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You know how there's that genre of posts that's like "[screenshot of something horrid and dystopian happening with technology] hahaha, I sure hope nothing bad comes from defunding humanities while pouring boatloads of money into STEM"?
I need an inversion of that that's like "hahaha, I sure hope we don't run into any problems with masses of artists and writers deciding that it's fascist to understand the law and computer science."
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the space race may be the funniest point in history period and i'll stand by that. the US is like "yes whoever gets into space first will prove once and for all that our economic model is superior and that we are, in general, the superior country of superior and smarter people." then the soviets just went and did it and the US freaked out and needed to cover their ass so were like "WE MEAN THE MOON, WE MEAN THE FIRST TO LAND ON THE MOON."
yeah its cus walking on the moon was cool as hell and all this other boring shit sucked ass
When I was a freshman in a red-state college, I had a professor who taught Newtonian physics with a super thick Russian accent. The student body was unusually conservative for a state college, so there was a sort of general bemusement about learning physics from a Russian, but even back then the Cold War was far enough in the past that not even the red tribe was inclined to stir up trouble about it.
He was aware enough of this to get off on trolling the class, though. Whenever some force diagram in a homework assignment needed to be weightless, instead of being some generic spacecraft it would be âMirâ specifically. And heâd always use âcosmonautâ instead of âastronautâ, that kind of thing.
One day about halfway through the semester, heâs doing this with in-class examples on the board, and one of the students finally gets up the guts to troll back a little. So this kid shouts from the back of the auditorium, âHey professor, whatâs the difference between a cosmonaut and an astronaut?â
And this beautiful man spins around on one heel to face the class, whiteboard marker triumphantly over his head, clearly having been waiting for this moment the entire semester: âCosmonaut go to space first! Ha!â
Obama didnât give them any US taxpayer dollars, he unfroze Iranian money in exchange for Iran giving up their nuclear weapons program.
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#yeah! i mean he was allowed to sexually assault interns and shit but yeah! protect the children!
No. Nope. No. We're not doing that. We're gonna stop that shit right now.
A 22-year-old is not a fucking child. We are not going to participate in the continual infantilization of adult human beings. Monica Lewinsky was not a child. She was an adult when their affair began and had been an adult for four years.[1] By the time the affair ended, she was older than I was when I had been married for multiple years and had my daughter.
In her own words, she was not assaulted. We are not going to reinterpret her experiences to fit our desired narrative over the words she has used to describe her experience. She had enough of that from Republicans, The Drudge Report, and late-night talk show hosts 28 years ago, thank you very much.
To be very clear, we are also not excusing what she described as a "gross abuse of power"[2] on behalf of the 49-year-old President, either. But we are also not redefining an adult as a child or something that the victim of that gross abuse of power says was not assault.
We are not going to participate in removing even more agency from the person who was, in her own words, "the most humiliated person in the world"[3] by turning her into a) multiple people or b) a fucking child. She was one person who has a name, and she was a fucking adult.
He was, you know, impeached. This is sort of a contrast to the absolutely zero consequences happening to Trump legally, there were multiple trials [4], including one where Clinton was found liable for civil contempt of court and fined $90,000, an impeachment trial on two Articles of Impeachment which lasted twenty-one days, and a later loss of his law license in Arkansas, followed by a permanent disbarment from the United States Supreme Court, meaning he is permanently disallowed from arguing before the Supreme Court.[5] I genuinely do not know how you can argue he was "allowed" to do anything with a straight face. That relationship was, to be clear, perfectly fucking legal in a way that all of the assaults in the Epstein Files very much are not, because Ms. Lewinsky was a goddamned adult, but he 100% did face actual permanent consequences for lying about it in court and to Congress.
The Lewinsky scandal is largely credited as the main reason why the 2000 election was close enough for Bush to steal it. (And he did, but that's another conversation.) Hillary Clinton was called on to answer for her husband's actions almost 20 years later, during the 2016 campaign, and she's a totally different human being, as is Al Gore. So acting like there were no consequences the same way that there are zero meaningful consequences for Trump right now is really fucking weird, bud.
It is deeply inappropriate and really fucking weird to try to turn an adult into a child to win a rhetorical argument. Epstein's victims were actually children, some of them single-digit in age at the time they were trafficked and raped, and it is disgusting beyond belief to equate a consensual relationship undertaken by an adult who had graduated from college with a bachelor's degree in psychology with, you know. Children.
