The really funny thing about Data playing poker with the rest of the senior staff is that, like… with the way his brain works he’s constantly aware of numbers and calculating probability but he would also know that counting cards is against the rules so does he just try to ignore it. Does he pretend not to. Can he like actively choose to discard that information as it comes in so he just forgets every .005 seconds
Data trying his absolute hardest not to accidentally rain man his coworkers. I’m autistic I can make that joke. Data sitting there not so much “playing poker” as “playing playing poker,” as in, doing his best approximation of a human playing poker. He has an algorithm figured out for it. Semi-random to appear more natural, like how his blinking is timed. He is having fun btw. Data loves playing humans
He isn’t trying to win at poker he’s trying to win at being in a social situation & he has found that people like it more when they win a certain percentage of the time. The game Data’s playing in his head is not the same as the game everyone else is playing
I know that on the internet transfemmes tend to get accused of “separatist ideology” the most for speaking about our issues, but I do think it’s hilarious (evil) how the more marginalized you are the harder it becomes to actually be separationist or isolationist because of the exact systemic discrimination that creates those desires.
Like ok, you’re transfemme. You have hella bad experiences with non-transfemmes doing transmisogyny to you so you end up interacting almost exclusively with other transfemmes.
But you’re also Black, and you hope that also being marginalized will help cut out the antiblackness and transmisogynoir from non-Black transfemmes, but it turns out they still gonna do that shit to you, so you retreat to just other Black transfemmes.
And then you get hit with long covid or literally any other disability, can’t work anymore because of it and become reliant on mutual aid to survive. Surely, you think, the double whammy of being Black and transfemme means they’ll understand ableism too. Maybe mask so you can be with them safely without getting even more disabled.
And then they don’t, so you try to find other disabled Black transfemmes, a sliver of a sliver of a sliver, but they’re all ALSO broke and isolated and surviving on mutual aid and luck and they tell you your options are to accept everything being done to you so that you have a chance of surviving via mutual aid and community resources, or simply give up.
So you go back to the larger community to have a chance of surviving, because the average lifespan for Black transfemmes is mid-30s and you’d like to beat the average at least, and you prepare to suffer again, to survive.
Last year, two of the best known/loved cis Black women who were disability advocates on Twitter died due to lack of mutual aid. One couldn’t raise funds for her chemo, the other couldn’t raise funds for a rideshare to the hospital the day she died and knew that an ambulance would ruin her financially.
I look at them, two well known and loved disabled Black women who put so much effort into helping their community only to die due to lack of help, and then I look at the other disabled Black trans folks I know surviving off of mutual aid and I wonder how much longer it’ll be until it’s them, because they damn sure don’t got the same amount of people that even know who they are.
(If you BIPOC/trans/disabled and trying to cf, I’ll reblog it if you message it to me or put it as a reblog on this. I’ll also try to go through and reblog everything on here every so often)
Pink, a homeless Black trans woman living/traveling through the rural US, desperately needs funds to survive, keep on the move, and afford medications to treat her chronic illness.
Her PP is @ogpink, and you can bring her asks on bluesky at bsky.app/profile/pinktrannypants.bsky.social / http://pinktrannypants.bsky.social
If you can help her out directly, please do. If you can’t, please reblog this so someone else might be able to. Thank you.
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
one thing that works about the benoit blanc movies as a franchise that has tanked other franchises for me (aside from the stupendous acting, clever screenplays with meaningful commentary, and sheer passion for filmmaking done by people at the top of their game) is that the movies aren’t connected at all. yes i want 12 more of them. no there cannot be one single mention of any plot point of any of the other ones in any of them (and thankfully there never will be). there’s no fatigue of having to keep up with 20 characters’ storylines, or remember anything that has happened previously. it’s a blank slate every time. plus! they all admirably possess the same distinct style (thank you, rian johnson!) but at the same time are vastly different between them, in sets, costumes, types of characters, interactions between them, etc. so refreshing
Do you ever see people you know being friends/socializing with each other and think Damn. They’re probably having so much fun and interesting conversations. Sadly I can’t join them due to not being ensouled
queerness in the global north really has become a white gated community and it both saddens and terrifies me immensely
the fact that transmisogyny is so deep and ever present that no one can even comprehend why trans women are so willing to go to bat for the “social undesirables”. and are just frothing at the mouth to ruin her life when she does so
I’m hungover as shit and not wording this well. someone who’s read more theory than me please help me say what I’m trying to say
ill do it. ill rip the bandaid off and say the dirty word
I have my own thoughts about “pedophile liberation” that I’ve been trying to examine and reify since this whole bullshit started, but there are two base assumptions that have literally always been clear to me and it blows my MIND that other queer people aren’t reading the obvious fucking writing on the wall
1) paraphilias exist. people have them. our psychological framework to categorize and understand them is racist and ableist and sexist and transmisogynistic, but whatever you want to call them and however you want to analyze them, people are going to have them. they aren’t going away
2) as soon as you have designated a group as “okay to kill”, any person can be killed by being labelled as part of that group. rights disintegrate and ESPECIALLY rights for those that the social and political hegemony take issue with
the writing on the wall is in big red text you motherfuckers. get your heads out of your own asses or go join the fucking nazis
I have just been informed there are scooby doo fans who make the titular scoob shaggy’s service animal & this is fun and cute but my immediate thought was medical alert dog scooby doo going RUH ROH ! And it’s kind of frying me
RAGGY YOUR ROOD RESSURE
I’m picturing Scooby in a t-shirt that says “Service Animal Do Not Pet” and he’s frantically miming Shaggy’s condition to passersby and intermittently waving Scooby-snacks under Shaggy’s nose like smelling salts
It’s 2026. Stop letting politicians of any party convince you that we cannot protect human rights. It’s a matter of leadership and courage. If they don’t have it, vote them out of office.
