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What’s going on with the anon lately?

I blocked Pedophilia Anon when they started screaming about wanting to lock people up.

I'm also just behind on messages/posts in general because work and school are kicking my butt.

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reproductive rights is not a euphemism for abortion rights or the right of people to become pregnant, it also includes the rights of trans women to not be forcibly sterilized to get gender marker changes or the ability to freeze sperm. but those two things rarely make it on the radar even when trans women's reproductive rights are under attack.

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I'm constantly reminded through your use of language that you're part of the same demographic as the majority of tvtropes contributors

Joss Whedon fans?

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I know trad-pub's gotten a little more liberal with regards to fandom over the last few years (they had to because of all the stellar authors who came up through fandom to become professionally published), but I still have plenty of trad-pub friends who were told to disengage with fandom entirely because it was seen as too risky.

And, like, can you imagine if I'd been desperate enough and sold Phangs to my old publisher, made all the (catastrophic) changes they wanted, and then they told me I couldn't engage in fandom anymore?

Like sorry, but there's no off-switch for this brain. If I don't get to say the random shit that comes into my brain whenever I feel like it, I will go insane, and that is a threat. All this energy has to go somewhere.

You try existing in a brain that comes up with Bruce Wayne being in a power throuple with Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog and keeping it to yourself.

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The existence of fried turkey in the Zootopia universe raises further existential questions.

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Disability Pride month let's not forget about the people in our community with intellectual disabilities!

I just found out about the Stay Up Late campaign to advocate for people with intellectual disabilities to have the right to go out in the evening and not have to be in bed by 8pm

I learned about it from this video:

And I found the website for the campaign which is here:

Let's support all members of our community

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Oh, you know, just the usual internet browsing experience in the year of 2024

Some links and explanations since I figured it might be useful to some people, and writing down stuff is nice.

First of all, get Firefox. Yes, it has apps for Android/iOS too. It allows more extensions and customization (except the iOS version), it tracks less, the company has a less shitty attitude about things. Currently all the other alternatives are variations of Chromium, which means no matter how degoogled they supposedly are, Google has almost a monopoly on web browsing and that's not great. Basically they can introduce extremely user unfriendly updates and there's nothing forcing them to not do it, and nowhere for people to escape to. Current examples of their suggested updates are disabling/severly limiting adblocks in June 2024, and this great suggestion to force sites to verify "web environment integrity" ("oh you don't run a version of chromium we approve, such as the one that runs working adblocks? no web for you.").

uBlockOrigin - barely needs any explanation but yes, it works. You can whitelist whatever you want to support through displaying ads. You can also easily "adblock" site elements that annoy you. "Please log in" notice that won't go away? Important news tm sidebar that gives you sensory overload? Bye.

Dark Reader - a site you use has no dark mode? Now it has. Fairly customizable, also has some basic options for visually impaired people.

SponsorBlock for YouTube - highlights/skips (you choose) sponsored bits in the videos based on user submissions, and a few other things people often skip ("pls like and subscribe!"). A bit more controversial than normal adblock since the creators get some decent money from this, but also a lot of the big sponsors are kinda scummy and offer inferior product for superior price (or try to sell you a star jpg land ownership in Scotland to become a lord), so hearing an ad for that for the 20th time is kinda annoying. But also some creators make their sponsored segments hilarious.

Privacy Badger (and Ghostery I suppose) - I'm not actually sure how needed these are with uBlock and Firefox set to block any tracking it can, but that's basically what it does. Find someone more educated on this topic than me for more info.

Https Everywhere - I... can't actually find the extension anymore, also Firefox has this as an option in its settings now, so this is probably obsolete, whoops.

Facebook Container - also comes with Firefox by default I think. Keeps FB from snooping around outside of FB. It does that a lot, even if you don't have an account.

WebP / Avif image converter - have you ever saved an image and then discovered you can't view it, because it's WebP/Avif? You can now save it as a jpg.

YouTube Search Fixer - have you noticed that youtube search has been even worse than usual lately, with inserting all those unrelated videos into your search results? This fixes that. Also has an option to force shorts to play in the normal video window.

Consent-O-Matic - automatically rejects cookies/gdpr consent forms. While automated, you might still get a second or two of flashing popups being yeeted.

