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I think the greatest irony of my life is when the cafeteria at my college changed all the lights to blue bulbs for “autism awareness”, which fucked with my sensory issues badly enough that I could barely stand to be in the building

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The South Korean radical feminist 4B movement, in which women swear off marriage, childbirth, dating men, and sex with men, has sparked intense conversations among Americans on social media. Here is what you need to know about 4B.

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every time i metapost about this podcast it inevitably deteriorates like this

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I absolutely think adults, especially parents, ascribe manipulative intent to children when they shouldn't and it's absolutely a problem but it's always kind of funny to me when people go online and proclaim that children are incapable of manipulation. When I was three I asked my mom to get my older sibling their favorite candy bar at the grocery story because I knew she'd get me mine too as a reward for being thoughtful and that was way more likely to succeed than if I just asked for a candy bar for me. And it worked. Children scheme at a developmentally appropriate level the trick is not assuming children scheme at an adult level.

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oh so we're doing scooby doo crimes now

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Various ice formations on wheels caused by driving through the snow.

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wake again after rest

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I think it could have been interesting if the initiative storyline was the council rather than the US government.

So Faith is in a coma and Buffy has quit working for them. There's a very slim chance Faith could wake up. We know they had at least enough influence to get a doctor to call when she did, so why not take it a step further?

Faith is too unstable to be flown to England in her condition, so they make a facility (maybe not right up under an actively running university) to put her in. But hey, they're on a hellmouth anyway and currently technically have no slayer to control, why not make it bigger, build a few more cages? It's not like they don't have the money.

You could even keep the connection to the university by having them recruit guys fresh out of military training and offer them a full ride at uc sunnydale to do the grunt work.

Riley, Forrest, and Graham all work for the council. Maybe even keep the drugging plot and have it be the council's attempt at mimicking the slayer's powers.

Adam is an attempt to create a slayer from scratch, an obedient one that won't turn on them.

I personally headcannon that Buffy visited Faith at least a few times in the hospital, so she's alerted that somethings wrong when she goes to visit and is told Faith died. But that doesn't make sense because She knows what it feels like when another slayer dies and she hasn't felt that. The rest of the gang just think she’s feeling guilty when she insists that Faith has to be alive somewhere.

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shinigami eyes is inaccurate sometimes. that doesn't mean it's evil.

I've seen more people talking about the shinigami eyes extension lately, specifically because it seems like some "trans inclusive" radfems have been using it to incorrectly mark anyone who disagrees with their hateful rhetoric as "anti-trans".

the conclusion I see people drawing is that shinigami eyes is full of transandrophobic, exorsexist/enbyphobic, intersexist radfems using their moderation powers for evil.

that's now how this works!

shinigami eyes is crowdsourced. everyone who uses the extension can mark anyone and anything as "anti-trans" (red) or "trans-friendly" (green), or "clear" any current markings they might have.

that input is taken into account when determining how said blog/website/account/whatever shows up to everyone else using shinigami eyes, but you will see things marked the way you mark them immediately.

shinigami eyes claims to have some level of human validation involved when they determine public changes to how things are marked, but it's not clear what that looks like. looking through their (fairly inactive) github community page, I stumbled on this person asking about what to do if they've been incorrectly marked "anti-trans":

which confirms my understanding of how shinigami eyes tends to work.

basically, shinigami eyes isn't actually told why anyone marks anyone else as "safe" or "unsafe". even if/when there is "human validation", they're most likely just making their best guesses based on the information available to them: a cursory glance over the blog/account/website that was marked, and how other people have marked the same thing.

if someone's blog is incorrectly marked red, it's probably because one or more people completely unrelated to shinigami eyes moderation submitted that marking. if there was nothing near the top of that person's blog to indicate that person was vocally supportive of trans people (and not just trans themselves) if/when it was checked by a human, they likely just went with what seemed to be the safest bet.

which means if people are abusing this extension to mark folks as "anti-trans" when they're not, we can take action to fix that!

If someone is marked red/"anti-trans" when they shouldn't be, mark them "trans-friendly" yourself. then tell someone else who uses the extension to do the same. it'll update the public marking eventually.

if you are marked red/"anti-trans" when you shouldn't be, and you want to reverse that & prevent it from happening again, it might be a good idea to put something explicit in your bio- like "trans rights are human rights"- so it's front & center if and when a human at shinigami eyes checks a marking someone submitted.

there's another conversation to be had about how much people should be relying on shinigami eyes in the first place, but it's not evil. it doesn't hate you. it's not even exclusionary, historically speaking.

the one thing I will say is that there is definitely some very valid contention around this specific stance they currently hold:

I understand why they might want to avoid wading too deep into questions about what "counts" as a transphobic slur vs. what does not when it comes to intra-community issues, as a pretty public-facing tool for the trans community broadly speaking. but like, "theyfab" is a pretty explicitly exorsexist term, imo.

still, I think this should probably just be taken to their github issues board, where folks can have more of a conversation than the reviews page allows for. trying to pressure them into compliance isn't going to cut it, and our community deserves better than that anyway.

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it's rotten work, but without the rot nothing can grow

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Nimmersatt by Niklas Nebelsieck

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Olga Dugina

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iron bullshit from memory

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buffy season six best execution of "came back wrong" ever. imagine. just imagine. being in her shoes:

you've been resurrected.

you came back wrong because you must have come back wrong to feel like this but you're hiding it so that no one knows you came back wrong. you're forced into showing your hand and suddenly everyone knows you're depressed and you came back wrong because you must have come back wrong because this can't just be you now.

the depression and the ptsd and the suicidal impulses must've been because you came back wrong, not that the circumstances of your death and resurrection triggered something that was already there and the things that were happening before you died were just stress and it's different now because you must have come back wrong because if you didn't then you would have always been wrong and it's your fault that you're like this. so what's wrong with you now is because you came back wrong, because otherwise it's because you came back right.

and you try and you try and you try but you came back wrong so it's not your fault you're failing, right? right?

you get what seems like proof so you run it by your witch friend and she tells you that you came back fine, came back normal, but you can't have come back normal and you're sobbing in her arms because why do you let him do this to you. why are you like this. what is wrong with you.

and maybe you did come back wrong. but only because if you came back right, you'd be somebody else.