Kip's Kaleidoscope of Curiosities

Meowdy, I'm Kip -- a 31 year old wondrous wanderer with a Passion for Many Things (AKA I'm both Autistic and have ADHD). My current special interests are #1000xResist, #Collectivity, and #TheSummerHikaruDied.

[cat-rabbit]

Soft Mouse on sax 🎷

https://pencilbooth.com/posts/805c7f55-65ad-49d7-bcd0-8386b2627b53

[kip-the-wondrous]

!! SILLY LITTLE GUY ALERT !!

!! THIS IS ❌ NOT ❌ A DRILL !!

[nekusakuraba-deactivated2026011]

i caught the letters / as they fell from my mother’s mouth (1000xresist + turing test - franny choi)

[zed-sabre]

there is the you that remains that remains and remains

[sophie-frm-mars]

It's genuinely so encouraging to see so many people in the imperial core left pivoting to roles of care after either being "Let's go fight the cops!!!" types or people with comfy office jobs who hold leftist values and vote with their wallets. It feels like people are finally having an absolutely vital realisation, that the revolution is much more about helping people survive than it is about defeating the enemy. We have to go fight the cops too, but everything from de-arrest training to doing the dishes at your union meeting is the more important work because it's about protecting people. Honestly 90% of the work to be done is reproductive labour and next to nobody highlights this because it has been invisible to most men historically involved in revolution.

[starblaster]

i have never met an unpsychotic person who knows what it actually means to “not encourage the delusion” …not a single one

[starblaster]

what “don’t encourage the delusion” means:

don’t argue with or challenge the delusion—attempting to disprove someone’s delusions is not helpful at all and will result in that person not trusting you

assure the delusional person that they are safe; be open and honest at all times

encourage them to verbalize their feelings and offer protection to prevent injury to themselves or, possibly, others

start building a trusting relationship with them rather than acting on a desire to control their symptoms

do not confirm or feed into the delusion by asking questions about it when the person is not experiencing a psychotic episode

what it does not mean:

insisting to a psychotic person experiencing psychosis that what they’re experiencing isn’t real

[gayskrillex]

I don’t mean to trivialize psychosis by making a weird comparison, but this guide also serves as a handy checklist for helping someone through a bad drug trip. In both cases your number one priority is to get the person through whatever they’re dealing with unharmed.

[starblaster]

i don’t think it’s trivializing at all, nor a weird comparison—as a psychotic person who has had psychotic episodes inadvertently triggered by drug use and/or worsened while trying to self-medicate with drugs, i think this is an important addition.

[an-indecisive-nerd]

This is also very similar to what you should do when people with Alzheimer’s have paranoia episodes

[kip-the-wondrous]

The finished piece, the intermediary step, and the initial composition. I sought to create a quick little bonus gift for a secret Santa exchange with my in-laws and my giftee has a love of mountains, volcanoes, and lava.

I am quite happy with the final result -- though I originally had much grander ideas for it (such as cutting out lava trails on the mountains instead of the quick lava-colored outline I ended up with for the sake of time and ease).

Better yet, the recipient seemed genuinely awed that I would gift them something handmade like this, let alone one they found visually stunning (and they seemed sincere in that feedback). It felt so rewarding to realize that a piece I originally felt critical about would be received so warmly by someone else!