“don’t look away” is a meaningless phrase. who are you benefiting by inundating yourself with misery porn?
DO something about things you care about. Go to a protest for something you believe in, if you can. Donate money to a cause if you have it to spare. Volunteer your time to help people if you have the energy. Write a letter to your political representatives if that’s something you can do. These are meaningful ways to try to make change in the world.
And then? don’t feel bad about insulating yourself from horrible news. Don’t make yourself look at images that make you feel sick. Don’t read endless things that depress you. Because frankly it gets harder to actually do the more you doomscroll. Reading constantly about things you can’t change because they’re happening at a systemic level or on the other side of the world is paralyzing. It makes you less able to help where you can.
I’m not saying be willfully ignorant. I’m not saying pretend horrible things aren’t happening. I’m saying don’t destroy your mental health going in-depth and cycling through horror after horror on your phone. I’m saying there is no virtue in making yourself experience other people’s traumas because mere awareness is not activism. you inflicting suffering on yourself is not activism.
doomscrolling is literally sapping your energy and focus away from doing anything useful to help other people. you can burn yourself out without ever lifting a finger by exposing yourself to all the bad news in the world and who does that help? no one.
ive been writing this program to keep track of when you do day to day tasks like doing dishes/laundry. anyways my streak of “bugs in things i write manifesting as infinite loops of unexpectedly poignant user prompts” continues
If I was scrolling faster I would’ve entirely blown this off as an aesthetic post and moved on
I drew a What-If Player 3 of COTL a while ago and now I decided to make more about them! Since Sheep are the Lamb’s “Light Reflection”, their traits act on their 7 Heavenly Virtues, making Sheep more kind and caring than Lamb and Goat. They play more in the support and defense role during their crusade as they go on a path of pacifism. (which Lamb and mostly Goat did not like)
A very shy maned wolf stopping for a visit at a monastery in Brazil for a bite to eat provided by monks. Because of their super long legs, they walk more like giraffes than typical canines. Maned wolves pose no threat to humans.
[Translation: People who say ‘What, we got to sign a whole contract before sex, now?’ should sign a whole contract before sex ]
So, I’m involved in the kink community, and a friend of mine is into “free use” scenarios where she’s blindfolded and people come up and do things to her. The way we manage this is that she wrote up a two-page list of all of her preferences, limits, and required safety precautions, and when someone wants to participate, her bouncers first make them read and agree to those terms. We’ve been doing this for years and have never needed to stop or eject someone for bad behavior. It turns out that, yes, a clearly spelled out written contract makes consent– even for a fairly extreme sexual situation– easy and straightforward.
[Translation: People who say ‘What, we got to sign a whole contract before sex, now?’ should sign a whole contract before sex ]
So, I’m involved in the kink community, and a friend of mine is into “free use” scenarios where she’s blindfolded and people come up and do things to her. The way we manage this is that she wrote up a two-page list of all of her preferences, limits, and required safety precautions, and when someone wants to participate, her bouncers first make them read and agree to those terms. We’ve been doing this for years and have never needed to stop or eject someone for bad behavior. It turns out that, yes, a clearly spelled out written contract makes consent– even for a fairly extreme sexual situation– easy and straightforward.
Disappearing without a trace just to come back and post dumb narinder art on a platform where I’ve never posted cotl before may not be the smartest idea but I’m free🇺🇸🦅💥
fondly remembering that time I was working as a cashier when I was 19-20 and my former bus driver and his wife came through. He says to me “Hey, you look familiar” and I reply “Yes, I was one of the bus kids you drove, specifically the one you screamed at and threatened to ban from the bus and make walk home because I was crying out in pain while the other kids were ripping huge chunks of hair out of my head but you did nothing about them.” and his wife slowly looked at him like this
[Hydrogen:] Slightly fancy protons [Lithium and Beryllium:] Weird dirt [Group 1 & 2 metals, Periods 3-4:] Regular dirt [Group 1 & 2 metals, Periods 5-7:] Ends in a number, let it slumber ends in a letter, not much better [Left side of the transition metals group:] Boring alloy metals Probably critical to the spark plug industry or something (but one of them is radioactive so stay on your toes) [Most of the top row of the transition metals + aluminum:] Regular metals [Below the rightmost “regular metals” - the “ordinary metals” and some transition metals:] Weird metals [The platinum group:] $$$$ [Boron:] Boron (fool’s carbon) [Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus:] You are here [The Halogens:] Safety goggles required [Noble Gases:] Lawful neutral [Iodine and Radon:] Very specific health problems [Ordinary metals and metalloids - Arsenic, Antimony, Tellurium, Thallium, Lead, Bismuth, Polonium] Murder weapons [Astatine and Period 7 from Rutherfordium onwards:] Don’t bother learning their names - they’re not staying long [Lanthanides and Actinides:] Whoever figures out a better way to fit these up there gets the next Nobel Prize
[Hydrogen:] Slightly fancy protons [Lithium and Beryllium:] Weird dirt [Group 1 & 2 metals, Periods 3-4:] Regular dirt [Group 1 & 2 metals, Periods 5-7:] Ends in a number, let it slumber ends in a letter, not much better [Left side of the transition metals group:] Boring alloy metals Probably critical to the spark plug industry or something (but one of them is radioactive so stay on your toes) [Most of the top row of the transition metals + aluminum:] Regular metals [Below the rightmost “regular metals” - the “ordinary metals” and some transition metals:] Weird metals [The platinum group:] $$$$ [Boron:] Boron (fool’s carbon) [Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus:] You are here [The Halogens:] Safety goggles required [Noble Gases:] Lawful neutral [Iodine and Radon:] Very specific health problems [Ordinary metals and metalloids - Arsenic, Antimony, Tellurium, Thallium, Lead, Bismuth, Polonium] Murder weapons [Astatine and Period 7 from Rutherfordium onwards:] Don’t bother learning their names - they’re not staying long [Lanthanides and Actinides:] Whoever figures out a better way to fit these up there gets the next Nobel Prize
Scotland is one of the first countries in the world to be trialling free sanitary products for women.
