Notice: not only do your friends actually like you, they secretly like you twice as much as they let on
*twirling the phone cord* btw, they have like several cautionary tales in the bible about the archetype i embody
Heyyy also shoutout to other autistic people with funky grammar/syntax.
People who integrate whatever slang they find useful/interesting/whatever into their language even if it “doesn’t fit them” (like I read a lot of British lit growing up so I sometimes use UK wording even though I’m not British), people who flip around the order of words so it still makes sense but is just “out of order”, people who repeat bits of phrases from the first part of their sentences without realizing (“Though I don’t think you’d like that dress though”), people who incorporate wording from different time periods, people who adopt accents really easily, whatever, y’all are cool ily
gaylordlady asked:
Thank you for making gay people Mr Neil
neil-gaiman answered:
That’s very kind of you to thank me but the majority of the credit should probably go either to God or their mothers.
pandorasgf asked:
how many seasons of good omens do you think there will be? so sorry if you've already answered this !! 🫶🏻
neil-gaiman answered:
Definitely two.
And then it’s up to Amazon. If enough people watch it to the end we may get three.
i hate dogs with blue eyes. why is fucking jeff the killer at my back door
Do you need something.
before this starts getting notes i have to add that this is not my dog. i dont know how he got in my backyard
Nobody should be using GPT detectors for anything important.
This is from a recent study that found that GPT detectors were misclassifying writing by non-native English speakers as AI-generated 48-76% of the time (!!!), compared to 0%-12% for native speakers.
ALTIt is irresponsible to use AI-generated text detectors as evidence of academic misconduct, and that's putting it mildly.
The sorts of mistakes ai writing make that humans don’t are easily detectable by humans. Inconsistent names and details. Non-existent sources. Instructions that are actually nonsense (if you ask ai for a baking recipe it will not give you something that will bake well). None of these are detectable by automation (as the automation is just as stupid as the ai that wrote the article). So instead, they rely on unusual word and phrase choices, which AI does, but people who don’t speak English well also do. But even a 12 percent false positive rate is huge when an accusation can ruin your chance at a college career.
The interesting thing about this study is that if someone is an esl student and gets punished for ai, and the college uses one of these systems, they can use this study to sue for discrimination. The lawsuit is more likely to be successful if the student wasn’t using AI, but it still would be bad PR and a court case even if the school was right.
So, what should teachers do about AI? There’s different levels of AI usage in college papers, but the one that’s generally considered cheating is letting it write papers wholesale. Which is really easy to both detect and prove. Mostly because ChatGPT will just make up sources. Even if you can’t prove that the student used AI, a fake source is academic misconduct. And AI making up shit is not going to be fixed anytime soon. Because AI is a statistical language model. It doesn’t know anything beyond which word is more likely to come after a set of words.
Every day I get closer and closer to no longer identifying as trans, and simply being a genderless intersex person. Because the average trans perisex person is just as fucking intersexist as the average cis perisex person, and I'm so fucking tired of it.
Y'all try to split hairs and decide which experiences are "trans man experiences" and which experiences are "trans women experiences," and you try to cram nonbinary people into "transmasc or transfemme," and you insist on splitting trans people into categories based on their birth assignment, and you fucking wonder why you're not making headway in any actual gender liberation.
Assholes.
Throwback to the time I posted on Facebook about how scared I was about the rise in transphobia because someone in my neighborhood had just screamed "TRANNY!" at me from a car window, and a (now very much ex) friend decided to lecture me about how I wasn't as high-risk as some hypothetical trans woman and me talking about being scared was akin to cultural appropriation.
This. This is why we can't make any fucking progress. Y'all are more interested in discourse over who's allowed to identify as what or reclaim what slurs, and meanwhile, the average person is still going to call all of us trannies from the car window. And then probably shoot us and claim it was self-defense.
It's less that my friends are awful and more that there is systemic bigotry that has eaten into trans spaces, and is something that intersex people talk about on a regular basis, only to get ignored and talked over by literally everyone else.
