24. She/-a. 🐈alan. Roja separatista on main. Anarcho-MohamedJordiista. Feminism and trans rights are the same fight. In this blog expect a mix of history, leftist social/political stuff, musical theatre, books, cultures, memes...
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“An examination of the top 133 videos providing informational content on autism, which totaled 198.7 million views and 25.2 million likes, showed that 27% of the videos were classified as accurate, while 41% were classified as inaccurate and 32% as overgeneralized.”
This’ll be my last sale of the year and I will close the shop for a bit from early December, as there are always postal issues that cause disappointment for late Christmas orders.
I’ll probably take custom orders until mid-Nov before closing for the year
Someone in the comments was like “aren’t they learning that in school?” Well, no, genAI is way too new for a lot of people to know how it actually works. Even scientists. I literally just had a (frustrating) conversation about using chatGPT at lab meeting
I do think there are some applications of analytical AI in scientific research but like. There’s certainly not a use case for chatGPT that I would trust
Sometimes self-care is, actually, NOT getting onto the computer and little treats and watching youtube videos. Sometimes those things are self-care, but sometimes they’re also avoidant behaviors.
Sometimes self care is waking up and just. Fucking getting in the car. And driving to the bank. And the store. And buying the cat litter. And changing the cat boxes you’ve been avoiding because your brains been stuck in a hole. And picking up the trash you’ve been piling up. And getting a load into the wash. And mowing the lawn before the village council sends you a formal complaint and potential-fines warning.
Like its hard and annoying to do because it sucks. It sucks so much. But if I don’t start working on this pile of bullshit I’ve let build up because it stinks and i was stuck in deer-in-headlights mode, I risk letting it turn into fuckery. I do not have the patience for fuckery that I once - foolishly! - thought I had.
This mentality helped me so much. Framing my “chores” and mundane tasks as self care and something I can do for myself, really helped me. On a good day I feel like I can genuinely enjoy basic to-dos because I get something nice for myself afterwards, even if that nice thing is just a better living environment. And sometimes it’s still too hard, and that’s okay too.
“Russia’s lower house of parliament voted unanimously on Tuesday to ban what authorities cast as pernicious propaganda for a child-free way of life, hoping to boost a faltering birth rate.
Official data released in September put the birth rate at its lowest in a quarter of a century while mortality rates are up as Moscow’s war in Ukraine rages on.
The Kremlin called the figures "catastrophic for the future of the nation”.
President Vladimir Putin, who has cast Russia as a bastion of “traditional values” locked in an existential struggle with a decadent West, has encouraged women to have at least three children, saying that will help secure the future of Russians.
There are already financial and other incentives.
The law, expected to be swiftly approved by the upper house of parliament and Putin, joins other restrictions on free expression including a ban on content deemed to promote “non-traditional lifestyles” such as same-sex relationships or gender fluidity, as well as on dissenting accounts of the conflict in Ukraine.
Authors of “child-free propaganda” will be subject to fines of up to 400,000 roubles ($4,100) for individuals, twice that amount for officials, and up to 5 million roubles ($51,000) for legal entities. (…)
But some women were sceptical.
Alina Rzhanova, a 33-year-old who lives in Yaroslavl, 250 km northeast of Moscow, was once determined not to have children but now has an eight-month-old son.
“People want children, but there’s no money,” she said.
“That’s why people are not having children. Not because someone somewhere wrote something.”“
“male loneliness epidemic” and “friendzoning” are similar concepts to me in that the conditions they describe are literally experienced by everyone at some point in their lives but when its men its some sort of profound injustice that needs to be rectified by checks notes giving them unfettered access to the public good that is Women
also the former “epidemic” being taken up in pop discourse explicitly or implicitly as a pathological consequence of feminism having “gone too far” instead of actually doing the work to connect social isolation to existing material conditions….no no don’t worry about it just default to blaming women for men’s sadness and dissatisfaction bc otherwise you’d have to confront capitalism and misogyny and white supremacy etc. etc. and nobody wants to do that so. its somehow very aggravating and boring at the same time. whenever i see think-pieces that follow this script i instantly fall into a furious slumber
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