Fierce, Gitaxian Librarian ([syndicated profile] fierceawakening_feed) wrote2025-07-19 03:24 pm

Oh I know they know it. I’m just baffled. They have it so bad already, why would they want to&

opinist:

fierceawakening:

opinist:

fierceawakening:

Okay so here’s the thing I don’t understand about “we have to make sure everyone understands that trans women suffer more than trans men” is

Even if that’s true (and I think it might be, but none of us can measure any of this shit so I’m not sure why we keep on guessing), so what? I’m a leftist because I think society creating random suffering is bad. Not because I think certain levels of random suffering are tolerable.

We’re technically all surviving it. I want better for all of us than that, though.

My guess is they want more resources to be allocated to trans women than trans men and if that means less resources are allocated to trans men then so be it, because trans men need them less.

There was one post floating around a month or so ago that was like “I only donate to individual trans women instead of trans charities because if you donate to trans charities your donation might buy a binder for a transmasc instead of help a trans woman escape domestic violence” and I think that about sums it up.

Yep. Which is weird and mean, and why are we comparing a binder to a plane ticket rather than comparing a binder to gaff underwear?

Because obviously the only issues transmascs face are superficial cosmetic needs whereas all transfems are being constantly assaulted and can’t focus on such frivolities, duh! /s

It’s an unfair comparison, we know it, they know it, but it’s difficult to be fair and rational when you’re hurt and convinced other trans people are your enemy. I doubt they particularly care whether their argument is fair or not because they’re so convinced they’re in the right that it doesn’t matter.

Oh I know they know it. I’m just baffled. They have it so bad already, why would they want to alienate people on top of all the shit they get?

I will never understand people putting reheated Marxism over making friends.

As wise as I think Marx was, that shit’s old! Stop throwing it in the microwave! Please!

Fierce, Gitaxian Librarian ([syndicated profile] fierceawakening_feed) wrote2025-07-19 02:53 pm

Because kindness is awesome, that’s why.

irithind:

dreamofthemaidenless:

right now on earth there’s a kindly old stray tomcat who just got adopted and he’s receiving enough food to fill his belly for the first time in his entire life and he’s so so so happy and he doesn’t even know that it’s going to be like this forever :)

Why in the fuck did that actually make me tear up?

Because kindness is awesome, that’s why.

Fierce, Gitaxian Librarian ([syndicated profile] fierceawakening_feed) wrote2025-07-19 02:52 pm

Super stoked that the video includes two chair users hanging out together.

opabiniasarecool:

bilgisticallykosher:

kittensforbrowncoats:

artsy-biggirl:

Mobility assistance

Woah, what a great idea!

For people that couldn’t watch the video, it’s a way to rate public places and businesses and share info on access for wheelchair users.

@lolliepop-tower

Super stoked that the video includes two chair users hanging out together.

I do not even KNOW how many times I’ve seen non chair users completely stumped that one sequestered off spot for one chair isn’t quite enough this time.

I dunno what to tell you. People on occasion do have friends.

Fierce, Gitaxian Librarian ([syndicated profile] fierceawakening_feed) wrote2025-07-19 02:12 pm

This is not going to be interesting to anyone who isn’t a linguistics nerd but I believe I hav

This is not going to be interesting to anyone who isn’t a linguistics nerd but I believe I have encountered a glottal stop in the wild.

I’m not sure I can totally clearly describe it while keeping the name hidden, but I encountered someone the other day the English spelling of whose name had “hg” in it

But when she pronounced it, it sounded to my ear like “hahj” where I would’ve thought the h would be silent, if the word was English

So I was wondering why it wasn’t spelled “hag”

And I went wait, what happens if I stop the air in my throat and say hhh *stop* juh

I pronounced it exactly as she had.

(Or at least, as best I could hear.)

So THAT’s what that does!! It sounds kind of like an a sometimes but!! It’s not a vowel!!

