[boartusks]

How two trans women ran a legendary underground surgical clinic in a rural barn

The neighbours had no idea. The medical equipment came from eBay. But in a dark time for transgender people, these anarchist medics treated

extremely cool article you should read if you haven’t already

[brownbearbutch]

[s4pph0m3t]

[depsidase]

[unicorncryptid]

"my life isn't a crime, I'm not one of those people -"

"you sure? new parameters for Those People just dropped. check again."

[lizardywizard]

And if you truly cannot imagine this, if you're convinced that it will never happen to you, consider this one thing.

Would you want scammers to know the state of your loved one's dementia?

[dailycatsblog]

[sistertaxon]

why are there so many posts about asexuals being immune to sirens. people. sirens don’t lure you in with sex (necessarily). they sing about whatever it is that you want most. they could sing about mothman or cinnamon toast crunch and guess what then your asexual pirate is fucking dead

[thesylverlining]

this is the only kind of ace discourse i ever want to see on my dash. the only kind. ever again. good job

[kittyknowsthings]

Do you think the sirens would be grateful that they finally get some variety? 

[systlin]

“Oh my god we can finally just sing about pasta thank the fucking gods.” 

[totohoy-blog]

I’m not asexual but I’m fairly certain sirens would do a far better job luring me into the depths with a song about pasta rather than sex…

[systlin]

I mean. 

“WHAT THE FUCK STAY AWAY FROM THE ROCKS.”

“FUCKER THEY SAID THEY HAVE FETTUCCINE CARBONARA AND HOT GARLIC BREAD OVER THERE HANG ON BITCH.” 

[musicalhell]

This is true; Odysseus heard them promising him knowledge of the future.  So the next time you see artwork like this:

Remember those sultry naked chicks are saying “We’ll tell you the winning lotto numbers.”

[fuckstaffposts]

Them: “We have unlimited wifi at incredible speeds~” Me: *diving headfirst into the water*

[rpluvsyj]

This post is a blessing

[wittyusername97]

Congratulations! Odysseus! You’ve been selected as a winner for the free $1000 Amazon Gift Card, Apple iPhone X 256G or Samsung Galaxy S8! Claim your prize now!

[kitvalkyrie]

Oh my god sirens were literally scam websites

[10thingsihateabout-all-yall]

Oh my god they were phishing

[pyrobchilling]

Oh shit I just realized I can post the "Gaussian Blur Wizard That Gaussian Blurs You" here

[transgendercyborg-deactivated20]

[zzoupz]

his friend "Motion Blur Mage That Motion Blurs You"

[blastovkatamarinecromancy]

Their long suffering associate, the "Sharpen Cleric that Sharpens you (badly)"

[artastic-foe]

Nooo!!! What have you all unleashed upon us!?!

[l4byr1nthz1]

dont forget the chromatic abberation warlock that chromatically abberates you

[vinnybox]

may I add Mystic Mosiac who turns your quality waaaaaaay down

[theo-window]

What did he do to deserve this

[rain-droplet]

punished by the council

[bloodfreezer]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I follow some non-consumer and pro-recycling facebook pages and like. I'm not sure how to explain this exactly, but some of them have a frankly unhealthy relationship with preservation and recycling. People will photograph an ancient threadbare shirt that's full of massive holes and 30% mould by volume and say "this was in my mum's basement and she wanted to throw it out! How do I save it?" People will show a stack of thirty empty margarine containers and say "what use can I find for these? I don't want to throw them out." Someone detailed their strategies for making sure that they only walk around their house barefoot or with slippers, never walking int heir socks, in order to make sure the socks wear out as slowly as possible.

Responsible reuse and care of your belongings is one thing, but for some of these groups, if they monitored food and exercise the way they monitored general consumption it would be an eating disorder.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This isn't a healthy relationship with possessions.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Right after this post was somebody bragging about how they're freeing themselves from consumerism by giving up manicures and pedicures so it's. A very mixed bag of standards.

[unfortunate-beetle-and-friends]

Mood.

I walk a very thin line between recycling/anti-consumerism and my hoarding tendencies (don't think it's ever reached the point of full blown disorder but I'm very aware it's a constant lowkey battle to keep it that way) and my perfectionism paralysing me into keeping stuff until I can dispose of it in the Absolute Most Optimal Least Polluting way.

Any obsession can become disordered (I don't necessarily mean pathologically, but extreme to the point where it does you more harm than good or more harm than is safe/justifiable), and I think we forget that.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Unless it's made of easily recyclable or compostable materials like metals, glass or organics (NOT recyclable plastic, that doesn't count), it's basically all landfill. Dispose of chemicals and electronics in the appropriate way, put the glass and metal in the bins appropriate for whatever your local area's recycling system is, and everything else is landfill. "Oh, I can save this boot" it's still landfill, just a bit later than it would otherwise be. "Oh, I can recycle this old shirt into a bag" still landfill, just in your cupboard for a bit first.

For products for which a large-scale, practical and economic recycling system does not exist (recyclable plastic doesn't have such a system, it's a grift; recyclable metals and glass very often do have such a system but it depends on the material and product and where you live), there is no such thing as optimal disposal. There is only optimal production. Your environmental impact is measured in the effect you have on new things being produced and shipped. Once it is made in a factory, it is already landfill, it's just staying in your house for a bit first.

Trying to repair old boots at home doesn't save them from landfill -- the question is, did your repairing the boots stop you from having to buy new ones, and if so, did that stop new ones from being produced and shipped to your country? Does buying a new pair instead help because you don't have to buy the materials you'd use to repair them, and if so, did that have any effect on whether those materials were produced and sent to your country? In a modern economy, your effect re: repair vs. new is likely to have absolutely no environmental effect at all for most goods, though it does depend on specifically where you live and what the good is and how it's made. Either your old boots go to landfill and you buy a new pair, or you fix your old ones and the new pair goes straight from the warehouse to landfill because the company bought one too many pairs to sell. (It'll probably go on sale and mope around warehouses for a few years first, same as it otherwise would in your closet; this is a completely irrelevant temporary stop).

Depending on the industry, your individual shopping choices can have an impact, especially if it's part of a larger organised movement like a proper boycott (or even just an unorganised drop in sales as lots of people simply decide to stop buying so much). Your individual shopping choices can also have a big effect on your own budget; repairing old shoes is usually much cheaper than buying new ones. But if you're focusing on the optimal way to dispose of something (again, unless it's something dangerous that requires specific disposal methods or something that's part of an existing large-scale recycling network), you're focusing on something way too late in the game to be environmentally relevant. What matters is the impact on production and shipping; once it's produced, it is already landfill.

[kitstacean]

i think a lot of people just have trouble with the idea that just by being alive, they affect the environment. THIS IS NOT AUTOMATICALLY A BAD THING BY THE WAY.

You use stuff, and you eat food, and you drink water, and you produce waste. And you live in a human-suitable dwelling which is built to maintain human health and comfort. All of that is okay! There's a balance!

Here's another fact: on a long enough timescale, everything WILL degrade. It is guaranteed. In about a million years even that piece of plastic crap you're beating yourself up about throwing out will be gone, or some really interesting debris for archeologists or something.

I think as a species, we're not really obligated to keep the planet "pristine". What the heck does that even mean anyway? "Pristine" and "untouched" nature includes such things like a hole that spews out toxic gas and also superheated rock. It includes limestone sinkhole death-traps. It has things like parasitic wasps and so many creatures with insta-death venom. We're just one of the many creatures inhabiting the earth and while we may have an outsized impact on it, we're *not* the first (we sure as hell weren't involved in the Great Oxygenation Event).

I think we have a responsibility to keep the place liveable for ourselves and the other creatures on this earth. That is a very Different responsibility to keep it Exactly The Same Forever (impossible anyway! The earth is a dynamic system that's always changing! Also liveable is a weird standard because, nature is red in tooth and claw and some really terrible shit happens in the wild utterly without our intervention at all... But yeah, species extinction is bad)

so.... I think consumption decisions should be made mindfully, and with practical thought about use and disposal. The things we buy don't appear by magic and neither do they disappear by magic, but you're allowed to derive benefits, even (maybe especially) joy and pleasure, from your physical belongings while they're in your possession, and then dispose of them responsibly. Being obsessed about your own personal environmental footprint IMO is a bit unhealthy because it's not actually possible to leave no footprint unless you're a ghost, consuming nothing, producing nothing.

You're just a creature and creatures Always leave signs on the earth, signs that will eventually be washed away by the sea, (even if it takes a long, long, time sometimes)

[witchofanguish]

There's a somewhat-unstated division in social progressive circles that goes "being socially inept for autism reasons is fine, but being socially inept for regular reasons is bad and mockable." And then in practice everyone assumes it's for regular reasons when it comes up

[awed-frog]

Okay, you need to make sure you play this game at some point. Maybe not today or anything, because you’ll need about thirty minutes and a serious willingness to understand how it works, but - it’s so worth it. It’s basically an answer to our occasional frustration - why do assholes always come out on top? - and the beautiful thing about it is that not only does it explain how that happens, but also how we can change it.

“In the short run, the game defines the players. But in the long run, it’s us players who define the game.”

[youngnoblewoman]

This is fascinating if you’re into math or sociology or computer programming or all of the above.

[skeptictankj]

Everyone, everywhere, without exception, should play this thing through.

[anathaeum]

Don’t check just this - check out all of Nicky Case’s work. They’re a brilliant creator and I heavily recommend checking out at least one of their projects.  Their website can be found here.

Parable of the Polygons - an interactive experiment that shows how tiny individual biases can collectively cause segregation on a massive scale.

To Build a Better Ballot - an interactive experiment that shows the alternatives to the voting systems we currently use and how they can be more representative and democratic, along with their faults.

Coming Out Simulator - a short interactive story/novel about coming out, based off of Case’s own experiences. Not one I’ve played myself but still one I can recommend.

Loopy - a very simple but useful tool to show how systems interact with each other and how things can self-propagate.

We Become What We Behold - “ a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles.“ A short five-minute game about news and media. Warnings for violence, blood, death and stress.

[caspercryptid]

I feel like not enough people realize that people under enormous strain act really really fucking Weird

[caspercryptid]

If someone is doing things that don't make Sense, try to understand that it is entirely possible that their brain is probably under an enormous weight and fracturing under the pressure. People who have been stabbed will sometimes talk a circle around the fact that they've been stabbed because stress and shock prevent you from recognizing the distress you are in and what you need to do to seek help for it. PTSD will do this also. You will find yourself repeatedly jamming a bag of frozen fruit into the same spot in the freezer where it doesn't fit and keeps falling, over and over and over, focused on nothing but that bag. You will decide that a beanbag chair is 10000% necessary to your life. You will lose your entire shit because you stubbed your toe on a table and that means the whole setup of your furniture is wrong. These are largely harmless examples. People under strain will also hurt themselves and others. Cornered animals bite. And it doesn't heal the bite to go "Hey, are you okay?" But it might get you to an animal that stops biting, so you can start to heal. And before you had an animal that bit, you probably had an animal that kept doing shit you didn't understand as stress signals

[caspercryptid]

Mental illness is Off-putting. Trauma and stress make people hard to be around. There are no perfect victims. If your framework for someone under pressure are people who cry photogenically at home in the bathroom or at night when everyone else is asleep and then wake up and act like they're fine then you will fail to recognize it when your coworker who's normally really nice suddenly blows up on someone for leaving forks in the company sink.

Everyone is going through shit. And it doesn't make it okay for them to treat others badly, but it also sometimes makes it difficult for them to recognize that they're treating you badly, like the person on the phone with 9-11 who no longer realizes that he's telling the operator about his day and not answering questions. When your friend of ten years who has a new boyfriend suddenly starts being a massive bitch to you about your weight maybe she's just being a cunt, or maybe she's internalized some bullshit. You don't have to take that, but you Can go "Hey, what the fuck?" And that is often more helpful than you realize. It is easy to assume that someone who does something cruel is acting with intent, but especially in cases where someone's behavior changed in a short span of time, they aren't, any more than the person who is convinced the beanbag chair is going to fix them.

You don't have to give people endless chances. But you should give them at least one chance. Because on your worst week, it's going to be you crying at your friend's birthday party because she ran out of chili before you got to have some, and you're going to want some grace for yourself.

[acertainmoshke]

All of this and also, sometimes you just cannot control your reaction even if it’s harmful or mean. Which also doesn’t make it acceptable to treat people poorly, but it does tie into the give people a second or third chance and communicate before deciding they’re just terrible now

[neopet-euthanization]

[cpericardium]

hey everyone "I" have something to show "you"

[cpericardium]

[cpericardium]

[zetrystan]

So I've seen that recent post about the way Aya Kusube drew Gengar and Haunter in 1999, and I fell in love with the style.

So I wanted to try to replicate the artstyle with this little Pokemon illustration!

Boo.

[lonelyhum]

whenever there's an evil child character i'm always like well maybe the adults deserve to be killed with hammers have you considered that

[imakeficrequestsandthendisappear]

if cis people are so great then why don’t they have a siberian orchestra 

[gayroytheory]

i keep forgetting mustang is like 10 yrs younger than basically everyone else colonel or above. no wonder olivier hates his guts he’s fucking 12 years old

[gayroytheory]

this is an old post but im rewatching and people keep saying it!!! roy’s a fucking child and everyone hates him its hilarious

[hellenhighwater]

Roy hires Ed specifically to have someone even younger than him running around being a problem.

[lostindarkplaces]

I went out to the country! And you know what I found! An Even Younger Asshole!!! He’s like half my age and twice the trouble!!! I HIRED HIM IMMEDIATELY!!!!! YOU CAN THANK ME WHENEVER!!!!

[nekoning]

the use of AI lately has made me feel so hopeless, i translated pages of an unfinished fanzine of mine so i can remember why i love art...i hope it can resonate with anyone feeling the same way