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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <id>https://cohost.org/xxxjarchiexxx</id> <title>mateo</title> <updated>2024-04-23T14:14:39.708Z</updated> <generator>https://github.com/jpmonette/feed</generator> <author> <name>@xxxjarchiexxx</name> <uri>https://cohost.org/xxxjarchiexxx</uri> </author> <link rel="alternate" href="https://cohost.org/xxxjarchiexxx"/> <link rel="self" href="https://cohost.org/xxxjarchiexxx/rss/public.atom"/> <subtitle>24 mixed bisexual genderfuck tme, i love my husband + bad media ^_^</subtitle> <logo>https://staging.cohostcdn.org/avatar/194018-7cd4fecb-de99-4ca4-827c-10e074f49eea-profile.jpg</logo> <entry> <title type="html"><![CDATA[the squibby]]></title> <id>https://cohost.org/infiniteJestre/post/5670792-post</id> <link href="https://cohost.org/infiniteJestre/post/5670792-the-squibby"/> <updated>2024-05-03T15:00:49.258Z</updated> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[[image: skitty_111417.png]]]></summary> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" title="" src="https://staging.cohostcdn.org/attachment/10ce8235-f89e-4f99-9a30-78c2891d404e/skitty_111417.png"/></figure>]]></content> <author> <name>@infiniteJestre</name> <email>rss+infiniteJestre@cohost.org</email> <uri>https://cohost.org/infiniteJestre</uri> </author> <category label="pokemon" term="pokemon"/> <category label="skitty" term="skitty"/> <category label="pkmn" term="pkmn"/> <category label="pokemon gen 3" term="pokemon%20gen%203"/> <category label="my art" term="my%20art"/> <category label="my good art" term="my%20good%20art"/> <category label="<-- its a doodle but like yea this is good enough to show people" term="%3C--%20its%20a%20doodle%20but%20like%20yea%20this%20is%20good%20enough%20to%20show%20people"/> <category label="The Cohost Global Feed" term="The%20Cohost%20Global%20Feed"/> <published>2024-04-22T15:17:55.570Z</published> </entry> <entry> <title type="html"><![CDATA[Post from @MxSelfDestruct on cohost]]></title> <id>https://cohost.org/MxSelfDestruct/post/5123980-post</id> <link href="https://cohost.org/MxSelfDestruct/post/5123980-empty"/> <updated>2024-03-24T15:07:42.153Z</updated> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[[image: image.png]]]></summary> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" title="" src="https://staging.cohostcdn.org/attachment/e7ce51e1-6391-4645-bda9-09ee696b4f53/image.png"/></figure>]]></content> <author> <name>@MxSelfDestruct</name> <email>rss+MxSelfDestruct@cohost.org</email> <uri>https://cohost.org/MxSelfDestruct</uri> </author> <category label="gwegus" term="gwegus"/> <published>2024-03-17T03:02:22.377Z</published> </entry> <entry> <title type="html"><![CDATA[Post from @xxxjarchiexxx on cohost]]></title> <id>https://cohost.org/xxxjarchiexxx/post/5684635-post</id> <link href="https://cohost.org/xxxjarchiexxx/post/5684635-ive-been-a-little-pu"/> <updated>2024-04-27T15:03:04.333Z</updated> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[ive been a little put off of cohost the last month as shown by my activity but i think im gonna be active again cuz idk. leaving wont make this site better yanno?]]></summary> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>ive been a little put off of cohost the last month as shown by my activity but i think im gonna be active again cuz idk. leaving wont make this site better yanno?</p>]]></content> <author> <name>@xxxjarchiexxx</name> <email>rss+xxxjarchiexxx@cohost.org</email> <uri>https://cohost.org/xxxjarchiexxx</uri> </author> <published>2024-04-23T14:06:02.927Z</published> </entry> <entry> <title type="html"><![CDATA[Post from @chirasul on cohost]]></title> <id>https://cohost.org/chirasul/post/5580995-post</id> <link href="https://cohost.org/chirasul/post/5580995-idk-what-other-philo"/> <updated>2024-04-22T15:01:45.443Z</updated> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[idk what other philosophies i will discover as i Age but as of now at 33, i have discovered that Having Fun and Making It Fun is more important than almost anything]]></summary> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>idk what other philosophies i will discover as i Age but as of now at 33, i have discovered that Having Fun and Making It Fun is more important than almost anything</p>]]></content> <author> <name>@chirasul</name> <email>rss+chirasul@cohost.org</email> <uri>https://cohost.org/chirasul</uri> </author> <published>2024-04-16T01:13:37.424Z</published> </entry> <entry> <title type="html"><![CDATA[Post from @goofpunk on cohost]]></title> <id>https://cohost.org/goofpunk/post/5569160-post</id> <link href="https://cohost.org/goofpunk/post/5569160-adding-a-mastodon-po"/> <updated>2024-04-15T15:06:52.235Z</updated> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[adding a Mastodon post from @sarahzedig here because it’s good and people should see it: > there is no appeal to numbers and studies and "objectivity" that can stand up to a eugenicist's conviction in race science. you can't beat a terf fairytale by distributing spreadsheets. doing so accepts the bigot's frame, "no, actually--" it doesn't matter. you already let them win.> > the fascist tells a false story with true ideological conviction; the liberal annotates those falsehoods and leaves ideology to the imagination. this approach has only ever strengthened the fascist's conviction> > the power of the communist project is not that socialized medicine/free public transit/education/housing etc are actually more efficient and profitable if you do the math. it's in the story communism proposes: of a world unbound from the profit motive and its inequities, where people of all races, genders, and abilities possess equal unconditional dignity of life and labor within a society that exists by all of us, for all of us.> > arguing anything less is a compromise to the fascists link to the original posts, which are worth reading for full context! [https://shrike.club/@sarahzedig/112271415316102621]]]></summary> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>adding a Mastodon post from <a data-testid="mention" href="https://cohost.org/sarahzedig" class="!font-bold !no-underline hover:!underline">@sarahzedig</a> here because it’s good and people should see it:</p><blockquote><p>there is no appeal to numbers and studies and "objectivity" that can stand up to a eugenicist's conviction in race science. you can't beat a terf fairytale by distributing spreadsheets. doing so accepts the bigot's frame, "no, actually--" it doesn't matter. you already let them win.