æʃliŋ, purrepurrocessor @aescling@cat.family

my phone wants to pretend my power button doesn’t exist sometimes and i’m not a fan

the praegeru series on marxism is so far unironically one of the funniest things i’ve seen all year

-bernie sanders meme voice- i am once again asking youtubers to stop reading misleading vpn ad copy

This increase in suicide rates in states where it is easier for minors to access puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones increased at almost the same time, and to the same degree, as those interventions became available. Using Google Trends results for the terms associated with those medical interventions as a proxy for their availability [emphasis mine] shows that increased suicide rates in states with easier access almost perfectly track the prevalence of those terms. (Compare Charts 1 and 3.)

oh fuck off lmao

https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/pull/1798

new mastodon logo has been merged into glitch-soc

Men (2022) is a movie where men can have pussies and women dicks

for the curious: 5,000 videos

it is no longer pawsible for me to add videos to my watch later playlist. youtube tells me i’ve reached the maximum playlist size

author seems anti-Communist but i still find [their] history of the ideas leading up to the Manifesto useful, even if only really for its own sake

the penguin classics edition of The Communist Manifesto is very well worth it for the preface alone

It never seemes to have occurred to [Marx] that people are complex beings with different talents, ambitions, and desires. It may be more accurate to say he didn’t care!”

Most people work best when they pursue their own self-interest, an idea Marx despised.

btw all the men in this movie who are not her husband are played by the same actor so this film is REALLY inviting reading them as parts of some whole

twin thinks the very long mpreg birthing sequence is meant to depict the way toxic masculinity constantly keeps reproducing itself, creating hurt people who go on to hurt others; he read something to the effect of empathy in the way Harper looked at her husband at the end

my first guess is that all the men in this film are meant to be understood as different aspects of the way her guilt* over her husband’s suicide is haunting her; at the end they are gradually morphed together into one, and then take the shape of her husband as he looked when he looked himself. so i mean.

* undeserved, but it is not exactly the case that trauma is rational

anyway i’m rewatching the folding ideas video on annihilation again because i learned, after watching men, that it has the same writer-director

btw i should probably watch annihilation sometime

anyway by serious content warnings i mean it’s doing a lot with suicide, depicted quite explicitly, and a very blatant sexual assault, just right there, on screen

so like
yeah