dovesndecay

Three points from this article I really want people to take away from it:

1.

"There often comes a pivotal point during radicalization when a person first faces the consequences of their extremism when they have to decide whether to make amends and reintegrate themselves into their communities or to double down, retreating further and further into a self-reinforcing universe of alternate facts and realities."

2.

"The “concerned parent” trope in news articles has emerged as one of the most pernicious forms of American anti-trans propaganda, according to Dr. Julia Serano, the famed trans writer and biologist.

“These pieces strike trans-unaware audiences as ‘fair and balanced’ because they seem to show ‘all sides’ of the story,” Serano wrote recently in a piece about how even mainstream publications like The New York Times and The Atlantic have frequently elevated the voices of non-affirming parents while obscuring those parents’ ties to extremist anti-trans organizations.

“These articles make it seem as though these parents simply want what’s best for their child,” Serrano wrote, “when in actuality these parents are heavily invested in disaffirming and suppressing their child’s trans identity.”

3.

“If there’s adults in your life or if there’s people in your life or friends or whoever the fuck that you love, that you’re worried about losing over this, and if you’re like… ‘if I come out this person might abandon me,’ that’s their decision that they’re making,” Renton says. “That is 100% not on you. It doesn’t mean you’re fucking bad. It doesn’t mean you’re wrong. It doesn’t mean there’s something broken with you. That is someone else being fucked up.”

“Ultimately, community will find you, and you will find community, whether it feels impossible or not,” he says.

“We’re not going anywhere.”

laughingpunk

Having the chronological updates for dracula is adding so much suspense for me.

I read the book years ago, so I know that Jonathan makes it back to England, but it's long enough ago that I can't remember how he gets there or how long it takes him. So every day waiting for an update I'm like Jonny? You there? You ok? Jonny?

laughingpunk

This tune will now officially not leave my head

jaubaius

Source

not-your-pussikat

Madam, you are looking very posh in your fancy dress, if I may say so.

zmeyel

Though it can seem daunting, a range of noted thinkers from Karl Marx to Ice T agree that in such scenarios it is necessary to hold your friend to account for their misdeeds. Both for their own sake and for society writ large.

crazyonmain

Stop betraying yourself by pretending you’re not feeling what you’re feeling.

decolonize-the-left

....thinking about how maybe it isn't so much that we grow out of toys, because we as adults still love playing, right? and with Barbie being released and hitting home for so many ppl I've been thinking that maybe it's less that we grew out of Barbies or hot wheels, but more that maybe we Never outgrew the worlds we created when we were small, when we didn't know about patriarchy or what our parents and strangers and friends would do to us when we got older. Before we learned jobs were not a fun way to get money but a life/death necessity, before we find out we were built for the world to use, not built to enjoy that world.

Maybe it hurts to be cognitively aware of the fact that this is the world people created for us. That equality and being treated like a person only existed in our imagination. That a world like that only ever existed because puberty hadnt kicked in. That once it did we'd never get to be considered a person again because we're too easy to sexualize and fetishize and dehumanize. Too old for dolls and playing in universes with nobody there to boss us around or make us feel small.

Too old to keep believing we could be treated fairly by the people around us.

Maybe it just hurts to pretend like that way now because it's too close to what we want and too far from being reality. Like wanting cats when you're allergic or ice cream when you're intolerant.

You don't stop wanting or craving those things, you know? It just hurts.

It's that you grew up and learned things will never be as good as they were before you knew how bad they were. And you stop wanting them.

....out loud

But I'm still just that little kid who wants to play and doesn't understand why this is my reality and I'm still sad and mourning it.

We can create something better than this so how come we're not? We're the grown ups now.

robotpussy

i will never be against piracy ever but i also need physical media to remain

robotpussy

the average blockbuster carried about 3x as many films than that that are streaming on Netflix or any other streaming service, physical media along with piracy is more important than ever.

rottenbrainstuff

I thought this wasn’t true, because how could it be true? How could one small store have more movies than an online database? So I googled it.

