quartzcrit

I'm not even kidding it's so clear that everyone sees black people and especially black women as some sort of alternate species. I'm getting into doll collection & customization videos because I've been getting into collecting myself and toys and art are supposed to bring me happiness and even there I can't escape the anti blackness. Like... you're lucky if you find a character or doll that's consistently brown skinned and carefully designed in popular brands. Collectors will always favor light skin or fantasy colors anyways. I had to watch a white creator call a custom Garnet doll "dummy thicc" and describe her in progress proportions as "female rappery" why couldn't you just have said curvy? You're not funny or cool and I'm very tired

I don't have time for tumblr discourse they're calling the very hungry caterpillar degenerate art over on twitter

earlier i saw someone on here say "god forbid men do anything" as though society holds men to any kind of standards at all

The people who insist AI is smarter than a human are doing their fucking damnedest to manifest that

I had a lot of/still have some vestigial arrogance about quantitative methods over qualitative ones, probably in a combination of scientific misogyny + STEMlord superiority. But doing regression analysis and quant-heavy data analysis makes me realise more and more that you can justify basically any claim with numbers, and that you can construct your research in such a way as to output the numbers you want. which does not mean that all data are made up or that quantitative knowledge is all false. I think stories about scientists straight up inventing numbers or fudging experiments on purpose prove that there is a real difference between fraudulent and non-fraudulent research. but those data must always be narrativised & are always already narrativised. The act of presenting numbers itself is doing some of that narration because you’re already arguing that these numbers are worth presenting

Thinking about the "dead salmon have different brain activity patterns in response to human facial expressions" paper, where they showed that with the amount of statistical filtering of extremely multivariate data employed in brain MRI studies, they could tell basically any story they wanted to.

the fertility collapse is because people think you only become an adult at 30. the loneliness crisis is because governments have adopted the policy position that it's a problem when people have friends. and because everyone who matters moves all the time (like how nobles had to spend half the year in versailles to stop them from building regional power bases that would be inconvenient for the king) and diversity erodes social trust (like how whole foods is aware of which properties to optimize for in its workforce to minimize the risk of unionization). why else would governments take it as a problem when people have friends? well, a friend is someone you can break the law with

notable how many words the english language contains which mean both 'group of friends' and 'criminal organization'

jk rowling kills children

close your eyes and imagine freshly roasted root vegetables perfectly seasoned and crispy as far as the eye can see

Sam trying to get Frodo to take one more step

Sam psychologically tormenting Gollum

The worst part of anti industrial rhetoric is this assumption that everyone would be better off if all goods were made at home, sorry, I think women deserve to have a life outside of spinning

Because that is what would happen in the case of a total deindustrialization, more labor would be thrust upon women.

Someone has to spin the wool and wash the dishes and churn the butter and do all of the menial labor that makes human society survive, and historically, that labor has been done by women

taking my gamer dog out for a walkthrough

Just saw a post talking about "having a superiority complex over not watching Disney live action movies" and I was like damn, the bar for superiority is pretty low these days. Just the other day I saw an open single-serve slice of American cheese lying on the sidewalk and I didn't roll it up and shove it down my gullet without chewing like a hungry duck, I guess that makes me a genius who stands above the vulgar masses like a god

Just the other day I pissed in the toilet without even being tempted by the sink. The idea of pissing in the sink didn't even occur to me. Fellas, I'm available