not sure how to word this properly but i feel like.. the way unnecessary cattiness is “rewarded” online (especially on twitter) really just made some people forget how to act normal. i agree that sometimes that needlessly exaggerated rudeness is funny but in most cases it just makes you look like an idiot tbh… i don’t mean to sound too pretentious either - i’m just thinking of those cases where somebody asks a genuine question and in return they get the nastiest fucking reply from somebody who clearly doesn’t speak to enough people in real life… like do you hear yourself? do you think this anyone finds you intimidating instead of just off-putting? congrats on being the grand champion of maladjustment i guess
We as a community need to stop romanticizing the skinny chronically depressed emo trans guy and start romanticizing the fat happily married 30+ year old trans guy who wears goofy dad clothes.
You know maybe it’s the fact I’ve been on Tumblr too long but the trans guy influencers were always these lithe conventionally attractive constantly suffering skinny white guys. Meeting more people in the community, men who live with their spouses and have survived and weathered the adolescent angst we all suffered, who build healthy safe homes to raise their kids in even if they never had it. Who have friends and a community and silly hobbies they do with their kids. It has given me hope for life, aspiration, the idea that self care and improvement doesn’t end with transition, that you should still be growing and working to make a life you love even after your transition is complete. And I envy the trans guys who love and are loved and create love more than I envy the drop dead gorgeous guys. The life of a transgender person doesn’t always have to have this cloud of misery, even if it still hangs over you, you may find a place and people who will help you weather the storm.
I saw someone on tiktok saying that a lot of “gender envy” posts they see online remind them of thinspo and I can’t say I disagree with them.
If I’m being honest I started to feel a lot better about myself when I started comparing myself to other fat men. There’s a lot of men out there with your body type no matter what your body type is. Being happy and healthy and loved is a valid and realistic goal.
You know how canaries were historically brought into coal mines, because if the mine was full of carbon monoxide the canary would die first and the miners would be able to escape before they died too?
I just found the greatest thing.
This is a canary resuscitator.
When the miners notice the canary getting sick with carbon monoxide poisoning, they can close that circular hatch so no more gas gets into the canary cage, and open the valve on that oxygen tank to keep the canary breathing. In other words, they made a spacesuit for birds.
By immediately giving the canary access to clean air, the miners can save it from the poison. The bird lives. To be clear, this is not for economic purposes, this was specifically created because the miners felt bad and wanted to save the bird.
Isn’t that just the perfect demonstration of what humans are like? We started sacrificing small creatures to save ourselves, and then felt bad and spent our valuable resources on saving the critters too. Because yeah the canary was the only way to test for CO, but it’s a living creature too, dammit!
Elon Musk bought the company. He has nothing to do with the development. #CosplayEngineer
No. I will not have you do this.
Dr. Nikola Tesla did not sign bad contracts. He signed an excellent contract with Westinghouse to bring AC power to America. Westinghouse was the big competitor against Edison Electric, which ran DC power. Thomas Edison was a massive prick and Edison Electric went around doing its best to convince everyone that AC power was dangerous, most infamously by electrocuting an elephant to death and developing the first execution-style electric chair using AC power. All of this cemented in the mind of the public that AC power was dangerous and deadly, while DC power was somehow safer.
By 1890, Westinghouse was in trouble. George Westinghouse went to Tesla and laid out the truth: if he honored the royalty contracts that he’d agreed to pay Tesla, he would go bankrupt. So Tesla tore up the contracts. He walked away from millions, maybe billions of dollars because he believed that wireless electricity should be free to the world. Westinghouse went on to bring AC power to homes across America.
Tesla wasn’t a bad businessman. He was an idealist who hated capitalism.