</p><p>the fascist tells a false story with true ideological conviction; the liberal annotates those falsehoods and leaves ideology to the imagination. this approach has only ever strengthened the fascist's conviction</p><p>the power of the communist project is not that socialized medicine/free public transit/education/housing etc are actually more efficient and profitable if you do the math. it's in the story communism proposes: of a world unbound from the profit motive and its inequities, where people of all races, genders, and abilities possess equal unconditional dignity of life and labor within a society that exists by all of us, for all of us.</p><p>arguing anything less is a compromise to the fascists</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://shrike.club/@sarahzedig/112271415316102621" target="_self" rel="nofollow">link to the original posts, which are worth reading for full context!</a></p>]]></content> <author> <name>@goofpunk</name> <email>rss+goofpunk@cohost.org</email> <uri>https://cohost.org/goofpunk</uri> </author> <category label="politcs" term="politcs"/> <category label="communism" term="communism"/> <category label="socialism" term="socialism"/> <published>2024-04-15T04:36:37.184Z</published> </entry> <entry> <title type="html"><![CDATA[Post from @amagire on cohost]]></title> <id>https://cohost.org/amagire/post/5575239-post</id> <link href="https://cohost.org/amagire/post/5575239-hanging-out-in-fully"/> <updated>2024-04-17T15:04:40.327Z</updated> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[hanging out in fully-online queer spaces always depresses me when the conversation turns to visions of the gender-expansive future. kids fantasizing about cis men who get vaginoplasty if they want or "ooh, what if a non-binary person could have a fully-functional penis and a vagina", and I have to be the one to say: my friends, the future is now, the time is here, you can and should argue that these things should be more accessible but estrogen femboys, pussy bears, phallo dykes, and design-your-own-genital-configuration NBs exist and you can read their blogs. subscribe to their onlyfans. say hi on social media, whatever. this is your community, this is who you need to support, find them, embrace them, and be free]]></summary> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>hanging out in fully-online queer spaces always depresses me when the conversation turns to visions of the gender-expansive future. kids fantasizing about cis men who get vaginoplasty if they want or "ooh, what if a non-binary person could have a fully-functional penis <em>and</em> a vagina", and I have to be the one to say: my friends, the future is now, the time is here, you can and should argue that these things should be <em>more accessible</em> but estrogen femboys, pussy bears, phallo dykes, and design-your-own-genital-configuration NBs exist and you can read their blogs. subscribe to their onlyfans. say hi on social media, whatever. this is your community, this is who you need to support, find them, embrace them, and be free</p>]]></content> <author> <name>@amagire</name> <email>rss+amagire@cohost.org</email> <uri>https://cohost.org/amagire</uri> </author> <category label="there is so much bear pussy on bluesky" term="there%20is%20so%20much%20bear%20pussy%20on%20bluesky"/> <category label="genitals" term="genitals"/> <category label="kids these days" term="kids%20these%20days"/> <category label="transsexual howling" term="transsexual%20howling"/> <published>2024-04-15T17:51:12.690Z</published> </entry> <entry> <title type="html"><![CDATA[Post from @8BitGoddess on cohost]]></title> <id>https://cohost.org/8BitGoddess/post/5435862-post</id> <link href="https://cohost.org/8BitGoddess/post/5435862-hun-are-you-alright"/> <updated>2024-04-08T15:04:22.714Z</updated> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Hun, are you alright? You've barely eaten any of your Easter Beanny]]></summary> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" title="" src="https://staging.cohostcdn.org/attachment/cca9e0b5-1d79-4aa9-b503-9795f1197242/RDT_20240405_1044065019210440210948294.jpg"/></figure><p>Hun, are you alright? You've barely eaten any of your Easter Beanny</p>]]></content> <author> <name>@8BitGoddess</name> <email>rss+8BitGoddess@cohost.org</email> <uri>https://cohost.org/8BitGoddess</uri> </author> <category label="shitpost" term="shitpost"/> <category label="shitchost" term="shitchost"/> <category label="images working now :)" term="images%20working%20now%20%3A)"/> <category label="The Global Cohost Feed" term="The%20Global%20Cohost%20Feed"/> <category label="british" term="british"/> <category label="Britain" term="Britain"/> <published>2024-04-05T17:47:44.455Z</published> </entry> <entry> <title type="html"><![CDATA[Post from @Webster on cohost]]></title> <id>https://cohost.org/Webster/post/5394452-post</id> <link href="https://cohost.org/Webster/post/5394452-once-in-9th-grade-i"/> <updated>2024-04-08T15:03:13.802Z</updated> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[once in 9th grade i started walking home from school with someone i had never met before. he asked me "have you ever heard of 'the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny'?" and i said "yes" and he said "great!" before proceeding to sing the entire thing uninterrupted from beginning to end while i remained dead silent. i was so zen. the whole way home i was thinking "i do not even know how his name and i feel no need to hide anything from him".]]></summary> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>once in 9th grade i started walking home from school with someone i had never met before. he asked me "have you ever heard of 'the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny'?" and i said "yes" and he said "great!" before proceeding to sing the entire thing uninterrupted from beginning to end while i remained dead silent. i was so zen. the whole way home i was thinking "i do not even know how his name and i feel no need to hide anything from him".