they/it · '04 · i bite
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sometimes you need to give up committing to the bit when someone genuinely can’t tell if it’s a bit or not and is getting distressed about it :/ sorry
A PSA about trucks from a truck driver
I and some colleagues were talking about how we wish everyone could see the safety videos that our company was showing us, because I don’t think most people understand how traffic works in a truck. So here’s some things we wish everyone on the road knew.
- we’re not kidding about tailgating. If you’re right behind us on a straight highway? Chances are we have NO IDEA you’re there, which means we can’t anticipate any of your movements. Plus slowing down takes multiple downshifts, so we might start decreasing speed way earlier than you expect.
- We’re not kidding about any of our blind spots. WE CAN’T SEE YOU, GUYS.
- That bit about slowing down taking a while? The same goes for when you’re in front of us. Don’t cut off a truck. Oh god, PLEASE don’t cut off a truck. If you cut me off, I’m not irritated, I’m terrified. For YOU. It can take 7 to 9 seconds for us to stop. DON’T CUT OFF TRUCKS.
- Before you get mad about how slow we’re going on the highway, keep in mind that many companies govern their vehicles so they literally CAN’T go over 60 or 65. This is a good thing, I promise. Because…
- Do you know what happens when a car meets a truck in an accident? The car gets totaled and the truck needs a new coat of paint. You will not win this fight. I know nobody likes getting stuck behind a big dumb truck, but it’s not worth your life.
We are trying our best to protect you from our 80,000 pound death machines. Please help us out.
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catch the latest issue of your fave 2000s magazine
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surviving the current age of internet means saying no to subscriptions and premiums for basic features. you must endure the inconvenience of not being able to use every server emoji in discord. you must build the patience to find alternatives like NewPipe so you can listen to music on youtube while your phone screen sleeps. do Not give these corporations your limited disposable income. tiktok not letting me view videos on my phone without downloading the app? i will outlast tiktok and the execs will be remembered as dull,disgusting capitalists. listen to me, listen to me. if you do not know how to pirate shows from hulu, learn. if you can't pirate it, it is not worth the money to rent it. please i'm on my hands and knees. do not accept this form of internet.
Not my usual content, but I made something I wanted to share...
Perisex allies: stop this shit
CW: intersexism
Came across this infographic during some google image searching and I'm still kind of a state of despair about it because it's not just offensively wrong about what intersex is, it was used to teach university students about queer issues:
Alt text: LGBTQIA+ are defined one by one. Intersex is defined erroneously as "These are people who were born with genital organs of both sexes (male and female). It is a genetic condition."
It's one thing for your rando perisex person to be getting this wrong on social media. It's another thing entirely when it's professionals getting this wrong in an educational setting. 😩 And that this infographic appears in a peer-reviewed publication. 😩
It's even worse to know the students that were taught with this infographic were medical students, who will be the ones traumatizing intersex people for decades to come 😩
It's so wrong in so many different ways:
Intersex is not limited to people with genital differences. Most intersex people have intersex variations that are not apparent at birth, with puberty being the most common time of life for variations to present. Many people find out in adulthood having no outward physical differences.
Of the intersex people with genital differences, they do not have two sets of genitals. Most genital differences are still recognizably female or male (e.g. spadias), and those who have ambiguous genitals have one set.
Intersex is not "male parts + female parts" or even "intermediate male/female parts", it is an umbrella term for anybody whose primary/secondary sex characteristics don't line up with what is expected for male and female bodies. Some intersex variations make women look more feminine, or make men look more masculine.
Defining intersex by genital differences doesn't just exclude most intersex people, it also sets the tone that we are defined by our genitals. To be publicly intersex is to have non-stop DMs about your genitals. This sort of framing sets up openly intersex people for invasive questions and harassment, and it keeps large numbers of intersex people from coming out.
Many intersex variations do not have a known genetic basis. Many intersex variations are caused by exposure to certain hormonal levels in the womb. Certain medications when taken during pregnancy can trigger intersex variations.
