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That is why no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party... ...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
I agree with Nye
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So, I'm not particularly religious, but what with the Pope condemning gen ai and now saying you need to say 3 Hail Marys to throw a molotov at a data centre, and the fact that catholics can *technically* claim a religious exemption from using ai at work I'm actually tempted to convert....
Iâve seen a lot of people saying that if youâre not that sexuality you shouldnât write characters or stories around such things since itâs objectifying.
And as someone who is currently writing a book where the two main characters and the main relationship is gay Iâm a lil scared.
Iâm donât identify as gay or a man, I identify as AroAce Agender. I was wondering if anyone has any opinions on this? Iâll probably write the story anyways (worst case Iâll keep it to myself), but I would like to know of other peoples opinions on this.
(They donât fuck btw, the romantic relationship between them is PG as they are both Asexual and the romance is quite short)
Ok, so what the actual fuck?
I've seen some terminally online takes, but this is taking the absolute fucking piss. Anyone who genuinely makes this claim DESPERATELY needs to go touch some grass and talk to people in person.
If you really want to be an ally to Queer people this pride month (or even just make the world a better place)?
Then here's one simple trick.....
STOP CARING ABOUT SEX!!!!
I mean this not in the way of 'not everyone feels the same way, so be respectful.' I mean it in the way of treating sex as 'a thing that happens' and which is a morally and ethically neutral act (when it happens between consenting adults). Rather than 'something which is amazing and special and hugely important, but only in *these exact circumstances*, otherwise it's horrible and disgusting and yucky and shameful and you're going to suffer because of it!'. Is going to help improve society.
Not only is it going to help queer people (especially aspecs) feel a lot more comfortable and safer with their identities, it's also going to help deal with transphobia and the casual misogyny which we're seeing from all sides of society.
Today's midafternoon thought is:
Brain is no happy = me no workee well.
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FML: higher education edition....
So, I've spent most of the last fortnight dealing with the anxiety of potentially being ghosted for a funded PhD (and the accompanying despair of if I end up back in the position of having recruiters ghost me on the reg) and just this morning realised potentially why.
Yasee, my research proposal was to look at how racial and national identity affected the personal experiences of British and non British seafarers within a specific collection of oral histories. Now, I've realised that this might have been interpreted as that I'm some kind of red hat wearing, knuckledragging, Trump loving Fhuragist looking for academic "evidence" of 'anti-white racism' to further my agenda (especially since I mention how the issues of race and immigration have come to dominate contemporary politics and the collection is from predominantly white people).
Which is opposed to what I actually want to do, which is examine diversity within a population historically and challenge the overly simplistic idea that racial equality is some kind of radically new idea that got invented in the 1970s and explore the nuances of historical attitudes towards social diversity.
alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
under 18, AI is a net positive
under 18, AI is a net negative
18-29, AI is a net positive
18-29, AI is a net negative
30-45, AI is a net positive
30-45, AI is a net negative
46-60, AI is a net positive
46-60, AI is a net negative
over 60, AI is a net postive
over 60, AI is a net negative
Question 2/3
How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?
Frequently (multiple times per month)
Often (multiple times per year)
Occasionally (a couple times per year)
Rarely (once every couple of years)
Never :(
Question 3/3
If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?
under 18, more inclined
under 18, less inclined
18-29, more inclined
18-29, less inclined
30-45, more inclined
30-45, less inclined
46-60, more inclined
46-60, less inclined
over 60, more inclined
over 60, less inclined
Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!
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Hey op are you telling your boss your sample source? Like guts of steel, if so.
For the benefit of anyone having to deal with queerphobic and or unsupportive family members this pride month:
Congratulations, I'm your family now!
Stay hydrated, eat your veggies, support yourself and remember; I'm proud of you.
Just in case someone needed to hear it
Learning this was an intentional genocide changed me.
I know most of those following me know this, but just to make it super clear. An Gorta MĂłr (The Great Hunger/the Great Famine) was a deliberate genocide of the Irish people. There was enough food grown in Ireland to make sure everyone was alive and healthy and survived. Instead it was exported, sent to England and elsewhere for profit while men, women, and children starved in the streets. While the English landlords fucked off and evicted starving families who couldnât afford rent. While babies were too weak to cry and died at the side of the road.
They tried to kill us, but they did not succeed. And we owe so much thanks to the other oppressed peoples, in particular the Choctaw Nation and the Masai, who sent money and grain to us.
Let me repeat that. The Choctaw Nation who had just gone through the Trail of Tears sent us money to try save Irish lives. Itâs led to an understanding between Irish people and Native American tribes, most recently when we donated to the Navajo and Hopi fundraisers for COVID-19 relief, because while it may be a different tribe, Irish people will never forget those who helped us and weâll help back.
