deadryn.

saw a video this morning that was along the lines of "folks arent ready to talk about how they can only read smut now is cause they grew up on ao3" and i have several feelings about this

a) written porn did not come into existence with ao3 or the internet, youve been able to buy it for decades in the walmart book section up by the registers. its one of the most prolific genres of books that exist. your straight mom has read some, i guarantee you. hell, ever seen her reading an adult fantasy novel, adult as in it is not written for 'young adults' aka kids? it had descriptive sex in it. fanfictions are just pared down versions of that where they dont have to give you any character or world setting context because you already have all that from whatever property it is. really creates a lot less filler to a story when you already know everything thats going on.

b) why are we all jumping into this indulging of sexuality in any capacity is bad? the religious freaks should not be listened to. especially being pushed hard on queer folks and no, no there is no way to sanitize your behavior that will help you escape queerphobia.

c) yeah its actually pretty normal to be horny in your 20s. that is kinda standard. it is very normal to get some alone time and be like wow wanna get off now, that isn't "degeneracy" or you being a bad person. very fucking weird to act like being horny when one is young is something that developed because one looked at porn. you looked at porn because you were horny.

d) this modesty culture shit that is trending right now is coming out of the religious backlash against progressive egalitarianism (and especially against anything further to the left) and is not something we should be accepting. this is a hegemonic push that will easily pull in moderate trend followers into a naturally patriarchal, theocratic leaning view of life. there have always been women who do not enjoy more sexualized or revealing fashion trends who dont need to dip into fundie evangelical culture to do so. the evangelicals are literally our enemy, their religious demands that they force it on everyone else and that they enforce it through violence.

Hey wait excuse me what the fuck, we need to bully these people so fucking much

bad company, ai icky, sure, whatever. but like.

every company goes through recalls

isn't this a pretty swift, appropriate, and overall reasonable response to what is inevitably quite an uncommon and unlikely issue? idk this seems better than what a lot of “good” companies would do and have done

They're not, because of techbroism of course, but yes, at that price point they absolutely should be bullied for shipping a shitty peripheral.

If you want to know how a company makes it all the way to market with such an out-of-touch, poorly performing product, the Times interviewed "23 current and former employees, advisers and investors," and their anecdotes shed a lot of light on how this can happen. The two founders apparently "preferred positivity over criticism, leading them to disregard warnings about the AI Pin’s poor battery life and power consumption. A senior software engineer was dismissed after raising questions about the product, they said, while others left out of frustration." After that software engineer was fired for questioning if the AI pin would be ready for launch, the report describes a staff meeting where the founders "said the employee had violated policy by talking negatively about Humane." It's hard to make a good product if you can't honestly talk about the negatives and positives for fear of retaliation.

Like literally nothing it does can't be done with a smartphone or even a smartwatch. This is literally the type of thing Marx was talking about when it comes to capitalist "innovation" arising from the need for endless profit rather than actual needs to be satisfied

there was a very good article that got shared around here a while ago about how kudzu -- the weed so explosively invasive it consumed the southern US – is actually not that big of a problem, and that it's mostly just prolific in the bad soils, bright sunshine and polluted air of roadsides, so you see it from the road. when you learn more about it, it turns out kudzu isn't a weed, its a pioneer plant – it thrives in nutrient-poor soil, extending roots deep into the ground to dredge up otherwise inaccessible nutrients to make them available for other plants. in its normal habitat, it produces richer, more welcoming soils that other plants take root in, and eventually it gets shaded over and dies back, its job done. the reason they're "invasive" is because its job is never permitted to be done. you provide ideal habitats – barren sunny roadsides or golf greens with nutrient-poor soil and one hyperspecific cultivar of grass – and it dutifully colonises it to begin enriching the ecosystem, only to be beaten back. the kudzu is removed, restoring the habitat back to its barren, pristine state, primed and ready for the kudzu to come again. so it does, and you end up locked in sisyphean battle that only the kudzu can ever win.

we don't have kudzu here but dandelions are considered the most noxious of weeds. but dandelions thrive in nutrient-poor soil, extending roots deep into the ground to dredge up otherwise inaccessible nutrients to make them available for other plants. in my garden, they relentlessly spring up in the old cracks in the concrete, defiantly growing in even the tiniest available space. ive begun to understand that they are not nasty little pests; they're vanguards, holding open the space within which others might one day grow. the cracks have grown wider over the years, forced open by each new year of dandelions. i think i might stop fighting them.

For those unaware, since the start of pride an insane amount of transfem blogs were deleted for seemingly no reason, with no explanation from the staff, including estrogenesis-evangelion and charlottan (a close friend of mine).

Charlotte made another blog confirm she got perma'd without reason, but chances are she's not gonna be there much anymore, and neither am I.

Tell your friends to get off of Tumblr. Come here to Cohost, go back to X, go to Mastodon or Bluesky, whatever the fuck, but it's been made abundantly clear Tumblr is not a space for transfems in any sense now.

I'm going to slowly move my way over here, I guess. I don't know how long my blog will last on tumblr, but I'm frankly surprised I haven't already gotten perma'd yet, considering I did get banned last year for stupid reasons (having a VPN).

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