explain to me the scientific nature of the whammy

gus/daisy⭐️25⭐️they/she⭐️pnw

[depsidase]

[broken-horn-of-equius]

[circusheart]

No death cab for ugly? Ugly has to walk?

[sailermoon]

james baldwin was so right when he said “the children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

[tilthat]

TIL in 1896 a temporary, one-day city was named in Texas called Crush, where two locomotives were to be smashed head-on for purposes of spectacle. It was, for a few hours, the 2nd largest city in TX with 40k attendees. The collision caused engine boilers to explode, resulting in death and injuries.

via reddit.com

[justthesource]

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush,_Texas

[mangonetics]

you could just do shit back then

[pyomorphic]

texas is still like this

[tyrannosaurus-rex]

[snowriddenwolf]

[femme-fangs]

it's mandatory i fear. sorry i don't make the rules :/

[vintageandroid]

i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂

[anomaloc4ris]

[pillowspace]

Nearly blocked someone for a vaguely annoying reply they made in 2017 then remembered 2017 was 9 years ago. They will live. We can change *opens their blog* nevermind they got worse. Guards

[scissorsaint]

this pussy esoteric (intended for or likely to be understood by only a small, specialized group of people)

[storyweavingspider]

If you like low-budget sci-fi existential horror may I offer: roomba dating ASMR

I am dead serious when I say this instantly became one of my favorite existential horror pieces after my first watch please lodge it in your head like it is in mine.

[storyweavingspider]

Honestly what fucks me up the most I think is the timeskips and the last 30 seconds.

[storyweavingspider]

She has a different AI one that was her first foray into AI-related horror ASMR but tbh I mainly listen to her bc a lot of her other stuff is wacky in a way that doesn’t make me cringe from second-hand embarrassment.

She’s truly just really good at saying shit like “the hell ectoplasm might be invisible okra slime” in a way that makes it feel mostly normal even as you’re processing how unhinged it is. It’s also nice bc she’s one of the few decent ones that rarely forays into the horny asmr world, which is basically never what I want lmfao.

Her other stuff is definitely good, the fucking roomba dating video was just. On another level in a way I was wholly unprepared for.

If I had to recommend some others, I think I’d do,,,

^ Mental illness maxxing

^ truck forcefemme

^ aforementioned okra slime hell ectoplasm

[bobdylanyaoi]

[normalest-lux-ever]

Fun fact for anyone who does this, being a misogynistic man isn't funny just because you're trans or you think the idea of treating trans women like women is inherently funny, how funny do you think she finds your "ironic" misogyny when you punch down on the women that don't have cis privilege over you

[splendidland]

flaming moe's

[6mayhem]

mr. substance abuser has a suggestion for how we should spend the afternoon

[quinnactually]

that's MS. substance abuser to you

[6mayhem]

sorry women sorry sorry sorry you can kick me really hard in the head

[loveridden1999]

when england lose, women bruise

[auramgold]

a lot of people assume psychosis hallucinations are super intense all-consuming horror movie shit like the memes about the hat man or always horrible debilitating things that make you dangerous to be around

but in my experience 95% of my hallucinations are getting spooked by very clearly hearing someone knocking on my door or calling my name from another room or hearing footsteps walking behind me which are "just" my brain recreating the horror of an abusive childhood

i *have* gotten the "bugs crawling all over me" hallucination once or twice though and yeah that one is exactly as terrible horrible as it sounds AUGH

[auramgold]

(not trying to put you on blast specifically, you're just a good example to jump off of)

media and pop culture hypes up psychosis a lot as The Worst That Can Happen out of sanism, so even when you try and filter that cultural bias out you still assume it's based on something

when, no, psychosis is actually very simple: it's just hyperactive pattern matching. it's your brain's signal-to-noise ratio being off balance, it's seeing images in random static. it's not always this special uniquely big thing, it's in fact quite mundane a lot of the time.

no one is immune to psychosis, it's not purely the realm of the insane. anyone is one bad night of sleep or one bad case of food poisoning or one bad fever away from being just like me on my worst days.

and this, indeed, is why solidarity with the insane is so important: you, yes you too, are just one bad day from joining us, and no perceptions of being a "temporarily embarrassed sane person" will save you from the oppression of the psychiatric institution.

[tragediegh]

stay vigilant. there are still people out there who will try to convince you that eating fruit is somehow bad for your body