2026-05-30T13:23:16Z https://yabu.me smitten https://yabu.me/npub188qt7g2mve78gd8ufjcpff8d6evyt79r63jsed2mde7t5rgy5jrsc6m6uv https://key.portend.place/files/6f767679-7cce-4426-ae82-cf4098cb4f7d.png https://key.portend.place/files/6f767679-7cce-4426-ae82-cf4098cb4f7d.png https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqpdu2exnjwap0l3hh5nc0980drjuvnwvt3ksj0yv3qxrz5egtxgqzyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgwcc8lv2 <img src="https://key.portend.place/files/9a5b2437-9fe5-468b-a44e-324723b8cae3.webp"> <br/> 2026-03-17T01:05:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2f0u3w8rxmax98t9y9tep3f3r906rgwpsusvapjf7anfu363j3dqzyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgwhrdqup &#39;you shouldn&#39;t care what other people think&#39; is individualist propaganda isn&#39;t it? strong people should be an island they should only ever think of themselves and their own preferences. there&#39;s something about shared meaning and communication probably. you can&#39;t create any meaning without caring about what other people think. communication itself is about causing other people to think something. what do you get for not caring what other people think, what&#39;s the reward? 2026-03-01T21:05:02Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszk48ldhpvau804j0ywtvqqc5mmqew2jlh5frumukwtzuvyd0echszyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgwjzwc68 you&#39;ll go to fiction hell for that. and that&#39;s on you, because of your lack of faithful adaptation. 2025-12-26T15:22:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszlja79ndnr7vmsggjx4f5hnyqvspu8x5ejlrw0pk6j9r73s2c4xczyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgwfqyacg weird nerds will be arguing that a movie adaptation should always match the original book but why is that good? what is the virtue of being consistent with written works? it&#39;s just something somebody made up, often some sexist guy wrote a sci-fi in the past. also sometimes authors self-censor, they might have wanted to make a gay character or a woman character but decided against it because of audience bias (see Pluribus&#39; Raban). so why is the original work good? it&#39;s this ethical thing for them, adaptations must be faithful they just must be. why, why is that your faith? 2025-12-26T15:14:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs05n39s56ae9qa4ex7f8sec79khl4ermvqw7k828tp2ragcjjfmsgzyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgw5yj0xw join fediverse, there&#39;s no search and it&#39;s constantly scrolling the content away never to be seen again 2025-12-17T01:53:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxqdvzuqfz6fsk7fzwpcmtrtje9flu8hv2mfkvul6583evw0vykrszyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgwpckrq7 fedi auto scroll is just auto hide that post you were looking at 2025-12-17T01:52:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvudkv8qhxkgmtjqk6r8qupfarl6hdk3lttz5pct35j2pq5dtzvwgzyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgw73y7tx AI as a colonization of confidence (as <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub159p8797ykh82fdk6ktr44t0fq46435kpmthknagy65krcr4kenes9udhu3" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Robert Kingett</span> (<span class="italic">npub159p…dhu3</span>)</a></span> so aptly [put it](<a href="https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/">https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/</a>)) is offering a way to perform ignorance, or at least slide into the social performance of it. maybe ignorance is the wrong word, it&#39;s a character of not knowing or not being concerned over certain thoughts. confidence is a kind of knowledge isn&#39;t it, self knowledge? this is making me think about the homophobia of anti-intellectualism. I feel like it offers this subscription to a personality, of someone who doesn&#39;t worry about knowing. knowing is for the bookish people, the monastic-y library-y ones who are probably gay for each other amirite. so in that way AI is a beard, and more than that it&#39;s a conversion therapy. you don&#39;t have to be a gay knower anymore, you can be a straight subscriber. 2025-12-11T02:09:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswj6elh7l5lmw4rzp07nkgqx5dl6ajlmcnn76aw25s3y50eux8ffgzyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgwkp9n23 anti-intellectualism has a pretty strong homophobic vibe to it doesn&#39;t it? like, learning things is gay, knowing things is gay, wanting to communicate things is extra gay. media analysis is gay, can&#39;t we just enjoy things without them having some deeper meaning or commentary, which are gay? thinking is a form of caring, and caring is gay. that&#39;s why accessibility is gay and public health is gay. being gay is a kind of being a woman, which is why it&#39;s bad. 2025-12-10T19:29:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqrua5lj6lra02y4zxhj2d9gyanfnmlcyknfkxcpap73lj54z7chszyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgwj6jwys words barely mean anything and they usually just translate into an emotion that the speaker is trying to create. I think