The entire population of the island is less than seven million people. Weâre still a million less on this island than pre famine. And itâs not that long ago. My grandmotherâs grandparents lived through it. Weâve told the stories, it literally changed the DNA of the country. We have a national fear of renting, because so many people were evicted. People joke about Irish people always offering loads of food, but itâs because thereâs that cultural memory of not being able to.
They tried to kill us, but they did not succeed. We will not let them take our lives, we will not let them take our language. We lost so much, but we will not lose it all.
This is why I get so angry when people say âit was the potato famine, it was because of monoculture/microbes.â
Nope. The potatoes were the only thing Irish people were allowed to fucking eat, because as pointed out, the rest of the crops they were growing were for their landlords to ship to England. So when the one âworthlessâ crop they were allowed to eat rotted in the field, the English crown, empire, landlords, all shrugged and carried on. People starved to death lying next to productive fields.
Ok, so IF (and I feel I should stress the *IF*) An Gorta MĂłr WAS a deliberate genocide (or engineered in some way shape or form) then WHY with just over 100 years of independence and 170ish years of innovation in medicine and farming practices, plus mechanisation (all of which allows more people to survive various diseases, and generally live longer, and enjoy a more diverse diet, supported by fewer people), has the population STILL NOT recovered to pre famine levels?
Unless of course, the argument of deliberate starvation is based in nationalist rhetoric, and the actual situation was far more complicated and down more due to the distribution of land in Ireland and political attitudes towards poverty than any kind of discrimination and social engineering.
HASO: The Human adoption agency
Ok, so I've seen a few HASO posts about humans being like cats (as in 'looks like you have a human now') and or exotic pets/ wildlife in captivity (like that post about an alien version of Steve Irwin) and surely there's scope for a business which operates like a mix between an employment agency and a matchmaking service pairing up unemployed/stranded/wanderlust filled humans who want to get out there with aliens who want/need a human(s) (say they want to run a student exchange or similar, or there's stuff a humans are more suited for than other species in a particular section of space, or having a human crewmember is seen as a status symbol).
There's bound to be a market for something like this (and probably enough weirdos here there to create a script for a 'sponsor a human' charity advert).
@marlynnofmany you interested in incorporating this idea into your work?
A human adoption agency sounds adorable. It reminds me of the "humans are pixies/Borrowers" idea too, with the really big aliens who keep finding things fixed and/or stolen on their spaceships. Some enterprising individual could set up a matchmaking service on a busy space station to match up tech-inclined humans with ships that need tiny hands to help with the repairs, and whimsical artsy humans with ships that would appreciate murals appearing on the walls overnight, etc etc.
This could easily be played up like humans are these exotic, mystical things, like fantasyland familiars, who will come to you if you're particularly deserving. And like the fae, they can turn on you if you're cruel.
Dang, now I want to write about some preteen alien who befriends the magical creature living in the cargo hold, and has adventures with them. A human with a jetpack and unfamiliar tech is basically a sci-fi fairy, right?
Actually the humans are space fae angle isn't what I was thinking. BUT, I could see it working, if other space faring races are much bigger and we become like those ferrets who are used to run wires through ducting, or even pest control like cats/ terriers? And the aliens keep humans around (or maybe specifically hire humans) because we can get places they can't and it's considered 'more natural' to have them killed by humans than through poison. 'Oh you've got space vermin? You need to get yourself a human! They'll sort it out in no time.'
But also, a weird idea is the reverse. What if humans end up in a Gulliver in Lulliputia situation and we're much bigger than the aliens? Would they start looking to ship humans in to replace machinery/animal power for infrastructure projects?
Like why would you hire a team of labourers to dig a canal off you can get 1 human to do it more or less instantly? Or build a crane/scaffolding for a skyscraper when a you could get a human to lift everyone and everything you need to whatever level is being worked on?
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HASO: The Human adoption agency
Ok, so I've seen a few HASO posts about humans being like cats (as in 'looks like you have a human now') and or exotic pets/ wildlife in captivity (like that post about an alien version of Steve Irwin) and surely there's scope for a business which operates like a mix between an employment agency and a matchmaking service pairing up unemployed/stranded/wanderlust filled humans who want to get out there with aliens who want/need a human(s) (say they want to run a student exchange or similar, or there's stuff a humans are more suited for than other species in a particular section of space, or having a human crewmember is seen as a status symbol).
There's bound to be a market for something like this (and probably enough weirdos here there to create a script for a 'sponsor a human' charity advert).
@marlynnofmany you interested in incorporating this idea into your work?
the change from AD to CE feels really emblematic of how surface-level and meaningless the supposed secularization of the western world is
Common Era is definitely preferable over Anno Domini, if only because christ is no lord of mine, but itâs only less christianocentric in that it doesnât overtly make reference to christ in its title. the benchmark is still the same. youâre still measuring when the common era began using the (supposed) birth of christ, separating history into âthe period before jesusâ and âthe period after jesusâ. this conception of history is no less defined by christianity than it was before, except that now itâs easier to ignore because youâve draped it in a âsecularâ, âmodernâ veneer and done nothing to actually unpack the ways in which western society intrinsically centers christianity.
