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With metas new tos stuff for their platforms I’m finally leaving instagram. They’ve officially stated that transphobia and homophobia isn’t against tos. Never thought I’d see the word ‘transgenderism’ in the tos of a major social media.

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Ayoo just to preempt the inevitable dumb takes we’re about to start seeing;

I am PRO-WOOL

I am PRO-LEATHER

I am PRO-BEES

Fuck the idea of replacing durable, sustainable animal products with cheap, flimsy plastic that doesn’t bio-degrade. Agave nectar and other artificial sweeteners are expensive, labor-intensive, and destroy the environment to be farmed.

Do not buy into pernicious marketing campaigns pushed by dickhead organizations trying to stay relevant, like PETA.

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felt a strong urge to fix an old picture with the Polyhedron

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Guattari’s idea is both refreshing and profound. He suggests that when a person experiences psychosis, her psychosis changes according to her surroundings, and, therefore, treating her with fear by locking her up, keeping her in restraints, overmedicating her, and exposing her to other methods of suppression only serves to change her psychosis to a psychosis of fear and paranoia. Who, psychotic or not, in the same situation wouldn’t also feel terror and paranoia? Indeed, there is a legitimate reason to be paranoid and afraid. Further, the shock of being treated inhumanly, the sense of alienation and of betrayal, and, perhaps paramountly, the realization that humans can and do treat other humans in this way, is itself shocking and traumatizing. It is a shock and trauma that alters the psyche, changing the personality of the person who undergoes it.

Cynthia Cruz, Disquieting: Essays on Silence

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Saying "But they're both pining for a man" against the theory that Glinda and Elphaba are lesbians for each other seems plausible for now but will turn out to be a Straw Man argument.

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in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years

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who even invited him here

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I keep trying to get my fucking crewmates to mutiny but every time we get together to plan it they put aside their differences for the greater good and realize we’re all on the same side after all and morale improves

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aimi la luna, aimi lo lum.

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everybody is drooling for the blond guy from dungeon meshi. that guy is 100% real and I know like six of him, what you are looking for is a marine biologist

1. spends a long amount of time doing something weird far away from society

2. will not stop talking about their animal

3. has definitely eaten their animal and has strong opinions on how to cook it best

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nothing unnerves me more than the reddit-esque language of common sense that a lot of openly genocidal people here hide behind, like on occasion i make it a point to reply to these extraordinarily manipulative posts only because i think it's good to parse through what kind of language can be used to make things like collective punishment, the siege of millions of people in their homeland, starvation of children, destruction of hospitals and universities, and a death toll that includes 15,000 children acceptable.

and usually what does the trick is saying "it's so awful, it really is, i don't find it acceptable at all" then declaring the people who call it a genocide are actually committing blood libel. i think these kind of rhetorical sleights of hand are important to notice and important to point out. because at some point it'll have you nodding along to justifications of genocide (hamas hides behind civilians and steals the aid, the death toll is exaggerated, israel is actually super duper generous to allow anyone to even stay alive) while you watch tens of thousands of people die, and tutting and shaking your head at those who are trying to stop it. these are the people who are watching gaza get ethnically cleansed, the west bank get annexed, and tell you they hate it, they really do, but what can you do about it? what's done is done. it's a shame, of course, and i was always against it the entire time.

but you're too against it, and that makes me suspicious. how dare you cast aspersions on the intentions of the israeli military and its leaders and the government and the vast majority of the voting population? its only a coincidence that they have accomplished the exact genocidal goals they have declared they wanted to accomplish. their intentions were impossible to decipher if you understand that all their actions are committed in good faith, and all palestinians are inherently children of evil saturated with hate. anyway it's a sticky situation, of course, with some legal pedantry we can use as a loophole. yes perhaps someday it may be called a genocide but only once we decide it is. because we know the genocide was only committed accidentally and it doesn't make the people who did it bad people. that's the most important thing. if you do it now you are undoubtedly committing blood libel, like those biased antisemites... amnesty international and the ohchr and the lemkin institute and several foremost scholars of genocide.

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HOLOW KNIGHT: SILKSONG

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Hot take, but cis people have gender identities. They aren't the gender they identify as because of their genitalia or what their birth certificate says. They're only cis because they identify with a gender and it happens to match their government documentation. Cis men aren't men because they're "obviously" men for having a penis. They're men because they identify as men. It's the self-identification that dictates this, not any other factor, even for cis folks. And we should be framing it this way. A cis man identifies as a man and a cis woman identifies as a woman. There is no automatic or inherent gender.

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A painting of some edible flowers ~