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[maxknightley]

"it would be so good if it was good" will haunt you but "it's extremely good, except for the one or two parts which are so bad it's genuinely kind of insulting" will straight up drive you insane

[maxknightley]

one has you making posts like "okay but if the author UNDERSTOOD the POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS of the story they were telling, and leaned into it, it would actually be a really interesting exploration of..."

the other has you pacing your bedroom at one in the morning going "why. why would you ever in a million years do it like that. genuinely what possible thought process was involved. was the writer possessed by a fucking ghost or something."

[evilkaito]

i dont think whites understand how being white makes literally everything easier.

it effects everything.

being trans is easier when youre white.

being gay is easier when youre white.

being disabled is easier when youre white.

being a woman is easier when youre white.

being autistic is easier when youre white.

oppression is eased when you are white, as you get extra privileges, and your whiteness is seen as a positive characteristic that in some ways counter-balances your other forms of being a minority. whiteness controls everything.

you are automatically way more innocent in your own oppression as a gay, trans, disabled person because of your whiteness.

never forget this.

[raccoon-piss]

three things:

1. it’s true

2. white people get pissed when i bring this up/wear this shirt

3. the comments to this thread melted my fucking eyeballs seriously why the fuck are y’all like this

[lady-hibiscus]

white people you don’t need to say you’re white when you reblog this btw. you don’t even need to mention it btw

[weaselle]

worse clinical outcomes after surgery too.

And i think white people need to understand a couple of things about that.

One: nobody is saying white people never have bad clinical outcomes after surgery.

and Two: this is not because of a bunch of cartoonishly evil racist surgeons, twirling their mustaches and sabotaging surgeries on black patients.

For sure there are plenty of racist doctors out there, but it’s more like…

let’s start with, oh, racial minorities in the US have been the victim of racist real estate laws, not all of which have been overturned to this day, but certainly existed in larger numbers just three or so generations back when real estate agents were telling black people there were no properties for sale in “nice white towns” because they didn’t want to drive the property values down by moving black families onto the block.

“oh, yeah, Napa DOES sound nice, but there’s just no properties for sale there currently, aww. But let me show you some very promising houses just 20 minutes down the highway in Vallejo!” You know, where the property values are already pretty low.

but property taxes are what pay for local schools, so all those cheaper houses also means a worse education. And after graduation, employment with a company that pays white people more money to do the same job (a wage gap that still very much exists)

and if you take someone with less access to generational wealth and a lower income in a city that can afford less for public infrastructure like schools and hospitals

well that means they have less access to high quality health care and less ability to take time to heal after the surgery before going back to work, and don’t forget higher stress levels in general…

and THOSE are the kind of things that mean worse clinical outcomes after surgery. No matter how racist the surgeon is or isn’t.

This is the kind of thing effecting ALL PARTS of LIFE and SOCIETY and it’s not because you, the individual white person being told something about this situation, is an evil racist.

But you do benefit from it. For instance, on average, you’ll have, y'know, a better clinical outcome if you ever need surgery.

and most importantly, white people need to know that this can only really be changed when enough white people acknowledge the existence of this racist reality, and participate in changing it

[sashayed]

but ykw at least i'm not on mount everest. at least i'm not paying tens of thousands of dollars to slowly suffocate in a 300-person line at the gates of hell. never in my life will i have to be steered in a hypoxic stupor through the maze of poop and corpses atop mount everest. on this earth a lot of horrible things can happen to you without your permission but there are a few that you have to opt into. you can just say no thanks! and be guaranteed never to have to be on mount everest. much to be grateful for actually

[greelin]

being alive is great because there are so many different vegetables you can sauté. but then there are also the horrors

[yves-and-scessernee]

with faith and perseverance, one day we will sauté the horrors

[so-much-to-read-deactivated2025]

[half-giant-fighter]

[pinkcadillaccas]

Im listening to a podcast ep about AI usage and the guest is saying he completely understands why people refuse to use it out of fear because he shares the same fears, and it's just so weird to me that it's never ever acknowledged that some people don't use it not because they're afraid but because it just holds no appeal. There are things I'm sure learning models are very useful for but none of them have anything to do with me. Yes I'm a bit of a ludite but I completely failed to resist the lure of the phone, or social media, I've never used chatgpt because I have just never wanted to. I feel like the entire debate is instantly reframed once you acknowledge that it's not a necessary service that people either work to resist or avoid out of fear. For most people it's just an online tool, and for me and I know for lots of others too it's just not that important.

