futurecrops:

flower-fille:

dykealectics:

what a TERF / TWERF is: a Trans (Woman) Exclusionary Radical Feminist or Trans (Woman) Exterminatory Radical Feminist.

Someone whose politics align with the reactionary crypto-fascism that arose from and overtook the Second Wave Radical Feminist scene, which is a damn shame btw because Marxist/Material/Radical Feminism (when it isn’t just violent reactionary, and honestly, immaterial, transmisogynistic rhetoric calling itself “radical”) is actually great. 

Someone with a specific brand of politics that believes trans women are genital-fetishist male rapists and which pushes dehumanising transmisogynist propaganda against trans women and focuses on passing bills and running bullying campaigns to socially isolate and physically harm / kill trans women.

what a TERF / TWERF is not: someone who says anything you disagree with. someone who says that cishet aces and aros are straight.

Can you provide (preferably recent) evidence of aces calling somebody that is saying ace people are straight, a terf

here’s an example! it should be fairly familiar to you, given it’s, y’know, your post

pussyprlnt:

samoishere:

softblackboy:

vibesofzen:

lumberjackmack:

pussyprlnt:

monstta:

pussyprlnt:

pussyprlnt:

Don’t let depression stop you from being that bitch

Or that nigga because niggas be depressed too

I’m a nigga and I still wanna be that bitch

Be. That. Bitch.

BE THAT BITCH

A bad bitch at that

*is*

*and always will be*

This turned out good. I’m proud.

bogleech:

exeggcute:

satire is “I’m going to take this concept to an extreme or absurd level in order to demonstrate how bizarre/nonsensical/illogical it is” and not “I said something bigoted but just kidding I didn’t really mean it hahaha”

Dang it I’ve written like 5000 words trying to explain this and I only needed this post to reblog

darkersolstice:

max-vandenburg:

eldritchscholar:

So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:

1) Binary files are 1s and 0s

2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches

You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…

You can knit Doom.

However, after crunching some more numbers:

The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…

3322 square feet

Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.

Hi fun fact!!

The idea of a “binary code” was originally developed in the textile industry in pretty much this exact form. Remember punch cards? Probably not! They were a precursor to the floppy disc, and were used to store information in the same sort of binary code that we still use:

Here’s Mary Jackson (c.late 1950s) at a computer. If you look closely in the yellow box, you’ll see a stack of blank punch cards that she will use to store her calculations.

This is what a card might look like once punched. Note that the written numbers on the card are for human reference, and not understood by the computer. 

But what does it have to do with textiles? Almost exactly what OP suggested. Now even though machine knitting is old as balls, I feel that there are few people outside of the industry or craft communities who have ever seen a knitting machine. 

Here’s a flatbed knitting machine (as opposed to a round or tube machine), which honestly looks pretty damn similar to the ones that were first invented in the sixteenth century, and here’s a nice little diagram explaining how it works:

But what if you don’t just want a plain stocking stitch sweater? What if you want a multi-color design, or lace, or the like? You can quite easily add in another color and integrate it into your design, but for, say, a consistent intarsia (two-color repeating pattern), human error is too likely. Plus, it takes too long for a knitter in an industrial setting. This is where the binary comes in!

Here’s an intarsia swatch I made in my knitwear class last year. As you can see, the front of the swatch is the inverse of the back. When knitting this, I put a punch card in the reader,

and as you can see, the holes (or 0′s) told the machine not to knit the ground color (1′s) and the machine was set up in such a way that the second color would come through when the first color was told not to knit.

tl;dr the textiles industry is more important than people give it credit for, and I would suggest using a machine if you were going to try to knit almost 3 megabytes of information.

@we-are-threadmage

tardisesandtitans:

notable-spinster:

prophet-of-tesco:

tooiconic:

notable-spinster:

sure, not all men, but a lot of men, and we have no way of knowing which ones

“sure, not all black people, but a lot of black people, and we have no way of knowing which ones.”

This is exactly how you sound.

“sure, not all muslims, but a lot of muslims, and we have no way of knowing which ones.”

lettuce consult the fbi data:

Of the 1,864 women murdered in 2010, 91% were killed by men. (by contrast, of the 3,872 men murdered, only 9% were killed by women). Of all the women murdered (by either sex), over a third were killed by a husband or boyfriend. women have legitimate reason to fear men, even the ones they know. 

Of the 3,327 white people murdered in 2010, only 13% were killed by black people. 3% were killed by other or unknown races. white people do not have a statistically legitimate reason to fear other races.

women’s fear of men is based in reality, not bigotry. white people’s fear of other races is based in bigotry, not reality.

This deserves much more than 294 notes

rrozeselavy:

i never want to hear another thing about “ethnic-sounding names” from white folks when I just today checked a white guy out at the library and his name was literally “pelican”. twenty years ago a white couple popped out a child and decided to name their kid after the patron bird of the vore fetish. fuck you

mjalti:

it’s so nasty how much people expect time to heal wounds and wanna show up in ur life like “damn ur still bitter about that” yes u rotten mango own up to what u did or stay gone

self-healing:

stop believing that you ran out of time to shape yourself into who you want to be! stop believing that its ruined! stop believing you don’t have potential! you are not a fixed being! you have endless opportunities to grow.