state of the system, edit 2024/1/19

@autobotwarrior: Arcee, she/her¹. Lesbian Autobot.

@ayellowbirds: Rainbow Taylor, it/its or she/her or they/them. Lesbian demigirl golem, median subsystem.

@dzhukhe: Kerys Freeman*, it/its or she/her. Pansexual lumin gyne.

@faxedstar: Shavit MiBeyt-Halley, co/com or they/them. Asexual nonbinary coronis.

@flowerhurricane: Lita, she/her. Human woman, biromantic asexual. First fronted 2023/12/6

@fraylin: Aidel*** RS, she/her. Near-human woman, possibly bi? bisexual.

@hebephage: Ran, she/her bisexual kijin, fictive² median subsystem.

@neveyleh: Miriam** “Bone” Bowen, any pronouns. Genderfluid human (corpse), sexuality is “yes”.

@responsiblyirresponsible: Justine Wakely Tylor, she/her. Trans woman fictive, sexuality is a noncommittal hand-wave. First turned up in headspace a while after Aidel, but only recently started fronting for more than a few minutes.

@urukuduk: Sylviandrine Augustina Attercop, fae/faer or she/her. Bisexual woman, orc/halfling mix.

¹: I turned up 8/15/2023! I was around in the background of headspace for a while but nobody was sure who I was until I pushed to front.

² Ran has been hiding in-system for a while (we’re not entirely sure how long), but only actually fronted for the first time on 9/9/23

*: Kerys didn’t have a surname, so it asked its husband Haskell for his. This caused Haskell to briefly bluescreen, it was cute as fuck.

**: Fuck yeah! That’s me, I’m not new but the realization that I’m my own damn person is.

***: Aidel is a fictive but felt anxious about using the name she had in her source media since this body is of European/Mediterranean Jewish ancestry and she’s from an anime/manga/LN franchise. She showed up completely unexpectedly on December 2, 2022.

lobautumny:

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This problem is nothing new, but this specific example with these numbers puts it into a fucking brutal perspective.

To put these numbers a different way: A Taco Bell burrito that used to cost ~7 minutes and 20 seconds of minimum wage work now costs ~30 minutes and 30 seconds of minimum wage work.

You used to be able to work at Taco Bell anywhere in the country and make enough money in one hour to buy at least 8 burritos (maybe 9 if you’re a manager or something) and feed, like, 3-4 people a decently-filling meal. But now, the same amount of work at the same job will get you one meal for one person. And this change has happened over a mere 15 years.

Remember this whenever you see rich people demonize younger generations for our financial situations, when they call us irresponsible for not investing a ton of money in savings accounts.

blackrebelphotographyclub:

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“No Shamrocks for Genocide Joe”: thousands descend upon Belfast to march to the U.S. consulate and protest the co-optation of Irish identity while facilitating a genocide. Belfast 16.03.2024

andnowanowl:

vague-humanoid:

As a young boy in school, Masaki Sashima would be dragged out of his classroom and beaten by his fellow students.

Masaki, now 72, was different to the other kids. 

He was Ainu, an Indigenous people from the country’s northern regions, most notably the large island of Hokkaido.

“During recess, the hallway door would open, and several guys would yell at me to come out,” he said.

“I clung to my desk in the classroom and kept quiet.

"Everyone would surround me and beat me.”

Japan has long portrayed itself as culturally and ethnically homogenous, something that some have even argued is a key to its success as a nation.

More than 98 per cent of Japanese people are descendants of the Yamato people. 

But the Ainu are distinct, with their own history, languages, and culture.

But, as the victims of colonialism, assimilation, and discrimination, much of that identity has been lost. 

An Ainu woman named Chiri Yukie wrote down some of her people’s oral traditions into Japanese because, as a child, her people were being displaced by Japanese settlers in Hokkaido. Her language was disappearing, so she (ironically) saw translating the stories into Japanese as a way to preserve them. She died at age 19.

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wizardnuke:

wizardnuke:

“everyone experiences [symptom]” how many times does it have to be explained that it’s often about the frequency of the symptom, not the symptom itself

“nearly everyone has had a headache before” i agree. “most people get headaches regularly” you’re starting to lose me. “it’s normal to have a headache all the time” go to a doctor.

“everyone gets anxious sometimes” true! “people get anxious pretty often” um. “it’s normal to be anxious all the time” go to a doctor. etc

el-shab-hussein:

el-shab-hussein:

Mona, my contact in Rafah right now, has just survived an air strike while distributing food parcels that were created thanks to your donations. She and her brothers who were also distributing the food were very nearly hit. Alhamdulillah for everything.

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When I asked her if anyone was killed by this air strike, she told me Alhamdulillah no one was hit. It’s possible she just meant from her relatives present there, but I’m going to take it to mean no one was killed at all, until we hear more news. She’s very tired and works very hard to distribute our donations. If you want to send her a kind message, letting her know you care - in English or in Arabic - leave it as a reply or as a reblog comment or as a bunch of tags or in my inbox (if inbox, specify that it’s for Mona) and I will send it to her. Our donations are important but they’re nothing without her work, and most importantly her well-being and safety.

Please reblog this version instead! I fixed the second link.

matron-chisami:

Looking to play Pathfinder? Want to Learn?

Come and Join my table!

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Hello friends starting next month I’ll be running two different games with newbies in mind. I do my best to keep my prices as affordable as I can to, I stride for my table to first and foremost a safe place for marginalized people to enjoy themselves.

My two games on offer are on
Wednesdays 8pm EST
Fridays 9pm EST

Message me for more information including adjustable pricing if needed.

transcendragonreblogs:

aroace-menace:

“You don’t know you’re ace/aro, you might feel attraction later” and??? That’s true for most other orientations too. Any straight person might be attracted to someone of the same gender later on. If they don’t say “I’m straight at the moment, but I might be bi someday you never know teehee,” then I think they can deal with me saying I’m aroace.

