#because I'm terminally online

[cuntwrap--supreme]

It's so cold my dog doesn't even want to go out to piss.

[trash-and-trash-accessories]

Constantly citing this article and the studies it uses.

Here's a quote:

"That study shows that transmasculine individuals were actually more likely to be victims of childhood sexual assault, adult sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence, and stalking than were transfeminine individuals (as shown in the chart below).

The only category in which trans women were more likely to be victimized was by hate violence, and even there the difference was small: 30 percent of trans women reported having experienced hate violence, compared to 29 percent of trans men."

[chronicbitchsyndrome]

it's annoying as hell to have my disability blog blocked by like 75% of radical disability tumblr because i don't believe in the anti-scientific concept of mind-body dualism, specifically because my specific disability outright disproves it entirely as my "mental" and "physical" symptoms are one and the same (and make me almost entirely incapable of existing in public, and therefore broadly unable to build friendships and support networks offline). good job building community for isolated housebound disabled people who need it, y'all. 10/10.

[outeremissary]

US moment (cringe), but had to go to a meeting at work today (first of more I suspect) about what to do if our jobs become illegal 😭 I'm glad my boss has made us talk about this since June so no one is freaking out and everyone is ready but Woof. Everyone wanted that to be paranoia talk, y'know?

[tinystepsforward]

algerian trans women arent able to compete in women sports at all, but yeah its makes no sense to call khelif tme. youre so fucking smart.

i see you don't believe that i'm quoting one of the trans women in my life about that, which is your prerogative. it's also your right to miss my point entirely both about the ways this alienates intersex people and about the rigidity of a binary that comes down to the same shrinking circles terfs draw when they try to quantify what a woman is (speak up for women, the most organised nz group, have now submitted on the human rights act suggesting that all babies be karyotyped at birth and the results be public, bc they can't establish any other definition they agree on. absolutely fucking nobody, not even their christian or conspiracist allies, agrees with them on this one.)

but you don't have to take my word for it! when i was at that consultation with the nz law commission, i was in a room with many other intersex and trans people, including trans athletes and trans women like lexie matheson who consult on trans inclusion in sports at a high national level. i don't think there's a single person in that room who did not name what was happening to khelif as we spoke as transmisogyny, who did not speak of her as part of a group with whom we all shared something.

at the end of the day, prison abolition informs all of my politics. i believe that we must look clearly and carefully at harm and distinguish it from discomfort or disagreement, and identify its structural sources and true perpetrators. i believe that to build a better future we must be capable of imagining one. i believe that we can build a world where suffering is not the metric by which we determine value or punishment or righteousness. i believe that we can build a world where we centre and uplift those who are most hurt, in every arena — black and brown trans women, here; in some of my other work, it's incarcerated intellectually disabled people, or asian migrant sex workers affected by section 19, the list goes on — without then pitting them against other people who share some of the same story and will benefit from the same deconstruction of the systems that hold them down. i believe we can build a world in which asab doesn't affect so much of your life by beginning that work now.

there's a politics of scarcity — you have it better than me, so we have nothing in common. i saw it all the time in brothels, the idea that the new girl is taking money out of your kids' mouths. the viciousness with which people who are struggling are so ready to abandon solidarity. is it so hard to demand better for everyone? to think less about the ways we're alone and more about the ways we're together?

maybe it is. i know that well enough as a prison abolitionist. people get scared. they swing at shadows, they swing at anyone who seems to be suffering less, they — we, i should say, i am certainly not immune — get blindingly jealous of people who seem to have it easier. that's grief! that's grief for the easier life that we deserve. and we get to mourn, and take that time to feel it, and then we can choose if we want to keep working hand in hand with each other toward a world where that grief is dwarfed by the promise of the future.

[t1meslayer]

We're full steam ahead on edits for my Splatoon Pearlina fic — I'd expect to see something out tomorrow!!

In the meantime, here's a teaser for all the good squids and kids out there:

[schnuffel-danny]

watching iceberg videos related to any sort of internet specific topic is a great way of testing how chronically online you are the angrier a video like that makes you the worse you have it

[thehumanarkle]

Leftists who basically live on Twitter and Leftists who've touched grass do pretty much have the same goals. You just wouldn't know it if you only went by how they talk to other people.

[godslush]

I do think it's telling that Tumblr would force people to manually opt in to the boop campaign, preventing users from giving boops - IE reinforcing some positivity through a cute gesture - to people who might not be paying attention to the site for this specific, short interval of time...

