youve gotta be squidding me

Hi, I’m Octo, queer, pronouns are they/them, and this here is my general blog~ Mostly reblogging fandom content rn, but there is some non-fandom on here too! A safe place for the Twitter refugees, feel free to ama. Anyway my art blog is over @arandomocto

[somedancingdoodles]

Just a public service reminder :>

[jupiterjames]

Did I just employ the "Treat Them Like You are A Kindergarten Teacher Again" method with my insurance company today? I surely did. Did it work? Probably better than intended because I made an actual doctor feel contrite.

So, my insurance has been trying to not cover my SNRI because it is new on the market and no generic available yet, so pricey.

I apply for a refill and the request gets locked for review. Again. For the 3rd time.

This time I call and immediately ask to speak to the actual doctor making these clinical decisions. Very politely. Must be a slow day because they allow it.

ME: [Teacher voice] I'm calling in regards to the SNRI you have placed a lock on. Why was this decision made?

DOC: Well, there are dozens of other medications on the market in that tier, and far cheaper for you and [insurer]. We have sent a request to your doctor to consider alternatives.

ME: I am aware of that. So, can you do me a HUGE favor and look up my prescription history really quickly and tell me how many SSRIs and SNRIs were only filled once in 2022 for me, showing they were poorly tolerated?

DOC: It looks like eight.

ME: Great job! Now, can you please look at my genetic test for psychiatric drug tolerance and tell me how many medications are listed in the safe category?

DOC: Two.

ME: Awesome! Now, can you tell me what type that other drug is that I'm not taking?

DOC: Yeah, totally, it's an MAOI.

ME: That's correct, you're really knowledgeable! Should I be taking something as dangerous as an MAOI with my other medications, or even just in general?

DOC: It's contraindicated for sure.

ME: It is! So true! So, last question since you've been incredibly smart and helpful. Is it less expensive for [insurer] to pay out for the medication knowing they already get a huge manufacturer discount anyway, or is it more expensive for them to pay for me to need potentially long-term inpatient psychiatric care?

DOC: I'll clear the code, ma'am and flag it as medically necessary. I'm sorry about this.

ME: I appreciate you SO MUCH. You have a great day now.

WALGREENS PHARMACY TECH WITH 5 NOSE RINGS AND PURPLE HAIR STARING AT ME: ........... OKAY! It'll be ready in five minutes. You wanna come work here?

[headspace-hotel]

Kill them with kindness

BUT KILL THEM

[rubysevens]

i??????? sksjsbzvsvshdhsbdb

[rubysevens]

update:

He did her right

[helloitsbees]

“he”?

[takemetoohigh]

confirmed

One of the hottest controversy of the month

[vagiilante]

I’ve seen this post a bunch and never once did I consider a scenario where it wasn’t about a woman.

[echossecondblog]

hey. Wanna hear something funny

HE IS A DUDE!

THE PLOT TWIST A LIFETIME

[haystarlight]

HE *DID* DO HER RIGHT!

[crazy-pages]

Help Von Recover From Top Surgery, organized by Von Morris

Hello! My name is Von. I am a trans dude out in Brooklyn and I finally have a top surger… Von Morris needs your support for Help Von Recove

Putting the link in the post.

[myothertardisisonthemun]

[naamahdarling]

As someone in a relationship with a Hawaiian shirt wearing trans dude who will, ah, do me right, my initial assumption was completely correct.

[gecko-with-a-greatsword]

*guy who doesn't know anything about sports and has never cared about sports in his life* hey did you know womens professional baseball is returning after 70 years and the games are going to be streamed for free on youtube and the season starts august 1st

[gecko-with-a-greatsword]

youtube link

Women's Pro Baseball League

Our time is now. The inaugural season of the WPBL begins August 1st, 2026.

website

[tainbocuailnge]

forget everything anyone has ever told you on the matter the truest marker of adulthood is starting to hear the siren call of high quality kitchenware

[tainbocuailnge]

to be clear you SHOULD buy that cast iron pan and you SHOULD buy that knife set and you SHOULD buy that fancy rice cooker and you SHOULD buy that novelty mug. high quality kitchenware is always worth it you’re literally gonna be using that almost every day

[augustdementhe]

I just need a good pot, a good wok, TWO paring knives, TWO steak knives, and one Santoku style choppitychoppity.

That’s IT.

I ask for SO LITTLE.

[rionsanura]

Very helpfully, there is someone keeping track of which high-quality kitchenware has been enshittified and which hasn’t.

https://ledger.worseonpurpose.com/

[augustdementhe]

Oh HELL yes.

[tredlocity]

[tredlocity]

[paranormal-paracosm]

Holds you by the shoulders. You are not jealous of disabled people with higher support needs. You are jealous of disabled people with better families and higher class status. Do noooot conflate the two.

[datsderbunnyblog]

This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.

[catboycommunist]

evergreen

[lesbxdyke]

I think someone needs to check on this man... I don't think he's okay...

[arrowquillpokemon]

game: has any kind of elemental based fighting system

me: apply pokemon logic

[gluttonousgoddess]

To be fair Pokemon element logic is rooted in normal logic.

[arrowquillpokemon]

yeah, everyone knows a wrestlers biggest weakness is the local pigeons

[karnalesbian]

go outside and try to suplex a bird

[dolleyeresponse]

tell me how bug resists fighting

[karnalesbian]

go outside and try to suplex a bug

[imjunebitch]

calling ppl "larpers" to insinuate theyre fake fans of smth/poorly pretending to be smth is so fucking stupid cuz. tell me u have never met a real LARPer without saying u have never met a real LARPer. those guys care. they are fucking locked in dude. like LARP is a lifestyle its a commitment they care so much. they're not fake nerds either like fake nerds just repost LOTR gifsets and talk about how nerdy they are for being into like, fucking batman and stuff. LARPers know their shit. they read the whole Silmarillion. they know who Ambush Bug is. like get LARP's name out of your fucking mouth

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

the other thing about Internet dogpiling is that it is just not possible to think clearly during the acute stages. it’s so easy to criticize people for responding defensively or tactlessly to mass criticism but I cannot overstate the degree to which your brain becomes a rat in a trap. I think we do have to temporarily recalibrate our expectations in these circumstances and accept that they do not necessarily represent how that person responds to criticism. the skills for self-regulating and reacting to normal interpersonal criticism are not the same skills needed to respond to viral callouts.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

as other people have pointed out:

for most of human history, if a bunch of people are really mad at you specifically all at once, it means you’re about to die badly. obviously that’s not the case with internet controversy (…usually) but our nervous systems don’t know that. I just think that’s a variable we have to consider inherent to the circumstances rather than an aberration.

[bishkebab]

The other factor I'm rotating in my brain is that for much of human history, social backlash for misbehavior (including shaming) was typically localized to some level of community or micro-community. Unless someone was causing widespread damage (I mean actual, material harm) the audience for the actions of an individual person would be fairly limited and they would be held accountable by their peers.

Now the concept of "community" is nebulous, which is a double-edged blade; even if your initial online community is relatively small, the potential audience for anything you say or do that makes it to the internet is anyone who has even tangential access to the internet.

We could go around in circles debating how much widespread reach translates to actual privilege or influence, and the level to which personal accountability scales with follower count or by publishing an indie novel or running a successful YouTube channel or (fill in the blank)... But it bears considering that there is a magnitude of difference between "guy says or does something shitty and offensive/ignorant and the people in his direct social circle hold him accountable and tell him he's being a shithead" and "guy says or does something shitty and offensive/ignorant and hundreds of complete strangers start demanding accountability, many of whom didn't even know who he was until they heard about what he said or did second-hand".

This is something I have to challenge myself to consider and admit -- what is my actual purpose in joining in with mass criticism? Do I actually believe that 500 people demanding accountability is an appropriate and necessary amount of social pressure being utilized to reduce harm, or am I angry and wanting to see someone punished via social consequences?

Even if my anger is completely justified -- even if the person "deserves" social consequences -- does the increased visibility of the offense actually correlate to the scale of the appropriate response?

(If the fine for littering is $10, does a thousand people seeing you litter mean you owe $10,000? Can we maybe imagine what someone's instinctive human response might be to a swarm of people surrounding them and all clamoring for $10 at once?)

[time-traveling-fetus]

Theres also the element of there being a vastly different social dynamic between a few upset friends and a few thousand. When your friends ask you to apologize, it comes with years of goodwill and the understanding that you are capable of learning from your mistakes. You can then apologize to each friend you hurt and move on.

If a thousand people are angry at you, then you won't know each person. Their judgement doesn't come with years of goodwill, and some of them may even be hearing of you for the first time. For those people, you aren't the generally nice person who was uncharacteristically mean. You're the stranger who did something bad, and with no other knowledge of you, they'll extrapolate your entire personality off of one offensive comment.

Each one will ask for accountability. Some of them will be nice about it. Some of them will be harsh with you. Some will even insult you. You will hear all of them simultaneously, but you will not be able to talk to all of them. You cant have a reasonable back and forth conversation with a thousand people. Even if you convince one person that this is a big misunderstanding, theres hundreds behind them. You won't be able to personally apologize to everyone either. You can release a public apology, but each person will have different standards.

Even if some people understand that you're sorry and want to do better, others won't. Some may be looking for you to be more emotionally repentant on camera, and you'll be asking yourself if you should have cried in your apology video. Some people will think you're being disingenuous, and fake crying will just make it worse. Some people will want there to be a punishment, and you won't be able to satisfy them at all. Some people won't even be aware you apologized because they aren't closely following everything a stranger says. Some people will just want to hate you.

There might even be people who hear about it years after it happened and get angry at you all over again, even if you already apologized and promised to do better. You could be subject to hurtful comments and accusations of wrongdoing for years and years off of one mistake. That's why people spreading around "receipts" has always carried an insidious undertone with me.

You physically cannot have a conversation with everyone who is angry with you, and no public statement will satisfy everyone. Even if the angry people are mostly made up of reasonable individuals, there will still be enough unreasonable people to continue stirring the pot despite your attempts to make amends.

[vultures-nest]

im studying histology and i just like the little guys that work so hard to keep our organisms up and running

[kyleblackpaw]

Visit Original Link

Well as long as we’re talking about the ancient internet, who remembers this.

[drphaffot]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

… I just realised that some of my mutuals are Too Young to get flashbacks from this. I hate the internet.

[moniquill]

Robot Unicorn Attack is from 2010. The window for ‘ancient’ keeps getting smaller. Anyway, All your base are belong to us.

[firespirited]

I’m a simple person, i see the delightful duo that are flamboyant and nerdy Erasure, and reblog to share the love. Whether you discovered them via a scrubs episode or a flash animation, seek out more. It’s all wierd and wonderful.

[nyanletnest]

bwaow

[shadow-von-vamp]

reblogging a post that says “do it scared” vs actually doing it scared

[tractorgoth]