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

feel like just this morning i was reading takes saying there was no way the federal government could actually start deporting citizens and now tonight i’m reading headlines saying they have indeed deported at least one citizen; those sure aged fast

best super smash bros game ?

all my friends post on social media instead of having blogs

it sure would be nice if we had a culture of having people live a few years with somebody who had paid off their mortgage and didn’t need to charge rent while they worked so they could build up their savings before moving out and buying a house wait that is just apprenticeship huh

the new horsegirl album is very good

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one white liberal line of argument is that if people get used to treating robots that interface using human language as tools, then they might extend that and also start treating humans themselves as tools. but bitch they already do. bitch they already do

they argue that language processing robots are like dolls, and obviously it is good to treat dolls like humans even though they are in fact inanimate objects

i would counter that the whole FUNCTION of dolls is to be human standins. in this sense they are endowed with a certain human spirit so treating them like humans is appropriate

however, the function of language processing robots is not to be human standins but (only) to complete tasks using human language as an interface. endowing them with a human spirit does not make them more effective at this aim and in fact only makes it more difficult to critically analyse their outputs. so i disagree that there is a comparison to be had between robots and dolls

should you say thank you to inanimate tools after you use them to complete tasks

new york times currently out here telling us we should be saying thank you to robots even though it wastes huge amounts of money and energy

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”