Seriously. What the fuck is wrong with you?
1. "Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Lewinsky
2. "âThere are even some people who feel my White House experiences donât have a place in this movement, as what transpired between Bill Clinton and myself was not sexual assault, although we now recognise that it constituted a gross abuse of power.â." The Guardian, February 27, 2018.
3. "In 1998, ...I was arguably the most humiliated person in the world." Monica Lewinsky, "Shame and Survival," Vanity Fair, June 2014
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton, like, come the fuck on, this is basic history shit.
5. https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/01/national/clinton-disbarred-from-practice-before-supreme-court.html
an impeachment that ends Up Not removing him from Office but DOES permanently and significantly damage his reputation, is an appropriate and proportional reaction to a President doing sexual misconduct with an adult he had Power over, and then lying about it.
Trump did more Things, MUCH worse Things, and Things he lied about in both more elaborate and less elaborate ways, which means, If things were proportional, he would have been impeached hundreds of times
âEridians dislike earth because they abandoned Grace.â *Incorrect Buzzer Sound* ya missed the point of the story buddy! Itâs not about someone being âbadâ itâs about the incredible power of love and that love being worth dying for!
Gimmie Eridians who are absolutely heartbroken to hear that humans where so desperate and so scared that they where willing to part with not just one Grace, there were three of them! Gimmie Eridians touched to find that the humans planned a way for their sacrifices to be as comfortable as possible. Gimmie Eridians who send earth a message saying âWe know it must have hurt to send your heroes to die, but one made it and heâs safe here. We lost 22 good Eridians on the journey we would have lost 23 if not for your Grace.â
Give me humans sitting on Earth slowly coming to the conclusion that when we look up not only are we not alone, someone out there is alive because of one of us. That no matter what we think of ourselves a whole species thinks highly of us because we helped save the galaxy. Give me humans who figure out how to send a probe to Erid filled to the brim with messages for Grace and footage of a monument being raised that reads his name, his crews names, and then âin memory of the 22 Eridians who lost their lives on the journey to save the stars.â
I think some of the Eridians send messages specifically for Stratt. I think Adrien does. âI know how hard it must have been to send Grace to die and sending him away scared. But heâs safe now. He may have been mad at you, but Iâm not. I canât be. Without your choice, I would have lost Rocky and we would have both lost our homes forever. Thank you Eva Stratt, sender of heroes.â
I hate to be all "cis good" on main, but if it weren't for the cis queer women that welcomed me into womanhood idk where I would be
Shout-out to cis queer women that welcome trans women because that was genuinely a foundational part of developing confidence in my femininity
There's this huge media storm that, even when it's supposed to be "trans positive" still paints this atmosphere of separation between trans and cis women. This has been the opposite of my experience. I'm grateful for the solidarity between all women <3
There are gonna be young cis women who are gonna delight in helping you find out what sort of clothes you wanna wear, how to look after your skin and hair, helping you on the path to learning the difference between like, what you feel you *should* present like vs what is actually comfortable and authentically you.
There are going to be menopausal cis mums who are on the same brand of estrogen patch as you who are gonna join you in griping about getting them to stick and swapping tips for when you get dispensed the big patches but your dose is half that.
There are going to be infertile cis women who share your pain and anger at the concept that 'able to bear children' is seen as the only 'real' way to be a woman.
There are gonna be intersex cis women who understand what it's like to have your body's default state not line up with societal expectations.
There are gonna be queer cis women who will stand with you at Pride, who will welcome you to our family, our community.
I want to reblog this a thousand times. I've seen all of this, and it is so beautiful and pure and we all need it for survival. I love women, I love the solidarity we all have, and I love what we can all do for each other <3
The notes on this post are a set of the most beautiful stories I've heard about welcoming and solidarity between all women, cis and trans.
Please keep sharing these. They truly are a joy, and are giving me a lot of hope <3
reblogged this earlier but actually have something to add. the barely 20 year old cis girl who came up to me in the train station to ask me if she could stand with me. who told me all her friends left and she felt nervous waiting alone. who waited with me and told me to get home safe as we got on the train together. the fact that you felt like I was a safe and kind woman you could lean on a little?
Probably the single most affirming social experience I've had with a stranger. The fact you chose me of everyone in the train station means you saw me in a crowd and picked me out and said "That's a girl's girl."