How fucking cool are we?
SUPER BLOODY COOL.
While the concept is a bit different, my uni does this- has free sanitary napkins and tampons in all the bathrooms. (all of them, even the mens, to accommodate men who also get periods. ) This is something that needs to catch on everywhere.
1. It has people giving pictures (from inside bathrooms and changing rooms!!) Of the people they’re submitting as trans, and what the fuck?
ALT
2. I need to share this excerpt (paragraph breaks my own):
Reactions to the form’s release were immediate and predictable: multiple users started flooding in fake reports. One person submitted a report of “beavers” in their bathroom at 3 AM.
Another posted a picture of a character from The Bee Movie, an allusion to other snitch forms against transgender people that were flooded with scripts for that movie. One person reported Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders as a trans person.
Another reported an allegation of Representative Matthew Gaetz harassing girls outside of a locker room.
The reactions were remarkably similar to other attempts to target transgender people using snitch forms. In February, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita released a snitch line to report schools.
Instead, it received copies of Godzilla holding a trans flag. In March of 2023, the Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey launched a website for reporting gender affirming care clinics. Within a month, the website was taken down after being flooded with the “Bee Movie” script.
In Virginia, Governor Glenn Youngkin launched a tip line to report “divisive teaching practices.” That tip line received very few legitimate reports, and instead was flooded by “GenZ for Change” activists.
The website was taken down quietly a the end of the year. After Freedom of Information Act requests were submitted to the state for reports, Youngkin initially but then relented after being sued. In a batch of 350 emails obtained of thousands submitted, accusations submitted included “sympathy to immigrants” and dissatisfaction with the epic poem “Beowulf”
We did it yall!! The UTAH WEBSITE IS DOWN
ALT
This trend of people OBSESSIVELY minding EVERYBODY ELSES BUSINESS?
Desperately needs to STOP.
‘… But-BUT?!?!… What if I’m in the Bathroom &… One of… THEM… ATTACKS ME?!?!’
I don’t know?… WHAT IF… A chunk of rock falls out of the sky, punches through 3 floors of the building, and decaps you while passing through the bathroom on its way to the Subbasement? WHAT IF… You sit down to lunch at usual place in Break Room? And get hit by an out-of-control Cement Truck that’s already plowed through the parking lot outside, and blasts thru wall your sitting in front of which doesn’t seem to have slowed it down much? WHAT IF… THE ENTIRE fucking UNIVERSE just says, ‘Fuck-THIS!…’ & puts up a ‘Going out of Business’ sign?
‘WHAT IF…’ doesn’t give you leave to dictate what other people CAN or CAN NOT do. Long as they aren’t NEGATIVELY IMPACTING YOU (And, NO: Your precious Fee-fee’s/Sensibilities DON’T count)?
i’m fond of the jokes along the lines of “you know shit’s about to hit the fan when the kazoo comes out” but i just learned what instrument actually makes that noise in the mp100 ost.
i’m fond of the jokes along the lines of “you know shit’s about to hit the fan when the kazoo comes out” but i just learned what instrument actually makes that noise in the mp100 ost.
Meet, my goat, Adrik! the scruffy, depressed, probably insane, blood thirsty goat. His story- IS ONE HELL OF A STORY- and he’s probably going to be in Life with Death (for those who don’t know or are new, Life with Death or LWD for short is a fanfic I’m currently writing.)
I’ll also say that in Life with Death Lamb and Goat will be related by blood. I’ll try to explain how that work in the actual Fanfic. Also I wanna state that I absolutely am not against lamb x goat, you guys can ship what you want, and cannon they aren’t related. I actually do find Lamb x Goat art pretty wholesome but for me personally I see them as family, and that is how I will write it in my fanfic. anyways much love <3
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