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voice training but it's just me learning to mimic the dc metro's "doors opening, step back to allow customers to exit. when boarding, please move to the center of the car" and "step back doors closing"

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If you were handcuffed to your girl blorbo with magical unbreakable handcuffs for 24h, would you be okay with this?
I trust her, Iβll be fine
I trust her, but itβll be a stressful 24h
It depends on what kind of day weβre having
This is gonna suckβ¦
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no fucking way
I love to read the instructions on food packages! "cook this food using an amount of heat for an amount of time. you can tell that is done being cooked by the way it is done being cooked. WARNING: EATING UNDERCOOKED FOOD MAY RESULT IN DEATH DISEASE" thank you! :D yay!
I get cuteness aggression from seeing trans people early in their discovery, am I an irrecoverable pervert or do I just wish someone would have appreciated all the shit that I have to go through?

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Bro absolutely COOKED with this.
If you ever hear the phrase "fascism is aesthetics as politics," that's what this post is talking about.
It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.
It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.
This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don't want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against "crime" because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.
in case you all think my discourse and transfeminism is worthless i have been cut out from an entire queer social group at my college simply for being a trans woman who is opposed to fascism.
almost the entire group sided with the TME bootlicking fascist because they said they "felt bad" about it. and i have been painted as some callous manipulator and had lies about me smeared all across campus. my entire friend group dissolved because i "wasn't being fair to them" and "lacked compassion". That i should give a second chance to the dude who said AI is the future, that AAVE is a devolution of English, is pro-landlord, and who proudly supports eugenics.
Would it shock you to learn that there was only one TMA person in the group besides me, and one of the few who doesn't still hate me? And that the people who sided with the fascists believed that trans women were "taking up" all the queer spaces?
This is just how it is for many trans women. The expectations for the behavior of transfems is sky-high. There is the assumption of bad-faith inherently, and the burden of proof for behavior as non-malicious is unreasonable.
Transmisogyny isn't just when people are mean online. Transmisogyny is the unconscious belief that trans women are dangerous and perverted. This group was seemingly afraid to touch me. And with my flat affect, unexpressive face, and lower empathy expression, it was only a matter of time before i did something to confirm what they believed all along - that trans women are not to be trusted. They would never say it out loud. They'd be scandalized when told they believe it. But the unconscious biases nonetheless demonstrate it's true.
Thankfully, several other people from that group sided with me, and the division became an even split. No one will even tell me what I did wrong, per se, but treats me as a social pariah on par with an abusive ex. This is what transmisogyny looks like in action. The same behaviors in TMEs that are acceptable mistakes or eccentricities become, in TMAs, proof that the "gut feeling" they had was true.
I need yβall to understand that trans women can also use and perpetuate transmisogyny against other trans women. Fuck, the woman (a prominent transfeminist and partner of another prominent transfeminist of color) who TAUGHT me about transfeminism and was instrumental in a lot of the formative beliefs that became my current views on community care and responsibility later participated heavily in the HAL against me because her abusive best friend hated me, despite her admitting she knew it was a lie and refusing to do the same to much worse (white) trans women.
Trans women are not immune to the temptations of white supremacy and transmisogyny, even against other trans women (of any race). You MUST make an active choice to not act on those temptations and keep other trans women safe even if you fucking hate them.
This is a problem exemplified by the inhumane treatment leveled at children. All of us have experienced being a child, and the powerlessness and lack of control that comes with it, but children are still systemically mistreated. The vast majority of adults are quick to forget compassion for the sake of position. Even as a child, there are other children who will sell their peers out for a taste of power, a betrayal so common that fiction has many an archetype to match; The hall monitor, the teacher's pet, the golden child. These power structures are an insidious force, designed to make every moment into a prisoner's dilemma. So remember, no fucking snitching.
Having Sisko and Bashir be the ones to get stuck in the sanctuary district in Past Tense was such a good call. Julian's characteristic optimistic naivety (at least in the earlier seasons) makes him this weird kind of audience stand-in, but instead of literally representing the audience watching the show, it's like he's representing the view of an imaginary audience from a place where things that are normal or acceptable in our own society are shocking, and it's one of the things that makes the episode work as really biting social commentary. In Star Trek you often get a character who plays an audience pov who asks the kinds of questions the audience might have, especially as a way of explaining away technobabble. To have a character ask "Why isn't anyone helping this person with schizophrenia??" in the same way Riker asks Geordi what's up with the warp core is pretty uncomfortable to say the least.
Julian's constant outrage, disbelief at what he's seeing, and refusal to accept things as they are is also great. He never lets you forget how messed up this is, and I think it was a good opportunity to develop his character as well. It's one of the first really traumatic things that happens to him and the way he reacts to everything really shows it, along with the strength of his convictions and his stubbornness for doing what's right which he carries on right to the end of the series. His kindness also shines through when he helps the woman injured boy (against Sisko's objections) and the woman with diabetes in the processing centre.
Then there's Sisko, who tempers Bashir's outrage with (kind of paternal) pragmatism. He doesn't accept that things had to be that way and understands the wrongness of what he's seeing to its fullest extent, but unlike Julian, he knows what he can and can't do about it, and chooses to accept that there are some things he personally can't change but does everything he possibly can with the influence he has. This Includes taking a bunch of hostages at gun point (and it's actually crazy they had a Star Trek protagonist do that lol), which Julian is visually extremely uncomfortable about, and being prepared to give his life to ensure things get better. For me, he's the very image of a great Starfleet captain in these eps.
I have to also mention the obvious fact that both characters are people of colour who, despite being a decorated commander and a doctor, find themselves immediately written off as worthless by a white guard and discarded into a concentration camp. Meanwhile their white colleague ends up in a penthouse.
something that's always stuck with me is Adorno's critique of liberal research on fascism - that liberal scientists believe you can approach fascism in good faith by simply asking Nazis what they think about the world and then writing it down. He argued that fascism is itself a bad faith ideology, and that Nazis will not usually answer the question "do you want to exterminate all minorities?" truthfully, especially not when asked by academics (who are all Marxists/Jews/etc plotting to destroy civilization). So in order to accurately capture fascist sentiment, you have to conceal your intentions and basically lie to them. And there are real moral imperatives for social scientists to do this, in the same way that journalists go undercover in white supremacist groups to report on their activities and beliefs. There's even that famous East German documentary where the directors lied to a Nazi military leader about being West German filmmakers, got him drunk, and then just filmed him saying Nazi shit lol. So like the conventions of science itself, the idea that good research is necessarily always transparent, is a political assumption that shapes how you conduct research and acquire knowledge