I think about this a lot, and it bothers me too.
I wish we could get archeologists together and agree on a date to put as the start date of the neolithic revolution and make that year 1. (not that it has a definitive start date. But it did start everywhere around the same time, roughly 10,000 to 8,000 years ago. So we could pick, like , a mean date.)
Well, there is a completely secular dating system which is sometimes used in archeology: BP Before Present (where in the present is 1st January 1950).
The reason it's not more commonly used is partly the mental adjustment needed, but also the last reliable C14 date is kinda a pointless benchmark when you're not using carbon dating.
Besides, the BCE/CE may be arbitrary, but it's been used as a sharded standard system across multiple different cultures and societies for several centuries and is no less arbitrary than any other of the other dating systems used (commonly the accession of the present ruler or specific cosmological event).
So, I went to give blood yesterday and had a new experience. The person I was dealing with (I'm not sure about the right term, phlebotomist maybe?) pointed out that they'd be adding a special blue tag to my donation and asked me if I knew why....
Now, I'd never actually seen the tag before, or even had it pointed out to me, but I knew (because of following NHSBT on social media) that it was a way of saying that my blood was suitable for use in neonatal transfusions, and honestly that makes me feel weirdly good about myself. Just to know that maybe, there's soon to be some sick newborn baby out there who'll still alive, just because I took a hour out of my day for a chocolate biscuit and some squash.
You know Iâm still open to the possibility of leaving the US at some point in my life and thereâs a lot of places that Iâd probably enjoy a lot more but almost every country in the world these days has major economic issues.
Like you look more in depth into a country youâre thinking about moving to at some point and all the articles about it are like âOUR YOUNG PEOPLE ARE DEPRESSED AND POOR AND EVERYBODY IS RACIST WHERE DID WE GO WRONG NOBODY CAN AFFORD TO RENT A STUDIO APARTMENT AAAAHHHHHHH WE ARE FALLING BEHIND THE REST OF THE WORLDâ
So anyways Iâm starting to think that thereâs a reason that humans do so many drugs in general.
Yeah, blame 80 years of USian propaganda and attempted forced compliance with their socioeconomic philosophy (with nearly half of that offering no real alternative) of "YOU WILL embrace OUR BRAND of capitalism and consumerism OR ELSE!!!"
Where the "OR ELSE!!!" ranges from an economic blockade that cripples your economy (by removing or severely limiting your ability to trade internationally) through overthrow of your government to outright invasion and occupation.
More sad news from TERF island
Updated code of practice covering England, Wales and Scotland also relates to changing rooms and follows supreme court ruling
So, whilst this does massively suck for trans folks, in practice, this guidance means that in order to comply with the equalities act and avoid being fined for discrimination, there has to be a gender neutral space provided for trans people who don't want to out themselves. And in something of an own goal for the FARTS behind this, the most practical way to comply with that for most of the UK is to eradicate gender segregated facilities.
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I may well be struggling with my own executive dysfunction, but I swear I will happily help organise whoever and whatever needs to get their shit in a pile in order to kill the spray-tanned shitstain and or end capitalism
i find it interesting how people will shout "death before detransition" and then immediately say thats not what it means when one points out thats what jeanne darc chose
was inspired by this ask to make these
something something the irony of it being hard to find a depiction of jeanne being burned to death in men's clothing despite it literally being the law used to justify murdering her and the thing she explicitly refused to stop doing even if it killed her. the way the crossdressing saint isn't allowed to be depicted as anything but a beautiful pale-skinned feminine woman with long flowing hair. yet when she refused to stop wearing men's clothing she was compared to a dog returning to its own vomit.
Hate to piss on your bonfire, but the reason you probably found it difficult to find the image you mentioned was probably because that was very much NOT what she was executed for (unless my limited knowledge of medieval theology is missing when and where the church declared cross dressing heretical).
She was executed for heresy (hence why she was burned) because of her lack of knowledge about specific points of theology. Admittedly not wearing men's clothes was a condition of her "probation" (for want of a better term) following her 1st trial and recanting of her claims of divine visions (the validity of which is why she's tried again), but it's debated as to why she wore men's clothes in the first place.
Certainly there's an argument for it being because of her gender identity (which is somewhat undermined by her initial refusal to wear the men's clothes provided for her in the specific instance that was the justification for her 2nd trial) but there's also arguments for practicality and safety (in that this is a teenage girl travelling long distances often in limited company through a warzone with at least 3 armies (all of whom are abusing civilians) and all the dangers that presents).
