chainlink on your lungs

🇵🇸,📚,✍🏽 🖤🩶🤍💜

[betsmusings]

As Pride Month comes to an end, I just want to remind you that July is Disability Pride Month and there's a flag and everything!

Charcoal Grey: Mourning for people who have died due to ableist violence, abuse, suicide, and illness

Red Stripe: Physical disabilities

Gold Stripe: Neurodiversity

Blue Stripe: Emotional and psychiatric disabilities

Green Stripe: Sensory disabilities

White Stripe: Undiagnosed and invisible disabilities

[mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026]

Happy disability pride month to everyone with ptsd, happy disability pride month to everyone with complex ptsd, happy disability pride month to everyone who questions if their problems are big enough to count as a disability, happy disability pride month to anyone who questions if their problems count as a physical or mental disability, happy pride month to everyone who has a disability that causes people to stare, and to those whose disabilities are hidden, happy disability pride month to everyone who deals with any kind of disability physical or mental, you’re all badass and I want you to remember that this month okay

[aaronstveit]

As the sound of the playgrounds faded, the despair set in. Very odd, what happens in a world without children's voices.

CHILDREN OF MEN 2006 — dir. Alfonso Cuarón

[vampirecorleone]

"Can you fly this plane and land it?" | "Surely, you can't be serious." | "I am serious... and don't call me Shirley." Airplane! (1980) dir. Jim Abrahams | David Zucker | Jerry Zucker

[nihillist-blog]

Life of Pi (2012)

[stuckinapril]

[lifeinpoetry]

Was my smile a distortion, or did it leave me exposed?

— Moshtari Hilal, from "HATRED," Ugliness, tr. Elisabeth Lauffer

[guillaume-en-egypte]

Marriage Story dir. Noah Baumbach (2019)

[dragon-in-a-fez]

hey parents: there is literally no non-abusive reason a person would want the ability to read someone’s emails, track their location, and go through their calls and text messages without their knowledge or consent.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I want to address the person who tagged this “what if they’re missing??”

Google Trusted Contacts.

that’s it, that’s the answer.

what this does is allow you to set up a list of people who are able to request your location. when they do so, you have five minutes to either refuse or grant the request. if you don’t respond within five minutes, the request is automatically accepted, in case you’re hurt or otherwise unable to get to your phone. your trusted contacts can also see how recently you used your device.

in other words: if someone genuinely wants to know if you’re okay, they can check the app and see that you’ve used your phone five minutes ago, and that can be the end of it. if they want to be doubly sure, or it says you haven’t used your phone recently, they can request your location. if you want them to know where you are, or you can’t answer, they’ll have your exact location within five minutes. if you don’t want them to know where you are, you click deny, and they still see that you got the request and responded to it, meaning, again, they know you’re okay. this is safety with accountability: you can’t track someone’s location without their consent unless they fail to respond to the notification, and you can’t do it without them knowing about it.

if you want to track a friend or loved one for genuine safety reasons, set this up. it gives you all the access you need if your concern is actually for the other person’s well-being, rather than a desire for control. (it’s not out for iOS yet, but Google says that’s coming soon).

(also: don’t be the jackass that makes a rule that someone has to accept all your location requests because that makes you just as bad as the people who install tracking shit covertly.)

[vashtijoy]

It’s not abusive in any way for a parent to want to know where their underage child is and who they’re talking to, and saying so is a foul misuse of the term “abuse”.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

anyway like I said there is literally no non-abusive reason a person would want the ability to read someone’s emails, track their location, and go through their calls and text messages without their knowledge or consent

[vashtijoy]

I’m glad you live in a world where adults don’t groom kids on the net, or by calling them or sending them text messages.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I live in this world:

a world where parents are an order of magnitude more dangerous to children than “adults grooming them on the internet”, and giving parents unchecked powers of surveillance is for that reason alone more likely to put kids at risk than to keep them safe.

I live in this world:

a world where the psychologically debilitating effects of surveillance are well-established and well-known, yet adults do everything in their power to invade young people’s privacy and then ask dumbass questions like “why are kids so anxious?” and come up with answers like “it’s probably because of selfies”

I live in this world:

a world where invasion of privacy is recognized as an integral part of emotional abuse, but parents still get away with it because “they’re just doing it to keep them safe uwu~”, despite the fact that this is the same line the goddamn NSA gives us and most of us don’t take that sack of lies from them.

tldr, I live in a world where you’re not just wrong, you’re promoting attitudes that are actively harmful and you need to sit down, shut up, and listen when people are trying to educate you about issues of justice and safety.

[probuccalfat]

nobody else doing it like me. particularly because the way i’m doing it is needlessly difficult

[sophsun1]

The Simpsons Movie (2007) dir. David Silverman

[intothestacks]

[stuckinapril]

“Do it scared” “do it alone” are all great tips, but my biggest takeaway from therapy is do it messy. This is especially true if you’re getting out of a burnout, which I experience often. Literally just do it messy. You don’t need to pick the perfect trail to walk, the perfect playlist to listen to, whatever the fuck it is. You don’t need to have a meticulous to do list and wake up at the exact time you planned and drink the exact amount of water you planned to drink. Like the biggest thing for people like me to remember is sometimes it’s okay to do it messy. Put on a random yt workout and just get it done in sweats. Do 5 minutes of a daunting task and go from there. Sometimes just getting up is a win during intense burnouts or depressive funks. Literally just do it messy.

[bongjoonhoe]

THELMA (2024) dir. Josh Margolin

[sioltach]

Anyone notice how it's all a woven tapestry

[rat-rambles]

I've been thinking about how alot of near universal Lesbain and Asexual experiences are the same.

- Wait you didn't pick your crush?

- Messy situationships

- Maybe I have met the right Guy/person yet.

- Ok but like everyone is fakeing it right? No? Oh.

- People saying your lieing about your actual wants and desires.

- People want to 'fix' you.

[monstrous-femme]

as a regular donor to Gaza Soup Kitchen I get their email updates, and they said today that while they've continued to be able to expand, donations are slowing down as Gaza gets less coverage. If you have a few dollars to spare, I encourage you to send them here to continue the amazing work that Hani and his team are doing.