#switch discrimination

[ibrokeeverything]

Me turning on the mandalorian after finishing the bad batch episode

#it's fine #im fine #everythings fine #*starts bawling* #spoiler warning #you guys mayday just died a preventable death because of empire neglect and malice and discrimination #and then i turn on the mandalorian and am immediately greeted by fireworks and a fun scene with peli #come on ny tears haven't even dried yet! #but seriously i love the mandalorian to pieces #the tone switch is just a little jarring though 😅 #im still grieving ya know! #mayday deserved so much better 😭😭😭 #and im so scared for crosshair #the bad batch #the mandalorian #star wars #disney #tbb spoilers #the bad batch spoilers #tbb

[vorakh]

hater-ish moment: gender and role aus are always on the fine line in between "i am having fun with design!" and "i don't get the real issues the narrative explicitly is talking about"

#not main tagging this for obvious reasons #have fun i guess but this character cannot act that way because of literal racism and discrimination against his person and #the story explicitly says so #or‚ this character benefits from privileges that would literally not be the same if the gender were switched like that #so yeah hater moment i guess #btw i don't froth at the mouth obsessive style i have muted the tags i don't like and go on with my life #just thinking about things

[acanvasofabillionsuns]

got the "change your username please :)" popup from discord again and like. is anyone else just continually clicking the 'i'll do it later' button lkajdf;lkdajfa;lsdkjfls;

#meri monologues #i really really hope they switch back to discriminators eventually #i also really really hope they haven't implemented a kill switch (You Have To Change Your Username No Refusals) by then LSKJDF:LSKDJFS:LDJK

[samaspic31]

I am tired of symbolic change and capitalism approved progress i want the destruction of the planet outlawed and the material and financial conditions of marginalised people to fucking improve

#idc that you look less racist i want you to change your hiring process not to discriminate on race or education #i want bank accounts switching and banks kept in line #sam speaks #anticapitalism

[siilkmoth]

do u guys think i can make it to the end of the year without discord actively forcing me to change my username to the new system

#they keep going 😄 youre gonna have to switch soon! we'll remind you again very soon! #and yet they arent forcing me so i still have my discriminator! discriminate against my balls lmfao #im going until they literally force me to. i literally dgaf how many times they remind me its not that annoying in the end

[minglana]

life is so hard for pale-skinned brunnette girlies (gn). i keep having to change my emojis bc the palest color emojis are brunettes but the second palest emojis are closer to my skin tone. someone fix this asap

#i CANNOT stand having to see blonde ppl when i go select my skin tone for hand etc emojis #and then having to switch back to get actual dark hair....... so much discrimination😔 #xarraire

[rancidarling]

must my brain sound like an edgy incel chronically online gamer that screams slurs into the mic when they lose a Fortnite match -_-

#like whenever I'm #idk ig splitting would be the right term here #every thought just becomes a violent stew of slurs and view points that I don't normally have otherwise #got nothing against fat people but if I'm splitting on one #you best believe my thoughts are gonna revolve around every generic fatphobic insult you've ever heard #even though I literally don't even agree with any of it.... #goes for literally anything you can discriminate against too #honestly it feels pretty gross #and gets pretty weird when it's like... demeaning against women... when I'm also...a woman #like good job brain you insulted yourself in the process #I guess these are like intrusive thoughts in a way? #idk the racist ones in particular just feel really gross #like did I REALLY just think that? for real? girl who ARE you #I know not to take it too seriously bc 1. thought crimes aren't real and #2. if the switch hadn't flipped and I wasn't temporarily upset with that individual #I wouldn't think a single discriminatory thing about them. I wouldn't be vehemently insulting them and cussing them out with vitriol #it's just 'oh I hate you now' *cue an endless steam of random swearing and slurs and discrimination and violent feelings of hatred* #and then back to 'oh you're cool I love you again' with a 'what the actual fuck was i just thinking??' #...... I can't believe these are my moral standards of gross #like oh noes I called someone a stupid fat bitch....in my head.... that I don't even agree with 90% of the time #I never say any of this out loud at least. thank the stars I know how to hold my tongue #r.r

