@staff openly tagging face selfies of trans women as sexual content after you already lost ONE lawsuit over queerphobic moderation is quite a fucking move
(OP i hope its cool to answer smthn i saw ic here) for @pobopolybius and anyone else curious to what is being referred to
It’s not even just selfies. A popular post joking about about trans girl experiences got tagged as mature content, and to test somebody made the exact same post and replaced the mention of trans women with men and despite people reporting it, it has remained unamarked
my hot take on the awful nuclear war movie discourse is that i do actually think there is a way to create a critical but sympathetic biopic abt the jewish leftist/communist scientists involved in the manhatten project, who at the moment of 1942 did earnestly (and had reason to) view themselves as part of an urgent struggle against global nazism, and which can cut thru the usamerican imperialist apologia hero-fetish impulse and lay bare the genocidal devastations left in the wake of continuing us counterinsurgent militarism across the continent and pacific (which means addressing the anticommunism!) w/o resorting to white man existentialist handwringing. such a film however, would not be politically commensurable as a bajillion dollar summer blockbuster directed by christopher nolan!
it would require such film to face why so many american atom bomb researchers ended up as soviet spies when they realized this bomb is meant to be eventually used against ussr.
“It was due to this misconception, to this separation of science from society, of science from human beings and human lives that I came to work on the atomic bomb during the war. I believed, as did many of my colleagues, that our job as scientists went only so far as to find out the truths of nature. Anything beyond this, anything to do with the application of the knowledge we scientists discovered, was of secondary concern to us. In our study of pure science, we had no time to concern ourselves with such trifles.The application of science must be left to statesmen and engineers.
And I am ashamed to admit it took the horror of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to shock me out of this ivory tower of complacency, to shock me into the fundamental realization that there is no such thing as “pure” science; that science has a meaning only in relation to its service to mankind; only in so far as it helps to create a rich and beautiful world.
I say to those scientists, both in Japan and the United States who even now are still engaged in research on atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs and bacteriological warfare: Think again what it is you are doing! You may believe that you are gaining scientific fame by the papers marked “secret” which you are now filing away in the safes of the U.S. Army, but this is utterly false and shameful fame is an illusion, which will soon be trampled to dust by the hatred of the peoples of the whole world.”
Joan Hinton (Chinese name Han Chun) addressing the Asia-Pacific Peace Conference in Beijing, October 1952. She worked at the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos and had witnessed the Trinity test. This marked her first public appearance since 1948 when she left her position at the Institute of Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago to witness the revolutionary struggle in China. Hinton and her husband, Erwin Engst, subsequently dedicated their remaining lives to advancing Chinese agricultural collectivization and mechanization.
…at this point i’m sorry to introduce…the egg spoon.
Even better news about German egg related gadgets… the Eierköpfer (it also has a super long German name), for when you need a guillotine to open your egg neatly
No offence to Germany but why are you guys so fucking insane
nothing to see here. Just normal feelings about egg.
some ppl on here honestly need a refresher on the us govt’s current and historical imperialist bomb apologia. these positions have included, in various combinations and permutations:
-it was a tragedy, but a necessary and gravely chosen one
-it was a few scientists gone rogue, disobeying the noble orders of the us govt
-it was the us govt gone rogue, deviating from the noble aims of the good scientists
-it ended the war
-japan brought it upon their own civilians by being a belligerent and warlike nation
-the scientists felt really bad about it
-the scientists later got unfairly scapegoated for having been leftists (yes this is a real thing people still say about physicists who explicitly deliberately worked for the us govt)
-it was still a scientific achievement, though the knowledge gained was used immorally
-it was a horrible mistake and everyone learned an important lesson
-they underestimated how many japanese would be murdered, disabled, or injured, and wouldn’t have dropped bombs if they’d known
-it saved lives ‘in the long run’
if you are repeating any of these things in regards to a christopher nolan film based on a revisionist history explicitly aimed to 'redeem’ j robert oppenheimer’s legacy, then congrats! you are not immune to propaganda!
What able bodied authors think I, an amputee and a wheelchair user, would want in a scifi setting:
Tech that can regenerate my old meat legs.
Robot legs that work just like meat legs and are functionally just meat legs but robot
Literally anything that would mean I don’t have to use a wheelchair.
If I do need to use a wheelchair, make it fly or able to “walk me” upstairs
What I actually want:
Prosthetic covers that can change colour because I’m too indecisive to pick one colour/pattern for the next 5+ years.
A leg that I can turn off (seriously, my above knee prosthetic has no off switch… just… why?)
A leg that won’t have to get refitted every time I gain or loose weight.
A wheelchair that I can teleport to me and legs I can teleport away when I’m too tierd to keep walking. And vice versa.
In that same vein, legs I can teleport on instead of having to fiddle around with the sockets for half an hour.
Prosthetic feet that don’t require me to wear shoes. F*ck shoes.
Actually accessible architecture, which means when I do want to use my wheelchair, it’s not an issue.
Prosthetic legs with dragon-claw feet instead of boring human feet or just digigrade prosthetics that are just as functional as normal human-shaped ones.
A manual wheelchair with the option to lift my seat up like those scissor-lift things so I’m not eye-level with everyone’s butt on public transport/so I can reach the top shelf by myself.
A prosthetic foot that lights up when it hits the ground like those children’s shoes.
“Sometimes human connection isn’t that complicated. Sometimes it’s just about stepping back and asking the other person: What do I mean to you? What do you see in me? Why do you think we landed here?”