Intersex issues aren't some niche discourse topic, they're part of a much bigger conversation that people keep willfully ignoring.
Your response is incredibly rude. You could have just kept scrolling if this post isn't relevant to you.
Intersex people are systemically erased and that erasure is upheld and enforced by every corner of the queer community.
It is suffocating and maddening and isolating beyond description. And I know a good amount of people who are putting in effort to learn about us and support us and stand with us in unity against fascism, but so many folks aren't and don't care. I've been told that I'm centering cis issues by talking about intersexism. I've been told I'm appropriating trans struggles by existing in my intersex body without altering it.
So many won't put any effort into unlearning the false sex binary and will repeat intersexist bullshit. So many will see descriptions of what is clearly intersexism, label it transphobia and act like we don't exist. So many won't learn how their own bodies will never align with any binary sex because humans inherently are a mixed bag of characteristics.
It's instant feverish anxious horrible insanity when I go from being called slurs and seeing graphic violence described against me and pissing outside rather than choosing a bathroom for my safety and then coming online and being entirely ignored and rejected by the trans community. It's indescribable how mentally unwell it makes me feel if I think about it too much. Intersex people have been so thoroughly erased that our own kin don't recognize us as anything other than a myth or a passing statistic to throw out during an argument.
I love trans folks. I wouldn't be here without trans folks supporting me and loving me. But God, a lot of y'all really don't see intersex people. People can't understand me outside the cis/trans binary and now there's microbinaries happening within those identities that inherently erase intersex people further. People can't understand that sex is just as diverse and fluid as gender and that there aren't any body traits that are inherent to any one sex. It's maddening.
Incredible how many times I've begged on here and tiktok for intersex awareness and inclusion and how many people have told me directly "intersex people don't want to be included in queer discussions"
To me, an intersex person BEGGING for inclusion
I've had intersex mutuals on tiktok post about their own experiences and had dyadic queer people swoop in to tell them intersex people don't want to be included in the queer community
Why the fuck are yall like this? Yall are so comfortable parroting exclusionist radfem bullshit if it's about intersex people
"Intersex people aren't queer" is a conservative and radfem take. I've met exactly two intersex people who believed that and they were terfs. There are so many more intersex people who are begging yall to include us and to pay attention to our genocide.
But we aren't as important as everyone else I guess :)
What I have always heard is "some intersex people want to be included in the queer community, and so they are queer, and some don't, so they aren't". It seems like a pretty reasonable take to me, what do you think?
That's true with literally anyone who falls under the queer umbrella by definition. There are intersex people who refuse to identify as intersex, even.
My point is, in what world are replies like that useful when intersex people are begging for solidarity and inclusion? Why is it when we speak about the genocide that has erased us so thoroughly, the bills being pushed to classify us as disabled and therefore unable to use either male or female bathrooms, the efforts to mutilate and erase and kill us off. I get "but some intersex people don't wanna be queer :)" like cool, okay. Sounds like those intersex people are privileged to not feel impacted by anti-queer legislation and anti-queer violence. We aren't talking about them.
There is no point bringing up that some intersex people don't want to be considered queer. We are treated queer our bodies are queer and we are being outlawed from public in 2023. Stop replying to those of us begging for solidarity with "not all intersex people"
ESPECIALLY if you're not intersex
This pride month y’all have got to offset your doomposting with some gay fun you’ve had. And if you haven’t had any gay fun then you need to stop doomposting and work on that. I know we’re descending into fascism and there’s always kink at pride discourse and threats of violence and actual violence and hollow corporate allyship. But I only have so much room for that in my brain. I want to hear about the party you went to or the guy you met at the bar or the girl who strapped you within an inch of your life or hell the new clothes you bought. I as a gay person on the gay people website should NOT have to dread the gay month
One of the Pride events I attended last year was outside, with a variety of acts, including a really fun drag queen who did a joyous sing and dance along there in the public park.
