Gonna start random discourse now. Living in a two-story house is elitist. Moving to a foreign country is cultural appropriation. And stop saying something is “easy”, you are slutshaming the task
Reading comprehension [Abject failure] How dare you say my shoes look ugly! You don’t know anything about fashion!
Nah, you really gotta read the article. They’re gonna force insurance companies to separate from the stupid mandatory specialty pharmacies that they own that they force anyone insured who needs a “specialty medication” to use. I used to be able to get my specialty medication at the regular fucking pharmacy, and so did everyone else before they started up this nonsense. They cost more, and I’ve never had one that didn’t fuck me over every single year when I have to redo my prior authorization. Like I have to get every specialty prescription filled in advance, even if I don’t necessarily need it right now, to have a stockpile of 2-3 months of medication in case they fuck it up again and I lose that buffer. Most people don’t have that buffer. Caremark, Express Scripts, Optum, and there so many more. Call your fucking congressperson and tell them to support this legislation. PLEASE.
Gonna start random discourse now. Living in a two-story house is elitist. Moving to a foreign country is cultural appropriation. And stop saying something is “easy”, you are slutshaming the task
WHO tf keeping pads with no wings in production?? Put it in your draws and by the time you walk out the bathroom it’s down the street buying scratch offs at the corner store. Like girl
one of my favorite genres of post is “evocative imagery”
I had to write YEARS of posts about British Clownfall and South Korea just straight up speed ran theirs a mere seven minutes longer than it takes to watch Wicked
I literally just got back from seeing Wicked what’s going on??
Oh, well, so as the pre-movie ads were playing, Korea’s desperately unpopular president decided he didn’t like his fellow party creeps getting impeached for crimes and his shitty budget not being approved, so he threw a spectacular temper tantrum, accused all opposition party politicians of being North Korea sympathisers trying to overthrow democracy, and DECLARED MARTIAL LAW.
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Even his own party opposed him doing this, which tells you a lot about the staggering stupidity of this move.
NOW! Martial law can be annulled by a majority vote in the National Assembly, but part of the terms of martial law mean that political activities are banned to prevent such a vote taking place. The minimum number for a majority is 190. So, the stage becomes set - all parties are now desperate to get 190 total members into the Assembly, while President Yoon Suk-Yeol is now desperate to keep them out.
About an hour into you watching the film Wicked, the military tried to lock down the National Assembly building and disperse protesters who gathered in front of it. Soldiers tried to gain entry, but were humiliatingly blocked by party officials who sprayed them with fire extinguishers. Instead they decided to therefore block entry into the building, to keep 190 (or more) people from voting.
As you watched the film Wicked move into its third act, soldiers tried to move into the crowd of protesters, and were politely but firmly denied. Here is footage of an embarassed soldier being rotated and repelled by the crowd.
Meanwhile, Democratic Party members Lee Jae-myung and Lee Seong-yoon, blocked by the army, literally climbed over a five foot fence to get into the National Assembly so they could go and vote.
Finally, as you watched the credits of the film Wicked roll, the 190th necessary member brushed off twigs and staggered into the chamber, and so the vote was immediately called rather than waiting a single minute longer. The vote to annul martial law took place and was passed 190-0. It was completely unanimous, including members of the ruling People Power Party.
Martial law ended 2 hours and 48 minutes after it began.
Protesters are now calling for the impeachment of Yoon Suk-yeol. Military generals are milling about going “Whaaat? Martial law? Oh dear me no, I knew nothing about that at all, I have no idea how three military helicopters and a troop of soldiers got to the National Assembly so fast…” We shall see how soon the clowns fall.
So. That happened.
There were reports earlier that the military continued to enforce the emergency decree even after parliament voted it down, but Yoon and his cabinet have lifted the decree and the military has disbanded the command.
This thing is barely a hundred pages and the joker in the top right is trying to get more than sixty five bucks for it
Maybe they’re faking your signature? So it’s a ‘signed’ copy.
They’re not selling signed copies. They’d put that in the title, not sell someone a copy with a surprise signature that the buyer wasn’t told about.
