nicole @nicole@myna.social

The other big discussion thats been going on between me and my sister these last three months has been about how essentially a lot of the GC anti-trans groups outrage might stem from the unspoken point that transgender people are Skipping The Queue.

The ultimate british sin.

2nd wave feminism had a lot of eggs involved in it, many arguing points from a position of trying to wrestle with their internal issues, and to find any slight balm of comfort from their gender needs.

The promise of the Sex Wars was that ultimately feminism would win out, everyone would realise that all femininity was a false consciousness performance enforced by the patriarchy, and everyone would become in effect genderless and neutral, which also just so happened to be in the shape of a man. As long as everyone stuck to the plan, thats what everyone would get to be.

Then heres suddenly trans men getting to be men BEFORE them, they're skipping the queue. Here's trans women making a mockery of our pain, perverted agents of the patriarchy.

Cannot reiterate this enough:

PLEASE don’t request refunds from Apple for any unused time on your Twitterrific or Tweetbot subscriptions.

It could literally bankrupt small shops like these.

https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/twitterrific-end-of-an-era/

The German word "Schwein" means "pig".

The word "Sau" means "sow".

Funny thing: You can use them to amplify adjectives!

schweinekalt = very cold
schweineheiß = very hot

saustark = very strong
saulecker = very tasty
saugut = very good
saucool = very cool

Enjoy our 🐷 language!

#TheGermanWord

literally begging people playing #worldle and posting result here to use a CW.

posting a mass of emoji to the TL is awful for people using screen readers.

this goes for any other game which uses masses of emoji, wordle, quordle or whatevs. please, stop

The fact that Isaac Asimov was a notorious assaulter and sexual harasser leaves me with this old question:
Can we divide the work from its author?
In this case, I can't.
I've read the comments from people saying that bringing attention to this is stupid 'woke' behavior and 'the new McCarthyism'. No, your childhood icon, the golden age of science fiction titan was a despicable human being. We have to remember that.
#Asimov #Foundation #SciFi

Stop anthropomorphizing billionaires.

I get that the GOP likes to pretend that MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech is a call for colorblindness (it's not), citing the "content of their character" line, but here's a little secret:

If you're the type of person who feels the need to cling to that line, free from context, then the "content of your character" is pretty apparent, and it's not looking good for you.

Any recommendations for films to watch on Shudder/Prime?

Particularly British/European folk horror or anything Lovecraftian.

The Void, The Ritual, Colour Out of Space, Wickerman, Witchfinder General, already on my list to watch again.

#Horror #FolkHorror #CosmicHorror #Cinema

✅ Raining in the Mountain
✅ La Jetée
🇯🇵 Battles Without Honor and Humility
🤥 Pinocchio (2022)
🚣‍♀️ Céline and Julie Go Boating

Ah, La Jetée. It’s dream logic is as deft as its execution. 💕 #cinema

I’d forgotten how massively influential this photo novel was to my own filmmaking experiments back in the late 90’s. In the early naughts, I wrote (and with a friend, photographed) a photo novel of my own, complete with a unicorn (of a sort) and a werewolf (of a sort).

Post-production never happened. I was in law school, and then I was homeless and poor, and now I am shackled to a very hungry career. But the negatives exist; anything is possible.

All of the stories I tried to tell were queer and filled with trans longing, whether they were about human-sized puppets animated with the swappable souls of birds, or, in this case, the romance between an ugly unicorn and a lonely virgin.

AI art is the latest tech bro disruption of a market, destroying actual value for those involved and sending money to the idle rich. It's built upon the stolen works of others which they use to train their algorithms, and then they charge non-artists for the privilege of using their products. And no one will take action until the market for mid-tier artists is destroyed.

We've seen this song and dance for two decades now. We know how it ends.

@karchie @AlexGizis @ef4 @futurebird just realized this means that in the Star Trek universe where FTL travel is possible, maybe they could use warp technology to produce a speaker that perfectly reproduces square waves.

i love trans men’s version of masculinity. it’s like they curated all the really cool and good parts, amplified them and left out most of the shitty toxic parts; (those who believe the toxic parts are a necessary part of masculinity notwithstanding).

if i were a man i’d totally want to be like a trans man.