</p>]]></content> <author> <name>@Webster</name> <email>rss+Webster@cohost.org</email> <uri>https://cohost.org/Webster</uri> </author> <published>2024-04-02T21:28:14.765Z</published> </entry> <entry> <title type="html"><![CDATA[Post from @janederscore on cohost]]></title> <id>https://cohost.org/janederscore/post/5392699-post</id> <link href="https://cohost.org/janederscore/post/5392699-what-about-updates"/> <updated>2024-04-08T15:03:11.779Z</updated> <summary type="html"><![CDATA["what about updates that add more functionality" i don't want more functionality i want exactly the functionality that i need . if i have to do something else i will kludge together a solution or i will find another program. i don't need 67 additional smart tools in my photoshop i would just like to have photoshop actually]]></summary> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>"what about updates that add more functionality" i don't want more functionality i want exactly the functionality that i need . if i have to do something else i will kludge together a solution or i will find another program. i don't need 67 additional smart tools in my photoshop i would just like to have photoshop actually</p>]]></content> <author> <name>@janederscore</name> <email>rss+janederscore@cohost.org</email> <uri>https://cohost.org/janederscore</uri> </author> <category label=".jtxt" term=".jtxt"/> <category label="still using my cracked cs6 to this day and it might not be able to do all the fancy extra shit but yknow what . i can make images all the live long day in that thing with no problems" term="still%20using%20my%20cracked%20cs6%20to%20this%20day%20and%20it%20might%20not%20be%20able%20to%20do%20all%20the%20fancy%20extra%20shit%20but%20yknow%20what%20.%20i%20can%20make%20images%20all%20the%20live%20long%20day%20in%20that%20thing%20with%20no%20problems"/> <published>2024-04-02T19:30:52.552Z</published> </entry> <entry> <title type="html"><![CDATA[Post from @xxxjarchiexxx on cohost]]></title> <id>https://cohost.org/xxxjarchiexxx/post/5375360-post</id> <link href="https://cohost.org/xxxjarchiexxx/post/5375360-like-idk-i-know-it"/> <updated>2024-04-11T15:01:42.528Z</updated> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Share from @xxxjarchiexxx: https://cohost.org/xxxjarchiexxx/post/5375297-i-feel-very-uncomfor like, idk, i know its not the intent and its not like cohost is a big website but the person i saw called out specifically, it had posted specifically mentioning its writing on transmisogyny its faced in the same post and that was cropped out to focus on how its immoral for it to post about it, idk. i saw some other vague posts, and i assumed multiple people were being vagued, and i get it in other regards, but the one specific post cropping out it disclosing its status as transfem and its writings on it in the same post on liking booping feels. weird]]></summary> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>like, idk, i know its not the intent and its not like cohost is a big website but the person i saw called out specifically, it had posted specifically mentioning its writing on transmisogyny its faced in the same post and that was cropped out to focus on how its immoral for it to post about it, idk. i saw some other vague posts, and i assumed multiple people were being vagued, and i get it in other regards, but the one specific post cropping out it disclosing its status as transfem and its writings on it in the same post on liking booping feels. weird</p>]]></content> <author> <name>@xxxjarchiexxx</name> <email>rss+xxxjarchiexxx@cohost.org</email> <uri>https://cohost.org/xxxjarchiexxx</uri> </author> <published>2024-04-01T17:44:37.824Z</published> <source> <title type="html"><![CDATA[Post from @xxxjarchiexxx on cohost]]></title> <id>https://cohost.org/xxxjarchiexxx/post/5375297-post</id> <link href="https://cohost.org/xxxjarchiexxx/post/5375297-i-feel-very-uncomfor"/> <updated>2024-04-06T15:03:36.657Z</updated> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[i feel very uncomfortable with how some peoples reactions to the april fools stuff on tumblr over here is to screenshot transfems reactions about liking the feature despite the transmisogyny on the site and frame them as being ignorant to the transmisogyny via cropping out the part of the post where they talk about being transfem. they plural bcuz i saw a lot of vague posts, but i saw this specifically happen to one girl that truly did not deserve it. idk, i don't think starting new hate campaigns on transfems for liking booping friends is really the move]]></summary> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>i feel very uncomfortable with how some peoples reactions to the april fools stuff on tumblr over here is to screenshot transfems reactions about liking the feature despite the transmisogyny on the site and frame them as being ignorant to the transmisogyny via cropping out the part of the post where they talk about being transfem. they plural bcuz i saw a lot of vague posts, but i saw this specifically happen to one girl that truly did not deserve it. idk, i don't think starting new hate campaigns on transfems for liking booping friends is really the move</p>]]></content> <author> <name>@xxxjarchiexxx</name> <email>rss+xxxjarchiexxx@cohost.org</email> <uri>https://cohost.org/xxxjarchiexxx</uri> </author> <published>2024-04-01T17:40:14.775Z</published> </source> </entry> <entry> <title type="html"><![CDATA[Post from @xxxjarchiexxx on cohost]]></title> <id>https://cohost.org/xxxjarchiexxx/post/5375297-post</id> <link href="https://cohost.org/xxxjarchiexxx/post/5375297-i-feel-very-uncomfor"/> <updated>2024-04-06T15:03:36.657Z</updated> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[i feel very uncomfortable with how some peoples reactions to the april fools stuff on tumblr over here is to screenshot transfems reactions about liking the feature despite the transmisogyny on the site and frame them as being ignorant to the transmisogyny via cropping out the part of the post where they talk about being transfem. they plural bcuz i saw a lot of vague posts, but i saw this specifically happen to one girl that truly did not deserve it. idk, i don't think starting new hate campaigns on transfems for liking booping friends is really the move]]></summary> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>i feel very uncomfortable with how some peoples reactions to the april fools stuff on tumblr over here is to screenshot transfems reactions about liking the feature despite the transmisogyny on the site and frame them as being ignorant to the transmisogyny via cropping out the part of the post where they talk about being transfem. they plural bcuz i saw a lot of vague posts, but i saw this specifically happen to one girl that truly did not deserve it. idk, i don't think starting new hate campaigns on transfems for liking booping friends is really the move</p>]]></content> <author> <name>@xxxjarchiexxx</name> <email>rss+xxxjarchiexxx@cohost.org</email> <uri>https://cohost.org/xxxjarchiexxx</uri> </author> <published>2024-04-01T17:40:14.775Z</published> </entry> <entry> <title type="html"><![CDATA[Post from @ScavengerFox on cohost]]></title> <id>https://cohost.org/ScavengerFox/post/5357360-post</id> <link href="https://cohost.org/ScavengerFox/post/5357360-don-t-know-what-to-p"/> <updated>2024-04-01T15:05:13.698Z</updated> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Don't know what to post for TDOV. I just... Hope that we all make it. I want to see my friends and loved ones smile. I want us all to find our bliss. I want us all to be happy, satisfied and content with life. Maybe that's too much to ask, but it's worth fighting for nonetheless.]]