i truly think that this recent trend of “if you relate to a post about a different identity than your own you are ~derailing~ and taking over the conversation” is incredibly harmful.

i recently experienced some pretty severe transphobic abuse in my workplace (children’s home) that included having food thrown at me, being called slurs, being told i was a pervert because i am trans. one of the managers talked with me afterwards and shared that he had had a similar experience as an Asian man. this wasn’t him derailing my experience, or talking over me, or making things about himself. he was communicating “hey, i know how it feels and how much it sucks. you’re not alone.”

THAT is what solidarity IS. i don’t know what it’s like to be Asian, he doesnt know what it’s like to be trans, but we both had a similar experience and we were able to turn a horrible experience into an opportunity for bonding and comfort.

stop looking at people’s attempts as solidarity as an attack. and hey, you never know - you could find an opportunity to grow closer to other people.

oh i might get canceled for saying this, but i feel like many in the disabled community, and the c-punk tags in particular, could really stand to read this closely. i see a LOT of #disability and especially #physical disability posts complaining about people "derailing" in the reblogs by talking about neurodiversity and mental illness. a few points here:

i consider myself a member of the mad community and the disabled community. what i know from being in the center of that venn diagram is that we need each other. saying "the social model tells us that people wearing glasses are not disabled" is a lot less useful to everyone than "what can the average glasses-wearer and the average cane-user learn from each other?" for example.

we NEED each other. all of us. we will not win without each other. quit bullying your allies away for a sense of superiority or special belonging in categories that barely separate us.

I hate seeing anti-theists, not atheists, I can handle people not believing, I understand that it is human nature to doubt and not everyone will follow Christ, but to just be hating on Christianity constantly is annoying. "It's an inherently sexist religion" Christianity started during an insanely sexist part of human history and was always used for feminism. It was Christianity that first let women do something other than marriage by being nuns and it was Christianity that encouraged monogamy to keep women safe and it was Christianity that preached that all men and women are the same under Christ. Christianity is not inherently evil in any way, to act like it is is completely willfully ignorant. There are bad people out there and these people may call themselves Christian, and the Church has been bad at points, but Christianity is not inherently evil, it preaches love, forgiveness, and equality above all else.

christofascists are a huge problem but please understand that they are anywhere between bastardizing to completely ignoring the actual teachings of Jesus, which were all about love and forgiveness and equality

Dumbass tabletop rpg character concept:

A character whose weapon is a gun with red dot sight laser, except the gun is just a dummy that's been carved out of wood and sprayed black, with a laser pointer pen taped onto it. It's obviously fake to any character who knows anything about firearms, and it's always a gamble whether anyone who doesn't know anything about guns is going to be fooled by it. But that's the neat part: The gun isn't the weapon.

This character has a familiar, a big cat beast that's been trained to attack on command, attacking whatever the laser is pointed at.

No wait it gets better: Instead of a vocal command or some sort of a gesture, the dummy gun's otherwise useless trigger makes a very distinct clicking sound, which is the cat's cue to attack.

You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes

F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???

Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖

If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you

Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned

if billie eilish donating 11.5 million dollars for food inequity & climate changes is performative activism then i think we need more performative activism

“Do you think the orphans care why the orphanage was built?”

'Just switch to linux', 'Just switch to firefox', 'Just switch to ellipsus', 'Just buy a VPN and pirate it' okay, or- hear me out- tech companies can stop making their products worse, because I shouldn't have to change my entire workflow and spend time and money learning new programs and tools just to have a bearable online experience

I really dislike this trope

Whenever i see one of these blacksad flashes into my eyes like im a man with war ptsd

One of these things is not like the other... impossible edition

Gothic style iron key, France, 16th century

from The MET

Brutalist maze, Seattle

🏳️‍🌈-Panic‼️

“I said I wouldn’t get ANOTHER Pokédog… but… 🥺”

I always find it interesting to remember that universal salvation (or, in my case, purgatorial universalism) is considered heresy because like. So many Christians I know support the discussion of the idea, even if they don’t believe in it, and many do believe it! it’s talked about with open curiosity and willingness to debate and listen on both sides! My priests all will listen when I talk about it, and while they may not agree with me, they are happy to help me understand myself and my beliefs. Like 1 in 7 Christians I know are some degree of universalists, but that means we’re also all heretics.

Can I ask what makes you think universal salvation is a heresy? My students last semester thought this and I'm confused why this notion is so widespread. In his book Mercy, Cardinal Kasper writes that the RCC doesn't process or require the belief that any particular human has actually been damned, and says we ought to have hope for and pray for universal salvation. He's not the only Cardinal to say this, and universal salvation is gaining traction in the Eastern Orthodox church as well. (At least in the US.)

The Athanasian creed, which contains the only creedal condemnation of universal salvation, has been largely taken out of Roman Catholic liturgy post-Vatican II and I've never said it as a Lutheran. I grew up with universal salvation, or at least the hope of it, so it's always kind of perplexing to me when people say it's a heresy. Heresy implies that there's an ecumenical council that denounced it, or that it's denounced by creed during service, or that one is excommunicated for its belief. There may be churches that don't accept this view, but that doesn't make it a heresy to anyone except those churches. Yet it seems that the possibility of universal salvation isn't making it from theologians to the pews.

@heresylog Can we get a read on this?

I think the problem is what degree of belief in universal salvation someone has. It's not heresy to wish that hell is empty. It is heresy to insist that we are all "saved" by virtue of being human beings or that hell doesn't exist.

so, heresy to believe that hell is necessarily empty, not heresy to believe that hell happens to be empty.

I’ve said it before I’ll say it again sign language needs to become part of the mandatory school curriculum

OP has the tags for uk politics but honestly this should be the case for everywhere.

Oh I absolutely agree

For those who need to hear it. To be ten pounds overweight is barely noticeable. To be ten pounds underweight is cause for concern if not outright alarm.

The primary health impact of being fifty pounds overweight is medical neglect. The primary health impact of being fifty pounds underweight is organ failure.

Skinny =/= healthy. You can not underfeed yourself into balanced nutrition. You can not subtract your way towards a healthy diet. You can not exercise all the spare calories off because bomb calorimetery is a joke of a scientific model that would have been laughed out of any other field.

Massive wooden building Sibley Breaker, Pennsylvania, built in 1886 and destroyed by fire in 1906.