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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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poztatt

DPC and DPL.  Dead People’s Clothes and Dead People’s Leather.

Their toys, their paintings of half naked, naked, screwing men.  The statues.  The leather.  The sling.  The posters.  The … all of it.

We’d literally Straighten homes.  Depending.  Some families knew and were fine. Or more ok.  But pictures of other guys on phones was the least of it.

I have… leather that’s been passed through three or four men who’ve died before getting to me.  They’re the heirlooms now, passed down chosen families.  

Sometimes there were crews.  We’d show up as soon as possible, as a unit.  We’d hit the bedrooms first.  Clear out closets, under beds, bedsides.  We’d donate, throw out, take mementos.  Pass on.  Secret lives and secret, us only treasures.  

Then we’d leave.  For some family’s you never talked about it.  They never knew.  It was better all around.  

I have vests, gloves.  A belt.  Arm bands.  Paintings.  T-shirts.  Photos, undeveloped film that’d I’m still somewhat terrified to try to get developed (lol).  We live on in the living rooms of others.

n0nb1narydemon

This is. A very important message for the younger generations of queers.

We still have so much father to go, but y'all. Don’t let our past be forgotten.

ricemilk413

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So back in the late 80s and early 90s, when I was 20 and there was another friend dying of AIDS like every three weeks. Yeah, seriously those days were terrible. Young gay men now will just never know what it was like. But when a friend would die we would ALL know exactly what to do. We’d get to their houses as fast as possible (most of us already had a key) and we would know EXACTLY where the smut was, we would know EXACTLY where the stuff they didn’t want their family to find. We would get it and we would destroy it. OR we would keep it for ourselves if it was cool, or we would donate it to…something. I dunno. It’s kind of a messed up memory, but uh, back then we all just had to have each other’s backs and uuh, yeah. This video just reminded me of that.

onemillionspiders
liberalsarecool

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Sharing space is nothing new. Sharing bathrooms is nothing new. The reactionary outrage is so manufactured.

theconcealedweapon

The parking lot? As in the gender neutral parking lot? As in a place where you have no privacy?

greatmountainfloofsquatch

These are the bathrooms at the airport in question:

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As you can see, complete privacy for all waste-expulsion activities. You only encounter other people around the sink.

aspiringwarriorlibrarian

This just proves a point that I’ve repeatedly noticed and it’s that every time a bathroom goes gender neutral it gets about a hundred percent safer.

I distinctly remember coming back from college to find that they’d converted the two of the bathrooms into all-gender restrooms. Among the changes were doors that went all the way up and down, a locking mechanism within the door, and actual door handles. Even the single-occupancy bathroom got a wall for extra privacy.

In contrast, I remember the women’s bathrooms in my old school. They were broken as shit. Some doors needed to be held by a friend, some doors you held with your foot from inside. The wheelchair-accessible bathroom straight up did not have a door at all. And yet we all pretended this was okay because hey, the womanly honor code. You think that shit would have flown if there were two gender-neutral restrooms?

All I’m saying is that if I were fleeing a predator or wanted to be absolutely sure I was private, which one would be the better option? The one that assumes that a “no penises allowed” sign will be enough? Or the one that actually, physically protects me?

naamahdarling

Piss in the parking lot? In front of children? Welcome to the SOR, douchebag.

hudhaver
gardengnosticator

““Let us free Ireland,” says the patriot who won’t touch Socialism. Let us all join together and crush the brutal Saxon. Let us all join together, says he, all classes and creeds. And, says the town worker, after we have crushed the Saxon and freed Ireland, what will we do? Oh, then you can go back to your slums, same as before. Whoop it up for liberty! And, says the agricultural workers, after we have freed Ireland, what then? Oh, then you can go scraping around for the landlord’s rent or the money-lenders’ interest same as before. Whoop it up for liberty! After Ireland is free, says the patriot who won’t touch socialism, we will protect all classes, and if you won’t pay your rent you will be evicted same as now. But the evicting party, under command of the sheriff, will wear green uniforms and the Harp without the Crown, and the warrant turning you out on the roadside will be stamped with the arms of the Irish Republic. Now, isn’t that worth fighting for? And when you cannot find employment, and, giving up the struggle of life in despair, enter the poorhouse, the band of the nearest regiment of the Irish army will escort you to the poorhouse door to the tune of St. Patrick’s Day. Oh! It will be nice to live in those days! “With the Green Flag floating o’er us” and an ever-increasing army of unemployed workers walking about under the Green Flag, wishing they had something to eat. Same as now! Whoop it up for liberty!”