And when she was done, and coming off the stage, I saw a pre-teen approach, a pride flag clasped around their shoulds like a cape, a sketchbook hugged to their chest.
"Excuse me. May I draw you?"
It was said with such hope, and such respect, and I winced anyway. The Queen had just put on a hell of a show, and she'd been paid for her skills, and she had to have been exhausted. I expected her to say no, and honestly, I would've thought that was her right.
But she looked down at this child, and flicked her hair back, and said, "Honey, for you? I. WILL. POSE."
And then she did, perched on the edge of a stone wall, in the June sunshine, as a young artist sat in the grass and filled pages of their sketchbook. For 30 minutes or so, she posed and chatted with fans and laughed.
I will never forget that kindness. May we all be so welcome.
We need kink at pride because “kink” isn’t just kink. “Kink” is:
- That boy wearing jeans that are too tight
- Your neighbors and their “friend” that lives with them
- Having a beard and wearing a skirt
- Wearing any kind of choker
- Literally anything else they decide goes against the “norm”, and it can be literally anything. That is why we need kink at pride.
No we don't. Respect ppls boundaries. If respect isn't normal anymore what will be normal then? Anything, no matter how it impacts or scars other peoples lives? Kink doesn't belongs to pride.
Look around you. Do you see where “No Kink At Pride” has led? Being transgender is illegal now. Exactly what people said would happen. You know what’s going to be next? Being gay is going to be illegal. Because being gay is not “respecting straight people’s boundaries”. They don’t want to see you. They want to kill you.
In support of the OP, let me clue the reply poster in to some of how the worldview of conservative bigots works:
If you are trans you are a sex pervert
If you're gay you're a sex pervert.
If you're the world's most chaste and godly nun praying in a convent, who has a lesbian thought once while delirious from a fever, you are a sex pervert.
If you're a family with a white picket fence house, a breadwinner, a stay-at-home parent, two cars, a dog, and whose politics are right wing... if you happen to be a same-sex couple, you're sex perverts and probably pedophiles.
If you're a closeted, self-hating, self-hurting, self-repressing queer going through every torturous form of conversion therapy, who condemns the other queers, who screams at the people who seek abortion help outside Planned Parenthood... you are a filthy, irredeemable sex pervert, a danger to children, and the most sympathy you deserve is transient pity if you admit to struggling.
There is nothing you can do, no behaviour you can engage in, no thought you can have, no clothes you can wear, no existence you can lead that is not an unacceptable sex perversion in the minds of these people. Your existence is kink, and you cannot appease them into thinking otherwise.
The bigoted conservative mind cannot conceive of queerness except as perversion, except as hedonistic degenerate thrill-seeking. They don't know another reason to do any thing, except as an exercise of power over someone else. Their entire world revolves around this idea. Everything is power, everything is control.
Therefore you can never appease them. Your mere existence is to them a totalizing threat, to their worldview, to their sense of normalcy, to their positions of social power, to their patriarchy, to their holiness. The only thing you can do that will ever satisfy them is die.
Which leaves us with this:
Either we have solidarity with our queer siblings - yes including the ones you don't understand, yes including the ones who have that weird sex that you think is fucked up, yes including the cringe annoying ones who "make the rest of us look bad," yes including the fucked up problematic ones who need to change and make amends, but who deserve their human rights whether or not they ever do that.
Because to the bigot, to the conservative, you're every bit as much of a pervert as Jenny Piss Kink and their polycule of submissive puppy-masked gender sluts. You throw your bricks when they come for Jenny, because when they come for the Piss Puppy Polycule, they're coming for you too.
To a homophobe, even the most chaste kiss on the cheek between gay people is exactly as disgusting and degenerate as a hardcore BDSM orgy hosted in the town square, so you may as well ally with the BDSM orgy enthusiasts to throw bricks at the cops who are going to try and arrest all of you together anyway.
