Being the only bi cis guy amongst almost exclusively trans friends and peers is wild because in theory its like im living in a horny manga where all of a dudes friends turn into hot babes, but in reality they are hunting me like the last bison on the prairie. 5 years ago I mentioned bionicle and one of them asked when I was starting estrogen.

Wtf is a grungler

Youre fuxking kidding me Im being punked right??????

for OP's sake (because no one posted it yet), this word is a meme spawned from this tweet

@blueishspace

I AM the grungler.

The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.

By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.

the progression of metal gear politics is always relevant, even when Kojima isn't super involved. It gets even funnier if you take Rising as the endpoint, even though it came between 4 and 5, but is still the latest point in the timeline.

Metal Gear Solid: The government works through a series of easily exploitable offices that basically beg people to abuse the system, and the system rewards those who abuse it. Just because there's good politicians out there doesn't mean it's not all tainted. Good people are going to have to go down for things to change for the better, but it's fine. Things are complicated but I'm sure we can figure this out.

Metal Gear Solid 2: Okay so maybe things are too complicated and it's impossible to be good while still working in the system. It's all inherently broken because it's made to be broken. It's there to separate the people from their power, and eventually because of the internet and the digitalization of information, there's going to be way too much power and the government won't know what to do, and the institutions will start to fall apart. There's no easy way out. It's a downward spiral and we're going down fast, but we still have to be kind to each other. Just. Just try to stay kind while we go down the spiral at least, I guess.

Metal Gear Solid 3: Fine, so it's not a spiral, it's a vertical drop and it's always been dropping. It's always been bad because those in power have always schemed to stay in power. It literally doesn't matter how much you go back, it's still going to be the same kind of person destroying lives for the sake of their status quo and nothing else. It's a machine that turns heroes into martyrs and villains and nothing else. Maybe there's no way out. Maybe anyone who tries is fated to fade away into unmarked graves and disappointment. Maybe it's not worth it working with the system.

Meta Gear Solid 4: Automation is not the answer either, also, I hope that's been clear but I have to stress, taking out the human element of politics will only make politics that don't prioritize humans of any kind. Coin flows from the barrel of a gun and if you let it, it will flow from literally nowhere else. You can't stop trying and you can't tell the computer to do it for you. You have to keep fighting. You have to wade through the bullshit and keep fighting. Eventually you're gonna get to the end, and even if you don't make it, the next generation will. You can't give up just because you won't see tomorrow. Tomorrow is for the children.

Metal Gear Solid V: Okay so maybe getting to the end will destroy you and everything you stand for even if you try to replace the government with you and your buddies, including the children. It's fucked. It's all fucked. It's an inherently fucked idea. I don't know what else to tell you other than the concept of making decisions for too many people at once will wreak havok on your ability to see people as people, no matter what. You'll crush someone's skull under your own heel while discussing how this is good for them. Don't do it man. Don't do it. Don't let yourself buy into the same kind of propaganda that they made for themselves just because you're now talking about yourself. There's a child learning to kill right now because an adult gets richer when it happens and I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do.

Metal Gear Rising Revengeance: You know what. Sometimes you just gotta kill a senator. I got nothing. They're trafficking children dude. Just kill them. Yeah you're not a hero anymore, whatever, kids are in danger, let someone else care about what to do with the rest of society. Do what you gotta do with the tools you have. Sometimes they should be scared of you.

"objectively physically attractive but in possession of negative rizz" is one of my favorite character concepts. i think it's so great when there's an absurdly hot person who's just a complete fucking loser. the mood is unsalvageable the moment they open their mouth kind of deal. you get no bitches because you're so sucks.

Relaaax

every single game takes place in the same universe

so does every single movie & show

went to trader joe’s today and my cashier handed me my 2.55 in change and pointed at the clock which read 2:55 and said “look at that. that’s liquid time… serendipity… have a nice ride”

I was born in the exact right generation I love being an unmarried woman in my twenties with my own bank account and no children

This getting reblogged with “and my thirties” “and my forties” “and my fifties”

There's this sort of anthropomorphizing that inherently happens in language that really gets me sometimes. I'm still not over the terminology of "gravity assist," the technique where we launch satellites into the orbit of other planets so that we can build momentum via the astounding and literally astronomical strength of their gravitational forces, to "slingshot" them into the direction we need with a speed that we could never, ever, ever create ourselves. I mean, some of these slingshots easily get probes hurtling through space at tens of thousands of miles per hour. Wikipedia has a handy diagram of the Voyager 1 satellite doing such a thing.

"Gravity assist." "Slingshot." Of course, on a very basic and objective level, yes, we are taking advantage of forces generated by outside objects to specifically help in our goals. We're getting help from objects in the same way a river can power a mill. And of course we call it a "slingshot," because the motion is very similar (mentally at least; I can't be sure about the exact physics).

Plus, especially compared to the other sciences, the terminology for astrophysics is like, really straightforward. "Black hole?" Damn yeah it sure is. "Big bang?" It sure was. "Galactic cluster?" Buddy you're never gonna guess what this is. I think it's an effect of the fact that language is generally developed for life on earth and all the strange variances that happen on its surface, that applying it to something as alien and vast as space, general terms tend to suffice very well in a lot more places than, like... idk, botany.

