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everybody struggles with and undervalues sleep because our culture has forgotten how to consistently remember our dreams. in the past, people discussed and documented and valued their dreams, so they woke up remembering them every morning. the experience of the dreaming world is such that if a person remembers the experience consistently, they are naturally enticed to good sleep, and wake up easily when it's time. call me a schizoposter but this is my truth. and improving my ability to enter the dream world as i fall asleep and recall my dreams later has had a tremendous effect on my life and health.

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having a good day then thinking about this one quote about no woman ever comparing herself to god after creating life by giving birth but every boy with a gun is a god in his own eyes because he has the power to choose who lives or dies and he uses it to take and destroy lives. coughing up blood right now. i need to be hospitalized.

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while men are using AI to create girlfriends who are perfected versions of white femininity and/or deepfakes of celebrities like addison rae, sydney sweeney, and sabrina carpenter, they are also using AI to create videos of black women that depict us as grotesque or even quite literally apes. these are two sides of the same coin, and the relationship between them is complex; whiteness needs blackness to exist, because the concept of whiteness is meaningless without blackness. as i discussed as recently as yesterday, whiteness is the mere absence of blackness. therefore white women are only beautiful, in the social construction of race, because they are not black, because they are the antithesis of blackness.

this is part of the larger cultural war i've written about many times on here, what george lipsitz calls the possessive investment in whiteness, and what is popularly known as the "anti-woke" backlash to inclusive representation in media. technology can now be used to create black people, especially black women, who conform to racist stereotypes, and these are used as a teaching tool for enforcing various white supremacist hegemonies. this is not a new idea, of course--before we had AI, we had minstrels and black actors who were paid to portray these stereotypes. but the fact that this kind of racist propaganda can now be deployed and disseminated so widely and so cheaply should be deeply concerning to you.

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Reading Judith Butler’s new book Who’s Afraid of Gender.

I read Butler in undergrad but this book was published in 2024 and its arguments are asinine. I don’t remember her earlier work being THIS empty. NOWHERE in the chapters arguing against gc’s and radfems does Butler bother to state the position she’s arguing against (gender abolition).

I was interested because the blurbs on the back promise “dazzling intellect and moral confidence to orient us inside the maze of projections confessions and cooptations that make up today’s wars over gender”. Instead I just got pissed off.

Butler straight up makes the comparison between denying that a black person is black and denying that a trans woman is a female.

This page is shortly after a passage where she argues that radfems are opposed to addressing the unique struggles of WOC and working class women, wildly ironic as black rads were talking about double jeopardy decades before intersectionality was coined.

Ridiculous that this section made it through her editor as it’s entirely unrelated to her argument that people can change sex! It would indeed be upsetting if radfems were telling Jewish people they weren’t Jewish….but we aren’t 😛 and Butler seemingly can’t argue against the actual point we’re making.

Butler legitimately believes we can change the reality of sex by making legal and administrative alterations to what we mean by the term “sex”. This argument entirely based on the power of naming, but sex exists materially prior to our naming of it.

At the end of the day penile inversion procedures have nothing to do with changing sex.the vagina is self cleaning, self lubricating, and stretchy. The only similarly between a neo vagina and a vagina is the ability for penetration, and that’s only the case if a neovagina is regularly dilated 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

Society cares so little about vaginas that a significant amount of people, including women like Butler, are now comfortable calling an inverted penis (or a hole made with material from the colon) a vagina.

proper care for them differs incredibly. Douching for example is harmful to vaginas. But douching is necessary to remove….material…..from neovaginas after they’re used.

After approvingly quoting Andrea Long Chu (“sissy porn made me trans” TIM) Butler proceeds to misrepresent gc and radfem arguments about rape for six pages straight.

It is abjectly ridiculous to go on and on about how being raped with a penis is no differnt from being raped by any other “instrument” without addressing the fact a penis is the only thing that can caused forced impregnation, which has happened to multiple imprisoned women raped by TIMs!

to not even mention that the vast vast majority of rape is done by male people (96% iirc) is SUCH a cop out. consistent theme is that Butler refuses to engage with the actual argument radical feminists are making. 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

I find it interesting that Trans women are presented as hating/removing their penises, despite the fact that Butler vehemently disagrees that having gender dysphoria or wanting genital surgery is necessary to “change sex”. We also know that statistically the vast majority of trans people still have their natal genitals.

Butler can’t even bring herself to refer to what Karen White did as rape. The endless euphemistic terms for it infuriate me. How did we let someone who writes like this get as popular as she is ??

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“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us

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Gender affirming care = socially underdeveloped children

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i legitimately think so many people on here think listening to an artists music means you run stan twitter accounts for them and obsess on that level about them. thats not normal actually and most people just listen to artists bc it sounds good and then turn off spotify when they're done listening! hope this helps

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'Looking Down Lake Chelan'. Abby Williams Hill. 1903.

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1915 Packard Six Runabout. From Pre-War Auto Classic Images, FB.

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Nothing like holding my love

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just heard someone use the phrase “sex workers from ancient rome” you mean female sex slaves those women were probably born into lower classes and forced to become slaves to males, the glorification of the horrific things females have had done to them does still shock me everytime.

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How it feels to accept the hate in your heart

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Really irritates me that studios see the resurging popularity of early 2000s shows and refuse to acknowledge the (imo) pretty obvious facts: that audiences are sick of the current TV climate where shows get 1-2 forgettable seasons with 8-10 episodes a season, and long for when shows were made for entertainment and not only profit, there were 20+ episode seasons of pure originality made by writers, crew, and actors that could afford to live comfortably because they were being paid adequately.

No, the studios see better quality shows from 20 years ago become popular again and say oh nostalgia is all that's marketable now we better force these shows back into production and milk this for all we can get. Like it would never even occur to them to bring back any of the circumstances that allowed these shows to be so well made and popular.

Yes, streaming has changed the game significantly, but it didn't force them to cut seasons' length in half (often less than half) and pump out endless bad to mid quality shows only to cancel them after a mere 8-20 episodes. I love malcolm in the middle and king of the hill but I'm not excited for their forced rehashing because the TV climate that allowed those shows to be so good no longer exists