Latest Posts by vaguely-ruth - Page 2

it's so atrocious how im into nerds. oh ur infodumping? fucking. dump a load inside while ur at it.

I talk frequently about how ignorant most Global North citizens are about the immigration policies of their own and other countries. When my husband and I (Global North citizens of different countries) got married, we had conversation after conversation with people who assumed that by producing our marriage certificate we could simply become residents of each other’s countries— and that we could not be refused residence in each other’s countries, as separating a husband and wife could surely not be allowed. 

More interestingly, a lot of people seem to refuse knowledge about immigration, perhaps because it can’t be integrated into some deep and important picture of the world that they have. My parents can’t make themselves believe that my British husband would get in trouble if he overstayed his visa “just a couple of days” in the US, or that I (an American) would ever get deported from the UK, no matter what the circumstances. This is not only because they believe that British and American citizens, as Global North citizens, are specially exempt from the systems that are “meant” to regulate other kinds of people, but also because fundamentally they believe that government and its processes are rational and just. They must believe that government and its processes are rational and just, because otherwise their whole picture of the world— the means by which they understand it— would collapse.

This is all fairly simple and obvious. What is not so simple and obvious is the way that their privileged ignorance, the hothouse resilience of their fantasy world, is part of a mechanism through which the “work of knowing” in our society is outsourced to the underprivileged. (The privileged do not have to know in a way that disrupts their fantasy, because not-knowing has no consequences for them.) This is an interesting dynamic, because many postcolonial theorists (Sara Ahmed, Dipesh Chakrabarty, etc) have explored how the Global South is typically portrayed as that-which-is-known-by-the-Global-North, and therefore as not capable of knowing. So what does it mean that the tools of regulation remain in the hands of the Global North, but that the knowledge of regulation is a burden borne by the Global South? There is an element here of knowing as knowing-your-place, for sure— learning to be interpellated as the illegal and the undesirable. The knowing that is happening also constitutes the production of the illusive “just and rational” world that sustains the Global North. I’m interested in the way that the dehumanization of the Global South therefore serves to sustain the rational and just Human and humaneness of the Global North. There’s an abjectification that is necessary for this— as anyone who has experienced universal healthcare knows, more just and equitable care/distribution of resources often means that more privileged people get less-nice things than they have been led to expect, so if they want to continue to enjoy the same standard of living allowed them by unjust and non-equitable care, they must rationalize this somehow. And how does one rationalize having been, by chance, born in the right geographic area? One can’t. One must, instead, believe that this is not how privilege is allotted, which required not-knowing that this is how privilege is allotted. 

My fave genre of images

on the whole I would like to see more ppl embracing the positive power of patricide

what if we romantically swapped ssh keys (>\\\<)

Got some great photos of the lunar eclipse tonight using a telescope ^^

Bonus cryptid:

foreman. babe. we’re at the bottom end of season 8. you have worked here for almost a decade. why are you still surprised there's medical malpractice going on at the medical malpractice department that you, personally, used to do medical malpractice at

ngl for lot of my life i thought parents sitting their kids down and telling them how babies are made was just a thing they made up for comedies on tv so now im curious how common it actually is.

seeing this post immediately made me think of the time my mom was driving me home from school and randomly asked "do you want to get circumcised," to which i replied "no... what?" and she said ok and we never talked about it again

ngl for lot of my life i thought parents sitting their kids down and telling them how babies are made was just a thing they made up for comedies on tv so now im curious how common it actually is.

Wanna play mahjong or a fighting game? (im bad at mahjong i only learned a week ago)

yea we can play whatever! (tho if u wanna play mahjong we'll need 1-2 other people unless ur ok with it being a weird bot lobby)

it is 2027, and you are having a conversation on discord. suddenly, everything gets far too quiet. the ground around you almost seems to shake somehow, and the lights in your room dim. "oh god," someone says, "a nitro user is typing". at that point, it begins. lights start to dance around your screen, flashing and strobing every which way, becoming increasingly brighter and more colorful over the course of the next few seconds. blaring, triumphant fanfare plays, more blaring and more triumphant than you thought your headphones able to handle. you try to peel them away, but some mysterious force keeps them attached to your head. suddenly, lasers appear -- not on your screen, but somehow coming out of your monitor itself ! they dance around wildly as the fanfare begins to morph into edm. you think you hear a crowd cheer outside of your window. fog begins to pool around you, as if coming from an invisible smoke machine. you begin to panic, you wonder what the fuck is going on, but you cannot keep your eyes away from the screen. a deep voice begins to sound from all around you. "ARE YOU READY," it says, "FOR A MESSAGE..." and with another pause for effect, it finishes, "FROM WEEDBRONY42 !!" and the crowd goes fucking insane. the beat drops and a surge of pleasure emanates through your body -- you feel violated somehow. and as the fog and lights gradually clear, the music reaches a climax, and the curtains are dramatically drawn, your eyes are finally allowed to focus on a message telling you to kill yourself for your opinions on undertale.

I think about him sometimes

(sagely) they’re called broad shoulders because broads have em

i dont give a SHIT about FUCK. i'll put you in a goddamn box you ugly some of a bitch. tenderly nibble the weird skin i got where my nuts used to be. clean my house and detail my car you WORM #yearofdaSNAKE

kaji and misato are already kinda cute, but if that shit was yuri it would be so peak

Rewatching evangelion. Crazy that the message of the show is "the only way for straight cisgender people to have happy relationships is to turn every human on earth into a big pool of telepathic orange goop."

Rewatching evangelion. Crazy that the message of the show is "the only way for straight cisgender people to have happy relationships is to turn every human on earth into a big pool of telepathic orange goop."

call me a little monkey on the bed the way i fell off

the marvellous misadventures of flatpak

Big Announcement!!

Found the big obelisk that causes mental illness and threw it into a volcano!! Everyone is cured!!! We can all focus on solving material problems and enjoying our lives lets gooo!!!!!

currently feeling shame about the inherent selfishness of navel gazing egocentric internality. could learn from the consideration and empathy seen in others. crashed out and is banned from speaking in first person for a while.

why the fuck do i have to be bocchi the rock phenotype this fucking sucks ! shit!!!

having a nice and normal call with someone and then hanging up and instantly yelling "what the fuck what the fuck why did i sound like that AAAAAAAAAAAA" and feeling my body temperature drop like 10 degrees and i start biting chunks out of my hand and crying blood and rotating in a circle

having a nice and normal call with someone and then hanging up and instantly yelling "what the fuck what the fuck why did i sound like that AAAAAAAAAAAA" and feeling my body temperature drop like 10 degrees and i start biting chunks out of my hand and crying blood and rotating in a circle

Do you want to play virtual fighter (the 32x port)? I have many weird fighting games in my bag of tricks

yea i'd love to! im jumbo unemployed and my sleep schedule is permanently fucked so you can dm me literally any time of the day or night and i will game. ill dm u my discord