the darkness is followed by light

this knowledge is forbidden to you

[leafmealoooone]

Going to fully commit to the bit and put a dozen batman comic books on hold at the library

[leafmealoooone]

Jellyfish knit pattern

Someone gifted me a crocheted jellyfish and I am obsessed. I needed to be able to make one for everyone I know, but alas I can't crochet. Fear not, i have uncovered the arcane knowledge.

Make rectangle. About 9 stitches by 14 rows or so. (Scale as desired)

Shape rectangle into body. Stitch the long sides together and sinch one short side. Will be a little tube. Will look odd. Stuff unclosed end up into the rest of the tube to make semisphere. This is jellyfish body.

Add tails. Ive been cutting like 7 inches, stitching it into the bottom of the jellyfish body, and tying it in the middle.

[leafmealoooone]

People on the internet will be closed-minded about disability and all I can do is block them and try not to let it ruin my day because engaging in conversation with them will get me harassed

[hwangyeddeongie]

wait kpop stans genuinely believe a random employee fired from YG has 500+ terabytes of data (200+ TBs being from JYP (???)) on a bunch of massive kpop corporations just hanging around on their computer???

[leafmealoooone]

Ok, real random, but...

Having massive amounts of data isn't as sus as it seems. The amount of stuff that just sits on shared drives and low-security computers would astound you. The security in entertainment (in my experience) is at the entrance/front door, not the computer. Everyone's got two factor auth off and so many people have access to huge amounts of data they don't really need. Extra keys and shared passwords just float around, even places that are very strick on security. If someone knew their last day was soon and was planning revenge they could very conceivably get into a studio, plug in an external harddrive, and get off with dozens of GBs of DAW files from that room alone (those files get big real quick if you're not cleaning things up). They'd be caught after the leak, absolutly, but it's possible. And people in the same niche at different companies know eachother and talk, so if you worked in kpop for a while you'd definitely accumulate info on/from other companies (granted, not TBs, and most of it would be word of mouth stuff that, while potentially damning, is hard to leak and verify).

As an ~insider~ (i work in entertainment but it's no where near as interesting as it sounds) the thing that's sus is that they followed up some mildly interesting potentially-leaked videos with rumors about artists' relationships and sexualities. We're not above celebrity gossip, but it's in an entirly separate category from our actual work. And if someone did know about and have proof of artist relationships, that's far from the sort of thing you'd want leak - unless the artist's an ass, you tend to end up respecting them too much for that just as coworkers (and if they are an ass, that's a much more attractive thing to leak and who they're dating - a dating scandal would just make work for a colleagues, revealing that they treat people like shit on the other hand might get you some satisfying revenge). And in terms of actual compelling things to leak, I'd start with the likes of investigations that got covered up, and high-ups who treat people below them and/or small artists like trash, and workplace sxual harassment (made up examples but at least one of which I'd bet amyone who worked in kpop for a while could tell you about)

It's interesting to see how audiences simultaneous give us too much credit and think we're incompetent buffoons, depending on the day. Granted, there is a lot of incompetence in the industry, but it's generally getting covered by some incredibly overworked and underpayed people.

[renthony]

There's a difference between "disabled" and "legally recognized as disabled," and I just want to give a shout-out to all the other disabled people who don't have formal diagnoses, who don't have access to benefits of any kind, who don't have the ability to use even the shittiest and least-helpful resources, because the process of getting legal recognition for disability sucks ass.

And another shout-out to all the disabled people who purposely avoid getting diagnosed, because official diagnoses can be used against you, and you're unable or unwilling to risk it.

[leafmealoooone]

im disabled when i file state income taxes but not when i file federal income taxes. fun times

[seekingstars]

IN 150 CHARACTERS OR LESS - Nikita Gill

[replanting]

from “ask polly: why should i keep going?”

[robinlovexo]

might* fuck around and make some seed bombs

🌱🌸🪻🌷🌼🌿

*this is not a might, i absolutely will be doing this and inviting all my friends over

GUERILLA GARDENING💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼‼️

[leafmealoooone]

about to be unstoppable

[leafmealoooone]

god i love solarpunk. Shout out to solarpunk.

Sometimes it gets criticism for being just an art aesthetic, and i get that, fair enough, but for me thats the whole point.

I can't always picture a future worth fighting for on my own. It would be so much harder to hope for and work towards a better future without the images others have crafted of what that better world might look like. Sometimes what keeps me going is pretty imaginings of a beautiful, flawed, near-utopia that's mostly just vibes and sunshine and plants growing regardless of whether the conditions are well suited to it, and humans who continue and endure and care for their world and community.

[trans-ralsei]

[trans-ralsei]

[caughtthedarkness93]

I love my job, but reblogging employment jelly for someone else I love.

[btsficfinds]

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a smut fic i read on ao3 a while ago: explicit pwp, idolverse/canon compliant-ish, yoongi was either trans or intersex or bp (i don't recall if the fic specifies) and the other members eat him out for his birthday (in age order, Tae takes an extra turn). It happened in their living room.

I've read through 60+ pages of my ao3 history and am getting desperate, lol, so if anyone knows this fic or has leads please hmu 💜

.

[leafmealoooone]

ngl I'm rapidly loosing hope of ever finding this fic

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

3 Types of ARFID

Neurodivergent_insights

[larks-and-katydids]

[ID: Informational poster about ARFID, separated into three colored sections based on the specific type of ARFID.

3 types of ARFID (Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder)

Avoidant/Sensory-based ARFID: Characterized by strong aversions to certain food textures, tastes, colors, or smells, leading to a limited diet due to sensory sensitivities.

ND Affirming Perspective: This reflects an intuitive connection with the body, guiding individuals towards foods that satisfy their sensory needs. Their eating behavior, when viewed through this lens, is logical and meets specific needs.

Aversive/Fear-based ARFID: Significant fear of negative consequences associated with eating, such as choking,vomiting, or experiencing gastrointestinal discomfort. This fear can lead to avoidance of certain foods or food groups.

ND Affirming Perspective: Important to recognize impact of dyspraxia, oral motor challenges, and past experience with food including food trauma and incidents like choking or vomiting. What may seem like irrational fears are often deeply rooted in these experiences.

Restrictive/Lack of Interest: Characterized by a general disinterest or lack of motivation towards eating, potentially leading to insufficient food intake and nutritional deficiencies.

ND Affirming Perspective: A person may struggle with interoception awareness, so sensing hunger may be difficult, or alternatively the feeling of fullness may be really uncomfortable. There may also be executive functioning differences such as difficulty regulating attention contributing to this. Restriction may be intentional or unintentional.

ARFID Plus: When someone is experiencing more than one type of ARFID.

End ID]

[leafmealoooone]

I love how this includes those little 'nd affirming perspective' bits because my eating is very much influenced by being autistic, but it isn't a 'problem' for me (for lack of a better word) so when people respond to me talking about my sensory relationship with food by telling me have an eating disorder when I don't actually, I'm just neurodivergent, it's really frustrating that I don't necessarily have the words to articulate why I disagree. being able to say 'intuitive connection with the body that is logical and meets specific needs' in addition to 'nothing about my eating is causing me harm or distress so a diagnosis is inappropriate and incorrect' is super helpful

[leafmealoooone]

the one thing I've learned from the internet is not to have opinions, because you'll have the wrong ones and people will hate you for it :)

[meckamecha]

I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence

Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.

Switch to linux, it's free and it's good.

[kuromi-hoemie]

u r absolutely right I have SO many complaints about Windows omg.

For anyone who'd like to follow along, I'm gonna share how to get around those things with group policies bc they're more user friendly and descriptive than registry editor imo :3 I'll also show how to get around needing a Microsoft account to get setup.

For the Device Setup

"OOBE" stands for Out Of Box Experience which is what that setup workflow is. But it also happens to be a folder with a little program in it that'll let you skip connecting to the internet; this makes it so you don't have to sign up with a Microsoft account and can just use a normal local one instead. And it already comes preinstalled! Here's how you get to it:

Hold Shift + F10, or Shift + Fn + F10 depending on your keyboard.

Click inside the window that pops up, type the following and press enter afterwards to run it: OOBE\BypassNRO

I believe it should restart your computer automatically, but if not then restart your computer or type: shutdown /r /t 0 /f

Now when you're brought back to the setup workflow, the page where you connect to the internet will have a new button on it that lets you say you don't have internet. Clicking that and proceeding through the rest of the setup lets you get around the Microsoft account thing.

Group Policies

You don't have to know much about them, these are just a bunch of specific settings for what your computer can or can't do that lets you decide how it works in different ways.

I'm gonna show you how to turn off the recommendations and internet stuff basically. For now bring up search and type gpedit, pick this

It'll open up to Local Group Policy Editor and we can get started :3c

Start Recommendations

In the side menu, go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar. Click on Settings to sort them with all the "Turn off" ones bumped to the top.

Here's what you should set:

Turn off user tracking: enabled

Turn off feature advertisement balloon notifications: enabled

Remove Recommended section from Start Menu: enabled

Remove Personalized Website Recommendations from the Recommended section in the Start Menu: enabled

Do not search Internet: enabled

Windows Spotlight

Back in the side menu, go down to Windows Components > Cloud Content

Turn off all Windows spotlight features: enabled

Do not use diagnostic data for tailored experiences: enabled

Cortana

In the side menu, this one's back at the top under Computer Configuration. You're gonna want to go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search

Allow Cortana: disabled

Don't search the web or display web results in Search: enabled

News and Interests

In the side menu go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > News and interests.

Enable news and interests on the taskbar: disabled

Microsoft Account Login Nudges

When you don't use a Microsoft account they'll nudge you repeatedly to sign in so you can "get the most out of your experience" *gag*. The group policy for turning that off has a note that suggests it might not work with Windows 11 though (implicitly), so you can close the group policy editor window now and for this last one let's just open up the regular settings.

Go to System > Notifications > Additional settings, then uncheck all the boxes. And there ya go! (✿◠‿◠)ﾉ u are done.

Group policies are kind of a rabbit hole so while there is a lot more you could change or read into, for your own sanity's sake I would advise against it and say call it a day lol

[meckamecha]

This is all extremely good information, thank you very much for the addition!

[leafmealoooone]

i feel like i'll be needing this soon

[catgirl-catboy]

Highkey hate the way "go to therapy" has become the blanket advice for anything mental health related.

For one, you don't know if the OP is already in therapy, or can't go for some reason they aren't disclosing here.

Secondly, talking about mental health is fucking exhausting. (source: has mental health) Let's not slap everyone with a more drastic solution without giving easier-feeling options.

Everyone knows therapy is an option, so suggesting it with nothing else isn't that helpful.

[leafmealoooone]

i will never forget the time i was at a disabled student club meeting and someone opened up about their mental health struggles that were in part due to traumatic and harmful interactions with mental healthcare, and someone else insisted they don't discount the possibility of going to therapy, and when the first person and i repeatedly tried to change the subject or deflect (they were obviously very uncomfortable and requested we stop talking about it), she doubled down on 'not all therapists are bad, you should give it another try' and when she left I sat with the first person as they tried to work through being triggered and canceled their next meeting.

normalizing talking about and going to therapy was supposed to be at least a little bit about decreasing the stigma around mental health, but have we decreased it? or have we just redefined the boundaries of 'normal' and 'worthy of disdain and revile' in a way that continues to harm and shame marginalized people whose experiences and lives outside what we've deemed acceptable

[leafmealoooone]

love how there's a website that will tell an american living in poverty that they're richer than like 85% of the world's population and they'd still be richer than 85% of the world's population if they donated 20% of their income. like, girl, i'm trying to get on food stamps. i can't pay rent.

[uncanny-tranny]

Not to sound like a person who actually cares about children, but it's so alarming that there's this tendency and trend of not telling kids about their medical conditions that are in their charts.

I'm finding out as an adult that they (though it's not documented who) diagnosed me with a life-long, chronic condition without telling me when I was a teenager. I found out recently when I got curious about my medical charts, and otherwise, I would not have known what's wrong with me. I've been left with more questions than answers, and I feel like a private investigator investigating my own damn health and life.

Is this medical malpractice? Yes. However, I think it also speaks to a broader point of how children are seen to not be entitled to their own lives in any capacity, to the point where they are (intentionally or not) made ignorant about things that are or will affect them.