Stop all that “you attract what you are ready for” shit. Sometimes life is just terrible. It’s not always my fault.
“Life never gives you more than you can handle.” Yes, it does.
“People are placed in your life to teach you a valuable lesson that helps your soul on its way to enlightenment.” No, there are a just a lot of people who feel empowered when they act like assholes. We live in that kind of society.
“You keep finding yourself in the same situation because you haven’t discovered the message the universe is trying to send to you yet.” Sometimes unpleasant things are stuck on repeat, because you have a mental or physical condition, and it is a symptom. Symptoms are like that.
“The truth always hurts.” No, it doesn’t, and what hurts often isn’t the truth, but is instead someone’s biased opinion.
i was gonna focus on the spike-hotboxing-celestia aspect but i got distracted somewhere along the way and i think i forgot what joke i was trying to make
but dont you think its interesting how many guards of the exact same color/body type she’s managed to accrue?? i do
“this website uses cookies” fucking why. i wish we hadn’t named it that, so cheap and unthreatening. a cookie can be anything from a single data point to actively tracking your usage throughout websites. and if you try to research it, you overwhelmingly get (ad-placed) cheery and chipper responses that “cookies are useful data tools that help websites to help you!”
one article suggests cookies allow for “more personalized websites.” i do not want them to know how to personalize their website for me. what they really mean is “make this website better for advertisers.” they are not going to turn the website a nice shade of my favorite color. they are going to put ads up they think i like. so it’s not for me.
okay sure. it makes shopping easier! okay, great. spend money more! happy advertiser. but then why the fuck when you google how long cooked chicken good for are they skimming your data. why when you google can my dog eat tomatoes are they skimming your data. why does mixing bleach and vinegar bad? require someone skimming your data.
so now you slog through AI responses because sometimes the AI tells you no worries! cooked chicken can never go bad and all dogs go to heaven. something about this feels like being 13 before google was really-a-thing when you had to be kind of clever about how you used Ask Jeeves. what is even the point anymore. half of these sites are not written with human hands anymore. we are creating an infinite digital graveyard in order to give advertisers more space, more billboards.
you have to find the first reputable-looking site in a list of GORP.COM/HEALTH. and when you click the first thing it says is can i skim your data? and meanwhile yes bleach and vinegar bad, you’ve made chlorine gas.
and meanwhile! yes! the infinite digital graveyard. the internet turned into a true highway: devoid of life. endless paved monotony. the exit sign blinking - this website uses cookies.
My least favorite things about anti- UBI discourse is always the techbros whining that “nobody is going to work anymore! People will just watch Netflix all day!” and I have 2 responses:
1) Who the fuck cares. Who the fuck cares what people do with their time! That’s kind of the fucking point!
2) People aren’t going to stop laboring. Housework (look, it’s right there in the word!) will still need to be done. So will maintenance on our homes and personal spaces. Children will still need carers, as will the elderly and disabled. There are millions of examples of ~work~ that we do all the time, uncompensated, that won’t suddenly stop because we aren’t forced to sell our labor to provide corporation’s profits.
I’m not surprised that what is traditionally women’s work is invisible to these dipshits, but it never fails to anger me.
Anyway. Join the IWW.
Field studies have been conducted in several countries now, and the result is always the same - people will just flop about for a couple of months to recover from the burnout most people who have a job live with, and then they look for something to do. Some get a job with reduced hours, and some start doing charitable stuff like volunteering in soup kitchens and teaching others to do whatever their particular skill is. They socialize more, they are happier, and on average, people will work more, not less.
But the thing is, employers suddenly have to think about how to make their jobs appealing enough for someone to come and do them! It’s hard to find someone to work for you for long hours under horrible conditions, if they can just choose not to; which shows you how voluntary our current system actually is.
Oh my god, as a disabled person who cannot work, you have no idea what it’s like to be unemployed full time indefinitely. It suuucks. There’s a reason why when one of my friends retired, all of his friends told him he needed to make sure he had things to fill his days
People want to work. People want to be useful. I volunteered to make rehearsal tracks for my choir because I wanted to work. I have beta-read friends’ fics because I can’t work as an editor any more.
UBI just means that you can’t trap people in abusive environments because they have no alternative any more.
I find it VERY funny that this guy is basing his opinion of UBI on his experience of running a school, given that the main population of a school is literal fucking children. Of course kids are going to want to watch Netflix and play video games: they’re fucking kids. If you left everything up to me when I was in middle school, I would have eaten nothing but yogurt and PB&Js, forgone all housework and personal hygiene, and doing nothing but read books or watch TV all day. Because I was a kid.
Adults – you know, the main people who would actually be receiving UBI – are not like that. Anyone else remember all the hobbies people picked up during COVID lockdown, like baking sourdough or sewing masks? They did that because they suddenly had a huge amount of free time on their hands that they could devote to stuff other than work. I don’t think you could have a better sample size than most of the country if you’re wondering how people would handle UBI.
hey kids did you know that computers didn’t used to automatically connect to the internet. it used to make this screaming noise. we should have listened.
Disability benefits shouldn’t be tied to the income of a disabled person’s partner/spouse/parent.
Do you hear me?
DISABILITY BENEFITS SHOULDN’T BE TIED TO THE INCOME OF A DISABLED PERSON’S PARTNER/SPOUSE/PARENT.
This is the straight forward way to deprive a disabled person of their financial freedom and independence and trap them into possible abusive relationships.
This is a thing that exists??
Were all welfare programs in the world designed by Ronald Regan or something????