Fierce, Gitaxian Librarian ([syndicated profile] fierceawakening_feed) wrote2025-07-19 01:39 pm

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youre-only-gay-once:

purgaytorysupremacy:

youre-only-gay-once:

“you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar”

if you’re wondering why spellcheck and grammar check is worse now, it’s because they replaced it with AI! 🥰

now, instead of maintaining a comprehensive, nuanced, and human-maintained encyclopedia by which to check your document, they have switched to an AI that just compares what you’ve written to what other people write in, say, Google Docs, and use the most commonly used iteration.

ever have it change something like “all intents and purposes” to “all intensive purposes” or “should’ve” to “should of”? that’s why!

people make the same spelling and grammar mistakes so often, AI thinks that’s the way you say it because it is a PATTERN DETECTOR and cannot THINK let alone use language.

“you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar”

Fierce, Gitaxian Librarian ([syndicated profile] fierceawakening_feed) wrote2025-07-19 01:35 pm

In school I did a group project on Edgar Allan Poe, and one of my team read something salacious that

earlgraytay:

crispy-ghee:

spitblaze:

you ever get assigned something as a project in school and for the rest of your life you have a strange attachment to the subject. in like seventh grade i had an assignment to make a poster about the elemental propoerties of osmium and to this day everytime someone mentions it im like ‘YEAAAAAAH OSMIUM MENTIONED!!!!!!!!’

Ring tailed lemurs and kareem abdul-jabbar for me lol

The Man Who Never Was, AKA: Operation Mincemeat.

In school I did a group project on Edgar Allan Poe, and one of my team read something salacious that had apparently psychoanalyzed Poe and called him (at least as my teammate phrased it) “a sadomasonecrophilist.”

My teammate thought this was hilarious and worked mentions of it into his part of our presentation.

Now every time I hear someone talk about Poe I hear an enthusiastic high school boy scream “sadomasonecrophilist!” inside my head.

Fierce, Gitaxian Librarian ([syndicated profile] fierceawakening_feed) wrote2025-07-19 01:28 pm

Good morning, Mark! A friend of mine is finding it hard to believe / understand how casual players m

Take any topic. Let’s say music. For any singer are there more die-hard fans or casual fans? Way more casual fans? Why? Because it’s a much smaller ask to be a casual fan. Being a die-hard fan just requires more time and attention.

The die-hard fans spend more. They buy every album and probably a lot of additional merchandise. They go see them in concert, and spend time on fan community social media sites.

It’s normal for people to assume everyone else views things like they view them, but that just isn’t the reality.

For example, think of all the things that you’re a casual fan of. There are lots of things that you enjoy, but just a little. I assume there a bunch of singers for which you have just one album.

If someone buys a handful of Magic boosters a year, and that’s it, they’re still a Magic player.

How do we know this? We do something every other year called a deep dive. Rather than put surveys at places where Magic fans hang out, we hire people to start calling random people on the phone, and ask “Do you play Magic: The Gathering”.

The vast majority say no, but every once in a while we find one. And then we get to ask them questions. Most of these are players that would never visit the places we put out the surveys, so we get an important look at what we call “the invisibles”.

How do we know percentages? Because we can see the percentages in the deep dive. For those that aren’t statistics fans, you can learn a lot of a larger group through sampling.

And there is a much longer answer than I assume you were expecting. : )

I’ve taught or offered to teach a couple partners and a few family members to play Magic. Most have been interested enough to say sure, why not?

I highly doubt any of them do it when they’re not hanging out with me and my friends who play.

It’s okay to only like a thing a little bit, or to really enjoy that thing when you’re getting a contact high from your friend the fan but have no interest otherwise.

Fierce, Gitaxian Librarian ([syndicated profile] fierceawakening_feed) wrote2025-07-19 01:10 pm

The other thing that confuses me about the way some people want to focus so much on the unique harms

The other thing that confuses me about the way some people want to focus so much on the unique harms of transmisogyny and how difficult they are to conceptualize or notice if you don’t experience them directly is that

Back In My Day™, people typically talked a lot about how homophobia, misogyny, and transphobia aren’t exactly the same but are very tightly interconnected.

At bottom, those three oppressions (and probably others I’m not thinking of this second) are different aspects or manifestations of a specific idea:

People are either men or women. Their body marks them as such and they can’t change it without being unnatural or freakish. Men look and act in specific ways in accordance with their role and so do women. Behaving similarly to one another is taboo. As part of this taboo, everyone exclusively has sex and creates families with someone from the other group.

