Queer Liberation, Babey

Feeling rough lately.

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 16:17:36 -0400

Feeling rough lately.

Does anyone else feel like the world was so much simpler and more hopefull during coincidentally the…

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:52:53 -0400

Does anyone else feel like the world was so much simpler and more hopefull during coincidentally the exact same span of time when my entire world view was based on children’s movies?
It just really feels like it all started going downhill purely coincidentally when I started becoming more fully aware of things like inequality and global conflicts.
If only we could recapture the civility and optimism of The Yugoslav Wars and Rwandan genocide. Before the rise of the alt right made everything (like trans rights) so divisive. If only we could all be as safe and accepted as Chanelle Pickett.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but “elder queers” are just as capable of being reactionary and…

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:42:46 -0400

clonekisser:

I don’t know who needs to hear this but “elder queers” are just as capable of being reactionary and sanitized as young queer people

the more i think about that post thats like. “we are going to have to spend decades rebuilding…

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:13:41 -0400

transfaguette:

the more i think about that post thats like. “we are going to have to spend decades rebuilding everything to the way it was 4 years ago so don’t expect or demand any of the improvements we would have wanted then etc.” the more I just think it’s very wrong. There is no reason to not continue to fight for things like UBI and ranked choice voting and single payer healthcare. I think it is actually extremely important that we do. because, the system we were in was already broken. why should we try to patch it up the way it was, when the way it was lead to what we are in now? I think that sentiment is, very kindly, why the establishment democrats have consistently failed to act on the whims of the people. It’s just another form of appeasement.

Can i just say, you’re the funniest person in the world

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 23:43:26 -0400

finally someone gets me 🙏

It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 23:42:50 -0400

fadagaski:

c-is-for-circinate:

flavoracle:

languill:

It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.

There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!

I took calculus my senior year of high school, and I really liked the way our teacher framed this on the first day of class.

He asked somebody to raise their hand and ask him when we would use calculus in our everyday life. So one student rose their hand and asked, “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?”

“NEVER!!” the teacher exclaimed. “You will never use calculus in your normal, everyday life. In fact, very few of you will use it in your professional careers either.” Then he paused. “So would you like to know why should care?”

Several us nodded.

He picked out one of the varsity football players in the class. “You practice football a lot during the week, right Tim?” asked the teacher.

“Yeah,” replied Tim. “Almost every day.”

“Do you and your teammates ever lift weights during practice?”

“Yeah. Tuesdays and Thursdays we spend a lot of practice in the weight room.”

“But why?” asked the teacher. “Is there ever going to be a play your coach tells you use during a game that requires you to bench press the other team?”

“No, of course not.”

“Then why lift weights?”

“Because it makes us stronger,” said Tim.

“Bingo!!” said the teacher. “It’s the same thing with calculus. You’re not here because you’re going to use calculus in your everyday life. You’re here because calculus is weightlifting for your brain.”

And I’ve never forgotten that.

THIS.
When it’s taught right, learning math teaches you logic and how to organize your brain, how to take a problem one step at a time and make sure every step can bear weight before you move to the next one. Most adults don’t need to know integrals, but goddamn if I don’t wish everyone making arguments on the internet understood geometric proofs.
Scientific concepts broaden our understanding of how the world is put together, which does not mean that most adults ever really understand how light is refracted through a lens or why spinning copper wire creates electricity–and they don’t need to. But science classes in general are meant to teach the scientific method: how to make observations and use them to draw conclusions, how to test those conclusions, how to be wrong and grow stronger from it.
History isn’t about dates and names of battles, it’s about people, patterns, things we’ve tried before and ought to learn from. It’s about how everything is linked, how changing one circumstance can lead to changes in fifty others, cascading infinitely. Literature is about critical thinking, pattern recognition, learning to listen to what somebody is saying and decide what it means to you, how you feel about it, and what you want to do with it.
Some facts matter: every adult should know how to read a graph, how global warming works, some of the basic themes and symbols that crop up in every piece of fiction. But ultimately, content is less important later in life than context.
The good thing is, students who learn the content are likely to pick up at least some of the context, some of the patterns of thinking, even if they don’t realize it. (The unfortunate thing is how the current educational system prioritizes content so much that a lot of students, and a lot of adults, don’t see the point in learning either, and teachers are overworked and held to standardize test grading scales such that it’s hard for them to emphasize patterns of thinking over rote memorization, etc etc etc, but that is a whole different discussion.)

I would also add that giving as broad an education to as many as possible gives everyone the opportunity to follow a career that might use calculus. Or colour theory. Or electromagnetism. Or [insert specialism here]. If we gatekeep specialisms, those careers are only available for the ones who were privileged enough to have the background training. That’s why Classics as a degree subject is full of private school kids: it’s not offered in state education.

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Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:08:48 -0400

transfaguette:

Donate to Donate to Ansel’s Essential Top Surgery Fund, organized by Ansel B
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Thank you!