Shout out to the group of middle aged cis moms I met at the liquor store when I was looking for wine. The one that said "oh honey, you just wiped off your makeup." And gestured at her upper lip after I wiped the sweat off my face with a handkerchief from my purse.
I was having a lot of dysphoria about my upper lip hair suddenly having color to it (medicine side effect it seems). So I was internally wondering if they'd ostracize me since they'd clocked me.
One of the women goes "oh it's okay, I have PCOS too. Don't let it bother you." And suddenly I've got 3 women chatting with me and lamenting how they have to "shave almost every day at this point" and just cackling. The store worker joined in, saying she plucks constantly, and her "transgender friend has to shave 2 or more times a day!". They all had these genuine reactions and "oh no, poor girl" and other comments.
I felt included. I never mentioned that I was transgender.. I just carried on, they helped me pick out wines, gave me some tips on undertones for makeup to cover facial hair stubble, and I got the shop worker to pull out some elderflower liqueur to add to a small sample of a Pinot Grigio (and got more people to try it and add it to their rotation. Seriously, try it sometime. It's incredible).
The random solidarity and genuine reactions I've received from other women has been very validating and honestly so welcome.
I actually have one for this. I work in food service, and I was working in that industry for... Almost a decade before I came out. And I came out at age 27, didn't start HRT until I was 28. Despite the sheer size of the city I live in, a not insignificant portion of the industry knows who I am. And so when I get a new job, I usually have to come out a few times.
I had had this job for a couple of months, and while I was working I was told we had a stage coming in later to see how they fit in. I say great and go on my break. When I come back, the potential hire is there... And she's a coworker from a couple jobs ago (like two or three years previous). We both slowly point at each other and go "Aren't you... ?" Before laughing and reintroducing ourselves. I go "Sooo I'm a girl now," and she laughs and tells me "Yeah I can tell." We spend some time catching up, and we work great together, and she gets hired.
A few days later I tell her I'm jealous of her bandana â you need something to cover your hair at work, and I'd been using a baseball cap, but I felt it made me look really masculine, even after several years of HRT â and she immediately pulls out a spare and shows me how to wear it. I still love the selfie I took that day, I was beaming. And from there it was very clear she just... accepted me as one of the girls. She'd tell me about men being shitty to her, and about the consistent misogyny we face, and even helped me at a sapphic night at a bar. It was just... Instant solidarity. It was amazing. We're still friends today.
I used to run Gender Euphoria Hour at a local convention, where people would bring makeup and nail polish and trans tape and all kinds of stuff and you could come get your nails done or your chest taped for the weekend.
And a cis woman friend of mine said, "Oh, I can help! I've got some stuff I can share!"
Friends, let me tell you. She rolled up on her mobility device with someone behind her, pushing a bellman's cart STACKED HIGH with makeup organizers. Nail polish, makeup, hair accouterments, and a bunch of the makeup was sample size stuff she had accumulated and was shoving at people to take home if it worked for them.
Also, some cis women who are (for intersex or race/ethnicity reasons or Just by random Chance) proportioned in a way that doesn't quite match the narrow femininity-window of some clothing Brands, would be Open to receiving advice from older trans women or giving advice to Younger trans girls on the subject of how to buy and alter clothing and accessoirize for their preferred Presentation.
the place I work at remodeled these split gendered restrooms into âinclusive restroomsâ and never told us what they meant while construction was ongoing. I need you to know every atom of potential criticism or whining that couldâve happened disappeared when people found out this meant we got 10 fully separate private bathrooms with sinks inside. Iâve not heard a single person crack a joke about the inclusive signage. this is the world TERFs are trying to steal from you
This is called a "superloo" and terfs are actively trying to steal this from you, in the UK they changed bathroom regulations to mean new buildings have to prioritise gendered toilets rather than build superloos.
This also upset a lot of architects and designers who like the superloos. They're also typically more like small rooms rather than having doors you can look under.
People for whom Gendered-Body-Modesty-Rules are important (like hijabi women), deserve the privacy to change clothes and attend to their hygiene needs in accordance with those beliefs, but they are not inherently entitled to the company of strangers, but ONLY the right Kind of Strangers, while doing so, especially Not at the cost of disabled people AND trans people AND parents-with-young-children.