They’re dropshippers, they use bots to look at cheap products online then advertise those products for higher prices so they can pocket the difference. It’s free (unless they were stupid enough to pay for the software, but even then, any individual use is free) so anybody buying anything from them is pure profit. They don’t need to be reasonable, they’re fishing for an occasional sucker. There’s no explanation for the price increase (beyond wanting to make free money), no logic justifying why it’s worth more; they don’t need to do that. They have almost certainly never heard of this book and are unaware that they’re selling it. If they’ve interacted with it at all, it’s to skim read the title and arbitrarily assign a price markup to it, but much more likely they have the software doing that automatically as well.
i get so annoyed when people extend a word incorrectly. what do you mean you had a “hugeeeee” burger. dont you mean a huuuuge burger? are you saying “huge-eeeeeeeee” out loud huh??? you start buzzing like a damn mosquito? well i fucking kill those. so watch out
had a bad low blood pressure moment last night and messily asked my partner for saltines and water before realizing i should probably ask for the Blood Pressure Medication I Need To Take. while they went to go grab it though i still had water and crackers so in a daze i took a swig of water but didnt swallow and then tried to cram 2 saltines in my mouth. full of water. in bed. with mouth full of water
my favorite kind of character is the kind who deep in their soul is constantly screaming LOVE ME LOVE ME LOVE ME and outwardly expressing literally anything else
this post has been very fun for me because I rarely post anything that’s not like, specific to my fandoms yk but now I get to see everybody tagging this with their favorite traumatized guys and it’s cool
hey, i'm that last anon. i actually hate-read your blog because i initially thought you were someone who gravely wronged me on a gundam rp forum in 2012 (abused the trust i put in char roleplayers to commit credit card fraud) the first time i saw your blog. i eventually learned you had to be someone else but tbh the distaste just stuck with me and now i compulsively get mad at everything you post
When will someone gently take all the internet food bloggers by the shoulders, look into their eyes, and explain that coconut milk is not a neutral-flavored dairy substitute
I feel like the fucking joker whenever I read a post saying [group of queer people] is The Most Oppressed bc I’m sitting there as if I’m not part of the only group in which systematic sterilization and mutilation at birth is a standard medical practice nearly worldwide. (Which is actually an improvement considering we used to just be murdered upon being born, and we still are in some places)
I’m not making this post to tell you that intersex people are The Most Oppressed.
I AM telling you that giving ANY group that label will minimize the issues of other horrifically targeted groups of people.
GIVING ANY GROUP THE LABEL OF MOST OPPRESSED WILL MINIMIZE THE ISSUES OF OTHER HORRIFICALLY TARGETED GROUPS OF PEOPLE.
Since we keep getting “live action” CGI remakes of already perfectly adequate animated movies, and because people need to understand that animation is a medium and not a genre, I have prepared this primer about the importance of Visual Language for Conveying Information.
Can you tell what the personalities of these two mice are?
Can you tell now?
Which of these two tigers feels safer to be around?
Which of these three dogs is the funniest one?
If you can answer these questions, then you already have experience with the idea of visual language and stylistic choices being used to impart narrative meaning. If you can understand why these choices were made to impart meaning, then you can understand why animation is a medium for telling stories that has its own inherent value, and is not merely a “placeholder” for the eventual implementation of photorealistic presentation (aka “Live Action” CGI). Animation does not need to be “corrected” or “legitimized” by remaking it into the most representational simulation of observable reality.
Unfortunately I have given up on the extension, as the creator and people who run it now loudly proclaim that talking about Transandrophobia or intersex identities (such as afab transfems, mspec lesbians, or mspec identities in general) is a Good Reason To Be Marked Red.
[ID: A screenshot of the above poll, showing that Status-quo-hater has had its url marked Red in shinigami eyes, which is meant to signify with the extension that it is Transphobic. End ID]
Unfortunately, if you are currently marked red in Shinigami Eyes, that is probably not an accident and in fact part of the design which now embraces exclusionism, because you talk about intersectionality and (sarcastically: ) such evil, evil talking points as…. *checks notes*… ‘trans men are discriminated against, and experience oppression because they are trans’
I can try re-installing it to mark you green, but I also do really wanna spread the word that it is *not* inclusive anymore and talking about intersectionality and the need for solidarity can and will get you marked red 🫠
[ID: A new screenshot of the above poll, showing that Status-quo-hater’s url has now been marked Green with Shinigami eyes, signifying that its blog is Trans Positive / Trans Safe. End ID]
EDIT: just got it and marked you green, but this only applies to individual sessions of Shinigami Eyes, and since they apparently have to manually approve marking people Red Generally to begin with….
We just need a new extension at this point that has different colors for different bigotries…
oh, one last reblog:
you can leave a review for Shinigami Eyes here, to express your displeasure in the moderation team marking inclusive trans and intersex blogs red, as well as having their “official guidlines” saying that using transphobic slurs like “theyfab” isn’t enough to be marked red.
