the fog is rising

NYC

[mellie-mp3]

whoa dude when I heard about "radfems" I thought it would be some most radical females! 😍🤙

but these chicks are saying some bogus things about other babes 😬

[aveline-shepard]

[the-future-now-deactivated20170]

That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

Follow @the-future-now

[dopeluminarydreamer-blog]

Reblog if you:

Have an iPhone and are in need of repairs

Have a friend with that problem

Hate Apple and are more than happy to spite them in some way

No one will know which is it

[weaselle]

This guy inspired me to repair my own macbook. First of all, you should know that I am not… like, I have to look up HOW to look up what my computer specifications are. Tech, that ware either soft or hard, is not a subject in which I experience comfort or competence. But my puppy peed on my keyboard, and I asked the apple store, or the fucking mac cafe, or the godsdamn Computer House Chill Zone or whatever cute ass name they have for their bullshit store, and they said it would be TWELVE HUNDRED DOLLARS TO REPLACE MY KEYBOARD. I’m not even exaggerating.

So I asked the internet, well how hard IS it to repair? And I saw this guy’s video, and while I am no techie, I AM fueled by spite, so I was all “oh, they do that shit on purpose specifically so they can charge me $1200 bucks or make me buy a new computer hunh? FUCK THEM” and I bought all the tools I needed for about $25 and I bought all the parts I needed for about another $25 and I watched a few tutorial videos, and I replaced my own keyboard.

So, once you are doing the actual deed, it becomes pretty obvious that they are finding creative ways to make this much harder than it has to be on purpose. On thing that stood out to me is, instead of all the tiny screws being the same size, there are about two dozen very slightly different sizes. They could easily be all the same size, or like, two sizes at most, but no.

These mother fuckers will take a panel that screws into place and they’ll use a different size screw for each corner. They are so close that you almost cannot tell them apart visually, but they each will only screw into the matching corner. Like, it’s a pretty clear “fuck you” to anyone trying to do repairs.

anyway, this guy is also fueled by spite, and doing holy work, and I have mad respect

[dragonfox-in-a-teacup]

This is awesome. Man is doing good ass deeds 24/7 because he’s giving people control.

[dantes-infernal-chili]

How dare you not leave a link to his channel, this guy is the savior of the modern world.

[deargooftroop]

I was upset to hear that Chadwick Boseman passed away, and I was shocked that he was undergoing colon cancer treatments while doing the best work of his career. It reminded me that rates of colon cancer in patients under 50 are increasing, and there are racial disparities in both the number of patients and their survival rates. Doctors recommend that Black patients get screened at 45 instead of 50 in part due to genetic factors that make colon cancer more aggressive. Plus, symptoms of colon cancer like changes in bowel habits and stomach pain mimic other GI disorders like IBS, so doctors are less likely to screen patients under 50 with these symptoms.

If you have access to healthcare, please see a doctor if you’re experiencing the symptoms listed in the resources that I linked here. I didn’t say anything earlier, but I had my endoscopy 2 weeks ago because my GI doctor had a suspicion that I could have colon cancer even though I’m 31 and otherwise healthy.

In honor of Chadwick Boseman, consider donating to organizations like the Colon Cancer Coalition that raise awareness for early detection and effective treatment for colon cancer patients.

[adventuresofyoshi]

[curlsandstems]

Lemme bless y’all with this video

[samthe-onion-nigga]

This is the cutest!!!

[swurp]

[simpsons-latino]

[say-prettyy-pleasee]

This is Money Marge. Reblog for a miracle of finances to come to you

🙏🏾💰💵

[lais-noire-deactivated20260601]

More miracles baby

[kateispenguin11]

we’re doing it jic

[mens-rights-activia]

🙃🙃🙃

[snoopysfriendwoodstock]

it’s honestly crazy how many ppl u meet in your early twenties who have never been in love or been in a relationship or had sex and then you’re like oh it’s actually normal and social milestones actually mean nothing bc everyone is different and has different experiences. cool!

[victorious]

Reblog this and money will be entering your life this week

[subversivelystitched]

Here’s a chance to change some black trans lives

Saw this on facebook and am keeping the momentum going. I’ve copied all the fundraiser links below, and here’s the link to the original post in case you’d prefer to look at the list that way.

Urgent ⬇️

Disabled Enby Needing Help For Top Surgery! organized by Atlas Raymond Ursen

Help me get home, please! $2,520/10,000 《《 high priority

Gender Fluid Human In Need Of Help $2,152/3,500 《《 escaping toxic environment; could use more recent donations

Adopted Trans Woman seeking safety & medical help $17,480/29,000

Shane’s Top Surgery $2,830/7,750 《《 this one has been up for over a year and he’s still waiting

Help J Remove Themselves from Toxic Household $1,817/2,500 《《 needs more contributions

Grace Mwangi’s Gender Confirmation Surgery $3,270/38,000

Nyne’s top surgery $3,164/8,000

Help Grayson start transition $1,276/2,000 《《 keep this going!

Skyler’s Transition Fund €603/3,000 《《 needs more contributions

Londynn’s New Life $8,913/15,000

NYIEMÄ’S GENDER CONFIRMATION FUND $8,960/37,000

Zoeys transition fund £4,840/10,000

Supporting Black Trans Elders cashapp $fakerapper $17,072/100,000

Top Surgery For Yadriel Acazio $1,922/11,000 《《 this one needs a boost

Coco’s Medical Transition Fund $4,030/15,000

Maya’s Transition & Recovery Fund $16,909/35,744

Help Create Corbyn $2,253/4,000

Flora’s Transition Fund $990/5,000 《《 needs more contributions

Amina Transition And Rent Fund €3,567/5,000

Help Guilly Get Top Surgery!! $3,150/7,500

Atticus’ homeless fund $5,723/10,000 《《 needs a boost

HOUSING FOR TRANS WOMEN OF COLOR $11,061/60,000

Ahren’s Top Surgery $3,976/7,500

Malakai’s Top Surgery $1,474/10,000 《《 needs more contributions

Top Surgery $8,000/8,000 FUNDED!

Community Housing Security $1,177/45,000 《《 needs more contributions

Kiana’s Gender Transition $2,520/35,000

Jacobs top surgery $6,960/8,000

Skye’s Top Surgery $2,160/8,500 《《 surgery is August 10th & he won’t know how much insurance will cover until day of

Hunter’s Top Surgery $5,600/12,000 《《 time sensitive, get this funded before September!

Alexandria’s Transition fund $3,562/40,000 《《 needs a boost

Myles’s Tracheal Shave Procedure $2,990/8,450

Zeke’s Top Surgery Fund $4,544/9,000

help koo start a new life $1,260/25,000 《《 needs more contributions

Landon’s Top Surgery! $1,130/2,000 《《 vital to covering what insurance doesn’t; deadline July 30th (read update)

Donate to Myla’s Breast Augmentation $2,177/6,000

Vanessa L. Naisha needs support to seek justice! $15,000/15,000 FUNDED!

Travis’ Transition Fund $18,166/75,000

Disabled Enby Needing Help For Top Surgery! $4,265/8,500 《《 NEEDS FUNDING

Tyler’s Transition Fund $14,040/30,000

Clarabelle’s Gender Affirmation Surgery $10,832/20,000

help deluca get top surgery ! $5,194/7,000

Help Black Trans Woman Transition $21,145/22,995

Wriply’s surgery/ continued living fund $8,900/26,520 《《 this one has been up since 2018. I found Wriply’s socials and she’s still active, still waiting. Let’s get this fulfilled

Help a black trans woman w/ advanced cancer in ATL $22,146/25,000 《《 needs to make rent this month

Help Harmony, a Black Trans Woman Survive $7,901/20,000 《《 urgent

Help a black trans-man get FTM top surgery! $6,448/15,000

Malikais Top Surgery $4,210/7,500

Finn’s Therapy & Wellness Fund $2,970/7,000

Kyo’s (aka Key) Transition Fund $13,554/25,000

Transition Funds for Dallas $6,930/15,000

Help a Black Trans Woman from homelessness $7,610/10,000 《《 let’s get this goal met asap

Bottom Surgery and Electrolysis $6,459/40,000

Noelle’s Breast Augmentation $11,200/15,000

Aeri’s Moving Out & Transition Fund $15,084/20,000 《《 more than 75%; keep it going

SAVE A TEENAGE TRANSMAN’S LIFE $4,585/25,000 《《 needs more

Cody’s Top Surgery $2,758/7,000

Help Kit get Top Surgery $1,985/6,000 《《 needs to be funded before October

Help Erika Begin Her Transition $10,278/10,000 FUNDED!

I will periodically update the progress amounts. As the goals are met, I’ll mark them as funded and change the colors from green to pink to make it clear. I’m also tagging the ones that could use more attention with red.

Been hearing a lot about “reparations” lately? Well, this is one way to start working towards that, since those in power certainly won’t.

[anxietyproblem]

[dankmemeuniversity]

[tarynel]

What’s your fantasy?

[pleasestopandrew]

I wake up, my debt is all paid off, my bank account is full, my relationships with my family are healthy, and I’m able to travel anywhere in the world.

[sophiamariabaeks]

reblog for this ultimate fantasy life to come true

[victorious]

Reblog this and money will be entering your life this week

[sugar1111stick]

Ill try it

[umisthatright]

I need it

[clem-style-deactivated20191229]

[dridersgeorg]

... the perfume department!

[coldalbion]

THINGS WOT I HAVE LEARNT AFTER BEING VIRTUALLY HOUSEBOUND FOR 3 YEARS THAT MAY BE HELPFUL TO THOSE IN SELF ISOLATION AND/OR LOCKDOWN DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

(Background: I have a lifelong disability and am a wheelchair user. After surgery I’ve basically been stuck living and sleeping in one room for three years. These are things I have learnt which may help, though with the caveat that everyone is different, and baseline mental health varies.)

1. YOUR MENTAL HEALTH WILL PROBABLY SUFFER - and although humans are social creatures, even the most introverted will chafe against boundaries enforced upon them by circumstance. The degree to which it suffers will be related to your mental health baseline and physical health. Understand that this IS NOT YOUR FAULT. Stimuli and enrichment methods are required. It’s why animals need such things in zoos and conservation parks. This leads us on to my next point.

2. COMPREHEND WHICH ACTIVITIES ARE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE FOR YOU Spending your confinement solely doing passive things (watching TV, Netflix, browsing the internet, scrolling through the internet) will take a load off your brain and make the time pass quicker. But if that’s all you do, the sense of disconnection increases over time. Activities which require you to *do* something, even if it’s just engaging your motor skills via video games, or lifting some cans of beans, or actively reading - these deliberate acts foster a tiny sense of achievement which gives your brain a dose of helpful chemicals. If you want to consider your activities, look up the work of Marshall McLuhan as regards “hot media” and “cold media” (See https://mediawiki.middlebury.edu/MIDD…/Hot_versus_cool_media for basic premise.) Balancing out your media intake with hot and cold activities keeps your brain active and pumping tasty neurotransmitters.

3. LIMIT YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE TO SOCIAL PURPOSES. Infinite scrolling as found on many social media platforms is a hot medium, as per McLuhan. The reason Likes exist is to give that little spike of interactivity. It’s not a conspiracy to say many platforms are designed to keep you on them so they can show you more ads. (See also https://www.theguardian.com/…/has-dopamine-got-us-hooked-on… which explains the brain chemistry angle) However, DM’s and other messaging faculties are supremely useful. Use them to interact with your friends, indulge your fandom theories. Person to person interaction requires and enhances deep-seated neurological and biophysical reflexes. Text your mates. Skype/Facetime or otherwise call them. Use the technology of the 21st century for genuine social ends, deliberately. Catch up with their lives one to one or in groupchats.

4. PICK TIMES TO CHECK THE NEWS AND STICK TO THEM. This relates to point 3 - unfortunately we live in a 24hr news cycle, with constant liveblogging of important issues. This means that we’re constantly streaming anxiety inducing situations into our brains JUST IN CASE. That’s not helpful, particularly when you can’t actually DO anything about those events - the urge to DO something is why people are panic-buying. It’s a very basic primordial need to grab resources for defence. By picking times of the day to check news, you are again, making a DELIBERATE CHOICE, enacting some small level of agency, while at the same time limiting anxiety-inducing stimuli. If the news gets too much, then don’t check it as much - or at all - and do something else.

5. IF YOU DO THINGS WITH FRIENDS, SEE IF YOU CAN DO THEM ONLINE. Run that game of DnD/Other TTRPG you’ve been meaning to. Hold your book club online. Have a few drinks online over voice-chat if you are missing the pub. Hold watch parties for your favourite shows. The key, as ever, is to be engaged rather than passive. It’s harder if you’re ill, yes, but it can be done.

6. USE YOUR IMAGINATION TO CREATE THINGS. Write that fanfic. Start that novel. Design that game. Doodle. Paint. Humans have been creating since the day we became human. Consider things from the perspective of a pre-modern person. Make handprints on your own personal cave wall - contact each other and tell spooky stories. Build a complex fantasy world. Write an account of your confinement for some person to find pieces of years after you’re gone from the world. Think about a problem, and learn how to solve it via taking online classes (See http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses) Write an essay on your chosen passion or hyperfixation - nobody needs to read it but you. Treat yourself to intellectual stimulation, if that’s your thing.

7. IF YOU HAVE A SPIRITUAL. RITUAL, OR MEDITATIVE PRACTICE DO IT. It doesn’t matter if it’s not perfect, or limited in scope. This also includes atheists and those who despise woo - you have personal rituals, things you do that have Meaning to you as a person. Maybe it;s alphabetizing your music collection, or spring cleaning or cooking your favourite meal like grandma used to make. Humans have patterns they perform. When you perform them DELIBERATIVELY (or dare I say MINDFULLY) you become aware that these are the scaffolds that structure human life.

8. STRUCTURE YOUR TIME. Following on from 7, we often don’t realise the structure of our lives until it is disrupted. When that’s removed, our minds can go into freefall. If you’re isolated/in lockdown, oftentimes you won’t be able to access those structures. Rather than wait for them to to become accessible again and risk a period of feeling lost and directionless, which can enhance depression and anxiety, it’s best to develop a new structure based on the resources you have. It can be as loose or as strict as you like, but sticking to it allows us to develop a rhythm which makes time pass in recognisable fashion and gives us a sense of being-in-the-world as some sort of engaged process.

9. KEEP YOUR SLEEP PATTERN REGULAR AND LONG ENOUGH. The key here is REGULAR. Following on from 8, it’s important to keep your body well rested, as this aids your immune system and cuts down on the possibility of your body having to deal with stress . If you’re ill it’s harder to keep this regular, because sometimes your body just needs sleep to regenerate NOW. Equally in isolation, particularly if you’re feeling mentally low, it can be tempting to sleep forever, because y’know, you’re feeling low and what’s the point. (Of course the point is why we have 8 in particular, along with all the rest.)

OBVIOUSLY EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT. Particularly for those with disabilities or chronic illnesses, we may be even more limited in our activities while isolated than able bodied folks. That said, the key is to remember that certainly during this pandemic, and otherwise YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE FEELING THIS WAY. Rubbish as it may be, many are in the same boat. If it pleases you to, seek them out - see what commonalities you have, what hopes and dreams and fascinations you may share. FIND THE OTHERS - it’s what humans have always done.

Be well.

[downtroddendeity]

I hope OP doesn’t mind me adding to this, but-

I have depression that often stops me from leaving the house. While they’re probably not universal, a few specifics that nevertheless make a big difference for me:

Put on real clothes every day, shower as much as you would if you were going out, and do any other routine self-care of a similar nature. Sitting around in your pajamas for days at a time contributes to the general feeling of depression and uselessness.

Have multiple spots to exist in; even if you’re just watching Netflix from a different spot in your bedroom, that’s better than spending all your time in your bed.

If you’re spending more time in a space than usual, you might want to devote a bit of energy to keeping it a little cleaner/neater than you normally would. I don’t usually bother making my bed nowadays, but when I was living out of a single room I did because it made the room look so much less like a Depression Cave.

If you tend to lose track of time ADHD-style, you might want to have something to mark time in your downtime so it doesn’t just turn into a blur- for instance, I’ve got an app on my phone that dings every half-hour basically just to remind me that time is passing. It can also help you remember to move once in a while.

On that note, move once in a while. Doesn’t even have to be Exercise™, just try not to spend too many hours at a stretch sitting in the same position.

If you can do so without turning into a germ vector, try to get some fresh air every once in a while. If you can’t, at least try to spend a significant portion of your day in a spot that gets some sun. Even if you don’t have actual SAD, lack of sunlight can start getting to you.

If you keep wanting to go back to social media all the time even though it’s just stressing you out: Leechblock. It’s an extension designed to stop yourself from absentmindedly wandering off into the internet hinterlands when you’re working, but is equally effective at stopping compulsive refreshing. Works on both Firefox and Chrome, and it has a lot of options for how and when to have it block things.

…Looking at this list, a lot of them seem really obvious, but I have many times experienced the frustrating feeling of realizing that some condescending advice that the internet would attribute to a neurotypical woman named Karen actually did noticeably improve things, so hey, have some semi-obvious advice.

[coldalbion]

I don’t mind at all @downtroddendeity