WHO KILLED THE WORLD?

my erotic cabaret is nonstop

[closet-keys]

I think at bare minimum all medical professionals need to make sure they are treating patients with more kindness and respect than grifters. if you go to a doctor and they treat you like shit, humiliate you, and send you home without any information on your body or access to treatment, then health-grifters' offers will start to feel more tempting by simply giving the most basic performance of taking you seriously and caring about your well-being. grifters should be condemned for manipulating and exploiting sick people, and doctors also play a role in whether grifts thrive or are successfully identified and rejected. genuine baseline human respect, and beginning a relationship with a patient by earning (rather than demanding) trust, goes a long way.

[cumaeansibyl]

Grifters are basically selling two things:

The assurance that they know exactly what's causing your problems and they can definitely cure it, and

Time, sympathy, respect, and attention.

Honest providers frequently can't do the first, because many problems have unclear or complex causes, and many that do have clear causes can only be managed, not cured. Which means they have to be all the more careful to provide as much of the second as they can. They'll still lose some patients to the con artist or true believer who promises a real cure, but not as many as they will if they're dismissive or contemptuous.

[pawberri]

Disability pride month PSA that schizophrenia and related disorders often starts to present in your mid 20s, so if things have been getting harder, life is less manageable, you feel less and less connected to reality, don't be afraid to get an assessment. It is not life ending, and living as someone with schizophrenia is worthwhile!!! It is a neurodivergence like any other, one that is disabling but doesn't make you less human. Getting early screenings and treatment is shown to give better outcomes for patients!!

Psychosis Screening

A toolkit for primary care providers working with patients who show early signs of a psychotic disorder. This website includes information o

Psychosis Test

The Psychosis Test is for young people (age 12-35) who feel like their brain is playing tricks on them (seeing, hearing or believing things

[cartoonscientist]

person with schizophrenia here adding that I’ve seen so much fear surrounding this diagnosis, people saying it turns your life into a nightmare or a hellscape or removes your personality and turns you into a husk, and I want to say that’s not true and definitely isn’t true if you have good access to medical support. medicated schizophrenics are some of the coolest and most creative people I know who are able to live fulfilling lives outside of the expectations and constrictions of “mainstream society”. the way people with autism and adhd are just kind of known for doing their own thing and finding their own happiness applies to people with schizophrenia too (I also know some people who are completely indistinguishable from a neurotypical person to an outside observer, because it’s a spectrum).

[genderqueerdykes]

chipping in as a schizophrenic in its 30s:

my most alarming symptoms started almost right after i graduated high school (age 18). i instantly started to become more withdrawn and reclusive. i had maybe 2 friends and i struggled to socialize with them and anyone else. i started struggling more with insomnia. i started becoming more and more convinced that other people could read my mind. i would be catatonic for sometimes hours.

for many years in my 20s, i became convinced i was a fallen angel punished by god. i have never been a christian in my life. i'm still not one. i also started believing i was God, that I could control the outcome of things. i had an 8 hour long psychotic episode where i was convinced that a character from a video game was in my house trying to kill me. i was and still am unbearably paranoid.

if i hadn't been diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2017, i would have never known why these things were happening to me, and worse, i may have believed some of my more dangerous delusions. i ended up starting antipsychotic medication and its been a huge game changer for me. not every schizophrenic person needs to be on medication, but it changed my life for the better. i'm definitely glad i'm in care for my schizophrenia now

i can actually sleep. i'm not scared shitless every single day. i'm not convinced there things in my house trying to hurt me. if you're dealing with things like this, it's okay to seek help. you're not alone. psychosis is stigmatized but its a real problem many people deal with. you shouldn't have to suffer in silence. you deserve to know if this is what's going on with you, and where to go from there.

my schizophrenia isn't and wasn't a death sentence. my quality of life has improved significantly what i found out was going on, and how to cope with it and ease my symptoms. it's okay to be schizophrenic. that's just how our brains are mapped. we deserve to live happy lives, we are not "doomed" or "lost causes" or "too crazy". we're people

[tiredoflyme]

I'm diagnosed as scizoaffective. I have benign hallucinations almost everyday. It started when I went away to college at 17 and I had scary episodes of psychosis. I was treated for depression and anxiety but no one addressed my hallucinations/psychosis until my mid-20s. I'm not currently on anti-psychotics but I have been in the past when my symptoms increase, change, or become scary. Medication is a helpful tool to use when needed but I quite like my benign hallucinations and I'd miss them if they were gone.

[dailycatsblog]

[hangsawoman]

therapist: and what do we say when we feel like this?

me: no live organism can continue to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality

therapist: no

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

Stuck in a historical war

You are stuck as a soldier in this historical war

(this is a magical universe where people who wouldn't usually be able to fight would. so you can all suffer.)

How are you doing?

good somehow

I might survive

OW

dead

results/other

Remaining time: 4 days 8 hours

[roycohn]

happy lottery day girlies!

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

do you have a hobby that's expensive as fuck

yes

no

all of them

absolutely 0!!!!

results

Remaining time: 1 hour 1 minute

[dogpuppy]

[christopher575]

I'm from Everett, WA where that submarine was built and I used to see it at the marina. I really thought the company just intended to take tourists around Puget Sound in it, and was absolutely shocked when I heard what happened to that rinkydink little thing.

Here's the moment I came across it the first time.

