putting the trans in transhumanism

Daily reminder to Americans on this website that American war on Iran is bad because Iranians are getting killed not because you can no longer afford going to the movies in the weekends or refill your car 😒

Y'know what, this reminder also includes non-Americans. Let's watch our words and keep the victims of American aggressions in our heart always

the creeping allure of becoming a jax defense warrior

ok so I know this is bleeding into like, fandom nonsense and isn't entirely a transmisogyny thing, but I do think it's bizarre how often I see people say ribbit and kaufmo were "just used as narrative devices" in Jax's story and were robbed of the chance to be full characters explored in their own rights. yes, absolutely, the evil trans woman is robbing screentime from the characters in her backstory

a trans woman has committed the unforgivable sin of being one of the main characters in a story instead of accepting her rightful place in the secondary or tertiary cast

if someone gets killed by a grizzly bear or a polar bear it’s like “Damn, that’s unfortunate. Luck of the draw.” but if someone gets killed by a black bear you’re like “What did they do to that bear to make it that angry?”

Grizzly bears? You’re usually fine if you’re minding your business but every once in a while one of them decides to go on a killing spree Sankebetsu brown bear incident style and that can’t be prevented in all circumstances. Polar bears? If it wants to kill you, it will decide to kill you and then do it, not your choice. But black bears? My uncle has been chasing the same bear around his property for years Looney Tunes style with no casualties on either end, what the fuck do you have to do to a black bear to make it want to kill you if chasing one with a broom after it was picking your apples does not provoke them to violence?

I think I'm gonna start calling it "CBRN ordnance" instead of tear gas, pepper rounds, et al. Just to hammer home the point, y'know. "The cops used teargas against the protestors" You mean the regime deployed proscribed CBRN ordnance in order to pacify the dissident citizens

i do think its really convenient how they name this shit so nonthreateningly. "tear gas" awwww it makes you cry a little haha. wrong. you can go blind.

"Gas that makes you go blind and gives you chemical pneumonia and respiratory cancer" just isn't as marketable, I suppose

"beyond the scope of this paper" is my choice to look at atlantic salmon legends in ireland specifically using the the word "salmon" if the archive is in english or "bradán" when it's in irish and leaving it there. what IS a "common" name REALLY? don't tell me i can just rely on its "scientific name." do "scientific" names hold value outside of colonial naming constructs? or within stories that existed before the animal had a western scientific name? when is a salmon really a salmon? when is it only a salmon? when is it more than a salmon? when is a salmon not even a salmon at all? i only have 15,000 words i fear. someone fund my phd and i'll come back to all that.