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this post is so git fetch https://github.com/webmproject/libwebp

As mentioned in my post, in response to people falling for the naturalistic fallacy: “So what? Who gives a shit?”

Whether it’s natural or not is simply the wrong metric by which to evaluate whether someone has a right to exist or be treated with dignity.

It’s akin to someone saying to you after you’ve dyed your hair, “that’s not natural,” and then you scramble to insist that it is.

The right response is: “So what? Who gives a shit?”

Also: how do you read this and think I’m anything but an ally? I’m explicitly advocating for compassion, dignity, and equal rights for trans people. Pushing back on bad reasoning doesn’t contradict that; it strengthens it.

If your definition of “ally” means I’m required to accept weak arguments without criticism, then you don’t want allies. You want sycophants. And I’m not signing up for that.

I’m not interested in moral purity contests where allyship is contingent on uncritical agreement.

Surveillance drone.

I’m going to be that guy, and no, this isn’t a gotcha. I’m a trans ally. I support the existence, rights, and dignity of trans people. But I’m allergic to lazy thinking; even from my own side.

“Trans people are natural.” Cool sentiment. Terrible framing.

First off, “natural” is a word people use when they’ve run out of real arguments. It’s vague, emotionally loaded, and epistemologically useless.

Plenty of things are “natural”: cancer, infanticide, parasites, sexual coercion. Doesn’t make them desirable. Doesn’t make them moral. If you want to make a moral case for something, do it without the crutch of nature.

Second, let’s talk about optics. When you say “trans people are natural,” you’re not helping. You’re feeding into the exact framework used against queer and trans people for decades; the idea that something has to be “natural” to be valid.

Why are we reinforcing that standard? Why are we bending over backwards to find a species of fish that flips sexes and pretending that proves anything about human gender identity?

Transgender identity is not “natural” in the biological sense. There’s no mammalian precedent for someone born male socially transitioning to live as female with a nuanced internal experience of gender. That’s not how “natural” animal behavior works. But so what? Who gives a shit?

Being trans is a human phenomenon; emergent from consciousness, culture, language, and self-reflection. You know, all the “unnatural” stuff that makes humans interesting. The wheel isn’t natural. The internet isn’t natural. Civil rights aren’t natural.

Trans people don’t need to be validated by nature. They need to be validated by ethics. By compassion. By rational moral reasoning.

So let’s stop appealing to nature. It’s weak, it’s misleading, and it sets the movement back by anchoring it to bad philosophy.

Just keep chasing it for 10 minutes and it’ll collapse from exhaustion.

How does being dressed like that affect her inability to detect danger?

Edit: I think I need a brain scan.

IMO, look into the linuxserver.io fork of NGINX, called SWAG.

It comes preloaded with a bunch of fantastic addons for security.

Quite easy to get set up, if you’ve got an idea about how it works.

I haven’t played this version of Tetris before.

Neither a wholesome meme, nor an accurate statistic, anecdotally speaking.

Jesus, King of the Mews.

He spent three days in his tomb, tongue firm against his maxilla palette. He mewed for your sins.

Forgive them father, for they mouth-breathe.

Now go forth, and posture like your savior.

That recent episode of The Reversal is coming to mind…

Um, excuse me, this is magenta.

IMO, the second sentence feels like it’s cut off because I’m expecting an adjective at least, like:

He gazed toward the elementary school with a glint in his eye.

Or,

As his gaze drifted toward the elementary school; his nose grew, as he muttered ‘I wouldn’t hurt them’.

Though the one-sentence format is preferable for me.

I would hope Switzerland isnt stupid enough to do this. Their reputation as a country is based around trust. Dozens of highly profitable privacy based companies would be forced to relocate.

While these companies make up a very small percentage of the GDP, they’d take people out of work, hurt their reputation, and take a minor blow to their budget.

Though, this isnt considering future prospects; the Proton suite is getter better, fast. It wouldn’t surprise me, if in a few years, their suite could rival Google’s or Microsoft’s.

It could be very profitable in the future, but kneecapping the VPN would really slow things down.

The Mr. Plinkett cat.

AKA Twinkie cat.

You’re erring on the side of caution, and I get the impulse. But there’s a fine line between giving voice to the unheard and drowning out the current conversation by crusading on their behalf without actually checking whether they wanted a champion in the first place.

Language isn’t static, and if people who would’ve been the target of a slur no longer feel targeted by a modern, benign use of the word, maybe it’s worth listening to them instead of getting stuck in etymological guilt.

This is essentially justification for tone policing, language gate keeping, or inventing offenses that marginalized groups themselves aren’t actually calling out.

Campaigning on their behalf looks less like allyship and more like self-importance wrapped in a savior complex.

“The pejorative nature kind of got lost somewhere along the way.”

Not according to some, who I’m surprised havent descended into this comment section yet.

It genuinely amazes me that some people learn of a racist origin and immediately crusade against it, on behalf of people who dont give a fuck.

Words change. When the majority of people are using a phrase in a benign manner, then dragging the racist origins back into the light is a really dumb way to fight against bigotry.

Guilt tripping people into adapting new phrasing isn’t just arrogant and patronizing; it’s counterproductive - it makes the actual fight against racism seem petty and performative.

‘Really wanting to stay at your house’ and ‘pon pon shit’

I can’t tolerate not calling them drug holidays.