Ooops! Posted this up the wrong blog sorry

soup-mother:

“Tumblr is the gay communist website” tumblr is the transmisogyny and racism from people who think fanfic is political theory website

el-shab-hussein:

Btw I want everyone to know 30 000 Palestinians killed in Ghazzah is not an accurate number or even estimate. This was the number that was being put out at the beginning of January, its been 2 and a half months, and the number is still around 30 000, despite the fact we have all personally witnessed nearly a hundred massacres since then through our phone screens.

The conditions are worse than ever, there is no food, there is no water, there is no shelter, there is no power. We only have 1% of the picture on the ground now. It is extremely likely that 90-95% of Ghazzah’s infrastructure has been destroyed.

Do not content yourselves by saying 30 000 Palestinians have been killed. The damage is far far larger than this.

thebibliosphere:

chameliyun:

w1770w:

GUMROAD IS BANNING NSFW CONTENT IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS

I haven’t seen anyone talk about this yet, so I might as well.

They’ve updated their content policy to comply with payment processor Stripe and Paypal’s censorhip. They gave 24 hours. On March 16th 2024, Gumroad TOS will no longer allows sales of any written or drawn nsfw content.

This is going to hurt for so many creators. Giving that little time leaves people’s source of income wildly unstable, especially with such a huge overhaul of what content is allowed.

I hate this. I hate what censorship is turning the internet into. I hate that nsfw content creators keeo getting pushed to the fringes, that they need to digitally migrate so often, because nowhere can be trusted to allow their art for long.

I don’t know what to do next, there isn’t some sort of “here’s what you can do to help!” People just deserve to know.

@thebibliosphere you sell on here, right? I know you have other places but idk if you’ve heard about this

I stopped advertizing my work on Gumroad after the whole NFT debacle and their CEO bullying people on Twitter.

The only reason the links are still up (though not advertised through my buy links) is so Patrons can retain access to their original downloads. Which I will now need to switch to Payhip* entirely because of this. Ugh.

Love how this is coinciding with Patreon cracking down even further on NSFW content. Love that. I fucking hate this timeline.

*Payhip and many other distribution platforms also forbid the sale of “NSFW” material, but there seems to be a threshold for what’s allowed. Amazon, Draft2Digital, and Ingram Spark, the three largest print distributors in the world for indie and self-pub authors, make you tick a box that says something along the lines of, “This book contains sex scenes,” and then they’ll put it under review to see if it’s mild enough for their ToS.

On the other hand, Ko-fi will just straight up ban your ass and report you to PayPal. They’re so strict they won’t let me sell the epub version of the Fluff edition of my book because it discusses kink. There are no on-page depictions of sex, but the mere mention of sex acts means it’s not allowed. (I asked before uploading and got a very polite but firm ‘don’t do that.’) So don’t jump ship to Ko-fi.

fangoriousfae:

wymanthewalrus:

God I am sick and tired of people uwu-washing indigenous American history.

Did the Inca have exquisite building techniques, efficient messengers, and quality waterworks? Yes. They were also an expansionist empire built on violent conquest and the splitting up and relocating of conquered peoples.

Did the Aztecs have a gorgeous capital city built at the heart of a lake, with floating farms and towering temples honoring their fascinating pantheon? Yes. Guess what tho. They were also a violent expansionist empire who practiced ritual sacrifice of prisoners of war.

The Iroquois confederacy had one of the most unique representative political systems I’ve ever heard of, with women taking a forefront in most local government matters too. But their internal peace allowed them to redirect violence to their neighbors, as so often happens with tribal confederations, and they eventually violently conquered the Ohio valley and destroyed or displaced dozens of other indigenous groups.

Even my beloved Cahokia has the graves of sacrifice victims amidst its ruins.

A society should not need to be (and fundamentally cannot be) squeaky clean unproblematically stannable in order to be worth studying and remembering, and pretending that they were is no less disinformative than the European accounts painting them as godless savages.

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sparklehag99 asked:

You’ve talked in the past about patreon’s anti-horny policies, and how they impact creator’s income streams, and so I thought maybe this could be of interest to you/others in that situation. Someone is trying to put together a collective legal action against Mastercard. https://x.com/pom_poison/status/1768753517651546540?s=46&t=366EMtqp8Vh2MIY7oWvoKw Please also feel free to ignore me! But it seemed neat.

PS I love your book, thank you for the excellent words!

thebibliosphere:

Thank you so much! And thank you for bringing this to my attention.

P8treon, Squ4respace, G*mroad. My hand slipped and I contacted the ACLU and the MA Bar Association for legal assistance. If you’ve been fucked over by draconian nsfw bans please join my M@stercard Injury Mailing List.https://t.co/rnkxl8gCAx pic.twitter.com/bODlkykMVO  — 𝕻𝕺𝕸 ➡️Little Death Comic (@Pom_Poison) March 15, 2024ALT

w1770w:

GUMROAD IS BANNING NSFW CONTENT IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS

I haven’t seen anyone talk about this yet, so I might as well.

They’ve updated their content policy to comply with payment processor Stripe and Paypal’s censorhip. They gave 24 hours. On March 16th 2024, Gumroad TOS will no longer allows sales of any written or drawn nsfw content.

This is going to hurt for so many creators. Giving that little time leaves people’s source of income wildly unstable, especially with such a huge overhaul of what content is allowed.

I hate this. I hate what censorship is turning the internet into. I hate that nsfw content creators keeo getting pushed to the fringes, that they need to digitally migrate so often, because nowhere can be trusted to allow their art for long.

I don’t know what to do next, there isn’t some sort of “here’s what you can do to help!” People just deserve to know.