Posts by ALWETP@lgbtq.cool
(DIR) Post #9pAGuqQ92oho6IncAa by ALWETP@lgbtq.cool
2019-11-20T19:28:35Z
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Today is #TransgenderDayOfRemembrance #TDoR. These are the names and faces of our 27 trans siblings officially acknowledged to have been killed by hate in the United States alone. I want to specifically call attention to the fact that 26 of the 27 were people of color. This is an issue of race every bit as much as it is of gender.
(DIR) Post #9pNRBrBcXSgw6A2QYC by ALWETP@lgbtq.cool
2019-11-27T04:27:50Z
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Hey, so... Is it just me or is the entire plot of Frozen 2 a neoconservative approach to reparations for colonialism? Like, they remove the direct oppression but save the benefits that the colonizers had from that oppression and installed a literal white savior as a Christ figure over a group of people coded Native American... And like, after all that, there's no animosity whatsoever because the white saviors had ancestry belonging to the oppressed group (but are entirely white passing and raised in the white culture).I get it's Disney, but god damn does this movie have some problematic shit going on.
(DIR) Post #9pNRBsvk3TB7VUcm4u by ALWETP@lgbtq.cool
2019-11-27T04:30:56Z
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Oh fuck, and releasing it so close to Thanksgiving too, for fucks sake. That... That can't be an accident, right?
(DIR) Post #9pNRBvgboBr83QZEPI by ALWETP@lgbtq.cool
2019-11-27T05:11:40Z
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@ice that's nice... Is that at all relevant to what I was saying?
(DIR) Post #9rUzmNFImze0MdVxM8 by ALWETP@lgbtq.cool
2020-01-29T09:50:31Z
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Ugh, I feel like I've been getting swamped in like... Really binarist, assimilationist viewpoints from my various trans communities lately. Like, I've seen a lot of "I'm done transitioning so I'm not trans any more, I'm leaving the community" stuff lately, as well as a lot of "don't call people attractive if they don't pass as cis" stuff, and it's all really gross and invalidating for me, but also just super transphobic and enbyphobic from a perspective of starting from the assumption of a hierarchy existing with cis people at the top, then passing binary trans people, then nonpassing binary and non-binary people at the bottom, and like... What the fuck, folks?
(DIR) Post #9rUzmNe7IjUfbb7m2C by ALWETP@lgbtq.cool
2020-01-29T09:58:13Z
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Like, the cultural concept of passing is inherently transphobic, because it creates this idea that the highest goal of any trans person should be to be seen as cis. The idea of considering one's self to no longer be trans once that goal is achieved is pretty explicitly implying that to be trans is undesirable. It's also enbyphobic, because it applies this value to all trans people, including the ones for whom "passing" means either not transitioning at all, or transitioning in a way that still causes them dysphoria. Applying passing as a "should" places pressure on non-binary people to live with dysphoria, and that's the same as telling a binary trans person not to transition.
(DIR) Post #9rUzmOBnHWQrI2sfWi by ALWETP@lgbtq.cool
2020-01-29T10:03:43Z
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The thing is, being trans is awesome. Being non-binary is awesome. Like, we're the folks who are brave enough to kick the cultural institution of gender in the fucking balls, spit in its face, and redefine who we are in spite of everything the world tells us. Why should we try to be cis, even if we have the luxury of being binary and pretending to be cis is an option? We're fucking great. Being trans is fucking great, except for the way cis people treat us. We're not less than. If anything, we're greater than. So fuck off with your notions of passing. We're better than that.
(DIR) Post #9tzW5BhW2rUlTVO3m4 by ALWETP@lgbtq.cool
2020-04-13T04:55:33Z
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@natecull I mean... Voyager and Enterprise were basically pro-military propaganda. Voyager had a lot of vaguely nationalist/colonialist ends-justify-the-means stuff. ENT literally had Space 9/11...
(DIR) Post #9tzW5CDm6vId5YTp3Y by ALWETP@lgbtq.cool
2020-04-13T05:05:51Z
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@natecull the Maquis turning into right wing nationalists was also a really weird thing Voyager did, because in TNG and DS9, they were always depicted as like... Generally pretty anarchist. Like, with some misguided folks, obviously, because they weren't the Federation and we can't have non-Federation heroes, but also generally pretty leftist, fighting against fascism and nationalism and the like.Voyager turned that into this weird pro-Federation, pro-human nationalist thing and then tried to say that was good.
