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boyburning

Intrusive Thoughts are unwanted thoughts or images that you find distressing and/or disturbing.

more information on what intrusive thoughts are!

what intrusive thoughts are: https://moodsmith.com/intrusive-thoughts/

how to cope with them: https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/how-to/how-to-stop-intrusive-thoughts-and-live-your-life/

zeud

!!!!!

foolsdome

I- so i’m not just fucking insane and evil?

a-god-for-pigs-deactivated20260

I feel like a lot of peoples getting offended by this doesnt realize that none of those are actions we want to do. My ADD absolutely fills my head with extremely upsetting intrusive toughts almost 24/7. The very fact that they disgust me and upset me is what makes it an intrusive tought. Its not something you want to act upon, its your brain assaulting you non stop with everything that you hate and despise.

da-riya

This idea that intrusive thoughts are someone’s “true id” talking is particularly harmful to us experiencing these thoughts themselves.

If y'all haven’t yet heard it before you heard it here now, these thought are everything we hate and despise, and nothing else.

sportsnarrative

Help those in Moria

You’ve probably heard about the fire in the Moria Refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece, but in case the story passed you by, here’s a breakdown:

Moria is one of the biggest refugee camps in europe.

A fire started on September 9th. Refugees tried to seek shelter in the nearby town of Mitilini, but were blocked by local police under the guise of concerns over COVID-19 spread, as there had been several confirmed cases within the camp.

Currently there are around 13000 individuals who have been left homeless, majority Syrian or Afghan.

heres a carrd with more information both on the fire, the migrant crisis itself, and donation links.

Please reblog and spread this to help those in need, donate if you can, and may I ask that blame not be passed around at the moment, as helping these people comes first and foremost. We can figure out where the mistakes were made when there aren’t thousands of lives at risk.

pixelburied

Now that the Terror Bill has been signed into law and will take effect in 15 days, a little reminder for my PH mutuals:

Set your social media to private

Do a clean up of your public posts

Block everyone of your friends who have voiced pro-government sentiments. You don’t know who will sell you out.

Do a check of your facebook groups. If you’re part of anti-admin groups, make sure it’s legit and not a fake group used to redtag.

Increase your email security

Stop signing petitions vs terror bill on change.org as this is what they’re using to redtag (remember the influx of fake accounts? Yeah)

Instead, send emails to your representatives using a vpn

Have your lawyer’s number on standby

Be aware of your rights (i will post a refresher here later on)

Look out for your friends and family

postcitywave-deactivated2020070

as a hker, I'd say, switch to protonmail, download signal (for personal msg) and telegram (for channels/large group chats), replace google with ducducgo, always use a vpn but switch to tor if its extra sensitive (or u can use both)

clownboybeebop

for anyone seeing this later: the original post was made on july 3rd, 2020. 15 days from now will be july 18th, 2020.

graysbot

Made a knock-off jojo trailer for a friend, and also for my animation class final. it’s also kinda my first ever serious solo animation project youtube link (with sources and refs in the desc) twitter / instagram litterally pls share this bc my hands are burning

kendallroy-deactivated20210425

idk who needs to hear this but when your english teacher asks you to explain why an author chose to use a specific metaphor or literary device, it’s not because you won’t be able to function in real-world society without the essential knowledge of gatsby’s green light or whatever, it’s because that process develops your abilities to parse a text for meaning and fill in gaps in information by yourself, and if you’re wondering what happens when you DON’T develop an adult level of reading comprehension, look no further than the dizzying array of examples right here on tumblr dot com

dankmemeuniversity

regularlesbian

fun fact: any policy on drugs that isn’t harm reduction is going to cause addicts to suffer and die

uncanney

fun fact: Drug addiction is a public health issue, and approaching it as if it were a law enforcement issue is prejudicial to addicts and will result in their suffering and death

jumpingjacktrash

if you just assume addiction is a method of self-medicating, you’ll pretty much never be wrong.

now, not everything people self-medicate for actually has a proper treatment. i’m pretty sure the reason my uncle made sure to be slightly drunk at all times ‘to round the sharp corners off of things’ was sensory processing disorder. i have that too, and i just kind of accept that i’m going to randomly get my brain sandpapered from time to time. there is no medication for that. all you can do is dull your senses. i’ve chosen not to, but i can’t blame him for his decisions. when a ringing phone feels like getting hit upside the head with a frying pan, liver damage sounds like a fair price to pay.

anyway, it seems really self-evident to me that people don’t enjoy living the life of an addict, they do it because the alternative looks worse. people don’t get addicted to substances just for funsies. they start making a habit of taking something because of insomnia, or grief, or headaches, or depression, or seething undirected rage and terror they can’t put a name to – something that they can’t ignore or shrug off. and for whatever reason – lack of access, lack of knowlege, lack of money, or it just plain doesn’t exist – they aren’t able to apply the Approved Correct Remedy. they use what they can get.

addicts aren’t some weird otherfolk who inexplicably just Do Drugs because they’re Bad. addicts are you with a problem you can’t solve.

mikkeneko

these facts aren’t fun but they are pretty important

nandalorian

I can promise you that however bad you think drug addicts and/or alcoholics are making society, their experience of it is still worse. It’s the responsibility of policymakers to find solutions and treatment options that address the issue in such a way that views and respects addicts as members of society who need help and support, not external evil forces who need to be eradicated in order for society to function “properly.”

anonymouslyangsty

Just a heads up

You know those “donate by watching” videos going around for BLM? I’ve made a list of all of em I could find. 8 of the 28 I found have been removed from youtube. This happened around the same time I believe, as they were all there mere hours ago.

autumngracy

Basically YouTube is marking these videos as spam and removing them because people are looping them continuously and not playing any other videos in between them which gets the user’s account flagged for possible bot activity, and when it happens en masse YouTube’s algorithms determine the video in question muat be a marketing scam using bots to generate revenue off the ads …

You have to play 3-5 different videos between these fundraiser ones if you’re going to keep replaying them because otherwise they will keep getting flagged and removed!

niggazinmoscow

THIS RIGHT HERE

afronerdism

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

molothoo

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world

Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)

Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.

The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system

scretladyspider

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated

dantalaois

odinsblog

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.

hierophantgreen-deactivated2021

i’m not quite sure that everyone understands the severity of antifa being designated as a terrorist organization.

antifa is not an organization. it does not have structure, members, leaders, meetups, rules, etc. it is literally just shorthand for antifascist. that’s all it fucking is. the only designation for “being antifa” is considering yourself antifascist.

if antifa is labeled as a terrorist organization, calling yourself antifascist gives the government legal grounds to arrest you for terrorism.

if donald trump isn’t bluffing about this, it will give the government the legal right to arrest people who are vocally antifascist for suspected domestic terrorism. antifascist peaceful protests will no longer have the legal right to exist.

antifa is a ideology, not a group. if it gets legally classified as a terrorist organization, the government has the jurisdiction to arrest anyone they deem to be a part of it.

this isn’t fearmongering. this is what being classified as a terrorist means. and it is beyond dangerous.