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Look, we joke a lot, but really, "you were born evil, wretched, worse than the scum of the earth, and it took killing a god to make you salvageable, so now you'd better be grateful to that god and thank him 10,000 times a day for it and fill your thoughts with him 24/7 and abide by the letter of his every word, lest you suffer unimaginable torture for all of eternity" is a truly horrendous thing to believe about yourself and other people

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I think when you correctly identify a trauma that is the base of a woe of yours it should just disappear. It should be like "aaahh. you got me" and vanish and leave 100 dollars behind

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Just blocked someone with "I'm fine with all ships, except illegal ones!", and I keep thinking about it. I'm from a place where gay ships are literally illegal, you're not allowed to post anything about it, illegal-illegal. So when I see people say stuff like this my brain immedeately labels them "anti-queer", sorry guys, you said it, not me...

Anyway, daily reminder to everyone: law ≠ morality

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It will never cease to irk me when people look at devices and tools made for disability and call it a "scam" just because it doesn't work for them.

Of course, kinesiology tape doesn't work on you if you don't have connective tissue or soft tissue damage. Your body doesn't need help holding itself together. Mines does.

"Posture braces are a scam, you should just exercise more." Okay, what if you can't? What if no matter how much you exercise, your body will always need extra support.

"Foam rollers don't actually do anything, just do exercise." Again, see the above.

"Neck traction devices? Pft, stop being lazy and exercise." Again. See. The. Above. Also, speaking as someone with a severe neck injury, sometimes you need those devices to exercise. And yes, sometimes moving half an inch is considered exercise depending on the nature of your injury and limitations. My current goal in physical therapy is to hold my neck up on my own for longer than ten seconds while lying on my back. It's taken me a year of intensive work to manage it. The traction devices have been a part of this, as recommended by my physical therapist.

"Balance boards, omg what are you, a baby who can't walk?" IN SOME CASES, FUCKING YES.

Like I get it, I get it. You've seen the infomercials and they look goofy, or you just plain cannot think of a situation where you personally might ever need some sort of assistance with your body. But good news! Disability is the only minority group you can become a part of at any moment through sheer bad luck, age, illness or a genetic ticking time bomb hiding in your DNA. May the odds be ever in your favor, and if not, may you encounter kinder people than yourself.

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I feel like a good shorthand for a lot of economics arguments is "if you want people to work minimum wage jobs in your city, you need to allow minimum wage apartments for them to live in."

"These jobs are just for teenagers on the weekends." Okay, so you'll use minimum wage services only on the weekends and after school. No McDonald's or Starbucks on your lunch break.

"They can get a roommate." For a one bedroom? A roommate for a one bedroom? Or a studio? Do you have a roommate to get a middle-wage apartment for your middle-wage job? No? Why should they?

"They can live farther from city center and just commute." Are there ways for them to commute that don't equate to that rent? Living in an outer borough might work in NYC, where public transport is a flat rate, but a city in Texas requires a car. Does the money saved in rent equal the money spent on the car loan, the insurance, the gas? Remember, if you want people to take the bus or a bike, the bus needs to be reliable and the bike lanes survivable.

If you want minimum wage workers to be around for you to rely on, then those minimum wage workers need a place to stay.

You either raise the minimum wage, or you drop the rent. There's only so long you can keep rents high and wages low before your workforce leaves for cheaper pastures.

"Nobody wants to work anymore" doesn't hold water if the reason nobody applies is because the commute is impossible at the wage you provide.

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Me-first ideologies drag societies backward.

See: Republicans, Texas, Florida

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What I love most about Superman is that he can bend steel with bare hands yet this is his ultimate fight move:

Can be applied for ladies

And men

Even Batman and Deathstroke can’t escape

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I was just hit with a thunderclap of a Good Omens headcanon:

Adam and Eve's first two children were their sons, Cain and Abel, right? And we know what Cain eventually does to Abel, of course. For that, he is exiled from civilization, Adam and Eve have another son named Seth to continue their bloodline, along with daughters to be their son's wife (ew), and the biblical story moves on.

But what if...that's not where the original human family's story ended?

