Lady in Love @Lady@cat.family

« A thousand things make it impossible to mistake the verdict on queer lives and on women’s lives, as on the lives of those who are poor or not white. The hecatombs of queer youth; a decade squandered in a killing inaction on AIDS; the rapacious seizure from women of our defense against forced childbirth; tens of millions of adults and children excluded from the health care economy; treatment of homeless people as unsanitary refuse to be dealt with by periodic “sweeps”; refusal of condoms in prisons, persecution of needle‐exchange programs; denial and trivialization of histories of racism; merely the pivot of a disavowing pronoun in a newspaper editorial: Such things as these are facts, but at the same time they are piercing or murmring voices in the heads of those of us struggling to marshal “our” resources against illness, dread, and devaluation. They speak to us. They have an amazing clarity. »

eve kosofsky sedgwick, 1993

you say you listen to queer elders? ok name five of their songs

it’s really obvious from like a few seconds which moderators actually care about the safety of the people here, and which moderators care about cultivating a certain kind of liberal space or discussion platform with no considerations made for the fundamental vulnerabilities of being human, or not Enough for them to sacrifice their perfect vision of Liberalism in favour of actual measures to protect users

if your posts are indistinguishable from that of a CIA plant trying to sow controversy and foil collective action, maybe consider making different posts

the kind of idle linkfollowing which people now see as relegated to sites like Wikipedia or TVTropes was once how the entire internet operated

any cuties on this web site wanna write pokémon let’s go pikachu and let’s go eevee fanfic with me

i typed fannish meta into my forum and now i’m sleepy

can’t believe AO3 doesn’t have a “Universe with Mega Evolution” tag

sometimes it’s a website i’ve never heard of and it STILL has a paywall

sometimes i check the federated timeline on an old big instance for kicks and yall twitter thinkfluencer types get their news from a whole lot of places i’ve never heard of these days

they created a special “most fun while it lasted” category so that brat could win something

can’t believe the linguists are only just now learning about “brainrot”

LUIGI MADE POLITICAL WORD OF THE YEAR BLESS

« Presiding at the Jan. 6 voting session were Ben Zimmer, chair of the ADS New Words Committee, and Dr. Kelly Elizabeth Wright of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, data czar of the New Words Committee. “Rawdog has recently and rapidly burst its sexual bounds to refer to engagement in any activity without the typical preparation or in stone-cold sobriety.” Dr. Wright said. “In 2024 folks rawdogged flights, family dinners, and final exams. As one nominator commented this evening, rawdog is a great choice for Word of the Year as we collectively rawdog the future of American politics in 2025.” »

man i clearly was busy this winter because i am only just learning that the Word of the Year for 2024 was “rawdog”

the social internet would be a lot better if instead of discord you just shared a link and it created a temporary chatroom that a handful of friends joined at the same time and chatted for an hour and then the whole thing closed permanently

it’s really easy to just not invite two people to your house at the same time but on the internet this is challenge level: impossible

chat rooms are bad

this is a random recipe from K·A·F rather than a respected family recipe and yeah it definitely needs a bit of work

tastes good tho

running out of granulated sugar did not stop the baking

does it still count as missionary position if you use a strapon

carney wouldn’t have won against biden

man, instead of running for president biden should have run for mayor of wilmington delaware

in real life you have to explain your opinions but it’d be more fun to keep them guessing

if i was a baldurs gate 3 character and could just make “Lady disapproves” pop up on the screens of my friends and rivals i would be too powerful