it was BANGIN’
any statistic that shows that trans men are more oppressed than trans women or vice versa feels irrelevant because the difference is always negligible and changes between studies. i’ve seen studies that say trans women are sexually assaulted more often, that trans men are sexually assaulted more often, that trans women are more likely to live in poverty, that trans men are more likely to live in poverty - you get the gist - both while doing my own research and from sources i’ve been given by other people
the majority of the time the full picture is trans people do not have wildly different experiences from each other. the majority of the time race is more of an influence in the violence trans people face than their gender. unfortunately, people use statistics to fuel their confirmation bias over petty “trans men are more oppressed” and “trans women are more oppressed” discourse that does nothing but make talking about transphobia an active minefield.
i see this especially when people argue against statistics that don’t fit their own narrative of one kind of transphobia being worse than the other argue that it’s because hyperinvisibility makes it go underreported, while simultaneously ignoring or downplaying the invisibility that the other side faces. it’s all blatantly biased
this isn’t to say transmisogyny and antitransmasculinity have no meaningful differences, they do, but the idea that one is provably “worse” is almost never backed up by in-depth research and usually stems from the biased perspective of one person who only experiences one kind of oppression and not the other, and automatically assumes that the other one isn’t as bad because they haven’t seen the full extent of it
it’s inherently a losing battle and ultimately just takes away from discussions of transmisogyny and antitransmasculinity by turning what could’ve been valuable essays and theory into pissing contests that barely even talk about transmisogyny or antitransmasculinity
the moral of the story is you people need to listen to each other more
Transmasc and transfem people experience different forms of oppression (and we should listen to each other to learn more about that)
But arguing about who is oppressed more and who is less privileged isn’t productive. It’s not a contest and we should not be enemies.
Even if one group is more oppressed than the other, it wouldn’t make a difference to the fact that we need to listen to each other about the unique forms of oppression each of us face.
Thank you, @w1cked-w1tch , for invoking the phrase Oppression Olympics.
any statistic that shows that trans men are more oppressed than trans women or vice versa feels irrelevant because the difference is always negligible and changes between studies. i’ve seen studies that say trans women are sexually assaulted more often, that trans men are sexually assaulted more often, that trans women are more likely to live in poverty, that trans men are more likely to live in poverty - you get the gist - both while doing my own research and from sources i’ve been given by other people
the majority of the time the full picture is trans people do not have wildly different experiences from each other. the majority of the time race is more of an influence in the violence trans people face than their gender. unfortunately, people use statistics to fuel their confirmation bias over petty “trans men are more oppressed” and “trans women are more oppressed” discourse that does nothing but make talking about transphobia an active minefield.
i see this especially when people argue against statistics that don’t fit their own narrative of one kind of transphobia being worse than the other argue that it’s because hyperinvisibility makes it go underreported, while simultaneously ignoring or downplaying the invisibility that the other side faces. it’s all blatantly biased
this isn’t to say transmisogyny and antitransmasculinity have no meaningful differences, they do, but the idea that one is provably “worse” is almost never backed up by in-depth research and usually stems from the biased perspective of one person who only experiences one kind of oppression and not the other, and automatically assumes that the other one isn’t as bad because they haven’t seen the full extent of it
it’s inherently a losing battle and ultimately just takes away from discussions of transmisogyny and antitransmasculinity by turning what could’ve been valuable essays and theory into pissing contests that barely even talk about transmisogyny or antitransmasculinity
the moral of the story is you people need to listen to each other more
Transmasc and transfem people experience different forms of oppression (and we should listen to each other to learn more about that)
But arguing about who is oppressed more and who is less privileged isn’t productive. It’s not a contest and we should not be enemies.
Even if one group is more oppressed than the other, it wouldn’t make a difference to the fact that we need to listen to each other about the unique forms of oppression each of us face.
