"can you lock tf in" babes i have adhd i am locked tf out with the keys inside

"Rings" by ND Stevenson

My absolute favourite comic journal by Stevenson. Made me cry my eyes out. Even when I can't articulate it, it gets to the core of what I think love is.

fun fact one of the world champions in pepper-eating contests is a trans woman and she actually faced significant backlash because people somehow thought she had a biological advantage. to eating spicy pepper

update bc i went back and checked: her name is brianna “the chilli queen” skinner and she set a record in 2017 by slamming back 23 carolina reapers consecutively. she only stopped when told to by the referees, and the next year she stepped down out of boredom. queen

Here's a picture of her, by the way

And her super supportive wife

The championship, it should be noted, is unisex. Apparently being a trans woman gives you an innate biological advantage over both cis men and cis women.

The innate biological advantage of being cool as fuck

i like when you meet a couple that's a fun bisexual and her nerdy boyfriend and then you check in a few years later and now they're a fun bisexual and her nerdy wife. hit with the transgenderism beam yet largely unaffected in the romance department. really living the dream.

Audio transcript : Hamster balls are like so dangerous for small animals. You know why? Because like, they can't extend their back properly, so their back is like thi-- (cuts off abruptly as the creature in the hamster ball is revealed to be a crab; pauses. The following is said with an affectionate tone like one uses when speaking of a cute animal:) Well, he can't break his spine 'cause he don't have a spine.

"Racialised" is much better than PoC but I've been leaning a lot on the concept of racial markedness. Because that allows us to make statements like "the name Jamal is racially marked in USA". Rather than saying something like "Jamal is a PoC name", a nonsense statement, saying it's racially marked in USA allows us to contrast with societies like Albania or the Arab countries where the name Jamal is ordinary, thus unmarked.

It's a concept I've kind of imported from linguistic analysis; saying a speech pattern is more or less marked does not really allow us to avoid the subject of who's doing the marking. A statement like "womens' speech is more marked in Lakota" necessitates that we understand that it's the Lakota who are marking womens' speech. A foreigner can't tell the difference and probably doesn't understand why it would thus be weird to see a man using speech patterns associated with women, in the same way an Albanian wouldn't understand why USA people would think Jamal is a Black name.

You! You get it. In my view, if someone is saying "racialised" or "racially marked" without acknowledgement of context, they are doing it in a way that is gramatically incorrect.

Using this schema of defining generations,

hater nation rise up

Dislike and distrust of intellectuals and experts is how you get slop.

— J.R.R. Tolkien to Sir Stanley Unwin, 24 February 1950. Reprinted in The Fall of Gondolin (via thebookwormunderground)

What writer hasn’t finished their first draft and thought, “the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me”? 

(from @ruffboijuliaburnsides)

Sci-fi short stories are so efficient; they take 15 minutes to read and then you think about them for the next 5 years

Hey guys, what if *puts the most horrifying mindblowing concept into your head with about 15 pages*

Hi friends!

Discord is asking how we feel about AI and how we would feel about having AI integrated into the website. Here's the survey!

I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything

I stumbled onto an open mic poetry reading tonight and to introduce his poem this guy starts talking about a Holocaust museum he visited in America. He says his poem is about how America refuses to acknowledge its darkness and all of the ways it oppresses people. Somewhere in there he was upset that the museum was too small or underfunded or something.

And then he says, "So with the help of AI, I have designed the museum as I think it should be."

I felt like I was going insane.

My guy. My dude. You came to an open mic poetry night to share your art, do you not want that art to be truly yours? You purport to speak for the oppressed, yet you use a tool that steals the livelihoods and natural resources from those same communities. I know late stage capitalism is draining us all of the will to live, but doesn't that mean that putting in the effort to *create art* is that much more vital? Do you have so little faith in your soul???

so i'm no huge fan of rideshare and delivery apps, but this? this post?

completely fake. the article linked above thoroughly debunks it.

A lot of people in the reblogs are:

November 24, 2025 - Flock Safety’s CEO Garrett Langley called the privacy and transparency activists who are creating a public database to track the locations of flock cameras at https://deflock.me “terrorists" and said they are "closer to antifa than anything else…", meaning that to be a bad thing apparently.

Flock Safety is a tech-company that's putting up thousands of AI-powered cameras around the USA. From the deflock.me site:

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yeah, for all the people in the notes: look at the map on deflock. you know where the cameras are, so go scout them out in person (but be inconspicuous), then come back in different clothes, with your face covered, with your phone left at home, and destroy your local Flock cameras. don't just complain and worry, do something about it!

see my CCTV tag for inspiration on how to disable the cameras

If you dont want to destroy them yourself, people have recently succesfully lobbied in their cities to shut down the cameras and cancel their contracts with Flock, and others together with the ACLU have been suing their cities to see what exactly the Flock cameras are recording and tracking.