You can spice up your baby shower by taxing the rich!

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.

Growing up, I was taught Rosa Parks was a helpless victim. She, of course, was a victim but she was not helpless. She knew exactly what she was doing when she refused to move. It's because of her courageous act of protest many of us remember the horrible discrimination laws that existed then.

People who want to erase the power of protestors will twist the narrative to portray the victim as meek and fragile. Like those protesting just wanted peace in the moment.

But, like op stated, this trans woman wanted the world to see. She wanted to direct all eyes towards the discriminatory laws in place the same way Rosa Parks did.

People who stand up to bigotry in this manner do not want peace in the moment. They want the violence highlighted so peace will come for those after them. It's a sacrifice. They look their oppressors in the eye and bait them so the world can see how ugly the system is. They know very well they will likely be arrested or even killed. But, that too is part of the message.

Activists like this make an extremely hard decision to sacrifice their well-being for the sake of human rights.

I hope this courageous woman can safely resume her life and I hope her form of protest is heard across the country.

nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations

it's called the Switch 2 because you Switch 2 a cheaper hobby

“I’m just a girl” first of all you’re a grown ass woman second of all free yourself

UM GUYS. I JUST NOTICED A CRAZY ISSUE W THE TUMBLR UPDATE.

YOU CAN SEE THE ICONS OF ANONS SOMETIMES.

The way I was able to recognize several anons in one of my inboxes bc of this error. Oh my god. Guys. This isn’t supposed to happen.

Weighing in to say:

YES, I SEE THIS ON MOBILE. HOWEVER I DO **NOT** THINK IT'S SHOWING THE ANON'S REAL IDENTITY.

The profile pictures I see next to anon asks are profile pictures that belong to other, non-anon asks in my ask box also. Some info

I think the bug is the inbox INCORRECTLY attributing anons to neighboring, logged-in asks.

Which is still a bad bug! Considering it makes it look like a long-time follower of mine sent me a spam ask.

And is worse if, say, one of these was anon hate.

But it's NOT the anon's real identity. It's a neighboring ask asker's identity

So if you have anon hate in your inbox that looks like it's attributed to your dear friend, who sends you lovely asks all the time, it was Not them.

CONFIRMED THE BUG IS INCORRECT ATTRIBUTION.

Thanks @thepatchycat for being a test subject. As you can see the icon being attributed to this ask is NOT the patchy cat

The pictured icon belongs to @watchingforcomets who sent me a nice ask about nail polish yesterday which I have not yet answered!

"Stealth trans men have privilege over cis women" worstie that is not correct

how would a guy who is correctly recognized as male in every aspect of his life, to the point he navigates the world identically to a cis man and cannot be recognized as trans by others unless he discloses it, not have privilege over women - cis or otherwise? is systemic misogyny just not real to you. are you somehow misunderstanding what "stealth" means. this is such a confusing assertion.

Well you said it yourself - "navigates the world identically to a cis man". Trans men do not do this, and cannot do this, by nature of being trans. There is always some aspect which separates the experiences of trans men with cis men, even if the trans men themselves are stealth.

For example, a trans man who has had all of the surgeries and all of the hormones and all the legal document changes still

1. Had to live a life experience before all of that happened, and unless they never interacted with anyone ever, there runs the risk of people from their past outing them.

2. In that same vein, can never talk about their foundational experiences growing up unless they heavily bend the truth or lie (or unless they transitioned at, like, 3 months old??)

3. Still had to go through the surgeries, which is accessing a medical system, which may or may not have discriminated against them for being trans (rather than privileging them for being a man)

4. Some countries, like mine for example, keep a record of your name change on your birth certificate, so even if I had all the legal and physical changes, having to provide proof of citizenship would immediately out me. In a similar vein, to prevent fraud, many government organisations ask if you have ever been known by any other names. This outs people immediately.

5. Again, with medical care, you would need to provide a list of your medical history to your practitioner, which would out you

6. Most trans guys that pass are still on testosterone, they do not stop it. This is another area where trans men may be discriminated against - for example right now in the US they are trying really fucking hard to ban HRT. Some insurance companies won't approve of prescriptions because of the nature of the prescription. This is not a privilege

Not all trans men who are stealth have had all or any surgeries (like myself). This means:

1. I can still get pregnant and need care for that, which outs me, and opens me up to discrimination cis men would never face

2. I have to piss sitting down, because I can't afford an STP + packing underwear. I know this isn't a huge deal bc I know some cis men pee sitting too, but if you're in an area where people are constantly transvestigated or just a transphobic area, this may cause problems.

3. I can't wear certain shirts or tops because my binder will show. I can't go swimming. Tell me how that's a privilege lmao

4. When accessing medical care, I put myself at serious risk for transphobic treatment and harassment to the point where it might even be life ending - people may not do their proper duty because I am trans, and therefore something important may be missed that could risk my life

5. There is very little research about trans men's bodies and how things interact with testosterone HRT and other such things. For example, the symptoms of a heart attack look different for cis women and cis men. What do they look like for trans men 8 years on HRT? Do you know? No, seriously, do you know? I need to know this. I have a history of heart failure in my family.

Like I won't deny that stealth trans men can recieve social benefits/privileges when people misread them as cis men. I should know, I pass pretty fucking well all things considered. It's really weird when people talk to me when a woman I'm with has asked a question. However that is not the same as real systemic privileges, because at almost every turn interacting with systems throughout our lives, we will be outed or open to discrimination.

On top of that, even though I am stealth, as soon as people find out I'm trans, that privilege disappears immediately.

I don't think it's a privelige to also never be able to talk about my childhood or my experiences as a trans person. I don't think it's a privelige to have to hide a part of myself and my identity for safety.

To put this another way, do you think bisexual people have straight privelige because they can date someone of a different gender and never talk about their queer identity? Or is that just being trapped into hiding who you are? Is that different for stealth trans men?

I just think that if nintendo is going to create a feature that even gets a dedicated button as part of the selling point then you should not need to pay a subscription service just to use it

every time i see a picture of a coyote i am immediately like "omg my friend Cable Ties!"

My friend Cable Ties

figurines by TheSafflowerField

DELTWRUNE ANNOYNCED H MY FUCKUNG GOD

Never kill yourself.

Some of my favorites from anilist April Fools day