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If you see the quote "I refuse to share my body with a man who wouldn't defend it politically" or any variation of it floating around the internet — it was Kat Blaque who originally said it and she would really appreciate it if people gave her proper credit for it but it's gone viral on a lot of different platforms and most of the people sharing it don't know it's from her or choose not to credit her on purpose.

Like I just know terfs are going to be parroting it pretending it wasn't said by a black trans woman about herself & her life.

My child, who spends their entire life being transfered from home to car to school and back, and is not allowed to leave the house or talk to anyone and can only in their wildest dreams imagine a life free from constant surveillance, is very sad. Obviously they're dumb and lazy, like all kids these days.

kind of a tangent but i recently went to a bowling alley with my friend i'm 19 he's 18 and the woman at the door didn't want to let us in because there was a sign saying under-18s needed adult supervision. everything got cleared up and we were able to go bowl, but i'm still so mad about the fact that kids need adult supervision to go to a bowling alley and arcade. like okay maybe young kids should have supervision but what do you mean middle and high schoolers need to hold mommy's hand while they play video games. kids aren't just addicted to their phones because phones are addicting, we're addicted to our phones because there's nothing else to fucking do

I'm sure banning kids from online spaces while simultaneously not ensuring that they have access to offline spaces to socialize in (without having to rely on their parents who already don't have time for them) will help them feel better & less alienated from society.

Which reminds me. The work colleague who makes display signage using AI art is finally getting told to knock it off bc a reference librarian overheard some patrons mocking said AI art the other day and also bc we got a write in comment about how disappointed the commenter was that the public library ie an information center would use AI. We come to the brick and mortar library to get away from that etc etc etc. So, you know. Be loud and annoying about it in public, maybe you’ll get lucky and it’ll do something.

I think masculine and feminine are consumer categories

reblog if you remember having to ration your text messages and accidentally opening the internet on your phone was the end of the world

I just wrote 8 pages when I haven't written in months and was beginning to think I'd never be able to again. Idk what it is, but I am sharing and manifesting this energy for every writer who sees this. May you write 8 quality pages effortlessly and find joy writing once more

I don't think men saying out of pocket shit to me on the internet is because they're men. everyday billions of men wake up and don't say out of pocket shit to me on the internet. this is clearly an active choice

learning to knit has instilled in me the "we have food at home" impulse about knitted sweaters where whenever i see a sweater that i like i'm like "okay but i shouldn't buy this, i can just make it myself." except unlike having food at home, making it myself does not save me any time or money. in fact it takes much more of both

You should be able to have zero dollars to your name and still have everything you need to survive, dependable housing, food, water, clothing, personal care necessities like soap and deodorant and toilet paper and period products, medicine and the prescriptions/healthcare you need to live comfortably… not everyone’s life should be focused on the accumulation of wealth, and yet society is structured around earning money being the only way to survive or do anything at all. Some humans are really good at earning money because it gives them purpose but that shouldn’t be how everyone has to live

saw an ad for ai slop saying you can "write" ten times faster. its not writing if you are relying on ai. it's not creativity to use ai. it's theft. it's peak laziness. it's environmental destruction. it's useless. it's garbage. nothing about it is good or worthwhile or redeemable in any capacity.

countless scifi movies and stories painting the picture of how frightening robots and artifical intelligence taking over the human world could be and its happening now. it isn't even subtle. ai is destroying art, stealing art, making people doubt even real artists and their craft, destroying the fucking environment, using precious and limited resources like clean water, worsening our capability to think critically and independently and factcheck shit, mimicking real life people in videos and photos saying and doing things they never did. people are losing their literal jobs so a billionaire company can just use ai. they will try and use ai to take over any job they possibly can just to save money because they don't care about you and never have. a robot doesn't need to hold a gun to your head to take over your life, strings of code are already doing that. wake the fuck up

sorry kids daddy lost all his money betting on rhinoceros beetle fights again there won't be a christmas this year