sees this on the highway and violently aggressively tailgates them for miles and begins smashing into the side of their car until their car flies off the road off a cliff with them and their baby and explodes like in action movie
Y'all will literally say “i want to kill a mother and her child” because the mom likes Harry Potter and be proud of the sentence you just said 🤦
body neutrality is NOT, “so long as you’re happy and healthy, your body is a good body”. it’s about getting rid of the idea of a “good body” at all. it’s saying that your body is A BODY, and having a body is a neutral feature of all humans. it’s saying that specific bodies shouldn’t be focussed on more than others, because all bodies are bodies
when you say “so long as you’re happy and healthy”, you’re not actually helping. because. unless you’ve put in the hard work of deconstructing what you think “happiness” and “healthiness” look like, I can guarantee “happy and healthy” is just going to loop back to ableism and fatphobia
I feel lucky that my pet became a meme that was not adopted and used by nazis. everyone that has told me they adore this meme is a cool person and not a scumbag loser. if she became the face of a crypto scam or the name of an illegal government entity id have a crisis
my unpopular opinion is that i hate tiktok because now people just publicly watch loud ass videos in public spaces with no regard for anyone else. 100% it was not this bad with youtube, it’s such a different thing with tiktok. put on headphones. you are grown.
Girl……
This is it! This is what social media/smart tech have done! They’ve rotted away any distinction between private and public.
Yes, we do have the right to make demands on public behavior. Of course we do. Have you never heard of laws and etiquette? I’m not allowed to grocery shop naked. You can’t rummage through my purse. I can’t have a work meeting in the middle of a movie theatre.
I remember when it was taboo simply to answer your cell phone in public. The person answering would apologize and try to go to a more private area. Then public calls were normalized. Then putting people on speaker. Then listening to music without headphones. Do you know how many times I have hiked up a mountain or driven to the beach, only to be met with someone blaring shitty top 40 music from their portable speaker, because Heaven forbid you go one hour without noise?
Old woman yells at cloud and all that, but I can’t believe someone is not only admitting this behavior, but saying it’s a good thing! No one likes you! You’re a menace!
BEING INCONSIDERATE OF OTHERS IS STILL BAD.
It was obnoxious when it was youtube.
It was obnoxious when it was music.
It was obnoxious when it was the radio.
It was obnoxious when it was dudes wanting to talk to you instead of letting you just read your freaking book.
Do you want to be this guy? Because being obnoxious in shared spaces is how you become this guy.
Wear your damn headphones like an adult participant in the social contract.
my unpopular opinion is that i hate tiktok because now people just publicly watch loud ass videos in public spaces with no regard for anyone else. 100% it was not this bad with youtube, it’s such a different thing with tiktok. put on headphones. you are grown.
Girl……
This is it! This is what social media/smart tech have done! They’ve rotted away any distinction between private and public.
Yes, we do have the right to make demands on public behavior. Of course we do. Have you never heard of laws and etiquette? I’m not allowed to grocery shop naked. You can’t rummage through my purse. I can’t have a work meeting in the middle of a movie theatre.
I remember when it was taboo simply to answer your cell phone in public. The person answering would apologize and try to go to a more private area. Then public calls were normalized. Then putting people on speaker. Then listening to music without headphones. Do you know how many times I have hiked up a mountain or driven to the beach, only to be met with someone blaring shitty top 40 music from their portable speaker, because Heaven forbid you go one hour without noise?
Old woman yells at cloud and all that, but I can’t believe someone is not only admitting this behavior, but saying it’s a good thing! No one likes you! You’re a menace!
BEING INCONSIDERATE OF OTHERS IS STILL BAD.
It was obnoxious when it was youtube.
It was obnoxious when it was music.
It was obnoxious when it was the radio.
It was obnoxious when it was dudes wanting to talk to you instead of letting you just read your freaking book.
Do you want to be this guy? Because being obnoxious in shared spaces is how you become this guy.
Wear your damn headphones like an adult participant in the social contract.
my unpopular opinion is that i hate tiktok because now people just publicly watch loud ass videos in public spaces with no regard for anyone else. 100% it was not this bad with youtube, it’s such a different thing with tiktok. put on headphones. you are grown.
Girl……
This is it! This is what social media/smart tech have done! They’ve rotted away any distinction between private and public.
Yes, we do have the right to make demands on public behavior. Of course we do. Have you never heard of laws and etiquette? I’m not allowed to grocery shop naked. You can’t rummage through my purse. I can’t have a work meeting in the middle of a movie theatre.
I remember when it was taboo simply to answer your cell phone in public. The person answering would apologize and try to go to a more private area. Then public calls were normalized. Then putting people on speaker. Then listening to music without headphones. Do you know how many times I have hiked up a mountain or driven to the beach, only to be met with someone blaring shitty top 40 music from their portable speaker, because Heaven forbid you go one hour without noise?
Old woman yells at cloud and all that, but I can’t believe someone is not only admitting this behavior, but saying it’s a good thing! No one likes you! You’re a menace!
BEING INCONSIDERATE OF OTHERS IS STILL BAD.
It was obnoxious when it was youtube.
It was obnoxious when it was music.
It was obnoxious when it was the radio.
It was obnoxious when it was dudes wanting to talk to you instead of letting you just read your freaking book.
Do you want to be this guy? Because being obnoxious in shared spaces is how you become this guy.
Wear your damn headphones like an adult participant in the social contract.
This is true! The zoo where I volunteer (the illustrious Columbus Zoo & Aquarium) was one of the pioneers of this program.