[gracklesong]

"People wouldn't do THIS to THAT minority group!" They would and they do. All you're doing is revealing your blind spots, and it's not even a great argument to begin with

[tahthetrickster]

just so we’re clear if you’ve never actually seen a cybertruck in person and have only seen photos of them i cannot stress enough how much worse they look in real life. like i honestly don’t know how it’s possible. most things look basically the same in pictures and in real life. but as stupid and ugly as cybertrucks look in photos, every person i’ve spoken to who has seen one in real life agrees that they somehow look even worse in person. and i know you’re thinking to yourself “tah they already look so bad in photos, how can they possibly look even worse in person?” I DONT KNOW. the first time i saw one on the road i was on a phone call and i literally cut myself off in the middle of a sentence just to be like “oh my GOD.” just an incredibly, laughably, unbelievably bad vehicle. i’ve never experienced anything like it. they’re just so bad

[cumaeansibyl]

Like one thing that pictures somehow don't convey is how stupid fucking big they are. The size is absurd. Even next to big ass conventional trucks they look oversized because they're so blocky. There's one I see parked downtown sometimes and it sticks out so far into the road I feel like it ought to have traffic cones around it.

My brother in law is a mechanic and he didn't know about these things until we explained what it was, and he said "oh shit, that's what that thing was? I saw one last week and I thought someone welded it together in their shop." It really does look like someone put a big sheet steel casing on their car.

[elismor]

I thought about just tagging this 'nuff said, but it's not.

I want to say something to all of the women under 50 on this site. Ready? You do not have to be over 50 to start taking up space.

Can I make that blink? Is that a thing Tumblr can do? Because, seriously. The sooner you believe you are allowed to take up space, the better life will be.

[cumaeansibyl]

You can do it whenever you feel ready to. You can go as slowly as you like, too. Sometimes you see a woman who seems to spring fully-formed from the head of Vivienne Westwood and that's a beautiful thing but it's also maybe too much all at once for some people.

And hey, maybe your exterior stays more or less the same and it's your behavior that changes. You speak your mind more. You ask for what you need -- not as a huge favor, but as something you have a right to. You move on from jobs, relationships, hobbies that don't serve you anymore. You do things that are just for you, no one else. In beige, if you want! Sometimes it's more fun if they don't see you coming.

[effemimaniac]

we are in the midst of a friday ass thursday. keep your wits about you.

[ganondorf]

i think this captures the defining pathology of the collective social media psyche right now. we are in the thrall of people who are wantonly cruel but who also demand to be coddled at all times in every way

[cumaeansibyl]

think a lot of these are the type who tell themselves all human beings are horrible assholes and the only way to get ahead is to be the king asshole. it really upsets them when people aren't inclined to crown them as such. upends their whole worldview.

[lizardsfromspace]

Hollywood execs responding to the success of Backrooms by trying to adapt more stories from Reddit, a website that the Backrooms did not come from, is p. good but my fav example of Hollywood leaping on a trend in the dumbest way possible is still when they responded to the success of Tim Burton's Batman by making a wave of movies based on 1930s pulp heroes. Dudes sitting around a boardroom telling one another that the children crave The Phantom

[chimaerakitten]

A thing I see happen a lot when we get into discussions of natural fibers vs synthetics on this hellsite and elsewhere is a conflation of when the topic is about Fiber Properties and when the topic is about Environmental Impact.

Like more than once I’ve seen posts be like, “you should buy one $200 Real Wool Sweater instead of 4 $50 acrylic ones, trust me it’s worth it.”

And what the post means is, the wool sweater will feel nicer to wear, keep you warmer, and last longer than the 4 $50 ones combined.

(vimes boots theory obligatory mention)

And then someone comes on and replies, “yes this is probably a good idea but we must remember that industrially produced wool yarn has complex chemical treatment in the process, so the wool sweater is still not perfect environmentally speaking.“

And it’s like. That’s not factually wrong. But it has no bearing on what OP was saying because even without it being outright spelled out it’s pretty obvious OP was recommending real wool for properties, not impact. This is also where I’ve seen several different posts about rayon go off the rails, for obvious reasons.

Anyway it’s a good thing to keep in mind when fiber posts go past. Most of the best reasons to wear linen/wool/silk instead of synthetic fibers have more to do with post-production interaction with the world and with your body than with environmental impact during production.

[parakeet]

just found out about this cute little birdy and i am in love

[crowcryptid]

[awheckery]

from the above-linked ebird.org:

Anis are bizarre, coal-black cuckoos with long floppy tails and unique, curiously tall, flattened bills. Groove-billed occurs in a variety of open and semi-open habitats in tropical lowlands and foothills, typically staying low in shrubs and grasses. Gregarious and not particularly graceful; usually seen crashing around awkwardly in small groups.

oh my god

[roach-works]

groove billed anis are a hilarious cuckoo situation where they ended up laying their eggs in one another’s nests instead of anyone else’s. they hang out together in groups of up to five pairs until a nest gets built (sometimes by committee, sometimes they just hang around hopefully until someone does it all on their own) then they start sneaking over and laying an egg in at a time. the females who lay for the first time will sometimes flip prior eggs out of the nest like ‘oh i KNOW this one isn’t mine! away it goes’ but eventually everyone’s laid a couple eggs in there and is stuck with the mutual hostage situation. then they take turns incubating until all the kids hatch and everyone pitches in on feeding them, because no one knows which of the kids are theirs so they all might as well.

they also like to do a team handshake where they clump up and mutually make a low bubbling noise together, to signal group affiliation. go team!

[keeskiwi]

Also their eggs are incredibly beautiful. They’re a very pretty blue color, but covered by a white chalky outer layer that is easily scratched off, so they end up in various stages of in-between.

(Photo © Henrique_Anizio, shared under CC BY-NC).