Reblogged spitblaze
I recite this to myself every time I refrain from making a stupid purchase
Reblogged spitblaze
Basically, it boils down to this:
- The preponderance of evidence is that most trending calling posts on Tumblr alleging sexual misconduct by trans women are fabricated by the same relatively small group of bad-faith actors, and that these bullshit callout posts outnumber the legit ones by a considerable margin.
- If you think you can tell the legit callout posts and the bullshit ones apart just by looking at them, you're almost certainly wrong.
- Like most mechanisms of social control which are based on ostracism, callout posts tend to be most effective against people who are already in a position of vulnerability, and concomitantly, tend to have no significant long-term effect when deployed against people in positions of power or authority.
What all this adds up to is that even leaving the moral dimension of the act aside, from a purely pragmatic perspective, reblogging that callout post accusing a random trans woman you've never heard of of being a dogfucker or what-have-you is an action which, in a worst-case scenario, will contribute to ruining an innocent person's life, and in a best-case scenario, is likely to accomplish nothing whatsoever.
Folks often justify reblogging callout posts without performing due diligence under the rubric of "better safe than sorry", but any realistic assessment of the likely outcomes will tell you that the true "better safe than sorry" course of action is to keep your damn mouth shut!
"But I thought we were supposed to always believe allegations of sexual misconduct" well, the thing is, "false allegations of sexual misconduct are rare" and "false allegations of sexual misconduct disproportionately target specific visible minorities" are both true statements. There's no algorithm for being a good person – you really do have to think this shit through every single time it comes up.
Reblogged tagfer
Reblogged spitblaze
hate when mummy movies use Imhotep as the big bad. He was an architect. Imagine a mummy movie but the mummy is Frank Llyod Wright. And he was buried at the House On The Rock. Ok nevermind that would be a sick ass movie.
Reblogged maxaroniiiii
bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements
reblog to let people know it's ok to bother you with questions and statements
Reblogged gitaroo-man
Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?
Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw
Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.
I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS
I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.
Reblogged loregoddess
who said this fanfic shit was hard
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Drew Yami Yugi!!! :)
the last year I’ve picked up watching anime again (just this and Dragon Ball lol) and I’ve fallen in love with Yugioh specifically. It’s so fun. I wanna cosplay Yugi sometime. He’s taller than me which I find hilarious due to the way he’s drawn with the other characters 😂
Behind the scenes (with a cute cat) below:
Reblogged theoldchateau
December Pokémon Challenge 2025, 26/31: Maractus
yippee
suggested on bsky~
Reblogged hawkeyehills225
Transfeminism isnt niche internet discourse if the FBI is telling a transfeminist author to stop publishing
Reblogged skarchomp
Reblogged tagfer
ai bread
Reblogged homestarrunner
Reblogged rotshop
Young adult Pacifica! A working woman! I know she still looks small, but she's just a short queen. And she's got a fuller figure now (Greasy's has introduced her to the magic of Carbs ✨)