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[myalgicencephalomyelitiscfstom]

Credit to themsbloke. A high-energy video that might require pacing! He has multiple sclerosis himself rather than ME/CFS.

Note that the F word is used.

[standfortheangels]

Transcripted version below, for anyone who'd rather read than watch:

(Themsbloke plays two characters in the video, so I've just labelled them A and B, for simplicity's sake)

A: Oh my fucking god. I've just realised something incredible. If you want to erase an illness, you don't deny it exists. You rename it.

I'll take a devastating neurological illness, one that collapses immune systems, starves muscles of oxygen, scrambles blood flow to the brain, and I'll give it a name that sounds like being a bit knackered.

B: You mean...

A: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

B: That's unforgivable.

A: Perfect, isn't it? Because now, when people lose the ability to stand, to speak clearly, to tolerate light, sound, touch, everyone will think they just need an early fucking night!

B: What does it actually do to them?

A: It destroys them. It turns effort into poison. It makes thinking feel like lifting concrete. It makes bodies crash so hard people can't feed themselves, they can't wash, they can't remember words! Some will lie in dark rooms for years.

B: Years?

A: Decades. Children will get it. Teenagers will lose their education. Adults will lose careers, independence, homes. I'll make exertion Actively dangerous, where one walk, one conversation, one shower can cause a multi-day systemic collapse.

B: That's sadistic.

A: I'll erase it from medical textbooks. I'll defund research. I'll tell patients to Exercise, even when exercise physically harms them!

B: So, this isn't fatigue?

A: ... What did you just fucking say to me?

B: ... This isn't fatigue?

A: No. Fatigue is a warning light. This is systemic collapse. Hmm? This is the body failing to recover from efforts! This is energy that does not replenish! Huh? This is a disease where Trying makes you Worse!!

B: Why hasn't this been taken seriously?

A: Because of the name. Because once you call it 'Fatigue', you give people permission to dismiss it. Doctors stop listening, government stop funding, friends stop believing, and patients stop trusting their own reality.

B: So the label matters.

A: The label is everything. Because when you misname suffering, you mistreat it, you mismanage it, you abandon the people inside it, and ME/CFS patients have been abandoned for generations.

B: So what are they fighting for now?

A: To be believed, to be studied, and to be named fucking correctly. Because ME/CFS is not tiredness, laziness, nor a fear of effort; It's a brutal, disabling, life-altering disease. And people are still disappearing, unheard, into dark rooms because we chose a comforting lie over an accurate truth.

B: So what should we call it?

A: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. Say it properly.

B: *fumbles, not even getting past the first M*

A: Myalgic

B: Myalgic

A: En-ceph-a-lo...

B: Encephalo

A: My-e-li-tis

B: Myelitis.

A: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.

B: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.

A: Good. Right! Time to invent Brain Fog!

*end credits jingle from Looney Toons plays, complete with the "That's all, folks!" written on the screen*

[auressea]

!!!!!!!!!!

wow. so true. but also- I'm experiencing PEM just from watching it.

[corvid-language-library]

The sooner you start, the sooner you'll be done with it and the sooner you can stop thinking about it. Go on, up you get, it won't be as bad as you think.

[corvid-language-library]

You won't want to do it later either. You might as well just do it now. Even if you don't finish it all, anything you manage to get done now is something you don't have to do later (when you still won't want to do it)

[markscherz]

how many frogs are yours now?

So far I have formally described and named three genera, 116 species, and five subspecies of frogs (and also 35 reptile species, but we don't often talk about reptiles here on tumblr dot com).

[auressea]

I would love to talk/read/learn about reptiles more!

I grew up in a place with (buckets full) huge populations of garter snakes. And they are so rare now. but we got invasive European wall lizards now instead.

I wish living on an island had better isolated our ecosystem from introduced and invasive species.. we have the Bullfrog problem even here.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Is Mark Carney racist?

Yes.

Black advocates call out Carney government for excluding them from diversity council | CBC News

Advocates for Black Canadians say the Carney government is reinforcing the barriers they face by launching an inclusivity council that does

First Nations chiefs demand the PM apologize after he said he could 'outlast' protesters | CBC News

Two First Nations chiefs are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to apologize for saying he could "outlast" protesters. Chrissy Isaacs, a

[sapphoslilhelper]

Seeing people who full-chest talk about how transmasculine people need to be decentered in feminism is genuinely ??? "Let women be feminine" levels of online. You can't decenter a group that has never been centered, and the worst part is, you're telling everybody that continued transmasculine erasure is praxis. Rather than organizing around social forces of oppression, you're explicitly abandoning one of the most vulnerable groups to patriarchal violence.

