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I'm glad someone else still appreciates the lost art of blank video cassette covers 📼 💚

They are really interesting, probably will be my main focus for the next year or so. In case anyone hasn't seen it this tumblr has a ton of amazing old covers to check out;

At some point on my other non-oc-art WK tumblr I'll try to post photos of some of my VHS collection here. There are some amazing Japanese VHS packaging that have no good photos of them on the internet at all yet.

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i really wish the Matt Mullenweg Meltdown was easier to follow and explain because his public career suicide is extremely funny and i think i only understand about 1/4th of it fully

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we need to make using chatgpt embarrassing bc sorry it really is. what do you mean you can’t write an email

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Don't downgrade your dream to fit in your present reality. Upgrade your attitude, discipline, and skills to match your goals.

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shoutout to C418 (one of minecraft’s composers) for just fucking snapping recently on twitter

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Why do some trans people love AGAB so much???

Just saw somebody call themselves a “masc nonbinary (AFAB)” for a makeup tutorial. Like did we need to know your AGAB for that? If the point was to show the audience how to do masculinising makeup, then why not, “how I use makeup to enhance my masculine features as a masc nonbinary person.” Like why AGAB.

No shade to that person, it’s their identity, but I guess I’m just tired of the general shift from “I won’t tell you what’s in my pants” to “are you a boy nonbinary or a girl nonbinary?” “intersex AMABs can’t be transmasc,” etc. and seeing even nonbinary people identify themselves by their AGABs feels indicative of the larger issue.

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i was already chewing this over but i got some reblogs that made me consider saying my opinion out loud. to be direct: applying the dynamics of identity based politics towards disability is a far inferior social analysis than treating disability as a class [and gaining some class consciousness]

social analysis benefits from zooming out from time to time otherwise we risk focusing too much on the individual when society and culture is about groups of people.

i don't dislike discussions around identity in regards to social analysis. there's many instances where it's worthwhile. although i feel like the strength of any analysis of the sort would be linking the individual (identity) to the collective (social status). the categories that make up "identity" are made relevant by the social, cultural, and material conditions which brought them into existence. for example i am mixed race and may identify as such. but the existence of this label hinges on the global understanding and categorization of race, and that which separates white people from brown people.

in this sense when you make disabilities about identity, it sort of levels everyone into "disabled" or "not disabled" instead of looking at disability as something belonging to a class of disenfranchised people. which is why i think people get threatened by the idea that there are heavily disabled people, because they feel like it's shifting the cornerstones of the criteria for "disabled" away from them and taking that "identity" away. i also think this is why intra-community disagreements end up becoming so personal: because of the notion that someone disagreeing with you, a disabled person, on disability, is an invalidation of your legitimate claim to the disabled identity. instead of what it usually is - a difference of opinions based on either different experiences, levels of knowledge, locations, or so forth

furthermore there are people with health conditions that are not disabling. it may disadvantage them in some situations, but it largely doesn't exclude them from abled society. there are also people who are usually abled, but currently have an injury. most people i talk to would agree that they are not disabled. i think both of these groups might have overlapping experiences with the disabled community. but if you centre disability on identity, and having the experiences to justify that identity, then people with health conditions are forced to frame them as a disability to be listened to, and disabled people often dislike their experiences being related to by someone who was injured for a few months.

i think this is what leads to conflicting ideas, loopholes, and arguements. i think it is fine to say that a person who had to use crutches for 3 months will have some knowledge on the experience of using crutches. but they are not disabled like me, a full time crutch user - not because we don't share experiences (we might do!) but because our relationship to abled society, and our social status as people are different. being disabled disenfranchises you legally, socially, academically, economically, culturally, and religiously even. this makes up a large part of the disabled class experience, even though some people who are not disabled may relate to us in symptoms, and even if two people who are disabled have no common symptoms!

finally if you consider disabled people as a class then you can rightly call ableist disabled people what they are: class traitors

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Here is the child free friendly doctors list. the people on this list are compiled by other childfree people who do not want children. people submit doctors who did their sterilization regardless of age, children, or marital status.

here is a breakdown of how the ACA (affordable care act) works, and how it applies to sterilization. this is only for AFAB people however. vasectomies do not count. You cannot be charged for this surgery. No coinsurance, no deductible, nothing. my hospital originally wanted $4k from me. I told them to bill me and I'll discuss with my insurance. they might be pushy, and try to get you to pay for it ahead of time, but refuse and have them bill it.

If you are getting a bilateral salpingectomy (shortened: bisalp) (COMPLETE TUBAL REMOVAL not 'tubes tied', which is where they snip the tubes and tie them with clips [called a 'tubal ligation']) there is no possible way you can become pregnant. and it does not effect your hormones at all. im being so fr, do not let people say it effects your hormones, because theres no hormones in your tubes. those are carried in ur ovaries.

If you have a family history of reproductive cancer, a bisalp greatly reduces your risks of getting those cancers. insurance codes are CPT codes of either 58661 or 58670 and the ICD-10 code of Z30.2 you might have to plug both in and talk to insurance. if someone on the phone is an asshole to you, just hang up and try again with someone else. On the other side, I've been on plenty of birth control options. for 6 years I had a copper IUD. it does make your periods heavier, and crampier if you can stand that, but it has no hormones in it and it lasts 12 years.

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mandatory reads in times of trouble

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I don’t block for anti-white sentiment, but I absolutely block for racism towards kinky POC.

All types of people have all types of fantasies, and it is unbelievably damaging to sell a bunch of nonwhite people this lie that they’re “too white” if their fantasy life doesn’t line up with some arbitrary standard.

Your tastes do not invalidate your identity.

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It's at @goncharovproductions

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I remember seeing images back in the day from a Japanese English textbook focused soley on how swearing and profanity work in English. It spread around a little because it contained many pictures of anime girls telling eachother to fuck off and calling things shit, but in otherwise weirdly formal English. I wish I could find it, but when I look it up none of the books that come up are the one I'm thinking of.

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-Arise! Optimus Prime-

-You know who you are-

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Transformers ONE (2024) // BIONICLE: Mask of Light (2003)

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I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence

Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.

Switch to linux, it's free and it's good.

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Anybody else got that Evergiven sized writers block