Thank you, @w1cked-w1tch , for invoking the phrase Oppression Olympics.
reminder that being against ai also means being against character.ai and not using character.ai and not interacting with character.ai
i’ve never talked to chatgpt i’ve never talked to character.ai i have no interest in talking to a chatbot even if it’s fun or based on my comfort character. if we want companies to stop using ai we need to tell them we aren’t going to interact with it - so don’t.
don’t talk to robots. full stop.
if you’re seeing this it means you’re on tumblr. there are like 600 gay people on here who will rp with you, you don’t need c.ai for anything
“My mistake was in thinking that you had any integrity,” I hissed, before realizing that that was far too badass a line to be said to a snapped hairtie.
Depression is such an effective tranquilizer that it creates a great opportunity for plot twists in your real life. I have a pretty consistent opinion of myself which is “low” and “never ending guilt and shame for reasons I don’t understand.”
Recently received feedback from two different editing clients that started with “Please pass along to Jacquelynn that she is phenomenal at her job” and “I was blown away by the evaluation I received.”
You always hear about how depression (and anxiety) lies to you and distorts reality, but there is logically knowing that and then there is like, physical proof of it and you are suddenly Neo in the Matrix jumping out of the fucked up little tube machine.
Look, medication and therapy are essential, but I think we shouldn’t underestimate this form of treatment
*covered in blood* i will…. *trembling* CHOOSE TO BE KIND… *in pain* i will be… NICE to others… *wanting to kill* i will see good in EVERYONE *yelding a knife* i will NOT be like those who hurt me… *screaming* i will be BETTER than who i was…
So I read this article a few days ago, and I have been haunted by it ever since.
This young woman, Nevaeh, had an “oops” pregnancy. As you may have already guessed, she was from a Christian background–her name, “Heaven,” spelled backwards, is popular in Evangelical circles. She, “believed abortion was morally wrong,” and “didn’t care whether the government banned it,” since she wouldn’t have chosen to have one anyway.
Instead, she decided to carry the pregnancy to term and raise the baby, with the support of her mother and her boyfriend, the baby’s father. Her boyfriend, the baby’s father, gave her a diamond promise ring, and she picked out a name–Lillian–and planned a baby shower.
On the day of the baby shower, she felt unwell, then developed a fever and began vomiting. Her mother took to her to the ER, where she was given a prescription for antibiotics and sent home. A few hours later, she felt even worse, and her mother took her to the other hospital in their town, which had an obstetric emergency room. They did some tests, including checking the fetal heart rate, and told her the baby was fine. The gave her IV fluids and antibiotics, recorded her increasing fever, fast pulse, and high fetal heart rate, and sent her home again. She had to be taken out to the car in a wheelchair, because her pain was so bad.
A few hours later, she started bleeding, and they went back to the hospital with the obstetric emergency department. There, a different doctor did an ultrasound and was unable to find a fetal heartbeat.
Under Texas law, a medical practitioner faces up to 99 years in prison for performing any intervention that ends a fetal heartbeat. So, at this point, the doctors were free to treat her like a seriously ill human being, and not an ambulatory vessel for a life more valuable than her own–however, they hadn’t recorded the first ultrasound. To ensure they could demonstrate compliance with the law, the doctor ordered a second one.
Somehow, that ended up taking about an hour and a half, during which time Neveah’s condition got worse. By the time the second ultrasound was done, and the doctor was able to order a D&C to remove the deceased fetus, she was too weak to sign the release forms–her mother had to sign for her.
Before they got her into the operating room, she was dead.
If they were going to make an exception for anybody, they would have made one for her: a pro-life, Christian girl, who responded to her unplanned pregnancy by getting excited about becoming a mom. Who was not just unwell, not just in danger, but actually dying when she was refused care.
The Texas fetal heartbeat law does have an exception when the mother’s life is at immediate risk. However, the Texas Attorney General has made clear–and several Trump-appointed judges have backed him up–to Texas doctors that they will be charged with homicide if he, who has no medical credentials whatsoever, disagrees with their professional judgment that a procedure which ended a fetal heartbeat was necessary to safe the life of the mother. That’s why the doctor needed that second ultrasound.
That’s probably why the other two doctors sent Nevaeh home: they couldn’t be accused of an intervention that ended the fetal heartbeat, if they didn’t intervene.
The leopards that eat people’s faces, like all predators, go for the most vulnerable members of the herd. The guy up front on the podium, getting rich off bloviating about how leopards just have to eat a person’s face from time to time, he’s safe–not because of any loyalty on the part of the leopards, but because others in the group are softer targets.
