is this one of your earth jokes?

when I say "being loved is a skill" I don't mean that:

what I mean is:

people loved me before I learnt the skill that is "being loved". it's just that my instincts all tell me to react in ways that are counterintuitive to the overall project of loving and being loved. it takes work to sort through these instincts and it takes work to let people into my life, and it takes a whole range of various skills to make that happen. none of that is my fault. and it's unfair that it's become my responsibility to do that work. but I'm not alone in the work and I hope you're not either

so many psych diagnoses work as post-hoc forms of gender (re)assignment, not in a literal way but in an interpersonal one - for obvious examples: borderline pd indexing a violent excess of 'femininity,' aspd a violent excess of 'masculinity'. the gendering of "types" of autism likewise make it convenient to assert intrinsic "neurological" roots for gendered behavior, a kind of gotcha against the increasing consensus that, um, that's (neurological gendered behavior) obviously not a thing.

now that the stereotype of autistics as hyper-rational, emotionless, and rigid has been done to death and thoroughly disproven, there needs to be some way to integrate this growing wave of late dx'd autistics who are or were once women/girls into a framework that clings so desperately to binary gender as its own diagnostic logic

see also: the idea parroted even by some 'progressives' that 'obviously so many autistic people are trans bc autism is intrinsically linked to Gender/Sexual Deviance'

See also: the Venn diagram between ABA abuse and conversion abuse being the same damn circle

As it turns out, gender is a series of repeated social behaviors performed in — hey… judith? Did you just come out of my walls?

like I'm sorry but I will keep posting about this until people stop being cunts and shitheads so I think we'll be here a good while. every time I talk about the colonial framing of australia and how colonialism is at work in modern day understandings of this country I only need to count to ten before every european and usamerican in sight starts spouting complete bullshit. why don't you all take a deep breath and examine why the fuck you're so wedded to the idea of australia you have in your head

"suggesting that Australia has uniquely hostile flora and fauna isn't wrong" FACT CHECK:

"aboriginal tribes" FUCK OFF!

"marsupials reign supreme" don't make me laugh

"most venomous and hostile" why are you putting those adjectives together?

"one of the less hospitable places on earth" colonialism check!

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movie theaters are so beautiful but you can’t live in there. They won’t let you

i'm cleaning my images folder at work. time to post it again because i'm too lazy to find the original post i made this for

#honestly this is just missing emet sitting on the ledge in lakeland Im pretty sure he did the shinji pose and all #I will never get over alphinaud sitting sadly on a chair though (@aethris-art x)

the team assembles

when the whole squad got aether sickness

getting a bit crowded

WAIT

team complete

#someone play the FF victory fanfare now (x)

ok last one

It’s all about the he/they she/they bullshit 🗣️🗣️🗣️

oh no our imperialist dominance over the world is crumbling and our benefits from it as proletarians in the core are dissipating… im so mad at USA bourgeois politician x for this… theyre making our home into hell…

anon. this is why communists here & in the global south have been telling you for years that our way of life is a product of bloody neocolonial domination. it's not to make you feel bad or to convince you to become a fair-trade-only no-carbon-footprint freegan. it's because this was inevitable, and the politicians who did the "right" things to maintain business as usual were delaying and exacerbating these consequences. it's because the only way to prevent this kind of precipitous fall was to have built a prepared and organized internationalist proletarian movement decades ago that could have directed and controlled the crises, and the only way to cope with it now is to recognize how and why it will continue to happen and start building apparatuses to manage the decline

or you could keep yelling at communists online for making you feel dumb about not realizing that eventually you would have to live like the other 95% of the world. that works too

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

Your periodical reminder that cats love people just as much as dogs even if apparently the average person is too much of an emotionally stunted extrovert to get it. They don't feel spite or whatever fucked up emotions one would wanna assign to them.

Cats are little goblins who love parallel play, that's why they sit in front of your computer screen and paw at shit on your desk for attention.

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me in argyle st greggs for my weekly steak bake

my favourite part about this post

whoever came up with the phraise "eepy" i hate you because its so cringe and embarassing but its the first word that comes to me when im feeling eepy

fuck you

cranky because you're eepy aren't you

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Other people have already tackled the whole "Nazi Argentine Grandpa" thing, but it's especially funny coming from Usamericans because...

Also, you shouldn't check Operation Paperclip. Or who were the first commanders of NATO. And definitively you shouldn't worry about the fact that virtually all police forces in the United States are infiltrated and run by white supremacists (and I don't mean just racist cops those are virtually all of them, I mean outright neo-nazis and KKK). And God knows what's going on in your bloated military and intelligence services.

but sure, lmao argentine nazi grandpa lol

I am not defending the yanks calling Argentinians Nazis (unserious claim) and I promise I'm not just being a pedant, but most of those Germans came well before 1945, with the largest numbers coming from mid-19th century til the turn of the 20th century.

This is, of course, because those Germans settled all over the burgeoning opening of the continental USA's western frontiersland. This is why states like Wisconsin, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota (all of these are states that got folded into the USA during the westward expansion to the Pacific) have the highest, by percentage, German immigrants. Germans served as white bodies to squat on Indian land and was fully a part of a racist history of white settler colonialism, hypercharged by manifest destiny and scramble for more land as the USA started expanding ever more westward. Really, yanks should not be talking about Germans in other countries because then they might have to, at some point, confront the fact that Germans were one of the biggest tip of the spear for one of the biggest wave of colonialist expansionist project in the USA's history.