Life is full of whimsical happenings, Watson

P.S: Don't like! Reblog! <3

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

BUT! Look at me. LOOK AT ME!

It is VITAL that we do not flame in the tag. Do you know what will happen then?? PEOPLE WILL STOP TAGGING FOR GENERATIVE AI!!!

THAT SAID.

AO3 IS an archive, that part is true. And allowing these kinds of works IS important but not because they are creations, and certainly not because they are fan creations (as they were generated by a machine, not created by a fan. They were POSTED by a fan). But because people are GOING to do this regardless of if it is allowed, and allowing it means there are tags they can use that allow people to filter against it and ignore it. Disallowing it, as stated above, means it still gets posted, but with no tags or warning. That's bad. That's so much worse than just allowing it.

On top of that, there is unfortunately merit in the recording of when people used machines to generate a facsimile of human creation. This doesn't mean those stories have merit as stories, because they don't. But archiving their existence as a part of fandom history - even if it's a part you don't like - and allowing people a safe avenue to display them in a way that allows others to avoid them is important. Minding your own business is a skill you MUST learn in fandom. Don't like, don't read is a mindset you MUST cultivate even when it applies to you, instead of being your defense.

How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways…

Trump administration approves seismic tests that could harm thousands of Atlantic dolphins and whales

The Trump administration took an important step toward future oil and natural gas drilling off the Atlantic shore, approving five requests allowing companies to conduct deafening seismic surveys that could harm tens of thousands of dolphins, whales and other marine animals, according to studies.

In an announcement Friday, the National Marine Fisheries Service, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, declared that it issued final “incidental take” authorizations permitting companies conducting the surveys to harm wildlife if its unintentional.

It’s not one of my feminist goals for a few incredibly privileged women to join their incredibly privileged male peers in hoarding ridiculous amounts of wealth for status and fun while people are dying for want of food and appropriate medical care and housing.

I’m more interested in building a world where it’s unthinkable to selfishly hoard the resources others are dying for. My feminist goal is for no woman anywhere to be trapped in an abusive home because she can’t afford to leave, for no woman anywhere to be imprisoned for crimes of poverty, for no woman anywhere to slowly die from malnutrition or exposure or treatable illness.

The women who receive far more money than they need and do not distribute the excess to those who desperately need it, the women who choose status and power and luxury over solidarity and mutual aid – those women do not need or deserve my help in hoarding even more wealth. They are not my feminist sisters; they are oppressors of poor women everywhere.

The resources our society as a whole has created are being funnelled year by year into a smaller and smaller pool of hyperrich people who do nothing to counteract the injustice of their wealth. My goal is not to make that tiny pool of resource-hoarders half women.