I encourage everyone to leave an honest review about the way this extension has the capacity to be misused to silence intersex people and its TOS considers bigotry against nonbinary & transmasc people to be permissible and not enough evidence to mark a person as anti-trans
A developer is now (november 25th 2024) leaving some canned responses to a few of the 1 star reviews, not limited to:
“if someone identifies as an AFAB transfem, that forces trans women to identify as AMAB transfems, which makes *you* a TERF!!”
“the term "binary trans woman” is a derogatory phrase in my book, so its fine for people to use"theyfab" and “tenderqueer” as slurs while perpetuating violent hatred against trans men, trans mascs, intersex folk, and nonbinary folk"
And take note, this one is verbatim:
“Discussion of transandrophobia doesn’t turn you red. It’s using trans language to promote anti-trans values.”
Gee whiz if only someone had foreseen that Building A List Of Good And Bad People was not gonna work out well in the end. Well I saw it but i didn’t say anything because I thought it was fucking obvious
It’s almost impossible to even mention anything on chris chan without someone asking you for more information on chris chan. I can not overstate how unimportant knowing details about her is. Can we focus on the decades long harassment and stalking campaigns. Can we focus on the guy who made like an 80 part chris chan youtube documentary. Can we talk about how documenting this much information about random civilians is horrifically unethical and continuing to distribute said information is participating in harassment. Can we let her be anonymous and unknown again
Every time i start seeing multi-hour long exposés on people and find out that they’re transfem i get scared, like, i know it’s happening again. I know we’re all dogpiling on some rando for no real reason, we’re spotlighting her and making her the most important thing in the room so everyone has to have an opinion on her and feel a sense of anger or disgust about her. We have learned exactly fucking nothing about online harassment campaigns like this because we keep letting chuds get away with acting like neutral observers, and we learn nothing about the bigotries that fuel these forms of harassment. Apologize to Christine.
Girl help people are willfully misinterpreting my posts again
Yes i did mean that chris chan, i am dying on this hill, nothing could possibly justify that level of harassment
And again, why am i meant to answer for chris chan’s actions, but the actions of the people stalking, harassing and documenting her are self-evidently justified?
the amount of letters in your full name is now your forever age. what is it?
29 holy moly
I’m……. 14. Oh.
depends on if we count my middle name? its on my birth certificate but it isn’t on my id and I don’t go by it
so I’m either 9 or 16… I’ll take 16 thx
then im 18.. so just half a year back in time, i liked being 18 more than 19 so far, i hope 19 gets better soon. also i keep forgetting im not still 18
Before I went no contact with them, I’d sometimes complain about my parents to my partner (whose parents are great but he knows very well what mine are like) and he’d say “well they’re getting old, and they’re covid deniers and don’t trust doctors…who knows, they might die soon” which I loved, it was so reassuring, I wish more ppl had the balls to bring that kind of energy
Ppl who don’t know my parents: remember, they won’t be around forever 😓
My partner who knows my parents and also has a reference point for what non-evil parenting looks like: remember, they won’t be around forever! 🥳
“a fully grown female is genetically and physically weaker than a 10 year old male. this is always the case. female are always worse than males, no matter what. the worst male can always beat the best female. trust me, I’m a feminist” - terfs.
“a fully grown female is genetically and physically weaker than a 10 year old male. this is always the case. female are always worse than males, no matter what. the worst male can always beat the best female. trust me, I’m a feminist” - terfs.
I know murdering all of the CEOs of all the evil corporations won’t solve capitalism, but I don’t think it would hurt either. Maybe we should try killing a few more, just to see what happens
okkay. i was going to make an actual tutorial thing to help u but i frogot what i was doing so i drew the most pathetic little wet cat beast imaginable. on accident. so sorry
this is very petty but weeks ago I saw a tiktok from a trans man talking about going off T to reconnect with his feminity, and he was saying stuff like “I need to connect to the bountiful, peaceful nature of the motherland before I return to the crazy ass tboy village cos all trans men are fucking cringy as fuck” and he was obviously half joking but I was smelling some terfisms so I commented “hey I support this journey you’re on but I think you can talk about it in a way that doesn’t present femininity as being inherently more natural, spiritual or deeper than masculinity is. and no need to call trans men crazy or cringy” and he replied to my comment “chill🙄”
today by serendipity another one of his vids appeared on my fyp saying “I went off T and now I’m back on T because I realized estrogen makes me act crazy and feel miserable”
and I resisted the urge to comment “oh? you didn’t find anything of worth in the bountiful natural motherland of femininity? 🥺” and I think I deserve accolades
I don’t know I’m not done talking about it. It’s insane that I can’t just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.
I wouldn’t use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.
Every app shouldn’t be like every other app. Instagram didn’t need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn’t need a store. Instagram doesn’t need to be connected to Facebook. I don’t want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I’ll go to that place accordingly.
