[oscarwildeboytoy-deactivated201]

Hey, unpopular opinion, apparently. But people don’t just “have pain for no reason” doctors say this all the time (especially to women and chronically ill people) and the truth is, Thats literally not possible. Even if your pains are psychosomatic (a word I hesitate to even use because of the way its used so often) there is a reason you are having those pains whether its mental illness, abuse, etc. If your doctor consistently tells you that “well some people just have pain for no reason” get a new doctor. That’s a doctor who is not going to give a shit what your actual symptoms or experiences are.

[kamorth]

I just wanna add to clarify the psychosomatic thing.

That word DOES NOT MEAN you’re making it up. It doesn’t mean you’re imagining the symptom. What it means is that the symptom ISN’T DIRECTLY CAUSED BY ANY OF THE THINGS THAT WOULD NORMALLY CAUSE IT.

I fought to get a PCOS diagnosis for 2 and a half years. For the ENTIRE time I was fighting, I was dealing with 3 cysts that were not going away by themselves and eventually required surgery to remove. At one point close to the end of the battle, I suddenly went blind. I was visiting my parents and was standing on the veranda looking out over the tree we had planted in memory of my dog and suddenly I got one of the shooting pains that I was quite frankly used to at that point and my vision started to go dark. It was like the sun was setting while being completely hidden behind storm clouds but it was 2pm in the middle of Summer on a clear day. Within about 30 seconds I couldn’t see ANYTHING. I was 27 years old and I was screaming for my mother.

My mum raced me to her doctor (he was a 15 minute drive away as opposed to 45 minutes to the nearest hospital) and he quickly worked out that there was nothing wrong with my eyes and what had happened was totally unrelated to them. Then he said it was psychosomatic and I freaked out, yelling that I was NOT making this up and I definitely wasn’t imagining it. Very quickly he calmed me down and said he believed me and I had misunderstood. He explained that whatever was going on with my abdominal pains (he suggested PCOS which I hadn’t even heard of at that point) had been ignored for so long that my body was starting to do things other than the normal pain response to try to draw my attention to the problem. My sight going was my body basically jumping around in front of me going “HEY ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME HELLLOOOOOOO??????”

He gave me some prescription strength painkillers and my sight started to come back as soon as they started to kick in. About 45 minutes after it started I could see well enough to walk around without help and within a day and a half I was back to normal. On top of that I finally had a scan booked to figure out what the hell was causing all the pain.

Psychosomatic symptoms are NOT imagined or fabricated or happening for “no reason”. Experiencing them DOES NOT make you a liar. It makes you someone who has been battling with something serious for so long that your own body has started to get impatient with you.

[oscarwildeboytoy-deactivated201]

I completely agree. Thank you for sharing this.

[antique-scarecrow]

Psychosomatic symptoms are literally your body flipping random alarm switches just to get any alarm blaring because you’ve been ignoring the regular ones

[ch0c0-f4n]

Reject tradition (feeding capitalist companies), embrace modernity (supporting indie studios)

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

To me in 2016: if youre still on this website, fuck you but i understand

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

girl youre not gonna believe this

[ralfmaximus]

Whistleblower on Reddit rage-blogs about how the food delivery company he worked for as a developer is ripping customers AND drivers off.

Main post screenshotted here in case it gets yanked; the whole thread is worth a read.

Posted January 2026.

[unconventiononthelawofthesea]

coworker today was talking about how she tries to drive less to reduce her carbon footprint, so instead of ordering takeout she orders delivery. when I pointed out that this actually results in the exact same amount of emissions because the same amount of driving happens she said "yeah but it's not me driving." and I feel like any critique of progressive individualism I could make based on this would fall flat because like. what else is there to say? she summed up the flaws of individualist environmentalism better than most critics could, without intending to.

[itsreallystupid]

its arguably worse because the options are

a) pick it up on your way home as part of the route you were already driving

b) drive to the restaurant and back

c) make someone else drive to the restaurant, then to your house, and presumably back to their original location

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

I do not want the ai overview. I want to read six wikipedia pages as god intended.

[crippled-peeper]

nothing more satisfying than hand signaling to a driver that their headlights are off and having them immediately turn them on and sometimes smile at you or give you a thumbs up. I love when everybody gets home safe

[svinto]

i’m going to start calling american music a-pop. for no reason

[cordy-muses]

[inkskinned]

when i was younger and stupid and in the (glass) closet i was dating the son of a pharmacologist. this man had made millions developing medications. he was fond of me and privately told me i was too funny and smart to be dating boys.

he also said that it was incredibly unlikely that sexism will ever be resolved in the medical field. that the majority of medications i will ever take - even some of which are "for women" - will not be clinically tested on my body.

the problem, he said, was in getting any human clinical trial approved. to test on a body with a uterus - any body, even elderly patients or those who have been sterilized - was often nigh-impossible, because the concern was that the test patient may, at any point, become pregnant. once/if the patient became pregnant, the study would not be about "the effects of New Medication on the body." instead, the trial would fail - the results would be "the effects of New Medication on a developing fetus/pregnant patient."

it was massively easier, he said, to just test without accounting for a uterus. that's how he phrased it - accounting for a uterus.