[forestgreenandgray]

Hey do you know what rumination is?

Rumination is probably the most common type of OCD compulsion, but I rarely see anyone talking about it. I've talked to multiple people diagnosed with OCD who didn't even recognize it as a compulsion.

Basically, if you have OCD you have terrible intrusive thoughts. They can be about anything, but common themes are fear of being a bad person, fear of hurting someone, fear of contamination. etc.

Rumination is when you get stuck in a spiral. Rumination is when you spend hours catastrophizing, overthinking, analyzing, telling yourself it's going to be okay.

I'll say it again:

Rumination is a compulsion.

Rumination is a compulsion, and that means you have to stop doing it.

I did ERP (exposure response prevention) for my OCD with a therapist! For 9 months! And it did help, but the idea didn't really click until I found this website a couple years later.

And Oh My God. It made things make so much more sense, and I was able to pull myself out of an episode even though I wasn't in therapy or on meds at the time.

Genuinely if you have OCD, or even if you suspect you have OCD, I'm begging you to read some of these articles.

Like this was genuinely life changing for me.

Here are some of the ones that were most helpful to me:

Defining Rumination

How to Stop Ruminating

ERP Exercises for Compulsive Rumination

What to Do When You're Triggered

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Just want to add that if you're on the spectrum, you may also experience Autistic Rumination, which is distinct from the obsessive variety, despite the two having some overlapping characteristics!

[auressea]

OH ^^^^^ that's an IMPORTANT and HELPFUL addition!

(cool cool cool - I get BOTH KINDS. yay!)

[scarubaru]

Could Switzerland Become the First Country to Cap Its Population?

The Swiss will soon go to the polls for a novel initiative that could upend the nation’s economy and rupture ties with the European Union.

Are we serious right now?

[phaeton-flier]

Switzerland is amazing, because it's fairly easy to portray its political culture as one of consensus and carefully devolved government if you present in a very abstract sense, and then you zoom in to any part and you're like "wow that's a loooooot of stupid shit"

[nyantara]

is this about racism? yes it is

The first, triggered as soon as Switzerland exceeds 9.5 million inhabitants, would lead to restrictions in the areas of asylum and family reunification.

[lesbianlandry]

shane hollander as kermit the frog

[specialagentartemis]

Cannot enthuse enough about looking at the flyers on corkboards. As soon as you start noticing them, a whole world of unique events opens itself up to you. There are always people offering guitar and piano lessons, but I’ve also seen flyers for queer game nights, town hall protests, hiking clubs, live music festivals, student film showcases, indie film screenings, stone carving sculpture classes, Pride events, jazz in the park, genderswapped Star Trek stage plays, bike-a-thons, cyberpunk drag shows, an online asexuality archive… tons of the events being promoted are even free and they’re things I never would have known about if not for a flyer in a café or ice cream shop or park kiosk

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the doctor down the street who gives me my T shots in a clinic so small that it's just two rooms was excited for me when she said my voice had dropped yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the receptionist who could see that I was a man didn't bat an eyelash when I asked to see the gynecologist and called me sir when he asked how I wanted to pay yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the barber cuts my hair exactly how I want it and never gave me strange looks for being in a men's salon not even back when I didn't pass as one

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my friends have always gendered me correctly and stick to it even when it confuses other people and my friend's little sibling calls me older brother in Kannada yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my dog learned my new name quicker than the humans and she runs to give me a kiss when she's told to without being confused about who's being referred to

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I can feel the Adam's apple growing in my throat and my muscles getting stronger, and my smile more real and I'm growing a beard, and I talk more freely

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I'm here, and I'm alive, and so are you and there are good people, people who care and don't let them make you forget that-- you are not alone.

[hammerandtheanvil]

and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming

[anniebass]

Ladies, it’s time to be proactive about your ao3 experience and block them on the site skin level!!

step 1.

Go to skins tab

step 2.

create site skin (not work skin!! Site skin)

step 3.

This is where the magic happens.

you’re only interested in that big box (though you will have to give your skin an unique title)

in there, you paste this:

(This just an example, obviously)

.blurb:has(a:is( [href*="*s*reader" i], [href*="*s*you" i], [href*="goncharov" i], [href*="goncharov*s*katya" i], [href*="goncharov%20dies" i], [href*="top%20goncharov" i])) {   display: none !important; }

in my method, if I want to filter something new, I'll duplicate a line of this code like such (comma at the end is important)

[href*="goncharov" i],

temporarily, it'll look like this:

.blurb:has(a:is( [href*="*s*reader" i], [href*="*s*you" i], [href*="goncharov" i], [href*="goncharov" i], [href*="goncharov*s*katya" i], [href*="goncharov%20dies" i], [href*="top%20goncharov" i])) {   display: none !important; }

and now I replace that duplicate with whatever tag I want to mute, replacing only what is inside quotation marks, like so:

