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why is all the AI research going into fucking ??? AI image generation and chat bots that only exist to puke out useless sludge instead of, I don't know, better auto captions?? auto captions have so much power to be so helpful to so many people. if auto captions were reliable I could do so much more. I could use captions to understand the barista at the coffee shop, I could use captions to understand people across the room, I could actually watch videos!! this wouldnt erase the need for interpreters and the wider use of sign language but it sure would help fill the gap in the meantime. I can't have an interpreter walk around with me every time I want to go get a bagel but I sure can bring my phone! but nooooo we're pouring all this research into bots that only exist to shit out incorrect search results.

My favorite thing about online queer discourse is that it literally repeats every year but with a different identity and so many people just go along with it. It’s like watching a series of people literally never learn their lesson.

I feel like there are a lot of people out there who needs to hear this:

If you dropped out of school because of diagnosed (or undiagnosed) ADHD, Autism, ADD, OCD, Dyslexia, Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar disorder, psychotic disorders, schizophrenia etc… You did not fail. The education system failed you.

Something that will get me on the fast track to bawling my eyes out is stories on the human condition. Things that most of us humans will experience or have experienced in our lives.

Whether that be witnessing the passage of time in our loved ones faces or realizing your body creaks in ways it never used to.

It's the preciousness in the mundane that brings me to tears. You'll read in stories or first-hand accounts from those who have experienced massive loss. How they wish to experience the precious mundanity one more time.

Whether that be refugees who miss their hometowns, elderly folks whose spouse has passed, adults who yearn for the affection of their late mothers, etcetera.

It makes me unbelievably grateful to be one of these mundane, foolish human beings. To see my mother age, to cry when I miss my grandparents, to cook damn good food, to watch damn good movies, and to exist.

This is amazing! It is very important to know that no matter what your body is not wrong and bodies are diverse and all amazing.

as an aroace person with limited sexual experience, no interest in watching porn, and poor sex ed as a teen, there IS something simultaneously funny and vaguely tragic about being 28 adult years old and realising how extremely tiny your frame of reference is for genitalia and deciding you should expand this to better understand bodies (yours and others). and then you're just there like "okay so what the fuck do I even google right now, anyway"

Tumblr's hate against Christians

Tw: christianity and religion

So, I've been on tumblr for a little now, and I have experienced a lot of hate towards christianity and christians, and I honestly don't think it's ok, because no other religion gets so much hate here (and not accepting people of different religions is generally not cool). If people said the things they say about christians and christianity about, lets say, Muslims it would be considered islamophobia.

I am not saying that you shouldn't be critical of religion or any other thought or scripture or whatever, just be respectful, engage in an intellectual debate instead of saying "all christians bad" or "I hate all christians" because imagine if you replaced "christians" with "muslims" that would be straight up islamophobia.

And I know a lot of people have religious trauma here, but that is not a reason to hate an entire group of people from one specific religion, because people from a certain religion are not a monolith and not every christian will hurt you.

“ok is this math really useful though what’s the point of it existing does it matter or is there no practical application” alright. if you write a poem does it matter? Is there an application? What if I killed you

which one of u was going to tell me that tea tastes different if u put it in hot water?

Hot take, but cis people have gender identities. They aren't the gender they identify as because of their genitalia or what their birth certificate says. They're only cis because they identify with a gender and it happens to match their government documentation. Cis men aren't men because they're "obviously" men for having a penis. They're men because they identify as men. It's the self-identification that dictates this, not any other factor, even for cis folks. And we should be framing it this way. A cis man identifies as a man and a cis woman identifies as a woman. There is no automatic or inherent gender.

interesting observation i've made: i'm a genderqueer intersex trans person who's been on T for 9 years. i wear a lot of elaborate makeup and dress in "women's" clothing most of the time. my body is very masculine and i don't hide my "masc" features like my facial and body hair when i go out, i don't try to pass as any given binary gender, i did in the past and it made me miserable, so i just go about my life as the genderqueer person that i am

whenever i'm outside in a skirt or dress and my beard and body hair are fully visible, i do get a lot of compliments from fem people and women, but i actually get a very large portion of my comments from masc people and men. i originally thought that men would be the most hesitant, but i actually get a lot of men who approach me saying things like "i really dig what you're doing" or "keep that up" or even things like "you dress like how i feel on the inside." that one really stuck with me.

if this many men and mascs are willing to approach me- how many more feel the same way and were too shy or scared to say it out loud for fear of judgment from those who may overhear?

we societally groom men and AMAB people to believe they don't want to wear dresses, skirts, and makeup- but they do. whether or not these people were all transfem eggs or gay is not for me to speculate on; what i want people to take away from this is that people of all gender identities want to wear dresses, skirts, and makeup. people of all gender identities want to dress in different ways. we teach each other that women only wear certain clothes and men only wear certain other clothes, but that's just not the reality of it.

people are way more nuanced than that, and i've seen it with my own two eyes. it's beautiful. the world is a lot more open minded than we're taught to believe. we need to start letting everyone dress as they please. it's clear that most people don't fit into this rigid binary we've created. humanity is just too diverse for that.

I will do that too now, thank you for this take, it's great :>

I've always been a bit sad growing up when every single monster tends to be defaulted to male (even worse in my very, very gendered mother tongue). So, I've been taking a lot of joy on using or adding female pronouns on entities that do not even have a smidge of gender. Yes, the evil ancient meat supercomputer powered by undead angels is a she/her. The living embodiment of a mechanised city condensed into a vague idea named "The Titan" is genderfluid. I'm tired of only humanoid monsters with hourglass shapes and tits getting to be women. I want role models to look up to (eldritch and mechanical horrors fused in unholy communion)

Gender: a performance

I personally really love Judith Butler's take that gender is a performance, because it opens up so many opportunities, and I really agree with this through my own experience of gender, my own and other's and kind of doing a Socrates and asking a whole bunch of questions to different people with different genders, asking about their experiences. It's so fun analysing gender through a philosophical lens, because how did society agree on that if you have certain genitalia you have to act a certain way, look a certain way, do certain things? And I personally accidentally decided to dissect the entirety of society, especially gender, and I kind of decided, I don't want to perform anymore, it's restrictive, it's not freedom, it's controlling, it tells me what to do and I don't like that. I don't hurt anyone by performing my own thing.

But, it is absolutely cool if you perform as a man or a woman or anything else as long as its your performance, and you are happy with it. Its although important that it's yours.

Now, what is womanhood? What is manhood? Is there a core? Can one define it?

I would love to hear all of your takes.

(Remember be nice, don't insult people etc.)

(This is from Judith Butlers "gender trouble", and generally some reading on feminist philosophy)

I know I am supposed to write serious stuff here because that's kind of the theme, but hi to my two new mutuals! I am glad we enjoy eachothers content :>

Me after reading this post: hrn...

minecraft villager: hrn…

everybody out loud: hrn..

I always tell people that I think the world is ending, I often think about the state of the world, the wars the climate change and how the people in power do nothing to change it. I had a story idea where one follows the world as it is slowly ending, and it ends with it all being futile, we exactly go very quietly into that good night. It reminds me of our current situation with climate change and wars. You see, I have a strange brain, an apocalyptic brain, I have a quote I wrote down which goes: "If I was in that situation I think I'd die!...but I think I'll die at least three times a week". I often think the world is ending so I live as if it is, I smell the morning breeze, I enjoy my coffee as if it was my last, I look at the clouds in sheer wonder as they pass by. I cherish my community and I tell them they are loved. But most of all I feel my emotions, all of them and I am grateful that I get to experience that, I am grateful I get to experience being human, being alive. I think about the end a lot, and I live.

THE WORLD IS ENDING by judas h.

Who cares what society thinks relationships should be like. Don't be afraid to have strange and unusual relationships with the people around you. Ask someone if they wanna pretend to date for fun. Kiss your homies goodnight. Buy your friends flowers and nice things. Who cares. Love your friends. Be a flirt. Be a whore. Be silly. Be free.

Me: I guess I was technically homeless for awhile as a kid, but we weren't, like, really homeless? After we got evicted from our rental house, we had to stay in a small industrial warehouse that was being rented for storage by some family friends. Like, it sucked, and I wasn't allowed to go outside, and it was a huge secret I had to keep from everyone at school because my parents were terrified I'd be taken away by CPS, and if the cops or property owner had found us we definitely would have been in trouble, but, like. We had a roof over our heads. Does that count as homeless? I dunno.

My friends who have genuinely never been homeless, ever: ....that is not normal, holy shit!?!?!?!?!

Me: ...okay so I guess I was homeless, then.

Anyway, this is a reminder that homelessness encompasses more than just "lives in a box under an overpass." Like, yes, that is definitely a real experience with homelessness, but it isn't the only one. Homelessness can look like couch surfing, living in your car, living illegally in a rented storage unit, living in a tent at a campground, living in a motel room, or any number of other things.

(Also, impostor syndrome around homelessness is just about the weirdest feeling in the world, tbh. The "was I suffering enough to say I was suffering?" thoughts are eternal.)

Remind me later.

queer love is beautiful and sacred, don't let anyone tell you otherwise 🫵

DAMNIT NOT A METAPHOR AGAIN!

The problem w writing fiction is that you'll be like tee-hee I'm going to write a story about a fucked up little scenario that's got nothing to do with anything in real life, just some pure messed up nonsense, and then you finish it and take a step back and go aw rats I made a metaphor again

I'm in an awkward place of my writer's life — no not because I'm a writer who's now in their 40s and still has never published anything but oh well, if being a huge loser was lethal, I'd have died nefore elementary school — but because I'm becoming less and less convinced that stories and narratives have any positive power.

What stopped me in my tracks this time is the realisation that there are so many stories which on the surface are about a heroic Resistance of unambiguously good people fighting an underdog, undeground battle against an unambiguously evil Empire that is pretty explicitely fascist-coded, but yet when you start to dig and look at the ideology of the Resistance, at the ideas the audience is supposed to find good and worth fighting for, it's all reactionary, patriarchal, nationalistic, glorifying war and death, deshumanizing the adversary — to the point that actual die-hard fascists can consume the story and identify in earnest with the Resistance and you can't even say anything about media literacy or missing the point because really, thematically they are right —black-and-white, binary good-and-evil stories where the good guys represent True Humans who can do no wrong and where the bad guys are faceless archetypes of evil that do not qualify as humans, that's perfectly compatible with a fascist worldview. Like yeah, no shit Zionists and Republicans identify so much with Old Star Wars and see themselves as the Resistance — it was written for people like them.

And maybe that's a blindspot of mine but I haven't seen anyone talk about that. There are lots of talk of declining media literacy and how people widely misinterpret stories, but not so much of how so many classic narratives carry such deeply harmful worldviews, and not accidentally, not as a product of their time, not in a "oh well it was acceptable to say the N-word back then" way, but in a deep structural way that you just cannot separate from these stories without destroying them in the process.

In a way this makes me glad that if I ever get to publish anything it'll probably be too unrelatable to be read by but a tiny niche — whatever damage I'll do, the spread will be limited.

Cirrus' genuine questions for tumblr #1: What do people dislike about Christians?

I think I am going to start a series of posts called "cirrus' genuine questions for tumblr" where I am going to ask tumblr communities about stuff, because I am quite new to tumblr and it is really a whole culture out here.

Anyways...

I have no idea if it's just where I accidentally ended up, but people seem to really not like Christians and people say a bunch of things that I can't recognise from (and here people will start not liking me) the Christians I've met, and I am myself a Christian and actually work at a church. My hypothesis is that tumblr is an American website and Christian culture is just different in the US than it is in Denmark.

So, the question: what is it that people don't like about Christians and why do Christians get so much hate on tumblr?

This is a genuine question, which requires genuine answers, remember, be nice, be respectful, this is, sort of kind of, for research purposes.

You can say "I am struggling to do [x thing] because of my disability" and neurotypicals + able-bodied people will come up with any reason ever why it isn't actually your disability causing you to struggle and is actually a personal moral failing.