Friendly reminder that estrogen doesn’t change your voice so please do not make fun of trans women with non-cis sounding voices vocal training is hard thank you.
This is no joke. So hard. Especially if you’re older.
Support trans woman who chose not to undertake voice training. Support trans woman with non-cis sounding vocal resonance.
Tim Squirrell, a researcher at the Alt-Right Open Intelligence Initiative at the University of Amsterdam, used Google’s BigQuery to analyze “every Reddit comment ever made—all 3 billion of them.” He used the results to identify different alt-right groups and the language they use.
Focusing on The_Donald, I used a script that lets you see which words are most likely to occur in the same comment. Combining this with a tool that allows you to look at the overlap in commenters between different parts of Reddit, I found that the alt-right isn’t just one voice: It’s made up by distinct constituencies that share different opinions and ways to express them, identifiable by the language they use and the other communities they post in.
In other words, there’s a taxonomy of trolls. So who are they, and what language do they use?
Here are the groups and their favorite words:
4chan shitposters: kek, Pepe, deus vult, tendies, God Emperor Trump
someone in my target language: hi :)! how are you?
me and Duolingo in haunting unison: the boys have the pears
In the context of harassment, though, the possibility of neurodivergence is almost solely deployed in order to protect men and absolve them of responsibility for inappropriate and harmful behavior – based on the intensely ableist, patronizing, and incorrect, but nonetheless potent and common, assumption that an ASD would render the man either incapable of acting appropriately or requiring/deserving of protection from any consequences for invasive or harassing actions. Meanwhile, women are assumed to be not only capable of, but actively responsible for, either giving up their boundaries or enforcing them in a way that protects the feelings and dignity of the person who is violating them. The possible impact of neurology or disability on their own methods of handling the situation is not considered. As a result, “But what if he’s autistic?” leaves the neurodivergent woman doubly burdened, both by a male-privileging culture which excuses misbehavior and protects harassers in any way possible including baseless speculations on neurology, and by the erasure and denial of her own experiences as a disabled woman.
When I’ve seen the issue of neurodivergent women discussed (usually in material written by women, by the way), the message has generally been that women are supposed to enforce boundaries, autistic women are less able to do that, and therefore autistic women are more vulnerable. Autistic women are also supposed to be vulnerable because they have more difficulty telling when someone is dangerous, or encroaching on their boundaries in a manipulative way. Therefore, these writings conclude, we should teach women how to detect dangerous men and enforce boundaries.
Which is good advice from a self-protection point of view, but should happen alongside teaching men how to respect autistic women’s boundaries. I haven’t seen any examples of that. Have you?
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A rare white moose in Gunnarskog. Photo by @tommypedersen.se There are approximately 100 white moose in Sweden. #wildlide #white #nature #gunnarskog #moose #sweden #varmlands #whitemoose #ghostmoose
I’m generally reasonably cynical and pessimistic about stuff, but four years ago today Chelsea Manning was sentenced to 35 years in a military prison, and now she’s on twitter sticking up up for prison abolition against Jacobin magazine
this puts joy in my soul and I’m not ashamed to admit it
The Wazir Khan Mosque is famous for its extensive tile work and frescos. It was built in seven years starting around 1634–1635 AD during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jehan. Shaikh Ilm-ud-din Ansari, a native of Chiniot who rose to be the court physician to Shah Jahan and the governor of Lahore . He was commonly known as as Wazir Khan (the word wazir means ‘minister’ in Urdu) and thus the mosque came to be known as the Wazir Khan Mosque.
This is almost relatable to me, but I’d need to have the same thing but with other items placed between the bananas in an attempt to make it look more subtle but actually it’s not subtle at all.
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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