AnarchistArtificer

@AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not know that, so thank you for sharing. I’m disappointed, but not surprised to learn this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨insert mental health condition here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “However, STEM folks tend to reassert the authority of science as an institution of capitalism and settler-colonialism by not recognizing that these are not “illnesses” or pathological conditions naturally. Yes, they are behaviours that we have no reason to believe are divergent or new from typical human life, and their status as pathological is conditional on the specific social and material conditions that are facilitated by this system.”

  There’s a lot in this that I agree with, but in the past, I have been quite irked by people who take a hard line version of this stance, who say that I’m being ableist by referring to myself as disabled. Whilst the majority of things that being autistic and ADHD cause me to struggle with that are better understood as a function of our environment, there are plenty of ways in which I would consider to be independent of societal structure.

  For instance, I struggle with sensory hypersensitivity, such that a bright sunny day, or loud sounds cause me physical pain, and also cause me to become fatigued quickly if exposed to them for a while. This sucks, and I think it would even in a society that was structured radically differently

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie developer who got blocked on Steam for “potential infringement” of his own work finally gets green light after issuing license declaration to himself⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I have decided to make it public for developers who may face similar issues in the future.”

  What a bro. Now this is what solidarity looks like

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They got us by the balls⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the journals existed as massive, financially powerful entities. There were negotiations over open access arrangements a few years back which led to things like “gold open access”, which involves papers being free to read, but costing a heckton for the researcher’s in “Article Processing Charges”. This happened because the journals effectively argued that “even though we’re functionally useless in the modern day, and don’t even provide services like copyediting or typesetting support for researchers, you can’t just make research actually be fully open, because then we would no longer be able to be absurdly profitable. Won’t someone think of the profits?!”. And then their influence meant the open access agreements were half baked and insufficient.

  However, there is a continuing movement that is pushing for actual open access — “Diamond Open Access” doesn’t charge either the researchers or the readers of papers. It’s still small, relatively, but it’s growing, especially in the global South or amongst independent researchers who can’t afford absurd Article Processing Charges. Profit driven journals have prestige on their side, but I reckon that Diamond Open Access will continue to grow as research funding becomes more scarce relative to the amount of research being done.

  “The diamond model has been especially successful in Latin America-based journals (95% of OA journals[1]) following the emergence of large publicly supported platforms, such as SciELO and Redalyc. However, Diamond OA journals are under-represented in the major scholarly databases, such as Web of Science and Scopus. It is also noteworthy, that high-income countries “have the highest share of authorship in every domain and type of journal, except for diamond journals in the social sciences and humanities”.”

  (Source: the linked Wikipedia page)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I want to treat myself, I shave, exfoliate and moisturise my legs, and change my bedsheets. It’s divine.

  I used to shave my legs because of the nebulous patriarchal pressure that many girls and women experience. But now I do it for good reasons and it’s much more liberating

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Story of my life⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Truly, this is the socialist utopia I am fighting for.

  From each according to their ability; from each according to their needs. If you have plenty, it’s only reasonable to share with the cumslut

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Story of my life⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Defeat the cumslut by becoming the cumslut. You know you want to

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most could work on anyone really⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that is the definition of ragebaiting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly impressive how pharmacies are able to find a new type of problem every time I go to pick up my meds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know about the reformulation thing — is it Adderall that’s affected? I’m not personally on Adderall, but I like to be aware of the overall landscape of ADHD meds due to having many friends with ADHD (and also being a nerd)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It certainly can, but it’s far from typical. Whereas it’s not uncommon for lesbian/sapphic sex to last for hours, such that I’m pretty confident that the average duration of sapphic sex is going to be much higher than the average duration of heterosexual sex

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s more to it than this. In my experience, sapphic sex is less focussed around orgasm, which means there’s often periods where the sex/making out is sort of enjoying the good vibes (no pun intended).

  In contrast, men that I have slept with can become overly fixated on the idea of me orgasming, which always annoys me because I’m quite difficult to bring to orgasm, and they don’t seem to get that orgasm != good sex (they’re certainly correlated ofc, but one doesn’t necessarily mean the other).

  Women also tend to take much longer to reach orgasm, which can mean that sapphic sex tends to be quite dynamic in terms of positions, tempo, use of toys etc… Like, if I’m going down on a partner who can only orgasm through oral sex, and I know that the position I’m in will start causing me pain before she’s anywhere near orgasming, then I might opt to switch things up to be in a position that’s restful for me (so I can resume oral afterwards) but still stimulating for my partner.