(DIR) Post #9tzW5Ccacf9IKW5djc by ALWETP@lgbtq.cool
2020-04-13T05:20:41Z
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@keithzg @natecull Yeah, Voyager always felt the need to hammer home the point and return things to status quo by the end of the episode. No room for nuance or setting things up for a later payoff. Everything had to be simple enough to understand from a single episode, and the whole show suffered from it.
(DIR) Post #9tzW5o71EUTSbbbxnk by ALWETP@lgbtq.cool
2020-04-13T05:22:14Z
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@keithzg @natecull "Oh, we might need to destroy this civilization to cut a few years off our journey home, and this is made somehow morally ambiguous by... WELL THE PEOPLE YOU KNOW REALLY MISS HOME, GUYS!!!" - the plot of 2/3 of Voyager.
(DIR) Post #9uJbB2gayxcw6uOTnk by ALWETP@lgbtq.cool
2020-04-22T21:58:29Z
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Leo is a very sleepy boy.
(DIR) Post #9uOmoOEEtKnXVHtXwu by ALWETP@lgbtq.cool
2020-04-25T00:21:26Z
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@natecull to be fair, I think the idea was instead of going into a low orbit, to hang out at the L2 point, further from the black hole, and just send the lander. Not that that would make a significant difference, but... That's the only reasonable explanation for what they do in the movie.
(DIR) Post #9uOmoOaDZcNYbSB6Cu by ALWETP@lgbtq.cool
2020-04-25T00:32:51Z
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@natecull I remember there being something about the engines, but I can't for the life of me remember what it is. I know for a fact though that they don't have enough space on that puny lander even for the reaction mass they'd need, never mind the engine fuel. I can't even imagine the specific impulse those engines would have to reach to do the kinds of things they show them doing, and to have that sort of Isp AND the thrust to weight ratio to lift off of a planet with gravity higher than Earth's is ridiculous.
(DIR) Post #9uOmoOlCulAZ9XJsKu by ALWETP@lgbtq.cool
2020-04-25T00:42:12Z
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@natecull they're apparently "hybrid aerospike chemical/plasma thrusters", powered by two tokamak fusion reactors. They also have an air-breathing mode. Like, sure, that's how to make an SSTO, but I still don't see it being capable of VTOL like the Ranger is in the movie. And it wouldn't carry enough fuel to be functional as an SSTO with chemical rockets either. There's not enough space in that fuselage for much more than a few tens of m/s of ΔV like the shuttle OMS.
(DIR) Post #9uoK6ICAPxTGExmRF2 by ALWETP@lgbtq.cool
2020-05-07T17:50:50Z
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@Kotik haha. Dicksmith. A smith who forges dicks.
(DIR) Post #9usNtQ7mnnGdW7gkE4 by ALWETP@lgbtq.cool
2020-05-09T16:32:26Z
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So my town is doing a potato giveaway. Basically, some of the potatoes that farmers are throwing away, the town has seized and is giving out for free. There's a line (literally) a mile long. America doesn't have breadlines. We have potato lines.
(DIR) Post #9utOGakXetqEHxpDDk by ALWETP@lgbtq.cool
2020-05-10T01:18:07Z
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Ha he got banned from Twitter for refusing to take down one of his tweets calling a college professor a groomer for wanting her adult students to have privacy from their parents.
(DIR) Post #9utQFbkaeUi50lVRgm by ALWETP@lgbtq.cool
2020-05-10T04:21:10Z
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I have no idea where I found this, but it was begging to be shared.
(DIR) Post #9uwzx5egAxvULCQCAK by ALWETP@lgbtq.cool
2020-05-11T21:36:31Z
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Fun sword fact: all the swords you see in "serious" (tone-wise) fantasy like Game of Thrones are much more of a modern aesthetic than a medieval one. Medieval aesthetic would be considered downright gaudy by today's standards.Dyes were expensive and therefore a sign of wealth, so no nobleman would be caught dead with an undecorated black scabbard or an unengraved, un-inlayed blade as long as he could afford to dye his scabbard bright colors and inlay gold or silver into his sword. The image is an example of what might be more typical for a reasonably wealthy nobleman around the time of the Battle of Agincourt.