be careful you don't hurt yourself

All I want from life is a library the size of a castle

[ghostly-smoke]

This website still makes me so fucking angry. The intolerance and rudeness just makes my goddamn blood boil until I want to scream.

[titleleaf]

Dipshitty PSA: people need to lay off raising the specter of “getting a lobotomy” as a byword for ~barbaric!~, archaic Victorian-era psychiatry. The prefrontal lobotomy was a phenomenon of the mid-20th century, of the 1940s and 1950s. It was still being legislated against in the 1970s. As a procedure it’s younger than my grandma – it’s not some murky holdover from the era of the Generic Gothic Horror Asylum. Somebody won the Nobel Prize for it in 1949. Every time you mention someone administering or receiving a lobotomy in a piece of fiction set in ~1885 (not some other kind of experimental psychosurgery, specifically an icepick lobotomy) as a reader I’m jolted like fuck. To characterize every inhumane and/or unfamiliar medical procedure as if that procedure took place uniformly over all history until some unspecified point where we reached Modernity, Yay™ is to ignore what allowed such massively unethical procedures to become so normalized and frequently performed in the first place, on top of just ignoring the basic facts of when and where such-and-such certain thing was commonly performed/how similar procedures are performed now and why. Relegating anything that seems scary or bad or rampantly unethical to some kind of generic Old-Timey Past might be more comfortable but it’s dishonest. It’s a disservice to mentally ill and disabled people, and it papers over some of the most enduring issues in how we conceptualize the purpose of medicine. 

[ghostly-smoke]

Rosemary Kennedy (JFK’s sister) had her life destroyed when her family forced a lobotomy on her

[carlottagiudicellivevo]

It was specifically her father, and he didn’t tell the rest of her family until after it had not only happened but gone terribly wrong. Like. That part is really important to respecting her story, to say nothing of the implicit threat it represented toward her siblings as well, that if they similarly “failed” at gratifying their father’s ambitions they could probably be “made to go away” too.

[ghostly-smoke]

Well, I respect your response and appreciate the correction, but your tone was incredibly rude and 100% uncalled for.

[lovecrafts-iranon]

Growing up, I was told from many sources (books, tv, parents, teachers, inspirational quotes) that you should never half ass anything. That in everything you do, you should give your all. Honestly, that’s a recipe for misery and burnout. You need to half ass most things so you have enough ass left to give your whole ass to the things you care about. Or at least I do.

[the-real-seebs]

Executive function is absolutely a thing. But there’s a lot of things that are Done Better if you do them carefully, and doing them badly ends up being a spoon drain. The trick is learning to figure out which ones…

[jumpingjacktrash]

also asking yourself occasionally, “does this deserve my whole ass?” because quite often the task deserves about 28% of the left cheek

[titleleaf]

Dipshitty PSA: people need to lay off raising the specter of “getting a lobotomy” as a byword for ~barbaric!~, archaic Victorian-era psychiatry. The prefrontal lobotomy was a phenomenon of the mid-20th century, of the 1940s and 1950s. It was still being legislated against in the 1970s. As a procedure it’s younger than my grandma – it’s not some murky holdover from the era of the Generic Gothic Horror Asylum. Somebody won the Nobel Prize for it in 1949. Every time you mention someone administering or receiving a lobotomy in a piece of fiction set in ~1885 (not some other kind of experimental psychosurgery, specifically an icepick lobotomy) as a reader I’m jolted like fuck. To characterize every inhumane and/or unfamiliar medical procedure as if that procedure took place uniformly over all history until some unspecified point where we reached Modernity, Yay™ is to ignore what allowed such massively unethical procedures to become so normalized and frequently performed in the first place, on top of just ignoring the basic facts of when and where such-and-such certain thing was commonly performed/how similar procedures are performed now and why. Relegating anything that seems scary or bad or rampantly unethical to some kind of generic Old-Timey Past might be more comfortable but it’s dishonest. It’s a disservice to mentally ill and disabled people, and it papers over some of the most enduring issues in how we conceptualize the purpose of medicine. 

[ghostly-smoke]

Rosemary Kennedy (JFK’s sister) had her life destroyed when her family forced a lobotomy on her

[old-estonoes1]

[tunajorts]

i am sincerely sorry to all bi women, but especially bi latina women, that your only form of concrete representation in mainstream media is in cop propaganda

[protectorandkingof-chilladelphia]

Did you just call brooklyn nine nine, a show that features a black main character who gets stopped by the police for no reason, cop propoganda?

[donnasweettttttttt]

yeah they sure did!

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

on the one hand I’m glad that Brooklyn 99 is now popular enough to get bullshit “Discourse” directed at it but on the other hand…

…fuck off! Brooklyn 99′s message isn’t “Hey cops aren’t so bad!” Brooklyn 99′s message is “Cops aren’t like this, but they should be.”

[1nkblots-deactivated20200926]

They even, in the same episode as the one mentioned above, explicitly state that the 99 precinct is uniquely good in comparison to other precincts specifically because the black gay man who’s in charge, and has been discriminated against literally since he set foot in the precinct for the first time, made it that way. And that his entire career goal is to continue rising through the ranks not for his own gain but so that he can change police culture for the better.

[ghostly-smoke]

If you think B99 is cop propaganda, the point sailed right over your head

[whenharrymetsallys]

[bob-belcher]

[airmercury]

[ruinedchildhood]

[lovemakesyouwonder]

[daily-rage-comics]

It’s a good day

[ghostly-smoke]

Someone’s been watching too much Fixer Upper

[fanonical]

sometimes……….not letting a franchise die at its natural conclusion………………..is worse

[commandtower-solring-go-deactiv]

The problem with the idea of 8 hours of work, 8 hours of sleep and 8 hours of recreation as a structure for a day is that it simply can’t work that way. If I’m expected to be at work at 9, then my work day must begin at 7. Allowing myself a rushed experience to wake up and get to work. And I live close to work. So either my recreation or my sleep needs to take a hit, but for some people it could be more. 8 hours a day, 5 days a week as a basis for full time work is honestly unreasonable at that point. Because it isn’t actually 40 hours a week, it’s 50 hours a week lost to a job, of which 10 is unpaid.

[blogging-phelddagrif]

some of my coworkers have 2h of transit to get to work, which takes 4-5h off their free time. working full time is a bad idea and shouldve never been a thing

[xenoqueer]

This is, it’s worth noting, by design.  

It’s perfectly well known that people can only really “work” (in that they can only consistently and effectively perform tasks and create products) 3-6 hours a day, for 1 hour to 2 hours at a time. Generally speaking, the broad consensus among actual researchers is to aim for about 4 hours a day.

The rest of these work hours, and the associated sunken time necessary to get to and from these work hours, serves one purpose:

It exhausts people.

People who don’t have leisure time are stressed. People who are stressed need conveniences. People who need conveniences will pay for them.

People who are stressed also don’t have the energy to fight for their rights, having expended all that energy in just staying alive.

And let’s not forget that maintaining a clean home and providing food for yourself takes over 20 hours a week (appx 20 hours in-house, and varying hours spent running outside errands) if you are completely abled.

[ghostly-smoke]

And science usually demands 10-11 hour work days, 5-7 days a week.

[takethistoyourstardust]

WHY IS POPTARTS CALLING PEOPLE VIRGINS

[whyequalsemexplusbee]

This Tweet has enough energy to power the state of New Hampshire for 3 years

[ghostly-smoke]

Why has my home state been called out like this

[sameoldsin]

people should just embrace jewel tones already if I see one more house entirely decorated in washed out neutral colours I’m gonna sue someone

[sameoldsin]

hell is not a fiery demon pit its a never ending white and cream minimalist apartment, every time someone paints a room entirely white and adds a pale blue throw cushion for “a splash of colour” they are carrying out the work of the devil

[ghostly-smoke]

Can we also not do white cabinets and/or white counter tops @hgtv

[itsbyrosie]

[susierogelio]

maybe start by cleaning up

[cungadero]

i guess im just too fucking dumb to lucid dream. cant ever realize im in a dream, i’ll look around me like damn i’m in my old elementary school and my teeth are falling out and im naked? well shit guess this is my life now. got fooled by my subconscious again lads