I'm Nobody! Who Are You?

I feel it is only fair to warn you that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.

[zooophagous]

I know I sound like your mom but you kids need to stop fucking vaping

[joshgrobanscock]

1) Vaping is confirmed to cause cancer. Vaping coats the lungs with toxic substances, such as heavy metals and benzene, which are known to cause cancer

2) Many vapes contain diacetyl, which, when inhaled causes popcorn lung, or scarring of the lung

3) Ultrafine particles, when being inhaled, can be lodged in the trachea (not good!)

4) Ultrafine particles can also constrict the arteries in the lungs potentially causing A HEART ATTACK

5) Vaping is relatively new. Not much studies have been done in comparison to tobacco. Plus, the vaping companies are powerful people. There is a large chance that they are purposely downplaying and even burying any evidence that vaping is harmful - just like the tobacco companies before them. They do not care about you, or your health, or the truth. They only care for money

[letsoulswander]

Also STOP VAPING INDOORS AROUND OTHER PEOPLE. Holy shit, if you're gonna wreck your lungs at least give me the option not to wreck mine.

[cephalopodvictorious]

It’s such an issue that the MTA had to run a campaign about it

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

yeah okay ill reblog that

[stripedroseandsketchpads]

Please I’m begging yall as an asthmatic, your fruit-flavored vapor will still give people around you who are smoke-sensitive attacks. So will weed. Don’t do it inside; if you’re at a bus stop or something try to not stand right next to people or move downwind of them if you can.

[luca-is-a-pengu]

vaping can also cause heart issues for bystanders as vapes contain Chrome, Nickle Antimon and LEAD (as in Leadpoinsoning). all way above the cancercausing levels.

The only reason I know this is cause some teens vaped in a Train with no ventilation and it gave me an asthma attack and made my heart race like hell until my legs gave out. So i looked up papers on what is in that stuff.

Fucking lead. Its giving everyone leadpoisoning. Fun.

[sreppub]

(Dick voice) so do you guys see him too or just me?

[sreppub]

1 little robin for each of your shoulders

[runawaymarbles]

The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.

Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.

[zz9pzza]

Op's tags

#I just started dropping '2.5 Billion page views a month'#into conversations as early as possible bc they would Not believe me otherwise#it was right up there with having to say 'csam attacks' to get them to take my compartmentalization of information concerns seriously#turns out those are the magic words#otw#op

[runawaymarbles]

The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.

[kyraneko]

This post feels like watching an iceberg go by in clear water. The amount of stuff going on beneath the surface of AO3 just astonishes.

[jeffsatyr]

(ID in alt)

[elodieunderglass]

Approximately one THOUSAND felonies

[kaomojiloser]

this unfortunately came from an incorrect quotes generator

[wiisagi-maiingan]

I say that I hate what the internet has done to the word triggered and people think it's because the word has been divorced from its original purpose to describe trauma and PTSD when what I really mean is that I hate that the internet has erased the fact the word triggered was and continues to used not just in mental health spaces but also in general medical spaces to refer to any symptom of ANYTHING that can be set off by outside factors.

Now you've got people with conditions like OCD, autism, ADHD, allergies, chronic pain, seizures, etc who are told by one group of people that triggers are a joke and an insult and then told by the "correct" and "good" people that triggers are exclusive to trauma and no one should use them if they aren't referring to actual PTSD flashbacks or massive panic attacks and now other ill and disabled people are missing a vital term to describe their experiences because they think they're not allowed to use it.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Like c'mon, in allergy spaces foods with allergens are literally referred to as trigger foods and you've still got "mental health activists" online insisting that you can only say you've been triggered by something if you have PTSD. That isn't advocacy for traumatized people, it's ableism that is stealing important language from EVERYONE.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

ALSO triggers are not necessarily major or severe. You can be triggered and have it not ruin your entire day or week. In a lot of cases, you can learn coping methods to be able to experience a trigger and move on; obviously that's different with things like seizures or allergies, but many other triggers can be handled and only have minor impacts on someone.

I can work through most of my migraine and pain triggers, though I probably shouldn't. I have learned to breathe through my anxiety and OCD triggers. My delusions were triggered BAD last night and I am surviving, even if I kinda wish I wasn't.

Triggers can be major and severe, but many of them are just. Frustrating or a brief thing you take a moment to work through or even a mild inconvenience. Ideally, for mental health triggers, you WANT to turn them into a mild inconvenience and figure out management and coping methods to make that happen.

[deadsetagainst]

australian sour patch kids have gluten in them i am truly at my fucking limit im crashing out im waging war against wheat idgaf anymore

[amvs]

oh is that one of those things where ableist companies put in traces of common allergens so they can just avoid the cost of making it safe

[deadsetagainst]

WHAT

[amvs]

Why Manufacturers Are Intentionally Adding Allergens to Their Foods

A trend we predicted in 2016 continues.

US based but it’s similar reasons in other countries. and of course many companies have international locations. idk if that’s why it’s happening with sour patch kids but this is a thing

[rosetintmyworld84]

I cannot even explain how ANGRY I am at this.

My nephew is very allergic to eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame. Last year my sister discovered all hot dogs and hamburger buns now contain sesame. Not "may contain", but listed in the ingredients. This year basically every brand of sliced bread also now contains sesame, making it very difficult to find bread items he can eat.

They're just adding it to their products, so they can just list it as an ingredient and not bother with worrying about cross contamination. And they aren't even bothering with telling anyone. Capitalism is going to kill us all.

"Which brings us back to Kellogg’s. Back in 2016, the company found a way around the added burden and expense of complying with the FSMA: they simply began adding trace amounts of peanut flour to their cracker products. Doing so allowed them to list peanuts as an ingredient of the product, freeing them from having to prevent cross-contact.

At the time, Kellogg’s notified Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) about the impending change and left it to them to warn the allergic community. In this case, Pearson’s didn’t even bother as near as we can tell."

[gothiccharmschool]

I wonder if that’s part of the reason behind my seeing an upswing in products adding corn starch or corn flour to things that didn’t have those before? <- rhetorical question, because I’m certain that’s what’s going on.

[mikomiio]

Doodle of possibly a fit he'd lean towards when older, never dropping his love for space ofc

[awakefor48hours]

“Europoors can’t afford AC. They couldn’t survive a week of Texas’s heat wave” Okay, yeah, that’s cool and funny. Can we please talk about the fact that global warming is so bad that the heat is literally killing people that far north.

[awakefor48hours]

I get that some people are annoyed hearing about Europeans talk about the rise of heat. What constitutes a heat wave in Europe is a pleasant spring day for some people and to be someone watching entire countries moan and groan about the heat while it’s ten degrees hotter can be annoying. But some of y’all gotta stop pointing and laughing and look at the bigger issue.

It should not be that hot that far north.

Buildings and traffic lights are melting, I can only imagine what the power grids must look like in some cities considering the hoards of people hooking up AC units to their home, and most importantly, people are dying.

We can’t keep making the same “European heat wave” joke every year. Let’s look at the bigger issue. The bigger issue being global warming.

[creekfiend]

I seriously hate 21st century america. if we were inventing cars right now everyone would be afraid to make traffic laws mandatory bc making it against the law to not stop at a red light might infringe on someones freedom

We do not politely suggest that ppl wear their seatbelts. I'm going to lose my SHIT. This CULTURE

[creekfiend]

You know that post where the lady is mad about chicken and dumplings and its like "grandma poison water SNAPPED" thats me but w this whole situation

[cosmichorrorbarbie]

everyone be niceys to him or she’ll blow this whole antarctica up

[kropotkindersurprise]

December 12, 2024 - Someone in Seattle reprogrammed a roadside construction sign to read ONE LESS CEO - MANY MORE TO GO. [video]

[kropotkindersurprise]

How To Hack An Electronic Road Sign

How many times have you driven by an electronic road sign like one of these? This is the ADDCO portable sign. Today, you see what is on the inside, and how they are programmed to display important information. *** WARNING YOU SHOULD NEVER TAMPER WITH THESE SIGNS ***

- The access panel on the sign is generally protected by a small lock, but often are left unprotected. Upon opening the access panel you can see the display electronics. - The black control pad is attached by a curly cord, with a keyboard on the face. - Programming is as simple as scrolling down the menu selection to "Instant Text". Type whatever you want to display, Hit Enter to submit. You can now either throw it up on the sign by selecting "Run w/out save" or you can add more pages to it by selecting "Add page"

** HACKER TIPS ** Should it will ask you for a password. Try "DOTS", the default password. In all likelihood, the crew will not have changed it. However if they did, never fear. Hold "Control" and "Shift" and while holding, enter "DIPY". This will reset the sign and reset the password to "DOTS" in the process. You're in!

additional comment from a reddit thread:

I work on these from time to time. Other common passwords are the same as most things: 1234, 1111, 0000, etc. They are also often written down inside the service area for technicians. Most new ones also have a QR code that links to the user manual for an explanation on how to operate with the default passwords.

[i-suggest-piracy]

this, too, is my suggestion

[tamvmat]

Oh I think I deleted it by accident..

My meme-ish poster about executive dysfunction, or "The Sits" as we call it in our house. This is to share my experiences with exec. dysfunction, everyone's a little different ☺️

[foxindarkness]

I was dealing with this constantly and severely a few years ago when I was super burned out. here's some of the things I found helpful:

-this paper on autistic inertia. obviously there's a lot of shared experience and overlap with adhd folks too, but I read so much I could relate to here https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.631596/full .

-sometimes it's easier to respond or react to someone else than to overcome the inertia on your own. getting someone to prompt you (kindly) to start or to do the thing with you can work wonders. especially if they can physically take your hand to help you up.

-the single biggest thing that has helped me out of being stuck in this for lengthy periods every day is making a compact with myself to never do the internal screaming/shouting at myself again. think about it; does someone else screaming at you to do a thing usually make you really want to cooperate? or does it make you hate and resent them and want to do it even less? if screaming at yourself to get up and do the thing worked you'd be unstuck already. you have to be kind to yourself.

-try asking yourself what you need and/or what would make you feel ready instead. sometimes it's just a little time to get used to the idea, and if you check back in a few minutes you'll be able to start. sometimes something else needs to happen first to make the other thing possible or less intimidating. maybe you can find a small enough first step in the chain that will become doable.

-sometimes the feeling that you just can't make yourself move can be overcome by building up opposing inertia. can you wiggle your fingers, then shake your hands, then shake out your full arms, then get up? can you put on some lively music, follow the beat in whatever small way works, lean into that until you're on your feet dancing?

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You are an adventurer in a generic fantasy world and you use this weapon!

Do you like it?

YES!!!!!

yes

Eh it's okay

No

NO!!!!!!!

Remaining time: 4 days 17 hours

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

all these fellas out here looksmaxxing but they need to be booksmaxxing.

[the-haiku-bot]

all these fellas out

here looksmaxxing but they need

to be booksmaxxing.

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

[zooophagous]

I know I sound like your mom but you kids need to stop fucking vaping

[joshgrobanscock]

1) Vaping is confirmed to cause cancer. Vaping coats the lungs with toxic substances, such as heavy metals and benzene, which are known to cause cancer

2) Many vapes contain diacetyl, which, when inhaled causes popcorn lung, or scarring of the lung

3) Ultrafine particles, when being inhaled, can be lodged in the trachea (not good!)

4) Ultrafine particles can also constrict the arteries in the lungs potentially causing A HEART ATTACK

5) Vaping is relatively new. Not much studies have been done in comparison to tobacco. Plus, the vaping companies are powerful people. There is a large chance that they are purposely downplaying and even burying any evidence that vaping is harmful - just like the tobacco companies before them. They do not care about you, or your health, or the truth. They only care for money

[letsoulswander]

Also STOP VAPING INDOORS AROUND OTHER PEOPLE. Holy shit, if you're gonna wreck your lungs at least give me the option not to wreck mine.

[cephalopodvictorious]

It’s such an issue that the MTA had to run a campaign about it

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

yeah okay ill reblog that

[stripedroseandsketchpads]

Please I’m begging yall as an asthmatic, your fruit-flavored vapor will still give people around you who are smoke-sensitive attacks. So will weed. Don’t do it inside; if you’re at a bus stop or something try to not stand right next to people or move downwind of them if you can.

[luckyladylily]

So the thing is boobs really do be jiggling. If having breasts has taught me anything it is that the ladies frolic. I don't even have that large of boobs but every time I go down some stairs all I can think about is that stupid quote about boobing breastily down the stairs or whatever it is because God Damn.

But anime and video game boob jiggling is like. The most uncanny valley shit I've ever seen nine times out of ten. You would think people this horny about tits would have actually looked at some but I guess not.

What we really need is some pervert to compile the ultimate visual guide to boob bouncing physics that's just like 500 hours of meticulously organized videos of breasts of different size and shape and under different fabrics bouncing around from a wide variety of physical movements so horny game devs can finally get it right and I don't have to be creeped out by women who appear to have surgically implanted softballs in their chest under skin made of rubber bands.

[karatekamania]

My Hater Post. Sorry

[karatekamania]

ALSO THIS