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The underside of a charging arm for an electric ferry soon to be in service (maybe)

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A bunch of gifs from my vacation! Credit me with a link back to this post if you use!

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Artfight #2 for @bunchasticks!

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I HAVE TO DO THE WORK SO THAT MY LIFE CAN BE DIFFERENT AND I CAN REAP THE BENEFITS

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The alabaster nudibranch, white-lined Dirona, or frosted sea slug (Dirona albolineata)

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no, actually, i can’t be friends with someone who has opposing political views. this is mostly due to the fact my views are “people deserve rights”

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Recent discourse reminds me of that cult indoctrination trick that's often used to weed out more difficult marks early on, where they tell you all that you aren't allowed to eat rice on Tuesdays and then if you protest they go "wow SOMEBODY likes rice a little much huh" as if you're the fucking weirdo who cares too much about how much rice is consumed between Monday and Wednesday instead of them.

And this forces you to decide whether your autonomy matters to you more than the approval of the group - while they'll still act like you're on thin ice either way, if you give in at this point they know you're theirs forever, because now they've established a foothold, you've shown a moral weakness, which they will brand you with so it can be used against you in the future ("hey RICE-addict here doesn't want help break into the city records office") to force you to double-down and isolate you further.

And if instead you do decide to push back further, after your abrupt departure from the group ("You're seriously leaving us over RICE?!? Seriously?") and subsequent ostracism, you can then be used as a demonstration to the others who were more pliable, of how the outgroup is full of people like you who are obsessed with violating the No-Tuesday-Rice rule to the point where they'll abandon all their friends, who cared so much for them, so it clearly isn't an arbitrary restriction, you're the kind of monster these rules are intended to protect them from, thus all the other wise and esoteric precepts of the charismatic leader are implied to be equally justified.

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This isn't just for cults either! Shitty partners, bosses, friends - they all do variants of this where if you kick back the first time they make an unreasonable request, it proves you weren't ever committed since you'd let such a small thing ruin everything. And of course, if it's the third or the tenth unreasonable thing they ask of you, it's SUCH A SMALL THING to be a deal-breaker at this late point in your relationship!

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Unironically guys, this is a reminder that the level in which you feel you have to hide your quirks and how your brain works is a result of 1) the people you surround yourself with and 2) your own fear of how others will react making it so that you never give people the opportunity to see you as you are.

Once again, I explained to my boss, mentors and peers at work about my history with DID and how I now operate with very detailed and defined facets each with names and everything

And now my CEO (small company) is in semi-public team meetings going "Yeah we need XIV" and shit

Apparently he thought it was the coolest shit he heard in a while and raved about it to my direct mentor

Literally 30-50 year old Christian professionals and business owners know what Im talking about when I say "Oh I'm in XIV brain lol" or "Yeah XIV wrote that" and genuinely respect it, get it, and are genuinely super normal about it.

Like, Ive seen people in the DID community and plural community be weirder about it.

Its not to say every environment is safe or good to do this in, but if you have good people around you that you have curated and chosen to be around AND if you choose to radically be you, more people than you think will love and meet you where you are at and some will even think higher of you as a result

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I needed that second pic

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Hey so unlike the weird message TADC is trying to preach you actually don’t have to ask your bullies / abusers if they’re okay and it actually isn’t your responsibility to put your own feelings aside and “pry more” when you’ve been treated with nothing but violence for prying in the first place