Twilight System

Traumagenic system of about 40. Mortimer is the host. We know what it's like to be invalidated, therefore we support all systems.

[twilight-system]

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[beanixwright-deactivated2022030]

hot flaming take i’m abt to slap you with: it’s not acceptable to punish children for their grades, no matter the circumstances.

[beanixwright-deactivated2022030]

lost a follower for this one!

[transarsonist]

Any situation in which the grades are "bad enough to punish" is a situation in which your child is already struggling, and needs, more than anything, your support and affection.

If you punish them you will teach them nothing but how to loathe

[evolvingvolans]

I’ve heard of so many kids whose grades went bad for a long time, and it turned out that they needed glasses, or they had dyslexia, or ADHD, or they had graves disease, or they were being abused, or they had epilepsy and teachers were misinterpreting it as misbehavior. Lots of health issues can look like inattentiveness and forgetfulness. Bad grades are a sign of needing help. Punishing a kid wouldn’t help with any of those things. 

[renthony]

My teenager has more hours of homework per night than I got in my entire university career, and it doesn’t teach them a goddamn thing besides how to hate themself for not being able to do it all.

If my wife isn’t expected to labor outside her designated work hours at her literal job, why is my teenager expected to labor outside theirs?

[renthony]

If my kid has three hours of homework a night, that extends their work day to ELEVEN FULL HOURS. That’s inhumane. If an adult told me they were working eleven-hour days, I’d give them my wife’s number and tell them how to start unionizing. Like????

[itistoearly]

Ok! When I was a kid I would complain so much about school and homework and adults always told me, “when you have a job and responsibilities you’ll realize how easy you had it as a kid and how small and easy and insignificant this is.” Except I became an adult, got a job. And I still feel fucking bad for kids. Like I’m sorry, my job is really fucking stressful and I have to deal with idiots and assholes giving me shit. But like

1. I get fucking payed to do this? Like kids work and don’t get payed at all

2. I get a 40hr work week and again get payed to do those 40hrs because if I wasn’t it would be considered inhumane for a person to do 40hrs of really stressful work and not get payed anything. Except kids work even more then I do and get payed literally nothing. Like kids go to school from 7am-3pm at least where I’m from. That’s 8hrs for 5 days aka 40hrs except they also get homework, the average kid gets around 3hrs of homework a day (sometimes more.) So that’s no longer 8hrs a day which an adult is expected to work but 11hrs a day, making for 55hr work weeks!!

3. I’m an adult! Like why do people not understand this. “Oh well as an adult I have to go through stresses and and responsibilities and shit too!” Well yea you are a full grown fucking adult. Don’t compare what you have to go through to a literal child of like 12!! Why does the 12 year old need to be as stressed out as you?? They’re 12!

4. Children have to wake up at fucking 5 in the morning every day. At least I did. My classes started at 7:00 but the buses would pick us up at around 6:30 and I would have to wake up at 5:30 to get ready. That’s insane! I still sometimes have to wake up at 5am for work but I get payed for it, it’s not every single day, like some days I’ll close or open or work midshifts, I’m a fucking adult not a growing developing child, and I don’t get home to do homework and study which keeps me up for hours.

5. I get home and I’m done. That’s it. Time to do what I want. Kids get home and fucking do more work?? Bullshit.

6. Adults are allowed to be tired and frustrated but kids aren’t for some reason. I’ve seen so many time kids will be visibly tired or frustrated or upset probably because they’ve got a shit ton of responsibility, deal with assholes for 8hrs a day, wake up hella early and stayed up all night doing homework or studying, and then everyone gets mad at them. Like fuck you guys. Let the child take a nap. I was always so angry all the time as a kid and that immidetely went away when I graduated. Because I was no longer a sleep deprived kid who was yelled at 24/7 and feeling like a moron all the time.

So yea fuck people who give shit to kids/teens or say they have it easy.

[blackmagicforever]

fuck that. tbh i’m on my last year of high school and the stress levels of some of the kids in my class is horrid. a friend of mine had a breakdown in the bathroom one time because she didn’t get a chance to speak and explain her part on a class discussion and she’s up running for honor roll with a solid +3.5 ish GPA and dude, shitty doesn’t cover it. the pressure, the studying and work, the exams and tension and everything… y'all some of us students aren’t even bothering to cope healthly and turn to stupid stuff in order to forget the fact that we have three papers, two exams, and a fuck ton of homework every week or so, let’s not even touch the classes and how, if you have horrid social anxiety, you’re fucked three ways and begging to dig a hole, crawl in it, and sob in peace. (a.k.a. me)

[twilight-system]

And all of this under the pretense that they’re “preparing you for life/adulthood/a job”... Except as an adult I’ve only needed about 10-20% of what they’ve taught me, and I barely understand how to be an adult because they didn’t teach me what I needed most.

[friendlyneighbourhoodpapergay]

Yet another reminder that faking is a conscious choice that you make.

It is not something you can do accidentally, regards of what you're talking about.

You can't accidentally fake depression, or anxiety, or bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia, or any other mental illness.

You can't accidentally fake Borderline Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, personality disorders.

You can't accidentally fake ADHD, autism, Tourette's Syndrome, auditory processing disorder, aphasia or any other neurodivergence

You can't accidentally fake being trans or ace-spec or aro-spec or any other LGBTQIA+ identity.

You can't accidentally fake chronic illnesses like CFS, fibromyalgia or any chronic illness.

You also can't accidentally fake being good/intelligent at something. You didn't fool your peers into reaching your position.

You can't accidentally fake trauma, PTSD/cPTSD, DID/OSDD/DDNOS or any other trauma-based disorder.

Tldr:

Faking is a conscious choice.

You cannot do it by accident.

If you are worried that you are faking, that in itself is proof that you are not.

