I don't owe you recovery

Autistic with depression and anxiety, as well as possible borderline personality disorder/complex PTSD and a couple chronic illnesses. Also has a psych degree. I can't tag much.

[closetscorpio]

[i-add-sources]

USC Agents of Change establishes hotline to help move immigration hearings online

Since Monday, a group of 15 USC student, alumni and faculty volunteers have already received thousands of calls for help on open immigration

this is true

edit to add additional sources under cut

Hotline helps immigrants move hearings online to avoid arrest at court

A group of students, alumni and volunteers from the University of Southern California are banding together to help people with upcoming immi

[akimarshmallow]

what abled ppl think is a massive problem for disabled folks: 13 year old on the internet faking something

what is actually a massive problem for disabled folks: "well you don't LOOK disabled, are you sure you're not faking? I'm not giving you accommodations until you PROVE you're not faking. Please give me, a stranger, your medical info and explain your condition to me in detail so I know you're not faking and only then will I respect or take you seriously"

[txttletale]

"to get treatment for adhd you (person with untreated adhd) need to schedule and then show up for several appointments" is the kind of shit the greek gods would inflict on a guy who ate his son

[sadhoc]

sometimes it is straight up impossible accommodate some disabled people in a particular event. someone's dietary needs are too restrictive for anything provided to be edible for them. sometimes your house or apartment has unavoidable stairs that your landlord refuses to have adjusted. sometimes a deadly allergen is going to have to exist in a workplace (for example a company that makes peanut butter is not going to be able to have a peanut free workplace).

the solution is not to deny this. the solution is to be upfront about it and let us make our own decisions and cost/benefit analysis about whether to attend.

[earhartsease]

this - and what you should never do is say

yes it's accessible! there's just [insert thing that makes it not, in fact, accessible, like two steps or a high lintel or the bathroom's upstairs or whatever] is that going to be okay? we don't bother telling people that part unless they ask us specifically, are you asking us specifically?

[ana-bananya]

Donate to Congo and Sudan, organized by Mutual Aim

Hello! Thank you for being here. As you all know, Congo and Sudan are currently in states of emerge… Mutual Aim needs your support f

$3,064/$30,000

This campaign was started by @/atute_insp on tiktok and her team Mutual Aim to collect money for the DRC, Sudan, and Tigray. The donations will be divided between the three causes. If you would like do donate but don't have the funds to donate to multiple campaigns, this is a great way to help both the Congo, Sudan, and Tigray.

[patrochilles-or-bust]

Do you suffer chronic pain?

yes

no

Voting ended onNov 5, 2024

Nour's - @noor-yashour - son Muhammad suffers chronic pain due to his medical condition, which would already be hard to deal with, but even now he suffers it under excruciating circumstances due to the ongoing genocide.

Please, donate if you can, and share if you will not 🙏🏾

Donate to Help us save Muhammad's life, organized by Mohammed Ashour

Hello my friends all over the world I am Nour Ashour from Gaza, 29 years old I am marrie… Mohammed Ashour needs your support for Help us sa

[reachartwork]

stealing this from twitter

[reachartwork]

i hope this is the post that finally gets people to understand why people who are generally fine with ai keep yelling about "copyrighting style is bad, if you do that to stop ai you will just fuck yourself over". it lays it out very succinctly. do you understand yet

[tzifron]

"Our Job Is to Flatten Gaza. No One Will Stop Us."

Inside one Israeli battalion's yearlong mission of destruction

December 2023: Blowing Up Al-Azhar University

“Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined” 

In December 2023, Company A of the 749 Battalion was tasked with rigging up the south Gaza City campus of Al-Azhar University with explosives and detonating them, reducing Gaza’s second-largest university to rubble. "On Shabbat, we loaded the mines, andI signed off on the shipment with a modification due to the sanctity of Shabbat,”FirstMaster Sergeant David Zoldan, the operational officer of Company A of Israel’s 749 Battalion wrote in a Facebook post on December 20. “A few days later, we assembled them and booby-trapped one of Gaza’s symbols of the future—Al-Azhar University in the northern part of the strip—and blew it up.”

[warcrimesimulator]

[kusali]

That's not even.. what's going on (re the last tweet). People with ocd aren't contemplating sexually abusing kids, they're afraid they might sexually harm a child by mistake, or be a pedophile without realising, or any number of similar anxieties, but the point is that it becomes an anxious fixation because the person finds it so repellant. It's such an incredibly common ocd symptom, but most people are understandably terrified to talk about it

I remember reading a study where a therapist was helping people with similar anxieties - though not involving children - work through them. One client said she was afraid she was going to murder the therapist, not that she wanted to but that she'd somehow lose control of herself or an accident would happen. The solution? The therapist brought a kitchen knife to an appointment (with the patients consent), handed it to her and basically said "okay, what now?" Turns out nothing now, nothing happened, and it helped the client deal with the phobia

Obviously that approach isn't workable with something like pedophilia/csa anxiety but I think it highlights the true nature of what the anxiety actually is. It's irrational anxiety that comes from a deep fear and disgust of csa, not a desire to perpetrate it

[transhuman-priestess]

OCD-haver: “I have ridiculous irrational fear disease, it causes me to have ridiculous irrational fears”

Enlightened normal-brainer: “that is ridiculous and irrational, clearly you’re worried because it’s secretly true”

OCD-Haver: [tired stare at camera]

[autisticadvocacy]

Project 2025 and the Disability Community - DREDF

Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund

Learn how Project 2025 would affect disabled people in the United States.

[feluka]

I bring you a message from @anas-kamal, who's doing wonderful work for the children of Gaza to ease their fear and misery. Please lend him your time and support! He has asked me to share this with you on his behalf:

Children are not to blame for all this violence in Gaza.

I'm always trying to make them forget this terror. The days are very difficult for them. They have a lot of accumulated and locked up energy.

Starvation is slowly killing them. They don't understand what hunger is and they simply ask for their right to have good food but our response unfortunately is "there is no possibility" 😞 and their right to entertain themselves, and our response out of fear is "there is no safe place".

We have children but no childhood.

You can support me 👇🏻 my campaign to be able to continue my career (I'm a future doctor) that the GENOCIDE made me lose. It is a dream that I trust that you will achieve it. Grateful to the good world. 🌎🍉🫂

Donate to An Emergency Case to Help a Medical Student Stuck in Gaza, organized by Anas Ayesh

( version en ingles esta mas abajo - the english version is bel… Anas Ayesh needs your support for An Emergency Case to Help a Medical Stud

Tagging for reach under the cut:

@timetravellingkitty @meaganfoster @briarhips @vakarians-babe @mahoushojoe

@rhubarbspring @schoolhater @pcktknife @transmutationisms @sawasawako

@ot3 @aces-and-angels @terroristiraqis @commissions4aid-international @wellwaterhysteria

@deepspaceboytoy @post-brahminism @junglejim4322 @kibumkim @neechees

@mangocheesecakes @kyra45 @marnota @7bitter @tortiefrancis @appsa

@toiletpotato @fromjannah @omegaversereloaded @vague-humanoid @criptochecca

@aristotels @komsomolka @neptunerings @riding-with-the-wild-hunt @heritageposts

[anas-kamal]

📍Our Children have Rights like everyone else 🙏🏼🍉

[maester-cressen]

This campaign was shared by @/gaza-evacuation-funds

[ouroborosmoons]

US authorizes CIA mercenaries to run biometric concentration camps in Gaza Strip

A private intelligence corporation billed as "Uber for war zones" is preparing to create what Israel hopes will be the model for supplanting

Concentration camps within the concentration camp

Glory to The Resistance. May they have continuing strength.

[sayruq]

You know the drill by the now. Buy eSims!

Nomad (regional middle east) ➡️ Simly

[memingursa-deactivated20250625]

[autisticadvocacy]

Support community reparations for Autistic People of Color through the Autistic People of Color Fund!

[modern-politics111]

Because I remember disinformation being spread around the last few elections and I’m sure assholes will bring it back:

YOU CAN’T VOTE ONLINE.

YOU CAN’T VOTE FROM YOUR PHONE.

IN MANY STATES THERE ARE LEGAL CONSEQUENCES FOR PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR BALLOT.

DO NOT WEAR CAMPAIGN GEAR TO THE POLLS.

DO NOT TRY TO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR A CANDIDATE AT THE POLLS.

DO NOT ENGAGE IN ANY KIND OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE AT THE POLLS.

NO ELECTION IS EVER A SURE THING, EVEN IF YOU’RE IN THE BLUEST OR REDDEST OF STATES.  IF SOMEONE TRIES TO TELL YOU THAT YOU CAN SIT THIS ONE OUT, THEY ARE EITHER IGNORANT OR MALICIOUS.

VOTE.

[keyofw]

I know it's no longer a novel observation how the entire internet is enshittified now but it's still shocking that so many of the things we depend on had such a sudden and marked decline in quality.

Google results are mostly ads. Facebook is 90% ads, 10% domestic terrorists. Twitter is... well, not Twitter and it's only good for Nazis to yell at each other in the hopes they make .0004 cents per tweet. Instagram is ads. TikTok is misinformation central. YouTube serves forty-seven ads per second of videos watched.

Every news article is behind a paywall, and some of them are just AI-text garbled from someone else's much better article, also behind a paywall.

AI art has made it impossible to find images you want. It's also exploded the use and potential use of misinformation. Your data is now being fed to generative AIs to make cheap slop that only makes information harder to find and source.

Everyone wants you using their app instead of a web browser so that you aren't allowed to block the 3,487 ads per page that have to load.

Amazon is full of fake or low-quality dupes of the things you actually want to buy. Netflix and other streaming services are raising prices, cutting available shows, and erasing the existence of shows in order to avoid paying writers. Art hosting sites such as DeviantArt allow your work to be scraped for NFTs and generative AI without your consent or any form of compensation. Spotify has demonetized over 80% of their tracks and pays the rest astoudingly low, worse than the other streaming services which also underpay.

Everything is a subscription service which means not only are you paying for the same product in perpetuity but you never technically own any tool you use and your right to use it can be revoked at any time. Everything has to be a "smart" product so when the business inevitably folds and/or the servers shut down, your product no longer works. Hope it's not something you need!

Every company no longer accepts phone calls but routes you through a series of automated messages until finally dumping you off to an overworked and underpaid person who has no power to help you. Speaking of phones, you can't use them for calls. There are so many robocallers and scams that no one in their right mind picks up the phone anymore. Texts are going the same way. No one wants to dig through 100 scam messages to find the one from the person they actually want to talk to.

It's all just the inevitable end result of capitalism. It doesn't have to be this way. But there needs to be regulation, and fast, or the "Dead Internet Theory" will no longer be a fringe theory.