For everyone who âused to love readingâ but now hasnât finished a book in years, you CAN get it back. Genuinely start bringing a book (preferably short and either fiction or a non fiction topic you already really enjoy) everywhere you go and when you have 5-20 mins waiting for the bus or at the doctors office or mechanic or whatever, get out your book and read it! You donât have to finish it quickly or even read it often but it is so good for your brain and fun to get into the habit of reading more (and replacing being on your phone for those moments). Source: I read 0 books in 2023 and Iâve read 12 in the first 4 months of 2026
Also, the fact that All Systems Red and some other parts of The Murderbot Diaries are short novellas, is only one of several reasons to like the Series, but it's the reason most relevant in the context of "you CAN train yourself back into Reading"
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the curse of summer is buying and eating an inadvisable amount of fruit in single sittings.
ive mentioned this before but the main reason this is a CURSE and not a BLESSING is because bombarding your SYSTEM with that much fruit sugars and fibre all at ONCE will often create THE BAD TOILET EXPERIENCE
I am having my first (admittedly RESTRAINED) watermelon experience of the season and i am READY
if you regularly experience Bad Toilet Experience from Summer Fruits, it might be a good idea to research that Sorbitol intolerance is a Thing that people can have, and Low-ish Sorbitol tolerance is a Thing that quite a Lot of people, including children, have, and that many of them at some point grow out of it/into a higher Sorbitol tolerance, and that "Moderation" is the way to both managing the low-tolerance and encouraging the process of growing Out of it, and for that purpose it's useful and neccessary to know which Fruits contains how much Sorbitol.
I like when Pheidole ants do the thing with the head
I was curious about how accurate this is and am pleased to report it is extremely accurate
IIRC, the soldier-caste ants have mouth-parts too specialized to be useful for feeding themself. Which means they need to meet their (higher!) caloric needs entirely by being fed mouth-to-mouth by their smaller Sisters, like a larva or drone.
Toxic yuri.
The Eridian science teams try soooo hard to be soooo normal about Grace. "He helped save our entire planet, we cant experiment on him!" "Hes a whole ass intelligent being, the biodome isnt like a zoo enclosure at all we swear." "Rocky might actually kill us if we try and add enrichment things to the biodome just to see what happens. It'll seem like an insult to Grace's intelligence."
Meanwhile Grace is just waiting in anticipation for someone to ask for a chunk of his hair or something. Hes lowkey curious as to what theyd find. Hes fine with being a creature to them its chill he gets it as a fellow intellectual and all around curious guy who insisted on watching Rocky eat.
Turns out you can win at tagging.
Also earth people literally do COMPETITIVE zoo-animal-enrichment. As in, zookeepers and/or animal-behavior-scholars competing in who can invent the enrichment that the animal will Like the most. Which Grace presumably knows and he might be VERY careful to not hurt anyone's Feelings, If that happens.
My personal experience with being asked this question and then given that line, is that the neurotypical person expected you to feel shame. I have some slightly less anecdotal evidence to back up this anecdotal experience. I took substitute teacher training once, and we were told that the best thing to do with middle schoolers "acting up," was to shame them, to figure out how to draw attention to them and this negative attention in front of their peers would shame them into good behaviour, or at least silence. I raised my hand, having already distinguished myself as the "weirdo" of the group, and said, "Is this the reason I spent a lot of time in the principal's office for truthfully, loudly, and clearly answering questions like, 'would you care to share your thoughts with the class?'" And was told yes, that was a perfect example, but I was the rare case where it backfires.
Since then, I have responded to that type of question with, "Do you want an explanation, or was your intent simply to indicate that I need to feel inferior, right now?" and it does tend to turn the tables a little bit.
Problem with that response is that if it is a person who has any power over you, that is going to escalate the conflict. And they are going to use that power against you.
Yes.
But the alternative is not escalating the conflict. And they are going to use that power against you.
in SOME (but Not all!) circumstances where someone has a small amount of situational Power over you (and/but is GENERALLY reasonable), the best way to keep yourself Safe is to Point Out to the other person that you're AWARE of the size and shape of the Power dynamic, and that you see through a dishonest communication-strategy.
If you want people to work in order to "contribute to society", then you support socialism. Capitalism is working to enrich the people who own the means of production.
most of the people who "contribute to Society" the most, are retired-from-paid-work elders, breadwinner-spouse-supported care-workers, and other volunteers. This is also reality. Capitalism is actively making ever fewer people able to afford to contribute to society because their survival depends on enriching Rich people.
