Fragments of Mad Science and Miscellany

important to state for the record that the British Supreme Court are idiots

they sound very scary when you describe them as The Supreme Court but remember, these are five dusty old cishets, one of whom is a weirdo who used to write homophobic documents for the Church of Scotland. I've seen so much commentary, even from pro-trans british journalists, about how the ruling is "forensic" and "balanced" and "rational" - no it isn't, it's clearly the work of people who don't know what they're talking about. You know how I know? They accidentally defined all bi women as lesbians. They said that the legal test for a lesbian is being an AFAB person attracted to another AFAB person, and at no point did anyone go, "Hang on a second, what about bi people?" Congratulations to terfs I guess, you were so excited to get rid of the T you got rid of the B!

This ruling is exactly what you'd expect from locking five old straight people in a room and asking them to set rules for queer life without speaking to any queer people. Their judgement is silly legal word games and it has no relation to real people's actual lives - if you wanna use lawyerspeak they've "undermined public confidence in the legal system." It's not even "the emperor has no clothes," it's "the emperor is naked and covered in shit."

i can kinda understand that politicians need to make a show of respect in their tone, like okay, probably a good thing that politicians don't get into the habit of publicly undermining judges. But any journalist who treats this ruling as remotely sensible is daft - only a straight person could make that kind of mistake

These judges are idiots - I use the word in the classical greek sense of someone who is not connected to and does not understand the life of the public, of the people. Their judgement is laughable and we don't have to respect them

The worst thing you can do, as someone who has recently realised they are transfem, is to let terves and transphobes convince you cis women will never accept you.

I was told that when I came out everyone would reject me. That I would find myself isolated from the world, and from other women especially, who would react to me with horror and revulsion.

In reality, within the first months of coming out, in no particular order:

My sister's reaction on my coming out was, "Right, so I have a sister instead of a brother. Cool. I'm taking you clothes shopping tomorrow."

A friend, when she learned I am a woman, immediately invited me to her women-only, girls-night-out birthday party the following week.

Another friend, when a friend of hers expressed doubts about my gender, immediately shut them down and reaffirmed I am a woman.

I went camping with a group of friends, and we had two tents, one for the boys and one for the girls; I was unsure as to which I should enter, to which a girl friend responded by grabbing me and physically dragging me inside the women's tent.

In the women's bathroom at a movie theatre a random woman, whom I'd never seen before and haven't seen since, stopped me as I was going into a stall, to warn me there was no toilet paper in there, because she'd just used the last of it.

All of these, and more, some from friends, some from complete strangers. All within a few months, as a trans woman who hadn't started medical transition yet, and was very visible as being a trans woman.

I've had some people reject me, true, but the vast majority, including almost all cis women, accepted me as a sister with open arms.

Cis women are cool. It's terves who are bigots.

I needed to see this today

The witch is burning

everyone say thank you Dawn for providing me with the entire base for this outfit

super awesome outfit i just had to draw it

WHAT!! THATS SO FUCKING GOOD OMG

If you're in the US military or National Guard, and are given an illegal or unconstitutional order, the GI Rights hotline (1-877-447-4487) is there to help give you the support you need to do the right thing by refusing it. It would be good to think about this now before it becomes a live issue for you and it would be smart of you to memorize that number.

You can reblog this without your thoughts about the US Military, btw, that's allowed.

i love the idea of the pale as some kind of cognition pollution. a concentration of these abstract things—memory, thought, perception—accumulating to the point they begin to supersede reality itself. its kinda like those inframaterialists and their “plasm” idea, isnt it? only its not a class-based psychic energy that makes turnips grow and the laws of physics malleable to a communist’s whims. it simply erases.

a lot of in-game dialogue seems to point to the pale being a concentration of the past.

“The human mind becomes over-radiates by past.”

“Terrible nostalgia. For yourself. For humans.”

our ability as humans to reflect on the past, to long for it, to fantasize, to conceptualize—all abstract thought—is considered to be unique to us. its something horribly, miraculously new to elysium.

and maybe this radiating effect of the pale is like carbon emissions—eroding reality itself much like greenhouse gases erode away our atmosphere. elysium cannot support this overabundance of thought, of humanity.

dialogue from the phasmid seems to confirm this—or at least confirm that this is something harry believes.

“Instead of air, you exhale thoughts. There are no trees that eat thoughts.”

that oxygen holocaust mentioned by the phasmid, i’d never heard of it before but it actually happened in the real world. the great oxygenation event is hypothesized to have caused mass extinction here on earth:

The oxygen holocaust was “a long, protracted process that took place over hundreds of millions of years rather than a single abrupt event…”

“Your mind becomes so radiant with the past — there is a flip. Instead of writing, it erases memory.”

Shit man, this analyst war is fucked. I just saw a guy wipe his chalkboard and say "Calderón–Zygmund decomposition" or some similar shit, and every function around him split into cubes, had their large values explode, and then disappeared. A preprint wasn't even written, that's how common shit like this is. My ass is calculating epsilon-delta and second derivative. I think I just heard "power word: ergodicity" two research groups over. I gotta get the fuck outta here.

This is what we're talking about. This is the resistance someone can do in their everyday job. Judgement gets passed down and you're just supposed to dot the i's and cross the t's? Don't. Just refuse.

Now, I know an acting county clerk isn't just anyone - this man had a very unique opportunity to do some very serious blockading in his everyday job - but that's kind of the point! Nobody's just anyone. You never know when you'll have an opportunity.

A large part of the reason families were bigger in the past was because marital rape was not considered rape and birth control/abortion methods were ineffective, dangerous and/or illegal. We can dance around this and act like our great great great grandmothers just loveddddd being mamas so much that they decided out of their own free will to have 11 children. We can pretend that they DECIDED to have big families because it was a financially advantageous decision so they could have more labor around the farm. But a lot of children in the past were fundamentally unwanted and not conceived out of love, children were not a choice women got to make. We need to admit that and stop pretending historical women were inherently more maternal because they were impregnated at the age of 15 and kept having babies until they were 40. That did not make them loving mothers, it did not make them ‘the divine feminine’ and it sure did not make them happy.

queer ghost gang

may-day

thats too many notes!!!!

joking that an adult character who acts childish doesnt know what sex is will never be as funny as saying the same thing about a big tough murderman videogame protag

"papyrus doesnt know what sex is" is nothing "solid snake doesnt know what sex is" is an instant killer

nothing but respect for my ace king

Had a coworker who called me Young Ripper/Little Doom because I'd always go "RIP AND TEAR" whenever I was taking apart boxes or opening saran wrap, and then when I mentioned I was ace he straight up was like, "Oh, so you really are just Doom Guy, huh" and my gender and orientation have never been so validated in my life

Real observations since I started wearing a wizard hat daily:

- Brim is so wide that I stay BONE DRY taking walks in the rain

- Brim can be positioned to block the sun from ever getting in my eyes AND keeping it off the back of my neck

- The pointed top part creates an air pocket, keeping my head from getting hot or squishing my hair as it might in a ball cap

- Hat can easily be pulled down over the tips of my ears without looking dumb, protecting them from wind chill

- Strangers say they like my hat, giving me the chance to tell them that I am a wizard

- When you’re wearing a wizard hat, ALL OTHER FASHION CHOICES become secondary, allowing you to branch out with style

Embrace ego death. Stay protected from all elements. Wear a wizard hat.

this is the greatest advertisement of our culture ive ever seen

it's got solitaire btw. if you even care

oh my god it's got smallitaire

“its a gas mask”

for what?

“the gas”

fuckin based and also really fuckin funny, thank you FBG