trixie

that's Baldur's Gate 3

aww the fire horses are adorable!

same dude is simping for NYT columnists & arguing for blue-no-matter-who, so he’s no ally to trans folks

most annoying thing about the stupid "huh have trans people tried being gay instead" take is that like, basically all trans people I have ever met have had mostly queer friends, would have been hard for them not to be aware of "gay" as an option on the table

yes, i was there
i made friends, it was nice
they’re not around anymore & wouldn’t recognize me if they were, because it’s been 20 years

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oh i meant the UI/UX design. i stumbled on that and so i didn’t even interact with the mechanical design 😅

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pretty sure they have the same lack of perspective as the essayist and confused “music i like” with “nearly all popular music from the last century.” looks like they blocked both of us tho, so we’ll never know

yes, that final paragraph 100%

yeah there's another subthread that touches on this too. i think queer liberation includes moving beyond the "not a choice" argument, especially for trans folks where biological essentialism is one of the weapons used against us

Bacharach was active from 22–94 years old, although he's best known for his work between 28 (when he met Hal David) and 58 years old

on the other hand, queer liberation includes the idea that we deserve respect and equality regardless of whether it's a choice. a lot of trans folks especially see the "not a choice" argument as another form of gender essentialism & thus ultimately harmful

i agree with you about sexuality, but i don't think most folks are criticizing her sexuality. it's more about her embrace of feminism's worst misses (including biphobia), plus her naïveté in presenting this as a personal revelation. "reinventing misandry from first principles" as one person put it

defending their hot take by accusing you of alllivesmatter was certainly a choice 😬

it's not even a little bit true! most popular music is written by dudes like Max Martin, a 55-year-old with more #1 hits than anybody but Paul McCartney. dudes like Burt Bacharach and Hal David. most pop singers don't write their own material!

her bio says "her writing about culture and identity also appears in the Washington Post" so i'm taking the anti-Amazon bit with a grain of salt

it's a philosophy that promises liberty and equality while never delivering either. because everything is subordinate to individualism, it exacerbates imbalances and defies accountability. meanwhile its universalist elements stifle dissent, which privileged men disparage as "unenlightened"

aww these are beautiful!
that ray is adorable 🩶

seriously, it's rooted in John Locke's rationalizations for English colonialism. then as now, it framed the wants of powerful men as enlightened, rational, and just. it's founded upon the same philosophical sleight-of-hand that props up "meritocracy" and so much other chauvinism

i'm not even talking about that. why do they even WANT permanent daylight time? what even is the point?

sigh. i dunno why all of these proposals lean toward "permanent daylight time" instead of "permanent standard time." why???

a woman in a pink top is dancing in a kitchen with two men . Alt: Juliet O'Hara, Shawn Spencer, and Burton "Gus" Guster doing jazzercise in the Psych office

Psych is kinda anti-copaganda but also definitely copaganda

tbf that’s mostly on the movie, even as a 54yo bill & ted fan i would’ve missed the reference unless you had named it 😅

i think there's enough cultural weight behind other skull traditions that we can use them (with care). and goddess knows, this is an apt time for memento mori

oh no, i'm sorry 😅

it was already a common joke by the time Highlander 3 was released in 1994. so at least thirty years old!

thank you for this ❤️
(one of my all-time favorite movie villains)

wow that's one of the most tedious people i've encountered here. like, bsky is infamous for not having a sense of humor, but that guy is like "humor is evil"

it "doesn't work" in a very punk rock way 🤘🏼