Fucking wild to be teaching about Rosa Parks at the same time as a trans woman in Florida does an act of civil disobedience to use a women's restroom in the state capitol

As far as I know, she is the first woman arrested bc of this law. The law requires that the trans person be warned to leave the bathroom by a state official, and then if they stay they are guilty of trespassing after a warning.

So like, me, my gf, others just piss and nobody asks or tells, but this young woman sent a statement about the law to over 100 FL lawmakers so they would know she was coming, the cops were ready for her, she brought a reporter and went in anyway and spent the night in a men's jail. She is out on bail, and is hoping this will inspire change of the law. But if found guilty, and the law is upheld as constitutional, then she could spend up to 60 days in a mens county jail.

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Never kill yourself.

so for all my hollow knight enjoyers, silksong announcement just got dropped in the middle of the switch 2 direct with absolutely no ceremony, and that is hilarious to me.

silksong summoning circle

IT WORKED

starting a collection #blackmold

not only this but arad "served" during the 1967 naksa which displaced 300,000 people and COMPLETELY emptied the villages of bayt nuba, imwas, and yalo. like he participated in an event that was (until the last year) one of the biggest iterations of the nakba ever.

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I swear to God, if someone were to trap 2 million animals, deprive them of food and water, and kill 50,000 of them, the world would be shaken by this catastrophe and brutality.

What's happening is unbelievable, illogical. We are human beings... human beings!!

If we do not die from the occupation's bombing, we will die in the air Please help us and donate to our families here.

it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.

you can't un-nepo the baby, can you?

no, hard labor earned through one’s own skill set will kill the patient, they need an unsupervised email job to live

Here's a key part of the transfemme experience that is very overlooked: when you don't pass, people don't actually see you as a man, or treat you like a man.

Men are generally treated with a level of respect and seriousness that transfemme people don't get. Even if they don't see you as a woman, they still know they can talk over you, they still know to view you as a sexual object.

I think this is also why discussions of "male socialisation" are often very unproductive. I sure as hell wasn't getting treated like the other boys, my abusers definitely understood that. There must be a better word to describe it, but I think there's a huge difference between growing up as a boy and growing up as a "faggot".

its a key part of the policing and reinforcement of masculinity that if you fail to meet the standard of masculinity you are A Faggot and the faggot is someone you can harass and assault. the fear of that disenfranchisement is what drives the performance of masculinity to such a ridiculous degree that people don't wash their assholes or whatever. the benefits of masculinity are not conferred by default they're the reward you receive for being strong and dominant and heterosexual. deviate and you are no longer a man, you are a weak degendered pansy. faggot is the third gender

i think for women who are utterly denied any access to male privilege, it looks binary: on or off. men have it, women don't. all men have an advantage over all women.

but the thing is that it's not a free ride or even a birthright. IT'S A CONTRACT.

you are awarded male privilege when you achieve masculinity and the way you achieve that masculinity is in maintaining, promoting, and enforcing male supremacy. if you break your contract by failure, or even worse by deliberate abdication of the terms, boop! you're punished until you stop or escape or die. privilege means private law, and it cuts both ways: the benefits men award their winners are much nicer than what women get, but the punishment the losers and the traitors get are much worse.

source: im a trans man.

how i'm handling my students using AI to write papers:

-don't accuse them on using AI from the get-go and instead ask them to informally define all the huge words that they used in their essay which i know they don't know the meaning of

-ask to see their original file where they "wrote" the essay. go to version history to see if it was just copy and pasted and then just edited a bit. i keep an eye out for the shit like "certainly! here's an essay about...."

-if they own up to it, they can re-do the assignment for a higher grade even if there will be an automatic penalty. if they don't, i process it like plagiarism and get my supervisor involved.

And this is much better than the immediate accusations. Some students have a good vocabulary. Stop accusing them of faking their essays without proof, and this is a good way to check.

Fellow students please stop using AI, go back to promising not to kill the school nerd if they do all your homework or something.

I’ve decided that all bats fall somewhere on this horrid little graph I’ve devised. Here are some prime examples of the various Creature Varieties found in nature.

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