So Which Is It? Is AI Useless Or So Effective It Will Destroy Creatives? Is The Enemy Strong Or Weak?

The thing I was thinking the most while watching Conclave was actually a classmate I had in uni who is a nun. She talked about the role of women on the church and how there should be a woman pope. And like, years ago she was given a scholarship to study philosophy in Rome, except she couldn't. Because the nuns had to perform all the domestic labor for the priests and the workload was too big, add to that stuff like how no one could leave the dinner table before the archbishop and he liked to talk so sometimes he would make everyone stay until late at night and ofc the nuns had to clean up after that, or when the priests wanted to give the nuns an easy day they would decide they would have a picnic, but the nuns still had to prepare their picnic. My friend just couldn't find the time to study, so she dropped her scholarship and came back to Mexico.

And Conclave does such a good job of making this work visible, even when if only Sister Agnes speaks, there is always shots of nuns working. For everything the priests do, it's always shown how the nuns make it possible. Benítez standing out early on for being the one person to thank them. The film ending on a seemingly unrelated shot of nuns walking.

It's a very poignant statement given how reproductive labor is often invisibilized.

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They’re dating, your honor

I put on Twitter that a cute date idea for me (a cis woman with reproductive issues) and my boyfriend (a trans man) would be for us to get a hysterectomy together and someone replied:

That’s pretty cool!!

oh my God????😭😭😭

HERE COMES DIANA WITH THE STEEL CHAIR

“India, Israel and United States are natural allies. They have one thing in common, all three are engaged in overt, neocolonial military occupations. India in Kashmir, Israel in Palestine, the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan.” -Arundhati Roy

what if she was called chappell bone and instead of a singer she was a necromancer who raised strong as fuck skeleton warriors

We talk a lot about autistic food avoidance like autistic people who are super picky eaters and need bland or uniformly textured food, but it can work in the other direction too. Some of us are sensory seeking when it comes to taste, and will eat plain raw onion, entire lemons (peel and all), drink hot sauce or eat entire packets of breath mints for lunch when left to our own devices. And it’s possible to be both too! I have some foods that are sensory nightmares for me, but many of the foods I do eat are extremely strong tasting (raw onion with horseradish my beloved). People often aren’t just sensory seeking or just sensory avoidant! Fuck diet culture, fuck anti autistic ableism, and let us eat a jar of pickled lemons!