[prettypangolins]

okay I don't have nitro but I have a Feb 2016 discord and my username is already gone which... sucks

the account I made in Jun 2016 hasn't had the chance to change yet, while some much newer ones have

i've seen people on reddit who are 2015-ers, and have had nitro since it became a thing who but haven't had the change yet, or who lost their #0001 to a newer non-nitro account, and someone saying they lost theirs to a 2021 account that got nitro 4 days ago

there are people who got nitro - literally started paying money - so they could pick their discriminator ffs (the #0000 bit) and now that's gone

it was super cool that you could make an account and get a version of the name you wanted. but now it's like... fuckin abysmal. i've had my account for 7 years. maybe the newbies to the platform aren't that fussed because they come from twitter but the discord update is BAD. this 'easier to remember' line shit is utter bullshit (you'd just copy and paste your name if you weren't adding someone you were already in a server with lol but yeah i know both my discriminators 4 digits aren't that hard how do these people cope with phone numbers, PIN codes, and fuckin post codes or zip codes?)

if i had nitro, i'd cancel it. discord is now too big to actually give a shit about their users, but they will care about money

but i don't have nitro so i'm just like... uuuugh i hope enough people who do pay decide to cancel so the bastards really feel it

#i've used discord probably every DAY for the last 7 years and however many months #like great pander to the covid era twitterites? idk what discord think they're doing #because their 'reason' is utter bullshit #it really is unfair to the people who have been paying for nitro for years #the discriminator system is GOOD #other places are switching to it! #anyway i'm gonna check out an alternative and see how it shapes up

[theforesteldritch]

Reading about how intersex athletes have been treated is so fucking horrible. The countless lies and human rights violations. The discrimination and how it's ruined the lives of so many people is so awful. There has been no apologies from any athletics comptetions or organizations. They have blood on their hands. Just a tw for intersexism and mental health issues and suicide in the next paragraph because it can get pretty heavy.

Annet Negesa, who was a middle distance runner. She was suddenly barred from competing due to her hormones. No one told her why. She was then told she needed to take medication to lower her testosterone, then what she was told was switched. She was lied to about a surgery that she was told was like an injection and would let her compete again. She woke up with scars and had had a gonadectomy. That violation of basic human rights and medical ethics combined with inadequate postsurgical care basically ended her career. She deserves justice. She deserves apologies from the Olympics and everyone single doctor who was involved in it, and compensation and the promise that it should never have happened and will never happen again. She. Needs. Justice.

Pratima Gaonkar needs justice. She was a rising track and field star. After forced sex verificatiom she killed herself. The way media and news treated her after her death was disgusting. She deserves and needs justice. Her family deserves justice.

Santhi Soundarajan had her medals stripped and was treated as an outcast after forced sex verification showed she had androgen insensitivity syndrome. She was treated as an outcast, her gender was mocked. She's spoken out about how much discrimination she's faced, and how badly she's been treated. She now works as a coach, but was barred from competing. She deserves justice.

Caster Semenya deserves justice. Francine Niyonsaba deserves justice. Margaret Wambui deserves justice. Barbra Banda deserves justice. Beatrice Masilingi and Christine Mboma deserve justice.

The racism and intersexism and horrible human rights violations and medical abuse these women have faced for the supposed crime of being intersex and good at a sport is horrible. They deserve justice, but the organizations that perpetuate these atrocities don't seem to care. It's so fucking horrible.

#intersex #intersexism #lgbtq

[ravenkings]

i really, really want to play blasphemous 2 but unfortunately steam has refused to let me update or download any games for the last two months bc "content servers are currently unreachable" like literally EVERY SINGLE time i open it

#i do think this is mac user discrimination which i suppose i understand in theory but still......... #also if anyone has dealt with this issue before i'd be open to advice #just know that i've uninstalled and reinstalled and changed my location SO many times and it hasn't done anything! #i am like THIS close to just getting it on the switch

[syrinq]

didn't have high expectations for the discord username system being rolled out, but wow gee gotta love P2W with nitro users getting a 1+ year boost being in jan. 2017 currently for the change, compared to non-nitro folks

as well as paying BIG MONEY for CLEAN ORIGINAL WORD USERNAME

#what kind of hell is this #sy.txt #IF FUCKING MICROSOFT OF ALL THINGS SWITCHES TO THE DISCRIMINATOR SYSTEM FOR XBOX THAT SAYS A GODDAMN LOT!!!!!!! GOOD GOD!!!!!!! #oh and the fact that staff buddies and affiliates and whatever get earlier access. that also says a lot :o)

[just-a-goose-with-a-blog]

why’s my mom making fun of the way i use a fork and knife like she didn’t teach me to eat

#i cut with one hand and then i switch so that i’m using the fork with that hand to #i know it’s a little fucked up and i can do other ways i don’t know why i chose this #my mom told me i eat like the dirty right handers #(we discriminate against right handers) #/j if it’s not obvious

[afeelgoodblog]

The Best News of Last Week - May 15, 2023

🧲 - Magnetic Marvels: Researchers Flip the Switch on Depression

1. New Zealand Government announces prescriptions charges will be free.

The $5 prescription fee at pharmacies will be scrapped in July. This is set to save about 3 million people a year money, and in particular 770,000 people aged over 65. It will make most prescriptions in New Zealand free.