></summary> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Don't know what to post for TDOV. I just... Hope that we all make it. I want to see my friends and loved ones smile. I want us all to find our bliss. I want us all to be happy, satisfied and content with life. Maybe that's too much to ask, but it's worth fighting for nonetheless.</p>]]></content> <author> <name>@ScavengerFox</name> <email>rss+ScavengerFox@cohost.org</email> <uri>https://cohost.org/ScavengerFox</uri> </author> <category label="tdov 2024" term="tdov%202024"/> <category label="tdov" term="tdov"/> <category label="trans day of visibility" term="trans%20day%20of%20visibility"/> <category label="trans day of visibility 2024" term="trans%20day%20of%20visibility%202024"/> <published>2024-03-31T16:11:30.976Z</published> </entry> <entry> <title type="html"><![CDATA[TRANSFORM Your Game Boy: Make the action bigger, brighter, and better with these snap-on accessories from NUBY.]]></title> <id>https://cohost.org/gamemagprintads/post/5355293-post</id> <link href="https://cohost.org/gamemagprintads/post/5355293-transform-your-game"/> <updated>2024-04-01T15:05:11.211Z</updated> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Source: GamePro 19 (February 1991)Scan source: RetroMags]]></summary> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<figure><img src="https://staging.cohostcdn.org/attachment/2c46970a-84ac-4669-811b-75e4b3cd2000/40a9f436-9cb7-42b8-a25b-0e936c648b14.jpg"/></figure><p><strong>Source:</strong> GamePro 19 (February 1991)<br/><strong>Scan source:</strong> RetroMags</p>]]></content> <author> <name>@gamemagprintads</name> <email>rss+gamemagprintads@cohost.org</email> <uri>https://cohost.org/gamemagprintads</uri> </author> <category label="retrogaming" term="retrogaming"/> <category label="nintendo" term="nintendo"/> <published>2024-03-31T13:00:12.091Z</published> </entry> <entry> <title type="html"><![CDATA[Post from @auramgold on cohost]]></title> <id>https://cohost.org/auramgold/post/5348596-post</id> <link href="https://cohost.org/auramgold/post/5348596-one-thing-i-do-think"/> <updated>2024-04-06T15:03:24.660Z</updated> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[one thing i do think is important to remember with transmisogyny is that it is very much an oppression that can be applied laterally. even someone who's TMA can very much wield transmisogyny as a weapon against other transfems by appealing to being "one of the good ones". this strategy, of course, doesn't work forever. the harassment against me The Abuser's Guide to Transmisogyny is partially based on was mostly enacted by other transfems, though with one TME system in the pack. but as soon as the campaign flopped and everyone involved was rightly driven out for trying to commit social murder, suddenly the TME system who had started the pedojacketing framed everything they did as simply being dragged along by the transfems in the room. they can't do harm, they're just a poor little meow-meow, surely it was those convenient mean transfem scapegoats who made them do it! transmisogyny can be wielded laterally, but all it does is get you thrown under the bus at the end of the day. transmisogynist mobs generally are going to eventually find an excuse to throw you away, no matter how perfect they think you are. they'll call you a pedophile rapist for some random kink, decide you're racist for something you said out of context, or even just decide their own violence they suddenly felt guilty for is clearly your fault. being "one of the good ones" just gets you killed alone once you help clear out the rest of us.]]></summary> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>one thing i do think is important to remember with transmisogyny is that it is very much an oppression that can be applied laterally. even someone who's TMA can very much wield transmisogyny as a weapon against other transfems by appealing to being "one of the good ones".</p><p>this strategy, of course, doesn't work forever. the harassment against me <em>The Abuser's Guide to Transmisogyny</em> is partially based on was mostly enacted by other transfems, though with one TME system in the pack. but as soon as the campaign flopped and everyone involved was rightly driven out for trying to commit social murder, suddenly the TME system who had started the pedojacketing framed everything they did as simply being dragged along by the transfems in the room.</p><p>they can't do harm, they're just a poor little meow-meow, surely it was those convenient mean transfem scapegoats who made them do it!</p><p>transmisogyny can be wielded laterally, but all it does is get you thrown under the bus at the end of the day. transmisogynist mobs generally are going to eventually find an excuse to throw you away, no matter how perfect they think you are. they'll call you a pedophile rapist for some random kink, decide you're racist for something you said out of context, or even just decide their own violence they suddenly felt guilty for is clearly your fault.</p><p>being "one of the good ones" just gets you killed alone once you help clear out the rest of us.</p>]]></content> <author> <name>@auramgold</name> <email>rss+auramgold@cohost.org</email> <uri>https://cohost.org/auramgold</uri> </author> <category label="transmisogyny" term="transmisogyny"/> <published>2024-03-30T23:25:54.683Z</published> </entry> <entry> <title type="html"><![CDATA[meditation on trans visibility and usefulness]]></title> <id>https://cohost.org/bigstuffedcat/post/1260085-post</id> <link href="https://cohost.org/bigstuffedcat/post/1260085-meditation-on-trans"/> <updated>2024-04-02T15:00:07.217Z</updated> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[(content warnings: gun violence, transphobia)]]></summary> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>They hate us so much that they grieved for the first time. That is, when the latest in a long line of school shooters happened to be trans, my intuition is the anti-trans population's sudden grief response wasn't all performative. The bigots grew numb to the realities of constant killing just like the rest of us-- but lucky them, we shocked them out of it for a second.