shuihuzhuan:

shuihuzhuan:

does anyone remember that artist that was like “i’ll sexualize anything i’ll even sexualize a stop sign” and it was just them drawing a stop sign head on an anime woman body because like honestly that’s so embarrassing you can’t even do it properly

if you have to lean on that as a crutch you clearly won’t sexualize anything and need to study the masters. like whoever drew pregnant clippy

klapollo:

klapollo:

girl what about the humans

no offense to gorillas but the chocolate industry is so dependent on slavery that there is a dedicated cohort of “slave free chocolate” brands (directory here). I’m assuming this could be a trojan horse method but are we rly more empathetic to gorillas and jaguars than actual people in west africa and latam.

werewolfteacher:

ponponproblems-deactivated20250:

For no reason, here is Art Spiegelman’s 1991 graphic novel Maus, for free on the Internet Archive.

Maus : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

all the maus books

Internet Archive

I was reading an interview from two years ago about Maus being banned in a few places and this was in.

Art Spiegelman recognizes that trans people are going to be some of the first targets of bullshit and he’s out there speaking up.

cryingprussian:

“teens are prone to tantrums and are emotionally unstable” - okay, yeah, puberty is real, and emotional regulation is a difficult skill to learn. but also. any adult person would be pissed if their opinions were disregarded, they had no say in what happens to them, their emotions and feelings were downplayed and their privacy were intruded on.

pissvortex:

pissvortex:

I think it’s safe to say that America is no longer just a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie but a very literal and specific dictatorship of Donald J. Trump and you need to act accordingly

Why the fuck is this marked mature content man this is what i’m talking about 😭

liberalsarecool:

If this is not tax fraud, the laws need to be rewritten.

liberalsarecool:

These people think empathy is the problem.

philconnorz:

“don’t trace my art” cool “don’t steal my art” makes sense “don’t take inspo from my art” ????what the fuck are you talking about

multishipperpirateking:

yeahokayillreblogthat:

neurotypicalabusesurvivor:

This is a friendly reminder that none disabled people often do benefit from the same accommodations disabled people benefit from.

Yeah okay I’ll reblog that!!

My dad used to work for Vodafone and likes to tell a story about when he was working on a voicemail transcription service.

And there was a woman there who was some form of disability advocate (it was the 90s so her existence in the company was a minor miracle) and apparently she completely blew his mind on that project.

See, he’d imagined that this service was exclusively gonna be for deaf people. Obviously very useful for the very small number of people who couldn’t hear their phone, but why would you even own a mobile phone if you couldn’t hear?

But she described to him all the times he might want to read a message instead of listen to it. Maybe he was in a loud football crowd. Maybe there was important info that he needed to copy down that was spoken too fast. Maybe he was holding his sleeping newborn (me) and didn’t want his phone to be loud and wake them up.

This doesn’t feel as revolutionary as all that to those of us that have only ever known phones with the ability ‘send text message’, but given the timing and placement of this conversation I wonder if this woman and this project is *part of the reason text messaging exists*. The first text (SMS) message was sent by Vodafone UK in 1992 - where + when this conversation was happening - and then for a long time it was supported exclusively for 'messages from the carrier’, and this project was an early potential extra use of the SMS protocol.

So Yeh, building for disability is kinda handy..