I’m tired of people saying that this is ‘a safe space for all’ but when I talk about my cursed amulet one time suddenly I’m 'a danger to us all’ and 'need to destroy the damnèd thing’. Honestly you people
Look, this post has been wildly more popular than I thought it deserved, apparently at least in part because “don’t burden others; be independent” is far more ingrained in people than I realized. So here’s the thing: society works when people help each other. Helping others gives people a chance to know each other, and gives them an investment in the people they help. Helping creates bonds. People enjoy helping, and you are doing a good by letting them help you if they so wish.
Offer help; accept help. You will be a part of creating a helping culture. Which, incidentally, weakens capitalism and the fractionation between people that benefits those who would use us.
I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence
Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.
Switch to linux, it’s free and it’s good.
u r absolutely right I have SO many complaints about Windows omg.
For anyone who’d like to follow along, I’m gonna share how to get around those things with group policies bc they’re more user friendly and descriptive than registry editor imo :3 I’ll also show how to get around needing a Microsoft account to get setup.
For the Device Setup
“OOBE” stands for Out Of Box Experience which is what that setup workflow is. But it also happens to be a folder with a little program in it that’ll let you skip connecting to the internet; this makes it so you don’t have to sign up with a Microsoft account and can just use a normal local one instead. And it already comes preinstalled! Here’s how you get to it:
Hold Shift+ F10, or Shift + Fn + F10 depending on your keyboard.
Click inside the window that pops up, type the following and press enter afterwards to run it: OOBE\BypassNRO
I believe it should restart your computer automatically, but if not then restart your computer or type: shutdown /r /t 0 /f
Now when you’re brought back to the setup workflow, the page where you connect to the internet will have a new button on it that lets you say you don’t have internet. Clicking that and proceeding through the rest of the setup lets you get around the Microsoft account thing.
Group Policies
You don’t have to know much about them, these are just a bunch of specific settings for what your computer can or can’t do that lets you decide how it works in different ways.
I’m gonna show you how to turn off the recommendations and internet stuff basically. For now bring up search and type gpedit, pick this
It’ll open up to Local Group Policy Editor and we can get started :3c
Start Recommendations
In the side menu, go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar. Click on Settings to sort them with all the “Turn off” ones bumped to the top.
Here’s what you should set:
Turn off user tracking: enabled
Turn off feature advertisement balloon notifications: enabled
Remove Recommended section from Start Menu: enabled
Remove Personalized Website Recommendations from the Recommended section in the Start Menu: enabled
Do not search Internet: enabled
Windows Spotlight
Back in the side menu, go down to Windows Components > Cloud Content
Turn off all Windows spotlight features: enabled
Do not use diagnostic data for tailored experiences: enabled
Cortana
In the side menu, this one’s back at the top under Computer Configuration. You’re gonna want to go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search
Allow Cortana: disabled
Don’t search the web or display web results in Search: enabled
News and Interests
In the side menu go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > News and interests.
Enable news and interests on the taskbar: disabled
Microsoft Account Login Nudges
When you don’t use a Microsoft account they’ll nudge you repeatedly to sign in so you can “get the most out of your experience” *gag*. The group policy for turning that off has a note that suggests it might not work with Windows 11 though (implicitly), so you can close the group policy editor window now and for this last one let’s just open up the regular settings.
Go to System > Notifications > Additional settings, then uncheck all the boxes. And there ya go! (✿◠‿◠)ﾉ u are done.
Group policies are kind of a rabbit hole so while there is a lot more you could change or read into, for your own sanity’s sake I would advise against it and say call it a day lol
This is all extremely good information, thank you very much for the addition!
I endorse this as an IT technician. I do this to every new Win11 device I set up.
As a bonus, run Chris Titus Tech’s debloat tool on it.
It allows you to add tools, remove/disable shitty parts of windows, and easily change some settings. My default is running the preset for a desktop/laptop and applying security update settings, but there are so many options to customize. I used it on my personal laptop.
An incredible resource this post, required reading really
Yep. If for whatever reason you need to use windows, this is the first step
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