</p><hr/><p>Trans people have always been precariously <em>useful</em>. Liberals often rejoice that our existence has given them the "gift" of decoupling sex, sexuality, gender, and gender expression. Of course even this newfound freedom, they claim, is best in moderation, particularly when it butts heads with the so-called necessary evils of capitalism, so we don't benefit much from this relationship.</p><p>We're useful to conservatives, too, it seems. Not just in the obvious way, as an affecting rhetorical device for Rowling hagiomaniacs. The existence of trans people has shepherded conservatives into realizing and/or showing that they care about people dying. Not that they're going to do anything generative about it, mind you-- I'm sure the only result of this will be hate crimes against us. But they're showing their emotions and voicing a grief that the kyriarchy has muffled, which is good not in a political way but in a moral-of-a-children's-cartoon way. Not liberating for <em>us</em>-- but at least it's liberating for them.</p><p>I'm thinking about <em>gift embodiment</em> as a mode of visibility. The strangest interaction a cis person can have with me is to thank me. And they often do, on behalf of cis women with mustaches, pregnant cis teenagers, Black women who get demonized by being masculinized-- the people whose struggles they just noticed are linked with ours. I'm genuinely glad they see those connections, but it's always a shock to realize that's the majority of their interfacing with transness-- a class of people whose existence is necessary to teach them the complexities of gender. A "let's say, hypothetically" with the added rhetorical impact of being real and occasionally hot. An embodied gift.</p><hr/><p>With all this in mind, a benediction for this TDOV:</p><p>May we recognize ourselves as more than shepherds.<br/>May we recognize one another as more than political truths.<br/>May we make outsiders recognize us as more than gifts.</p><p>May they see our pain, art, and brilliance.<br/>May they see our joy, fury, and beauty.<br/>May they see us as friends, lovers, and coworkers.</p><p>May both of us, trans and cis<br/>seek out modes of visibility beyond<br/>transness embodying a gift to cis agents.</p>]]></content> <author> <name>@bigstuffedcat</name> <email>rss+bigstuffedcat@cohost.org</email> <uri>https://cohost.org/bigstuffedcat</uri> </author> <category label="transgender" term="transgender"/> <category label="tdov" term="tdov"/> <category label="theory" term="theory"/> <category label="anarchism" term="anarchism"/> <category label="The Cohost Global Feed" term="The%20Cohost%20Global%20Feed"/> <category label="The Cohost Global Feed (Anarchist)" term="The%20Cohost%20Global%20Feed%20(Anarchist)"/> <category label="talkythinkypost" term="talkythinkypost"/> <published>2023-03-31T15:04:24.131Z</published> </entry> <entry> <title type="html"><![CDATA[Post from @bruno on cohost]]></title> <id>https://cohost.org/bruno/post/5322687-post</id> <link href="https://cohost.org/bruno/post/5322687-the-more-proficient"/> <updated>2024-04-24T15:00:28.643Z</updated> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The more proficient the user of a tool is, the more sensitive they are to changes in that tool's interface. Discord is kind of a victim of its own success here; a lot of its users are power users who spend a lot of their time on discord and expect to be able to use it without thinking... moving or changing things in seemingly-irrelevant ways can create friction for users where previously there wasn't any. I think the way software is released now – ie, it isn't, instead new features are just rolled out in a continuous and seemingly constant wave – also contributes to users feeling like they're in quicksand. Nothing about the app feels solid or reliable; you wake up one morning and something has inexplicably changed, for reasons that are typically unclear to you, and this happens distressingly often. Imagine if we treated more seriously important UI like we treat most end-user software. You sit down behind the wheel of your car one morning and suddenly your shifter is mounted to the steering column instead of the console. Imagine if in between flights we rearranged all the instruments on the dashboard of a commercial aircraft. Obviously nobody is using Discord to do something as dangerous as drive a car – I hope – but users still spend a lot of time using Discord, they rely heavily on it. I think it's not an exaggeration to say that for a lot of Discord users, Discord has a comparable importance in their lives to a car. I think this implies that the UI for Discord should be treated with the same seriousness that car UI is treated (by auto makers other than Tesla). And it just... isn't. Instead it's this ongoing experiment being endlessly iterated on. At a certain point the frequency of changes and the apparent meaninglessness of changes is itself poor user experience. Even more so I think users have an outsized response to that because almost all software feels like this now. Good software, bad software, everything is constantly auto-updating, everything is constantly being tweaked, and it feels like you can never get to grips with any tool because they're never the same shape you left them in. So it's never this one insignificant change to Discord's layout, it's that it's the umpteenth thing that has shifted underneath the user's feet that day. Part of the cause of this problem, I think, is the death of customizability. It used to be that GUI applications were made out of modular widgets that you could drag around, reposition, replace, often hide or bring back. Because users had this structural control over the application, well... this did not necessarily lead to 'better' UI, it probably led to worse UI, but I think it might have led to happier users. A sort of 'ikea effect' for GUI. 