This is not to say there are no differences! Nor is it to say we can’t observe patterns in who gets treated worse some of the time. Most people read me as a cis masculine woman, and while some people do judge me harshly and this can and does affect me negatively, others see me as cool or defiant, and still others don’t really notice. Where it seems very plausible to me that many visibly transfem people just get judgment.

But since these are all heads of the same hydra, they’re going to look similar often. Not just so different no one can ever understand.

And when you compare different real life experiences and aren’t choosing to make specific comparisons like the one I made above, I DO think it starts to get unclear who has it worse and how often.

It’s all the same beast. It eats whatever it’s fed happily.

It can and will eat cishet men if there’s enough nonconformity there for it to crunch through their armor.

Fierce, Gitaxian Librarian ([syndicated profile] fierceawakening_feed) wrote2025-07-19 11:55 am

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Not sure I agree with Alex on everything he says about eating disorders and overcoming them (though I have never had one and he did, so he has the experience, not me)

But there’s a lot he mentions here that I’ve also seen when I followed a lot of people here on tumblr who were in ed recovery and found haes/fat activism/body positivity (not exactly the same but they overlap)

And I’ve mentioned it since and people have said “no one says that, where did you see that?” So I feel validated that he has seen some of the stuff I’ve seen.

Specifically:

He mentions binge eating, and says that there’s HAES type content that says binges are always okay, because binges are the body’s natural response to restricting.

I’ve seen that too. The idea from what I gathered is if you’re bingeing it’s your body telling you to resist the anorexia, and indulging without shame and understanding that you might end up fat but if you do it’s what your body needs is the first step to recovery.

Which could be true for some people! I can see that!

But from what I hear in any other context, bingeing is is eating way more than a standard meal, typically of sugary or fatty and low nutrient foods, to the point of making yourself a bit sick.

And that’s said to relate to anxiety or self soothing, not necessarily or primarily to restricting prior.

Which makes sense to me! I don’t have an eating disorder and don’t think any iffy habits I have rise nearly to that level, but I DO have a lifelong habit of soothing myself emotionally with sweets.

My mom was always kind of weirdly emotionally distant, so she’d wait until I was nearly having meltdowns and THEN take me out for ice cream and let me sob and pour out my small human troubles, so there’s a part of me that goes “sad and unregulated! Sweet food needed!”

But it wasn’t just the sweet food that helped, it was pleasant relaxing activity + change of scenery + listening ear. Which I don’t have if I’m alone! So if I don’t notice what I’m doing, I can end up eating all the sweets I can find, searching for more when I’ve not yet begun to feel better.

If I didn’t have the self control not to buy a lot of sweets, or was a little less insightful and didn’t eventually think “this isn’t working so I should stop,” I could see myself developing BED. It would make sense.

So the talking positively about “binges,” the describing “indulging” as if it is healing and comforting, worries me. As does the framing of thin women as being “afraid to take up space,” as if being physically small makes you a bad activist somehow.

When I was in leftist spaces I now feel were leaning culty, the group successfully convinced me that weight loss was fat phobic, that all food is good food, and that my impulses were healing and if I reject them that’s “diet culture” or even “patriarchy.” “Fat is not a disease” and no one “needs your fucking cure.”

Predictably, I gained weight. Predictably, I ended up with high blood pressure and mobility issues and pain.

Predictably but confusingly to me at the time, my indulgence didn’t soothe me, just like it never had before. I started eating so much sweets I no longer could taste them, which made things even worse.

I don’t know how my doctor shocked me out of my culty “I have to do this or I’m betraying a marginalized group” when “doctors are fat phobic,” but I’m glad she found a way.

Anyway, I’m off on a tangent. But I’m reblogging this because Alex mentions encouragement to binge, and when I’ve brought it up to critique people have been like “no one says that,” so I’m glad he says he’s seen it too.

ELODIEUNDERGLASS ([syndicated profile] elodie_glass_tumblr_feed) wrote2025-07-19 06:40 pm

A very interesting question! As a European, Killie is predominantly experienced with turf (grass), a

alexaloraetheris:

gaynfl:

i need to see this expeditiously

@elodieunderglass I need to know how Killie would fare in this race!

