> changed url from “fridaythe13thjasontakesmanhattan” to “fursonanongrata”
> updated blog title
> updated description to reflect completion of 22nd planetary revolution around the Sun as of 12/24/2022
> all systems functional.
Menthol
topical
ALTwhy's the dracula tag bisexual
Why are you a homophoibe
twitter limiting the amount of tweets you get to read per day is ridiculous but if tiktok limited the amount of videos people got to see per day it would be the biggest win for mental health since ssris
Telekinetic battle
It’s clear who is winning
- less than a month after 9/11, the algebra teacher asked the only muslim kid in school if he “believed in the terrorists”
- sociology teacher told us being gay was a sin and torture was justified even if it didn’t work
- i got docked a letter grade in horticulture for not saying the pledge of allegiance
- abstinence-only sex ed, randroid econ curriculum, blah blah blah background noise rightwing indoctrination that didn’t even rate as notable back then
public school
btw
If high school “wasn’t political” for you, either while you were in it or in a “in hindsight that was kind of fucked up” capacity, then you were either
1.) Too distracted trying to survive the hell of a grossly abusive and dysfunctional family you were trapped under as a minor to notice or frankly care about the politics of your teachers or curriculum.
2.) In a place of privilege that to this day as a 30+ year old adult you still think “being into politics” is a just hobby with no greater wider societal stakes than that of wood carving on a leisurely Saturday afternoon.
online is real
everything online is real. there have been decades of cultural mythologizing about the internet that place it in contrast to reality--the internet is framed as immaterial, as ephemeral. the internet is 'just data', it's weightless and abstract. things taking place on the internet are 'just online', they're not 'really' happening. this isn't true.
of course, there's the elementary fact that many things that are immaterial with no physical form are still real. monetary value is real, even if you cannot find me an atom of it. the german border is real even where it is not physically demarcated. they are real and physical in that they shape real and physical human interactions. but the internet is in fact far more real than that: every single piece of data on the internet exists physically on a disk somewhere as a pattern of magnetic charges. 'the cloud' sounds like it's a weightless and fluffy thing, but 'the cloud' is this:
this is the cloud--a google data center, to be exact. amazon web services is not an immaterial or abstract thing; it is over 26 million square feet of data centers, of physical computers inside physical buildings where data is physically recorded. access to the internet is provided by cables, including the thousands of miles of undersea infrastructure which make the global internet possible. 4G, 5G, wifi, these are all made possible by physical apparatuses sending out radio waves.
all computer infrastructure everywhere is made possible by cobalt and lithium and gallium and so on--mined out of the ground, by an extractive mining industry which exploits the people and resources of the global south. estimates for how much electricity 'the internet' uses vary wildly, but it's at minimum measured in gigawatts--and so coal and nuclear power plants and wind farms and hydroelectric dams and the coal and uranium and bauxite mining which builds them are inseparable from 'the internet'. google programmers do not live in the astral plane, they work from buildings (and outsource work to india) which need to be cleaned and maintained and worked in and driven back and forth from.
youtube videos are 'online' but of course if you film something happening and upload it that thing still really happened. if a physical action, whether that be a terrorist attack or a protest or a sexual hookup or an act of ethic violence, is mediated and planned online, that thing really happens in the real world. the idea of 'just online', this platonic real divorced from a cleanly delineated 'outside' or 'real world' is just wrong. it is wrong in more or less every single way. every program or function your computer has or video or picture or word you see on the computer is the result of people doing actual physical things. you are seeing it by grace of miles of cable and tons and tons of machinery and power plants and the guy who sweeps the floors at the indian IT firm facebook outsources. online is real.
hairy men. large hairy men. big big large hairy men. agree.
things i am learning now that i’m finally actually watching avatar the last air bender part one:
1) not everyone is a bender
2) it does appear to be inherent to some extent, because katara seems to be partially self-taught
3) however, there is a learning element, because you can improve on your skills and the avatar has to learn how to master all four elements where i thought aang just had inherent skill
4) the element of the bender seems to always match the element of the tribe they’re in, which makes sense if they are taught by their tribe but raises some questions if it’s inherent. is bending ability passed genetically? what happens if two benders of different elements have a kid? i can’t google this because i don’t want anymore spoilers than i already have
5) uncle iroh is prince zuko’s uncle?????????? i thought he was like an earth bender who owned a tea shop this entire fucking time how did i go into this series knowing almost everything but THAT
i honestly thought it was an honorary title like he’s a nice old man who helps out all the kids so he just has them call him uncle
OP is a citizen of Ba Sing Se
Tony Hawk's Link's curse™
Really wish tumblr had a "people are appropriating and misusing elements of my faith and that is offensive" option for reporting posts...
CATHOLICISM 👏 IS 👏 NOT 👏 AN 👏 AESTHETIC 👏
catholicism’s only value is in its aesthetic actually. sorry :/
also the guilt thing can be kinda hot when y'all have gay sex