'My brother in christ, you made the GUI.' A particular thing that these old customizable GUIs were good for – still seen in a lot of professional software, eg Photoshop – was just hiding irrelevant affordances. Not everything needs to be visible or accessible by default; some features have niche uses, users have different levels of engagement and proficiency. You could go into the menu and toggle aspects of the UI on or off depending on whether you used them. Discord doesn't give itself the affordances to selectively veil parts of its UI, and as a result every user sees every change to every feature. Often a change that is welcomed by the users who embrace a given feature appears as just a pointless alteration for the users who don't use the feature. This, again, contributes to the sense of instability. Another thing about this is just that software nowadays is often unreliable, because software is often web pages trying way too hard. When was the last time you accidentally clicked or tapped the wrong thing because a UI element loaded and popped into place while your finger was moving? Increasingly, the software industry fails to meet the most basic standards of UI design. Standards like "don't shift UI elements around after a view loads". Standards like basic performance... I can tell you that I use the web version of Discord on this machine because the desktop version chugs so slow as to be unusable. This is a gaming desktop whose only crime is running Linux; I can run Cyberpunk 2077 on this thing, but not Discord. So generally speaking, apps have not earned themselves a whole lot of benefit of the doubt from users. The quality of most software has always been bad, of course, but I think the era we live in now – where every desktop application is just a full fat install of Google Chrome with a different website on it – has really gotten to a point of complete egregiousness in many ways. Which is all to say: Yeah I think casually shifting a UI element in Discord 1px to the left actually is not a great idea, even if from some objective design standard that UI element needs to be 1px to the left. I think that there's value in stability and I think the conventional software development process – where you just iterate constantly and make changes and push those changes to users ASAP – is not actually appropriate for a tool with the role that Discord has in people's lives. But, unfortunately, the way a business like Discord is run fundamentally disallows a rational approach to any of this. There's a whole other post to write about the parallel between how 'publish or perish' might be destroying our ability to create knowledge and how the drive to ship things might be destroying our ability to create software.]]></summary> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>The more proficient the user of a tool is, the more sensitive they are to changes in that tool's interface. Discord is kind of a victim of its own success here; a lot of its users are power users who spend a lot of their time on discord and expect to be able to use it without thinking... moving or changing things in seemingly-irrelevant ways can create friction for users where previously there wasn't any.</p><p>I think the way software is released now – ie, it isn't, instead new features are just rolled out in a continuous and seemingly constant wave – also contributes to users feeling like they're in quicksand. Nothing about the app feels solid or reliable; you wake up one morning and something has inexplicably changed, for reasons that are typically unclear to you, and this happens distressingly often.</p><p>Imagine if we treated more seriously important UI like we treat most end-user software. You sit down behind the wheel of your car one morning and suddenly your shifter is mounted to the steering column instead of the console. Imagine if in between flights we rearranged all the instruments on the dashboard of a commercial aircraft.</p><p>Obviously nobody is using Discord to do something as dangerous as drive a car – I hope – but users still spend a lot of time using Discord, they rely heavily on it. I think it's not an exaggeration to say that for a lot of Discord users, Discord has a comparable importance in their lives to a car.</p><p>I think this implies that the UI for Discord should be treated with the same seriousness that car UI is treated (by auto makers other than Tesla). And it just... isn't. Instead it's this ongoing experiment being endlessly iterated on.</p><p>At a certain point the frequency of changes and the apparent meaninglessness of changes is <em>itself</em> poor user experience.</p><p>Even more so I think users have an outsized response to that because almost all software feels like this now. Good software, bad software, everything is constantly auto-updating, everything is constantly being tweaked, and it feels like you can never get to grips with any tool because they're never the same shape you left them in. So it's never this one insignificant change to Discord's layout, it's that it's the umpteenth thing that has shifted underneath the user's feet that day.</p><p>Part of the cause of this problem, I think, is the death of customizability. It used to be that GUI applications were made out of modular widgets that you could drag around, reposition, replace, often hide or bring back. Because users had this structural control over the application, well... this did not necessarily lead to 'better' UI, it probably led to worse UI, but I think it might have led to happier users. A sort of 'ikea effect' for GUI. 'My brother in christ, you made the GUI.'</p><p>A particular thing that these old customizable GUIs were good for – still seen in a lot of professional software, eg Photoshop – was just hiding irrelevant affordances. Not everything needs to be visible or accessible by default; some features have niche uses, users have different levels of engagement and proficiency. You could go into the menu and toggle aspects of the UI on or off depending on whether you used them.</p><p>Discord doesn't give itself the affordances to selectively veil parts of its UI, and as a result <em>every</em> user sees <em>every</em> change to <em>every</em> feature. Often a change that is welcomed by the users who embrace a given feature appears as just a pointless alteration for the users who don't use the feature. This, again, contributes to the sense of instability.</p><p>Another thing about this is just that software nowadays is often unreliable, because software is often web pages trying way too hard. When was the last time you accidentally clicked or tapped the wrong thing because a UI element loaded and popped into place while your finger was moving?</p><p>Increasingly, the software industry fails to meet the most basic standards of UI design. Standards like "don't shift UI elements around after a view loads". Standards like basic performance... I can tell you that I use the web version of Discord on this machine because the desktop version chugs so slow as to be unusable. This is a gaming desktop whose only crime is running Linux; I can run Cyberpunk 2077 on this thing, but not Discord.