Friday-is-unfunny - N. D. Plume (any Pronouns)

reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a fucking break

I don't know, how about switching it off?

💪💪 ←my muscles my muscles involuntary flex

.. <- two ants hanging out

“Freedom from the river to the sea for me, but not for thee.” The blatant hypocrisy is blatant

#It’s another variant of white supremacy. Netanyahu and the Likud Israeli government are nearly indistinguishable from Trump and the Republican Party — Netanyahu is a racist rightwing authoritarian who WANTS TRUMP TO WIN

Netanyahu is on his way to making Israel a pariah state, and he is an unpopular authoritarian who has always opposed an equitable two state solution. In fact, over his career Netanyahu has worked tirelessly to prop up Hamas, in order to sow division and play the West Bank against Gaza (source)

this is how amok time went right

I didn't want to be annoying on that post about the "Are we the triggered?" thumbnail, but... I've watched that video, and while I feel it is a bit rambly (it is almost a full hour in length) I did find it interesting. But I did learn something new when he started building his case for the inherent hypocrisy of anti-woke-ism using this meme:

He points out that in the video this is from, the woman is actually calmly arguing -with statistics- with another person. She just happened to make a funny face for one frame and now she's on a billion different YouTube thumbnails as the so-called "triggered feminist."

And to cap it off, he points out: "This clip originally was shown on the Alex Jones show. And we all know how calm and collected Alex Jones is at all times." (montage of many of Alex Jones' screams of rage)

I also liked this quote: "That's the double standard: This woman cannot afford to make a single frame of a funny face without her expression being immortalized in a billion thumbnails. But this guy can literally scream at the camera for 15 minutes because an RPG asked the preferred pronoun for his character. And he even uses her face in his thumbnails! Hypocrisy perfected."

The thing about Equal Rites is, it's not just a book about how girls can do anything boys can do, and the only thing trying to stop her is meanie old men. It's about how girls can do anything boys can do, I suppose, if she really must, though I* can't see why she wants to.

It's about shaking off gender essentialism, not deciding who someone can and can't be as soon as you see their newborn baby genitals, and adults not telling kids to be who they "should" be instead of who they really are... while also being really super clear that the traditionally male-dominated path isn't inherently better, it's just better paid.

It explores Granny's position of trying to hold Esk back from becoming a wizard, stemming not from thinking that girls aren't smart enough or that they should only be wives and mothers, but from a contempt for the flashy and self-important ways of wizards and belief that the more domestic and practical sphere of witchcraft is more important and better. It's a pretty accurate depiction of the way some older women enforcing gender roles think.

I suppose the book is more of a critique of the whole women's intuition/men's intelligence nonsense dichotomy, as well as a reminder not to cling too eagerly to the patriarchy's priorities in the search for equality.

Men aren't better at "jommetry" than women. But "jommetry" isn't more difficult or important than Granny Weatherwax's practical, rural skills - herbcraft, midwifery, caring for and understanding goats and bees, managing people, and so on.

Sir Terry never got on with the assembly lines of formal education, which is probably an important thing to bear in mind when reading this book.

*Granny Weatherwax

It's just sunk in that doctor who is actually a 60-year-long (and counting) game of "yes, and"

TW: T*bi Fl*sh C*wboy H*t

dear god why

WHY WOULD YOU RECOMMEND THIS TO ME?

“Ethics? Playing god?! I created easily affordable 3D printed organs that are perfectly compatible with the human body! Do you know how many people will die if you bring me to "justice”? I saw what happened to the guy who almost cured cancer! You’re no hero, you’re just a hired gun!“