While bodily variation is necessary for being intersex, the social experience of stigma, discrimination, isolation, hyper-medicalization, and hyper-sexualization are all just as much a part of being intersex.
📣 Perisex allies: this is shit you can stop. When you see other perisex people parrot this sort of misinformation, correct them. Direct them to look up resources written by actually intersex people.
Here are some starter resources to give:
Intersex explained by Hans Lindahl
Media and style guide by IHRA
FAQ by intersex-support
A recent post I did compiling information for trans people who want to be better intersex allies
top 10 normal behaviors to perform while feeling regular
free software alternatives
i never stop talking about some of these so i might as well banish them to a single post! you might know about a lot of them already, but feel free to look anyway
Adobe Animate (Flash) → OpenToonz, Synfig Studio, or Pencil2D
Adobe Audition → Audacity
Adobe Illustrator → Inkscape
Adobe Photoshop → GNU Image Manipulation Program or Paint.NET
Adobe Premiere Pro/After Effects → Fusion, Shotcut, OpenShot, Natron, or Blender
Autodesk Maya → Blender
Clip Studio Paint/Paint Tool SAI → Krita, FireAlpaca, (both also include animation tools!) or MediBang Paint
FL Studio → LMMS
Microsoft Office → LibreOffice or Calligra Suite
Scrivener → Celtx (sort of?) or Evernote
VLC media player → VLC media player lol
freeware can be a great opportunity to get a feel for something and learn a new skill. and in some cases, the free versions are almost as powerful, so you might find that you saved a lot of money but made work that was just about equal to what you might have done with paid software!
bolesławiecka Miku... pracowniczka na stempelkowni czy innym malowaniu. okej to by było na tyle z miku trendu
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Can we bring back Palestine Academy as a resource, I fear a lot of people are forgetting to go back to the basics and simply learn about what is happening in Gaza and what HAS BEEN happening for the past 76 years
satbk neo metal sonic design
reworked my previous one!!
sketchbook knuckles moment
im suing tumblr for not letting me post my images
we need to stop equating lack of independence with lack of maturity. people that live with their parents or have a caregiver or don't work or need more support than others aren't inherently immature. there's lots of reasons why people would be in this situation, even outside of disability (plenty of cultures out there expect people to live with their parents past what we consider the beginning of adulthood), and regardless of the reason we deserve support and community through what is already likely to be an isolating experience. don't make it worse for us
if you’re a white creator and your brown/black characters are always sassy, reckless, aggressive or cold and your white characters are always soft, demure, shy and introverted you should think about maybe why you did that
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Screenshot of a Twitter post by user Li Speaks. The tweet reads, “"just get your kids off the internet" is the abstinence-only sex ed of internet safety.” It is quoted by the same user with a two-panel comic. Each panel shows a mother in the foreground and their daughter in the background. First one says "My kid doesn't need Sex Ed because she would never have sex!" Behind her is an arrow pointing at her kid saying "14, pregnant." The second panel has the mother say "I don't need to teach my kid internet safety because she's not allowed online!" Her daughter is seen sneaking out through the window, described as "running away to live with her 35 years old "boyfriend.""
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Screenshot of Tumblr tags left under the original post. They say as follows: Is it now time to admit I used to be the "I would never let kids online" person until started to work with kids. And holy fuck, cutting off YouTube from your kid is like cutting them off socially from their entire classroom. They will learn about skibidi toilet and Fortnite. They will learn it from other kids, but they'll never learn how to fact-check stuff or look for something themselves to get a first-hand experience. Girls will get pressured by other girls to buy that skincare thing at age 10, they don't need TikTok. And of course they'll get online anyway which is the main point of this but like, "keep them offline" does nothing except maybe socially isolate your kid and frustrate them into doubling down on the harmful things you try to protect them from and of course now they lack the experience of being online they can't learn from it which leaves them even more vulnerable. It sucks, but it is what it is. Culturally, it is what it is.
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