...while at the same time auto-opting-in AI scraping and requiring people to manually opt out instead, thus trying to take advantage of people who've left and aren't paying attention to the site.

As cute as the boops are, it really does illustrate that the people running this site have their priorities for user enjoyment versus their own perceived profitability completely backwards.

[bgmoth]

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[glitchlight]

very happy that folx died a quiet death when nobody was looking because it always felt stupid compared to just saying 'people', a word that is more accurate, easier to convince people to use, and isn't vaguely appropriated aave with an X because X MEANS GENDER NEUTRAL YEAHHH!!

(i use xe/xyr but that emotion and gender is different than 'we should append x to existing gender signifiers to fix them instead of building a world and a language where gender is not centralized)

[pynkhues]

Have you seen the haunted plantation tour trainwreck on Twitter? The people involved run in the same circles as the kinktober mods, just to add context re. the anons that warned you about the fest a while back. If you haven’t seen, this thread gives a good overview of what went down:

https://x.com/loust4t/status/1851607062985183466?s=46&t=wEEyhyX9fIplMoT3Zo_5Tg

I hadn't seen that before you sent it to me, anon, no - I'm not on Twitter at all beyond what people send me asks about - and it's certainly pretty blatantly racist and lacking in empathy. Not knowing anyone involved, I guess all I can say is that I hope it comes from a place of ignorance as opposed to a place of malicious intent, if only because the former might mean this reckoning offers a chance for them to educate themselves, develop empathy and act better in the future, as opposed to being - - well. A full stop, I guess.

It feels kind of weird to bring this back to the kinktober stuff given the context of that, but I will given that's what you've sent me.

Look, to put it simply, I still don't even know who's running it since the event itself doesn't specify? I'm just here in my little corner of this fandom, and people keep alluding to things the organisers have done - and now people they're affiliated with - but a) I can't tell / nobody seems to want to tell me who's actually organising it, and b) I have some people telling me the organiser's been unfairly targeted / the victim of a smear campaign by others who I do know of and know have been posting things that are pretty divisive, while others are telling me the organisers are zionists and racists without evidence, or while sending me posts like this where - after searching those user accounts - I don't see any mention of or affiliation with the event at all?

Which isn't to say they're not running in the same circles, as you said, but I guess what I'm saying is that I don't know any of these people at all, and I don't know how they're connected or not connected, and while I appreciate that I think (hope!) people are being well-intentioned in sending me this sort of thing, it's still a little complicated to navigate for me given - - y'know. You're on anon. I can't exactly ask you follow-up questions or have a genuine and equal conversation with you about it. It puts me into a position where I'm being expected to make choices on information being drip fed to me, and the capacity to do my own research and make my own informed decisions about it is restricted because - again - I don't know how any of these people are connected to the organisers of this particular fandom event, nor even who the fandom event organisers are at all.

All that said, just to reiterate, I do think that behaviour at the plantation is obviously racist and unempathetic and, honestly, just pretty ridiculous in general (although the latter is my opinion on taking a Funkopop to any historic site, particularly a historic site that's a site of trauma [which with my history major hat on is lowkey most of them, so maybe just don't take toys on history tours]).

[obsessivelollipoplalala]

Nothing is more predictable than tumblr screaming and crying and throwing up over this headline:

There's all this talk about how parasocial hate is still a form of a parasocial relationship, but obsessively hating a show is still being obsessed with it! Lmao normal people who don't like a show stop thinking about it; they don't perform a song and dance about how much they hate it for over a decade! 2012 tumblr fandom wank caused permanent brain rot

[liesmyth]

I can't believe I'm so terminally online that I saw you read Mark Webber's book and my first thought was "woah #QueabeyanMention"

“can't believe I'm so terminally online—” you ARE. so am I. we should embrace our terminally online swag.

btw this ask made me realise I don't actually know how the name Queanbeyan is pronounced. I'm gonna look it up. wish me luck

[trans-leek-cookie]

sittimg at the Wikipedia article. Comptemplating

[toaster-boi]

i think this is the best example of "you are not immune to propaganda" i've ever seen because.

holy shit. i could not create a more patronizing strawman than this person's genuine words. they weren't joking in the slightest.

(post was a screenshotted tumblr post about how, if your beliefs rely on thinking the world is hopeless and can only be saved by violently burning everything down, you are being radicalized and Not In A Good Way)

once again for the people in the back: