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Hah to me the soap shapes look like surrealist madly smiling faces 😅

I love the tassels dangling in your face 😄

Have you read The Sellout by Paul Beatty? I feel like that might fit the bill

For Romance as a book genre/marketing category, yes. I have my own opinions about that but it is a fact that if you market a book as Romance, that’s what you’re communicating to readers and what they will expect to find.

Not applicable to stories in other media though.

I didn't even know I somehow got my copy early! Sign up if you want slightly pulpy very trans hiveminds and fungal intelligence and neurospiciness and space opera noir-ish and Diaspora feels and righteous crankiness and competitive community art and I WANNA EAT THE THING

The photo is a combination of long blades of green grasses, red and yellow turning foliage and wildflower seed pods with a little blurry background visible through the foliage.

On the edge of the meadow
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Oh absolutely. There’s a reason for the joke about anarchist meetings using a progressive stack!

when dudes go "well I as a man would *love* it if women catcalled me" to argue that it's appreciation, not harassment when they do it, people are rightly incensed.

It's hard to switch paradigms to one where taking power into account would do more harm than good.

I can see why people have a hard time with it, why it smells funny to folks if they don't stop to really engage with it. In a lot of talking about oppressive systems, position *matters* and you can't just switch things around. When white people try to say "cracker" is a slur against us, or

Maybe because then moderation decisions would vary based on an account's audience size and composition, which seems like it does sort of create a "uWu smol bean exception"?

Fascinating! Part of me keeps that what the audience does with the thing (e.g. if they go harass a labeled person) seems like it shouldn't be considered in moderation rules and decisions about the thing itself, in the same way that power isn't??? I can't quite tell why I have that sense though

What would have to change in order for those to end badly, would you say? Like, what makes them not harassment now but might make them fall in that category in the future?

Yeahhhh I kept thinking "but doesn't power matter" and I do think it influences e.g. what gets reported, how the human mods perceive posts, etc. but you can't build the rules around it like "the more powerful a user is, the higher the threshold for what counts as harassment against them"

gouache landscape painting of rain clouds, lights and trees

dark

IF* the bot WERE* of someone like JKR's...

sigh this is what I get for trying to condense under character limit

I can see what Rahaeli means about ideological alignment, because if someone made a bot like that for my account, it would come off as vaguely disconcerting or maybe threatening. but the bot is of someone like JKR's account, it just reminds me people were pointing out her liking TERF posts for years

I've gone back and forth in pondering what makes that harassment, because I don't think it's actually textbook. Or at least, when I think online harassment I think.. I dunno, something like replying to every single thing someone posts with the word "idiot." But the bot didn't even tag his account.

This kind of explanation work is so immensely time-consuming and people who are putting out 15 simultaneous fires just don't have the capacity to do it, plus the psychological barrier of "why should I explain when it will be taken in the worst faith possible no matter what" is huge

"Why doesn't [site] communicate more about anything" well maybe because every time they do, hundreds of people lose their entire fucking shit for the next five days and a new completely wrong folk belief starts getting repeated as fact and becomes the basis for even more shit-losing

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

Boxes also work on bobcats

Regardless of if you celebrate the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, the Harvest Moon, or just making it through the day, every night we see is another one our enemies wish we hadn't.

Here's tonight's #FullMoon rising.

I hope if you have some clear skies you can look up and smile tonight. ❤️

FULL AGREE just adding alt text !

🌱 A fruity photoshoot: the last weird cucumber vogueing next to a terracotta pot - to which its colour-matched.

MPL -Making public libraries sexy again.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節)! 🥮

Walking outside, letting my eyes unfocus and just observe the movement of plants in the breeze, play of sunlight and shadow across different surfaces, etc

Please god

frog butt. it’s cute as hell. you probably wanna poke it or something weird like that. it’s ok. it’s just a picture. go ahead. poke your screen

look at this frog butt