Cain, after his murderous deed, wanders the wilderness alone. He isn't as good at surviving as his parents (no flaming sword), so he nearly starves to death. But eventually...he finds that he likes starving. And he especially likes to make other people starve, when he skulks too close to a human settlement. He steals harvests, not to eat, just to get revenge on his brother Seth's descendents. Cain's offering was the grain offering after all, and it's not good enough for God, so why shouldn't he take the grain back? It's what he's owed.

Thus, Famine is born.

Adam becomes angry and withdrawn after Abel's death and Cain's banishment. He stops caring about a lot of things. He gives his sword to Eve for safekeeping, worrying about what he might do if he holds onto it. He continues sacrificing animals to God as instructed, but eventually he starts spilling even more. Spills blood, spills black tar onto the Earth he no longer cares for, spills thick black smoke into the sky to cloud out the sight of God who took away one son and cast out the other, just as God cast out him and Eve from Eden.

Thus, Pollution is born.

Eve also becomes angry, but not withdrawn. Instead, the mother of all humanity explodes outward. She doesn't stop caring; instead she cares too much. She cares too much about every little territorial dispute among her descendents, wants them to remember the sacrifice of Abel and then Cain that was made for them to even be born and exist. Both her eldest sons' blood is spilled on the altar of humanity, and soon she spills more and more and more blood in their names.

Thus, War is born.

And as for Abel...Abel died, yes, but Heaven and Hell didn't really know what to do with his soul afterward. No human had ever died before, right? Yes, technically his death was written in the Great Plan, but as for what to do with him afterward...not so much.

So Abel's soul wanders around Earth. Eventually, he finds others who are dead just like him. He takes them into his care and keeping, like an old friend. Eventually, he grows powerful enough as a keeper of souls, that he gives himself pitch-dark wings to keep them in. Pinpricks of light that might've been stars, but might've been something else entirely.

And thus, the first human to ever die...becomes Death incarnate.

Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel may have died from those forms. But they never disappeared.

They live on as the Four Horsemen, who have been around since humanity's beginning.

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The psychiatrist who wrote the criteria for narcissism just made an extremely important point about what’s wrong with diagnosing Trump with mental disorders

Dr. Allen Frances says in speculating about Trump’s mental health, we are doing a disservice to those who do suffer from mental illness. In a series of tweets, he explained why he doesn’t think Trump is a narcissist — and how harmful it can be for us to keep assuming that he is.

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love seeing revisionism in the wild “free the nipple never meant you can walk around topless every where that’s still sexual harassment it just meant for like breastfeeding and stuff”no it literally means you should be able to walk around topless anywhere because get this. breasts aren’t fucking sexual organs.

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i’m watching a dr. russell barkley adhd lecture and he just said something about adhd accommodations that hit me right in the chest. “they’re not there to teach, they’re there to allow the individual to be less impaired.” and god i feel like this is a huge core issue for how adhd is treated. people seem to think that adhd is a lack of skills and it’s not. we have the skills. we lack the executive function to put them in place. you can teach us skills all day long and we can’t use them bc our brain simply will not do that long term.

ppl think if they just give us a few techniques that it’ll all be fixed. which of course leads to the perception that if it doesn’t fix things, it’s our fault. we lacked the skills, they gave us the skills, if we don’t implement them that’s on us, right? they fixed the problem. except they didn’t fix the problem. dr. barkley compares it to installing a ramp for wheelchair users to get into the building and then removing that ramp after 30 days because “they’ve now internalized the ramp.” we need the fucking ramp.

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My lukewarm take is that one of the greatest privileges of all is the ability to exist as the «default setting», being seen as just a person, and not as a representative of a group of people who share your gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or cultural/religious background. Which is why the «not all men» pushback against any mention of structural sexism was what it was. Because suddenly people who were used to being the default setting were being made into representatives of their gender, having to prove that they were better than the stereotypes forced upon them. And they did not like that one bit.

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YouTube is implementing an AI policy that tracks your watch history and determines your age with it. The only way to be able to continue watching the videos you want on YouTube if you've been falsley flagged as a minor by their AI is to give YouTube your government ID. This is being implemented in the US right now. It is essential to rage against this and put YouTube in the fucking ground if they continue with it—that may be the only way to make them backtrack. But damn isn't that hard to do when responding to this announcement with a polite but negative comment flags you for violating community guidelines and bans you from even posting it?