Ludwig van Beethoven was a classical pianist. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:48:05 -0400

A CLASSICAL PENIS?

This is the kind of messaging you really want to be seeing from the global hegemon

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 13:52:15 -0400

dorothylarouge:

This is the kind of messaging you really want to be seeing from the global hegemon

beethoven

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 13:29:50 -0400

is that like an airfryer

w. why did you only provide two options for ludwig as if nobody else on earth had ever had that name

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:06:45 -0400

i thought they made it up for mario

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:37:55 -0400

mariacallous:

slipping-into-madness:

#if we had a functional SEC they’d all be in jail for market manipulation and insider trading

I wasn’t able to reply this in another post, for god knows what reason, but anyway I want to have it…

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:35:11 -0400

anomalousmancunt:

I wasn’t able to reply this in another post, for god knows what reason, but anyway I want to have it as a separate post. So.
I’m ftm, I’m from the global south, etc. I know what the transmasc struggles are - you will find I lived through them, I keep living through them. I was sent to offbrand conversion therapy, got told that clearly I’m just a confused girl who looks too much like a child and so that’s why I’m identifying as a man (?). I am not going to be talking about all that. That’s the deep lore.
What I am going to be talking about is how fucking meaningless the arguments against transandrophobia theory keep getting on this website. I cannot keep logging on and seeing people argue semantics (while not understanding a single thing they’re saying) to define our experiences out of existence. I cannot keep logging on and seeing fucking USAmericans, because it’s always one of y'all, who live in a sort of comfort I will never, ever get to experience or even see, try to tell me that somehow I have more power than any of them, because of how a fucking word is structured.
You are not arguing in good faith and I will not treat you like you are.

the more i think about that post thats like. “we are going to have to spend decades rebuilding…

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 09:52:08 -0400

transfaguette:

the more i think about that post thats like. “we are going to have to spend decades rebuilding everything to the way it was 4 years ago so don’t expect or demand any of the improvements we would have wanted then etc.” the more I just think it’s very wrong. There is no reason to not continue to fight for things like UBI and ranked choice voting and single payer healthcare. I think it is actually extremely important that we do. because, the system we were in was already broken. why should we try to patch it up the way it was, when the way it was lead to what we are in now? I think that sentiment is, very kindly, why the establishment democrats have consistently failed to act on the whims of the people. It’s just another form of appeasement.

the more i think about that post thats like. “we are going to have to spend decades rebuilding…

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:24:55 -0400

the more i think about that post thats like. “we are going to have to spend decades rebuilding everything to the way it was 4 years ago so don’t expect or demand any of the improvements we would have wanted then etc.” the more I just think it’s very wrong. There is no reason to not continue to fight for things like UBI and ranked choice voting and single payer healthcare. I think it is actually extremely important that we do. because, the system we were in was already broken. why should we try to patch it up the way it was, when the way it was lead to what we are in now? I think that sentiment is, very kindly, why the establishment democrats have consistently failed to act on the whims of the people. It’s just another form of appeasement.

guys who the heck is beethoven

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 22:18:05 -0400

transfaguette:

who do you think of when you hear the name “Ludwig”?
Live streamer Ludwig
Koopa Kid Ludwig
I’ve never heard of anyone with this name before wtf
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guys who the heck is beethoven

ita so funny and lovely how hard Some People railed against the gay men’s flag, called it…

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 21:29:26 -0400

genderkoolaid:

ita so funny and lovely how hard Some People railed against the gay men’s flag, called it lesbophobic, mocked anyone who used it, entirely because it was made by a gay trans man and people hate anything that trans men do. and now it’s being sold physically at pride festivals. my lgbt center has it hanging up. we give out stickers of it. womp womp losers

We never really talked about it but The Ugly Ducking that grew up to be a beautiful swan was still…

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:24:41 -0400

derinthescarletpescatarian:

teaboot:
teaboot:
We never really talked about it but The Ugly Ducking that grew up to be a beautiful swan was still probably pretty fugly from a duck’s perspective
Like that story isn’t about an ugly duckling that grew up sexy, it’s a fucking swan was judged as a duck and hated itself as a duck until it found out it wasn’t a duck and stopped trying to be a duck.
The actual ducks in the neighborhood were probably still looking around at perfectly normal swans like “damn, look at those busted ass ducks”
This is pretty important, actually. The good ending is finding the other swans, not tearing yourself to pieces trying to impress the ducks.

some of my current favorite responses to weird/confusing sentences:

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:21:50 -0400

millenianthemums:

some of my current favorite responses to weird/confusing sentences:
“many such cases”
“we love/hate to see it”
“honestly, work”
“many are saying this”
“love them or hate them they’re spitting straight facts”
“you conjure a beautiful world”

when tumblr shutdown scares happen and everyone starts promoting sites that are way worse and shut…

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:16:33 -0400

lelouch:

when tumblr shutdown scares happen and everyone starts promoting sites that are way worse and shut down quicker