The Two U's

limping away from Omelas

[charnel-grounds]

Laurie Lipton, “Resurgam”

charcoal & graphite on paper, 2008

[blujayonthewing]

[earhartsease]

how is your phone made of labradorite

[thatsbelievable]

[thatsbelievable]

[brutalistcatcafe]

Three trans women facing eviction

Hi, we're three disabled women in a real hard spot. With savings drained and no job prospects to speak of, we're faced with a rapidly approaching eviction day. We need to be able to pay rent by the 21st, otherwise we're all going to end up on the street or worse.

Please donate here if you can. Any amount helps, even if you don't have a lot to spare. if you can't donate, a reblog still goes a long way. Thank you in advance

0/2200 CAD

[brutalistcatcafe]

10/2200 CAD

[brutalistcatcafe]

87/2200 CAD

thank you so much

[brutalistcatcafe]

121/2200 CAD

[brutalistcatcafe]

175/2200 CAD

thank you!!

[gailynovelry]

The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.

[good-4-her]

[good-4-her]

simply dont monday

[auxins-insanities]

this disability pride month lets be kinder to folks with moral ocd . no more “if you really care about this minority , you’ll reblog this post” , “someone will die if you don’t reblog this” , etc etc , and all other kinds of guilt tripping reblog bait . at the VERY LEAST tag your reblog bait so we can filter it out and avoid unnecessary spirals . it’s 2026 , we need to move past using guilt to get engagement .

[ickaimp]

So this is not a plea for money. This is something that surprised me, and chatting with people on discord, they were unaware of as well.

Discovered last year I couldn’t look at my 2015 MacBook Air without it triggering nausea and migraines, and figured the screen died. Have been getting by on my phone, but concluded I really need a laptop again.

Saved up, realised I could afford a brand new MacBook Neo, and got one.

-And I couldn’t spend more than five minutes looking at the screen without massive eye strain, nausea, vertigo, and if I pushed it, I-need-to-lie-down-in-a-dark-room-for-hours migraines.

Looking up MacBook and Eyestrain explained what is going on. The liquid retina displays that Apple currently has uses Pulse Width Modulation or PWM. In order to give the screens a deeper depth of colour and contrast, PWM flickers between several hundred to thousand times a second.

And there is currently no way to turn it off. There are settings and apps to reduce it, but there is no way to stop the screen from flickering. Checked Apple forums, called Apple Support, and the time I could look at the screen kept shrinking. Got the laptop Tuesday, returned it Friday, today is Sunday and I’m still dealing with a vertigo migraine.

For MacBooks, it seems to vary on the computer model and the software it uses. In retrospect, the issue with my MacBook Air started after a major software update.

And it’s not just an Apple thing. Current Windows and Android screens do the same thing. There’s even a Reddit for people who are sensitive to PWM flickers to help find computers and screens that won’t trigger eyestrain and headaches.

So, yeah. This week has been a learning experience. But for those who are prone to headaches and migraines, this may be something to be aware of, cause I was not.

[depsidase]

[rowanisawriter]

imo the pov character should be lying to themselves and concealing shit from themselves constantly

[unyieldingsilence]

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[rowanisawriter]

exactly, bestie. Exactly

[mars-matrix-deactivated20150713]

[natalieironside]

Just so you know, you can go to TACO BELL and eat TACO to replenish your health in between battles. Here, I've marked it on your map for you.

[natalieironside]

Heading back to town, adventurer? Don't forget to stop by NASTY MIKE'S OLD CUNTRY TRUCK STOP for some CHEESEBURGER if you need to replenish your spell slots. You can also get WEED and PORN to recover lost sanity points! I've marked it on your map, but take care: some of the townsfolk claim to have seen a COP[lvl4] nearby!

[oneheadtoanother]

“Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.”

—Frederick Douglass

[soundclown]

[teethwreath]

[lustcannibalism]

they should invent a way for me to do tasks without the mind torture

[lustcannibalism]

there is a world out there I can’t comprehend

[typecasto]

behold, context

[toweringclam]

[natalieironside]

Just so you know, you can go to TACO BELL and eat TACO to replenish your health in between battles. Here, I've marked it on your map for you.

[natalieironside]

Heading back to town, adventurer? Don't forget to stop by NASTY MIKE'S OLD CUNTRY TRUCK STOP for some CHEESEBURGER if you need to replenish your spell slots. You can also get WEED and PORN to recover lost sanity points! I've marked it on your map, but take care: some of the townsfolk claim to have seen a COP[lvl4] nearby!

[asmrgaret]

it’s weird that professional letters are supposed to start with “dear.” i don’t even call my mom that

[asmrgaret]

my darling hiring manager. my springtime rose. if hired i will bring a strong work ethic to this position

[uuneya]

the nature of the internet is that every so often someone will reinvent a bit from The Young Ones