Sand Dollars & Abalone Shells

28, she/her, Franco-Taiwanese. This is more of a scrapbook than a blog so I'm pretty bad about tagging things - but I'd be happy to if anyone asks!I

[sanddollarsandabaloneshells]

I'm gonna scream I'm in the middle of a 3 day long formation on "autodétermination" for children with intellectual disabilities and so far it's been all the about the autodétermination of the parents for the child c'mon this is a joke.

[sanddollarsandabaloneshells]

I suppose this has been the chance for my colleagues to see the unexpectedly loudmouthed side of me that I haven't shown since my classes, on the other hand I haven't been here long enough to criticize the family structure or start pulling from anti psych theory without repercussions... I guess I'll have to work on it.

[sanddollarsandabaloneshells]

I'm gonna scream I'm in the middle of a 3 day long formation on "autodétermination" for children with intellectual disabilities and so far it's been all the about the autodétermination of the parents for the child c'mon this is a joke.

[sanddollarsandabaloneshells]

My colleague was so excited about how she went on a trip to the exotic arabic corner store to buy tahini in order to make hummus and how when she paid she assured the owner of the store that even as a white lady she knew what tahini is and what to do with it.

I'm not saying it's not kind of cute, but I am saying that I feel very lonely here.

[colorisbyshe]

I do think with news of the ceasefire, everyone should read up on what the ceasefire actually means and what the different phases of the ceasefire are. here's a good source for what we know as of now:

What do we know about a Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal in Gaza?

Ceasefire reportedly agreed, including a prisoner exchange and aid surge, after more than 460 days of conflict.

Some of my initial takeaways are:

this ceasefire is temporary (as of right now, six weeks long). negotiations will continue but israel is not offering guarantees about continued non-violence. BDS remains important. be vigilant, keep pressure up

rafah crossing will open one week after the initial phase starts

israel will release 2000 prisoners

more aid will get to northern gaza, look out for ways you can help

if the second phase is initiated, israel will do a complete withdrawal from gaza. which means the initial phase will not include that. again i say: BE VIGILANT

if the third phase is reached, reconstruction will begin "under international supervision"

nothing is over, even if this is a relief. do not tape out, do not tune out.

pls still read the full article

[transgenderweed]

Oh wow who woulda thunk

[ieiune]

libgen getting culled again and this time followed by smokescreen reporting on its alleged uses for ‘ai training.’ depressing as hell.

[ieiune]

this is what playing rpfing as temporarily embarrassed ip-holders gets you.

[mlembug]

if during your anti-AI crusade you decide to attack internet archive, libgen, scihub, opensubtitles or other websites of public utility because they're "acceptable casualties", I'm stealing something from your house

[fashionablyuninvitedx]

sorry for being weird and evasive. i was raised to believe that having wants and needs was a moral failing

[lovely-v]

okay okay i can close some tabs i don't need this google image search of "pear trees"....well you never know actually

[henk-heijmans]

Knitting, 2021 - by Joseph Ford, English

[daitoshi]

This is a Sun Bittern

It’s wings are just Like That.

Cool bird

Hope you like it :)

[valhahazred]

Huh, I never considered putting butterfly patterns on birds until now.

[transmutationisms]

psychiatry likers will be like im so glad to finally have an explanation :) and the explanation in question is oh yes you have symptoms disorder, the disorder that causes symptoms, which we know because you presented with symptoms, a sign of the disorder

[transmutationisms]

what i was poking fun at here was the misconception that psychiatric diagnoses refer to some biological entity rather than being, essentially, shorthand that is purely descriptive in nature. if i get diagnosed with the flu, the diagnosis explains my fever. if i get diagnosed with depression, the diagnosis does absolutely nothing to explain my misery; it is simply a clinically accepted term to describe it. psychiatric diagnoses have no biomarkers because they do not refer to distinct biological entities or physiological malformations; they are simply descriptions meant to capture & convey in standardised terms what patients report experiencing. thus, the sense that a psychiatric diagnosis 'explains' anything ('oh, i do [x] because i have [y]') is a fiction produced by a fundamental misunderstanding of how psychiatry works and what philosophical principles it rests on.

[spiralstaircased]

wait but they do have biological biomarkers

I mean can't these things be measured in your brain, people with XYZ disorder having physically different brain patterns and specific chemical levels than people without them

Granted it's not like they ever do scans or measure that in most people

[transmutationisms]

the 'chemical imbalance' theory is a myth and psychiatric brain scan studies are notorious for incredibly poor methodology, design, and data interpretation (x). genomics and neuroscience have not identified a biological cause of any psychiatric diagnosis (x).

[paisleycowboys]

shrimp socks 🦐🦐

[elodieunderglass]

Shrimp socks shrimp socks

[apas-95]

bad, depressing: well-insulated apartments of sturdy concrete and steel, with centralised heating

good, liberating: one thousand little houses made of cardboard and plaster, each running a gas furnace and air conditioner

[teaboot]

hi really sorry to bother you but i just want to let you know that you reblogged a post from another tumblr user

I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me

[sanddollarsandabaloneshells]

Took me 5 failed attempts (including one time when another car crashed into me during the exam when I stopped at a red light and they didn't and it was not my fault!), changing to driving an automatic car, paying a ridiculous amount of money for lessons, getting prescribed Ritalin, driving like 4000km in conduite supervisée (including driving my dad to Gare de Lyon which required going through the Rond Point de l'Etoile with an influencer taking photos standing in the middle of the road, and doing Paris-Lyon multiple times), and then moving to a more rural area, being miserable for months, and now I finally passed the exam AND did the extra 7h to be allowed to drive a manual car and now I can finally say I have a driver's license! I even drove my parents car by myself this Christmas and missed my exit on the highway because of trying to avoid tolls and wound up almost in La Defense alone trying to understand the GPS which was hell but I survived it!

[sanddollarsandabaloneshells]

Crying every day about having to go back to work because I didn't even get a real holiday. 11 days of slowly moving all my furniture and my stuff to my new town, 4 days at my parents listening to them fight, 10 days of cleaning out my old apartment to get my deposit back (had to undo all the garden stuff, redo all the walls (take off the old wallpaper my foster kittens messed up, wash and rinse every cm of the wall, put up new "toile de rénovation" then 3 layers of paint)) and now the last few days of the holiday my mom is staying at my new apartment and basically forcing me to clean it so I can "not worry about the mess so I can be fully focused at work".

I haven't been to the mountains in exactly one year now, have had to give up everything in life that made me happy, have had to move to a city I don't want to live in for a job I don't love, 7 months later my foot injury still prevents me from walking anywhere far, I still can't drive so I can't go anywhere I want to go on my weekends, my friends are all busy with their babies and I'm absolutely losing my mind in every way possible.

[talonabraxas]

′′ the saint ′′