❧ Hi! We are The Coffee Collective and we go by Coffee online, they/them or ask for current pronouns, and we are a queer, alterhuman, neurodivergent & disabled mixed-origins plural system. This is our place to reblog silly posts about our interests, which include activism, queerness, neurodivergency, disability, plurality, art, writing, nature, animals, and most of all whatever (usually fictional) media we’re hyperfixated on at the moment. We don’t say much on here, but we are always happy to interact with mutuals and make new friends!
We have no DNI/anyone can interact, but we curate our own space and block liberally. We will block anyone who is bigoted in any way or has discourse stances we don't agree with (we do not participate in any discourse and try to avoid it as much as possible). We are anti capitalist, anti-censorship, anti gen ai, anti genocide, anti radqueer/transid, pro endogenic systems + all forms of plurality, and we think shipping discourse is dumb + that everyone can engage with whatever fiction they want however they want forever.
If you don’t know what a system is: text resource, video resource
For simplicity we try to tag all common triggers and such as tw [thing] or [thing] tw, sometimes both, but we don't always remember to do this.
Our Tags, Plain Text, + Image IDs under the cut
Tags:
#coffee talks; posts by us
#[name] talks ; posts by one of us in particular, we don't use these often
#coffee chats; for when we (very rarely) interact with other people
#save for later; things we want to save (for later)
#vent post; for any venting we do/negative posts we make
Image IDs:
[Banner ID: screenshot from the show Psych, featuring the main character, Shawn, chasing the second main character, Gus, around the front of a parked blue car. In Gus’s hand is the sleeve from Shawn’s shirt that he just ripped off, whipping in the air as he runs. Behind them is a shrub wall and in the background is a faint suburban city skyline. /end ID]
[Icon ID: picture of Wumuti from XLOX from the waist up, with long blonde hair in a braid and a sleeveless dark red shirt. they are wearing an earpiece microphone and standing on stage under warm lighting, making a heart sign with one hand and smiling. /end ID]
[Userbox IDs: in order from left to right, top to bottom:
light purple userbox with an image of light purple flowers on the right. on the left is text that says "This system uses both "I" and "we" to refer to themselves collectively"
dark grey userbox with an image of the NPD and AvPD pride flags split down the middle with only half of each flag visible on the right. on the left is text that says "this system is neurodivergent, chronically ill, and disabled"
light yellow/creme userbox with an image of a solid red 5-point star shape on the right. on the left is text that says "this user finds comfort in fictional characters <3"
light lavender userbox with an image of the lesbian flag on the right. on the left is text that says "this user is lesbiab,,"
dark grey userbox with an image of the sunset aroace flag on the right and on the left is text that says "This user is aroace"
light purple userbox with an image of slivers of many pride flags of contradictory labels side by side to make one full flag on the right. on the left is text that says "THIS USER LOVES CONTRADICTORY LABELS"
purple userbox with an image of a simple black outline of a human head with clouds coming out of it on a white background on the right. on the left is text that says "due to personal reasons this user would rather be in their imaginary world"
black userbox with an image of a stylized set of human teeth with very long canines on the right. on the left is text that says " This user is a vampire"
bright pink-red userbox with a primary colored clown plush on the right. on the left is text that says "This user is so tired so so tired oh My fukkiinhniggg gooooooddddd"
white userbox with an image of a light purple heart shaped gem on the right. on the left is text that says "this user struggles to maintain online friendships, but appreciates their followers and mutuals!" /end ID]
Plain Text:
[Plain Text: - Hi! We are The Coffee Collective and we go by Coffee online, they/them or ask for current pronouns, and we are a queer, alterhuman, neurodivergent & disabled mixed-origins plural system. This is our place to reblog silly posts about our interests, which include activism, queerness, neurodivergency, disability, plurality, art, writing, nature, animals, and most of all whatever (usually fictional) media we’re hyperfixated on at the moment. We don’t say much on here, but we are always happy to interact with mutuals and make new friends!
