Stella Greene

@stellafrin.bsky.social

(formerly VaultLink) She/They | 🏳️‍⚧️Trans Woman | 29 PNGTuber Variety Streamer Playin' story oriented and brain melty games And generally makin' stuff mostly RTs | ISaT, UT/DR, Zelda, Sploon, KH Twitch: twitch.tv/StellaFrin Icon by @s3aparty.bsky.social

aiui trademarks in the US act sort of like adjectives, so you'll hear the occasional "doritos corn chips" when any normal person would just say "doritos", because a "dorito" isn't a thing it's a /type/ of thing, i guess? and saying "dorito" is the first baby step towards genericization

so my best guess here is something like nintendo feeling a bit spiky about every console being called "a nintendo" for some time and they are leaning hard the other way?? but obviously this is absurd because who is ever going to use "mario kart world" to refer to all video games

Wait that wasn't even the Daily Fail article, it was Them dot Us. Oh well, still tracks. They were the outlet that I blocked a few months ago when they ran that article that basically said "A trans man was forced to join a women's team and that's good actually!"

Post from them do us. Trans Goalkeeper Isaaac Ranson makes history by joining minnesota women's soccer team. (Picture of Isaac underneath)
Tabbeigh Cat 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@tabbeigh.bsky.social · yesterday

You can tell we're Definitely Not Second Class Citizens™ because every time a cis person is a dick to us, we get report brigaded and suspended on bsky dot app, and they get glazed by the Terf Island Gazette

I can't express how much I dislike the idea of "you don't owe anyone anything" Iunno dog you owe people kindness, you owe people community, you owe people a social contract to treat them like a human being. but I wanna know: when you say "you don't owe anyone anything" what do you MEAN by that?