Rotting wood and the fungus eating it

I’m not saying it was a good idea but every society has tried to solve the problem of “society needs organization to function but power tends to corrupt people” and I like how ancient Rome’s answer was the position of the tribune, where you get to have unchecked power with no accountability for one (1) year but after that you’re just a guy and everyone you pissed off can beat you to death with hammers.

This happened to my good friend Eva Stratt.

Ok, Eva Stratt is a perfect example of how the role of dictator was supposed to work in the Roman Republic

when you were a child, the worm named LANGUAGE ate its way into your brain and cursed you to understand the letters and the syllables and the sense of speech, doomed you to commas and clauses and passive voice, took the meat of you and twisted it with words. this is why you’re able to post about maids and berries and flasks and catgirls and whatnot, so it’s pretty great. make sure to thank the worm named LANGUAGE the next time you see it!

can’t wait for whatever bullshit happens tomorrow #mybullshit

I'm really tired of people outside the UK claiming that JK Rowling's bigotry doesn't extend to trans men and non-binary people. I can't get an autism diagnosis, because I'm scared that it will be used against me to deny me the healthcare I need, as Rowling and her ilk have been spreading the rhetoric that transmascs are just confused autistic girls who are too stupid to know their own gender.

the way they treat people with poor memory it's really like. extremely shit. people take poor memory to be some kind of flaw or fault with the person. where they believe that evidence of poor memory is done intentionally, and when someone is finally convinced that poor memory is unintentional then the person with memory issues is considered to be without the ability to think, have likes and opinions or have anything good or meaningful to say. people take their ability to talk over someone else as a given, or a as something funny. and instead of helping someone with an issue that can quite often be either very frustrating or very scary, these malakas don't even answer basic questions

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shoutout to nonbinary people who are deemed complicated or confusing. shoutout to nonbinary people who have 5 names. shoutout to nonbinary people who go by neopronouns. shoutout to xenogender people. shoutout to nonbinary people who use gendered terms for themselves but allow no one else to. shoutout to nonbinary people who go by different pronouns every day. shoutout to multigender people. shoutout to transmascs who were amab. shoutout to transfems who were afab. shoutout to nonbinary people who are neither cis nor trans. shoutout to nonbinary people who have pronouns that only certain people are allowed to use. shoutout to nonbinary people who are known by different names to different people. shoutout to outherine people. shoutout to transmascfems. shoutout to nonbinary people who are both cis and trans. shoutout to nonbinary people who don't care about making sense to others. shoutout to nonbinary people who actively want to confuse people.

The frustrating thing about tumblr isn’t the idea that the userbase at large is more racist, transphobic, ableist, and other such bigotries than other social media platforms because society at large has these prejudices pervade all aspects of civilization. The frustrating thing about tumblr is that it specifically promotes itself as a welcome, inclusive, and progressive space. Twitter doesn’t present itself as a friendly, respectful community (the fact that it’s owned by elon isn’t doing it any favors either.) it’s simply twitter. Instagram, Facebook similarly don’t package their content in the same veneer as Tumblr. Encountering racist transphobes on twitter isn’t surprising because it’s twitter. Encountering them here where the like button displays the progressive Pride flag is what rubs ppl the wrong way. It’s like going from a dive bar to a nice coffee shop and seeing the same exact clientele as before. This isn’t even to mention that the staff are on the same timing as well

hello allo person in a fandom. let’s play a game. in front of you are two characters. your challenge is to okay and you’ve already started shipping them. well the crusher machine is going to activate now goodbye.

“I’m no less a feminist than you are simply because I choose to hold onto my youth and beauty” you are less of a feminist for entertaining the patriarchal belief that beauty = youth and that a woman’s beauty disappears once she looks older than 20 lol

Can anyone explain wtf is going on here especially a Korean speaker

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That is one of the most astronomical fuck up translations I have ever seen.

Remember! When companies lay off all their staff because AI is cheaper, this sort of shit is what you can leverage for a better contract when they are inevitably forced to hire everyone back :)

"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.

if I see one more "why age verification is bad" post that doesn't even bother to mention that locking young people out of huge sections of the public sphere - literally the stated goal and primary impact of this shit - is wrong in and of itself I will simply start hitting people with bricks