Why would you go to a separate website, login, and check a ledger that lists who precisely has blocked you on this website and when?? Do you also stare deeply into port-a-potty toilet holes? Just gazing at the kind of abyss that can never gaze back because its eyes are crusted shut.

“Why are men afraid of women?” “If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,” Ged said. “Yes; but women seem to fear their own strength, to be afraid of themselves.” “Are they ever taught to trust themselves?” Ged asked “No,” she said.

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

I’ve never much cared for the argument that undocumented immigrants deserve respect because they’re “hardworking” or that they take the jobs no one else wants. That feels ick, because it diminishes people’s worth to what can be produced for the capitalist machine. They’re human beings. They deserve

Porco Rosso has unfortunately become extremely relevant to our modern lives

I have wondered why underwater basket weaving is used as the platonic ideal for mocking liberal arts education. The indigenous context brings it all together.

the Forest Spirit is fucking woke and gay

Its indie animation day! And our fantasy film will be premiering this year! Thank you so much for all the support, seriously we even managed to get a grant for postproduction thanks to this community! And we are doing our best to make it the best thing it can be!

beach episode where aika keeps trying to drink ocean water

The point is that if I go in the scifi chromosome swapping machine and then implant a uterus grown from my own cells, the political opposition to trans rights will STILL say that their political categorisation of my sex is more real than the material structure of my body.

Maybe we won't have to? Northsky (for the gays) & Blacksky (for, well, it should be obvious) are currently & actively creating alternative infrastructure that will potentially allow us to preemptively flee BS (heh). If worse comes to worse they may even be able to de-federate their servers from BS.

They would be best of friends in that battle of wills/frienemies sort of way. Like their personalities are so close they would be constantly trying to outcompete each other. The earth would shake with their disagreements but low! Let none stand in their path if they're united.

I really want openmeet.net to take off. meetup.com was such a good idea but they sold out and are now owned by venture capital and their website is terrible. Not to mention suddenly quite expensive. Openmeat Is still in beta but it's based on ATproto so maybe it could be something really cool.

It should be noted that almost everyone is guilty of doing this at least on occasion, myself included. Sometimes we come across such great ideas, how could they not be universal!? It's not whether we have the thought "everyone should do this one particular thing!" rather it's how much we believe it.

I think the point is to wear us down. The more places we see the hate the more we're likely to get demoralized. It's specific, intentional bigotry.

This is good stuff. I've been calling it one-true-path-ism and I use it as a litmus test. If someone thinks they know the one true path I start being pretty skeptical of their ideas.

I spend so much time thinking about children, childhood, and how we’re all going to have to change to save the future. apple.news/Al_f4FTpmSEu...

Same.

Not being able to differentiate between a feeling you have inside and a person DOING something to you is a long-standing, often ignored, addressable problem. How much could change if it wasn’t typical to experience new information as a hostile confrontation when it makes you uncomfortable?

PILOT ANIMATIC THIS WEEK!!!! 🌟

Sometimes I wonder if this sort of thing is an unintended consequence of tools like blockenheimer.

Also, an option that a lot of people don't know about is just taking blockers for a while. See what it's like without T on the brain. Blockers generally don't cause irreversible changes if you ever decide to stop using them. Later, if you feel more comfortable you can start E gradually.

The biggest thing I can say that will definitively help: If you can, find other trans people. Preferably in person. Spend time with them, talk to them about their experiences and your fears. The hardest and most dangerous way to transition (or to stay in the closet) is alone.

But what i am going to say is measuring things by your own values blinds you to other people's intent

There's this Buddhist saying that has helped me a lot with despair "beyond fear, beyond hope." To hope for one thing is the be afraid of something else. If the world seems hopeless let yourself be unmoored from hope.

Speaking as someone how does some kind of buddhism there is a lot of examples of people doing horrific shit in the big B's name. Myanmar and the samurai come to mind. But none of this is religion per se, it's unaccountable power. Plenty of secular institutions have done the same or worse.

We have fun here, but never forget: shit ain’t sweet, when white neoliberal tech dorks run the streets, and refuse accountability 🧵

True. Reminds me of Adventure Time. Pendleton Ward had an amazing idea to allow artists free reign over a world of pure imagination but Pen's imagination was... just not that great. Which is why the first season isn't very good. Once he stepped away (and Rebecca Sugar got on board) it got amazing.

Write because you are afraid.

“Brief rains have given way to the dry season. Food and water are becoming increasingly scarce. For these crab rangoons, this may be the last drink they have for a while...”

"Titus Kaphar makes painstaking copies of historical paintings and then alters them—with a whitewash, tar, by shredding or binding the canvas, by making paintings behind the paintings— to expose hidden truths." The Myth of Benevolence, 2014 Titus Kaphar www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

I feel like there is a lot of nuance to this very common thought/feeling that I think our communities need to explore more. Like, it's neither "whenever you start is the right time" nor is it "after a certain age there's no point." And it's not in between those things either.

Don't resist what the characters wants to do. They will end up telling a much more compelling story than anything you could come up with.

Saw this on someone's hoodie today. I asked her if she ever thought about scratching off the "Don't". we both agreed it would make a better shirt.

This animated video of Marven Gays Let's Get It On made me cry a little. I know that wasn't the vibe it's going for but something about it really touched me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqPB...

"i hope this site doesn't end up like the last one :(" Hope has nothing to do with it--DO YOUR PART! Twitter & Truth Social are dying. Their users are used to farming outrage for engagement. Don't give them any! 🚫 Don't argue with them! 🚫 Don't quote them! ✅ #BlockAndMoveOn

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

Blech. This hit home a little too hard. www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

A reminder with holidays coming up. Christmas with out HRT is just cismas and no one wants that.

Anyone else getting a lot of "no glyph" instead of emoji on bluesky? I use the web app in Brave Browser. Not sure what's going on.

Someone shared this with me today, and it helped me finally come to terms with a truth I've been avoiding: I'm *tired*. Deep tired, the kind of tired that doesn't go away with a nice weekend. And I need to do something about it. Idk what. But I do.

Making a new block list explicitly for TERFs Very explicit transphobia (and liking explicit transphobia) is the only reason I will add someone to this list. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Right wingers are making accounts here explicitly because they're not getting the traction they're used to on Twitter. Just block, report, & let them eat eachother as they run out of engagement with their preferred targets.

Sex workers are like real people with real jobs in that they are real people with real jobs.