lilyliveredlittlerichboy:

me a few years ago: its so weird how right wingers always wanna blame the “elite” given that alot of them are in the global 1% of wealth and therefore almost by definition the same “elite” they claim to hate. weird right? lol right wing logic makes no sense

me now: oh my god they mean Jewish people. its always been Jewish people. and the insistence of online leftists to use words like “elite” and “cabal” (to refer to a handful of ultra rich people who dictate a lot of how our lives are run) kinda makes them sound like antisemites too. maybe this whole idea that the world is run by a select few is a gross oversimplification which only serves to reinforce antisemitic stereotypes… oh no. maybe i have a lot of shit to unlearn. maybe i need to start vocally defending Jewish ppl. also local community building is the only way out of this

spacesweepers:

“Outfit repeater” is such a dumb insult. Yes, I like my clothes and will wear them. You sound like a Tiktoker who does Shein hauls. Ratio.

dancinbutterfly:

cleolinda:

dreamsatdusk:

How to Disable Ad ID Tracking on iOS and Android, and Why You Should Do It Now

The ad identifier - aka “IDFA” on iOS, or “AAID” on Android - is the key that enables most third-party tracking on mobile devices. Disabling

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Removing this tool from their toolbox will result in substantially less data that can be associated with you in the wild. It is not only beneficial to your privacy, it also makes the surveillance advertising industry less profitable. And don’t take our word for it: Facebook has said that Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature would decrease the company’s 2022 sales by about $10 billion.

Noice. Very easy and such a relief.

friendshapedhole:

Today (June 26, 2023) is the 20th anniversary of Lawrence v. Texas, the most important Supreme Court case in gay history. It finally ruled that consensual sodomy cannot be a crime and all state laws criminalizing it are invalid.

People don’t realize how recent it was that cops could arrest you solely for having gay sex, in the privacy of your own bedroom. It was slowly decriminalized state by state, but like 1/3 of all states still had those laws in place until 2003.

It didn’t get nearly as much fanfare and recognition at the time as the 2015 decision that legalized gay marriage. But I think it established a far more crucial right.

peach-pot:

peach-pot:

I’m all for going about queerness with the goal of not being able to be understood by outsiders but like. you’ve GOT to be normal about aro & ace people if you do. you can’t go on about being confusing to cishets for fun and then complain about ace & aro people who go about sex and romance and attraction in ways that don’t make sense to you.

supporting queerness that confuses others should include queerness that confuses YOU too even if you’re queer yourself.

wizards1977:

wizards1977:

friend was lamenting the lack of girls in the shonen she was watching so I had some advice for her

naamahdarling:

leebrontide:

transmalewife:

uncanny-tranny:

I think it’s cool if a cis woman goes on testosterone, or gets top surgery for aesthetic/affirmation reasons, or even gets phalloplasty.

I also think it’s cool if a cis man goes on estrogen, or gets breast augmentation for aesthetic/affirmation reasons, or even gets a vaginoplasty.

It is my belief that bodily autonomy doesn’t depend on identity. You have the fundamental right to alter your body as the want or need arises, because when you don’t own your body absolutely, you own nothing.

i think something often missing in these discussions is medical reasons. testosterone is proving to be an effective treatment for things like pcos and endometriosis, but medical guidelines firmly state treatment should be stopped immediately when the masculinizing ‘side effects’ start. by normalizing looking androgynous/gnc we will allow disabled people more options for treatment, or really, any treatment. because for now the widely available options for endometriosis are progesterone, which makes many people horribly depressed, a hysterectomy which is obviously a pretty drastic thing, or testosterone.

and i think the number of cis women who want to take testosterone for purely aesthetic reasons is minuscule compared to how many have endometriosis (between 2 and 10% depending on the study) or pcos, and by normalizing things like women having body/facial hair, deep voices etc we’ll be offering them a chance to treat their illness without being seen as freaks

So I happen to have hypermobility that’s slowly fucking up just about every joint in my body. At one point the pain was so bad it significantly contributed to my getting fired from multiple jobs.

I saw a reference on the internet to even low doses of testosterone helping with joint stability- and therefor preventing or slowing joint damage. I brought it up to my doctor tentatively, wondering if it was anything more than gossip. She agreed readily that this was well known and there were studies to back it up.

I asked her WHY, in the years she’d been treating me, she NEVER brought this up. She confided that there were Side Effects. I listed the effects I’d seen on my friends who’d been on testosterone for years, and she nodded along. I waited for her to add something more dangerous that might apply to me.

She had nothing.

She really believed it was such a sure thing that I would rather have chronic pain and potentially reduced mobility than having a lower voice and some extra hair.

As it happens I’m agender and don’t give a shit. But even if I wasn’t- I was loosing jobs and in daily pain!!!!

Binary gender expectations, lack of respect for bodily autonomy and misogyny can fuck you up in ways you didn’t even realize were possible.

Almost exactly 1 year in on low dose testosterone gel and not only do I have GLORIOUS muscles. Seriously my arms are fantastic. But my pain hasn’t been lower in probably 15 years and I’ve stopped worrying about mobility loss. Every part of my health is improved.

There is no good medical reason that this had to wait for years to happen, except that our society is real fucked up about bodily autonomy, gender, and health.

TESTOSTERONE CAN TREAT HYPERMOBILITY?!?!

Fucking HELL!!!!!

warningsine:

alexaloraetheris:

tiktoks-for-tired-tots:

See, a scientist makes a little moisture sensor sensor for his plant to remember to water it.

But a mad scientist chooses that kind of audio.

Put this guy in castle Heterodyne, and they’d be best friends.

thestuffedalligator:

If I had any game programming knowledge whatsoever, my dream project would be a cyberpunk Pokemon parody where the dystopic supercorporation that runs the world accidentally unleashes hordes of cute, marketable bioweapons into the wild, and then spins a narrative that this was totally intentional and creates a cultural movement to catch ‘em all, thereby outsourcing the cleanup effort to consumers and still turning a profit.

The main character is a twenty-something burnout who decides to become a monster catcher basically because it beats retail.

depsidase:

crippled-lavender:

not so friendly reminder that it is not “gay wrath month”. it is DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH. we already get forgotten, ignored and silenced, so just don’t do that shit.