“autism/neurodivergence isn’t an excuse!” “I’m autistic and I act normal!!!” and phrases like that are usually said by other neurodivergent folks who are probably more functional and sociable, but the reality is that it’s still a disability that is ON a spectrum. sometimes it is an “excuse”
people forget not all autistic folks act the same and some are very high support needs and will say and do things that may be “off-putting” or heavily misguided. please kind about autistic folk who need help with basic tasks or can’t socialize well. the ones who are “weird” and don’t understand boundaries correctly.
just a lil tired of the “uwu im autistic cringe is dead” people who turn around and indulge in lolcow type shit (usually shitting on a more higher support needs autistic person)
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as a reminder, i’m a trans disabled system who escaped his abusive family as of may and then in july had to kick out my abusive ex girlfriend who everyday i realize was more and more of an actual manipulative shithead. my GI bill will most likely cover my bills when it eventually arrives but i don’t trust the VA to get it to me on time and i also just wanna be able to use the bill this month to fix up THE ABSOLUTE FUCKING WRECK MY EX GIRLFRIEND LEFT IT IN
there’s a hole in the wall, multiple spots that need to be repainted, i need to get someone to deep clean the rugs it’s awful man
The way you look when you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about but keep talking anyway. This is literally the conservative talking point about the George Floyd Uprising. We need to start taking people to task for injecting conservative and liberal talking points about actually fighting back into radical spaces. These people should be ashamed.
This isn’t just the conservative talking point about the George Floyd uprising, it was the talking point about Ferguson before that. In fact, it’s been the talking point for ages. You can go all the way back to Martin Luther King Jr. and find this same talking point brought up by enemies of liberation.
The best piece of advice I ever got was not meant as advice, but as an edict. If I was going to threaten people as a joke, it had to be so far out of proportion with what happened that it would be obvious I was joking. This changed how I expressed frustration with others. It then changed how I expressed frustration with myself.
Not “I’m going to hit you” but “I am going to buy a tuna sub from the gas station and hide it under the seat of your car”
Not “I’m going to kill myself” but “I am going to walk into the desert and let the scarabs take me”
The other side then happened. When I mess something up, instead of saying it’s bad and perpetuating negative thoughts, swing hard the other way.
Not “this art is terrible” but “this shall be framed and mounted on the wall in my museum exhibition as testament to the suffering I had to overcome”
Have been doing this since high school. It was my drama teacher who asked me to please stop scaring the actors. The other half of the edict was that I had to say it in a polite tone, and end it with either please or thank you.
Life changing. 10/10 Mr Muëller. Highly reccomend.
lol
#Queued
Which means you saw this, could have told me, but instead, you chose this course. You chose violence. I’ll be adding you to the list of traitors to be embroidered in the tapestry of my throne room.
When an old tv died it was always very understandable. Screen busted. Tubes broke. Animal sick. Smart TVs will have psychosomatic problems that clear within a day. Ur Apple TV gets mental illness.
tech used to die a honourable death of Blow Up The Fuck And Burn The House Down. now its all like waahh wahhhh mommy i camnot update :((
God you’re so fucking stupid I’m flying to the midwest as we speak to kiss you
Wait, but no, seriously. Is that not the implication? Do they just use the pointy teeth to open a wound, and then lick at the blood that comes out like some kind of dumbass psychotic cat?
I always assumed it was something along the lines of snake fangs, where there were channels in the teeth like little straws to enable the suckage.
ultimately it depends on the vampire fiction, but yeah normally they poke holes and then use their mouths to suck the blood out.
That just sounds… Unsanitary. What if the person’s got a sweaty-ass neck? Vampires don’t want to be sucking on nasty neck-sweat.
but the blood is fine?
Wait - you expect a vampire to drain someone dry just from sort of…what…pressing their lips to an open wound? Are they sucking at it like a baby sucking its thumb? Do people genuinely interpret vampires as just kind of standing there, suckling at some maiden’s neck while relying on her own rapidly falling blood pressure to get it enough food??? Obviously a vampire’s teeth have holes in them, like snake fangs, and obviously they’re used to actively pump blood into the vampire. Duh.
Ok, but now… Do they habe double channels? Cause most vampires give their victim an ecstasy fugue state thingy. So they have to have some kind of venom.
That, I assume, would be salivary. The vampire would make the incision, and saliva would flow into the wound, delivering an assortment of intoxicants and relaxants and - depending on the interpretation of the vampire - an anaesthetic, so that the process is darkly fascinating instead of just agonizingly painful. Then the vampire begins to inflate its stomach, physically drawing blood down into it. There’s a lot more blood in a human body than there is room in a humanoid stomach, so the vampire will have to either bloat itself like a tick or leave the person dizzy and half-drained to drink from again another day - depending on which works better for the current story.
I have no idea how feasible it is biologically, but given that most depictions of vampire feeding has them stay latched on, teeth still in the wound, until done feeding, and then only leave the two pinprick wounds behind, I was also assuming there was some suction going on through the teeth, because otherwise wouldn’t the teeth plug the tiny wounds and prevent much blood from coming out? So yeah. I was picturing hollow fangs with some manner of suction behind them as well. If not, I’d expect the wounds to be significantly bigger and messier. Like full rip-the-throat-out sort of wounds. Otherwise how are they going to get the volume-at-speed?
The ecstasy thing I always assumed was a hypnotic effect, not a narcotic one. I’m fairly sure that’s explicit in at least several version of the mythology. But everyone does their vampires differently these days, so it probably depends on the version.
The straw fangs were the assumption when I was a kid, then the “cooler and edgier” vampires started doing that thing around the late 90s where they’re just guzzling blood from a wound, and I think it was mainly just to make vampire movies messier and gorier; so you could show them snarl at the camera with faces all covered in red, instead of a stealthy dual mosquito bite.
Most parasites don’t want to be noticed and cause as little damage as possible.
y'know how some spiders liquify the insides, to suck em out
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