[href*="piss" i],

and now it looks like this

.blurb:has(a:is( [href*="*s*reader" i], [href*="*s*you" i], [href*="piss" i], [href*="goncharov" i], [href*="goncharov*s*katya" i], [href*="goncharov%20dies" i], [href*="top%20goncharov" i])) {   display: none !important; }

Mind that you replace spaces with %20 and slash with *s*. For example, "coffeshop au" won't filter it; "coffeeshop%20au" will. Similarly "/reader" won't work, and "*s*reader" will. Remember, only write inside the quotation marks. You can also copy the tags you want to filter directly from your browser’s search bar, then they’re already formatted correctly, like:

And presto, save your site skin, use it, and you will forever filter anything you want. You can add more tags to filter any time you want.

This, as an enabled site skin, will work across all your devices. Mind that the filtered works are hidden, but still count into the 20 fics per page that ao3 offers. Therefore if you're, like me, terminally picky about fic, you might end up with 3 works per page.

Is this nice, clean coding? Probably not. But it works!

I know it doesn't help with tumblr experience, but you can make ao3 way smoother!

Bonus reading:

very good ao3 writeup on all the skin filtering possibilities

This and more, on reddit

also apologies to piss lovers everywhere, you do you boo, na zdrowie 🥂

[hudsoncallme]

I hope he continues to be confused and vaguely pissy forever

[arianotes]

Expressive ass goof ball

Each face has a message

[auressea]

I read most of these expressions as "Horrified and Judging you".

[sabertoothwalrus]

maybe this is not my place to say because I am monolingual, and I'm sure it's part of a larger, more nuanced discussion about visibility and accessibility on the internet, but I think it'd be cool if people posted in their native languages more instead of in english. I see people do it way more on other platforms than on tumblr which is almost exclusively in english

[minothtime]

El problema es, como bien has dicho, la accesibilidad y la visibilidad.

Tumblr en concreto es muy anglocentrista y un gran número de los usuarios no habla más que inglés. Si quieres que tus cosas lleguen a gente con gustos u opiniones similares, escribirlo en inglés asegura que la gente por lo menos lo pueda leer. Suma a esto el hecho de que bastantes series y tal son originalmente de habla inglesa (y a veces ni se traducen a tu lengua madre), lo que crea un fandom principalmente angloparlante.

Más allá de eso, también hay que tener en cuenta las diferencias culturales que surgen entre fandoms de distintos idiomas. Por ejemplo, durante mucho tiempo el fandom de Vocaloid angloparlante y el hispanohablante han chocado con respecto a temas como la piratería. En ocasiones es complicado manejar estas expectativas, y si sabes varios idiomas, peor incluso.

A mí me gustaría subir cositas en español y encontrar a gente que comparta mis gustos, pero en Tumblr en concreto es casi imposible. Tumblr ya es de por sí mucho más «nicho» en espacios hispanohablantes que otras RRSS como TikTok o Instagram, y si tus intereses no son muy populares, despídete.

La lingüística de los espacios de fans también está hipercentrada en el inglés. No es una pareja, es un ship; no es un universo alternativo, es un AU; no es destripar, es hacer spoiler, etc. Incluso las siglas: en español es LGTB, pero lo que sueles ver es LGBT. Parece una tontería, pero esta disonancia cognitiva hace que resulte muchísimo más complicado hablar en tu propio idioma en un fandom. Por no hablar de las innumerables referencias a posts o a memes... en inglés todo, por supuesto. Como te atrevas a hacer cualquier referencia cultural no inglesa, no te entiende nadie. Pierde la gracia.

Casi todo esto se puede achacar al imperialismo cultural estadounidense. El inglés es útil para comunicarse con gente de todo el mundo, pero su omnipresencia sirve de barrera para todos los demás idiomas. Quizás habría que reflexionar un poco sobre por qué coño el resto del mundo tiene que tragarse años de clases de inglés para hablar del juego que le gusta en una red social mientras muchos angloparlantes no se dignan ni a meter un texto en un traductor automático y prefieren pasar de largo.

[auressea]

It sucks. I'm so sorry. and I know that the machine language translators are bad quality (worse now!)

This matters to me! I'm (frustrated) still monolingual despite many attempts to learn other languages. YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE matters. It matters to me that you get to speak and write and share your inner thoughts and world-views and experiences in YOUR own words.