It's not that interesting or useful to me, it's holds no appeal, I am resisting nothing. I could already do everything I wanted I don't need a new tool. It really is that simple and I would feel this way even if it wasn't worrying and evil in various ways. We HAVE to resist this narrative that AI is everywhere because people want it, because it's necessary, because it's an improvement, because people can't live without it. AI is everywhere because tech CEOs and investors want to make something from their massive investments. It is incredibly resistable to me. Just don't have an interest in it. This needs to be part of the AI conversation if we have any hope of saving ourselves from the data mining clutches of big tech (AI specifics aside)

[octavio-world]

reblog to survive

[bananonbinary]

one of the hardest things to learn as a depressed former Gifted Kid™ is that half-assed is better than nothing. take the 50%, 40%, even 20% job. scrubbing your face is better than not taking a shower at all. picking up your clothes is better than never cleaning. nibbling on some bread is better than starving.

DO THINGS HALFWAY. NOW YOU’RE 100% BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE BEFORE.

[redheadhatchet]

One of my college professors used to say “anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.”  I didn’t understand that for years because I didn’t do anything poorly, I couldn’t do anything poorly, I had to Do Everything Perfectly.

But brushing your teeth for 30 seconds is better than not brushing them at all when that 2 minutes seems exhausting.  Doing ten minutes of yoga is better than 10 minutes of sitting when 30 minutes of cardio sounds impossible.  Changing my clothes is good when a whole shower is impossible.  Standing on the porch for a few minutes is worth it after being in the house for three straight days because I don’t have the energy to go anywhere.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly… because doing it poorly is better than not doing it.

[resetium]

someone please hit me over the head with this post every day for like the next week thanks. a mention, a reblog with text, a message, something.

[depsidase]

[1121-redblack-chrome]

heh

[iravaid]

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On conservation and survival

[disgruntledexplainer]

sometimes when I think back on the Deltora Quest series I am struck by how mind-bogglingly PETTY the shadow lord is. He has basically infinite magical power and is immortal, and he spends his life

-infesting the city of Hira with giant rats and traumatising it's people so much they leave, build a new city, and form an entire RELIGION around avoiding rats, all because the city was the site of his first military defeat

-turning Withick Mire into a garbage dump to spite the artist and author Withick, despite the fact that Withick was long dead

-making Doran Dragonfriend immortal and trapping him on an island as the "guardian" of an object he was trying to destroy, fully conscious of his fate but unable to do anything about it and constantly in pain

-nearly exterminating the Jalis people completely, and keeping the dozen or so remaining tribesman as slave gladiators, because they were the only tribe to resist his second invasion with arms.

-nearly exterminating the dragons because an emerald one once breathed on him

-creating magical devices that slowly kill the crops of deltora so that even if the people throw of his chains they will still starve to death, and making it so that if the devices are destroyed it triggers a "grey goo" event that will wipe out ALL life in Deltora, starting with the cities of Hira and Noradz.

-deliberately starving the people of Del by cutting off their contact with the outside lands and branding all the fruit orchards and farms with his brand so that anyone who enters them will be executed

-enslaving the winners of the Rithmere Games and spreading the rumor that they abandoned their people the moment that they got the prize money so that all their friends and family will hate their memory

-weaving a magical illusion over the sun and moon in the shadowlands so that it looks like they are covered by his brand, so that none of his slaves can even look at the sky without seeing his mark

-turning his own homeland into a blasted heath devoid of most life except flesh-eating snails and forcing them to harvest mutagenic (and probably carcinogenic) clay or face death, all because they rejected him as king over a thousand years ago

-trying to send millions of giant flesh-eating bats to deltora to eat everyone alive for having the gall to resist his rule

he is the king of all haters, truly a miserable old cloud of soot and spite.

[goldensunset]

idk who needs to hear this but if you have been putting something off bc it doesn't need to be done until the end of the month. we are almost done with the teens we are approaching the big numbers (the twenties). that date shall dawn upon you swiftly and without mercy before you know it. psa for everyone except me i got plany off time

[dykeselfcest]

it is unfortunate that there's no reason for most people to remember high school chemistry because the best analogy I have found for "the amount of energy that it takes me to initiate a task, which can be higher than the amount of energy it takes to actually complete the task" is "activation energy" and it's not precisely perfect but

yeah. and you can even include "thing that reduces the barrier to doing the task" as a catalyst/enzyme

anyway. unfortunately this does not actually clarify anything for the average person. but #ToMe it works

[c-53]

Its actually insane how ciprofloxacin is a trade standard for coral care. Bro. Bro the treatment resistant bacteria…. Bro why are you as a fish store proudly advertising keeping low and constant doses of cipro in all livestock tanks. You are going to kill actual literal people

[c-53]

What do you mean amoxycillin is a good alternative you people make me feel sick

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.

[omegaversereloaded]

[fandom-trash-goblin]

we've got a life to love living.

[teaboot]

advice that has literally saved and improved my life