"you can't call people eggs because some have internalized bigotries and they will push themselves further into the closet" personally i think it's good to force others to face their bigotries

average tumblr user imagines a perfect post gender future, but wants to achieve it in a way that won't inconvenience anyone because that's rude

Also, if someone refuses to accept they're trans, saying that they might be isn't the thing pushing them further into the closet, it's their existing bigotries. Meanwhile, a lot of trans people of every gender didn't know that being trans was an option until someone said it. Or even worse, they insist that they can't be trans because of XYZ and someone telling them that they can be trans, that they're allowed to be trans, is what pushes them out of the closet.

I care a lot more about helping trans people become themselves than offending someone who wouldn't accept their own trans-ness either way.

birdgirl revolutionaries staging a coo

cyber-nouveautype

des filles oiseaux révolutionnaires qui organisent un coucou d'état

“okay 💖 yay💖” really changed a generation

this evil version of it is killing me

A lot of people seem to think every trans woman who says she hates men and wants them all dead has the authority to make that happen and respond with hostility. well as the princess I do have the authority to make that happen and it will. ok? bye I love you

being a hater and being a troll are different but idk how to articulate the difference

Trolling inherently involves another person. A troll is trying to waste your time and/or generate a reaction. It is entirely cynical.

Hating can be done in private, even monasticslly. But hating at a person is an invitation to banter. The goal is to hit that perfect funny/cutting/true sweet spot, and it's fun if the target of your hating can return with an equally funny/cutting/true comeback.

The comments

“GL” can mean both “good luck” and “girls love”…. yuri blessing………

Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna) scritching himself

happy naked transsexual neighbor Sunday to all who celebrate

kind of crazy how they drop this bar like 20 minutes into the game. let me get up let me get uppp

Readies my attack animation

Holds it

Parries, too early

Recovers

Parries, too early again

Hey, hey! It's alright. This attack timing is really difficult. I'll count it down so you can get the timing perfect, okay? 3, 2, 1...

Parries

UNPARRYABLE HEAVY ATTACK

reposting because i completely fucked the numbers up the first time and adding the list of reps below.

House Members:

23/213 - 10.79%

Senators:

11/45 - 24.44%

TOTAL: 34/258 (13.17%)

i will say it's kind of sad seeing liberals around the internet react to this with "where's chris murphy?! where's jasmine crockett?! where's cory booker?!" or whoever their blorbo from politics happens to be. newsflash: they don't give a fuck. but that isn't stopping reddit from now deciding that "letters don't matter" (they don't, but this was not the consensus opinion until now) and that "there's only so much time in the day, maybe they didn't know about it!" outstanding stuff.

last reblog of this but i will also point out the irony of responding "who gives a fuck, letters don't matter" and yet "call and write your congressperson!" being the number one response to them not signing the letter

if you think there was a Good Old Days when people didn’t mind student protests or where “criticism of student protest was typically good-natured, even friendly” I think you are genuinely disconnected from reality.

This is from 2011 in the United States, and this is a fairly mild example of global repression of students.

microsoft has dramatically scaled back its ai-related data center plans. companies like klarna are re-hiring all the workers they gleefully laid off last year because they were trying to convince everyone (perhaps including themselves) that ai was the new hotness.

'ai' turns out to be more like facebook's 'meta' than the epoch-defining technological leap it was sold as. again, i attribute the all-in ai push both to groupthink among the ruling class, and to silicon valley's crisis of epistemology and power. they haven't made anything worth having in like a decade. they're starting to get scared that nobody takes them seriously any more. that people are tired of technofeudalist dipshits. the emperor has no clothes and, inexplicably, seven fingers on one hand and two on the other.

i've been saying from the start that it at most was a kind-of neat computer trick, not unlike google search or photoshop. neither the plagiarism-doing artist-hating machine the tumblr neurotics freaked out about, nor the plagiarism-doing artist-hating machine the tech guys loudly welcomed. and i was right. and if you thought differently i'm buying you the 'fell for it again' ribbon and i'm making you wear it.

imagine if you will a shy young pansexual in the alps solving the mystery of her outgoing asexual roommate's disappearance