</p><p>So generally speaking, apps have not earned themselves a whole lot of benefit of the doubt from users. The quality of most software has always been bad, of course, but I think the era we live in now – where every desktop application is just a full fat install of Google Chrome with a different website on it – has really gotten to a point of complete egregiousness in many ways.</p><p>Which is all to say: Yeah I think casually shifting a UI element in Discord 1px to the left actually is not a great idea, even if from some objective design standard that UI element needs to be 1px to the left. I think that there's value in stability and I think the conventional software development process – where you just iterate constantly and make changes and push those changes to users ASAP – is not actually appropriate for a tool with the role that Discord has in people's lives.</p><p>But, unfortunately, the way a business like Discord is run fundamentally disallows a rational approach to any of this. There's a whole other post to write about the parallel between how 'publish or perish' might be destroying our ability to create knowledge and how the drive to ship things might be destroying our ability to create software.</p>]]></content> <author> <name>@bruno</name> <email>rss+bruno@cohost.org</email> <uri>https://cohost.org/bruno</uri> </author> <category label="discord" term="discord"/> <published>2024-03-29T03:02:37.206Z</published> </entry> <entry> <title type="html"><![CDATA[It’s because smaller communities die.]]></title> <id>https://cohost.org/estrogen-post</id> <link href="https://cohost.org/estrogen-and-spite/post/5322873-it-s-because-smaller"/> <updated>2024-03-30T15:07:17.285Z</updated> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[I say this as someone who grew up online on BBSes. Smaller communities have a shelf life. Let’s say you get a tight nit forum of 50 people. But then two members dated for a bit and broke up and one of them left. And three other members had a fight and two of them left. And then someone logged off one day and never logged back in. And then some people? Well you see them online but they don’t post anymore. So of course the active users see this and try recruiting. But the most active threads are the “why is this place so quiet?” thread, and the “we need to recruit more members” thread, and new members who do join are now part of conversations that reference events they missed, and often just feel like outsiders. Social media offers persistence and constant shifting of members. Sure individual groups or subreddits or tags might die out, but you can always find someone to talk to once you’ve established yourself some. New friends are actively made as old ones fade away. If you want to create small communities, you need them linked to a larger platform. Honestly Reddit is so close to being what would work best, except they keep trying to be like every other social media platform, they offer zero discoverability for smaller communities, the upvote system is toxic as fuck, and they don’t ban fucking Nazis or toxic mods. But it gives you that persistence while also giving you those smaller communities where you can meet people. I can see a vision for how such a site would work. Use BBS style forums, but link them together in a larger feed like Reddit, and have a tagging system as robust as this one, and avoid all algorithmic methods of discovery but instead allow you to follow users like they are forums and see where they are active to help you also find new communities. It would be messy and chaotic but it could work. Or maybe I know nothing, idk. Just one person’s theory.]]></summary> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I say this as someone who grew up online on BBSes.</p><p>Smaller communities have a shelf life. Let’s say you get a tight nit forum of 50 people. But then two members dated for a bit and broke up and one of them left. And three other members had a fight and two of them left. And then someone logged off one day and never logged back in. And then some people? Well you see them online but they don’t post anymore.</p><p>So of course the active users see this and try recruiting. But the most active threads are the “why is this place so quiet?” thread, and the “we need to recruit more members” thread, and new members who do join are now part of conversations that reference events they missed, and often just feel like outsiders.</p><p>Social media offers persistence and constant shifting of members. Sure individual groups or subreddits or tags might die out, but you can always find someone to talk to once you’ve established yourself some. New friends are actively made as old ones fade away.</p><p>If you want to create small communities, you need them linked to a larger platform. Honestly Reddit is so close to being what would work best, except they keep trying to be like every other social media platform, they offer zero discoverability for smaller communities, the upvote system is toxic as fuck, and they don’t ban fucking Nazis or toxic mods. But it gives you that persistence while also giving you those smaller communities where you can meet people.</p><p>I can see a vision for how such a site would work. Use BBS style forums, but link them together in a larger feed like Reddit, and have a tagging system as robust as this one, and avoid all algorithmic methods of discovery but instead allow you to follow users like they are forums and see where they are active to help you also find new communities. It would be messy and chaotic but it could work.</p><p>Or maybe I know nothing, idk. Just one person’s theory.</p>]]></content> <author> <name>@estrogen-and-spite</name> <email>rss+estrogen-and-spite@cohost.org</email> <uri>https://cohost.org/estrogen-and-spite</uri> </author> <published>2024-03-29T03:17:12.591Z</published> </entry> <entry> <title type="html"><![CDATA[Unprintable: Artists Against Authority]]></title> <id>https://cohost.org/mortalityplays/post/5299667-post</id> <link href="https://cohost.org/mortalityplays/post/5299667-unprintable-artists"/> <updated>2024-04-28T15:00:22.591Z</updated> <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Assorted samples of the artwork on offer [https://i.imgur.com/uYoWaML.png] I AM ABSOLUTELY BESIDE MYSELF WITH EXCITEMENT TO ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH OF UNPRINTABLE [https://free.mortalityplays.com/]. Unprintable is an online free shop, where original artwork and arts resources are released into the public domain. Everything listed here is free to use, copy and remix any way you like. You can print off hi-res artwork to decorate your apartment, or to use in your own projects. You can use the writing in your own zines, anthologies or performances. You can put it on a t-shirt. You can read it on the radio. You can paint it on a truck. It's up to you, entirely and forever. The collection will be updated continuously, on an unfixed schedule, with contributions from a wide range of named and anonymous artists and activists. You can read the FAQ [https://free.mortalityplays.com/about/] for a full rundown of what Unprintable is and why it exists, but these are the really important parts: > Can I download/print/use the work listed here?