the overwhelming desire to be seen and understood vs the horror of letting yourself be vulnerable

“Why are Liberals afraid of the thing that turned the Republican Party into a personality cult with no real values” big mystery dude

There is no cure to gender dysphoria. It will continue to eat at you for years, decades. It will never go away - only become stronger. You are unlucky enough to have found yourself to be one of us; your choice is not "cis or trans", but "brave or cowardly".

RT @MaidcoreEnjoyer: Everything about femboy culture is extremely sexualized. The targeted demographic is emotionally vulnerable underage b…

I am not a guy and that’s exciting!!!

A monster was born on this day; the day I discovered how amazing diet Dr Pepper is

fortnite shooting the repressor character with the sexual dimorphism beam, as well as the cís woman next to him to make him look even more masculine by comparison is so funny

The TADC Fandom is a mix of 1) kids/immature adults that watch a lot of kids' media, expecting lore-focus and unchallenging social themes 2) viewers that like it as subversion to the former and as actual art The former tends to hate Goose/the film, the latter tends to love them

the millennial r/traaa mods owe reparations to every teenage gen z repper for making us think the average trans woman based her idea of femininity off japanese cartoon characters while making us feel like the weirdos

Yesterday, May 8, a man asked a ~16 year old to tone down his phone conversation on a Bronx bus, and the teenager shot him to death (see images in the quoted post below). A few months ago I was at a Christmas party and a guy I was talking to got extremely angry about people who listen to music without headphones on the subway, and he was even more angry about people who watched TikToks/Reels full blast without headphones. I think he is correct that these are terrible, anti-social behaviors that degrade the commons. I also agree with his comparison of music and short-form videos. Playing music into the air in public places like a train/bus is no-good, anti-social, and usually sounds bad in one way or another [^1]--either people don't like your music, or your tinny phone speaker sounds terrible. In either case, people deserve a less polluted aural commons when on public transportation. TikToks/Reels are often worse, because they are not a continuous thread of sound like a song; the abrupt transitions from video to video can easy destroy someone's peace. Now back to my angry Christmas interlocutor: part of the reason he was so angry was because he had the sense that "things were getting worse," and that New York City "didn't used to be like this." His idea that this behavior was new gave it more relative weight, and fed his anger more. I think it's true that since COVID the norms against anti-social headphonelessness have badly degraded to our widespread civic detriment. But also: we have been here before. The fact that Apple removed 3.5mm jacks from their phones and the advent of TikTok both might have something to do with why this is happening more now, but people did this as soon as they got mobile sound systems. See my highlighted excerpt below from page 10 of the first edition of Amicus, the journal from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). That we have been here and solved it before means we can solve it again, even if it won't be easy. You might say "What's the big deal? Don't we have other fish to fry? So there's annoying sound on the subway, so what?" Perhaps, but I don't think this is a small thing, and I personally think it's worth addressing. It's not merely about a quality aural environment for the public, even though that's enough of a reason by itself. It's also because anti-social privatization of the public soundscape is often a threat. @Rafa_Mangual lays it out well here: x.com/Rafa_Mangual/status/20… "Anti-social behavior—think about the guy blasting music from a speaker, talking loudly on speaker-phone, smoking inside the subway car, etc.—in public spaces is often engaged in ***_as a dare_***. The whole point is to provoke anger and annoyance in those around him, which serves two purposes, depending on the response he’s hoping for: (1) If everyone bites their tongues, the antisocial asshole gets to tell himself he’s such a badass no one would dare speak up; or (2) If someone confronts him, he finds his excuse to scratch a violent itch. Understand that saying something to these people will often come with a real risk of violent confrontation." Both public transportation and public safety wonks have known this for decades; again, see my highlighted excerpt from the 1979 NRDC report: "...Smoking and radio-playing, for instance, are often done with the stance of 'I dare you to stop me.'" And for this reason above all others--menacing the public--the problem is worth addressing. The public deserves an orderly, safe commute. [1] There's a genuine tension here between keeping a clean aural commons, and allowing New York's culture to bloom with performers/people being themselves. Clearly, people are of different minds here, and sound policy and norms would converge on some sort of workable compromise. But I think "playing things from your phone without headphones on public transportation" or "being very loud on speakerphone" is generally a bad norm without redeeming positive externalities.

Once upon a time, young people could make mistakes or do stupid things and bounce back Now, if you fuck up, your mistake has been recorded and shared thousands of times. Your ability to find a job has been permanently crippled

RT @JessicaBRiedl: For 30 years I've tried to correct this nonsense. The vast majority will not listen. There has to be a villain - some ev…

I really don’t think photorealistic AI-generated political ads depicting opposing candidates saying things they’d never say should be allowed.

Gooseworx: here is my extremely personal story full of self-reflection and a desperate bid for people to believe change is real. It shows how flaws are the most human thing of all & the importance of helping people even when they're at their worst. gummiguy26: so... ur an abuser

People really skimmed the fact he straight up confirms they are AI scans

I'll add to the Piketty dunking in one small way. His plan is to plunder valuable assets from the USA and hand them to less productive regions until outcomes are equalized. But, for the USA, he allots 0.115% annual growth (4590->5000/74 years). I'm sure he's aware that those assets are valued, generally, by the net present value of future free cash flows. And that by capping growth so low destroys the value he hopes to steal. And that baking this error into his model invalidates all the math that follows. It's difficult to steelman Piketty's arguments. By all indications, he's simply an anti-human zealot, neurotically and wrongly guilt-driven, with extinction as his goal.

‘The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act’ opened with $35.4 MILLION globally in its debut weekend. The film was the highest-grossing animated movie worldwide this weekend and now holds the biggest opening weekend ever for an independent animated film.

The author of the show is a trans woman who revealed that the finale is deeply personal and Jax is molded on her insecurities but sure, we’re not supposed to take that into consideration

I’m in awe of this post. It’s like a parody of Boomer welfare slopulism