AcidSmiley

joined 4 years ago
[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 4 points 12 hours ago

It's a purely aesthetic choice because it looks cyberpunk af. A friend of mine recently got some cybergoth neoprene bodysuit with holsters n shit that's a lot like like this one minus the helmet and we were like "this probably needs a sidearm lmao" and the P90 was the first one that came to mind.

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

There's cats that do not even understand that their head is in the way of any potential food i could put inside their bowl, i doubt they understand any body part. Unless they just want me to pour the wet cat food over their head, which i absolutely wouldn't rule out.

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

not all cats catgirl-huh

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

She's been an outspoken terf for a while, sadly not surprising she'd eventually spread the social contagion hoax, too.

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

Ah, hexbear, were you can be openly homophobic by calling a fan-drawn picture of two girls cuddling "gooner shit".

Edit: To elaborate and clarify for the cishet guys on this side, that comment is a prime example of how you people view us lesbians. We simply do not exist to you, so the cultural production our communities generate out of passion and to make up for the fact that mainstream culture only produces lesbian content for the male gaze can only be explained to you through that very lens, that it must also exist for the male gaze, read: be "backwards gooner shit". That there are tons of terminally online lesbians who draw this stuff as a hobby, because they enjoy it, is unimaginable to you, so you equate a SFW image drawn by a lesbian for lesbians to lesbian porn, the only point of contact you have with our culture.

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

She honestly sounds like a translesbophobic piece of shit. This gives me really gross, edgy truscum vibes. Had to stop reading at some point.

downbear

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 45 points 2 weeks ago

steban "In the darkness, should the stars also go out?"

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 45 points 4 weeks ago (12 children)

Look i fully get that political lesbianism is blackpilled and terf adjacent and full of essentialist assumptions, but sometimes you just get reminded that at least in the patriarchal reality we live in, there's something deeply and utterly wrong about men and by "sometimes" i mean about hourly.

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 8 points 4 weeks ago

True, but they're feds who can't keep their mouth shut. I wouldn't go to the guy for political commentary or a perspective outside the empire, but his informant network does offer a good inside view, and as long as you account for the very obvious bias in that i find that pretty useful.

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 5 points 4 weeks ago
[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm thankful somebody finally says something. I've been slowly getting burned out on this space for months, but it felt too futile to effortpost against the consensus of the "shitposting and arguing with ex-redditors is the only acceptable form of praxis" idiots on here. Anything else is either liberalism or adventurism to these people, so the answer to what is to be done is always a convenient "let's just rot". I'm sick of this shit.

 

In a bombshell leak from @PinkNewsStaff on X, Pink News' CEO Benjamin Cohen has been recorded signalling his intent to abandon the trans community to instead focus on being an “entertainment powerhouse”.

In the leaked recording Benjamin is captured stating "We have to be careful." "It's the role of others to change narratives", going on to further say that covering transgender issues will cause them to lose advertisers.

This revelation comes two weeks after pinknews removed their trans category from the website.

@PinkNewsStaff joined X in May 2024 and has been releasing several other allegations about the outlet, claiming there is a toxic culture of bullying, harassment and discrimination at PinkNews.

Leaked audio in the linked article.

 

When i first read that passage, i seriously wondered if somebody had reformatted a Halimede tweet. I don't want to dunk on Serrano too much here, i've taken a lot of good input out of her works, but this is one of her takes that has aged poorly. Like, seriously, i am so fed up with that view of being trans. The one that always, always without fail, centers suffering and pain and misery, that can only frame our joy and our thriving in contrast to the damage that has been inflicted on us, the one that can never let the past rest.

I am not like this. And it's beginning to become a problem.

You see, i like being in community with other trans people. I'm at home there, i've made friends there, found lovers there. It's where i belong. As long as i stay within my own bubble. As soon as i step out of it, i immediately get bombarded with unsolicited trauma dumps, dysphoriaposts out of a 4chan hellhole and a trainload full of internalized transphobia. Everything is a trigger for me. I cannot safely navigate most trans spaces anymore because the people there just drag me down. I logged in yesterday after a long hiatus and looked into the trans megathread and the first thing i had to do was block a user for her unspoilered loathing of the trans existence. I don't know how to handle this anymore. I used to be the kind of woman who writes big effortposts about self acceptance and how to figure yourself out and how to begin navigating systems of medical gatekeeping, but the further i go along in my own transition, the further i am removed from making these early experiences myself, the less i have it in me to unpack all that needs to be unpacked when baby trans yell their pain into the void.

And that's eating at me. It makes me feel guilt, it makes me feel like a failure to my community. My second puberty feels as if i get to sit at the table with the pretty, cool and popular girls, giving fashion advice to the prom queen while i'm leaving the most vulnerable trans people out in the rain, the ones that would need my experience and my encouragement the most. But when i try to be there for them, i harm myself. I can't say it otherwise, it is burning me out to expose myself to that kind of pain. It feels as if i'm walking backwards into a darkness i have escaped from. How do i deal with this? Do i retreat to my wonderland of privileged, happy women and girlthings or is there a way to move beyond the triggers and face the misery of others without becoming miserable myself? Because that's what i would need if i wanted to keep helping my siblings.

 

It just makes more sense this way and if you're going "noooooooo words mean something you can't just grab all the gay" i'm like lol gayroller goes vrooooom wojak-nooo gayroller-2000

btw here's how gay i am now that i have ascended to my new and vastly more powerful form:

hexbear-gay-pride hexbear-lesbian hexbear-bi-2 hexbear-pan hexbear-polyam hexbear-demisexual hexbear-trans meow-hug hexbear-trans

and yes the two trans bears with the hugging cats inbetween are now the official logo for t4t

 

It wasn't a hostile discussion or anything, i didn't even go full "the kulaks deserved it" (although the mod that single-handedly banned me did go full "the kulaks did not deserve it"). I just laid out plainly and calmly that revolutions are inherently authoritarian, that Luxemburg said "the revolution will be as violent as the ruling class makes it necessary" and that there's one Trotzki quote i 100% agree with: "If the October Revolution hadn't succeeded, the world would have known a Russian word for fascism 10 years before Mussolini's March on Rome". Basically the whole "Jakarta Method" train of thought laid out clearly and without calling anybody names.

Note that this was on an explicitly left-leaning server that does not allow cops and troops to join. Also after several days of another poster starting destructive, aggressive bad faith arguments in the politics channel until a number of users went "disengage" on her and the channel had to be frozen until recently, when she immediately started being hostile and arguing in bad faith again, which got her not one, but two warnings from the same mod without further consequences. Meanwhile, when i defend AES without attacking anybody, that's apparently too much for her to handle. No advance warning, no "sis, you're talking to me as a mod here", not even a notification that i got banned.

The best part is that according to screenshots a friend just sent me, she's now completely going off about "authoritarians". The nerve some people have.

Sorry for posting pointless internet drama here, i just needed to vent.

 

The world chess federation FIDE recently made the incredibly transphobic and mysogynist ruling to exclude trans women from competing in women's tournaments, to strip trans men of pre-transition titles and to subject trans people to a two-year long surveilance process that could lead to forced outings. The German and French chess federation have now decided to ignore this ruling. Source in German (mostly with the info from the image): https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=46744

 

Sorry about the idealism tho, this test is actually hella dumb, but it's more fun than they usually are (at least if you're a permanently online trans person).

Anyway, if you want to do dumb political compass shit, but with trans memes, here's the test: https://notaquaheart.github.io/TransAxes/?

 

Caring for myself is not an act of self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare

  • Audre Lorde
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