In the Wake of Many Tragedies

Marco | 27 | he/him Medical illustrator. Theoretically Normal about WW1 (lying)

[princecroutons]

his head is so fucking wide

[princecroutons]

[murraysiskind-deactivated202511]

It’s so crazy that suicide prevention is just people going awwww don’t!! Awwww come on noooooooooo stopppppp

[allhailklisz]

[yokelfelonking]

One of the best ones I saw was a thing noting that every single one of the few survivors of suicide jumps off of the Golden Gate Bridge realized, on the way down, that the problems they were killing themselves over actually were fixable or could be worked through...except for the now - extremely unfixable - problem of gravity.

[authortobenamedlater]

Went to the Holocaust Museum in DC once. There was a video interview of an Auschwitz survivor who said he and some other prisoners stayed up all night with a man who wanted to kill himself. The man didn’t kill himself and survived to liberation.

In the video the survivor said “Never seek a permanent solution to a temporary problem. And they’re all temporary problems.”

Hearing that from a guy who survived the Holocaust rewired my brain a little bit.

[drgrlfriend]

I think something a lot of people don't understand is that depression is not suicidality, and suicidality is not depression. People can, and are, depressed without being suicidal, and sometimes suicidality peaks as people are emerging from depression. Suicidality is a wave, and the trick is to allow that wave to crest and subside WITHOUT acting on it. Whatever it takes to ride it out. For some people that's distraction, like watching television. For others it's calling a friend -- not to talk about the suicidality, but just to talk. For others it could be as simple as going to sit in a coffee shop or library, because the presence of other people is a huge diminisher of suicide risk. That's what suicide safety planning is about. It's like having any other type of emergency plan, like a plan for fire or evacuation. It's making a plan when you are in the frame of mind to do so, so that you can just DO the plan without having to think about it when the occasion arises. When you're in the midst of suicidal ideation, or even intent, you're not in a problem-solving mood. So knowing past!you, with the help of a therapist hopefully, came up with the plan and all you have to do is follow up until the wave crests and subsides, is what allows you to see another day.

ETA: Here's a link to a safety plan. https://www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/988-safety-plan.pdf

[goldkirk]

There’s a really compassionate and well-written paper/book/thing called Suicide: The Forever Decision that’s written specifically for people who are currently suicidal. The letter to the reader at the beginning is wonderful and deeply understands how to talk to someone who’s suicidal without preaching or talking down to them.

It’s very honest. It’s very clear. It’s very kind. It presents you with a lot of information and a lot of understanding and lets you take it all in like the autonomous human you are, and make decisions from an informed place. It goes over the reality of suicide attempts, pain involved, likelihoods of survival, after effects of attempts, and how to get help if you want it after reading all of that and learning about the reality of suicide attempts.

You can read it for free here: https://qprinstitute.com/pdfs/Forever_Decision.pdf

No one can ever stop you if you’re really determined. Only you can stop yourself. If you’re suicidal and there’s ANY tiny part of you that wants a chance to not go down that route, but can’t convince the rest of you yet, give this short book a try. Or share it with anyone you know who might need it.

[hiddenwwi]

Iron observation post atop Fort Douaumont on the Verdun battlefield

[schizsune]

i love when women clearly have something wrong with them

[deceasedcardinal]

[viejospellejos]

Típico de belgas malinois

[ceruinus]

Good video showcasing exactly why these dogs are not suited to 99 percent of households.

They've gotten very popular recently and I suspect theyre also being dumped in shelters at a high rate

[ultramarineblues]

I can confirm they are.

Which is one of the reasons I reblogged this, I vaguely hope it might make someone somewhere reconsider their choices

[girlballs-archive]

someone needs to invent reverse cornflakes. i want to eat a cereal that gives me a demonic erection and inflicts upon me an insatiable lust

[girlballs-archive]

congratulations for writing the funniest and also most correct tags on this post

[curiositysavesthecat]

When watching a well-made video by a small creator on a subject you are genuinely interested in, how much AI involvement can you tolerate without dropping the video (and the creator)?

I prefer AI-generated videos and/or videos with AI involvement

Usage of AI isn’t an issue. It’s irrelevant to whether or not I keep watching

I’d tolerate the whole thing being AI-generated

I’d tolerate it if AI was used for audio & visual, but the script was human-made

I’d tolerate it if AI was used for audio, but the visual was human-made

I’d tolerate it if AI was used for visual, but the audio was human-made

I’d tolerate it if AI was used for script, but audio & visual were human-made

I’d tolerate it if AI was used only for research, everything else was human-made

I’d tolerate it if AI was used for tiny details and editing

I’d tolerate it if AI was used for text-to-speech (or other pre-genAI features)

I would not tolerate anything with AI

Remaining time: 5 days 10 hours

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[ralfmaximus]

Lost me at "well made video" and AI.

[thestenchofcheeseandregrets]

nothing anyone does needs ai. not a damn thing.

[ghost-mantis]

The second I recognize AI I’m out.

[orbitalyear-deactivated20230513]

old gods are waking

[dragon-in-a-fez]

idea:

[day-time-dream]

[storm-of-feathers]

tumblr is great bc its like a diary where I can take other peoples diary entries and glue them into my own diary

[queen-mabs-revenge]

[scrapironflotilla]

[theworldatwar]

Women munitions workers guide shells moving along an overhead gantry at a factory in Chilwell, near Nottingham - England, July 1917. Over 500,000 a day were used at the Third Battle of Ypres.

[dogpuppy]

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

It’s incredibly sexist to claim Taylor swift’s dad bought her career

damn you're right. both of her parents worked together to buy her career and I am sorry for disrespecting Andrea Swift in this way

[molabuddy]

?????????

[apoemaday]

Way to Go

by A.R. Ammons

West light flat on trees: bird flying deep out in blue glass: uncertain wind stirring the leaves: this is the world we have: take it

[herprivateswe]

A similar French trench using fascines or woven branches to prevent the sides of the trench collapsing.