XKit Rewritten - current most up to date "variation "fork" of XKit I think? Has settings in extension settings instead of an extra tumblr button. As long as you get over the new dash layout current tumblr is kinda fine tbh, so this isn't as important as in the past, but still nice. I mostly use it to hide some visual bloat and mark posts on the dash I've already seen.

YouTube NonStop - do you want to punch youtube every time it pauses a video to check if you're still there? This saves your fists.

uBlacklist - blacklists sites from your search results. Obviously has a lot of different uses, but I use it to hide ai generated stuff from image search results. Here's a site list for that.

Redirect AMP to HTML - redirects links from their amp version to the normal version. Amp link is a version of a site made faster and more accessible for phones by Bing/Google. Good in theory, but lets search engines prefer some pages to others (that don't have an amp version), and afaik takes traffic from the original page too. Here's some more reading about why it's an issue, I don't think I can make a good tl;dr on this.

Also since I used this in the tags, here's some reading about enshittification and why the current mainstream internet/services kinda suck.

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Not sure if I've told this story here before, but once upon a time, I didn't really get the point of most protests happening my area because I viewed them as "preaching to your own echo chamber" in a lot of cases. Ex: I saw people do a climate march through a very liberal university campus within a very liberal city, and I was just like "Okay, everyone here agrees with you. This place has crazy aggressive sustainability goals. What is the point of this?"

Then when Roe fell, there were a lot of protests outside the courthouses in cities near me, and though those city courthouses do serve the surrounding rural areas as well, the cities themselves are all rather progressive and left-leaning, so once again I was like "Okay, what is the point of this?" but I went anyway just for the experience. We stood on a street corner with our signs. Most people driving by honked in agreement with us. A few people yelled "abortion is murder" at us out their car windows, and we yelled back "abortion is healthcare!" Cool, okay, still didn't get the point because it's not like we were changing any minds or there in large numbers (we were no threat to any power structures), and the city already largely agreed with us.

But then we got another SUV that pulled up and yelled "abortion is murder!" at us (both husband and wife this time). Looked in the back seat, and they were traveling with their daughter who was maybe 13ish. She locked eyes with me, gave me the most serious look I've ever received, and gave us a thumbs up just above the window ledge so that her family couldn't see.

And that's the day I learned that protests are not always about threatening entrenched power structures but letting people in isolated ideological bubbles know that there are other perspectives and that if they share them, they're not alone.

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Nothing in the US is going to get better until we abolish slavery for real. Ubiquitously, with no exceptions. Protecting the rights of prisoners actively protects every person in the country.

If the laws allow for any class of people to be stripped of their rights, then any person could be stripped of their rights. And the State has an active incentive to criminalize its critics (like Briana Boston, who was arrested for terrorism despite never having committed a crime.)

As long as criminality is an excuse to strip anyone of their rights, none of us are safe.

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really disheartening to see how much eco-fascist and eugenicist bullshit has embedded itself into writings about human relationship with nature. I was looking at a copy of a book in the library a while back called Humans Vs. Nature and found this (Discussing early human migrations in the Paleolithic)

To my great dismay, I did not record the source for this claim, But I found these pictures again, and of course I think...How do we know that?

How could we know that Paleolithic hunter-gatherers deliberately controlled their populations by periods of abstaining from sex? That would be incredibly hard to support using archaeological evidence. It seems easier to support infanticide using the archaeological record, so I was not initially troubled by that.

The author is also stating that Paleolithic humans killed their disabled. I have been searching high and low for evidence to support this claim and the closest I've come to any evidence regarding disability in the Paleolithic is this book chapter discussing whether or not it makes sense to assume compassion existed in pre-history. This book chapter gives the impression that the research has been...really dismal.

The two sides of the debate are essentially, "humans probably cared for their disabled in prehistory, because pathologies and injuries are common and they would have needed some kind of care" and "well maybe those people could survive just fine on their own and that's why they lived. We can't prove they were actually disabled."

Not an anthropologist, but I think it's pretty stupid to position a compassionless society as the "null hypothesis," especially based upon chimpanzees. Why would Paleolithic humans be more behaviorally similar to a relative separated by 5 to 13 million years of evolutionary divergence, than to their own descendants a mere few thousand years later????????