I once held hands with my husband at an event where my wife was also present, and a concerned parent lectured me about how she didn't want us to "influence" her son. Our icky gay polyam hand holding was such a threat to this woman that she made a point to corner me away from my partners and get me on my own to lecture me about being "indecent." If she had been inclined toward violence, I would have been fucked.
Hand holding. That's all it fucking took.
So catch me at Pride in a leather harness and holding a bat, because if hand holding is all it takes, we owe it to each other to stand together.
We're here. We're queer. Get fucking used to it.
The sheer number of LGBT people who have called me a "degenerate" and a "pedophile" and an "abuse apologist" and a "homophobe" and a "woman-beater" over this post, in the less than 24 hours since I have posted it, is proof that it needs to be said.
Call me a degenerate if you want. I don't care. It has always been the degenerates protecting each other when the cops raid our bars and inspect our clothing and haul us away for being cross-dressing, family-destroying, society-polluting, tranny dyke faggot freaks.
I know who I'd rather have on my side, and it's not the self-loathing pieces of shit who would rather destroy their own people than dismantle systems of oppression.
You will never be wholesome and pure enough for the bigots, no matter how much you distance yourself from the kinksters. Once they've killed all us degenerates, they're coming for you next. And we won't be here to fight for you anymore.
The problem with having lesbian moms is you try to be super cool and cut all your hair off and buy a leather jacket and wear boots all the time and then you go to some event in your neighborhood and all these women three times your age start cooing “oh you look JUST like your mother when she was your age, my gosh what a blast from the past, oh I just love your hair”
And let me be very clear, okay: I’ve seen pictures of my mom when she was my age, and she looked cooler than I ever will. My mom had exactly my fashion sense except she was two point five degrees butcher and habitually took over government buildings. My other mom was about six degrees butcher than that, and SHE had a motorcycle. Both of them have been charged with felony arson. I’m the prep member of my family and there’s nothing I can do about it.
Please tell me at some point in your life some dick was like “we’re calling your parents over your behavior” only to have a bigger, more badass version of you come strolling in
Look obviously that happened many many times, usually with misogynist or ableist teachers. But I have a BETTER story than that, which is that when I was in 3rd grade, I went to this tiny alternative hippy school—it was a regular public school, it was just small and staffed/run by hippie communists—and my 3rd grade teacher was a woman who had been in an organization with my mother, and they had done direct action together more than a few times. We’ll call her D.
One day I was sitting in D’s class, eight years old and bored out of my mind, and I scratched my name into the back of my plastic chair with a rock. Was this reasonable behavior? No. Why did I do it? Only the gods can say. I don’t actually remember doing the scratching, I just remember looking at the rock in my hand and my name on the chair and going, “HUH. That’s not good.”
So obviously I got caught, bc I couldn’t reasonably convince anyone that I wasn’t the one who had done it, since it was MY NAME, and as punishment for this act of arbitrary vandalism I was sentenced to recess detention for two weeks. It was October so this included Halloween. Halloween, to be clear, is a high holy day in San Francisco, and I was devastated to miss the informal festivities that would be occurring at recess that day, and I wept and wailed about this at home for some time until my mother decided that this was disproportionate punishment and took it into her own hands to do something about it.
So my mom walks into D’s office on a day when my mother does not have to be at work at a scheduled time, but D has to get her students from the yard in about ten minutes, and my mom sits down and says to her old friend and comrade, “Miranda is really upset about having detention on Halloween.”
And D explains to my mother why the detention was issued, what the circumstances were, and my mother nods, and listens, and doesn’t argue, and doesn’t show any sign of getting up from her chair. And just says again “She’s really upset about having detention on Halloween.”
And D looks at my mother, and she looks at the clock in her office, which is telling her that she has to be on the yard in 2 minutes now, and then looks at my mother again, who shows no sign of having anywhere to be, my mother with whom D has organized and successfully executed multiple sit-ins and takeovers of government & corporate offices, and D says, “Okay, she doesn’t have to have detention on Halloween.”
Tell your moms that we love them.