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picking the torture option and the next day the first thing he does right off the bat is make me eat a really big live spider
we need liberation for scared little girls
a misogynistic society is so threatened by the concept of trans women - women that "had the opportunity" to be privileged men and chose not to - that they start making up privileges women have in order to explain why trans women exist. going into womens restrooms isnt a privilege, playing womens sports isnt a privilege, lesbianism isnt a privilege, yet they present them as such to try and explain why trans women are women for nefarious reasons. a misogynistic society will never understand that trans women have no ulterior motive for being women
i hate craving an experience because i can't get myself "being eight years old at an early 2000s halloween party hosted by another kid whose parents are really nice" from the store as a treat
Opinion on Large Language Models?
theyβre kind of cool!
wish they could be better at creating stuff that is actually good
this one was written by an LLM so I donβt know how reliable it is

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did you know literally *everyone* is raised racist. like by society at minumum, if not specifically by their parents. if you aren't constantly questioning the prejucides around and inside of YOU, yes even you, then you aren't taking enough action in your daily life to be a traitor to the state of white supremacy.
Fun fact for anyone who does this, being a misogynistic man isn't funny just because you're trans or you think the idea of treating trans women like women is inherently funny, how funny do you think she finds your "ironic" misogyny when you punch down on the women that don't have cis privilege over you
also no one says it but the punchline of "trans inclusive misogyny" is almost always the implicit assumption that transfeminine people do not actually experience misogyny in our day-to-day life. thats why its considered humorous and acceptable to do, rather than just being. misogyny against women.