I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don’t want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it’s not the same. I don’t want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I’m concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.
I shouldn’t have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.
Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don’t get physical releases. I can’t stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.
I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don’t pay their artists. iTunes isn’t even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.
My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.
I have to click “not now” and can’t click “no”. I don’t just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?
No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don’t want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn’t need a smartphone for work I’d get a “dumb” phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won’t forget how it was!
Okay you know what? Schizophrenia is way too demonized and, as someone who has had it for ten freaking years, I want to dispel some myths about hallucinations.
Aka talking about hallucinations using my own personal examples because I had an actual fucking THERAPIST tell me I was the ONLY person in the world who experienced hallucinations that were not solely visual or auditory. Warning for…hallucinations obviously.
Visual hallucinations - These are hallucinations you see. I usually experience these by way of inanimate objects moving (like dolls or mannequins moving on their own, before you ask yes I do hate clothing stores). Sometimes these can be scary and sometimes they’re mundane! I’ve hallucinated monsters and I’ve hallucinated pretty birds. Hallucinations don’t always have to be scary.
Auditory hallucinations - These are hallucinations you hear. I commonly hear crying, talking, music, and video game noises. If I play a video game for too long and it has a repetitive sound in it, I WILL be hearing that sound for minimum three hours. You think the sound that plays in LoZ when you’re low on hearts is annoying? Try having to listen to it on loop when you’re not even playing the game. Like with visual hallucinations, they’re not always scary! Contrary to popular belief, they can be totally mundane. Hearing voices is not always scary either. Sometimes they just say random stuff, sometimes they give me little pep talks, most of the time they just all talk over each other at once and I’m like GUYS ONE AT A TIME PLEASE jeezy cheez-it’s.
Tactile hallucinations - These are hallucinations you feel. I hear common tactile hallucinations are feelings of bugs on you and fur but I don’t usually have these, I mostly have tactile hallucinations of being choked which is…not fun.
Olfactory hallucinations - These are hallucinations you smell. Yeah I thought of farts first too. So far I haven’t heard of that being a common hallucination though. I hear a common olfactory hallucination is burning? But I just smell wet metal. I…don’t know why.
Gustatory hallucinations - These are hallucinations you taste. I don’t know how to pronounce gustatory either. I often taste blood or metal. I hear those are pretty common gustatory hallucinations.
None of these hallucinations are inherently scary! As a child, I thought hallucinations were a super power. After living with them for over ten years, they just don’t phase me that much. Remember: you don’t have to be schizophrenic to experience hallucinations! There are many things that cause hallucinations including and not limited to trauma, PTSD, psychotic depression, etc. (sometimes even stress!)
But please please please be kind to people who hallucinate. I’ve lived with it for over ten years and (rarely) it can still be terrifying to me sometimes. People say “But there’s nothing there and you know that-“ yes I know that! But it’s still very very real to me and very terrifying! Minimizing what people experience with their hallucinations is not helpful and will only make them feel worse.
The Daily Dot used to be cool because it would cover platforms like Tumblr and Twitter when they were first starting out and it took it seriously and didn’t patronize it like a lot of other media did. They even did a few interviews with me about Imgur and Reddit stealing content.
But these last few years it is has just turned to absolute shite and it’s like watching a dumpster fire set another dumpster on fire. Just an unending dumpster fire cascade.
I mean, you read this headline and it makes you think some random TikToker discovered some huge flaw in an Apple update.
In reality… it is just a remote access feature. Like, if you have an elderly parent who fucks up their phone, they can grant you access and you can help them fix it. This is a pretty standard feature that has been in operating systems for decades. There are some security concerns and it can be a double edged sword because a lot of scammers have taken advantage of remote access, but it is not a “lethal” bug.
I’m seeing a bunch of posts that make me think most USAmericans don’t know about The No Surprises Act.
It was passed in 2021 (thank you Biden) and essentially states that if you don’t have insurance or your insurance doesn’t cover a service you need (or want) you are entitled to a Good Faith Estimate of the cost of care. (If your insurance does cover the service, you should be able to estimate the cost of care based on your deductible and co-pay.)
As a healthcare provider who does not accept any insurance, I am very careful to not violate The No Surprises Act. Why? Because for every penny more than $400 that the Good Faith Estimate was “off” (or if it wasn’t provided), you are entitled to a refund for that amount.
Y’all. Ask for a Good Faith Estimate. Get it in writing. Compare it to what you are paying. If you are not provided an estimate or if it’s wrong by more than $400, demand a refund.
