To an analytical mind that wants to know if it’s one way or the other, accepting inconclusive vagueness may feel like laziness. Yet I realize, sometimes, that embrace of unknowability might be the bravest act of intellectual honesty you could perform.

false cognate I’ve just encounterad live: “concurrent” („gleichzeitig“) vs. „Konkurrent“ (“competitor”)

My heart is a maze of darkness and light intertwining. In the innermost area is not a Minotaur, but a wilted flower holding onto life at the brink of death, that nobody has seen in a long time.

So Japan is set to have its first (non-people-elected) woman Prime Minister, and we know Japan is still sexist as hell because an interviewed LDP member still goes like “I hope she inserts some much-need courtesy and gentleness to politics” as if men weren’t capable of those things.

I wonder how much of my depression has actually been more autistic burnout/shutdown than clinical depression. I have no idea where the border is between the chronic lack of energy and optimism and the neurodivergent tripped circuit breaker.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

I thought it was a good time to draw a Dollphone Icon Pack iteration of #BurgerKing, since they’re... retiring the mascot. Welp, it was fun while it lasted! You can download the Dollphone Icon Pack for Android absolutely free from 2gd4.me/dollphone #AndroidCustomization

“Fun” Fact: I am permabanned from TVTropes because I filed a complaint that the movie “Cuties” contains CSAM, so the mods banned me instead of the article.

Don’t leaders of democratic countries whose health is declining usually come clean and arrange plans for a peaceful transition of power and diplomacy? Republicans denying his inability despite ample evidence of physical and cognitive decline is more like that of a totalitarian autocrat.

Lately I’ve been calling Sanseitō “AfJ” (Alternative für Japan).

“Respectability politics” is not about convincing leopards not to eat people's faces, but about convincing people not to enable the leopards.

Playing Puyo Puyo on a touchscreen is the most frustrating thing you could do on your RetroArch app for Android

So phones are finally banned in New York schools, and the mascot they came up for the policy (they did for some reason) is what Tumblr thinks Mike and Sulley’s omegaverse child looks like. gothamist.com/news/meet-fr...

Learned helplessness? I’m a seasoned professional at helplessness.

For #Sora2, #OpenAI is STILL operating on a “opt-out”-only copyright policy, which I call “copyright rape”: exploitation without consent. #CreateDontScrape #DegenerativeAI

Gender dysphoria is like hunger or thirst. It gets worse and worse until something is done. I'm not here to rip on people and their neopronouns, but I am here to object to the All-or-nothing stance on forcing acceptance of what the trans community has become

There's nothing illegal about ICE block. This is solely about Apple appeasing the Trump regime. With Google removing sideloading next year, these companies will have total control over what runs on your phone. www.businessinsider.com/apple-iceblo...

I’ve realized why I have such persistent suicidal ideation. My personality has been avoidant and averse to pain, effort, and suffering. Death is the last and greatest act of avoidance possible.

I wish my feelings wouldn’t “no true Scotsman” away the little victories. Like the external-genitals clause of Sapporo sex change law got repealed and a colonialist exhibit on the Ainu people got cancelled, but my feelings are like “okay, show me somewhere RELEVANT that the world is getting better”

whoaaa we’re halfway there whoaa oh we’re three quarters there take my hand and we’re seven eighths there whoaa oh fifteen sixteenths there —zeno probably

Please, fix your TOS first. Thank you.

Why do you say you listen to people of the platform, but it seems that everyone I can see is asking for you to undo your censorship ToS... And you just ignore them. Who are these 14,000 people you ARE listening to? You have Age Assurance now. Let adults be adults. Stop censorship.

How can we (as artists) build on here confidently if we keep getting censored or not be noticed at all. A lot of artists move in here to have a better community and a more positive experience showing their art but it's very hard too when none of us gets noticed. Please look into this when you can.

Nah we gotta use the standards of real life for...reasons. That's why I can't watch crime films because I would get called in to do witness reports by the police.

