CosmicLuci

So I propose saying that being kind is “radical” or “disruptive”, or simply “countercultural”. Because while being radical in a political sense cannot and is not limited to kindness, this is something that can integrate one’s radical politics, and it is possible to be radically kind. Also, within these systems that encourage unkindness, detachment, alienation, hatred, and apathy, kindness is disruptive.

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Sure, his clothes are fuck ugly, but they are built to last! And they are less romper-forward, which from a practicality standpoint is favorable. To me, personally.

I would also like to submit for evidence of Garak’s fashion sense being a net positive on the station:

Needed a clean graphic for a project, and figured while I was vectoring I would put sex and magic back in.

Trump Is Making Federal Prison Even More Dangerous for Transgender Inmates

New directives from the Bureau of Prisons amount to government-mandated conversion therapy.

In February, the Trump Justice Department issued a program statement titled “Management of Inmates with Gender Dysphoria,” its new internal directives regarding transgender people in federal prison. The policy classifies being transgender itself as a “mental health disorder” and outlines a “treatment plan” to ensure those afflicted “progress toward recovery.” What “recovery” means, in the eyes of the administration, is made obvious by the mandates of the plan: confiscation of trans inmates’ gender-affirming clothes, makeup and other personal items; denial of hormones and any other gender-affirming medication; and program of forced psychotherapy and psychotropic drugs. “It is, in every meaningful sense, a blueprint for a government-run conversion therapy program,” Shannon Minter, legal head of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights, writes in the Advocate, “one targeting thousands of incarcerated people who have nowhere to turn.”

But I just need to point out, as a point of duty, that this is genocide.

Pure and simple. Genocide is defined as acts taken with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a group as such. The protected groups can be understood as including any stable or permanent groups.

They’ve now put trans inmates in a place they’re likely to be abused and killed. They’ve also now established a policy where trans inmates should be tortured (and just to highlight, conversion therapy is not therapy, it’s recognized as torture. Here’s a link in case you wanna look into it more).

Pair this with the fact they’ve started effectively marking trans people as such in their IDs (not overtly, like in Rwanda where Tutsis and Hutus were identified as such in ID, but subtly. A woman with a marker that says she’s a man).

On top of that, they’re refusing documentation of all sorts to trans people. From passports to driver’s licenses. This in a scenario where undocumented people are being hunted down by what is essentially a secret police, imprisoned, and being denied due process.

Oh, and of course denying passports also makes it hard to travel. So they’re preventing trans people from leaving, but also do not want trans people in the country. What do you think that means?! Because whenever that shit happens, it always means the same: you’ve decided upon a policy of death, as that’s the only way to have a group not be there but also not have them leave.

Mark my words, the next step will be to establish policy that anyone whose gender marker on ID does not match their appearance, and anyone whose appearance doesn’t match gender expectations, can be rounded up as suspected criminals of some sort. Thus putting more trans people in those prisons where they’re likely to be abused, and are certain to be tortured.

Like, ok, I get why it might be unsafe for an extremely public figure that a lot of people hate to be riding the trains and buses. But at least their kids should be obligated to attend public schools, if they or their immediate family get sick they should have to use public hospitals.

So I’ll add, because it might scare off more bigots: women’s day is also about disabled women, neurodivergent women, women of color, immigrant women, non-binary people who aren’t quite women but still get targeted by misogyny (very much including transmisogyny), intersex women, and any others that failed to come to mind.

"I wish to propose to you a new term, one that has been missing for a long time: “circlusion,” or, if you prefer a purer latinate, “circumclusion.” It denotes the antonym of penetration. It refers to the same physical process, but from the opposite perspective. Penetration means pushing something––a shaft or a nipple––into something else––a ring or a tube. Circlusion means pushing something––a ring or a tube––onto something else––a nipple or a shaft. The ring and the tube are rendered active. That’s all there is to it.

This 1000 year old Katana looks as good as it did the day it was made. [3746x3024]

This is Mikazuki. The Crescent Moon blade.

This sword was crafted by Sanj(y)o Munechika and is older than 1000 years. (The Smith’s oldest signed work is from 987).

There are only 5 of the smith’s pieces remaining and this one exhibits one of the first times in history that the Japanese sword takes on it’s utilitarian curved shape.

This sword was owned by a laundry list of important historical figures including Oda Nobunaga’s general Toyotomi Hideyoshi who unified Japan.

You are essentially looking at a Japanese Excalibur.

And apparently the curvature is so slight that it doesn’t improve the cutting significantly enough (like a scimitar does), but significant enough to still make it worse at stabbing.

But from what i can gather thats Crystal Thierry, also known as page73girl. Who seems to have been a model for the now defunct biggestletdown.com…

to Immanentize the Eschaton means to bring about utopian conditions and create heaven on Earth

the phrase is first cited in the Discordian religious text, Principia Discordia (1963), for whom Discord (aka Eris) is goddess:

the first line of Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea’s 1975 The Illuminatus! trilogy: “It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton.”

in Frederik Pohl’s The Eschaton Sequence (1997 - 1999), the human race is caught up in a galactic war between two alien races attempting to immanentize the eschaton

in Ken Macleod's The Stone Canal (1997), one of the chapters is “Another crack at Immanentising the Eschaton”