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I won't say it's, like, the series' best feature, but on a personally relatable level my favourite thing about The Murderbot Diaries is the repeated implication that most of SecUnit's success as a hacker stems from the fact that it keeps bumping into mission-critical systems where nobody bothered to change the factory default wi-fi password.

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As a trans woman you can generally expect not to be believed about most things: The legal processes you've navigated, effects you've had from transition care, what you had for breakfast, and so on.

But there's one major exception, which is when you're clearly joking.

If you say something like "I'm going to forcefem Richard Nixon for his crimes", you will be subjected to a person who fully and entirely believes that:

You possess the infrastructure and resources necessary to operate a real life forcefemming dungeon sophisticated enough to forcefem not just any captive, but a US President

You intend to wield the power of this forcefem dungeon over political disagreements, and are taking active steps to do so

Your intended target is Richard Nixon, famously a corpse who has been dead for 30 glorious, Nixonless years, and you are apparently going to be able to put him in a state that would be receptive to forcefemming, which is generally understood to require a subject who is alive

Despite the evidence that you are a necromancer with substantial kidnapping abilities, you are receptive to being informed, in a strongly worded post of concern, that necromantic forcefem is immoral.

And once they've caught you in your dastardly scheme, they will not relent at attempts to clarify

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and it is similarly bizarre to try and separate trans men's experiences into a trans part and a man part. That's not how people experience the world. There's not a trans part that gets sexually assaulted and a man part that gets refused an abortion, there's one undivided person experiencing both. To ask trans men to defer to some baseline trans-exclusionary concept of manhood in interpreting their experience as trans men is just cruel. They should get to speak as full people.

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feeble white boy hitting it weak and frail style

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So if you're in the UK you have probably heard about the proposed changes to disability benefits. If not, here is a BBC News article (link) about it, and the Big Issue (link) have been running basically non-stop articles about it since the announcement.

Crucially, the government is holding a consultation. Will as many of us as possible weighing in change the outcome? Possibly, though it's far from guaranteed. Will not filling it in help the situation in the slightest? No. So let's all have a go.

You can find the full Green Paper here: (link) and the options to respond are at the bottom of it, including the link to respond online, which is also here: (link)

It's also always worth contacting your MP to let them know what you think, if only to get a response on fancy Commons stationery. You can find your MP here: (link)

So, have at it, UK folks! (These proposals don't apply to Northern Ireland as benefits are transferred, but they are still taking NI comments and sharing them with the Department for Communities, so you may be able to influence whether this approach is taken up in NI in future, too)

And if nothing else, please reblog!

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The reason I’m not an anarchist is that in the centuries before the Americans with disabilities act people could have all installed safe wheelchair ramps in all of their buildings and they didn’t.

If you’re trying to make a system that relies on people being nice I’m not gonna go with it.

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i walk a fine line between “i’m asexual and i hate how much the world revolves around sex” and “sex is way too stigmatized and people should be able to be more open about it if they want to”

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i love to make fun of bad AI images as much as the next person but its good to also be firm that even if it was good, you dont want it. cause theres undoubtably a section of the generative AI community who thinks they just need to prove that it can be as good as real art and like. yeah maybe it can but i still dont want it. i have no interest in seeing what a robot creates. i'm bored. it's lame. i don't want it.

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people really fail to see the physical violence behind the hyperinvisibility of intersex people.

we are erased in legislation and society broadly but we are also victims of an extermination campaign.

our invisibility doesn't come from people just failing to recognize us it comes from the fact that we are mutilated at birth and if we are not mutilated at birth we are mutilated at puberty. people without variations that can be changed by surgery are put on hormones against their will. it is rare to find an intersex person who hasn't experienced medical violence!

so many intersex people don't even know that they, themselves are intersex! some people have their intersex variation hidden from them, being outright lied to by parents and doctors about their own body. other people are never given the word intersex, they are told they have a DSD (disorder of sexual development), that they have a medical problem. almost no intersex person is told that they are intersex by a doctor.

our lack of visibility is written in literal blood. so when someone tries to say "well, intersex people don't have it that bad, no one is thinking about them" they're saying that all this "isn't so bad" that an effective extermination campaign "isn't that bad" because they can't see it happening.

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Seeing people go "It's okay to have low empathy but-" and "Low empathy is okay but you need to -"

No. No no no no no. Low empathy is inherently a morally neutral trait. So is low sympathy and low compassion. There is nothing someone can do that makes those things no longer an inherently morally neutral trait. Someone being an asshole does not make the fact that they have low empathy/sympathy/compassion/whatever a bad thing.

Your actions and your empathy levels are completely separate things and do not have to be tied to one another at all. If someone has low empathy and is an asshole, it's because they're a fucking asshole not solely because they have low empathy. We need to stop giving disabled people conditions that make their disability more acceptable. It either is or it isn't.

You do not HAVE to do anything in order to make your low empathy morally acceptable to others. If you really think having low empathy is acceptable then it needs to not come with conditions, otherwise you don't actually view it as something acceptable. You only want to validate people who you consider "one of the good ones" who meet your standards as what's okay in a disabled person and what's not.

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the vast majority of diy an average person needs in their life for basic maintenance is absolutely dogshit easy

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I think we should put 'transmasc invisibility' up on the shelf until people understand that it's not a privilege to be invisible just because hypervisibility is bad as well. Until then, I'm gonna call it what it is – transmasc erasure.

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"I'm not sure if I've ever had sex with a guy" sounds like an insane thing to say but it's like. you know. I'm not checking IDs at the door.

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there's a new social cue coming out. no we're not telling you about it

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autism is not a horrible disease that ruins lives and tears apart families. elon musk, who is autistic and an evil billionaire who doesn't pay taxes, has ruined thousands of lives, and whose family hates him, is a statistical outlier adn should not have been counted

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may god forgive my wretched sins (spent money)

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ID: a tag. #why are we skipping over that she wanted to find an abandoned mine / end ID

can we have tv dramas set in college please. fucking nothing happens in hs man. now im in college and my friend got chased by feral hogs a week ago in the woods and its like the 5th craziest thing to happen this week