If I want to know- I will GO and DO THE WORK to understand! because it's worth it.

and posting prev tags for later translation too:

#ich hatte den Gedanken auch dass es gut wäre in meiner Muttersprache meinen Interessen nachzugehen#aber es geht um menschliche Kontakte knüpfen und Teil von einer (lose definiert) Gemeinschaft zu sein#und die Nischengemeinschaften die mich interessieren sind sowieso selten genug bzw schwer zu erreichen#und dann landet alles wieder bei Englisch#tumblr

[kaioty-summer]

Hey, did y'all see this?

I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today, we have 83 days left until Google rolls out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!

I'll share some of the info below:

Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.

What to do?

-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides

- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out the full resources list on their website as well!

To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements but we got this working together!

Share the link with your friends, family and anyone who will listen!

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

[yellowmagicalgirl]

If you're in the US, I created a petition to make it easier to contact senators and congressmen.

Google Wants To Control Our Phones

Join 1 people. Google is trying to make people hand over government id in order to make an Android app. If they don't, then that app can't b

If you're not in the US, see if your country is listed here for whom to contact.

[auressea]

you WILL regret it forever if you lose all rights to customize your phone

we have to reverse Google's bad decision BEFORE it happens

you have to make an effort here NOW to keep your phone YOURS.

regretting it later will fix nothing

[malewifenat]

What does the arab in your carrd mean? Is it like afab and amab?

.. i’m palestinian

[captainlordauditor]

same energy

[princesskuragina]

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

[definitely-not-lordenglish]

[catradoraism]

[thousandfoottallowl]

there’s more

[snenby-with-two-daggers]

[0palite]

[hulking-godless-child-beast]

[augustdementhe]

SIGH

[i-restuff]

[sangononya-kokomeow]

here’s another one

[daeva-agas]

IT GETS WORSE WITH EVERY ADDITION

[elamikaaa]

how does this get even worse

[moontideempress]

I think about once in a while...

[chamomiletea-baggins]

We have another one...

[notemily]

[zenon-karr]

This is the internet now tho 😭💀

[sigridlaufeyson]

@lifeistooshorttowasteyourtime @marril96 @latent-thoughts @suometar

😂😂😂

[latent-thoughts]

Omg so many additions since I last saw this post! 😂😂😂

[rosalysaoirse]

It's funny but incredibly telling how entitled/ignorant/insensitive some of these people are... idk if it's an education gap or purposeful ignorance.

[mastreworld]

The really bewildering thing to me is that I remember when you needed to get up and pull a dictionary off the shelf, or visit a library to look up the facts you needed. Now people have all kinds of information literally at their fingertips and they can’t be bothered to use it.

[wolfpawn]

[malicemismanager]

Oh dear gods, it's gotten worse

[fierceawakening]

When you know politics but no facts

[anarchistmemedistro]

don’t take people too seriously on the internet

[captaindibbzy]

This hits different when combined with that "Americans don't learn other countries exist till they're in 5th Grade" post from the other day.

[dzamie]

Demily recently got another one lads

Also, I love that, in the sign language one, it seems like the last image might've been a gif of "fuck you," screenshot at the perfect time to let you know they were about to sign "fuck you"

[rickhunolt-deactivated20260329]

As a romanian person I gotta add this one too

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This is my favourite post on this website

[asaflowerblossoms]

Port 'o Rico

[mintbecrazy]

I have important addition

(Percentage of American voters able to successful identify Iran on a map)

[siri-ike]

I went through the reblogs (to a point) and spaced the fake countries frome those, too.

Here is the updated map of the world

[siri-ike]

... uhm. Am I going to have to erase all countries that are over 250years old?

Yes, yes I did.

Now someone disprove the oceans so I can delete those too.

[siri-ike]

🎼🎶Guess what Iiiii foouund🎵

Unfortunately, I can't open the Facebook link because I don't have an account, but that just proves that THEY don't want me to know about it!

Behold! The true "earth"

[bedupolker]

i dont have an angel and devil on my shoulder there's just a protestant telling me to work harder and a white buddhist who probably misunderstood buddhism telling me to stop wanting anything

[gorskivijenac]

Portraits of an unmarried Serbian girl from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1904. Topič František, Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

[auressea]

Can anyone accurately name/describe the outer support garment shown here? It's ubiquitous to images across Europe, and often seems depicted on women who are working.

- it is NOT a corset. These seem similarly constructed to some short stays, but are always worn overtop of the shirt or kirtle.

[gorskivijenac]

It’s usually called jelek on the Balkan, it’s a vest. Worn for many reasons - decorative, support for the breasts, showing off wealth if it was decorated with golden thread or made out of rich materials etc. Worn by both men and women. Its material and appearance varied by region, as well to the wearer’s economic background. Those that would be worn every day were less decorated than the festive ones.