Free access to medicines is also hoped to ease pressure on the over-burdened health system by helping people get medicines sooner.

2. Platypuses return to Sydney's Royal National Park after disappearing for decades

Platypuses have been relocated to the Royal National Park in Sydney, after they disappeared from the park's waterways about 50 years ago. A joint project by the University of New South Wales, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and the World Wildlife Fund has reintroduced five females to the Hacking River, with a group of males to follow next week.

3. 74-year-old musician Otis Taylor gets Denver high school diploma decades after being expelled for hair

A musician who was expelled from a Denver high school over 50 years ago received his diploma. Otis Taylor was kicked out of Manual High School in 1966 because of his hair. This was decades before laws ending racial hair discrimination. Denver Public Schools wanted to right a wrong.

4. Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals traveling the wrong way (with magnets)

A new study led by Stanford Medicine researchers is the first to reveal how magnetic stimulation treats severe depression: by correcting the abnormal flow of brain signals. Powerful magnetic pulses applied to the scalp to stimulate the brain can bring fast relief to many severely depressed patients for whom standard treatments have failed.

The FDA-cleared treatment, known as Stanford neuromodulation therapy, incorporates advanced imaging technologies to guide stimulation with high-dose patterns of magnetic pulses that can modify brain activity related to major depression. Compared with traditional TMS, which requires daily sessions over several weeks or months, SNT works on an accelerated timeline of 10 sessions each day for just five days.

5. Electricity generation through solar, wind and water exceeded total demand in mainland Spain on Tuesday, a pattern that will be repeated more and more in the future

The Spanish power grid on Tuesday tasted an appetizer of the renewable energy banquet that is expected to flourish in the coming years. For nine hours, between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m., the generation of green electricity was more than enough to cover 100% of Spanish peninsular demand, a milestone that had already been reached on previous occasions, but not for such a prolonged period.

6. RI Senate passes bill making lunch free at all public schools

Free lunch for all public school students in Rhode Island is one step closer to becoming a reality.

Tuesday night the Rhode Island Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill by a vote of 31-4 that would do just that. If the companion bill in the House were to pass, that takes effect July 1. The bill would make breakfast and lunch free for all public school students in the state, regardless of their household income.

7. Critically endangered red wolf pups born at North Carolina Zoo

The North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro celebrated the arrival of “not one but TWO litters” of the world’s most endangered wolf – the red wolf – in late April and early May.

A total of nine pups were born – three to parents Marsh and Roan, and six to Denali and May – the zoo announced on May 9.

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[headspace-hotel]

"Decolonization of Palestine doesn't mean getting rid of israelis or wiping them out..." Yes, I agree

"....and anybody who claims they are afraid of Israelis being removed or wiped out is just saying that because of irrational colonizer guilt" Um. Not only is it totally unnecessary to go there, this is also in very bad taste, right?

"It is silly and paranoid to be afraid that people posting about freeing Palestine are anti-semitic" I don't know about that, there were a lot of anti-semitic people last I checked, and somehow I doubt they all vanished in a puff of smoke after October 7.

Sometimes it seems like in place of a brain, y'all have a control panel with a bunch of light switches each labeled with a name of a different demographic or group of people, and instead of "On/Off" the switches can be set to "Victim" or "Perpetrator." And y'all spend most of your time trying to resolve cognitive dissonance about how you have the switches set up, instead of thinking, "Wait, why do we even have these?"

Personally, I think "People deserve equal rights and to not be discriminated against legally and socially" and "Blowing up mass numbers of little kids is bad" capture the heart of the matter just fine, and I don't think these things are very controversial when it comes right down to it. And whatever answer the people fighting on my dash about questions like "What is the identity of being indigenous to a region derived from" eventually come up with, I don't think that answer is likely to be particularly illuminating into the subject of whether it's all right to blow up little kids.

