the rhythm of life itself is a symphony of razors

Boris Anikin,1947.

i do think the negative interpretations of "im probably nonbinary but i have a job right now" are kind of reaching. it's obviously a waste of time to theorize the op's intended meaning, so instead i think it's better to recognize how the phrase can be a useful framing device to criticize how much of a fucking hassle it is to get gendered correctly. "but i have a job" e.g. will face discrimination that could threaten livelihood; e.g. don't have the mental bandwidth to explain gender to others; e.g. don't have the time and energy for the soul-searching necessary to confirm. all three of these are labor issues. yes you could interpret it as "but being nonbinary isn't important enough to worry about", despite that being a blatantly bad-faith read. it's more useful to interpret it as "but being publicly nonbinary requires a lot of social effort that, in many cultural contexts, will create more problems that you can't afford to deal with". like cmon it's a really good jumping off point for productive conversations about queer labor rights

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the way prehistoric animal documentaries will talk about extinction like it happens because of “a failure to evolve” as though evolution is a meritocracy is so funny and so scary

this species persisted over the eons because of its Protestant work ethic to produce more of a specific kind of digestive enzyme that allowed it to extract 4% more nutrients from the dominant plant species in the area

we watched a couple episodes of Netflix’s The Dinosaurs a few days ago and it kept going on about shit like “this dinosaur has found a meal worthy of her future bloodline” like she’s some sort of Triassic era Bene Gesserit

I understand that, but that’s not really what I’m talking about. There is a degree of personification and narrativization that is just kind of inevitable, especially in scicomm aimed at a general public. HOWEVER there is a point at which is becomes egregious and another, parallel point at which it becomes weird propaganda for a christofascist blood and soil worldview. I’m a huge sucker for the Walking with Dinosaurs model of CGI dinosaur documentaries which all have their troubling rhetorical flaws but I made it through about an episode and a half of Netflix’s The Dinosaurs while writing that post before I couldn’t take it anymore… at all times it was 30 seconds away from praising its dinosaur characters for their sigma grindsets and the purity of their bloodlines.

people like saying community when they mean demographic