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Jasper National Park, Canada

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I don't mean to be callous but when I talk about walkability/transit and someone says "what about people who live out in the country" I'm like yeah, what about them? What does that have to do with how people in cities get around?

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legitimately yearning for summer rn

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I haven't seen it get mentioned on Tumblr yet but Samsung has just gotten caught in a hilarious scam: they apparently advertised how their latest phones can take great picture of the moon, compared to other phones!

But it turns out they aren't using machine-learning to clear up blurry pictures, they're using machine-learning to detect when you're taking a picture of the moon, and then they swap in a saved PNG file of the moon.

A reddit user figured this out by taking a photo of the moon from Wikipedia, blurring it in photoshop, then trying to photograph it from across the room with all the lights turned out.

Their Samsung phone somehow managed to "clear up" the blurriness and recover details that weren't there in the first place. Because it's just cheating.

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Noss National Nature Reserve, Isle of Noss, Bressay, Shetland, Scotland

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The thing about knitting is it’s much harder to fear the existential futility of all your actions while you’re doing it.

Like ok, sure, sometimes it’s hard to believe you’ve made any positive impact on the world. But it’s pretty easy to believe you’ve made a sock. Look at it. There it is. Put it on, now your foot’s warm.

Checkmate, nihilism.

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Nicolas Party (Swiss, 1980), Clouds, 2022. Soft pastel on linen, 210 x 150 cm.

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Frances  

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Nicole Wittenberg (American, 1979), A Rosy Saturday, 2020. Pastel on paper, 15 ½ × 11 ½ in.

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Is there anything you feel dyadic people should know about intersex people? I'm trying to expand my advocacy and be a better ally. Do you know of any resources or topics I may want to look into?

there are so many things!

I’ll just start by mentioning the things I think of as super obvious, and then forward you onto other helpful resources when it comes to more complex issues

hermaphrodite is a slur when it comes to referring to human beings. you may see people with ovotestes be referred to as “true hermaphrodites”, but that’s outdated and intersexist

no, that cat/lion/lizard is not “naturally nonbinary”. it’s intersex

while there is a list of “intersex conditions”, not every intersex person will have a biological situation that fits into that. there are many ways to be intersex, and it’s more complex than what is able to be divided into a set number of “conditions”

if you want to be a good ally to intersex folk, you have to unlearn both the sex and gender binaries. sex is not defined to male and female categories, and biology plays a much smaller part in all this than people like to make out (e.g. female vs male brain is bullshit)

I could probably say much more, but I’m really tired so my brain is not working 100%. from here, I’d recommend you explore websites and organisations such as:

interACT

IHRA

Bodies Like Ours

interACT in particular has some great resources on their website when it comes to the history of intersex rights and also defining intersex-related terminology. it is USA-based, but it’s a good starting point for sure!

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book banning is unequivocally bad and worth being concerned about, but it's funny how this practice has survived into the internet age, where information is more readily available than it's ever been in human history.

"ACK! my kid is going to learn Gender Queer at the school library" dude your kid has a porn machine in his pocket and you pay for it.

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