  TL;DR: I think the biochemical wakefulness can’t hurt, but I think sapphic sex going on for hours is mostly sociocultural

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It took me a long while to find someone who actually appreciated weird stuff like this. There are plenty of folk like us out in the world, it just takes some time to find them sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the image implies that the questions are something big and heavy, likely pertaining to the relationship itself, but when I do this, it’s usually something a bit random and abstract.

  For instance, earlier today, I asked my partner “if you were a God in a pantheon of many different Gods, what would your domain be? I reckon we wouldn’t be especially powerful Gods, so it’d have to be something fairly specific — sort of like how [in Dungeons and Dragons], Azuth is the God of magic as a craft, existing as a lesser God within Mystra’s domain of magic in general”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Men tend to get sleepy after sex, whereas women are more likely to become more alert and/or mentally stimulated. I think it’s prolactin release that makes men sleepy, though I’m unsure of the potential mechanism behind women becoming more awake.

  If you haven’t shared with your partner/wife that this is off-putting for you, you should tell her. I think it would be reasonable to say that whilst you understand that questions like this are likely how your partner/wife decompresses after sex, that you would appreciate 5-10 minutes of quiet so that you’re able to recuperate also

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Military Grade⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A joke my mum (ex-military) used to make was “There’s 3 ways to get things done: The right way, the wrong way, and the military way”

  (For people who don’t get it, the joke is that the military often does stuff in a dumbass way not because they tried to do things the right way and got it wrong, but because they value consistency and predictability much more than doing something right vs. wrong. I suppose there’s probably a logic to it on the big, zoomed out view of things, but when you’re just a grunt, the way the military works can often seem nonsensical)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ballin' too hard⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re feeling like this, it might be that you haven’t found your people yet.

  When you’re with the right people, it still takes effort to socialise, and time to build your skills, but it’s much easier.

  The hardest part is the early bit, where you need to push yourself to go to lots of different stuff in an attempt to find your people. There is no trick or tip to make this part easier — it just sucks. I’m at a decent point in terms of social skills nowadays, but I’ve been trying to make friends after moving to a new city, and damn, this part of the process is tiring.

  I mention this because I want to emphasise that if you’re finding this difficult, that’s normal and okay. If you find yourself becoming weary after many instances like in the OP, then that’s okay and normal too. It is hard. But it gets better, if you keep at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pentiment was great. You can feel that it’s made with so much passion.

  I played with a friend who was a medievalist sitting beside me, and she confirmed that all the weird and wonderful marginalia animals were from actual manuscripts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Carry Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  NOT ESPECIALLY, BUT NONETHELESS, I CONSIDER THEM TO BE MY CULTURE BECAUSE I AUTISTM

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Carry Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah! Nerd party!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Same Shafeeq, same.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what makes it so beautiful to learn what I can. I do sometimes feel overwhelmed by the enormity of it all, but what grounds me is taking the time to feel joy at each wonderful little thing I do have the opportunity to learn, as well as the opportunity to share my learning with others.

  Throughout my life, I have accumulated a heckton of random knowledge, all tied together by my subjective perspective. There are things that I know that no-one else can know — insights that come from a particular arrangement of facts and experiences. It gives me a sense of clarity because it reminds me that one of my duties is simply to just “hold the camera”, so to speak — to be the anchor for my particular, situated perspective

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s less about the ability to find the clitoris, and more about the will to do so. I think that it is more than a meme, but in the sense of “men seem so oblivious about the clitoris that surely they must not be able to find it”. Some women do seem to genuinely believe this to be the case. I guess that, as absurd as it may sound, it may be more palatable to believe than “most of my partners don’t give a fuck about my pleasure and I’m functionally little more than a fleshlight to them”

  There have been a few times where I have been a bi woman’s first experience of sapphic sex, where they have told me that the sex was so good that it basically redefined for them what sex could be like.

  I don’t know if it makes it more or less grim that I have slept with plenty of men who were invested in my pleasure enough that they actively enjoyed helping me to have a good time. I guess they have just been fairly unlucky with their partners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where can I get cursed like that? Asking for a friend.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof, yeah, that’s gross as hell. I imagine that must make the already pretty demoralising experience of online dating even worse. Guys like this get super defensive if you call them out on this transphobic bullshit too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lmao⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re a fan of Sagan, you might be interested to hear that he considered that “science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality”.

  Religion might be noise for you, but for countless people across history, it has been what has helped them to cut through noise. Religion unequivocally does not contradict scientific thinking — what we understand as scientific thinking wouldn’t even exist today if not for religion.

  Things don’t have to be a binary of religion vs science. Religion has so often been the driving inspiration for brilliant scientists across the world, for much of recorded history. And in parallel, there have been religious scholars who find spiritual awe and fulfillment in seeing scientific advances.

