If you are taking the car to Chicago, can you even call yourself a feminist. There are Women on that train who want to have gay sex with you but can’t because you are taking a fucking car to Chicago
Right now there is a very buff Butch woman all alone in the Cafe car and she could be having steamy gay sex with you and be moving into your apartment if you were just willing to take the train to Chicago
I’m busy trying to get more lesbians to ride the train instead of taking their Subarus to Chicago
KOKOBOT - The Airbnb-Owned Tech Startup - Data Mining Tumblr Users’ Mental Health Crises for “Content”
I got this message from a bot, and honestly? If I was a bit younger and not such a jaded bitch with a career in tech, I might have given it an honest try. I spent plenty of time in a tough situation without access to any mental health resources as a teen, and would have been sucked right in.
Chatting right from your phone, and being connected with people who can help you? Sounds nice. Especially if you believe the testimonials they spam you with (tw suicide / self harm mention in below images)
But I was getting a weird feeling, so I went to read the legalese.
I couldn’t even get through the fine-print it asked me to read and agree to, without it spamming the hell out of me. Almost like they expect people to just hit Yes? But I’m glad I stopped to read, because:
What you say on there won’t be confidential. (And for context, I tried it out and the things people were looking for help with? I didn’t even feel comfortable sharing here as examples, it was all so deeply personal and painful)
Also, what you say on there? Is now…
Koko’s intellectual property - giving them the right to use it in any way they see fit, including
Publicly performing or displaying your “content” (also known as your mental health crisis) in any media format and in any media channel without limitation
Do this indefinitely after you end your account with them
Sell / share this “content” with other businesses
Any harm you come to using Koko? That’s on you.
And Koko won’t take responsibility for anything someone says to you on there (which is bleak when people are using it to spread Christianity to people in crisis)
They also use the data they gather from users to conduct research and publish papers. I didn’t find them too interesting - other than as a good case study of “People tend to find what they are financially incentivized to find”. Predictably, Koko found that Kokobot was beneficial to its users.
So yeah, being a dumbass with too much curiosity, I decided to use the Airbnb-owned Data-Mining Mental Health Chatline anyway. And if you thought it was dangerous sounding from the disclaimers? Somehow it got worse.
(trigger warning / discussions of child abuse / sexual abuse / suicide / violence below the cut - please don’t read if you’re not in a good place to hear about negligence around pretty horrific topics.)
There are young people on tumblr that actively seek support from KokoBot right now, if you check the tag for recent posts. Those people did not get paid to promote it, so do not harrass them. If you can, direct them towards resources about Kokobot (like this post) that are more transparent about what this company is up to.
Other Barbies and Kens in the movie clearly were still attracted to each other romantically and sexually so can we please stop calling Barbie aroace because she’s “a doll with no organs” and accept that she’s aroace for the reason anyone is any orientation at all, which is to say, no reason at all?
I first read When the Angels Left the Old Country last fall, but @anonymousdandelion’s and @flameraven’s recent enthusiastic posts made me want to read it again, and now there’s art! Uriel, Little Ash, Essie, and Rose are heading off to cause some kind of trouble together.
(This also gave me a chance to illustrate a headcanon I haven’t seen in fan art yet: that Uriel, who’s described as having a round, soft face, is soft in the rest of its build as well.)
one of the replies on the “please don’t plan events on rosh hashanah and yom kippur” post was like “i don’t understand, how does it interfere? is it because events would be noisy and disturb people in synagogue?”
it didn’t occur to them that we would want to attend the events
Hello, I am moving apartments in August (trying to do the least expensive moving options and I’ll be moving what I can with the help that I have but there are some pieces of furniture I have which are too heavy to move without professional help), I have several meds I need to refill, and I also need help with groceries. I anticipate needing $950 in assistance for this month. I am extremely appreciative of everything I receive, thank you so much! ❤️
This hasn’t made any progress, please keep reblogging!
Just applied to the apartment I’m set on w/ my probable new roommate and had to pay this huge fee ($258) 😩I still haven’t made any progress on this and the moving expenses are just piling up, please keep reblogging!
$134/1208 and 8 days left. This has made no progress in days and is becoming an extremely stressful situation. Emphasizing that I have a very, very long way to go and that this is urgent! PLEASE, please keep reblogging!
