[t4tesmuu]

mental illness does not absolve you of being ableist to other mentally ill/disabled people, by the way. deeply concerning how accepted it is in NPD spaces to talk about hating/looking down on 'useless' and 'incompetent' people or go on to describe people that piss you off that are eerily similar to disabled people. not exaggerating by the way and this is only an excerpt of ONE post

"can't even use an oven because it's scary or whatever" I genuinely read this and immediately thought of my friend with dpd. like 😭??? not to mention the myriad of other reasons people can't do things on their own If you start spewing rhetoric shared by a group of bigots, you're probably a bigot. how do you type this out, write more, think this is a splendid thing to say and click post? Mind you this an anon ask. someone ELSE (npd-confessions) read this and thought it was fine to post with 0 commentary too 😭

[zombblehh]

Shout out to the autistic who’s abilities have regressed as they’ve gotten older.

“You didn’t used to be like this when you were a kid.” I know please don’t remind me

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I love when people whose first languages have grammatical gender use the wrong pronoun in English. "this river is so green because he is fed by glaciers" aw the river is Just A Little Guy. your version of my language is better

[aestheticjunkyard]

Moria Fan by Songsong Chen for Sicky Magazine April 2026

[deadgenerations]

Rich mates, secret mansions: Australia’s millionaire Nazi-backers revealed

Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell is living in a secret multimillion-dollar compound in Melbourne’s far north-east “gifted” to him by one of the wealth

this is a real shocker of a story, and you can tell that it's just the tip of an iceberg. I strongly encourage any Australian to read this article in full, because these people are far more connected to wealth and power than I think anyone believed. This is becoming a serious danger. you can bypass the paywall on removepaywall if you need to. There is a lot of money flowing into the pockets of avowed Nazis seeking to start a race war in Australia.

[dpd-polls]

pwDPD: if you experience DP (depended person) relationship dynamics, roughly how often does your DP change?

My DP has never changed

Rarely, usually many years between DP changes

Every few years

About once a year or so

Multiple times a year

The amount of time between changes varies

Not sure

Nuance

I don't experience DP relationship dynamics or am unsure whether I do

Results/I don't have DPD

Remaining time: 6 days 8 hours

[kropotkindersurprise]

do you have any advice or tips on being less anxious about being seen putting up/taking down political stickers? I've gotten better at it, but I still overthink it so much. for reference I also live in the netherlands

To start with a useless platitude: Like with many things, the more you do it, the less scary it gets.

To make sure there's a minimum of people around to see you you could go stickering around dinnertime in the evening, in the morning before or after rush hour, or late at night.

I used the recent train workers strike to sticker on some normally busy train stations. I know some graffiti crews have done the same to put up pieces in normally busy places along the tracks.

To make putting up stickers quicker I usually already remove the backing, and then hide the sticker in my hand, makes the actual sticking very fast and not very obvious.

Go stickering / removing fascist propaganda with a friend or group of friends. Because you are in the Netherlands you could join up with an antifascist Wandelclub (like this one in Utrecht), their thing is going on walks and chatting and having a nice time while putting up antifascist stickers / removing fascist propaganda.

Anyone else have any tips or useful experience for anon?

[kropotkindersurprise]

today I went stickering around my neighbourhood during rush hour.

A handy thing about rush hour is that it's so busy that noone who might object wants to stop if they even see you stickering, and most people dont want to make a scene when there's lots of others around.

I put up around 40 stickers, and i had 3 people visibly slow down and look to see what I was putting up, one just rode past, one yelled "Good Job!" when he saw i was putting up a Palestinian flag sticker, and another biked past giving me thumbs up for putting up an antifa sticker.

Just walking with purpose, not lingering, not looking like you're doing something secretive, and making sure you dont sticker next'to like a red light where people have time to sit and think, will usually ensure noone bothers you.

of course this is in europe, in texas people will probably fire their revolvers in the air and try to lasso you just for the crime of walking instead of driving in a car.

[kropotkindersurprise]

get yourself een vooraadje stickers here if youre dutch, so you're never again caught without a good sticker to cover up fascist stickers in your area:

Webshop

Stickers Stickers zijn 10 eurocent per stuk plus verzendkosten. Stuur een mail naar [email protected] met je adres en welke stickers je w

Antifa kat (Hier zat een racistische sticker) - De Rode Lap

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[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Like if the field of psychiatry was in any way apolitical and objective the gender/race discrepancies in who gets diagnosed with what definitely wouldn't look like they do

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

It is not a coincidence when the white boy is more likely to get diagnosed with autism or ADHD and the white girl is more likely to get diagnosed with anxiety and BPD and the black kids are more likely to get diagnosed with ODD and schizophrenia and it definitely isn't harmless objective science...

[menheramellow]

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[biglawbear]

I need to start making cooking tips for all the things I've learned.

The first thing is that you have to preheat your oven, and also your pans on the stove. You think "oh I can just throw Thing in the oven and wait for it to come up to heat" that is the devil talking. Whatever you're cooking, you want it to go in the oven and the oven be a consistent temp and start those tasty chemical reactions that cook your food: crisping edges of veg, causing cookies to rise.

You also have to preheat your pan on the stove. Every time. You think "oh the pan is fine I'm gonna put Thing in it now" and then nothing happens so you turn up the heat thinking the stove needs to be hotter because Thing isn't cooking and then all of a sudden it's too hot and you ruined the Thing. Let the pan preheat. For several minutes. To test if your pan is hot, run your hand under the sink and flick a couple drops of water onto the pan. Sizzling? Good your pan is hot. Water just sitting there? It's not preheated.

Can't tell you how many times I've talked to someone who "can't cook" or "the recipe didn't come out right" and when I asked if they preheated the oven or pan the answer was no.

First rule. Preheat the stuff before you put the food in.

[entomologist-of-abraham]

If you have a stainless steel pan, the water should bead and move across the surface before it sizzles and evaporates off. That's how you know your pan is hot and ready to use. If the water just sizzles it's almost there, but you want that beading so you get that nice nonstick reaction.

[biglawbear]

Even I learned something new!! Cuz I never use stainless steel but my partner is trying to convince me to switch from nonstick

[doitninetimes]

I'm a big fan of seasoned cast iron for non-stick-ness (eggs) but my friends have been having extremely good luck with seasoned carbon steel as well, for general cooking, and they're much lighter.

As far as I can tell, all other pfas-free nonstick claims are kinda bogus.

My other Hot Tip is to preheat the dry pan, and then preheat the oil, then start cooking. People who can't get their cast iron to be nonstick are usually not heating each element in sequence and it makes a shocking difference.

[biglawbear]

You're right!! You have to let the oil or fat heat up in the pan too!! You don't just immediately throw Thing in. Thank you for clarifying! Usually this doesn't take too long. It takes me long enough to remember where I put the garlic that the fat has heated up by the time I've found it.

[nocturnaltigerrevelation]

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[pencil-line-deactivated20241029]

method actor this method actor that. toshiro mifune played a guy getting shot at by arrows by getting shot at by arrows

and yeah i believe it. ^ this is the face of a guy getting shot at by arrows

[lysenkoite]

[weaselle]

[abz-j-harding]

i can't cope

[parakeet]

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

[parakeet]

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

[parakeet]

so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...

so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts

posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig

[frostedmagnolias]

Bathing Suit

c. 1954

by Rose Marie Reid of California

McCord Stewart Museum Montreal