A very interesting question! As a European, Killie is predominantly experienced with turf (grass), a terrain type that favours stamina and strategy. Dirt, which produces a fast sprint style, is preferred in North and South America (as shown above.)

Horses tend to be demonstrably better at one surface or another, and tend to have different skills and preferences in the going - some are great at racing in pure mud, and others won’t tolerate it! We could make some jokes about not fancying his chances on the terrain type.

Like Ryan Moore and other truly legendary jockeys, though, Killie prides himself on his ability to adapt to styles and conditions all over the world. So while dirt isn’t his favoured terrain, he could probably make a respectable showing. He has no home advantage, though.

It isn’t unusual for jockeys to run on tracks. On turf races, especially steeplechase (jump) races, jockeys are expected to walk the course themselves prior to the races. It’s basically mandatory in steeplechasing. This is because races that involve miles of rough, uneven, lumpy wild grass (and 6 foot high jumps) are more unpredictable than dirt tracks that have electronic sensors and are freshly graded that morning with a tractor. So jockeys examine the full circuit of the track on foot prior to taking a horse over. Particularly active ones do it at a jog - a jockey should be fit enough by definition to drop in an extra three-mile run in the morning - and tall ones, unfortunately, often do it in winter coats, to lose more sweat 😓

However, running in loose dirt with thin flexible-soled racing boots isn’t fun for anybody. Killie would probably turn an ankle and have to be put down

ELODIEUNDERGLASS ([syndicated profile] elodie_glass_tumblr_feed) wrote2025-07-19 04:31 pm

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66992527

cooking-with-hailstones:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66992527

Y'ALL THIS IS THE COOLEST FANFIC I’VE EVER SEEN.

It is a complete narrative about SecUnits on a Planetary Survey trying to communicate and keep their clients safe while dealing with the restrictions of their govmod.

IT IS ALSO A FULLY INTERACTIVE GAME OF MINESWEEPER.

The story is told BY PLAYING MINESWEEPER.

This fic is criminally underrated go look at it!!!

Fierce, Gitaxian Librarian ([syndicated profile] fierceawakening_feed) wrote2025-07-19 10:51 am

And like. The problem with not writing case notes, with not finding a solution like dictation&hellip

fierceawakening:

opinist:

fierceawakening:

Really confused by “laziness does not exist” now that someone who cut a lot of corners no longer works here.

Like, I feel bad for her? Getting laid off sucks, it’s happened to me too.

But I also think it was kind of bad that she told people she would complete important tasks (she was our social worker, aka the only one licensed to treat the people with the most severe mental health issues) and then didn’t.

Like it’s not JUST “productivity culture” that makes not doing what you said you were going to do bad.

It still sucks here but it’s refreshing to just KNOW “that’s not happening unless we hook this person up with someone who can treat them” rather than “I mean I don’t THINK Susan is going to bother based on prior observation, but I made the referral.”

(Not her name)

Hm…why couldn’t it be the case that laziness doesn’t exist and your former coworker actually did have legitimate executive functioning challenges, and the case that by not completing her tasks, she was causing harm to other people?

Because in my opinion it could be the case that both could be true. It could be true she has ADD or some other executive functioning disability, and true that having an executive functioning disability means she shouldn’t be a social worker.

Or she could just be lazy! I don’t actually have a consensus on whether laziness exists. But I don’t know that the fact that your coworker was causing harm to people by not completing her tasks is actually definitive evidence that she is “just lazy” either.

That’s fair, and she does have ADHD.

My problem isn’t that she has it, or that she has it and wanted to go into social work, or that she has it and worked really hard and someone found this sufficient to give her a license.

My problem is that when you’re hired, you’re asked whether you can do the job with or without accommodations. If you say you can do it without accommodations you’re taken at your word. If you say you do need accommodations you’re asked what they are and how they help.

If you discover that you can’t do the job without accommodations, the right thing to do is to confess, “I thought I could do Task without Thing. It turns out I can’t. Sorry I’m a bit late on this, but may I please have Thing?”

The not great thing to do is to say nothing.

The wrong, in the sense of mildly morally blameworthy, thing to do is to say, “I have ADHD. You should know I can’t write case notes.”

No, I shouldn’t know that. You were asked if you could write case notes at your interview and you said yes.

