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Everyone in the notes not realizing is making me feel insane. Guys - this entire TikTok is a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fanfiction. The OP of this post (as in the person who uploaded this to Tumblr) has a TMNT profile picture. I’ve never seen a more expertly crafted video.

As trans people begin to organize politically, it is tempting to adopt the essentialist notion of gender identity. The cliché popularized by the mass media is that trans people are "women trapped in men's bodies" or vice versa. The attractiveness of such a strategy is clear, as the general population is more likely to become supportive of us if we could convince them that we are somehow born with a biological error over which we have no control over it. It is also often in tune with our own sense of who we are, which feels very deep and fundamental to us. However, as transfeminists, we resist such temptations because of their implications. Trans people have often been described as those whose physical sex does not match the gender of their mind or soul. This explanation might make sense intuitively, but it is nonetheless problematic for transfeminism. To say that one has a female mind or soul would mean there are male and female minds that are different from each other in some identifiable way, which in turn may be used to justify discrimination against women. Essentializing our gender identity can be just as dangerous as resorting to biological essentialism. Transfeminism believes that we construct our own gender identities based on what feels genuine, comfortable and sincere to us as we live and relate to others within given social and cultural constraint. This holds true for those whose gender identity is in congruence with their birth sex, as well as for trans people. Our demand for recognition and respect shall in no way be weakened by this acknowledgement. Instead of justifying our existence through the reverse essentialism, transfeminism dismantles the essentialist assumption of the normativity of the sex/gender congruence.

When you drink a minuscule amount of alcohol and still get absolutely wasted: Night of the Hog

In my ravenous search for some unheinous thing with which to play my vast and ancient music library, I've discovered beautiful FOSS creatures feasting upon the corpse of WinAmp

Rules of gun safety:

Yeah no the Army adopted it in in 2017, as the M17, to replace the Beretta 92. It's basically a Glock clone, but without some of the safety features of the Glock. There was a whole fiasco about the guns just randomly going off, which seems to be a problem caused by their outsourcing metal injection molding parts, specifically the striker, which is sort of a combination hammer and firing pin. The P320 (the gun in question) was competing with a Glock offering in the M17 program. They skipped phase 2 trials, where they'd actually subject the handguns to testing for things like drop safety and reliability in adverse conditions, because SIG offered the army a price of around $250 per unit. The P320 became very popular with law enforcement, replacing Glock handguns (which are basically the same thing) due to the extremely low prices being offered by SIG. Then the guns just started randomly going off because of these manufacturing defects. They managed to ignore it for a couple years, until law enforcement organizations started banning the guns by name, and there was at least one wrongful death suit filed because somebody was killed by one of these things randomly going off on its own in a holster. As an aside, I have personally handled one such example of these handguns which exploded and destroyed its frame twice. They're straight up dogshit. Police departments are selling them off like crazy.