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Things to know about me:

-Sorry, I will not share your fundraiser. Please do not ask. There might be limited exceptions for people I already knew well before they needed money (I did a couple of marathon overclocking streams for a close friend who was in a bad situation a while back which got her out of the poverty trap), but it's just not possible to help everyone with an internet connection. And frankly, I wonder if spamming people with fundraisers is an intentional strategy to make us shut up about Gaza.

-Related to this, people who I don't want following/messaging/sending asks etc don't seem to have a problem with doing so anyway. So if you're wondering if you can follow/ask/message, the answer is probably yes (unless it's about a fundraiser).

-I don't currently tag for triggers/etc but if there's something it'd help you for me to tag, please let me know what it is and what tag to use. If it appears to be good faith* I'll try to start doing it. Even if I don't follow you. Even if you have no reason to think I particularly like you. You can use anon asks for this.

-Posts tagged "wife rule" were reblogged under the rule that I reblog anything I send to my wife.

-If you're sending me abuse and want a response, it would be helpful if you could indicate which post or posts the abuse is about at some point in between the ablist slurs. Nonetheless, an effort will generally be made to respond to abuse. Exceptions are if there's something that could obviously be upsetting to people reading it, or if it involves a strategy like a gish gallop or sealioning. Censored screenshots might be used so that the sender still gets a reply.

-If you like/reblog something from me there is a non-zero chance I end up browsing your blog and/or even following you if your posts are good. The chance is also a long way from 100% it really depends what I have going on IRL. This is not an incentive, it's a warning. Don't feel like you need to reciprocate or anything it just is what it is.

-There is also a non-zero chance I end up unfollowing you later. It might be for a good reason (eg misandry), a neutral reason (eg voteposting) or an absurd reason (eg posting too much about a topic that I nonetheless don't want to filter). Don't worry about that either.

-I prefer rude but emotionally honest to civil but disingenuous.

Footnote: *I appreciate appearing to be asking in good faith might in itself be a point of anxiety. What would not appear to be good faith is things like perjorative tags ("please tag your opinions as #dumb bullshit") or requests that seem to be designed to create a burden rather than address a genuine need. What would appear to be good faith is asking for uncomfortable topics to be tagged neutrally ("please tag posts where you talk about misandry as #gender politics") or well-explained requests that aren't difficult to comply with. If you're not sure just send me an anon the worst I can say is "that doesn't sound real" but if you're asking in good faith that's still dialogue like you can get back to me and elaborate.

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redstonedust

funny thing about anxiety is sometimes it kind of breaks your sense of danger. like i am known for repeatedly putting myself in situations that make my friends go "bro you couldve died. werent you scared?" and the answer is 👍 yjeah. i did it scared. i do everything scared. i didnt know that was the actual important kind of scary because i usually have to ignore my fears to function in society. it will happen again. watch out.

#many such examples #if you are used to “oh you just have to put up with it” you will be putting up with things most people would not put up with

dotty-literati

One year retrospective

#this shows the drop from the ai hype peak #but it's below the pre-ai price now

i-love-class-91-trains

weird sprinter i saw. someone give me fun facts about sprinters im bored

overclockedopossum

Hey cool it's 150150, the class 150 that's numbered 150!

It's one of the first batch of 50 mass production sprinters, which (along with the prototypes, 150001 and 150002, which are still in service) were the only ones without the end gangway - the later 150s, plus the 153/155/156 "super sprinters" and the 158/159 "express sprinters" all had one.

Fun fact: people talk about the pacers basically being buses on rails, but the class 155 sprinter was also built by Leyland Bus! You might not have seen a 155, there are only 7 left as 155s and they tend to work around Hull, but the single-car class 153s are converted from 155s.

overclockedopossum

The thing I really like about @questionable-ftm-passing-advice is that it provides a lighthearted way to talk about fragile and/or toxic masculinity that doesn't read as an attack on men. This is very important to feminism IMO. Like, I'm not saying people should censor their opposition to misogyny. But the existence of this kind of more... let's say "accessible" commentary as well does something very valuable.

I guess there's this subtle distinction between "men are like this" on the one hand and "men are supposed to be like this, apparently" or "men experience pressure to be like this" on the other. It recognises that plenty of men did not agree to being "like this" and some work hard to avoid being "like this", without diluting the message or assuming they fully succeed.

It also shifts the focus to a more accurate and useful place because the way to improve things is to take that pressure off men. Even though if you take a really naive approach that's slightly counterintuitive, because it sounds like making things better for men, and aren't men supposed to be privileged already?

questionable-ftm-passing-advice

Im so glad someone has picked up on this! Because despite this blog being largely a whole lot of shitposting, the ideas come from somewhere. And i wanna provide some lighthearted commentary on just some habits that some men may or may not express

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wordfather

new favourite bit is when someone has't replied to me within a minute i send them 'for you->🎤'

overclockedopossum

If anyone secretly wishes I'd stop being friends with them, this is a great way to achieve that btw. I think that's an important and useful thing to have in the world.

#the funniest possible context for this would be after a message from cold that literally just say “hi”

defectivegembrain

Okay but you know you can't actually start a post with "I don't care about your debilitating disability symptoms" and expect people to not feel hurt and angry. Even if what you meant was "some people are bringing up sensory issues in situations where that is not the point" you are starting out in a hostile, bad faith way of addressing them that alienates people who aren't even doing the thing you want to complain about. I think some of you forget or want to ignore the fact that these are in fact debilitating symptoms of a disability. I'm not engaging with your point if it begins with blatant disrespect of my disability.

i-love-class-91-trains

not sure if i posted this already.

“neowmmmmmm”

aggvGhb i feel like im

train

mini-wrants

Outdoor in sun perfec t place for president to do speech! Outdoor very warm very soft put old man on green lawn under sun. Put old man in warm sun. no problem ever in warm sun because good view and audience can see long speech. Nice podium outdoor sunny perfect place for old president can trust warm sun to give nice view to President good luck to President. friend sun.

i-love-class-91-trains

I just realised this video from like two months ago never posted. :(

The class 185s are very caterpillar like for creatures who are not caterpillars

#the very noisy caterpillar #<- prev tag #the class 185s are 100mph trains with the engines out of 125mph trains #this does not lend itself to refinement

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overclockedopossum

Damn, swifties don't fuck around

#this started getting notes again and my first reaction was to check the news to see if someone else was shot #thanks for bringing it back prev i like this post

natalieironside

Maybe this is a hot take but the gendered segregation of bloodsports is just as pants-on-head ridiculous as the gendered segregation of any other sport.

Like. This is a fucking game. Two boxers fighting one another in a ring are two gamers playing a game together. I cannot stress the extent to which boxing, MMA, et al are games created and pursued primarily for idle amusement. Just because the game is happening in a ring as opposed to on a pitch doesn't make it less of a game. We are Playing Toys when we glove up and clobber each other. It is For Fun. They're dangerous games, to be sure, but the danger is the chief source of amusement for the participants and the audience. The boxers wouldn't be boxing if they hated boxing.

"If we did co-ed boxing there would be Men Beating Up Women 😡" Last time I checked a fight requires at least 2 active participants unless you're just beating up on yourself alone like Edward Norton in that movie. And as I said above, I presume nobody would pursue a career in boxing if they didn't like doing the boxing.

And moreover, maybe I'm just a hashtag 90s kid but I grew up being constantly innundated with messages about how girls are just as tough as boys and can do anything boys can do. "Fight like a girl" was an inescapably popular slogan. And it was all very nice and heartwarming and inspirational. So I take serious umbrage with the notion that competing in a co-ed fight league equates to "men beating up women" because, here in the real world, the women would lay out the men just as often as the reverse, and this implicit assumption that women are by majority soft, delicate, helpless creatures simply unfit for participation in physical culture has got to be one of the least feminist things I've ever heard.

coral-skeleton

Fighting (and weightlifting) would be some of the easiest sports to convert into a co-ed model cause they already have weight classes within the gender segregated versions to keep the sports fair. It really wouldn't be that hard to just combine the two halves into one thing. And this is also what prevents the thing that everyone is so scared of happening from happening. You wouldn't get a massive mountain of a man beating up a tiny woman in co-ed boxing, because they'd be in two different weight classes. If the massive mountain of a man were to fight a woman, he'd be fighting a massive mountain of a woman, and if a the tiny woman were to fight a man, she'd be fighting a tiny man. Thats how these sports already work. (This is also why the argument against letting trans people compete in the gendered categories matching their identities falls flat, people think if you let a trans woman compete in womens boxing that she'd dominate all her opponents, when in reality she'd be in the weight category that ensures her opponents give her fair fights. But that's a different conversation)

The real reason most sports, including fighting, are gender segregated, isn't because men would automatically dominate, quite the opposite actually, it's because the men would not win every single time and would lose to women more often than one would assume. And because our patriarchal society devalues anything women are good at, sports as a whole would be devalued. And that devaluing of womens work, talents, interests, and accomplishments is the real problem that needs to be addressed

i am burned out and slightly sleep-deprived at the moment and this leads to an increase in obsessive overclarifying. in case that wasn't already obvious. yes this post is in effect a further clarification of previous posts. yes all of them.

#on the plus side i have been pretty productive

eaglingarchive

"npd is notoriously difficult disorder to treat and recover from" bzzt wrong bitch people with npd have like, the second best prognosis out of all personality disorders iirc, beaten only by bpd. and thats before we even get into what it means to diagnose someone with abusive asshole disease

overclockedopossum

Is this an artifact of them being bullshit* diagnoses?

IE, someone gets diagnosed with being a bitch, time passes, they are for whatever random reason medically declared less of a bitch and therefore cured.

(*Narcissism is real but the DSM-5 criteria for NPD are bullshit)

overclockedopossum

do i have to clarify in this that narcissism when it's real has basically nothing in common with "reddit-diagnosed evil abuser disorder" or can we just take that as read btw. i guess it's implied by rejecting the DSM-5 criteria.

#also do i have to clarify that i'm using the word bitch to make a point about medical misogyny or

eaglingarchive

overclockedopossum

Is this an artifact of them being bullshit* diagnoses?

IE, someone gets diagnosed with being a bitch, time passes, they are for whatever random reason medically declared less of a bitch and therefore cured.

(*Narcissism is real but the DSM-5 criteria for NPD are bullshit)

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defectivegembrain

Ah yes the big three classic polarising topics: tomatoes, mushrooms and BDSM

defectivegembrain

Poll: pick which you like

Tomatoes

Mushrooms

BDSM

All of the above

None of the above

Tomatoes and mushrooms

Tomatoes and BDSM

Mushrooms and BDSM

What the fuck are you talking about

Remaining time: 3 days 11 hours

defectivegembrain

Since this is going around with only the first part I'd like to remind people that there is a poll! Come vote on an important question!

overclockedopossum

I'd be fascinated to get a larger sample size to see if the inversion in popularity of tomatoes or mushrooms depending on if the respondent also likes BDSM is statistically significant

dahppled

must be a small statue

#lmfao

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