— James Connolly, Let Us Free Ireland! (1899)

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dduane

The AI feedback loop: Researchers warn of ‘model collapse’ as AI trains on AI-generated content
As a generative AI training model is exposed to more AI-generated data, it performs worse, producing more errors, leading to model collapse.
VentureBeat

“Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.”

“Over time, mistakes in generated data compound and ultimately force models that learn from generated data to misperceive reality even further,” wrote one of the paper’s leading authors, Ilia Shumailov, in an email to VentureBeat. “We were surprised to observe how quickly model collapse happens: Models can rapidly forget most of the original data from which they initially learned.”

jellyfishdirigible

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hollowboobtheory
hollowboobtheory

I know it feels like an understatement but you sometimes make more progress by pointing out that conservatives are fucking rude. going out of your way to call someone the wrong name because you don't like them? rude. childish. this isn't fucking kindergarten, Carl. she said her name is Jennifer. Everybody knows her as Jennifer. You are the one making things confusing. Grow up.

"misgendering is violence": invites discourse over the TraNs DeBatE, puts people on the defensive, opens you up to accusations of liberal snowflakery, comes off as a hypothetical thought exercise

"Who the fuck is Jason? I don't know a Jason. Oh her? You mean Jen? You mean fucking Jen? That's Jen, dipshit." : crystal clear. you're making shit more difficult for everyone because you're a rude manchild.

bekandrew

honestly this feels like the 'conversations with queer people/good allies [classical painting of philosophers]' vs 'conversations with conservatives [picture of teacher helping a toddler play with plastic blocks]' meme. You have to meet people where they're at.

Conservatives will not engage at the level of 'misgendering is violence' (because they will not acknowledge out loud that hate speech is a type of violence unless they are the ones trying to censor it, nor do they see misgendering as a type of hate speech) so when you engage, you have to do it in a way they'll actually understand.

hollowboobtheory

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peer review here! yeah this us all right but I especially wanna point out the "seeding doubt" bit bc that's exactly what you're doing.

You're not gonna convince a conservative they're wrong in an epic debate, especially if they're a stranger. For most people deconstructing hateful beliefs, it's gonna be death by a thousand cuts. You probably won't ever see it, but if they consistently get this response, there is a chance they'll eventually start to wonder if they're the problem (they are). It's not guaranteed, but it's possible.

Of course, deconverting bigots is positive, but not the main goal. This approach takes a tiny step towards that happening while still prioritizing the real goal, which is protecting marginalized people.

hollowboobtheory

it also works bc conservatives and neolibs tend to conceptualize things in terms of individuals, not systems. appealing to an abstract concept that they don't believe in isn't gonna do shit, but going "were you raised in a fucking barn? you're making everyone here uncomfortable" will because they do believe manners exist

and this goes for p much any form of bigotry, not just transphobia.

sam-berto

reblog if your name isn’t Amanda.

pastassassins

2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!

We’ll find you Amanda.

iceslushii

this has almost 11 million notes what is this

yiffmaster

I’ve never seen this post once in 10 years on this site

llsilvertail

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

I’ve never even heard of this before tho??? Wtf??????????

computationalcalculator

oh my god, I didn’t think there were any surviving versions of this post left

For those who weren’t around in the Deep Lore times, this is one of the relics of the editable post era. This post has THE SINGLE HIGHEST NOTES of ANY post on this site, bar none, but with more than a dozen variations. Every single post you’ve ever seen with more than 3 million notes has been a different version of this one.

This is the “Dean’s Gym Shorts” post. This is the Flubber post. This is the original “Reblog if you support gay people” post. it was ALL of them. before half the site got nuked, it had even more notes than it has now - at one point, well over 15 million, and that was years ago.

This, with no exaggeration, is the ONE TRUE heritage post