As evilas my name is, I'm not that bad.

pjackk was unbanned because @3liza finally got through to staff about a fucking weird bug with the support form that got the metal bastard banned because it claimed he posted some Bulgarian nationalist shit (this was not a real post that pjackk ever posted). other high-profile bans like @garaks-padded-bra was hit with the same bug and its being investigated

there was a new feature added that lets people see your comments on your blog page in a tab like your likes or followers. everyone was mad that it was not toggle-able. it was actually toggle-able.

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Actually this is insane I'm not even entertaining the rest of these points

Cooking is absolutely a skill that requires some effort in terms of time money energy. But like. It's a survival skill.

If you can only cook simple cheap dishes then you can put in the effort to find and learn simple cheap dishes.

But like. Cooking is a skill that pays off. Once you know how to cook something you can do it forever. You can learn meal planning and substitutions. You can make up your own recipes.

When my mom and I were poor as dirt when I was a kid, she'd just make buttered noodles because that's all we could afford. We didn't order takeout.

Now that I'm an adult that can cook anything your heart desires? And has fed crowds for Thanksgiving and Yom Kippur breakfast?

My go to meal each week is just... Baked chicken breast or fish. Whatever was on sale. Then some kind of roasted fresh veg or microwaved can veg. I cook for an hour on Sunday and eat for the week.

Yeah learning to cook on my own was hard and intimidating and it sucked and took me a couple years and sometimes I'd fuck up and make something incredible and end up wasting money and ordering pizza.

motor issues make handling knives or hot objects risky

OCD or sensory issues preventing working with certain categories of foods

Executive dysfunction

Standing up hurts or is impossible

no fucking kitchen in the apartment

For those who haven't been paying attention, this is a recent ChatGPT output. It can do this sort of dense sensible text in images totally one shot, so don't rely on bad text to identify AI images any more.

Here is the entire interaction that produced this image:

which results in cases like this, where tumblr as a website may be hostile to trans women, but the majority of the people you try to talk to about it are NOT, and the company isn't on paper, so it becomes much, much harder to address the problem. if you call someone and say 'hey tumblr's sexist,' and that person, as the current voice of tumblr, goes 'well hang on, i'm not sexist, so i think the company probably isn't either,' then no one will get anywhere.

the point is that reform needs to keep all this in mind to be successful, it's a very difficult beast to combat, and mostly requires a lot of very slow and boring victories. a lot of 'this specific process fucking sucks, can we replace it with a better one,' one at a time, until the aggregate is less bad.

I saw these screenshots in the notes ~2m after it was decided:

I just took these of the project page:

& looking in the edit history, I see this:



Twice, one in the intro alongside other words used to describe the oppression that trans men face in this way, the other one being a restatement of that fact: “is sometimes referred to as anti-transmasculinity,[1] transandrophobia,[2] or transmisandry” “The discrimination experienced by transgender men has been described using various words, but none have seen widespread use. Terms used include anti-transmasculinity and transandrophobia.”

but still

i just can't get behind the idea that you have a right to labor opportunities. that's a really really weird thing to argue. you have a right to food and shelter and all that, "something to keep you from the devilish idle hands" is not really an important thing.

and like, as long as the proposed solutions are actually feasable and narrow enough to address the specific problem (like, idk, some sort of worker to robot ratio, or tariffs or something, like humans are now the fuckin DEI hire), i wouldn't OPPOSE the idea. it is, technically, better than nothing.

but its still stupid to me cause best i can tell, CEOs have been wringing the workforce dry for ages, outsourcing to countries with worse labor standards, hiring one employee to do the work of 3, using rotating schedules that you have to pick out THAT WEEK so that its near impossible for any one person to have much control over their workload.

But I know how to apply the gel because I saw posts from trans women how to apply it and I feel that even though are reasons for using it are different that we are not so different

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