But, like. "Gravity assist." I still can't get the notion out of my head that such language implies us receiving active help from our celestial neighbors. They come to our aid. We are working together. We are assisted. Jupiter and the other planets saw our little messengers coming from its pale blue molecular cousin, and we set up the physics just right, so that they could help us send them out to far stranger places than this, to tell us all about what they find out there.

We are assisted.

And there is no better way to illustrate my feelings on the matter than to just show you guys one of my favorite paintings, this 1973 NASA art by Rick Guidice to show the Pioneer probe doing this exact thing:

"... You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. ..."

Gravity assist.

For the painting especially there’s a beauty in depicting some of our most advanced technology as synonymous with the most ancient. Very few people throughout history have had the privilege of seeing the face of Jupiter but many would recognize the sling thrower immediately.

Love it when people in political discussions treat "this will cause millions of deaths" as a definitionally absurd, hyperbolic argument and not a thing that actually happens and has happened many times in the past and is in fact currently happening in many parts of the world. Like yeah, that's politics. That's statecraft. That's what the stakes are. Didn't you know?

Si hombre pero que dise tu

One thing I’ve become a real extremist about is little girl’s clothing and hair styles because if your kid can’t get her hair wet, hang upside down, climb over a fence or run full out in the outfit/hair she is currently wearing then why not? And the answer better be both extremely fucking good and describe something temporary.

Hope you don't mind a story that also made me extremist about this issue.

Took my friends daughter (2.5yrs) to the park. Dressed her in practical clothing that's ok to get stained, brought an extra change of clothing. She sat in the mud at the water bank and played with rocks and mud. A little girl came over, couldn't be more than 3yrs. She was looking longingly at my friend's daughter. She has her hair in a perfect style and she's wearing a pretty dress with white socks and dressy shoes. The parents say "Sweetie don't go into the mud, you'll get your dress dirty" and pull her away, while giving me a judgmental look as they see the kid in my charge covered in mud and throwing rocks into the water. It felt really weird, like we saw eachother as aliens with completely different ideas on how to raise children. When my friends daughter was done playing, changed her into clean clothing and went back home. She had a lot of fun at the park and a day full of nature and play. The other little girl kept her dress clean.

Fully agree with all the sentiments brought up. Little girls shouldn't have to be perfect porcelain dolls that are never allowed to be human and messy and find immense joy in whatever form of play resonates with them most.

Children in general should be treated as tiny human beings worthy of full respect and consideration, and having their desires heeded as much as possible. Especially with play and artistic endeavors. Of course they need help remaining safe, that's a given. But again. Girls are not dolls to be played with by adults and simply used for dress up.

my dad (Maori) works on a ship with all Maori/Tongan/Samoan fisherman- and one Aussie guy called Jake.

And that wasn't done on purpose just sort of how it ended up, but Jake recently got an injury so they put him on a Different boat just for a little bit (a sit in the wheelhouse and scout type of boat, instead of the main fishing one) and he only got back to my dad's ship today and he was apparently like Shaking. He was Traumatised.

Dad said Jake kept pulling him aside and going "They were all yelling on there, but in a MEAN way" "They didn't clean... Like at ALL"

Jake experienced what a boat full of old school Aussie fisherman is like. That is the norm Jake. You just happened to be on the all Island boy boat on your first go out. "It was time for dinner and they had FROZEN nuggets" Jake that's what they have on ships that are out at sea for months at a time.

On my dad's boat they are eating fresh fish and coconut milk Ceviche. They're grilling steaks on an open bbq on the deck that probably is not regulation. All the guys have their own special knives to prepare sashimi every couple days. Everyone is happily doing their own work so they can clock out early and set up a movie on the deck. Jake did you genuinely believe that's what every boat was doing.

Local Australian man is fed fresh juices and smoked fish for first time- refuses to go back to beef jerky boat life

jake that first night when they served a freezer tray tv dinner and not an overflowing plate of fish that's probably going for conservatively like $40-$80 bucks a kilo but the guys decided Eh we'll catch more let's just fry it up:

:D

weapon set 3 is fucking stacked lmao. zimmerman, the big iron, AND the lil huxley floaty friend guy??

got my bunny ears out today ❤️🐇🖤

My abortion was really one the most hated kind of abortion. I wasn't underage. I wasn't raped. I wasn't in medical need.

I got pregnant not through some fluke or 1 in a 100 contraceptive failure. I got pregnant because I was knowingly and willfully having unprotected sex. Out of wedlock too if that matters.

It was my own fault, I was being irresponsible because I knew I could always get an abortion if I got pregnant. My abortion was as close as it comes to 'using abortion as a contraceptive' as anti-choicers love to say.

I didn't abort it because my health was in danger or because I didn't have the ability to care for it or whatever else. I did it purely because I didn't want a child. I wanted sex and I didn't want to deal with any consequences from it.

There's no moral here. I don't feel bad about it whatsoever. I suffered no karmic consequences or punishment from god. My life is amazing. I want to rub this in the face of every conservative and anti-choicer. I did the terrible thing. I had an abortion for the most selfish of reasons and literally nothing happened. Suck it.

i [wound/🤍] coward

coward is from @girls--complex