Our zoo is known for raising cheetah cubs. Cheetahs have a terrible infant mortality rate and cubs are often rejected, so we get a lot of cubs to raise from all over the country (other zoos and sanctuaries, mostly).
The cubs are placed with a puppy friend when they are wee and small, so they grow up together like littermates. They play together, wrestle, and the dogs (yellow Labs) are so calm, friendly and well-socialized that the cheetahs take behavioral cues from them. When they meet new people, or go into new situations (which they often do, as ambassador animals for cheetah conservation), they check out if their dog friend is feeling chill - which he is - and then they know it’s okay for them to be chill, too.
Basically the dog is a service animal for them.
The cats need their dog friends less and less as they get older and more comfortable, but they still often hang out as grownups.
Our zoo does cheetah runs, where the cheetahs get to chase a lure and show off their speed. Often they’ll have one of the cheetahs run (we have like twelve cheetah), and then they’ll have one of the dogs do the run to show how much faster the cats are. People get a kick out of that. The dogs…let’s just say they try their best.
DISNEY MOVIE ABOUT CHEETAH GOING ON A JOURNEY TO FIND HER SILLY DOGGO FRIEND
i miss when DID was treated as a disorder and mental health issue instead of an identity label or something
Well, many mental health issues are hard to empirically measure on an individual scale and therefore identity labels, it isn’t alone in that regard at least.
Also, the doctor’s recommendation for anything considered a disorder will always be curing it, if someone is one of those who don’t like that idea when it comes to DID… then embracing a different view of what it is may be preferable.
i’m not going to speak about did because i’m not diagnosed with that nor am i an expert, and i know there’s controversy around final fusion and all of that.
but there are a ton of measures that can reliably and accurately diagnose mental health issues…almost all of which are unavailable online, making them exclusive to professional diagnosis.
also, you don’t know that a doctors recommendation for a disorder will always be to cure it. that is not how doctors have been treating autism for many years at this point. the point of therapies like ABA, occupational, and speech language therapies are not to cure autism. they are meant to treat debilitating symptoms that interfere with daily living (motor issues like toe walking which can cause permanent damage and disability due to a tightened achille’s tendon, speech and communication issues such as speech delays and learning to use AAC, and learning to advocate for oneself, all of which are not promoted as cures for autism and are not taking anything away from the autistic individual).
disorders are not an identity label. we have these measures for a reason and we can see through literally millions of pages and articles of research that these disorders are clinically distinct entities that need accommodation and treatment. just because you accept it as part of your identity does not make it an identity label nor does it mean that these tests are invalid
hello tumblrheads. with the ongoing shitshow i remembered im the spokesperson for this tumblr alternative so,
WAFRN.NET, a tumblr-style, queer-safe, alternative
pictured: wafrn users in their natural habitat
wafrn is a fediverse-based* social media consisting of majorly of queer people, it has an active userbase, a ton of them doing fuck-all and having fun :]
perks!
It has custom css! You can customize your profile with pretty much anything and make themes for you dashboard, example below :)
It connects to Mastodon, Pleroma, Firefish, Misskey and such, so you can connect with over 100k other people on remote servers!
We’re even working on an independent wiki! That means we’ll have a comprehensive wiki with notable user-generated moments and events and it wont be hosted on fandom!
It’s indie, no corporations attached.
Its open source! You can open it right up and look through the code :)
Predominantly Leftist: Bigots and bootlickers are banned the moment they make themselves known, and the staff [that includes me] actively interacts with the userbase.
*the fediverse is this interconnected chain of servers operating on the same network [that being ActivityPub], allowing people on entirely different websites to connect with eachother, basically.
porter robinson, sad machine || sun yuan and peng yu, can’t help myself || boston dynamics || the washington post || new york post || boston dynamics || tumblr || phillip k dick, do androids dream of electric sheep? || plainsight || wikipedia, turing test || kurt vonnegut, breakfast of champions
Tumblr is a nervodivergent battle ground, unfortunately none of us has the attention span to actually fight so we’re each just making our own sandcastles and screeching at whomever comes closest.
the Philadelphia police department had a brutal, corrupt, and racist reputation long before MOVE entered the picture. despite that fact, MOVE’s claims of police brutality typically fell on deaf ears, even when they had undeniable proof of mistreatment. the bombing is only one part of the story both because it is the culmination of violence between MOVE and the police and also because it is part of the broader narrative of police brutality in Philadelphia that is still largely played out today.
in 1967, a guy named Frank Rizzo became the police chief. his nickname while working in West Philadelphia as a captain was “The Cisco Kid,” which referenced the fictional cowboy who “killed for the love of it or any other reason that came to mind.” he referred to “vermin” in Philadelphia as the source of the crime and decline.
so yeah, not only is the MOVE bombing virtually unheard of by the average person in America (and it’s not much better in academia, for that matter), but the story that is often told when people do hear about is that this all happened in a vacuum “due to the actions of a violent Black resistance group.” in reality, it was the culmination of over 50 years of brutality against Black people and minorities in Philly.
guy with 60hz monitor: i am enjoying playing this game
guy with 240hz monitor: Honestly if you were to conceive of the most efficient possible torture in terms of purely causing agony for as long as possible and also have your firstborn son killed in front of you during the torture it would not even be a tenth as bad as playing a game at 60 fps
Guy with a laptop: Yeah I’m happy if it runs at 20 fps
Me: I don’t get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I’m like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?
The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it’s the fascism. You’re completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you’re also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you’re going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.
Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.