the world may be a dark place sometimes but there are also 1200 year old paw prints from a happy kitty cat out there

Philosophy tells us that we MUST imagine the kitty purring

I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

now all the things you guys have told me about american high schools are starting to make sense

holy shit.

You're not really supposed to say it this way, because its considered crass, but here in the US children are culturally and legally considered essentially the property of their parents.

Note that its considered more crass to point this out than it is to treat children as property in the first place.

I’ve reblogged this before, but my addition this time is that we went to court internationally to defend our right to execute children for crimes.

Reblog if you're kinda irrelevant and don't know a single person who actively uses tumblr

The job market is fucked, lets see how fucked!

Celebrating Black History Month Black Joy in Films

Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.

They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.

Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.

You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.

This article specifically notes:

Other important quotes:

What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows “surveillance software”.

Two things back that up:

Here's the complaint filed to the court, the primary source for the case mentioned in the article. You can find mentions of GDID on page 30 of the document or 34 of the PDF.

Thank you @just-call-me-zinnia for finding it!

Tumblr people!! I've figured out a way to delete GDID from your computer!

I also made a PDF version!!

Please do me a favor, reblog for reach!! This went through several days of research and testing!! THANKS

wish online communities discussing autism in women weren't like, doing their best to contribute to the false perception there's a distinct Autism For Boys and Autism For Girls, when the whole time it's just social enforcement of gender roles influencing behavior

what's even more egregious about this is that autistic people are 7x more likely to be trans and MUCH more likely to be nonbinary than allistics, and even those who aren't are often don't understand the need to conform or choose not to. its a false perception and it's spitting in the face of this community that actively proves gender is a social construct.

use this map whenever a white northerner starts talking about california, the southwest, or the south with derision or scorn

i'mma be real I did not expect this post to do numbers because it wasn't meant to be precise or anything or even make an outright argument, but just show a correlation without an explicit causation and to express a gripe I had with white leftists who talk about being anti-racist a lot but who I KNOW for a matter of fact don't actually talk to non-white folk. also not completely irrelevant but less of a factor are the amount of white (many neurodivergent) folk who complain about the weather like its their goddamn job and consider half the country uninhabitable, and the fact that you don't see much non-white, non-european, or non-east asian cultural products on this site.

so the map was to point out just how disconnected those white folk who at least reside in the north are from much of their own country.

here's some more maps to highlight why this happens.

and HEREs the map that pissed me off enough to make this map

This will probably be my most controversial post by far, but it needs to be said.

Gendered socialization is unequivocally real. Boys and girls are treated and socialized differently before they're even born.

Female babies are disappearing en masse, because male babies are more valued.

From an extremely early age, parents respond to their childrens' emotions differently based on gender. Mothers over-estimate the crawling abilities of their infant sons compared to infant daughters.

Mothers speak to their infant daughters more and talk them more about emotions than they do their sons.

By the age of 2, boys already show an avoidance to the color pink and other items traditionally seen as feminine, laying the ground work for early demonstrations of misogyny in childhood.

When children enter pre-school, there is no difference in math abilities between boys and girls. But such gaps begin to appear as children grow older.

The vast majority of girls report feeling unsafe going outside, and at least 2/3 of girls have reported experiencing sexual harassment at school by the time they 16.

Further on in education, women will understimate their scores, while men will overestimate their scores. Women will perform worse on tests when first told that women, on average, perform worse.

Researchers argue that the prevalence of sexual assault against women is so high specifically because of early gendered socialization. The men who commit sexual violence consistently demonstrate specific ideals about gender and perform hostile masculinity.

The patterns reach well into adulthood, influencing occupational choices.

I could literally go on and on and on. There are countless studies and entire fields of academia dedicated to researching this. The fact that children are socialized differently paced on assigned or percieved gender is really not debatable.

I am sympathetic to the fact that transphobes have warped the concept of socialization to insinuate that trans women are destined to be violent or predatory, or that trans men are destined to be submissive and helpless. However, people weaponizing these frameworks does not mean that the phenomenon does not exist.

Furthermore, individual people's nuanced experiences with gendered socialization does not mean that these patterns don't exist on a large scale. Any interaction with society will confer the influence of gender biases, especially upon children to are extremely vulnerable to both subtle and overt social cues.

Again - gendered socialization is real. This is a core aspect of feminist analysis. I am not going to pretend otherwise.

CIS WOMEN SHOULD BE MORE ASSERTIVE! TRANS WOMEN SHOULD BE ASSERTIVE! TRANS MEN SHOULD BE ASSERTIVE! NONBINARY PEOPLE IN THIS HOUSE WE AREN'T PEOPLE PLEASERS AND WE TAKE UP SPACE AND WE COMMUNICATE WHAT WE WANT!