#:/

[madlittlecriminal]

Can you write general nsfw headcanons about Jaime Reyes? I’m so feral for him 😫

Jaime in Bed [headcanons]

it’s officially smuttober y’all! we’re starting it off with my new baby boy. anon, i don’t blame you…im feral for him too.

Warnings: pure filth, guess what? i don’t discriminate, so i added filth for people with a penis & people with a vagina

Honestly, I’m a firm believer that Jaime would rather be on the giving end than the receiving end when it comes to oral

His priority is to please you and make you feel good

If we’re talking about a dom/sub dynamic, he’d most likely be a switch

Dom!Jaime would be soft.

He’d praise you relentlessly saying how good you are and how you deserve every inch of him, body, soul and cock

If you were fine with hickeys, he’d mark you in places that only you two would see.

If not, he wouldn’t care because he knew you were his.

He would also try new things with you like if you were into choking, he’d try it

If you were fine with being tied up, he’d be down to give it a go

Going back to oral, he’d be the type to let you grip his curls, but also intertwine his fingers with yours as a way to hold your hand while pleasing you

If you give him head while he’s in dom space, he’d praise you

I’m also a firm believer that he’s not quiet

He’d moan and groan for you, letting you know how good you feel around his cock whether it’s with your mouth or your entrance (vaginal or anal)

He wouldn’t be shy at all to make a sound.

Maybe at first he would, but afterwards he’d get more comfortable

Now sub!Jaime?

Praise him. He’s been through a lot and he’s a hero

But…he wouldn’t mind you being a little rough with him, but not too rough

If you’d give him head, he’d be a mess

He wouldn’t mind you choking him either or tying him up

Again, he’d moan for you and maybe even whimper because he wasn’t shy about it

You’d tell him how much of a good boy he is while taking him (anal or vaginal)

And god, this man would love it

He’d probably cum right then and there

Positions didn’t matter to the both of you

Unless you were both comfortable, that’s all that mattered to the both of you

If it was your first time, he would be so gentle, and make it a night you wouldn’t forget.

If it wasn’t your first time, you’d wish it was.

Jaime was so good to you in bed just as much as he was when you weren’t in bed

Especially when you both just wanted a night without the dom/sub dynamic, it would be a night filled with love making

Either way, sex with Jaime was always filled with pleasure

It would also end in a ton of aftercare because this mega softie would want to take care of you after dom or not

#jaime reyes #jaime reyes x reader #jaime reyes x you #jaime reyes x y/n #smut #blue beetle #blue beetle x reader #blue beetle x you #blue beetle x y/n #jaime reyes smut #dc universe #dceu #asks #ask #anonymous #anon asks #anonymous asks

[thespineoftherighteous]

aftg show bloopers like

the scene where Neil throws the glass at Aaron (it's not glass glass, it's that softish, breakable material used in filmmaking that looks like glass) and Aaron's actor ducks too late so it hits him straight in the face. nobody moves for a second (they're still rolling) until Neil's actor moves toward him going "oh my god I'm so sorry" and everyone starts laughing and Aaron's actor is like I'm fine dw

Allison's actress tripping in her heels during what's supposed to be a badass entrance and she drags herself out to redo the take, cursing the shoes

so many bits of the cast just pretending to club each other over the head with their racquets

Coach's actor accidentally switches up a whole bunch of words while shooting one of his inspirational speeches. but he just keeps talking as though he didn't just passionately tell the kids to "get out on that floor and- court- show them how real a Fox floors- plays...after tonight they will- they will not ever discriminate- underestimate you again" and you can hear the Foxes' actors quietly break character one by one in the background

Andrew's actor pulling out a knife to threaten someone but then dropping it and jumping back from it

just. the monsters all piled in the car for a scene and they're all in the zone, waiting for "Action" to be called when something happens and they all crack up in sync

Andrew and Neil's actors on an actual roof, trying to shoot an Andreil Moment but an airplane flies over and they have to wait for it to pass because audio. so in the blooper these two guys are just standing very close to each other, Andrew's hand fisted in Neil's hoodie, staring up at the airplane urging it to get out of the way

in one scene Dan's actress kisses Matt on the cheek as a goodbye before she leaves the room, and right after she does Neil's actor jumps up to kiss his cheek too

they're shooting a night practice scene and Kevin's actor keeps missing the mark and it's just a bunch of two second clips of him on set of the court, groaning and swearing and oof-ing. after he misses the action for like the tenth time he just turns to make direct eye contact with the camera, his face comically blank

(in the background you can hear Neil's actor go "thank goodness for editing and all that magic, eh?")