at the time, i remember him talking about the ethical implications of testing on a developing fetus; how such testing could theoretically bankrupt a company if a lawsuit was filed. he talked about informed consent and about how long it took for any legislation to be passed about this - that in 1993; the year i was born, it finally became illegal to outright exclude women and minorities from clinical trials.

i remember him shrugging. "that's not to say it doesn't happen," he said. my ears were ringing.

i was thinking about how every time i have been rushed to the ER, the first thing they have asked me is if i am pregnant. when i broke my wrist at 16 years old - despite never having had sex - they made me wait three hours for the test to come back negative before they gave me pain meds. the possibility of a child haunts my health.

how many people have died on the table because they were waiting for the pregnancy test before treatment. how many people have died on the table because they were pregnant, and the only thing we care about is the fetus.

it is hard to explain to other people, but it feels like some kind of strange ghost. our entire lives, we are supposed to "save" our bodies for our future partners. but really we are just saving the body for the future child, aren't we? that hovering future-almost that cartwheels around in a miasma. you can't get your tubes tied, what if you change your mind? think of the child you must have, eventually.

who cares about you and your actual safety. think about what you could be carrying.

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

god there must have been so many dogshit ancient greek philosophers that no one ever bothered to record

i need to know what Fuckassretes had to say

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

i know socrates was one of the greats and all, but i’ll never feel that unless i know what the average greek philosopher was like. in what ways were his contemporaries mediocre that made him exceptional?

if anyone knows anything about classics please tell me all you know

[shencomix]

[charlesoberonn]

Shen takes the role the buff "LIFE" guy used to take in his old comics.

[the-big-mood]

When you’re so good at your job that you accidentally become everyone’s source of happiness. [X]

[appendingfic]

that polar bear is trying to EAT PEOPLE and no one is concerned

[the-haiku-bot]

that polar bear is

trying to EAT PEOPLE and

no one is concerned

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[throwitinthelake]

Not that anyone asked but incase anyone was wondering how the suit worked im gonna explain it!

So the coca-cola polar bear costumes have been constructed as walk around costumes by the Jim Henson Creature Shop since 1993! This is what part of the inside looks like where you can see the wires that connect to the moniter and camera inside the suit so that the preformer can see whats in front of them.

You can also see the harness that supports the majority of the suit, especially the head of the suit, which is what we're most interested in.

Because the suit is made by the Henson Creature Shop, you can look up a simplified description of how the suit works and that its suitable for left handed and right handed people, but this doesnt really tell us much unless you're familiar with how the Henson Company tends to make walk around suits, and i think the best way to illustrate it is with Jim Hensons own drawing of Big Bird! One of the most famous walk around suits ever!

So one hand goes up and controls the head while the other controls the arm! This is also why when you see people preforming in walk around suits, you usually only see them gesturing with one arm at a time. The rig for the bears head attaching it to the harness is sturdy enough in this case that the preformer can even switch hands inside the suit if they need to!

The hand inside the head controls which way the bear is facing and how the head gestures, the thumb controls the jaw, and theres a spring/string mechanism attached to the fingers that controls the eyelids! The arms are simple mascot sleeves with supportive foam to keep arm changes from being noticed and also to shape up the arms and keep them from deforming during a preformance.

TLDR: one arm in bear face, one arm in bear arm.

[labelleizzy]

Today i learned!

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

Have you seen Lazer Team (2015)?

Yes

No

Haven’t even heard of this movie

Voting ended onDec 12, 2025

[homunculus-argument]

For some reason I once ended up browsing a support forum for adult survivors of shitty homeschooling, and there was one thread made by a woman who was on the verge about whether she wants to homeschool her kids or if she should send them to public school, and could not make up her mind no matter how hard she thought of it. Someone on the forum suggested to her that how about she'd try interviewing three happy, thriving, mentally and socially well-adjusted adults who were homeschooled as children, and then ask herself if she can provide that same experience to her children.

The mom-to-be then asked the suggester where to find some.

And the suggester answered roughly "the fuck if I know, I've never met one in my life either."

[briarpatch-kids]

Hey! You're probably not "embarassed" to use that disability aid in public, what you're likely feeling is VULNERABLE.

You're doing something that breaks social norms, unfortunately draws attention, and also identifies you as an oppressed class all in one package and more than likely, you don't get much choice on the matter. Of COURSE you're gonna feel vulnerable. Shit.

[sexchangedotcom]

the internet is a place for reading wikipedia articles and watching every movie for free. social media is an invasive species. never forget this

[destiel-news-channel]

making a 'omfg it cant be fucking 2026 in 55 days' post so that people can drag it and my attached corpse to the surface in ten years and parade it around their dash

[destiel-news-channel]

is it 2026 already guys?!???

[destiel-news-channel]

2036 I MEAN 2036

[destiel-news-channel]

STOP REBLOGGING THIS POST I EXPLICITELY MADE IT FOR 2035/36, PUT IT IN THE QUEUE FOR ALL I CARE BUT STOP REMINDING ME 2026 IS ONLY 55 DAYS AWAY

[destiel-news-channel]

why