> > > Yes.> > > Can I use it for [X]?> > > You can do whatever you want with it forever.> > > But what if I want to [Y]?> > > You can do whatever you want with it forever.> > > Why do this?> > > A few reasons:> > > 1. We want a space to just share things, no strings attached.> > We recognise that copyright is an irrational system that was designed to protect the profit interests of publishing middlemen and IP hoarders. In fact, copyright is often weaponised against the creators it pretends to protect. As long as it exists, we are unlikely to win any other form of protection for our work, and we are profoundly limited from engaging in the kind of communal artistic and storytelling practices that were the norm around the world for thousands of years.> > > 2. Radical art is often unprintable.> > Profit motives make people cautious. A lot of print-on-demand or local print shop services will refuse artwork with controversial, sensitive or political content. This is very frustrating when these themes are the focus of so much of our work (and indeed our lives). Rather than waste any more breath trying to explain why a trans artist might want to print the word ‘faggot’, we can give our work away for free. Got a printer? It’s yours.> > > 3. It feels good.> > Sharing is joyful. It’s the reason we love making things in the first place. We don’t write poems because we look forward to filleting them for consumption, or layer colours so that we can sell a canvas by the ounce. We have only ever wanted to be able to support ourselves so that we can make, but that relationship is deeply dysfunctional under capitalism. We made these things, and we want you to have them. It doesn’t need to be complicated. I'LL WRITE UP SOME MORE POSTS INTRODUCING THE LAUNCH COLLECTION SOON. IN THE MEANTIME...BE FREE, ENJOY, EXPLORE, HAVE FUN! https://free.mortalityplays.com/HTTPS://FREE.MORTALITYPLAYS.COM [https://free.mortalityplays.com]]]></summary> <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/uYoWaML.png" alt="Assorted samples of the artwork on offer"/></p><h1>I am absolutely beside myself with excitement to announce the launch of <a href="https://free.mortalityplays.com/" target="_self" rel="nofollow">Unprintable</a>.</h1><p><strong>Unprintable</strong> is an online <strong>free shop</strong>, where original artwork and arts resources are released into the public domain.</p><p>Everything listed here is free to use, copy and remix any way you like. You can print off hi-res artwork to decorate your apartment, or to use in your own projects. You can use the writing in your own zines, anthologies or performances. You can put it on a t-shirt. You can read it on the radio. You can paint it on a truck. <strong>It's up to you, entirely and forever.</strong></p><p>The collection will be updated continuously, on an unfixed schedule, with contributions from a wide range of named and anonymous artists and activists. You can read the <strong><a href="https://free.mortalityplays.com/about/" target="_self" rel="nofollow">FAQ</a></strong> for a full rundown of what Unprintable is and why it exists, but these are the really important parts:</p><blockquote><p><strong>Can I download/print/use the work listed here?</strong><br/></p><p>Yes.<br/></p><p><strong>Can I use it for [X]?</strong><br/></p><p>You can do whatever you want with it forever.<br/></p><p><strong>But what if I want to [Y]?</strong><br/></p><p>You can do whatever you want with it forever.<br/></p><p><strong>Why do this?</strong><br/></p><p>A few reasons:<br/></p><p><span style="color:#ff4930"><b>1. We want a space to just share things, no strings attached.</b></span></p><p>We recognise that copyright is an irrational system that was designed to protect the profit interests of publishing middlemen and IP hoarders. In fact, copyright is often weaponised against the creators it pretends to protect. As long as it exists, we are unlikely to win any other form of protection for our work, and we are profoundly limited from engaging in the kind of communal artistic and storytelling practices that were the norm around the world for thousands of years.<br/></p><p><span style="color:#ff4930"><b>2. Radical art is often unprintable.</b></span></p><p>Profit motives make people cautious. A lot of print-on-demand or local print shop services will refuse artwork with controversial, sensitive or political content. This is very frustrating when these themes are the focus of so much of our work (and indeed our lives). Rather than waste any more breath trying to explain why a trans artist might want to print the word ‘faggot’, we can give our work away for free. Got a printer? It’s yours.<br/></p><p><span style="color:#ff4930"><b>3. It feels good.</b></span></p><p>Sharing is joyful. It’s the reason we love making things in the first place. We don’t write poems because we look forward to filleting them for consumption, or layer colours so that we can sell a canvas by the ounce. We have only ever wanted to be able to support ourselves so that we can make, but that relationship is deeply dysfunctional under capitalism. We made these things, and we want you to have them. It doesn’t need to be complicated.</p></blockquote><h2>I'll write up some more posts introducing the launch collection soon. In the meantime...be free, enjoy, explore, have fun!</h2><h1><span style="color:#ff4930"><b><a href="https://free.mortalityplays.com/" target="_self" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="https://free.mortalityplays.com" target="_self" rel="nofollow">https://free.mortalityplays.com</a></b></span></h1>]]></content> <author> <name>@mortalityplays</name> <email>rss+mortalityplays@cohost.org</email> <uri>https://cohost.org/mortalityplays</uri> </author> <category label="free art" term="free%20art"/> <category label="public domain" term="public%20domain"/> <category label="anarchism" term="anarchism"/> <category label="resources" term="resources"/> <published>2024-03-27T18:29:11.036Z</published> </entry></feed>
