May the Force be with you

[homunculus-argument]

A horror story about someone who has lived in apartments all their life moving to a secluded little house in the middle of nowhere, who takes quite a long time to notice that something is off - being used to living with and sleeping through the sounds of other people living their lives, it takes a minute to process that the footsteps from above are not normal. There is no upstairs neighbour.

There is no upstairs.

[deviantstormtrooper]

It's the fecking squirrels in the loft that that keep chewing damn holes in the wood around the edges of the roof.

[sorrowsofwerthertheyoung-deacti]

“They’re trying to convince people they can’t do the things they’ve been doing easily for years – to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies – to write that for you.” We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, “that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won’t know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can’t do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won’t have to process grief, because you’ll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it’s going to destroy humans, long before there’s a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people.”

Justine Bateman on AI in this article from The Guardian

[deviantstormtrooper]

I was told by supervisors in placement to use AI to write my assessment essay. I spy a one way trip to academic misconduct if I had followed that advice. It's also really insulting, I am perfectly capable of researching, writing and referencing my own essay.

[deviantstormtrooper]

It really has been ages, that's what studying for a nursing associate degree as an apprentice will do to your free time.

[deviantstormtrooper]

I recently told my mother that if she calls when I am at work or busy and I don’t answer then she is not to call repeatedly and leave multiple messages. If she continues then I will block her numbers. I also told her that she is not allowed to show up unannounced at my house and if she does then she will not be let in. 

This has come about because these things are happening more regularly. Calls at work are distracting and being distracted when looking after patients is not a good thing. When I am at home after work and have a day off, sometimes I want to switch off and rest, listen to music, play games, or watch a film. It is not wrong to want some alone time. She has left me no option, I have tried to tell her that I will tell her when she can call or visit, nope, she just ignored me asking her to wait until I told her when she can call or visit. I had to do this because of her behaviour.

Putting boundaries in place did not go down well, she put the phone down on me and then proceeded to call me multiple times and leave messages calling me a bitch, telling me she is done with me and I am not to visit her ever again, phone her, send her cards etc. She will only let me do these things once I apologise for trying to limit her. She’s playing the victim because “everyone treats her badly and tells her these things”. She cannot handle being told no, or being asked to listen to someone else instead of talking over them. She’s always been a narcissist and possessive and makes everything about her. If everyone always does this then she is the issue, but she cannot see that.

She has a real issue with boundaries and being told she cannot do something. I am not going to apologise, I am not going to be sorry for doing nothing wrong. If she wants to end all contact then that is up to her.

[deviantstormtrooper]

May the fourth be with you. Happy Star Wars day.

[deviantstormtrooper]

I have just finished playing Burning Shores and I am legitimately sobbing. I was not expecting the emotional nature of the end. I loved it for the respect of the feelings that were shown.

[deviantstormtrooper]

I have just heard “Is your brain nothing more than a decoration?” said in a video. I will be using this from now on for the dumb and the stupid people.

[deviantstormtrooper]

So, someone I am friends with has just told me that I am the type of woman he goes for. I don’t know how to respond to this..... HELP.

[padmerrie]

meanwhile:

[deviantstormtrooper]

My favourite people :)

[deviantstormtrooper]

All these idiots bleating nonsense about the alert system on phones in the UK. These type of early warning systems have been in use around the world for decades for floods, missing children and other such things. If they are really that bothered about being tracked and controlled etc then maybe they need to get rid of their phones.

[thvmuse]

Fictional men who have the "it's ok to murder but it's never ok to disrespect your wife" energy >>>>

[bourbonthesecond]

[deviantstormtrooper]

He has such pretty eyes :)

[deviantstormtrooper]

I think someone is being nice to me just because they are a nice person. I don’t think there is a motive other than they just want to help me out. I don’t really know, I tend to be oblivious to when people have other reasons to be nice to me. Friendships and relationships have never been my strong point, I’m a socially awkward weirdo.

[deviantstormtrooper]

The guard that was hit by a sedative is now asleep stood up lol. It is quite impressive.

[deviantstormtrooper]

Brain, what the actual frick? In one night I have had dreams about being back at high school (ew, no), being late for work for whatever weird reason (I’m on annual leave), getting back with my ex (fuck no, not happening), and the world exploding. 

[deviantstormtrooper]

The simple joy of hitting a target with a frying pan :)

[deviantstormtrooper]

The dream from last night was the entire neighbourhood hiding in their houses from a woman with a gun who was killing people. I have to wonder if I have been watching too many documentaries on serial killers and the like in my time off work.

[deviantstormtrooper]

Today is the day for breaking all the rules and seeing what I can get away with.  Me to the guards when I’m doing illegal shit: