Experience: Learning the right way to connect the dots.
This is the best representation of something I have been trying to explain to people for years!!!! Saving this to my phone so I can routinely pull it out when I need.
Experience: Learning the right way to connect the dots.
This is the best representation of something I have been trying to explain to people for years!!!! Saving this to my phone so I can routinely pull it out when I need.
Experience: Learning the right way to connect the dots.
This is the best representation of something I have been trying to explain to people for years!!!! Saving this to my phone so I can routinely pull it out when I need.
Me: -so after it became apparent that ‘retarded’ had become a term of abuse, educators and psychiatrists switched to other terms like ‘handicapped’ or ‘special needs’ in an attempt to -
George Orwell, whom I’ve dragged forward in time with my arcane powers because I’m lonely and want someone to talk to: You have a telephone in your pocket? It listens to you all the time?
Me: Never mind about that, the point is, young people now mock each other by sending the wheelchair emoji - that’s a type of electronic heiroglyph - to suggest mental deficiency and shout SPESHUL!!!! while doing offensive imitations of disabled facial expressions and posture. So any attempt to lexographically make crimethink impossible is pretty much doomed because the meaning of words in everyday conversation can’t be controlled by a dictionary entry, no matter how many Ministry of Truth employees-
Orwell: It reports your location to the telephone company at all times?
Ok but both the additions actually miss the point of the original, which is that Orwell is fixating on something which is actually MORE RELEVANT to his concerns than the language issue
The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.
Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.
So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.
Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.
I want to talk about how there are two distinct forms of androgyny;
Neutral trait androgyny: possessing sex traits which cannot be categorized as “female” or “male” individually. (example, having a middle-pitched voice, small almost-flat breasts/pecs, a nondescript build that is not read as “feminine” or “masculine”, a unisex hair style, etc)
Mixed trait androgyny: possessing traits which individually can be categorized as “female” or “male”, but in ‘wrong’ combination. (example, a very low voice + large breasts, facial hair + curvy build, etc “confusing” combinations of traits generally read as “feminine” or “masculine”)
I find personally that these forms of androgyny are generally met with a very different reaction from society generally.
minimalist and maximalist androgynous gender expression !! think that’s what I was calling them a few years ago. also possibly subtractive and additive.
I’m transfem, but not intersex far as I know, so feel free to tell me to delete this. just thoughts on androgyny from a nonbinary tgirl perspective.
the more you subtract, there less there is to assume, and the harder it is to point to a trait that “proves” (usually) maleness. intersexism and transmisogyny being siblings in some ways. the more neutral traits the easier it is to project. that person can be your femboy, your twink, “trans in every direction”, a “ butch” according to what twitter can handle, your tomboy. a blank slate.
the more you add, the harder the contradiction, the more these people’s brains short circuit. reads as a woman but has facial hair ?? bluescreen. no obviously the broader shoulders and deeper voice indicate some kind of fetishistic deviant male freak no matter how snatched its waist is.
society can project onto and otherwise ignore one whole the other is a visual challenge to its status quo. its system upheld in violence.
if i lived in the mushroom kingdom luigi and i would be best friends
mario and i would have a mutual respect for each other but we never really clicked
princess peach would have me executed via firing squad for the role i played in the infamous toad town murders of ‘96 but it would be later discovered that my involvement was greatly exaggerated and the severity of my sentence will weigh on peachs mind as she feels like it sullied her reputation as a fair and just ruler
Or water fountains, public washrooms, outdoors tables, etc, etc
Notice how removing seating doesnt actually prevent people from sitting it just makes them uncomfortable and makes public spaces more hostile it doesnt actually work at controlling their behavior not till a pig comes along anyways and they’ll harass a homeless person/teen whatever they’re sitting on.
Btw keep in mind how this also more dramatically affects disabled people, not everyone can stand for hours at a time or feasibly sit on the floor
Me: -so after it became apparent that ‘retarded’ had become a term of abuse, educators and psychiatrists switched to other terms like ‘handicapped’ or ‘special needs’ in an attempt to -
George Orwell, whom I’ve dragged forward in time with my arcane powers because I’m lonely and want someone to talk to: You have a telephone in your pocket? It listens to you all the time?
Me: Never mind about that, the point is, young people now mock each other by sending the wheelchair emoji - that’s a type of electronic heiroglyph - to suggest mental deficiency and shout SPESHUL!!!! while doing offensive imitations of disabled facial expressions and posture. So any attempt to lexographically make crimethink impossible is pretty much doomed because the meaning of words in everyday conversation can’t be controlled by a dictionary entry, no matter how many Ministry of Truth employees-
Orwell: It reports your location to the telephone company at all times?
Ok but both the additions actually miss the point of the original, which is that Orwell is fixating on something which is actually MORE RELEVANT to his concerns than the language issue
Me: -so after it became apparent that ‘retarded’ had become a term of abuse, educators and psychiatrists switched to other terms like ‘handicapped’ or ‘special needs’ in an attempt to -
George Orwell, whom I’ve dragged forward in time with my arcane powers because I’m lonely and want someone to talk to: You have a telephone in your pocket? It listens to you all the time?
Me: Never mind about that, the point is, young people now mock each other by sending the wheelchair emoji - that’s a type of electronic heiroglyph - to suggest mental deficiency and shout SPESHUL!!!! while doing offensive imitations of disabled facial expressions and posture. So any attempt to lexographically make crimethink impossible is pretty much doomed because the meaning of words in everyday conversation can’t be controlled by a dictionary entry, no matter how many Ministry of Truth employees-
Orwell: It reports your location to the telephone company at all times?
Ok but both the additions actually miss the point of the original, which is that Orwell is fixating on something which is actually MORE RELEVANT to his concerns than the language issue
Me: -so after it became apparent that ‘retarded’ had become a term of abuse, educators and psychiatrists switched to other terms like ‘handicapped’ or ‘special needs’ in an attempt to -
George Orwell, whom I’ve dragged forward in time with my arcane powers because I’m lonely and want someone to talk to: You have a telephone in your pocket? It listens to you all the time?
Me: Never mind about that, the point is, young people now mock each other by sending the wheelchair emoji - that’s a type of electronic heiroglyph - to suggest mental deficiency and shout SPESHUL!!!! while doing offensive imitations of disabled facial expressions and posture. So any attempt to lexographically make crimethink impossible is pretty much doomed because the meaning of words in everyday conversation can’t be controlled by a dictionary entry, no matter how many Ministry of Truth employees-
Orwell: It reports your location to the telephone company at all times?
Ok but both the additions actually miss the point of the original, which is that Orwell is fixating on something which is actually MORE RELEVANT to his concerns than the language issue
Me: -so after it became apparent that ‘retarded’ had become a term of abuse, educators and psychiatrists switched to other terms like ‘handicapped’ or ‘special needs’ in an attempt to -
George Orwell, whom I’ve dragged forward in time with my arcane powers because I’m lonely and want someone to talk to: You have a telephone in your pocket? It listens to you all the time?
Me: Never mind about that, the point is, young people now mock each other by sending the wheelchair emoji - that’s a type of electronic heiroglyph - to suggest mental deficiency and shout SPESHUL!!!! while doing offensive imitations of disabled facial expressions and posture. So any attempt to lexographically make crimethink impossible is pretty much doomed because the meaning of words in everyday conversation can’t be controlled by a dictionary entry, no matter how many Ministry of Truth employees-
Orwell: It reports your location to the telephone company at all times?
Ok but both the additions actually miss the point of the original, which is that Orwell is fixating on something which is actually MORE RELEVANT to his concerns than the language issue
The concept of “spyware” has disappeared from the common internet lingo after it became the case that the word could now be used to describe nearly every major website and a huge percentage of the most commonly-used software.
We should intentionally bring it back and start curating anti-spiware tools. Actually, let’s start calling adblock “anti-spyware”. We NEED to force the line here.
I use AdGuard Home with the “WindowsSpyBlocker” and “Firebog Easy Privacy” lists to block spyware across every device in my home network. all you need is a low-power computing device that you’re okay with leaving on 24/7 - something like a Raspberry Pi (even an old model 2 or 3) will do the trick, or you can use any old laptop you have gathering dust. AdGuard Home does not run on Windows, so you’ll need a Linux OS - I use Ubuntu Server.
despite the name, you don’t actually have to block ads with it. I leave ad-blocking to each of my devices individually, so I can override it easily when I need to. for example, AdAway on Android will block you from reaching the unsubscribe page for some email lists, and hitting a “proceed anyway” button on my phone is easier than going and temporarily switching off something running on a different computer.
the statistics page gives you some really interesting data. for example, you can easily see here that the main entity trying to spy on me is Microsoft, with live.com making up almost ¾ of blocked requests.
meanwhile, I have just discovered another server I probably want to block, because my washing machine, which I only connected to wifi so I could get notifications when it finishes a cycle, has phoned home to its manufacturer almost 3000 times today
listen if I weren’t the kind of person to keep something in my house after it proved itself unreliable, untrustworthy, and potentially deadly I would have gotten divorced years earlier
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