@staff openly tagging face selfies of trans women as sexual content after you already lost ONE lawsuit over queerphobic moderation is quite a fucking move
(OP i hope its cool to answer smthn i saw ic here) for @pobopolybius and anyone else curious to what is being referred to
It’s not even just selfies. A popular post joking about about trans girl experiences got tagged as mature content, and to test somebody made the exact same post and replaced the mention of trans women with men and despite people reporting it, it has remained unamarked
Disability Pride month let’s not forget about the people in our community with intellectual disabilities!
I just found out about the Stay Up Late campaign to advocate for people with intellectual disabilities to have the right to go out in the evening and not have to be in bed by 8pm
I learned about it from this video:
And I found the website for the campaign which is here:
video description: a tiktok with the text “people W/ intellectual disabilities can’t stay up late because…”
the video opens on 2 people standing. one is an older person with white hair, who is wearing a dark blue collared shirt with a pattern the describer can’t identify on it, and the other person is wearing minnie mouse ears, makeup, a hot pink tanktop with grey straps under it, and black shorts, with a silver necklace.
white haired person: intellectual and learning disability services tell us that the reason people with disabilities can’t stay up late is because…
minnie mouse person: it’s what our residents prefer.
white haired person: “our residents?”
the minnie mouse person laughs.
cut. in the next scene, a man in a dark blue suit and a person in a dark green shirt and patterned hoodie sit at a table with many multicolor hearts on the tablecloth. the suit man is on a phone.
suit man: i think, yep, it’s, it’s what you prefer.
hoodie person: um.
suit man, emphasized: it’s what you prefer.
across the table, there are 2 other people.
a person in a patterned dress and a tan hat: it’s what i want to do!
suit man: it’s what you prefer.
a person in an orange shirt: i’m sorry, as their support worker, can i just…
i’ve a history of homelessness, and thus my referral was delayed for literal years and then my NHS surgeon refused to even speak to me and insisted on transferring my referral to somewhere with an 18 month waiting list.
i’m not too proud to beg: i’m already 32 and i can’t spend the next half-decade waiting on the NHS to benevolently grant me surgery — not to mention that i can’t afford travel to fucking Manchester with my disabilities or my tiny income from welfare benefits.
so my only real choice is to raise the money this way, as i’m estranged from family.
please, please donate; if 200 people donated £50 each, i’d make goal and then some. this is extremely important to me, and i’ve already got a consultation with a private surgeon coming up in early August: i’d love to have the money on hand when i go.
so we’re actually nearly 20% of the final goal! donations have slowed down by a lot, though, so i’m hoping to regain momentum. please keep the post circulating and donate if you can!!
regular plea for people to stop using this as a reaction image
[ID: A white man in a suit who is saying, “Now this might strike some viewers as harsh, but I believe everyone involved in this story should die”. End ID]
this is a real sentence that was said by a during an snl skit by the guy in the picture (norm macdonald) in response to a real news story - specifically, the murder of brandon teena, a trans man, whose death macdonald is mocking here. this very sentence that has now been turned into a meme prompted a trans rights org to picket the nbc in absence of any apology from them (the statement here slightly misquotes the sentence, but you can find video demonstrating that the wording in the image is what he said). i’ve used this as a reaction image in the past when i didn’t know the history behind it but i think more people should know and we should stop using it like this
(If you learned more than one, pick the one you learned the most or took for the longest time or enjoyed the most or whatever. Pick the one most meaningful to you.)
I’m not about to argue the finer points of Southern culture with anyone, because I can accept that I was born and raised in the hot flames of a dumpster fire, but I’ll tell you gotdamned commie Yankees one thing: I’d rather be dead in the hallowed halls of a Cook Out than alive in an In-N-Out
i’ve a history of homelessness, and thus my referral was delayed for literal years and then my NHS surgeon refused to even speak to me and insisted on transferring my referral to somewhere with an 18 month waiting list.
i’m not too proud to beg: i’m already 32 and i can’t spend the next half-decade waiting on the NHS to benevolently grant me surgery — not to mention that i can’t afford travel to fucking Manchester with my disabilities or my tiny income from welfare benefits.
so my only real choice is to raise the money this way, as i’m estranged from family.
please, please donate; if 200 people donated £50 each, i’d make goal and then some. this is extremely important to me, and i’ve already got a consultation with a private surgeon coming up in early August: i’d love to have the money on hand when i go.