  That definitely doesn’t mean that everything is always great between religion and science — I’m very much not a fan of things like evangelical Christians who claim that dinosaurs weren’t real, or the Taliban who prevent women from being educated. Those are examples of religion being used as a cudgel against science, but if we want to genuinely resist that kind of thing, it’s not productive to instead try to use science to bash religion. Our best resistance is to embrace the fact that science and religion can and do coexist, in many different shapes and forms.

  Part of my stance here is pragmatic — I’m a scientist myself, and I am filled with dread when I see how anti-science rhetoric is flourishing nowadays, and I am resentful as hell towards the many religious assholes who are feeding that. However, if I direct my beef towards religion as a whole, then that’s a heckton of people that I’ve given up on trying to convince. I believe that the scientific method should be a tool that everyone has available in their toolbox, even if it’s not something their daily life often requires — it’s a useful perspective to have on hand no matter your background.

  However, I’m realistically never going to convince someone to give up their faith in exchange for this tool, especially as I am not religious myself and thus don’t properly understand what purpose religion serves them. I can make a far more compelling case for science if it isn’t framed as something that seeks to displace their faith. And you never know, once someone does have scientific thinking as a tool in their toolbox, and they know how to use it, they might end up relying on it more and more. I personally know many scientists who have experienced this kind of journey. Though giving up on faith entirely isn’t required, as evidenced by the many excellent scientists I have known whose religious faith drives their passion for research — the best biochemistry tutor I ever had was even a reverend.

  Science and religion are not incompatible, and there is evidence of that strewn across history and society. To ignore that fact would be to betray the principles of empiricism that the scientific method is built upon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lmao⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a particular instance you’re referring to here? Because contrary to popular belief, the church has historically been big on investing in what we now call science.

  For instance, although the trial of Galileo is often characterised as “big bad church holds us back because religion is opposed to heliocentrism”, there was actually a lot of legitimate scientific beef against Galileo. Although he ended up being right about heliocentrism, he didn’t really have good evidence to support his claims; He didn’t understand Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, and his telescope produced so many aberrant artifacts that astronomers who use it were reasonable to be dubious of his claims.

  If you’d like to learn more, here’s an excellent video by Dr Fatima, an astrophysicist turned science communicator. The philosopher of science, Paul Feyerabend also uses Galileo as a case study in his book Against Method

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where can I get cursed like that? Asking for a friend.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had a good experience on Feeld, as a bisexual woman. I’ve found that there are far fewer deceptive unicorn hunters on there (I say this as someone who is open to being someone’s unicorn, if they are open and candid about their wishes. I once went on a Hinge date with a woman whose profile said she was a lesbian, but at the date, she ambushed me with her boyfriend. She said she lied because she didn’t think I would have showed up to the date if she said she wanted to bring her boyfriend. Gross behaviour)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keeping it classy for my 1000th post⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Toum is so good. It forever ruined garlic mayo for me.

  For anyone who doesn’t know toum is a Lebanese sauce that uses garlic as the emulsifier, rather than eggs. This means that it’s also vegan. Garlic is also a weaker emulsifier than eggs, so it’s insanely garlicky. Any vampire hunters should consider getting Lebanese food before their next hunting trip for this reason

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crying is a free action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am a freak who really enjoys linear algebra. It’s actually quite heartening to discover that even amongst my friend group of weirdos, there are still freaks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sway⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really appreciate the OP of this (nontanne) for making me see the poetry in something I was familiar with, but had never considered in this way before. I think it actually works really well as a poem, and I feel like I’m going to remember this each time it’s extremely windy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nutritional Hexes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I read a thing recently that argued that “purity” is one of the most distinctive thematic motifs in fascistic thinking, and examined how that is a means by which people can slide into right wing ideologies from an initially left wing position.

  It was striking because it made it clock for me why there seems to be a “crunchy eco-leftist turns right wing” pipeline. To attempt to summarise some of the article and my own thoughts following it: A purity oriented framework of health situates “toxins” and the like as the Big Bad Other. Many of us are aware of how dangerous the notion of a Big Bad Other is if we’re thinking about people, but it can creep up with us in contexts like this because it doesn’t seem harmful initially. However, by thinking about health in this way, we train ourselves to think in terms of the Big Bad Other, and condition ourselves towards thinking about things in a black and white manner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gottem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily. There was a dude who was studying some plant and was measuring their leaves, and discovered that touching them to measure them stunted their growth. It confused him a lot at first.

  I think the plant was mimosa pudica, but I will double check the story when I have had some sleep. I just wanted to add this briefly because it’s a very funny story. The dude was super confused when it happened, because I think that science didn’t realise the extent to which plants could detect and respond to touch at that time