We have no DNI/anyone can interact, but we curate our own space and block liberally. We will block anyone who is bigoted in any way or has discourse stances we don't agree with (we do not participate in any discourse and try to avoid it as much as possible). We are anti capitalist, anti-censorship, anti gen ai, anti genocide, anti radqueer/transid, pro endogenic systems + all forms of plurality, and we think shipping discourse is dumb + that everyone can engage with whatever fiction they want however they want forever.
If you don’t know what a system is: text resource(link: https://morethanone.info/), video resource(link: https://youtu.be/MFEPaFUfsDU)
For simplicity we try to tag all common triggers and such as tw [thing] or [thing] tw, sometimes both, but we don't always remember to do this.
Our Tags, Plain Text, + Image IDs under the cut /end PT]
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sometimes I feel kind of lonely as a bird therian :( there are so many mammals… where are my birds… calling all corvids eagles hawks falcons shrikes songbirds vultures mockingbirds owls etc CONGREGATE FELLOW FLOCK!!! So many packs where are my flocks…
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i honestly don't really understand why "some people prefer watching gameplay online rather than playing games themselves" is treated as such a taboo when being a spectator is considered a pretty mundane way to engage with most sports, game shows, reality tv or even just like. chess.
like the usual arguments are "not everyone can afford video games or have the software to pirate" or "you can be a fan of a game's story, but not it's gameplay" but also some people just have more fun watching other people be really good at starcraft or speedrun super mario 64, i don't think that's a particularly out of the box way to engage with the medium.
This is what I was alluding to when I discussed that the volume of name changes you have to make as a trans person highlights the ridiculous amount of documentation attached to you.
alright I finally got around to watching netflix's "The Dinosaurs"
(Don't become a paleontologist kids, it turns watching dinosaur related things from "fun" into "work")
THINGS DONE WELL
Birds are treated as full dinosaurs throughout
Emphasizing that dinosaurs had complex behaviors and social structures
Plenty of fluffy dinosaurs present
Most of the reconstructions are fantastic
KPg presented as tragedy and not inevitable
The ending showing all the different dinosaur behavior juxtaposed with modern dinosaurs doing that behavior is glorious, ESPECIALLY because it wasn't just theropods
THINGS DONE... NOT AS I WOULD DO THEM
the only named titanosaur is the smallest one??? what are we doing
For that matter, please just name the dinosaurs. I promise, audiences aren't allergic to names. I promise.
stop acting like the Jurassic was the time of giant dinosaurs when EVERY "BIGGEST" DINOSAUR WE KNOW IS FROM THE CRETACEOUS
I'd make more of the mid-sized theropods fluffy or at least have some decorative floof
I'd have more of the stepwise process of the evolution of birds as we go straight from early Jurassic dinos to Anchiornis, including showing how complex feathers evolved for display and communication before flight
can we PLEASE stop using the Kpg for TraumaPorn, I'm not kidding, I'm sick of watching dinosaurs die horrible horrible agonizing deaths for twenty minutes at a time
WE KNOW BIRDS ARE DINOSAURS. they were PRESENTED as dinosaurs THROUGHOUT. the "Gotcha! they didn't all go extinct!" thing at the end doesn't MAKE ANY SENSE when we ALREADY KNOW
also acting like its a Tuatara situation - implying just a small remnant is holding out - when birds cover the entire planet and outnumber mammals a significant amount is... a Choice. (It's a bad choice)
STOP ENDING DINOSAUR DOCUMENTARIES AT THE KPG WHEN WE KNOW THAT ISN"T THE END OF THE STORY
THINGS THAT ARE JUST PLAIN WRONG WTF
what the actual eff was the Spinosaurus sequence
MOST carnivores engage in opportunistic cannibalism. that doesn't make them "a cannibal" and it doesn't make them special, either, because most do it.
I did see quite a few somewhat pronated hands
Dinosaurs were either straight up endothermic or gigantothermic. they could handle snow. they DID handle snow. why do we keep acting like they died the minute cold water touches their skin. we don't have a lot of evidence of titanosaur migration because cold. what is this.
Why is Alamosaurus with Edmontosaurus. If they aren't Alamosaurus, why are we just making up titanosaurs for fun. Like I know they almost overlap but the emphasis is decidedly on ALMOST
hateg island in the non-latest cretaceous segment because...????
anchiornis could probably fly. the gliding stuff is almost certainly dead in the water.