[chaotic-bastard-demon]

OHTHANKGOD

[parafoxicalk]

Also! if you genuinely thought you had something, but later realized that you don’t, that’s okay! You’re allowed to be mistaken!!

[salvadorbonaparte]

Hey did you know I keep a google drive folder with linguistics and language books  that I try to update regularly 

[salvadorbonaparte]

**UPDATE**

I have restructured the folders to make them easier to use and managed to add almost all languages requested and then some

Please let me know any further suggestions

[salvadorbonaparte]

[zuzusexytiems]

THANK YOU????? SO MUCH??????? WHAT THE FUCK SHSGSKDHKXC

[sunwukxng]

@bigskydreaming this seems to be your kind of tea.

[thegrumpycaterpillar]

Break the stigma

[deakysgurl-deactivated20240308]

I could not reblog this fast enough 

[altheadajoysoul]

[mediumkravitz]

Genuinely I enjoy criticisms of America as a nation for Obvious Reasons of Color but so many of y’all are just like “I hate Americans because they [something only white people do] [something only white people do] [something we’re forced to deal with due to our government] [something that even white Americans will mock you for doing] [something only rich people can afford to do] [movie trope] [something you would only bring up if you’re fatphobic] [something that Canada also does but hides behind the “we’re just super nice teehee” stereotype] [something that your country does but you recognize is not inherently the fault of all citizens] [literally just capitalism] [something you’ll only see in like, Maine] [something Americans complain about constantly] [movie trope] [something only white people do]”

[twilight-system]

I don’t want to be here so please don’t hate me for something I can’t currently change - Ash

[taikeero-lecoredier]

Archive.org is facing a lawsuit

tldr: the Internet Archive/WayBack Machine is super important in term of archived content, billions of stuff are on there, and with the current event happening in the world like stated above,without this tool, it will be hard to properly document what took place. It will be easy for certain people to rewrite history. Dont let them.

DONATE HERE (post dont get much exposure with working links sorry)

 archive.org/donate/

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

IF YOU CANT DONATE THEN PLEASE SPREAD THE INFO

On twitter,tumblr,facebook,heck,anywhere you want,this needs to be talked about !

[ruffboi-mags]

they’re being sued due to putting together an “emergency library”, essentially, in the wake of schools and libraries closing due to covid-19.

you can read about it in a few places. here’s one article on the subject, but there’s plenty to be found.

[loveletter2you]

dropbox containing linguistics textbooks

contains 34 textbooks including etymology, language acquisition, morphology, phonetics/phonology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, & translation studies

dropbox containing language textbooks

contains 86 language textbooks including ASL, Arabic, (Mandarin) Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew (Modern & Ancient), Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh

dropbox containing books about language learning

includes fluent forever by gabriel wyner, how to learn any language by barry farber, polyglot by kató lomb

if there’s a problem with any of the textbooks or if you want to request materials for a specific language feel free to message me!

[stonecrop]

I’m both pro herbal medicine and pro vaccination because you can treat burns with aloe vera juice and sore throats with lavender infused honey but you can’t rid a country of polio with plants. 

[made-of-love-and-stars]

THIS.

[tr4shpandaa]

Don’t forget kids, jewelweed is a natural counteragent to poison ivy rashes but it won’t do shit against whooping cough

[dovewithscales]

Mint for nausea, valerian and chamomile for sleep, antibiotics for fucking infections.

[thorinobsessed]

I’m in love with this post

[bigfootmountain]

[twitblr]

Lil Nas X stays based, a precious national treasure indeed (x)

[twilight-system]

Joke’s on them, I was already gay - Mortimer

[osdd-1bitch]

Can we please talk about how everyone is aware that its incredibly difficult to get a therapist that even believes in did/osdd let alone get diagnosed. Even getting a therapist at all is basically impossible for some people and we all are very aware how people will constantly tell systems that they dont have anything wrong with them and refuse them help

And yet. Yall keep parading around the whole "self dx isnt valid, and you HAVE to get a diagnosis before you even suspect did/osdd" bullshit. What do you fucking want man.

[twilight-system]

We tried getting recognized for years before we had to quit due to a lot of personal and financial reasons and we were recognized professionally ONCE (The therapist we had right before we had to quit acknowledged us, sadly we had to leave before she would formally diagnose us.) It really sucks, especially since its pretty obvious at this point that we are a system. Plus, some of us read the DSM and actually put great time and effort into verifying our suspicions before claiming anything. Sometimes the lack of diagnosis isn’t for lack of trying. - Alex

[void-milf]

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals.  protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

[void-milf]

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity.  make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged.  and strike. attack.

[37womenwieldingknives]

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

[afraidofamericans]

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

[queeranarchism]

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

[anarchopuppy]

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

[mayflower-gal]

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

[schizocassandraoftroy]

Honestly I wish people with neurological disorders and mental illness talking to themselves was more normalized so here’s to people with autism who narrate things! people with adhd who talk out loud to remember stuff! people with tourette’s and tic disorders with verbal tics! people with psychosis who talk to their voices! people with DID who talk to their alters!

If you talk to yourself for any reason you are wonderful and not bad or weird. And if you see someone talking to yourself and think it’s weird? Maybe mind your own business!

[twilight-system]

Hey Wish? Do you need some therapy?

[tiktokarchive]

[zhimaqiu]

And this is tiktok we need

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

75% of the time if something is paywalled, fucking around in developer mode looking for a link to the real thing or finding and deleting the content blocker works like a charm

[stopstopstopstopstopp-deactivat]

also if ur lazy like me or just straight up cant figure out how to do this without deleting 90% of the page  theres this extention called Poper Blocker which not only.. blocks popups. but also has this thing called “Remove Overlay” when u right click which works a good 99% of the time in my experience in getting rid of paywalls.