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The “That’s immoral you shouldn’t write that, we need to get that taken down” discourse on tiktok right now is PISSING ME OFFF

Wdym you want censorship for a literal ARCHIVE are you fucking stupid

Ao3 was literally founded to preserve works that were largely getting taken down due to censorship

Censorship is the opposite of what Archive of Our Own stands for

The TAGS and WARNINGS are there for a REASON. Use them and stop complaining

The universal rule—don’t like, don’t read

It’s THAT simple

I'm going to *remembers suicide is often not a desire for death itself but rather an attempt to radically change one's life because the current state of being has become unbearable but the person can't think of any way to change it other than death* kill myself

Every time a woman makes a pink job or girl math or girl dinner or I'm just a girl joke I unfortunately have to kill a random man on the streets. And you may think this is cruel or unjust but in reality that's just the way the cookie crumbles

personally i find the recent explosion of misogyny and normalised belittlement of women incredibly disturbing no matter who's making the jokes

Ten years since we got one of the best soundtracks ever.

So one of my tweets kinda blew up. :v

This reminds me of the time that a Hungarian doctor called Ignaz Semmelweiss noticed that the bulk of patients in a maternity ward treated by doctors were dying horribly, while the ones treated by nurses were more likely to survive.

He figured out that this was because the doctors were dissecting corpses inbetween delivering babies, while the nurses weren’t, and came up with his controversial “hey, why don’t we all wash our filthy, filthy hands before sticking them in a woman?” theory.

The result, short term, was that the mortality rate on this one maternity ward decreased by a ridiculous amount. They went from “write your will before you come here, because you’re probably gonna die” to “we’re not 100% sure, but you’ll probably live”.

The result, long term, was that Semmelweiss was hated by absolutely everybody, lost his reputation and had his career suffer terribly.

His eventual reward was that eventually people finally started sashimg their hands with soap before operations, history remembers him as a misunderstood hero, and the instinctive angry and defensive reaction so many people give whenconfronted with new ideas that conflict with their established view of the world is now called ‘the Semmelweiss reflex’.

Because some people care more about themselves not being wrong than they do about things in general being right.

Because some people care more about themselves not being wrong than they do about things in general being right.

Gamefreak you can do the funniest thing with Feraligatr

I rarely bring this up because it feels like fairly silly and low-stakes compared to all the other effects of american imperialism, but one of the funniest things when Americans deny that living in the imperial core and the center of global cultural hegemony confers them any sort of privilege over people from the imperial periphery is that like. In order for this conversation where you tell me you have no privilege over me to even be able to take place one of us had to learn the other's language, and it wasn't you.

I think the fact that by default the onus of learning the other's language to enable communication is always put on the other side is a pretty significant privilege on the cultural front.

Someone commented this post with "So if I learned, say, Hawaiian and talked to a hawaiian person, then the hawaiian would be privileged? Come on, think about what you're writing, man" and then blocked me as soon as I tried to reply, so.

Monolingual anglophones are a deeply solipsistic people unable to think about international power dynamics on any level beyond the individual to comprehend that "one guy making the individual choice to learn your language" does not represent the same level of linguistic hegemony and privilege as "millions of people all over the world learning specifically your language because they're expected to be able to speak it as a near-universal requirement for any kind of upward mobility while learning a second language is never expected of you"

This also goes so much further than people think. Not only does everyone has to learn the language of the imperialist to be heard at all, they're simultaneously facing the constant americanisation of their own language.

Simple example: when the term 'Person of Color' became the dominant way to describe 'everyone except white people' in the United States, within the next 5 years a shit ton of languages adopted a literal word-by-word translation of 'Person of Color' as their dominant way to describe 'everyone except white people'.

Was that the way the local racialized community wanted to describe themselves? Something that came organically from their own needs and experiences? FUCK NO. But no other term stood a chance in the storm of English-dominant media. And so a word that people use to describe something vital to their own lived experience, was shaped by the needs and priorities of Americans.

And the same is true for a word like 'transgender'. And when the US trans community started spreading 'they/them' as THE genderneutral pronoun, within the next 5 years trans communities in a shit ton of languages adopted the same two-plurals-we-already-use combination as their genderneutral pronoun. Was that what nonbinary people around the world wanted? FUCK NO. But no other pronouns stood a chance once English set the standard.

And that how it works with everything because language isn't just a tool, it's a framework for looking at the world. So before we're even communicating, we already have to adopt a language framework that was build to represent the perspectives of Americans and meet the needs of Americans, down to deeply intimate things like 'what do I call my identity'.

I am loved! 😊 [white knuckle gripping the sink unable to meet my own bloodshot eyes]

now that trump has tiktok, twitter, facebook and insta in his pocket, get ready for a massive wave of internet censorship. one of trump's greatest weapons has always been misinformation; it's going to become harder and harder to spread facts and criticism going forward. posts that aren't made invisible will be magically ignored by the algorithm. dissidents will have their accounts deleted and voices erased.

this is a suppression tactic. this is another stage of fascism.

This definitely seems like a good time to pull these out

I'll also provide some of my advice:

If anyone has any other pages that talk about fact checking and how to fact check social media posts, do let me know.

if you were a romanceable/ friendshippable character in a farming sim what gifts would you need to receive to boost your approval rating. asking because i just received two (2) cannolis, unprompted, and i could physically feel my serotonin increasing and i did gasp out loud