In short, I liked it a lot, but I did yell at the screen frequently too, so what can you do
I just want a "story of the dinosaurs" docuseries that COVERS THE CENOZOIC. I think we've gotten enough out of the "violent end" narrative and we have plenty of documentaries that just cover the mesozoic. make the madness stop. no, we don't have to ignore the extinction, but that doesn't mean we can't do "There was a tragedy... nonetheless dinosaurs rose from the ashes..."
like yes, it's a surprise to HUMANS that dinosaurs are still around. you know who isn't surprised?
THE TWENTY THOUSAND (probable) SPECIES OF DINOSAURS THAT COVER EVERY CORNER OF THE PLANET
THEY KNOW. ITS NOT A SHOCK. WE WERE JUST STUPID.
anthropocentrism will actually be the death of me
Anyways, check it out. Just remember Spinosaurus probably wasn't... That.
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In light of recent events, I have begun submitting bug reports when I see mature content labels applied inappropriately to posts, especially if an appeal has been rejected.
for what it's worth: after a few months of submitting help tickets as 'feedback' when i saw a post inappropriately flagged as mature, i tried following this suggestion instead. today i got my first-ever response from tumblr support on this issue, letting me know that a post i'd submitted a ticket before has had its mature content flag removed.
This is legitimately brilliant. Bug burndown reports (the rate at which your software team can close bugs) is a major metric for most software houses.
It takes an extra step in our part, but this is part of what makes it effective. It's not one click, one reblog activism and it hits them where they care: their damn KPIs.
like this sentence from the introduction alone is fucking crazy. “approximately half of adults in the united states think that torture can be acceptable in counterterrorism.” what!
ID: a screenshot from the article, with text that reads:
"Despite domestic and international prohibitions on torture dating back more than half a
century, recent public opinion polls show that approximately half of adults in the United States
think that torture can be acceptable in counterterrorism (Tyson 2017).
Particularly since 9/11, we have seen a resurgence of debate over the use of torture where many politicians and members of the public assert that torture works to produce actionable intelligence (Murdie 2017). Yet, many interrogation professionals disagree and maintain that torture is ineffective and often counterproductive (Fallon 2017; Lagouranis and Mikaelian 2007).
The disconnect between public and expert opinion on torture is especially troubling given that public support for human rights has consistently been one of the major bulwarks against violations."
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Clickable link:
This is why media literacy is so important. This is why it is so important to analyze and understand what biases and politics went into the making of media, werher conscious or unconscious and what messages can be taken from a media, no matter how "silly" or "unimportant" the media might be in the eyes of its defenders.
Per the actual first line of the article:
Introduction:
Zootopia is a computer-animated Disney film about a rabbit police officer—Judy Hopps— and a fox con artist who partner to investigate a criminal conspiracy.
Toward the end of the film, Officer Hopps needs to find the drop-off location for "night howler" flowers (a poisonous flower that has been weaponized to turn animals "feral").
She turns to an organized crime boss to extract information from a lackey of the antagonists.
The crime boss's polar bear enforcers hold the lackey over a hole in iced-over water, threatening to throw him in (and ostensibly kill him) if he doesn't give up the location. "Ice him," says the crime boss.
The lackey quickly gives up the desired information and our heroes go on to (spoiler alert) save the day.
In an animated film, this scene may seem like an innocuous plot device to move the story forward.
Yet, it also serves two other functions:
it suggests that torture is an effective method of extracting information, and it normalizes this violence for a young audience in a way that may prepare them for darker depictions of torture—often involving humans—as their media consumption evolves toward more adult-geared content.
A reminder that there is no scientific basis for beleiving torture is effective.
You cannot get accurate information from a person who will be hurt if they say "I don't know," or whom you do not trust or believe until they've been so hurt they will say anything to make you stop.
False confession under torture is common knowledge. The idea you can get an honest one is nonsense. It's an assumption people make. It has no evidence. It is not reliable.
And we accept that heroes torture people as a better alternative to killing them and that it works. That you can do it if it's bad enough and everything will be better after. Because you did it for a good reason.
This is not how reality works.
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