Unfortunately alive. USAmerican, gay

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Cake day: February 23rd, 2024

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  • All threaten the oldest hierarchy of all: man over woman.

    Pretty much this. I remember being a teenager and hearing the most basic watered-down gender theory and being really confused and upset. Even back then I knew it was because, for it to be true, it meant a lot of things I take for granted about society were actually totally irrelevant. Unfortunately some people don’t ever have to confront their cognitive dissonance, they just use their money and power to enforce the status quo they’re used to.

    Jk Rowling is a second wave feminist and she’s big mad that people without vaginas can call themselves women and be in women’s spaces.

    Unfortunately you could have the best neo-vagina money could buy and terfs would still find an excuse to exclude you. It’s not truly about genitalia, it’s about being trans.







  • I don’t remember a single thing I did this week. Work and bite my nails, I guess.

    I was gonna say I’ve never even heard of a local protest but I actually found one through Lemmy. There’s a single post buried in the subreddit naming the organizer and it’s a suspended account. I’ve seen three or four different start times and two different addresses. It’s at the capital building, how many of those do they think we have?

    Is this how it’s normally done? Is this worth losing my job for? I don’t want to be a coward but I don’t want to lose my home and have it turn out this was a prank.


  • I’m worried this will be a mess. On the subreddit everyone is discussing wearing blue and the US flag and I’ve only seen one person pointing out that none of this is practical for a protest, and no one is listening.

    I know I need to be more politically involved but I wonder if it’d be better not to risk my job so I can at least donate to causes that might be more effective. But I’ve also never seen a proper protest so maybe this is normal? What are y’all’s thoughts?

    ETA the user listed as the organizer for my state is suspended from Reddit, no other contact

    ETA II: yeahhhh I’ve seen three different start times for my state. I wonder if the reason I never hear about protests around here is we’re all stupid

    ETA III: the person saying they’ll DM people the signal link for my state never got back to me. Is this normal? I thought protests were supposed to be more coordinated but I’ve also never seen one local to me so I might be wrong.


  • I went through a terrible in-between phase where I first went from drawing cartoony people to trying to draw more realistic ones. Never had an art class or anything, pretty sure I have aphantasia too, so I was just raw dogging it until I learned how to use refs. I specifically remember constantly attaching the thumb at a weird angle and wondering why my characters looked like they had crab claws.

    That or some niche porn because I started thinking too hard about how my interspecies characters would have sex. Most of my characters aren’t even attractive to me but that didn’t keep me from drawing them doing shit to each other’s junk.

    Also My Little Pony crossover fan art but it was just characters facing left on a white background.



  • I WISH reddit would end. I used to love it for the batshit insane personal stuff people wouldn’t share anywhere else. “I haven’t pooped in a month, AMA”, that kind of dumb voyeuristic crap.

    It turns out that’s what everyone else loved too, and it’s profitable to have AIs write it so you can read it on YouTube for ad revenue. And y’all, it’s so stupid.

    The most bizarrely specific scenarios pop up again and again, and people eat it up every time. “AITA for not giving my evil infertile sister my baby?” “My parents promised my brother and evil SIL my house without consulting me, AITA?” “My evil MIL was female aka evil, AITA?”

    And then you have subreddits like BestOfRedditor updates, which you’d expect to curate these posts so the slop doesn’t come through, but in reality it’s a handful of power users obsessively following and reposting any post with “update” in the title or even just edits with the barest amount of self reflection. Posts have wild plotholes, like a 30yo being divorced for 15 years, and it’s considered “best of” as long as there’s an evil woman/autistic person/trans person, I guess.

    But no, this AI shit means it will never end, because it gets numbers, and numbers matter more than anything else.


  • Every time I get to know my neighbors, things are going well and then they suddenly drop something wildly transphobic, homophobic, or ableist. The last one was especially horrifying back when people were still talking about COVID— “but it only affects old/disabled people!”— pretty much saying to your face that they’re cool if you die.

    Relying on other people in a survival scenario seems incredibly irresponsible. It’s America. Your neighbors want you dead.

    ETA yknow what this is cynical and unproductive. Just do your best to protect yourself but if you belong to a vulnerable group you already know that. People aren’t inherently evil and I need to log off when I’m upset.