Eldritch Horror but Cute With It

It's fine to disagree with the IAU about the definition of "planet"; however, if your definition includes Pluto but not Ceres, Orcus, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris or Sedna, you don't actually care what a planet is – you just want the exact list of nine planets you learned in primary school back. Your cute little Pluto-including orbital distance mnemonic ought to be at least seventeen words long, and good fucking luck with the Q!

My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Orphic Palaces, Slandering Hungry Quaker Matrons Going Erotically Southward.

I appreciate that you included Salacia but not Charon – really threading the needle pedantry-wise there.

iy think any planetary-mass object should be called a planet. the moon is a planet. so are the galilean moons. ganymede is bigger than mercury, so whiy not? just because it happens to orbit another planet too? a star can orbit another star, so whiy can't a planet orbit another planet?

Sometimes when I'm feeling especially contrary I'll advocate for a definition of "planet" which includes the inner planets, the trans-Neptunians, and all planetary-mass moons, but specifically excludes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

so. i just learned that my entirely me-written resume flags as being AI-written by automated HR systems for a few writing quirks and the fact that i followed all the rules of good resume writing, which is apparently a telltale sign of AI use in this fucking hellworld. i've been desperately applying to jobs that i am massively overqualified for for months with no response, not even an interview, and now i find out that at least part of the reason is because some fucking moron decided that following the rules every career advisor has given me for a decade means i cheated and should be disqualified. the ai bubble cannot pop soon enough. what the actual fuck.

It's so obvious that so many of you see racism as just a minor oopsie that causes no material harm. Why are racialized people not allowed to talk about our oppression? Why are we always the ones who have to forgive and rebuild bridges? Why do we have to forget and ignore that so many people don't see us as human beings? Why are we not allowed to be hurt when somebody decided that our centuries of suffering is something to laugh at and make light of? Why are we erased when we express our hurt in order to dismiss it? Why are we obligated to forgive and forget while this system continues to hold a boot on our necks?

if you call a meme fascist people will defend it by saying we can't culturally defeat fascism by letting them have everything they claim for themselves and the meme in question is "reject modernity embrace tradition"

Who says the tradition has to be fascist? Embrace the tradition of organizing strong unions and civil rights organizations to fight back against all the tyrannical corporations and governments that want to oppress you! Embrace the tradition of having Nuremberg trials!

You ever think about many peices of media have zero women and thats just perfectly normal but if a peice of media has an all female cast people get... like that? Women should be allowed to kill over this btw

same but it's black people

That's right

my grandfather's entire (surviving) family fled from germany to brazil fleeing the holocaust. Why do you think I'd support ANOTHER ethnic cleansing under a genocidal fascist government just because it's the jewish people doing the ethnic cleansing this time?

okay. fine. i have a solution that will make no one happy. let's make pluto a planet. if we launch one tungsten cube per day for 200 years precisely aimed at pluto's surface it will become massive enough to gravitationally clear its orbit of other kuiper belt objects. this will be completely useless and extremely expensive as well as potentially dangerous. and it will destroy the heart

see, this is again exactly the type of thinking i was roasting. you can't even name the kuiper belt objects or the features that make them unique or interesting for study. you don't know any of the things we have learned following this change in nomenclature. you can't accept empiricism or adapt to change. you're trying to use a "punk" label imagining yourself postured in some kind of resistance to authority when what you're really doing is clinging to the way things were when you were a child, which changed twenty years ago, and invoking a ridiculous and pointless threat of nuclear bombs to defend it, aligning yourself precisely with the actions of the state. it's sad

i do wish the response to the ai water usage concern debate (umm actually the water and mineral usage is roughly equivalent to all of our other constantly growing massive distributed information systems that require enormous amounts of resource extraction etc etc etc) was less of a "haha checkmate luddites" and more of a "hmm maybe we should reevaluate our usage of constantly growing massive distributed information systems that require enormous amounts of resource extraction" but idk

Some of y'all are really quick to hate on the art of trans women for reasons that can apply to media you enjoy made be cis people.

i think telling trans men they're not men in a way that counts is heinously transphobic actually. all these people are obviously transmisogynists as well but atp i'm marking them red for their good old fashioned transphobia too

i've fought cis people who were dear to me for saying shit like this, why should i tolerate it from shitty dudes who, adding insult to injury, aren't just saying it because they're parroting the transphobic background noise of the world rn but to actively deny they benefit from transmisogyny??? fuck all the way off. i'm so tired of people on my asks telling me i should give more grace to ""my community"". these people are not my community and if i could i'd spit on every one of their faces until i died from dehydration

lol can you tell i had a bad day at work