I am surprised and depressed to learn it’s 100% true, according to google. A Blockbuster store was required to have a minimum of 7000 titles, but most averaged about 10,000. Netflix has 4000 movies. (And 1800 tv shows if you want to count those, but even included, it’s still less)

Now I’m even more depressed about the collapse of physical rental stores.

its-captain-sir

I gotta ask, how do people, like, do stuff???

maulusque

here’s what i’ve figured out so far:

-gotta have eat first

-gotta sleep enough first

(seriously so many days i’m like “i have all afternoon I’ma Do a Thing” and then i just kinda buzz around and do Nothing and think “WHY” and then i’m like “oh yeah i’m really fuckening tired”)

-gotta be Excited About It (ADHD brain only does things if they’re Literally the Most Interesting Thing Happening Right Now) (so like, hype yourself up to work on a project, or think about how happy you’ll be with a cleaner room/all those chores done)

-gotta have small, doable first step (like, “get cloth from fabric drawer” or “open google docs”

-FUCK distractions (computer is in drawer, phone is Off)

-Engage the Senses (if task needs Brain, play vague background Music, if task needs No Brain, listen to audiobook/podcast)

-maybe set time limit so i don’t get lost??? e.g. i have a little egg timer that i use because the ticking isn’t distracting but is enough to remind me that Time is a Thing that is Passing Right Now

-gotta have Self Awareness and Thinky about the Moment (get into the habit of Consciously Noticing what you’re doing at the moment, so you’re more likely to go “wait, this isn’t what i wanted to be doing” and be able to redirect)

-be willing to redirect and try to do something else if whatever you want to do Just Isn’t Happening

-DON’T beat yourself up for only doing part of something, or failing entirely- all that does is make your brain associate “trying to do stuff” with “well that SUCKED”. Which means you don’t want to try again. Tell urself u did good for trying, and if it didn’t work, try again later, or figure out why it didn’t work and try a different way. Reward yourself for trying

this is what i’ve figured out about cajoling the Thinky No Worky Brain into Doing Stuff. it’s not 100% reliable, especially if I forget to do some of these things (like SLEEP), but it’s what i got, ya know??

its-captain-sir

I wasn’t actually expecting any answers when I made that post but damn this is really helpful, thank you <3

spiderdaynightlive

ALT

"oh hey what the hell"

bathroom's closed; wasp photoshoot

"what"

*reviewing my settings and lowering ISO* bathroom's closed. wasp photoshoot.

ALT

sic-semper-hominibus

!!! my baby! blue mud dauber! Chalybion californicum!

staight up the reason blue is my favorite color

certifiedcis

To a non-american, every Marvel movie is a 3-hour foreign film. Think before you post.

rowantheexplorer

They’re also shooting for 100% renewable plastic sources by 2030! All of the soft plant/leaf elements in sets right now and going forward are made out of bioplastic made from sugarcane, and they’re working on getting the regular hard plastic bricks out of that, too.

lynnafred

They’ve done it, actually! The full bricks are in the prototype stage now, and are expected to be 100% biodegradable without the need for a commercial compost facility. It’s very cool. Right now they’re testing the durability and playability of the bricks and seeing what needs to be revised/reworked on their final model.

fullhalalalchemist

So its that easy huh

sushinfood

Of course it is

ultranos

Actually, this isn’t “easy” and is huge news. You see, Lego is absolutely meticulous about their quality control. Their standards for manufacturing are stupidly high, as are their safety requirements. You know that distinctive “click” when you pop two Lego bricks apart? They engineered that. That sound is so distinctive that it can be used to tell genuine Lego bricks from counterfeits and it’s a sound that would be based on shape and material.

Furthermore, one of the hard requirements for a Lego brick is that it must be compatible with any other Lego brick. If I buy a set today and pull a set from the 1980s? Those bricks would fit together perfectly. This requires a huge amount of precision engineering and controls on manufacturing quality. (I can’t remember the source, but I’ve at least heard that once the brick molds wear to a certain point, they’re pulled from the line and either melted down or turned into construction material for Lego HQ. Point being, no one is getting their hands on a worn Lego mold)

Recycled and non-petroleum plastics are different from other plastic. The chemistry is different. The timing and process to use them is different. This has been a reason why more companies haven’t moved to them, because there’s a drop in quality for material (so they claim).

What Lego just did is completely obliterate that argument. The corporation with some of the strictest quality control requirements for plastic just kicked the basic foundation of the “bad quality” argument out from under it, because if they feel confident enough to guarantee the same experience as using a brick from over 40 years ago, if they are confident enough that they can meet their own metrics at a huge industrial scale….

Nobody else has any excuse.

justalurkr

GLORIOUS NERDERY Lego edition

niqabisinparis

I know it seems like I’m asking for a lot in the donations but consider a family of 5 that just lost everything. I mean everything. Our home, our savings, my brother’s college tuition, my parents’ retirement plan.

We’re literally asking for bare minimum to rebuild from scratch in a strange country.

To regain a sense of stability. So my dad can find a new career after 30 years. So I can support my parents on one income. So my brother can get through the semester.

Please, please help us.