Notices by Jasminime (jasmine@chaosfem.tw)

I know I'm kicking at an open door with this, but I'm going to say it anyway.

There's this screenshot going around in trans facebook groups telling people to stay on twitter and the meta platforms. The argument is that these companies want to destroy our strong communities by making us abandon them.

And I think it's just such a bad argument, at least for trans people, because look: On facebook, you're not fighting back and standing your ground against meta. Meta is the ground. They are in control of every community that stays. They decide what you see and when. They decide who gets your content put right front of them, and they decide what those people see right before that.

If they want transphobes to see your trans positive post, then that's what's going to happen. If they want your trans positive post on a private group to be seen by almost nobody and mostly just by those who are going to leave disheartened and hopeless comments, then that's what's going to happen.

You cannot fight facebook on facebook. It's not just that they control the terrain. They are the terrain. Maybe it's different if you have enough sympathisers on the inside who can make it work clandestinely, but I don't see how that could possibly be the case for trans people.

it would be fun to say "orthodox" instead of "binary" about genders

in a democracy, freedom of speech serves to allow people to punch up without repercussions to their human rights

and you can recognise the fascist by the way he instead treats freedom of speech as if its purpose is to allow him punching down.

We're here
We're queer
We're fighting over semantics

I still know my ICQ number by heart

apparently ICQ shut down in June 2024. and here I was looking forward to login one last time before I died

sigh smh

uh oh

some people need to pick up a device and touch glass

in NT idiom, using big words means you're condescen… snobby. that's why I take extra care to look for smaller ones

some people will sometimes talk about russia and europe as if russia wasn't part of europe. there's obviously no "natural" truth since by definition this is politics—but it's still amusing to reply that if russia is just asian, then scandinavia (plus finland) is an asian peninsula.

but anyway, the russes were west norse people, mostly swedes and geats (hi 👋) and gutes, who settled between the baltics and the black sea. the finnish name for sweden is "ruotsi", from the old Norse word róðr (meaning "rower" as in rowing-tool, like row, oar, rudder), since we used our long rowing boats to get there I guess?

so the word "rus" actually comes from an old finnic word for, like, norse boating people (vikings) and particularly the swedes from the eastern coast of svealand (swedeland).

which means that "russia" kind of means "swedish land" and "belarus" means "white swede", coming from what the finnic and slavic people called the lands where the rower-people settled.

be gay do gays

heeey…

crass consciousness

just a reminder that meta hired a former project 2025 author and desantis advisor back in august: https://newrepublic.com/post/185306/project-2025-dustin-carmack-meta

they aren't just adapting. it's ideological.

@transcendentempress oh just some billionaire incel on some podcast

when a tech bro with too much money to avoid sycophants says a bunch of superficial, insightless and even outright confused gender stuff, I think it's silly and nonsensical to assume that he's being clever and business-smart and that he's just pandering to a puerile audience and that he doesn't actually believe all the weird stuff that he's saying.

they're not that clever about gender. they're too busy being successful at capitalism and kyriarchy to think about stuff that actually means something to anyone.

the world would be a better place if rich white guys could be listened to and taken at face value, and thoroughly ignored whenever appropriate.

please remember that "facebook" is the name of a website where male students could rate the faces of female students. the inceldom has been right there in plain sight right in front of us all the time. the level of clever in calling a parent company "meta" is not adult.

these people are not actually good at anything worthwhile. they're just high-functioning bullies.

there's nothing inherently wrong with healthy masculine energy. I'm in my third year transitioning and slowly starting to figure out what that is and what it means to me, and how it can be a part of my best possible self.

but… oh gods where do I even begin.

@len you can't avoid this one, sorry. it's zuckerberg

it's like a bad take on top of a card house of bad takes.

I think "the tech industry needs more masculine energy" is the most multilayered delusion I've heard this millennia

oh gosh, the swedish-speaking mastodon sphere reminds me so much of why I ended up here instead of in swedish trans spaces, and also of why i ended up here instead of in cis spaces. it's like intersectionally bad. I've already blocked more accounts than I've followed, and muted as many too 😑