The reason I have ex-terf in my bio, in case people are wondering, is because I used to be a terf. It’s been about 8 years now, but it’s something about my past that I have to be extra-cognizant about now. I have a few mutuals that are trans women, and I asked one of them if she thought I should put in my bio that I used to be a terf, because I want trans women to be able to decide right away if they want to follow me, and she said yes, so I did. Im of course disgusted and ashamed of myself and my actions, but this isn’t about my pity party, it’s about making trans women feel safe and giving people the information they deserve to have before deciding whether or not to allow me into their space.

being a terf is not something someone can just apologize for and move on from. it requires constantly doing everything I can to unlearn those thought patterns and challenge the concepts of gender and sex, and doing everything I materially can to support trans women, and if I want to be held accountable for doing that, people need to know.

so tl;dr if you want to think im a piece of shit about the patreon thing, whatever, but this weird take that im somehow… idk proud of once having been a terf because I have it in my bio is simply inaccurate.

thingsfromthedirt:

parkertyler:

hard-right conservatives will be like “question everything” and then accept everything they were ever taught to believe about society plus whatever insane thing they happen to see in an email

harlequinchaos:

aropride:

i would have played pretend on the playground with all of u btw

edwad:

cungadero:

cungadero:

who wants a list of some of my best videos about video game economic crisis events theyre kind of my favorite subject of all time

habbo hotel is an anarcho-capitalist gambling and a scam-based economy run by children part 1

part 2 of the habbo hotel analysis centering on types of common financial crime orchestrated on habbo

gaia online’s gold-generating hyperinflation crisis

ffxiv’s housing crisis

the hypixel skyblock exotics 1 trillion coin bubble pop

the ‘cash-based’ mmo where the f2p players literally sell sweat harvested off monsters for pennies

a history of neopets controversies centering largely on the “unconverted” neopet bubble market

“the falador massacre”, an infamous runescape event in which a player was able to pvp kill in non-pvp areas, resulting in thousands of player items and gold being looted from corpses with no possibility of rollback

oh hell yes

thebluehue22:

invertebrates:

heedra:

heedra:

if you learn to love bugs with all your heart the world will feel half as hostile and a thousand times as big

Theres a sentiment I’m noticing in the tags that I’d like to address. I dont think learning to love bugs with all your heart means forcing yourself out of discomfort you have with them overnight. It’s about observing a different sort of being going about its life and deliberately trying to reframe your observations through a sense of wonder and delight. It’s about cultivating a positive interest and curiosity for their ecology and behaviors. It’s especially about trying to uncouple the value we find in them from how ‘convenient’ they are to us; to face head on the part of us that wants to assign moral evil to another organism who just happens to live life in a way that is not harmonius with ours. You can love insects in this way and still recognize your own health and safety needs. We are animals living side by side within a biosphere. This is how it is, sometimes.

I think this is important to cultivate because, if you are alive at all, you are coming into conflict with countless other people and things that dont owe you an apology for their existance and needs. If you are alive at all, you are encountering countless other people and things that harmful bias and personal discomfort have made repulsive to you. This is about bugs, but its also about way more than bugs.

It’s hard to explain to the uninitiated that you can just go for a walk just about anywhere with a bit of green (and sometimes even in the heart of a city) and find like a dozen neat little unique guys if you’re patient and observant.

People get really into bird watching but here’s a secret: bugs are WAY easier to find than birds and they let you get a lot closer.

Try to approach the world with wonder and curiosity rather than fear and revulsion. Bugs are a great place to start.

I can tell you that, as a depressed person, my life got MUCh better just by seeing bugs and all small creatures as lil beings worthy of love, mindfulness and joy. I see a wasp, digging in my chicken coop muck for lil balls of mud to make lil pots with, and smile with glee.

I see a lil orange and black beetle on my citrus and wonder what he’s doing.

I see a fly, rubbing his front hands together like a lil criminal.

Don’t anthropomorphize, but just…appreciate. Because they are amazing and wonderous and it really helps your world view.

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theconcealedweapon:

Rich people openly brag about intentionally choosing to live off of other people’s hard work, while they shame poor people for receiving financial assistance that they need to live.

ossifer-bones:

exitwound:

We have to do something about the distances