And hey I think noncon is hot as fuck, and there's nothing wrong with drawing it. No real-world damage is done. Fictional characters cant consent THEY'RE NOT FUCKING REAL YOU DIPSHITS

Cool, now stop those new guidelines on NSFW art from coming in place. Any art can be mistaken for noncon even if it's not. Not only that, SA survivors can't even speak about their trauma. You're essentially demanding consent from DRAWINGS. Don't you realize how fucking stupid that is

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

apnews.com/article/sex-...  “We as legislators have an obligation to insure that our children have no harm done to them,” May said in January 2024 on the House floor during a debate on transgender care for minors. and that obligation was thoroughly rejected when it mattered by the man who said it

“How do you deal with negative emotions?” i don’t. i lose to them every time

I don’t believe you one bit. Nobody who has “treated trans people” for 32 years believes in Blanchardism, rejects the legitimacy of trans people and “cis” as a useful label, or justifies transphobia by appealing to “God”, as if He made mistakes when creating us, and taught not to “love thy neighbor”

when i try to sleep without my phone or a video/podcast on i spiral into existential dread

it makes me sad that i just can’t think positively.

“i hate the term ’gender-affirming care’ it rubs me the wrong way i prefer ‘trans healthcare’” Oh my god that is not any less of a euphemism just say “medical transition” those words are still there and understood

The proposed sequel to the “don’t say gay” law is already here 🙄

Not a fan of the idea that we transsexuals are somehow more unnatural than cis people, just for pursuing a life where we can be who we are.

If I may soapbox, as a general term, I propose “sex congruence surgeries”.

Concept: Jubelee Odd Man Out but if the impostor wins, the cash prize gets split with everyone who got a false accusation, too

concept: cursed, Esperanto-style romanization of Russian, where “с” is “s”, “ш” is “ŝ” (S with circumflex), and “щ” is “ŝ̂” (S with two circumflexes)

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... I just told Google how #antiConsumer their crackdown on side-loading is. #enshittification #Android

The topic of Japanese registry sex-change laws (1: be 18+, 2: be unmarried, 3: have no children under 18, 4: be sterile, 5: have appropriate external genitals), and how my city Sapporo allowed a legal sex change without SRS (ruling #5 unconstitutional) came up on Japanese TV. #transgender →

The transphobic propaganda machine is so well-oiled, because it starts from a fact, though oversimplified, that people accept: there are men and there are women. To successfully counter it, trans activists must start arguing from consensus reality instead of immediately aiming for gender anarchy.

Virtual Game Cards did indeed break Game Sharing. But despite Nintendo’s assurance that they wouldn’t, nobody seems to bat an eye. Non-physical media suffers #enshittification if you let the companies exert undue control on it. #BoycottSwitch2 youtube.com/watch?v=IlCE...

I would disagree because I have actually seen transphobes change their mind when presented with the medical condition framing.

Okay, well, another reason I think the medical framing is better + is the framing trans advocates should use is also that I think framing it other ways has failed to increase trans acceptance; rather, it has created more transphobia. It's definitely increased transphobic laws.

portray transness and themselves - as a purely social "identity" rather than an innate, biological medical condition - is making that backlash worse. (3/3)

more and more rights" and "start using arguments that actually make sense and possibly restore rights that were lost". But unfortunately most trans people and allies/advocates genuinely believe the stuff I think is bullshit, so we are at an impasse. It worries me a lot though. (2/2)

medical treatment for a condition you dont have. The informed-consent model for medical transition is another thing that IMO has damaged the trans rights movement. (2/2)

And there I disagree with you *very strongly*. For one thing, trans people *require medical intervention because they are trans*. Gay people do not require medical intervention because they are gay. At the very least, medical transition should require a diagnosis. You dont have a "right" to (1/2)

That worked, but it was also paired with a lot of media portrayal of gay people as ordinary humans, something that has been lacking for trans people. I think that trans people *are ordinary people who happen to have a disorder*. I also DONT think being gay or bi is a disorder.