The video above features Aba and Preach as they review a tiktok by a trans man on his experience in being treated as constant possible threat due to now being perceived as a threat. There’s some jokes here and there but some decent discussion of the differences in how men and women are perceived in everyday life.

From the video description:

"The British Library is one of the six legal deposit libraries for the UK — and the only one that doesn’t pick and choose, or have to ask for copies. That’s a lot of books to store, and the internet’s only making it worse. ■ The BL: https://bl.uk ■ UK Web Archive: https://www.webarchive.org.uk/

This video has a correction: it turns out the formal interview requirement for a reader pass has been dropped. However, you’ll still need to get a pass, and you’re not allowed to take books out of the reading rooms! You can see all corrections on the channel here: https://www.tomscott.com/corrections/
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The video above dives into some of the challenges in developing and administering experimental drugs that can be used as birth control options for men as the main ones available to men are condoms and vasectomies which isn’t a lot. From the video summary on youtube:

“Condoms and vasectomies remain pretty much the extent of birth control options for people who produce sperm, and both have problems. So why is almost all hormonal birth control aimed at those with ovaries? There have been some successes targeting the biological feedback process for hormones that regulate new sperm production, but progress is slow.”

Summary from the video description:

"When it comes to NYC, the rat is the undisputed king of the urban jungle — and we made it that way! Find out why with host and evolutionary biologist Shane Campbell-Staton in this episode of Human Footprint.

Human Footprint is a show that delves into the impact of humans on the planet. Join Shane as he travels from farms to restaurants, from high-tech labs to street markets, and from forests to cities to uncover the consequences of our unique history. Are you ready to explore our past, present, and future as a species?"

From the description of the video above:

"September 29th, 2023, will be etched in New York City’s history as the day the skies opened with an unparalleled ferocity. The deluge was so intense that JFK Airport recorded its highest 24-hour rainfall since 1948, with an astonishing 8 inches pouring down.

Brooklyn faced nature’s fury head-on, as three hours of ceaseless rain equaled an entire month’s average downpour. Witness water roaring into basements, stranded vehicles, and impassable roads that brought the Big Apple to a standstill.

This video dives deep into the heart of the devastation, spotlighting the worst affected regions like Brooklyn and Long Island. From shattered rainfall records to streets that became rivers, experience the magnitude of NYC’s epic flood crisis."

City Limits takes a multimedia look at how food waste is repurposed at the Department of Sanitation’s 33-acre composting facility in the Fresh Kills section of Staten Island. The site is part of New York City’s effort to operate “the nation’s largest composting program” and limit the climate impact of its waste sector, which accounts for 4 percent of citywide emissions.

The video above is an interview with a researcher named William Costello who’s part of a wider team of researchers taking an empirical approach to understanding incels and the problems they face. Whereas the usual pop-sci understanding of incels starts and stops with the misogyny in their communities. The empirical focus gives us better results as it reveals the mental status and situations incels themselves are dealing with and why modern upbringings are failing them.

You can find their research here and I highly recommend giving it it a look: http://www.psychstudies.co.uk/sisnet.php

The video above is a documentary highlighting the story of a man whose untreated mental health problem and a punitive justice system resulted in him getting life with no parole in prison after getting rejected and turned down from programs that would have helped him recover.

I’m hoping manga counts as I’m reading 2 graphic novels and one manga, hbu?:

• Home after Dark by David Small

• Kuusama by Elisa Macellari

• The Climber by Shinichi Sakamoto

I edited the name of the post to better reflect the content of the video as the original video title is just “Don’t waste it”, the host talks about the stats relating to how many people in the modern world in first world countries are still counted as illiterate and how those stats made him reflect on how lucky he was in being encouraged to read and still does to this day. I like this video as a decent summation of what makes reading wonderful in and of itself.

Lots of graphic novels and manga, once done with that I have a nice gardening book to look forward to:

• Home after Dark by David Small

• Kuusama by Elisa Macellari

• The Climber by Shinichi Sakamoto

This summary is from the youtube channel that made it: History Dose.

"The young sailor Sam Bellamy sails to the West Indies to seek Spanish gold and discovers a sea infested with thieves. Turning pirate himself, Bellamy navigates a back-stabbing and libertine underworld host to the pirates of Nassau, including Henry Jennings, Benjamin Hornigold and Blackbeard.

The art is original and manually made by Joseph Feely. "

The usual mantras for guided meditations are abstract and focus on guiding your breathing but this one is more down to earth imho.

The video above dives into how “Buy now pay later loans” started becoming a thing, how they’re marketed to people as something that supposedly helps us in the long run but in reality carry a lot of hidden costs and fees. I highly recommend the youtube channel overall as they dive into a lot of finance related topics.

@guyrocket

Almost every library has a program that lets them borrow books or media from other libraries so if you’re looking for a book they don’t have, they can put in a request to another branch or library system to borrow it on your behalf, all without extra cost to you. In my city, they’re known as “Inter-library loans” but might be called something else and it’s definitely worth looking into if you use the library a lot.

The video above is a discussion between Louis Rossmann, a philanthropist and a programmer who use and advocate for the usage of open source software. The connection between all three of them is that the philanthropist heads an organization called FUTO that gives grants to people developing useful open source projects and Louis Rossmann (I believe) is an employee of that organization and the programmer Aiden is a recipient of that grant. The conversation goes over the complication in trying to monetize and fund open source software that’s typically expected to be free all around.

For those curious about the FUTO organization, you can find some of their links below.

FUTO - https://futo.org/FUTO
Twitter - https://twitter.com/FUTO_Tech
FUTO Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIBNAd4nO5rk6G8YaEudqNw

Yes, I’d argue we should make one similar to the wiki on leftwingmaleadvocates so that should we get the same old commenters saying “we don’t understand real feminism” or “why don’t you like menslib?”, we can just link them the kbin version of the faq and move on with our lives.

I think by default, since feminism prioritizes the issues and lived experiences of women via a theory that casts men as a gender as a class defined by their opression of women, yeah I’d say that primes feminists to develop a bias against individual men, regardless of what they say on paper about “systems.” Not to mention the redefining of politics via feminism into “The personal is political,” it’s why they cast moral judgements on men who just don’t like or care for the barbie movie, it’s not just a difference in opinion but a radical moral failing on the part of the man in question.

TL:DR Their theories on paper attack systems but their praxis attacks men as individuals because they cast men as individuals as ever present proxies for that “oppressive system” in their minds.