But the claim in Humans Vs. Nature isn't just that disabled people weren't cared for, it's that they were deliberately "eliminated," which is a statement with a much higher burden of proof. You would have to find the remains of disabled humans from that time period with clear evidence that they were killed because they were disabled, and you would have to observe this consistently in many sites, to come to the conclusion that it was a cultural norm.

We have many examples of elaborate, seemingly honorable burials for people that were apparently disabled and would have lived a long time with their disabilities. Nothing I've read has mentioned an archaeological record of killing people for being disabled, which would be a glaring oversight, unless it didn't exist, which I'm pretty sure it doesn't.

How did we get to the point where this kind of fucking bullshit sounds so plausible and correct that it makes it into a best selling book without anyone looking it up to see if it's true.

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"Why don't you really exist?"

Well you see, if I had physical form, I might become too powerful and perhaps overthrow God. So to limit my ability to disrupt the cosmic structure, I exist only in this narrow band of liminal space .

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every time a new SA allegation of a favored celeb arises, i'm reminded of the absolutely soul-crushing experience of the depp/heard trial in which i learned that dozens of ppl i loved + respected + trusted were also willing to engage in the basest form of misogyny if the woman Seemed Crazy Enough. there was a horrifying 2ish weeks on this website + much longer irl where i genuinely felt unsafe voicing my discomfort as i relived something eerily reminiscent of the aftermath of my own assaults playing out on screen, commented on by true crime youtubers like it was a red sox game.

it happens time + time again with every new allegation + it's truly the most agonizing + exhausting part of being a survivor. i am begging you all to consider that survivors are watching you engage with this stuff like theater + it erodes our trust in all of you + compounds our grief.

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Who would you like to have seen cast as Wanda?

I don't have a preferred pick and would have loved to have an unknown or new Romani actress to get the part.

Wanda Maximoff and her brother in the comics are of Romani and Jewish descent (Magneto is usually but sometimes, due to comic book bullshit, not always her bio-dad but usually he is). They were also raised by a Romani couple and have that tie to their heritage as well.

The MCU could and should have cast two Romani actors to play the Maximoff twins but considered they were introduced as willing Hydra volunteers for experimentation, I think they chose to not do that. However, no one forced them to introduce two of the most prominent Romani superheroes in comics that way so they should have changed it (This was also Age of Ultron which was bad all the way down). With Joss Whedon at the helm at the time and prejudice against Romani people, it was probably never considered to even look at casting them accurately.

Anything that Olsen has done or could do, could have easily been done by an unknown Romani actress and would have probably meant a lot for that actress's career and people who deserve to see themselves in a character that is directly inspired by them.

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May I add:

Is that person "femme" or are they just not-a-man and you think "femme" is an umbrella category for the "not-a-man" gender?

Is that person "masc" or are they just not-a-woman and you think "masc" is an umbrella category for the "not-a-woman" gender?

is that nonbinary person a "femme" or are you just being exorsexist with a veneer of being inclusive

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I think when you call things "bad faith", you mean they're legitimate counterarguments that you have no real response to so you've found a thought terminating cliche to ignore them and feel smugly superior.

What's funny is that most of my posts about bad-faith arguments are counters to those arguments. I explicitly point out that they're bad-faith arguments (the people making them do not actually, literally believe what they're saying), but here's how to counter them anyway.

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the whole underlying issue with psychiatric drugs is not whether they are truly Good or Bad, it’s the human right to bodily autonomy. the nuances of the issue become much clearer when you aren’t stuck in the weeds of moralizing psych diagnosis & treatment per se or trying to come to ontological conclusions about whether diagnoses are “real” or not. the DSM provides a deeply flawed and hierarchical framework for describing and organizing often very real human experiences for which people need support from other humans and sometimes chemicals. if you get too lost in the social machinations of diagnosis or committed to some wrongheaded idea that anyone who believes they need psych meds to survive is some kind of idiot capitalist bootlicker then you end up with extremely reductive views like “psych drugs bad!” or “psych drugs good!” When really what matters is that people have the power to make their own decisions about their own bodies/minds.

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Magneto was Right, X-Men: The Last Stand