Shin Megami Tenser's Floating Disc

@zipxicomoro @stefisgirlnow @SLAYYY0NCE @irlgregorsamsa Also again she was like 25. No idea where she was in her Journey, but that was definitely before I had a complex and nuanced understanding of gender Wanna be very clear - none of this is a knock on her. She seems incredibly cool. But this essay... Eh

@zipxicomoro @stefisgirlnow @SLAYYY0NCE @irlgregorsamsa And why she's not invested in "womanhood" since she's... Not a woman (Asterisk, she may have ID'ed as a trans woman when she wrote this, I don't know, but she does not currently use that label / have that identity) x.com/i/status/20524…

@ecoengr @smalls2672 @lomaxx Yeah absolutely. I *know* the difference, intellectually, but my brain can't really grasp the scale even so

@emphabet @smalls2672 @lomaxx That's likely one reason the propaganda works.

This is where the “tax the rich” crowd lose me. Say I earn 90k a year and in 2027 I inherit $200,000 I invest that $200k and after 10 years in the stock market it’s now worth $400k If I sell it and realise the $200k capital gain, what the govt and the “tax the rich” crowd are saying is that I should be taxed as if I make $290k every year. Now if I try and split that CGT income across 2 people I’m “greedy” and avoiding tax But if I sell down in 4x $100k lots over 4 years and minimise my tax, that’s ok and nobody bats an eyelid - but it’s the same principle.

@stefisgirlnow @SLAYYY0NCE @zipxicomoro @irlgregorsamsa But an essay written by a 25 year old, who is not a trans woman, in the year 2000, before she started doing serious activism, is maybe better left as a historical artifact

@stefisgirlnow @SLAYYY0NCE @zipxicomoro @irlgregorsamsa Quick wiki shows she appears to be a good person with good activism and correct opinions ...but she's not a trans woman No disrespect, I'm sure her advocacy for intersex and sex work issues is great,

@inquisitrix @Teases_and_Such Idk if I've seen anyone more fiercely pro-abortion than trans women

@Teases_and_Such Literally... many trans women are very committed to feminism and even intersectional causes that don't affect them directly!

"trans women are above critique"? what imaginary world are you living in? trans women are the world's punching bag. we all know what you're doing saying shit like this.

@archer_uwu Last Jedi did so many cool things, I wish they'd made a sequel

as much as these movies sucked the way they had kylo fight was an incredible way to show his personality as much as possible, kylo was a good character stuck in a bad trilogy

@girlsbian_ Found this directly below a he man trailer making a similar argument

you know a movie is ass when people start resorting to the "why can't movies just be fun anymore" defense

@LyleShelton Is that illegal? Did she get arrested for having an opinion about soccer? Or did she maybe do some other illegal thing and go to court for that perhaps?

Kirralie is fighting in Court today because she called out biological men playing in women's soccer. She was ordered to pay $95,000 in damages. Her appeal is being heard today and tomorrow. End 🏳️‍🌈 madness, Vote 🗳️ 1 Family First. #IStandWithKirralieSmith

@TrishCosmicBard (and I met at least one of those women naked at a play party, so)

@TrishCosmicBard I'm really glad you made this choice. Congratulations, it took some time to get to where you are, but after everything, you're finally you

I don't feel I was lied to about transitioning necessarily but definitely now know there's zero focus for people at my age. Younger people want to see us transition but don't understand the fallout. A 26 year old saying "it's not too late" isn't taking to me, at 42 years old.

@robintran04 Please, there are children present - it's called "grape"

Lots of people in the culture war can’t fathom the possibility that some people like bad words but also hate rape

@DiscussingFish Robert Pattinson, kicking several empty tubes of gorilla glue under a dresser: yeah the heat I guess

Robert Pattinson's skin has reportedly "Permanently Fused" with his Bat-suit on the Glasgow set of 'THE BATMAN: PART 2'. Likely due to the historic heatwave currently hitting the UK. (Source: nytimes.com/2026/05/25/wea…)

"The Elephant" for free on Youtube (Full Special + Behind the Scenes) >> youtube.com/watch?v=ctckj-… By Patrick McHale, Ian Jones-Quartey, Rebecca Sugar & Pendleton Ward (for Adult Swim)

@SZedkitty I recommend a professional therapist

i feel like something happened to me when i was younger that seriously messed me up, but i literally have no clue what it was.

@goblinodds @HaltsSpider @owenbroadcast Yeah, it varies. I spent a lot more time worried about quicksand than I needed to. Still, I don't think complete sanitization is the answer, though perhaps you sometimes skip a poem at bedtime

@emphabet @HaltsSpider @owenbroadcast alas this did not work that way for me at all haha, i've definitely felt like i was dying from grief and fiction about grief didnt help but it did give me a load of stress in the years and years before i ever experienced grief

when i was getting children’s poetry together for my last book, i think i looked through over 2000 pages of kid’s poetry books. along the way, i noticed something interesting. occasionally, i’d hit a poem like a speed bump, and ask myself - why is this in a children’s poetry book? several times i actually caught myself going back and checking the title of the book, going over each word, to make sure i hadn’t accidentally misread it and picked up a book intended for adults. the poems i’m thinking of fell far outside of what is typically debated as being “for children” or “good for children”. one example that stands out is a poem about an air force fighter mourning his dead friend who died after being shot down over the ocean. whether a kid should see this or not is subjective, but these were just objectively not poems intended for children. further than that, it was impossible to imagine a human being who would see this poem and think that a kid would relate to it. i became so interested in why this kept happening (not many books, but enough to notice - obviously, modern collections) that i read some of the introductions, wherein another pattern emerged: the same words and phrases, often something circling around the editors desire to “challenge children”. i would often find, in these introductions, the editor gleefully and cryptically addressing these types of poems, saying something like “there are some poems in here that you probably wouldn’t choose for a kid, but it’s important that kids see this stuff”. without assessing this as good or bad (i have my own opinions, as i imagine anyone would), i think you could split people involved in children’s media, of any kind (books, shows, cartoons, movies), along this line: on one side, people who think it’s important to, somewhat openly, trojan horse adult themes into kid’s media - that this is a noble, virtuous thing that ultimately serves the child and is an essential part of their development. then, on the other side, people who would would take issue with inserting a blatantly “adult world” theme into something that presents as being “for children”, for a variety of reasons. since hitting this, it feels like a clean way to delineate people’s various models of childhood and child development. it’s a pretty firm break with people easily able to sort themselves and almost any media they encounter onto either side.