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Opening a fic with an interesting summary only to be hit with a note saying "i know nothing about canon and refuse to learn" bruh WHY. like, I've been known to read canon-blind, but what in the world made you think it was a good idea to WRITE that way? Thanks for telling me at the start so I didn't waste my time, I guess
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Some of the best fic I have ever read was written by a human who, (by their explicit admission on their Tumblr Blog that is easy to find through Profile) at the time of writing, had a general idea of Star Wars, as in general worldbuilding and the plot of the main movies, but HADN'T consumed all or even most of the source Material about a specialty Side Storyline or Side Character that their fic was about, but HAD apparently consumed quite a Bit of other people's fanfic about them, and ended Up writing beautiful characterization that Checks Out. I think that might be a Skill issue and/or Star Wars is a special Case because of how huge AND incoherent the "Canon" is.
How to Degoogle without being a Tech Bro
Version: Saturday August 23rd.
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Big tech is selling you as the product. So how do you escape GenAI and your data being sold to other companies? Because Google has done it on purpose repeatedly.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/google-says-it-doesnt-sell-your-data-heres-how-company-shares-monetizes-and
The settlement requires Google and YouTube to pay $136 million to the FTC and $34 million to New York for allegedly violating the Childrenâs
BTW, while you're cursing, google, make sure you're cursing Prabhakar Raghavan for making Google shittier.
Starting at 11:35 for the pronunciation of his name.
So formatted at the top is the "Google" product and then the replacement is below it with a review.
Chrome
Firefox
The first open source browser. It's free. And originally was named Netscape for the OGs out there.
Brave Some people swear by Brave, but their intro and TOS with the whole sharing your activity kinda feels like Google even if they say they are open source. Every search goes towards their search engine... which kinda seems to be mixing baskets there.
Ecosia-
They claim to plant trees... the question is if you trust them, and for that there's this report on how it works: https://www.patharoundtheworld.com/ecosia-review/
So if you don't want anyone monitoring your search results, it's Firefox. If you don't mind, but want to curate it, Brave. If you don't mind and want it to go towards trees, the Ecosia.
Google (Search Engine)
DuckDuckGo
It's already in your browser. Change the default browser to http://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s (Firefox)
This is the easiest solution.
In case you really don't like this solution, you can also set up Searxng on your localhost server.
Google Docs
Ellipsus- This would replace the communal aspects of Google, so a doc can be worked on together. They are based out of Germany.
LibreOffice- For offline work and very close to Microsoft Office, but has an autosave feature so if it crashes, it's not permanently lost. It's a replacement for Open Office and Neo Office which are not being updated anymore.
Yeah, there is a longer list I did here: https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/789986515755368448/genai-v-not-genai-round-up?source=share
but the functionality closest to Google Docs are these two.
Google Maps
Organic Maps- The two major weaknesses of this mapping system are that it can't pinpoint exact house numbers, only give you the block it's on. And it can't give you bus route information. It's based on Open Street Maps. So if you're walking or using a car or a bike, it's great for that.
It gives bike trails and so on recommended by fellow travelers. You share the information you want or don't want to share and it won't track you.
The second weakness is that it will not give you correct bus routes.
If anyone has OPEN SOURCE maps that does give BUS routes, I'll be interested for phones, etc.
Gmail
ThunderbirdMail looks like it's the next best option to having to pay for a domain name. It's in the works, but not done yet. If you want a mail server without the having to buy your own domain name.
If you have your own domain name, then... Thunderbird Made by Mozilla, the makers of Firefox, so it's open source. They also have calendar, tasks and chat. If you have your own domain, you can connect to it through POP or IMAP. It does connect to Gmail, but you can limit what you connect through Google this way.
Bravemail- Open source mail in answer to Brave.
Proton sold itself to GenAI, which is a security risk, even though they swear they didn't and they also are Pro-Trump.
GoogleSheet
I couldn't find a good reliable one that works online through a phone, especially Open source projects. If anyone has one that's good and reliable to use, I'd be interested.
Youtube
The main weakness of moving away from Youtube is that there are less people participating.
PeerTube- Decentralized video platform. Open source. Not connected to Crypto (like some of the others)
Android
GrapheneOS is a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.
The largest downside is that it only works on certain types of phones, specifically a Google Pixel Phone. And Google is doing their mighty best to block Graphene from existing. There are efforts overall to try to make an open source version of Android that runs similar to Linux, but we aren't there yet.
