timberwraith

timberwraith, 3 days ago to random

You know, I'm a woman of contradictions.

I have breasts all of my own. I see them every morning when I dress for the day and every night when I get ready for bed.

And yet... whenever I see a pic with someone's breasts plainly, mostly visible, I'm like, "Ack! No! Scroll, scroll, scroll!"

It's weirdly embarrassing.

timberwraith, 4 days ago to random

@gwynnion I couldn't stop laughing, while in the waiting room of a health clinic, when I got to the part where Ben is stuffing dollar bills down the owlbear's pants. 🤣

timberwraith, 8 days ago to random

I don't give a flying fig if Trump winds up in a damp, rat laden dungeon. I only care that he winds up in prison. He probably won't.

If he does wind up in prison, it will likely be far more comfortable than any prison the rest of us would be placed in for far lesser crimes.

The powerful take care of each other, including their criminal peers, because little separates those in power from those formerly in power who are convicted of crimes, other than having been caught and successfully tried.

timberwraith, 8 days ago to random

I'm also going to point out what might be obvious at this point:

You know that tendency that some people have where they accuse others of racism in the hope that nobody will notice how racist they are being?

That's a primary underlying factor in more than a few political actors' discourse around antisemitism. It's a political ass-cover to distract from massive amounts of Islamophobia and anti-Arab/anti-Palestinian racism.

timberwraith, 11 days ago to random

Hoping for a Mad Max movie where they run out of fuel and vehicles and they're forced to chase each other on bicycles.

timberwraith, 12 days ago to random

I guess Biden's escaped humanitarian Gaza pier is now making him look like a blithering schmuck.

Which of course, isn't much of a change in status. 🤦‍♀️

timberwraith, 12 days ago to random

I think one of the things that separates liberals from the left is that liberals, to a fair extent, adhere to the "great man" theory of power and wealth, in which people believe that many of the people in political power or who have wealth wound up in that place because they are people of great skill and talent.

On the left, people tend to adhere to the "great bastard" theory of power and wealth, in which one has to be a rotten, abusive person to wind up with political power or wealth.

timberwraith, 13 days ago to random

I am once again mentioning that for 55 of my 55 years of life, I have largely not given a shit about sports.

But cis people being bigoted fucks about trans women in sports has forced an activity that I have always found to be loathsome and boring into my awareness.

And they've left me with the conclusion that far too many cis people are as loathsome and boring as their bigoted, obsessive opinions about sports.

timberwraith, 14 days ago to random

This video is something else. It does a fairly cogent and humorous analysis of the current state of the "man-o-sphere," its grifters, and its destructive influence over boys/men. It also delves into the impact of patriarchy and toxic masculinity on men's lives and how it cheapens and empties out their lives of emotion and meaning.

It's long, entertaining, and kind of depressing.

(H/T Pharyngula at Freethought Blogs)

https://youtu.be/GHkhTIEe254

timberwraith, 13 days ago to random

Every morning, I feel like I wake up in a universe that was designed to be malevolent satire for the gods.

That's right. I think we're all actors in a bad cosmic TV sitcom and our divine viewing audience is choking on their popcorn, laughing at us.

https://mastodon.social/@tofugolem/112503220217487807

timberwraith, 14 days ago to random

Even in 1939, you couldn't snap a photograph without having some guy looking at his cell phone.

timberwraith, 16 days ago to random

It's a shame that Rishi Sunak isn't water-soluble.

timberwraith, 24 days ago to random

Transition is not only a process of becoming one's true self.

It's also a process of deprogramming oneself from decades of cis culture's brainwashing around sex and gender.

Remember: It's not your fault that you were brainwashed but what they taught you is still bullshit.

It's OK to reject that mess and start over. You deserve that opportunity.

timberwraith, 24 days ago to random

What I've learned from watching repeated, widespread public support for u.s. military aggression across the decades is this:

Most americans are happy to support terrorism if it's not their families who are being burned and bombed to death.

And that's a reeeeeeeal sobering and sad realization.

timberwraith, 24 days ago to random

It's weird to spend the sixth decade of your life with the persistent suspicion that you picked the wrong planet to be born on.

timberwraith, 24 days ago to random

I don't like humanity because it has yet to provide a good reason for liking it.

I'm still waiting.

But I'd prefer to do my waiting at a safe distance.

timberwraith, 26 days ago to random

I heard a gust of wind pass my window and rattle the temperature sensor outside. I looked out the window to discover the setting sun is somewhat obscured by what looks like a cloudy haze in the distance.

I felt excited, thinking, "A storm is coming, yay!"

Then I checked the weather and they mentioned that it is wildfire smoke from Canada.

Now I'm depressed. 😞

timberwraith, 28 days ago to random

I have an aurora hiking tale to tell from last night but I need way the hell more caffeine in my bloodstream before I type it out.

I finally went to bed around 3am. I just woke up.

I feel like 💩.

But I feel like happy 💩.

timberwraith, 28 days ago to random

I can't remember the last time I read an opinion piece by Jonathan Chait. He revealed himself to be an anti-trans bigot a number of years ago, and I dismissed him as the kind of asshole I shouldn't trouble myself with.

Today, I read a piece by him that @SallyStrange linked to (via archive) and I have to say...

His piece reeks of the kind of politics and attitudes that I tend to associate with a cis/white/male person who feels quite comfortable in their privileges.

https://eldritch.cafe/@SallyStrange/112417656621629503

timberwraith, 29 days ago to random

Jack Dorsey left Bluesky because they want some way of moderating awful posts and he is opposed to that. He thought Twitter banning Trump was a terrible idea.

He said he has always liked how Musk uses Twitter and seems to agree with the general direction Musk has taken Twitter in.

He wants to monetize social media with Bitcoin transactions.

Jack Dorsey is a libertarian, nazi piece of garbage who doesn't care if he burns the planet up with Bitcoin profiteering.

https://mas.to/@kissane/112413009263744330

timberwraith, 29 days ago to random

Buckle up space campers. Shit's going to go slightly sideways.

The coming geomagnetic storm may produce auroras as far south as Alabama and Northern California.

The power grid may get a little wacky, too.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/alerts-watches-and-warnings

timberwraith, 29 days ago to random

You know, I just realized that:

➡️ "Weird Al" (the performer)

and

➡️ "Weird AI" (the under-performing software)

look virtually identical.

timberwraith, 29 days ago to random

I just read that Applebee’s is closing a bunch of its locations.

I can't say that I ever had a memorable meal there as a vegetarian.

So... Goodbye, I guess. 👋

timberwraith, 30 days ago to random

Apparently people are portraying campus protests as entwined with "Antifa radicals" who are the recipients of secret funding by shadowy outside influences.

One of the funders they point to is George Soros, a rich Jewish man who antisemitic conspiracy theorists believe funds most everything the right wing hates.

The person who boosted this is the administrator of an instance devoted to Jewish Fedi-users, btw, and the magazine that is referenced is a right wing Jewish magazine.

What. The. Fuck.

timberwraith, 1 month ago to random

FYI, denoting the word "Christian" as a default label for a good person, even if it's meant as a complement to a non-christian, essentially reproduces cultural assumptions of christian supremacy.

So saying a christian is behaving like an atheist when they turn away from others in need and saying an atheist is behaving like a christian when they help others in need is not great.

Would you say this about a person who is Muslim or Jewish? They'd be annoyed for very good reasons.

Don't do this.