Andrew's actor forgets his line during the scene where the Foxes meet the Ravens at the banquet. he gets to the "Jean. Jean Valjean" line and then completely blanks, going "Jean Valjean. hello Jean Valjean. I'm supposed to say something to you now Jean Valjean. i do not remember what"

the actors for Aaron, Kevin, Andrew and Nicky all being crammed onto that couch in the lounge the way the monsters actually do and falling asleep on each other in between takes

Neil's actor is British who speaks in an American accent but one time accidentally lets the accent slip during a scene where he uses the phrase "strongest goalkeeper". he cuts himself off and it's silent for a beat and then he softly repeats "goalkeeper" to himself in an exaggeratedly British accent and cracks everyone up. Kevin's actor, who himself naturally has an Irish accent, goes "this is South Carolina, love"

it's a night shoot and it's cold and Aaron's actor steals Andrew's actor's (his brother) scarf going "how come you get a scarf and i don't. Aaron is getting the scarf for this scene"

Kevin and Neil's actors doing a scene where they get all up in each other's faces. and then start leaning in too much and make as though they're going to start kissing

just a solid two minutes of Neil and Andrew's actors fighting bugs away from their faces throughout various rooftop scenes

Nicky's actor being the mf king of improvised one-liners (in true Nicky fashion) and just constantly causing EVERYONE to break cause his quips are so random

not really a blooper but they're behind the camera, waiting for something to be set up, and Renee's actress has an acoustic guitar and she and some of the others make up really bad jingles for all the characters

Dan's actress is most likely to fumble her lines or trip over her tongue and she always does like a weird dance to shake herself out

Aaron's actor looking straight into the camera with a shiner blooming over half his face due to a badly executed "fight" scene: let it be known. here on the set of All for the Game, i do my own stunts

(his brother in the background: you DORK. Aaron's actor: shut up or I'm telling Mom you punched me in the face)

Kevin's actor doing a scene (perhaps that one on the bus in tfc) where he's downing alcohol and he's expecting the director to call cut at a certain point or tell him when he can stop drinking but that doesn't happen so he just kind of confusedly chugs the whole bottle and then the director goes "you didn't need to do all that but we got it thanks" and Kevin's like ?? but Neil's actor, who's in the scene, is stood there with his eyebrows raised, very impressed, going "oh my god that was amazing"

Dan's actress slipping on a line and then banging her head against the chest of Matt's actor in frustration and he just rubs her back, grinning

not a blooper but Neil's actor recites the Riko roast flawlessly and as soon as they call "Cut" on it he gets a little sitting ovation from everyone. even Riko's actor is like yeah okay shutting the fuck up and leaving you alone now

Neil's actor actually struggling to get the seal off the ice cream container in that one scene. he fake-struggles with it for a few moments and then starts actually struggling and looks over to the production people and goes "the bloody thing is actually not coming off"

so many bloopers of various cast members having too much fun hitting others upside the head like they do in the books

Andrew's actor accidentally spilling the tray of drinks at Eden's

Allison's actress being the one who can make others break character without getting caught herself

Matt's actor being the one who makes everyone, including himself, break character but doesn't get in trouble because literally everyone is cracking up

however. when they get into Moods, especially during night shoots, and they have scenes together, Matt and Neil's actors are IMPOSSIBLE. to work together. they just cannot control themselves. everyone hates them

see also: Kevin and Matt's actors. Nicky and Allison's. terrible pairings for long days.

there's a scene with coach and the monsters and after like the fifth time they restart coach turns to look at the camera and pours himself a drink using the prop alcohol while going "parenting....is tough"

anyway. call this an au of an au

#if it looks like i know next to nothing about filming a tv show that's just because i know next to nothing about filming a tv show #all i know is that bloopers are the fucking best. am such a bloopers girl #bloopers‚ behind the scenes‚ set interviews...all that shit give it to me #anyway this was actually soooo much fucking fun #fully expecting nobody to care about this because it's not even the foxes but literally whatever #omg?? does this mean i have like...ocs? #probably not but it's the closest I'll probably ever get to having proper ocs #aftgtv #aftg #all for the game #the foxhole court #tfc #andrew minyard #aaron minyard #kevin day #matt boyd #neil josten #nicky hemmick #dan wilds #allison reynolds #renee walker #david wymack #mine aftg #bangers