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TikTok update where the app won't open unless the user is wearing earphones

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“A deep water starfish.” Half hours with the lower animals. c.1905. Processed image.

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obviously transmisogyny manifests itself in, like, specific ways like the assumption we're a bunch of sexual predators, but to some extent there's a clear trend among people even in the queer community to just... still be uncomfortable witb Trans Women, as an identity?

Consider the recent backlash against the idea that Twitch user LillyAnarKitty might be transfem; people were call it "disgusting" and "disrespectful" and like... please stop and think about that reaction. You see it in "egg discourse" where people are CLEARLY uncomfortable with the label trans woman being even offered to anyone who isn't already openly using it. Or the persistant idea that being a gnc man is somehow more "radical" and "challenging" than the trans woman, even thoigh there's an entire subset of conservatives who fetoshize the former and want to kill the latter. Or even something as small and minor as the propensity to discuss transmisogynistic caricatures in media as just generally genderqueer.

IDK, just... recognize that "trans woman" is something you yourself might have discomfort with, and just practice getting comfortable with someone assigned male and gone through t being a proud she/her woman, no caveats.

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her: you better not be yuri fight club when i get home

my stupid ass:

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This is what we're talking abt btw, we can be posting the most milquetoast basic feminism on earth and we have our intelligence insulted and are told that because we talk about transmisogyny we must hate our trans brothers. This is a textbook reactionary response to feminist criticism of misogyny and it is sickening to see it becoming an acceptable mainstream position in trans politics yet again

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One small but extremely annoying effect of Tech Modernization or w/e is how UI contrast is garbage anymore, especially just, like, application windows in general.

"Ooh our scrollbar expands when you mouse over it! Or does it? Only you can know by sitting there like an idiot for 3 seconds waiting for it to expand, only to move your cursor away just as it does so!" or Discord's even more excellent "scrollbar is 2 shades off of the background color and is one (1) pixel wide" fuck OFF

I tried to move a system window around yesterday and had to click 3 times before I got the half of the upper bar that let me drag it. Why are there two separate bars with absolutely nothing to visually differentiate them on that.

"Well if you look closely-" I should not!! have to squint!!! at the screen for a minute straight to detect basic UI elements!! Not mention how ableist this shit is, and for what? ~✨Aesthetic✨~?

and then every website and app imitates this but in different ways so everything is consistently dogshit to try to use but not always in ways you can immediately grok it's!!!! terrible!!!! just put lines on things again I'm begging you!!!!

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One small but extremely annoying effect of Tech Modernization or w/e is how UI contrast is garbage anymore, especially just, like, application windows in general.

"Ooh our scrollbar expands when you mouse over it! Or does it? Only you can know by sitting there like an idiot for 3 seconds waiting for it to expand, only to move your cursor away just as it does so!" or Discord's even more excellent "scrollbar is 2 shades off of the background color and is one (1) pixel wide" fuck OFF

I tried to move a system window around yesterday and had to click 3 times before I got the half of the upper bar that let me drag it. Why are there two separate bars with absolutely nothing to visually differentiate them on that.

"Well if you look closely-" I should not!! have to squint!!! at the screen for a minute straight to detect basic UI elements!! Not mention how ableist this shit is, and for what? ~✨Aesthetic✨~?

and then every website and app imitates this but in different ways so everything is consistently dogshit to try to use but not always in ways you can immediately grok it's!!!! terrible!!!! just put lines on things again I'm begging you!!!!

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[CONT] Seychelles

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During the 2008 recession, my aunt lost her job. Her, her partner, and my three cousins moved across the country to stay with us while they got back on their feet. My house turned from a family of four to a family of nine overnight, complete with three dogs and five cats between us.

It took a few years for them to get a place of their own, but after a few rentals and apartments, they now own a split level ranch in a town nearby. I’ve lost track of how many coworkers and friends have stayed with them when they were in a tight spot. A mother and son getting out of an abusive relationship, a divorcee trying to stay local for his kids while they work out a custody agreement, you name it. My aunt and uncle knew first hand what that kindness meant, and always find space for someone who needed it, the way my parents had for them.

That same aunt and uncle visited me in [redacted] city last year. They are prolific drinkers, so we spent most of the day bar hopping. As we wandered the city, any time we passed a homeless person, my uncle would pull out a fresh cigarette and ask them if they had a light. Regardless of if they had a lighter on hand or not, he offered them a few bucks in exchange, which he explained to me after was because he felt it would be easier for them to accept in exchange for a service, no matter how small.

I work for a company that produces a lot of fabric waste. Every few weeks, I bring two big black trash bags full of discarded material over to a woman who works down the hall. She distributes them to local churches, quilting clubs, and teachers who can use them for crafts. She’s currently in the process of working with our building to set up a recycling program for the smaller pieces of fabric that are harder to find use for.

One of my best friends gives monthly donations to four or five local organizations. She’s fortunate enough to have a tech job that gives her a good salary, and she knows that a recurring donation is more valuable to a non-profit because they can rely on that money month after month, and can plan ways to stretch that dollar for maximum impact. One of those organizations is a native plant trust, and once she’s out of her apartment complex and in a home with a yard, she has plans to convert it into a haven of local flora.

My partner works for a company that is working to help regulate crypto and hold the current bad actors in the space accountable for their actions. We unfortunately live in a time where technology develops far too fast for bureaucracy to keep up with, but just because people use a technology for ill gain doesn’t mean the technology itself is bad. The blockchain is something that she finds fascinating and powerful, and she is using her degree and her expertise to turn it into a tool for good.

I knew someone who always had a bag of treats in their purse, on the odd chance they came across a stray cat or dog, they had something to offer them.

I follow artists who post about every local election they know of, because they know their platform gives them more reach than the average person, and that they can leverage that platform to encourage people to vote in elections that get less attention, but in many ways have more impact on the direction our country is going to go.

All of this to say, there’s more than one way to do good in the world. Social media leads us to believe that the loudest, the most vocal, the most prolific poster is the most virtuous, but they are only a piece of the puzzle. (And if virtue for virtues sake is your end goal, you’ve already lost, but that’s a different post). Community is built of people leveraging their privileges to help those without them. We need people doing all of those things and more, because no individual can or should do all of it. You would be stretched too thin, your efforts valiant, but less effective in your ambition.

None of this is to encourage inaction. Identify your unique strengths, skills, and privileges, and put them to use. Determine what causes are important to you, and commit to doing what you can to help them. Collective action is how change is made, but don’t forget that we need diversity in actions taken.

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ITS THIS THING TUESDAY

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liberals (so called ideology of freedom and hope): what can we do :/ everything is bleak and sucks forever :///

communists (so called ideology of misery and doom): don't lose hope, don't lose faith, we will live to see a free world

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i'm trying to post a long list of informational resources on palestine and tumblr simply will not let me

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please keep mexico in your prayers. acapulco was hit by hurricane otis, a record-breaking category 5 storm, on wednesday 25 october there's people missing and dozens of deaths. please consider donating to the mexican red cross as well as any other trusted organizations/fundraisers.

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deeply unfortunate title and certain theoretical issues aside, prashad’s essay “how the hindus became jews” is still the best primer on how Hindu Americans took a certain Jewish american relation to Israel as a kind of model

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We are back in the stone age. We do not know what’s going on in the outside world. We don’t know what’s going on in other neighborhoods. This will have very dangerous consequences. Just like how Israel is creating settlements in Palestine, the same policy will be applied here too.

– Kashmiri student Asim Abbas, on the Hindutva Indian government’s annexation, invasion, and telecommunications blackout of Kashmir