Do not confuse matters of fact with matters of opinion. You are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts. Reality is singular, it's the same for everyone, and it doesn't care how you feel about it or what you'd rather be true. It stays same whether you believe in it or not.
Really wondering why I feel obligated to produce information tbh. Why not just keep all my thoughts to myself?
I like nostr as a concept and as a technology, but you will never convince me to use bitcoin lol
Wanted to read a horror book because of the season, but I started reading,,, Closer by Dennis Cooper. So kinda horror, but more just like gay transgressive literature I guess? I like it tho
#bookstr
So what’s the deal with trigger warnings? Do they actually help? They clear are a culture war fixture. But where do they come from and is there any scientific evidence behind them?
Because they first got public attention at liberal arts universities in the US I assumed that it was the popularization of academic research. That’s not actually what happened. It was students who pressured schools to adopt them. Where did the students learn about trigger warnings? Early social media! LiveJournal, Tumblr, and most especially fanfic sites had trigger and content warnings on their content and lots of students had used those sites in high school and liked the idea of trigger warnings.
Search Engine is a great podcast, and they did an episode about the origins of trigger warnings.
https://www.searchengine.show/listen/search-engine-1/what-do-trigger-warnings-actually-do
I always thought trigger warnings came from tumblr, one of a number of ideas cooked up by teenagers trying to reinvent existing things from scratch. It's just content warnings, which have obviously been around a lot longer, but framed around trauma triggers. So like, making something that's useful for everyone out to be an accessibility tool, which opens it up to a bunch of criticism and debate that was never applicable before. It would never have been a "culture war" issue if those kids hadn't needlessly rebranded and moralized the basic act of warning about possibly objectionable material.
Bad things should stop happening to the internet archive forever
I'm tired as hell all the time and I don't know what exactly in doing with my life lol
new machine girl music video !!!
i disagree with everybody on a bunch of stuff lol, i have very idiosyncratic beliefs. which is apparently a symptom of my personality disorder (a point towards my belief that most psychiatric "disorders" are just pathologizing natural and potentially useful variation lol)
atrium carceri rules, if you want some ominous dark ambient music while you're reading horror books lol
if by "the left" you mean liberals/democrats in the united states, then yeah i'd agree with you. but despite what the media will tell you (and despite the only left-wing party being almost exclusively liberal), liberals only make up like 11% of the population, and most of the left hates them. pushy, self-righteous, and purity-obsessed, mostly middle-class (and therefore with divided class loyalties), and always insincere.
Phil Ochs was right when he said they're "ten degrees to the left at the best of times, ten degrees to the right if it affects them personally." "scratch a liberals and a fascist bleeds" is a common slogal in the circles i spend time in lol
attacking people for not taking measures to reduce the spread of disease is certainly ineffective at actually making them stop, though, and i've been saying that for a while. however it's mostly disability activists doing that in my experience, not the left more broadly
willfully spreading disease is bioterrorism and a violation of the bodily autonomy of others, actually. you shouldn't he forced to get a vaccine you don't want, but also nobody should be forced to share the public with a vector-by-choice of any infection
sharing because apparently some people on here think privacy is something the right actually cares about lmao
the conservative school board of a school district in pennsylvania is installing windows in some of the school bathrooms, specifically the bathrooms set aside for trans students
nah. can't have bodily autonomy without privacy, and bodily autonomy is the core leftist value of the moment. between abortion, lgbtq issues, and anti-capitalism, everything refers back to it
new machine girl album in two weeks hell yeah
roe v wade was all about privacy, there's a huge anti-government and anti-corporate segment of the (anarchist) left that's all about privacy and opposing mass surveillance. whereas the far right seems to want to invade everyone's privacy all the time lol
watched a spider slowly descend from directly above me, only to panic and start climbing up again when it noticed i was right there. fuckin idiot