Tumblr Is The VHS Format Of The Internet. When A Link Sends Me To One Of Those Other Places I Think,

Tumblr is the VHS format of the internet. When a link sends me to one of those other places I think, “it will just be on Tumblr in a few hours. I can wait and see it at home.”

At least SOMETHING comes standard on a cyber truck. They’d make wheels a paid extra if they thought they could get away with it.

Yes AND binary trans people are not our enemies. They may sometimes be myopic about their own struggles but ultimately we are on the same side of “fuck compulsory gender”. I think like many things it’s a lack of understanding of a perspective you don’t have that leads to not understanding the support that other group needs.

Some binary trans people need to spend more time learning about nonbinary trans people. Asking when you’re not sure is a great impulse that just needs to be expanded on. Since nonbinary people exist and there is no way to be androgynous according to our current society, you can’t ever be sure, so ask!

No matter how hard I try to “present nonbinary” my diminutive stature, voice tone and body shape leads me to continually get “female”. Even with my prominently displayed they/them pin I get constantly misgendered.

All people need to learn that gender is not binary. I feel being especially disheartened by the lack of understanding from people who should be in your own community. There will always be people who aren’t in the right place to take in perspectives that differ from their own regardless of the community. I also see that some binary trans people are just trying to do for others what they want done for themselves. It’s demoralizing to them to be asked their pronouns when they want to be automatically recognized as their gender, so asking may seem rude.

Hopefully they will come around to understanding that asking is not a sign of someone being skeptical of that person’s gender but rather an acknowledgment that gender is complicated and nuanced so asking is a celebration of our shared disdain for the unfairly narrow definition of gender we currently experience.

binary transgender person: i just use pronouns according to people's gender presentation and ask when i'm not sure.

me: this still doesn't leave space for nonbinary people though because perfect androgyny is impossible. it also doesn't leave space for any gnc people either. me wearing earrings and a dress isn't an invitation to call me she/her. you're still misgendering people.

binary transgender person: how dare nonbinary people speak over trans women??

if your binarity is so fragile that you think us wanting to be recognised and pointing out you're advocating for mass misgendering is "talking over trans women" then i can't help you

and we all know it's code for "how dare these fake transes talk over us real transsexuals?!"

meanwhile binary transgender people constantly use their binary privilege to erase us and silence us, to throw us under the bus so they can get the advantages of cisnormativity. they're not even "talking over us" because we don't even get a proper voice.

This poll lacked a “all the fucking time” choice, which seems like a classic case of begging the question- as it imports the conclusion that driving is an inherently non-anxiety inducing experience with a few specific exceptions.

And um… no it’s fucking not. Driving should stress you out. It’s one of the things most like to kill you and the only thing outside of like combat you’re likely to kill someone else doing. It’s wild how much in American culture we paper that over so we don’t have to make changes to our transportation system.

And let us never forget: ChatGPT was built on theft. Millions of people had their creativity, work and thoughts stolen. They were not asked for consent. They were not compensated. Some of the work contained in the data set is certainly private and was not intended for public use.

So, let’s review:

1. It robs you of learning a skill.

2. It robs everyone who’s work was stolen to create it.

3. It robs the planet of precious resources.

4. And it leads to an undervaluing of written work in general because “I can just get a computer to do it for free”. No you can’t. If you could do that than no data set would have been needed. All the computer is doing is taking the work of PEOPLE putting it in a blender and serving it back to you. It’s people with extra steps, but because you stole from the people in the first place you now feel you don’t need to pay or credit them.

Seriously, fuck “artificial intelligence”. You’re not an old person for seeing a scam for what it is.

nothing has made me feel like an ancient grumpy crone more than the “using chatgpt for school is fine actually” sentiment among youths