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[technoxenoholic]

we still get immediately shoved out of our immersion in tv shows or films when The Girl find a dead body and immediately shrieks - we just don't find it realistic because we're pretty confident most people would gasp rather than shriek (i.e. sharp inhale rather than sharp exhale) and it also feels unnecessarily (and predictably) misogynistic too, as men encountering corpses almost never do the same on screen

also of course please do tell us if you've actually encountered a corpse unexpectedly, because tumblr is absolutely a place where some people have done this thing and we love a good anecdote

suddenly imagining "burst into song" as a potential response

#i would definitely say aloud (and i quote) 'jesus fucking christ' #my volume would depend on a number of factors such as whether or not there were Living People nearby #death mention #corpse mention #small text #polls #reblog games

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the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

#feminism #discussion of misogyny

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having ethics and standards and having empathy are two massively different things

#whoop there it is #discussion of bigotry #empathy

[technoxenoholic]

Hey btw please don't make jokes about being a "boring adult" or how adulthood is boring when you're around small kids. They'll believe you, and growing up with the idea that their final destination is as bleak as it is inevitable is not a healthy way to live. Even if they don't know it consciously, whenever they look at adults they are looking at their future. Like even if your life does suck, please don't frame it as just an inevitable part of being an adult.

If you know someone's kid whose interests and tastes are loud, shiny, sparkly and all over the place, and you're absolutely overwhelmed by being suddenly rapidly infodumped about a cartoon you had not heard of 30 seconds ago and about everything they've been getting into, and you're caught off-guard by them suddenly switching gears and askining you why you're still into the same things as you were a year ago, that aren't even that loud, sparkly and fun, please don't say something like

"Well when you're a boring adult you start to like boring things like that and then like those forever :)" Like don't fucking say that, they'll believe you. It doesn't make them feel fun and special to be told you think you're boring in comparison. They take their spark for granted and being told that they'll lose it one day is awful. And it's not even true!

It's far more truthful to tell them about how when you've been a grownup for long enough, you've had to the time to try all of the things and you know for sure which ones you like the most. And that's why it's so important that they also try everything, at least once, so that they'll know for sure whether they will or won't like it. Being a grownup isn't about giving up doing new fun things, it's about finding all the things you like so much that you never get bored of them.

Boldly claiming that you've done everything when you're not very worldly might seem dishonest, but a four-year-old can't tell the difference between a century and a decade. As far as they are concerned, their nearest neighbourhood is the whole universe, and you have been alive forever. Don't tell them the world is boring, and that being bored of it is inevitable.

#food for thought #parenting #i don't have a better tag for posts about interacting with kids and i don't have the spoons to come up with one on the spot

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no, you don't get to follow me if you're out here reblogging zionist propaganda. no, not even if you thought it was pro-palestine. listen to palestinians instead of to zionists who are good at sounding sympathetic.

"we're sad about all the bombing and suffering, we don't want to do it, but we have to do it because hamas" is just the same zionist excuse as always, no matter how they spin it. even if you believe hamas is a terrorist organization, the action of a terrorist organization does not EVER justify or excuse war crimes and other violence against the civilian population.

#stfu blue #i have not had the spoons to post about much of fucking anything lately. honestly can't read a lot of posts in full so can't check things #but do not let that give you an excuse to interpret my beliefs as sympathetic to zionism #leaving this untagged for reasons #the reasons is this post is explaining a boundary and is not an authoritative statement on the palestinian genocide #and my aforementioned lack of spoons and inability to read and properly check posts means i'm not equipped to have a discussion about this #all i can say for absolute certain is genocide is Bad Actually. and being marginalized in some way does not make war crimes okay

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#WE ARE THE SPACE ROBOTS #WE ARE HERE TO PROTECT YOU #WE ARE HERE TO PROTECT YOU FROM THE TERRIBLE SECRET OF SPACE #polls #reblog games #second place goes to zero wing rhapsody (which comes from all your base are belong to us. and queen of course) #the llama song & badger badger mushroom are up there as well. and narwhals. and also... #THE DUCK WALKED UP TO THE LEMONADE STAND. AND HE SAID TO THE MAN RUNNING THE STAND #'HEY' (BOM BOM BOM) 'GOT ANY GRAPES?' #oh somebody in the notes said ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny. that too for sure

[technoxenoholic]

Pretty much no impairment is as simple as abled people think it is.

People are taught to believe that disability is a simple “Can’t”. Can’t walk. Can’t talk. Can’t hear. Can’t see. An ability is just excised and no longer exists, if it ever did.

In reality, it’s rarely that simple.

It’s “I can sort of do x thing sometimes, but I get muscle spasms making it very dangerous or impossible to do it reliably or safely”. Or “I can do x thing but it causes me so much pain I will be unable to do anything else for hours or days after doing it”. Or “I can do x thing but I constantly injure myself doing it because of lack of muscle control”. Or “I can do x thing but so badly I functionally can’t do it two inches beyond my face, but now I have a mobile phone I can put up to my face so I can do it in certain very specific circumstances”.

None of these things mean someone isn’t disabled. And if you think it does, then it’s *your* ideas about disability that need to change.

