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batmanisagatewaydrug: every day I get on here and see some post going “do not make an account on ZYLPPHONE, the hot new social media! it turns out making an account gives the creators (who are nazis) instant access to your bank account and also causes your pets to explode!” and this is all very baffling to me because I cannot believe anyone is actually fucking around with new social media platforms that shit sounds exhausting. if tumblr ever gives up and goes all the way under I will simply turn into a crab and go back to the sea you will not be finding my on zylophone
birdsocks: They are studying us in petri dishes
i-am-totally-not-a-lizard: One thing I love about Tumblr that wasn’t a thing on Reddit is that I can just write whatever the fuck text post I want. No titles. No putting text on images. No algorithms or karma. Just fuckin splatter your mind onto the screen and people will see it. Like god intended.
anidealshape: the r/curatedtumblr -> tumblr migration is so funny to me. it’s like going to the zoo and enjoying it so much you climb into the enclosure to live with the monkeys
dweebspace: “You can’t be a lurker on tumblr.” Yes, you absolutely can. I’ve been quietly reblogging things since 2014 and I haven’t interacted with anyone in years.
zerojanitor: twitter: currently owned by techbro pissman tumblr: actively removing functionality and bloating the interface with things nobody uses discord: being retooled by ex-Meta management who don’t understand the appeal of the platform youtube: neutered by advertisers and algorithms and also tiktokification reddit: half of the site is down due to protests about the outrageous monetization of third-party API support facebook: my mom is on there
grrsalot: grrsalot: words cannot describe the childlike wonder and joy felt when you enter a restaurant and they have those fancy soda machines capable of creating Wondrous Concoctions
behold. Potion Maker
roach-works: roach-works: trashmonkey-mcgee: tikkunolamorgtfo: kropotkhristian: A Series of Unfortunate Events is anarchist propaganda because all of the problems are caused by both capitalist bureaucracy and a weird insistence from everybody with power that “the rules,” no matter how silly, must be followed.
I mean, partially, yes; for sure. But Daniel Handler has also stated that the series is a direct allegory for antisemitism: “My father’s family fled Germany in 1938 and 1939 and some of them made it and some of them didn’t. And so, I grew up with a close-knit group of actually fairly distant relatives who were all survivors of – I mean they weren’t all survivors of camps by any means – but they were all survivors of getting out of Germany just in time. And I was fed by stories of how good behavior is not necessarily reward and bad behavior is not necessarily punished, so I think that shaped my world view.” “I think there is something naturally Jewish about unending misery.”
Something just occurred to me: Count Olaf has been described as an antisemitic caricature, a take on the Smiling Merchant. If ASoUE is a story about kids escaping antisemitic violence, then Olaf is literally Handler saying “antisemitic caricatures keep following us and harassing us and no one listens when we point at him and say he’s a threat to us and those we love.” Recontextualizes a lot of the story tbth
i want to point out that every single time there’s a guy (or a species of aliens, or fantasy creatures, or…) who is very ugly, and very greedy, and very dishonest, someone points at that character and says ‘hey, that’s a jew!’ and i’m increasingly tired of it. like, is count olaf, a character written by a jewish writer about jewish kids doing their best to survive a world that finds their continued existence to be decidedly inconvenient, an antisemetic caricature? well, he’s ugly and he’s greedy, so he must be! except, yknow what…people who feel entitled to take the lives and fortunes of jewish kids by everything from direct violence to false pretenses to forced contracts to subordination of state authority….those people tend to be…let me just look at, uh, the last couple centuries…yeah, they’re christian. they’re pretty much all christians. funny how no one seems to be in a hurry to suggest that mean old ugly, greedy, lying count olaf could be a stand-in for them.
i’m going to double down on christmas even with a FURTHERMORE: it’s right in the fucking name! count olaf. it’s part of his fucking name, he has a title, he clings to this title, he clings to the prestige of being a titled landowner. maybe the title is made up, but he has it, it’s the first part of his identity.
jews do not, historically, get to own their own land, hang on to fancy titles, or ascend into the ranks of the nobility, no matter how much money we have. christians get to do that. christians get to give each other titles, and ranks, and lands. and a lot of the time they do that with the money they took from dead jews.
count olaf is antisemitism’s bright mirror: not the fiction of the jewish parasite that christians scare each other with, but the unforgiving reality of the christian predator that jews are told, against all evidence to the contrary, that they must be making up.
stele3: nonbinarygrimwalker: space-feminist: space-feminist: it’s always so fucking funny to me when terfs are like “how can you say trans women and women are the same thing! being born as a man makes you different!” because like. yes. trans women and cis women are different. so are black women and white women. and straight women and queer woman. and women from different countries and different socioeconomic statuses. there’s diversity in the experience of womanhood? what a wild concept
incidentally, this why terfs tend to be white women. from the combahee river collective statement, 1977: …we reject the stance of Lesbian separatism because it is not a viable political analysis or strategy for us. It leaves out far too much and far too many people, particularly Black men, women, and children. We have a great deal of criticism and loathing for what men have been socialized to be in this society: what they support, how they act, and how they oppress. But we do not have the misguided notion that it is their maleness, per se—i.e., their biological maleness—that makes them what they are. As BIack women we find any type of biological determinism a particularly dangerous and reactionary basis upon which to build a politic.
(emphasis mine)
“To argue that transsexual women should not enter [women-exclusive spaces] because their experiences are different would have to assume that all other women’s experiences are the same, and this is a racist assumption. The argument that transsexual women have experienced some degree of male privilege should not bar them from our communities once we realize that not all women are equally privileged or oppressed.” (from “Whose feminism is it, anyway?” by Emi Koyama)
This. This is the core of it. This is why trans-exclusionary radical feminism is rooted in racism, colonialism, and imperialism. It excludes the idea that there can be any other type of “woman” except one very (white, colonialist, imperialist) definition.
txttletale: ophanic: real
oh so THIS is wehat they mean when they talk about nuclear family
bigprettygothgf: bigprettygothgf: they are giving me way too much power with this character creator
ultimate white woman mode activate
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