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@surgery-ssnake

Alice/Alison, She/Her, 30+, Lesbian, Mostly reblogs art I like, no TERFs no Fascists

The trolley problem: Here you are, at the scene of a disaster that someone set off long before you arrived. You could help, you could take action, but that would mean you also take on responsibility for the outcome.

Would you rather act to save people, knowing that by choosing who to help you are implicitly choosing who to let die? Or would you rather keep your hands clean by letting the disaster unfold on its own, regardless of how much worse it will be because you didn't act?

Half the people on this fucking site: the second, absolutely the second. How dare you ask me to compromise my shining moral purity for pointless complications like 'who's in charge of the government' or 'harm mitigation'.

Inaction seems to be everyone's go to moral choice lately

First off, I pop on my hazards. Of course, I am very much a hazard; warding off other drivers is part of the point. The main reason, though, is that it’s my metronome. With external audio sources disallowed, the blinkers are the heartbeat of the run. At this point in my career I’m deeply attuned to my click, and feel a strange disgust at the different cadences in other cars.

Time check - 3:30 am. Whole thing should be done by 4:10, comfortably before the early commuters. Drunk drivers or cops are always a possibility but you have to put it out of your mind, you can’t afford the mental space to be concerned. Everyone else on the road will keep their distance.

All windows down, sound is everything for following the early lines up onto 280. On the bridge sprint I’d roll them up to keep the wind from drowning out my click.

An hour ago, I timed a couple 45 mph brake cycles. I check before every run. If the brake pads have worn down it’ll throw off your whole timing, and then you’re left deciding whether to give up or try to account for the error in your head. Timing loss was the leading cause of runner deaths.

cats_the_movie set a 35:32 a week ago and now I’m #2. I haven’t been #2 since the run gained popularity a couple years back. I’m not gonna be the old defeated master in a fucking summoning salt video.

I pop on my dashcam and fire up the stream. “Hey guys, if you’re up this late you’re a real one. This is San Francisco-Oakland blindfold percent.”

horse version of my sona for the year of the horse, any one has suggestions of outfits or scenarios to do with her? I'll be accepting asks!

"gender i was assigned at birth" and "gender i was raised as" and "gender i want to be seen as" and "gender i am seen as" are all different things. sometimes none of them line up with eachother. some of them change multiple times throughout life.

"a lot of people would much rather imagine doing violence to a category of ontologically evil person than actually do anything to address the systemic issues that lead to harm in the real world" is one of those things you can say and it makes a lot of people angrily eager to prove you right it turns out.

If you see the quote "I refuse to share my body with a man who wouldn't defend it politically" or any variation of it floating around the internet — it was Kat Blaque who originally said it and she would really appreciate it if people gave her proper credit for it but it's gone viral on a lot of different platforms and most of the people sharing it don't know it's from her or choose not to credit her on purpose.

Like I just know terfs are going to be parroting it pretending it wasn't said by a black trans woman about herself & her life.

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tsnataliemars

I don’t reblog much, but this is too well said not to.

This always gets a reblog.

Just spreading sum love

YES PPL PLEASE LISTEN

“It is no more okay to ask transgender people about their sex organs than it would be to ask Jimmy Carter whether or not he’s circumcised!”

Oddly specific comparison, but yet, this is true. I’m trying to find if this is true, but I’m not getting anything.

Happy 1m notes to telling transphobes to STOP ASKING WHAT’S NOT YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS!

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