The reason disabled people end up saying “can’t” when the reality is more complex is because people don’t trust our boundaries. They force us to injure ourselves instead of accommodating, or use energy that means we have none left to do *anything* else we need to do for the rest of the day. Or week. Or month.

Abled people need to start trusting disabled people, or you need to shut up, get out of any situation where you have power over us, and provide someone who will. Those are the only options.

The way we are expected to live in a performative hell of the making of more privileged people who then turn around and criticise us for not suffering in the precise way they have decided we should is genuinely nothing but ridiculous.

Just stop.

#disability #discussion of ableism #there's also ''i can do this but it's going to take me seven times longer than you think it 'should' take'' #as well as ''i can do this but i have to do it the 'wrong' way'' #and boy do abled people get mad about those

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Maybe this is the wrong platform to pose this question given the average tumblr user but

Is it just me or did our generation (those of is who are currently 20-30 ish) just not get the opportunity to be young in the 'standard' sense?

Like, everyone I talk to who's over 40 has all their wild stories about their teens and 20s, being young and dumb, and then I talk to my friends and coworkers and classmates, and we just... dont.

#uncaptioned text in images #i hate capitalism #alcohol mention #will tag if needed

[technoxenoholic]

here are my biggest gaming hot takes:

- no game actually needs to run faster than 30 FPS

- no texture needs to be bigger than 2k, and most don’t need to be bigger than 1k (save for megatextures). A good chunk should actually be smaller than 1k

- lower poly counts > high poly counts

Once you pass a certain threshold, it doesn’t even affect the style of the game that much, and you’re just using exponentially more power to get exponentially smaller results

Like, for example, the original Skyrim was 4 GB. The remaster is 22 GB. That’s five-and-a-half times more space for the exact same content! The graphical improvements are honestly negligible, especially when you consider the massive leap in storage and RAM used.

These sorts of things just hit diminishing returns so quickly— My eyes can’t tell the difference between 1k and 4k textures.

We have so many fun ways to get the maximum mileage out of every pixel and every polygon. It’s sad to see those techniques slowly trickle away from big-budget games!

Even as storage space becomes less and less of a concern, there’s something satisfying about keeping everything as small and tidy as possible

#video games #computer stuff

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OPT OUT OF DISCORD'S NEW ARBITRATION CLAUSE

I'm sure many people in the U.S. have seen discord's new terms of service thing pop up today, April 15th 2024, but haven't actually read it. this is an update to make it so you can't sue them or participate in any class actions against them. these kinds of agreements should be illegal and stuff but they aren't so here we are. there's no easy button to click that says opt out. to opt out you have to email their arbitration opt-out email, [email protected], with the following subject and message:

subject: Opt-out notice

body:

I, (your legal name), decline the agreement to arbitrate in Discord's Terms of Service updated March 15, 2024 for any and all accounts I have or use, past and present, and those that I create, have, or use in the future, regardless of their association with this email.

Please acknowledge your receipt of this opt-out notice in writing by replying to this email.

(your legal name)

#signal boost #ffs #will tag if needed

[technoxenoholic]

also on a similar train i wish ppl would put work into drawing trans bodies as diverse as we actually are im kind of sick of how ppl will draw trans art where every transfem is stick thin and like 6’4” and every transmasc is chubby and like 5’2” there are short transfems and tall transmascs and fat trans women and trans ppl of colour and disabled trans ppl and trans ppl who are any combination of all of those things and many more things!!! please work on not just drawing one type of trans ppl and treating that type as the default!!!

#discussion of transphobia #discussion of bigotry #uncaptioned text in images #drawing

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...Anyway, I created a Userstyle for the Chrome/Firefox Stylus Extension that reverts the new dashboard to the old format. This took a lot of tweaking and it's not perfect at all, but if anyone wants it I'll be uploading it soonish now!

You need to have Stylus installed. So if you don't have it:

Install the Stylus Firefox Addon or the Chrome Extension (You can install Chrome Extensions on Edge as well)

Once it's installed into Firefox/Chrome/Edge you can proceed with adding this style or any other.

To add the style, follow the instructions:

Go to this link: https://userstyles.world/style/11286/old-tumblr-dashboard-july-2023

Click on "install".

Style will open a tag with it and in the left side you'll have a button that says "install style", click there. (Step-by-step copied from the lovely dorothyoz39 who wrote this in a reply!) If you don't want the sticky header you can remove the labelled script at the top of the css below /* Sticky Header*/

Be sure to check for updates regularly, I'm fixing things as I go! And because everyone keeps asking here's how to support me on Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/pixiel !

To update click the Manage button on Stylus and click the check for update button below then click again to install! If you experience any bugs let me know - feel free to edit it yourself as well! P.S. This userstyle works just fine alongside Xkit & (for now) Dashboard Unfucker!

Check under the cut for the changelog and known issues!

NEW UPDATE: 05/03/24, 21:50pm BST v10.6

v9.6: Moved the Following | For you | Your Tags to below the create a post panel. Fixed the Accounts Menu! + Bugfixes V10.3: Patio compatibility. Added a way to hide the Patio button & "patio feedback?" button, just search for patio in the code and follow the instructions! v11.0: Temporary Chat feature fix after Tumblr broke it, fixed some positioning issues and j/k scrolling!

If anyone wants to help test out a new feature (Post width, dashboard positioning, etc) it would be super helpful! Read more about it here and shoot me a message!

THE CREATOR OF THIS USERSTYLE SUPPORTS THEIR TRANS SISTERS. WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!

Thank you dragongirlsnout for all your work on Dashboard Unfucker it was amazing working towards the same goal of fixing this website with you!

----- Known issues:

The search bar moves out of place on bigger monitors when not using the sticky header. You can adjust its position yourself under "/*Moves the search bar*/" by changing the "Left" numbers. I can't think of a way around that just yet without adjusting it yourself!

Search bar doesn't appear on some pages (like viewing a post), this is because Tumblr removed the search bar on those pages completely. Unfixable!

Only two columns in Masonry view. Unfixable, I can't figure out how to add another column in smaller screens. Tumblr creates columns based on monitor size, if I try adding another column (because it doesn't exist) it just perpetually loads on screen.

Tumblr has ONCE AGAIN CHANGED THE ACCOUNTS MENU. The menus are now shorter and have less information on them. This is unfortunately permanent. I do not see any way to fix this. Unfixable.

Solved issues: (Update)

Menus need to be manually closed SOLVED! in V.4 and updated in V.5! The menu & icon WILL scroll with you if you have removed the sticky header CSS, however, clicking anywhere on screen will make the Menu disappear still. DISCLAIMER: If you remove any of the header icons with Ublock the Account or Settings icon will disappear off screen or overlap with other icons. This is just cosmetic and the menus will still close - see option 4 for a solution to this problem!

Masonry view in searches is now fixed!

Removed Xkits new text for xkit users (update)

Added a new guide to make moving the Settings and Accounts buttons easier if you remove icons with Ublock. Example: /*If there are none icons on the right (of the settings icon), right: 120px;*/ Now you don't have to fiddle around moving the icons yourself, you can just choose the number value that works for you! Ctrl-F Search for Accounts Icon or Settings Icon in the code to find this!

Resized Messenger Chat Box!

NEW UPDATE 16/08/23, 23:55 BST v6.5: Figured out how to reorganise the icons in the header. Let me know if you have any problems with it and make sure to update your Userstyle! Some icons are hidden with Display: Block; you can hide more icons with this method!

Solved issues p2

Brought back SOME of the icons for Tumblrs latest update - Unfortunately, this does not bring back user icons for Reblogged posts! Make sure to yell at Tumblr for removing the icons as well as the horrible dashboard update here! v7.5 Fixed icons for all posts and put them back where they came from!

v6.9.6.9 (I promise this is the last funny number): Fuck Off Buggy The Clown Update + All languages support for the old header design!

v7.0: Fixed the search bar for tumblrs new collections feature, so it looks like the original search bar!

v8.0: Fixed masonry view icons, hidden the reblog icon on dashboard icons, fixed icons in blog viewport

V8.1: Fixed issue with icons not working on soft-refresh & with endless scrolling disabled - be sure to complain to staff!

v9.3: Changed a few things with the search feature, I also made the posts less round.

#signal boost #hellsite #computer stuff #in light of the death of our beloved dashboard unfucker...

[technoxenoholic]

the fact that "eco" and "ethical" are two separate concerns in the global north, and that "eco" is a much more popular concern, with many "eco" products being made in actual sweatshops, is a big part of why i am The Joker

#important #leaving this untagged for reasons #the reasons is lack of spoons

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Monoecious is not a synonym for intersex

Neither is "biologically nonbinary"

Do you mean the species has more than two reproductive sexes?

Do you mean they're monoecious?

Intersex people are not "biologically nonbinary" or monecious. You cannot use the word intersex as a synonym for these things. If you're going to be doing speculative biology you need to learn what words mean first.

#whoop there it is #leaving this untagged for reasons #the reasons is lack of spoons

[technoxenoholic]

It is actually way better for 100 addicts to get their fix on pain pills than a single person in pain go without. I call this the "Torture is bad" principle. You should be able to get the good stuff forever after a single doctor's visit. If you're worried about addicts fund rehab centers and needle exchanges instead of torturing people.

#important #drugs #medication #death mention #discussion of ableism #will tag if needed

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seeing people comment on blazed posts, ads, or stuff in the "recommended" or "radar" or whatever when you have the tightest ad-blocking lockdown you could possibly conjure on your browser is so funny. i have no idea what any of y'all are talking about. good luck though. let me know if you want me to help you filter it

#stfu blue #hellsite #ublock origin #among other things #i block unwanted web elements with extreme prejudice

[technoxenoholic]

we're so lucky to get to eat so many staple grains tbh. like in early history you'd have to just eat what grew around you on a day to day basis like if you were born in asia hope you like rice if you were born in northern europe hope you like einkorn wheat. but i'm gonna eat rice AND wheat AND oats today. fabuloso

#food #agriculture #history #so true