I guess people dislike that being called lazy because it’s not quite the standard definition?

Except that what makes “lazy” a judgmental word is when someone says it, they’re saying “this person isn’t just unable to do the task or refusing to do the task, they’re not doing the task in some kind of morally blameworthy way.”

But someone who said they could do the task and was lying, or someone who thought they could do the task but couldn’t and makes that everyone else’s problem instead of owning up, is…

…not doing the task in a morally blameworthy way.

So what I mean when I say we should keep the word lazy around is just, “well but… sometimes people actually ARE blameworthy for not completing tasks.

Usually, because they dishonestly promised they were capable and left the mess for others to clean up.

That’s where I suspect the idea of the vice came from, and while I think there are a whole lot of instances of not completing a task that aren’t instances of vice… there are a few here and there that are, actually. It’s context dependent.”

And like. The problem with not writing case notes, with not finding a solution like dictation software or even shorthand, is that it means that any progress you made is in your head and your memories. Which means if you leave, or get fired, or even go on a long vacation, your colleagues are staring from square one.

In this case, since she was the only social worker, she was assigned the people with the most severe mental illness. The kind of person who doesn’t communicate clearly because of disorganized speech or delusional thinking, usually. Which means they can tell you they were working on SOMETHING, but not how far they hit or who to call.

And while this instance was the most extreme example I’ve ever seen, I do see things like it a lot. “Oh, we’re never going to fix things for Bob, he’s nuts. I’m not taking his calls.”

And this type of person from what I’ve seen kind of prides themself on this? Like when Suzy was leaving she kept stressing that she hopes I “learn how to triage” and prioritize the people I can help.

While I agree that I can’t help everyone and that I need to set boundaries, her idea of “triaging” never sounded right. A homeless shelter isn’t an ER. No one’s going to die if I spend 30m talking to the hallucinating lady rather than ignore her.

And the thing about people like this from my observation?

It takes a very long time to get rid of them, but eventually they get laid off or even fired. No one says why this is, everybody just says how sad they are to see them go, but when you read between the lines (or go looking for the missing case notes), you get a clear picture. Also you r probably been begging this person to give you more info for like a year so you have your own opinion.

It makes seeing tumblr posts like “this is your daily reminder laziness doesn’t exist, no one fails to do important tasks because they don’t care!” or “Capitalism sucks so go ahead and half ass it, very few things are worthy of your entire ass” make me feel like im on the upside down.

Someone who’s too sick to take care of themself is WORTHY of my entire ass. I can’t GIVE them my entire ass because there are a hundred other people, so I’d never say I don’t cut corners. I’m human.

But the idea that “some things just aren’t worthy of your whole ass” is how these people languish for years and sometimes then just die here, which makes me want to scream.

If you’re trying and something just ain’t fixable fine. You’re doing your best.

If you’re not even trying, I’ll probably think of you as lazy at some point. Sorry not sorry. Haul me off to ableism jail.

Seanan's Tumblr ([syndicated profile] seananmcguire_tumblr_feed) wrote2025-07-19 04:54 am

I feel like politicians’ insults about each other have really gone down hill. These days it&rs

silly-little-diary:

shortace:

I feel like politicians’ insults about each other have really gone down hill. These days it’s all “moron” and “loser”, so childish. Think what you will of Paul Keating, but he gave us such gems as “he’s a shiver waiting for a spine”, “debating him is like being flogged with warm lettuce”, “he’s like a lizard on a rock: alive but looking dead”, “he’s all tip and no iceberg”.

Where’s the creativity these days?!

Some of my favourite Paul Keating insults for your enjoyment:

  • You boxhead, you wouldn’t know. You are flat out counting past ten
  • I suppose that the Honourable Gentleman’s hair, like his intellect, will recede into the darkness
  • He’s wound up like a thousand-day clock! One half more turn and there’ll be springs and sprockets all over the building. Mr Speaker, give him a valium
  • Oh, look, it’s just Howard being Howard, isn’t it, you know? The little desiccated coconut’s under pressure and he’s attacking anything he can get his hands on
  • The Opposition could not manage a tart shop
  • For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he’s dug for himself over the last decade

And my personal favourite:

If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours