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I'm Still Alive

Hey Y'all,

I'm still here. I checked out Bluesky in December during a mental health break and I've moulded it into something I like, so it's better being there than that shit nazi bird site, and it's kinda become my default social media.

I'm still struggling mentally, and I'm trying to focus on my writing. You don't see much of that at present, that's because it's on my blog - you can find it here.

Apart from that I'm not up to much - work every day, crashing out every night - but I'm still about. Hoping I can get myself going on here a bit again, but we'll see how things go.

#About me

everydaylouie

royal albatross checkup

#birb blogging #what you're eating? IS ART!

hewhohasnobrains

Repost so I didn't make this

mothmandrivesstudebakers

Never judge a technology by what good they say it can do. Judge it by the harm it will do in the wrong hands.

frickomode

they sell items at tjmaxx that even God is not aware of

caudachroma

cow triangles

self-mortification

DONT use glasses, youll become dependent on them to see!!!! #WARONDRUGS #OVERPRESCRIPTION #CORRECTIVELENSADDICTION

derinthescarletpescatarian

I know this is a humorous exaggeration designed to show how silly it is to deny medication and mobility/quality of life aids to disabled people by applying the argument to something silly in a way that nobody would ever do but... unfortunately I have heard people say this. I've heard people suggest that people with minor sight problems shouldn't get glasses, and people needing to move to a stronger prescription should do it and should stay on as light a prescription as they can use and still function, because the glasses will "weaken their eyes" and make their eyesight worse (which is bullshit). People will pull this ableist bullshit on glasses wearers, too.

bananonbinary

unfortunately no matter how much you try to parody ableism, some completely genuine asshole out there already has you beat.

theothin

#'you wouldnt say this about wheelchairs!' yes they would.#'you wouldnt do this with a missing limb!' i promise they do#'but what about-' look just assume no matter how stupid it is that people are dicks about it

aethersea

cannot understate the value of turning a few no-thought-required chores into your idle animation. I am wandering around in aimless restless need, unsure what kind of stimulation I crave, compelled to seek it out and yet unsatisfied by all that I attempt? ok I can do that while I put the dishes away. or fold some laundry. recently I was able to add 'washing the dishes' to the list and it's been a game changer. I can settle into the physical motion and very low-level mental requirements of doing the chore, and the rest of my brain can turn over the problem of What Should I Do Next. eventually I think of something I could try doing instead, and by the time I do I've folded three shirts and half my underwear. and these are all chores I can drop almost at once (except washing dishes, I don't like to leave the soapy dishes out, but rinsing is mostly quick). so as soon as I want to not be doing this anymore, I just stop!

phantomrose96

Group of characters trapped together forced to endure the unspeakable horrors together and at some point it’s revealed that one of them is there voluntarily, and when pressed on why, the closest thing to an explanation anyone gets is that this character is acting on some anxiety-induced notion they deserve the horrors and so they just showed up and haven’t left.

phantomrose96

Like everyone else is non-negotiably trapped. Except this one guy who absolutely can leave at any time, but kind of just doesn't with the same vague notion of guilty loyalty as someone who stays in the car with the driver while the driver circles around for 20 minutes looking for event parking.

derinthescarletpescatarian

Not what you're talking about but relevant

asexual-amanita

Yes, some disabilities are dynamic, and most of us in the disability community know this. However many people aren’t aware of just how dynamic some conditions can be.

A person can go from no symptoms at all to being profoundly debilitated all in one day.

Some have baseline symptoms so low and flares so high, that things can go from 1 to 10 very quickly.

I know it can seem impossible that some people’s disabilities fluctuate with such extreme variability, but this is a real phenomenon that people deal with.

being escorted out of town

wizardshark

The criminal has been apprehended

transmechanicus

Grond! Grond! Grond! Grond!

tanoraqui

GROND! GROND! GROND! GROND!

#nature nerdery #shenanigans #lotr

lakemichiganbaby-deactivated202

“i do not dream of labor” yes u do. labor is fulfilling. u dream of a world where ur labor isnt exploited and its that or starvation. i guarantee u dream of labor. labor is a necessity and in and of itself is a good thing.

lakemichiganbaby-deactivated202

if u dream of having a garden, of painting murals, cooking or baking for people, researching in a lab, or writing stories, u dream of labor. which is good! we all jus hate having our labor exploited and being underpaid for the value of our work. nobody wants to just sit at home and do NOTHING as quarantine proved! in and of itself labor is fulfilling and contributes to the betterment and advancement of society, too many people are just barred by arbitrary divides (class, education) and unable to perform labor they’d be best suited for, or that type of labor (arts, service industry) is undervalued and underpaid.

cafeinevitable-deactivated20220

Turtle Quilt by Laurraine Yuyama

Tokyo Quilt Festival

writingfeedsthedarkestones

QUILT

finallygaveintothesirencall

QUILT

talesfromtreatment

I... I don't think the patient's weight got entered correctly. Just a hunch

wimpud

please, my dog, he is sick

talesfromtreatment

Every single note and comment is comedy gold and I'm wheezing from laughing so hard

awaggaa

lostinhistory

curlicuetruth

found this in one of the news articles

I can’t decide whether seven bushmaster bites means you should stay away from bushmasters or declare yourself bushmaster king

themarchrabbit

Out of curiosity, I looked this up to verify the details. The name of the establishment was the Cape Fear Serpentarium and this tale is everything promised.

So the owner’s name was Dean Ripa, and he died in May 2017. His wife, Regina Ripa, was found to be unable to distinguish right from wrong at the time of the murder, was ruled not guilty by reason of insanity, and was committed to a psychiatric care facility instead of being convicted. In real life, this is an extremely rare ruling, and from what I read, she had a history of instability where she suffered from delusions and paranoia. When law enforcement had come out to the residence earlier that day because of a call she made, Dean, her husband, did in fact tell the officers she was genuinely unwell and needed to take her medication.

Their child was, at the time, three, and was unharmed in the incident. As the child was the rightful owner of Dean Ripa’s estate, the Serpentarium was unable to remain open legally. Being a child, they were unable to legally hold the necessary permits for the snakes their father had on the premises. A family friend had attempted to keep it going, but it looks like it was legally too complicated.

There was an article written about the site and Dean Ripa himself in the Oxford American that was posted posthumously. It provides a lot of detail and background on Dean Ripa, who was, to put it mildly, an intense man.

There are pictures on Trip Advisor of the exhibits.

gumi-megpoidd

did you have to use that photo for that

gumi-megpoidd

i mean good on them...? still paired with that image thats uh. interesting

gumi-megpoidd

laura-the-swarming

I respect the fuck out of this. The whole site is trying its hardest to go against every selling point the dog robots have as its selling points.

The dog robots are supposed to be autonomous, threehalves is explicitly only for being piloted by a human. The giant horns make it difficult for this machine to enter through doorways, and that is the point. Coupled with the built-in weak points, it is very easy to disable this thing, so it can't be used by the police or the military effectively.

OP alluded to how unsettling the machine looks, and I believe that it was a concious decision; the robot dogs have garnered sympathy due to their apperance, which makes it easier for the police to morally justify their use. This thing? You're not gonna get many people to sympathise with it. The only people who would are monster and-or robot fuckers, and I believe these circles generally understand that a machine cannot be trusted (though of course many would willingly approach it for pervert reasons (positive) knowing full well it's a bad idea).