about that whenever people are splitting hairs on a definition, it&#39;s always like &#34;no it&#39;s not [bad sounding word] it&#39;s [bad sounding word you don&#39;t have as much emotional association with yet]&#34; 2025-11-15T14:41:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8j6fjw3z6we6audal545lp8yrqjegr4k5uj9fjdhqq3xzczlzvyszyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgwucr5r6 god gives the most intense magnetic fields to his strongest neutron stars 2025-11-12T15:14:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswasduzdvx3z8cvl996qgp6t8w544wcud6ewjg2sskafuelqtcrcgzyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgw2r9hjs when people were skeptical of Biden the response was &#34;they&#39;re Russian bots&#34; or &#34;it&#39;s astroturfed&#34; or &#34;secret Trump supporters&#34;. now when people are skeptical of Platner it&#39;s &#34;billionaire-paid smear campaign&#34;. same shit different day. sometimes people are just skeptical because of actual reasons. 2025-10-26T13:07:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs98c8eqk4sqd9c70w7pgxn9ne562rx8rkpst75sevj264apqfhzpqzyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgwf657rh what you&#39;re referring to as mastodon, is in fact the JSON network 2025-10-25T16:55:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstl5k2q3av9vva88zcdwftluwms4jx0ca5y5z4yuf0kjj2dyj4zuqzyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgwp2q622 &#34;they&#39;re just being edgy&#34; is an intuitive explanation even for people who aren&#39;t into internet culture. and I legitimately wonder why that is. is it human nature to say horrible things just to get a rise out of others? was this a cultural bubble a few decades ago that just happened to continue into the internet age? 2025-10-16T13:22:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0dprs99p9mtp0s47rpyhys5xv0zcvs2sy9xz0m09v7dl4ymvwwggzyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgwflfdwe In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqnufkqpfd6zp8zd63rxn0047mdm6anhgh9r9mfrluxjucm789lgcs6t499'>nevent1q…t499</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Sometimes those harms eventually become so strong that they can&#39;t ignore it, maybe it happens to their own kid or they get kicked out or something. They will be shocked when it happens, they won&#39;t remember your warning. They actually only remember the feeling of you attacking them, and don&#39;t remember the issue you were bringing up. I wish it didn&#39;t work like that but I feel pretty confident it usually does. 2025-10-07T18:23:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqnufkqpfd6zp8zd63rxn0047mdm6anhgh9r9mfrluxjucm789lgczyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgw0aey6t if you try to talk to a mind controlled person about concrete harms that their beliefs cause, whether to themselves or other people, you almost always get the same response. The unpleasant feeling makes them feel threatened, and then they feel victimized because their constructed sense of safety was messed with. It will be &#39;why are you always so negative?&#39;, &#39;you just want to start a fight&#39;, &#39;you just hate [organization]&#39;, &#39;you don&#39;t want anyone to be happy, can&#39;t you let people have their own beliefs?&#39; They will never engage with the harm you&#39;re describing, they will only engage with the (perceived) assault you are making on their cozy world. They will try to figure out what your ulterior motive is. 2025-10-07T18:19:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxdhekfu05hc0tt9xlhuvpu8mjqyzttecfftagen47tfzhlqezp4czyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgw227hwv young women are like 19. they keep saying young women when they mean teenagers, so gross. 2025-10-07T16:45:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsggf7ckcf6wkd7nzcvyckwjkfnmndt89np4tjw3qpswphjh06vnngzyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgw22r293 &#39;is anybody weird on fedi?&#39;<br/>yeah but not in a likable way 2025-10-05T15:36:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvfhdkx3976andurw37muhg2mz5whhedjxaa7xuecvlu9vajk6wgczyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgwyt8tww In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs28gcmccnaefek34p8v44xuecqwftsm7eqh303cvzlkyl49n73mtc0z9wvd'>nevent1q…9wvd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&gt; Simon Peter said to them, &#34;Mary should leave us, for females are not worthy of the life.&#34; Jesus said, &#34;Look, I am going to guide her in order to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven.&#34; <br/><br/>People get upset at this line, and I can see why. I don&#39;t think it&#39;s so bad though, because male was the seen as the default, women were the special case. So if Mary was one of the guys and didn&#39;t feel held back by her assigned gender role, rather than describing elevating a woman they might describe it as turning male. I don&#39;t think she literally was trying to transition, but I read this as endorsing the idea that the bodily sex is not the most important thing. I have to imagine a group of unmarried followers hanging out with a woman was pretty transgressive at the time to begin with, and coupled with Jesus known support for sex workers and other outcasted people it just seems gender expansive to me. More reading to do though, I&#39;m just taking it at face value so far. 2025-09-27T13:56:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs28gcmccnaefek34p8v44xuecqwftsm7eqh303cvzlkyl49n73mtczyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgwrmcjvk I found this but haven&#39;t read it yet, it sounds great. I wonder if people who understood queer experience without having words for it might have described it like this, &#34;critical of the material world, while being hopeful for spiritual transformation&#34; and a &#34;demand for replacement of the outer person with the inner person&#34;. <br/><br/>&gt; Treatments of gender in the gospel are discussed from the author&#39;s position as a queer woman of transgender experience, informed by postcolonial, feminist, and gender-critical theory and practice. Literary and historical comparisons with Philo of Alexandria and the apostle Paul are explored to uncover Thomas&#39;s worldview, which is seen to be darkly critical of the material world, while being hopeful for spiritual transformation. Though the Gospel of Thomas participates in the prevalent masculinist ideology of most literature of the day, many of its sayings may garner a new or nuanced meaning when read through a transgender lens, including especially the demand for replacement of the outer person with the inner person (Gos. Thom. 22), and potential salvation through erasure of conventional gender difference in the making of an ungendered Living Spirit resembling Jesus (Gos. Thom. 114).<br/><br/><a href="https://works.hcommons.org/records/56pmb-0pz61">https://works.hcommons.org/records/56pmb-0pz61</a> 2025-09-27T13:17:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswpsw8qlyjaa55pjte07gl28qcmlprkd8gf8cknmwxqvu0m4jvgcczyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgwzs752k &gt; When the Blessed One had said these things, he greeted them all. &#34;Peace be with you,&#34; he said. &#34;Acquire my peace within yourselves.<br/>&gt; &#34;Be on your guard so that no one deceives you by saying, &#39;Look over here&#39; or &#39;Look over there.&#39; For the Child of Humanity* exists within you. Follow it. Those who search for it will find it.<br/>&gt; &#34;Go then, preach the good news about the kingdom. Do not lay down any rule beyond what I determined for you, nor promulgate law like the lawgiver, or else you might be dominated by it.&#34; After he said these things, he departed from them.<br/><br/>Early Christianity seemed to involve a lot of embodied perception and warned against legalistic approaches. But of course all this stuff got banned and burned.<br/><br/>* sometimes translated &#39;Son of Man&#39;. 2025-09-21T22:06:25Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfll7jvk48lgvfqtpzvqv4l4w39samdnz525edly2d8zrzpnjjlpgzyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgwslpnyw &gt; For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by people; and there are also eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept this, let him accept it. - Matthew 19:12 <br/><br/>We have to give some leeway, they didn&#39;t have the word trans back then, but since Jesus knew trans people were coming in the future, shouldn&#39;t he not have said this? Or is it that Jesus clearly says trans rights. The one who is able to accept this, let them accept it. 2025-09-21T21:48:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8jgxqvp097aunt4f9lcskr2zurwl4ff3205lvmg2n8lrjaymenaszyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgwuextam In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2t25u84vq2945p5lvlaxjm5rfmktl469ja2lwzxa4aepmg2scvcsctlkg9'>nevent1q…lkg9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&gt; If you come to me but will not leave your family, you cannot be my follower. You must love me more than your father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters—even more than your own life!<br/><br/>Luke 14:26 2025-09-17T04:11:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2t25u84vq2945p5lvlaxjm5rfmktl469ja2lwzxa4aepmg2scvcszyquup0eptdn8cap5l3xtq99yaht9s30c502x2r94tdh8ewsdqjjgwqqnjxc Christianity is treated as identical to the family hierarchy but that&#39;s an artificial connection. Jesus did not talk about the family much at all. What little he did say was about leaving your family! He did teach children but not through their parents, he taught them directly or answered their questions directly. He probably didn&#39;t have children and didn&#39;t marry, or if he did it wasn&#39;t important to his ministry. The only thing the patriarchs have to hang their hat on is that he talked about &#34;the Father&#34;, and the gospels differ a lot on that, it&#39;s mostly John and Matthew who are big on it. All this stuff in modern Christian churches where the husband is below God and the wife is below the husband is just totally added on and made up, yet they treat it as the core idea. 2025-09-17T04:08:29Z