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"just Google it"

No. I refuse to take every question I ever have to a search engine that lines a billionaire's pockets with money earned through selling my personal information because you, specifically, refuse to value community and direct communication as a form of bonding and social development. I'm SICK of the toxic individualism wafting off people whose answer to every question is,

"ever heard of Google?"

"just fucking Google it"

"quit being lazy and do a two second search"

Communicating with others and seeking answers from others isn't lazy!!! It's the natural way we as humans communicate with each other and socialize!! If a question can be answered by someone who already has the answer faster than you can tell me to Google it, then no, I shouldn't have to Google it. I'm not asking other people to fucking Google it for me, I'm seeking out answers from people who already know! I'm giving an opportunity to people who know to share something! I'm forging connections!

If you don't already know the answer to my question and you don't want to spend the time answering my question even if you do know, the question wasn't for you!! Just walk away! I ain't talkin to you!

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I use an app called Pixels that I found around April 2020 that allows you to select a mood for each day and each mood has a different color. Each day is a pixel. You can make custom tags and tag categories and every day it has an overarching 'smiley face' to choose for how your day was. There are five: crying face, frowny face, line mouth, small smile, and big smile. You can set your own colors as well.

The reason I like this so much is it not only allows me to assess my day every day, which has had a similar effect for me as op mentions, but it also allows me to track things like whether or not I slept badly or was having a lot of pain (which can affect the mood of the day). Not only that but you can then see color trends. I have mine set to show each month as one row of pixels and I've now been filling it in every day for so many years, I can watch the gradual color change into happier colors as my life has slowly improved.

I find it really adds some perspective and makes it easier to evaluate how I'm doing, especially in making it so that I can judge my mood changes relative to recent times and not just as an objective fact. Like, it's much more common these days for me to be selecting the :D smiley, so when I only select :) I know I've had a pretty meh day. But isn't that incredible?! A meh day for me these days is still a smiley face! Years ago when I started, most of my days were :| and a large percentage were :(

Anyway if you're interested in doing the kind of thing op mentioned but don't want to keep a physical journal for it, the Pixels app is really good for this and will remind you once a day to fill out your pixel if that's what you need. If you don't want to put in tags or comments you can just select a mood and call it a day

One of the many weird things about depression is that it retcons your life. Not only are you lying in bed feeling like a piece of shit and that everything is awful, but you start projecting those feelings back along your own time stream - you start low-key believing you've always felt this way, that nothing good has ever happened, or if it has it happened a long time ago.

On January 1st of last year I decided to start keeping a tally of good days and bad days, because I stopped trusting my brain to report on that accurately. I expected to come and look at the tally when I was depressed and go "oh, I had a good day only a few days ago. this hasn't always been like this."

What I didn't expect was that the process of asking myself whether a day had been good or bad would radically shift my perspective on what a bad day was and what a good day was. On the very first day, when I'd achieved nothing and had felt sad and slow all day, I went to put a notch in the Bad Day column before stopping myself:

wait, i thought. has today actually been bad? not bad enough to write it off. i played rummikub online with my partner. i drank some water. i had a long bath. no, today wasn't a bad day.

And so I put a notch in the Good Day column and went to bed. The next day I did the same thing, and the next day, and the next day. Just the process of going over my day every day meant that I found at least one good thing that happened every day. I had a good meal. I went to the pub and was around people, albeit quietly. I went for a walk. I saw a duck. There were days where truly awful, terrible things happened, but even on those days there was always something - even if the something was a simple as We Were There For Each Other or We Reminisced.

On December 31st I put the final tally down. Not a single day had been so bad that I could justify writing it off as a bad day. The bad day column was completely empty.

I'm still depressed, occasionally deeply, but I think I have more perspective. Depression is a physical feeling, and an emotional feeling, but even without trying *something* comes along every day that makes me glad I'm here despite that feeling.

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I feel like for the last decade at the very least (only speaking on what I've seen) there's been this shift into societal imposter syndrome. People think they have to Make It in a field before they can identify with what they're doing. Pairing that with the moralizing of every action and the way people are ridiculed and turned into a public mockery over the smallest things, and you've got a lot of people afraid of making claims, even about themselves.

"Content creator is such an easy label, everyone's using it, so it must be okay for me to use it too, right? After all, anyone can be a content creator. No one can point at me and call me out for not making any money or not being known, never having published something, never having a concert, never having had a commission, etc. and use that as an excuse to call me a fake and humiliate me in front of everyone and ruin what's barely even started."

And in doing so - removing ourselves from our earned identifiers - we rob ourselves of pride that we've earned. We also unwittingly further the language gap between us and older generations. It's not right for them to assume the younger people aren't doing anything just because we spend all of our time online, but we don't make it any easier for them to understand when we say we're content creators. What does that mean? It's as meaningless as the more established but equally ambiguous word "associate."

Say it like it is. Maybe if you're able to proudly proclaim what it is you do, you and your followers will begin to believe you're really doing something worth paying for, if that's what you're hoping for. Maybe someone searching for someone more than a content creator to hire will find you because you have an actual descriptor of your activities listed on your profile.

Idk I just agree, I think it's a shame we do this to ourselves

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don't call what you create "content". regardless of what it is. that's the devil talking. call it art, call it writing, call it music, call it analysis, call it editing, literally just call it what it is

I was going to put other things but oh my god please just don't call yourself a "content creator". you are a person you are making art / writing / music / etc you are an artist an author a musician

you are not an Image Generator For Clicks And Views. please. allow yourself to connect with your work by naming it properly and acknowledging yourself in kind

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Disability, Cures, and the Complex Relationship Between Them

So, I've been thinking a lot lately about cures, just in general, as a concept. I've been watching the excellent videos of John Graybill II on Youtube, where he demonstrates his day-to-day movements as someone with Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy 2a, and updates every year to show how it progresses. I'm currently writing a character with LGMD and wanted to be sure I understand exactly how it impacts his daily life and movement limitations, so this has been extremely helpful, because there's only so much you can glean from a list of symptoms.

Quick Background on John Graybill II

John started this series in 2007/8, back when he was about 30 years old. He was diagnosed when he was 17, back in '95, and, when he started this series, he was very much fighting his LGMD, in a constant struggle, and angry with himself and the condition. In this, he directed a lot of toxic positivity at himself and became convinced he could defeat LGMD with positive thinking, healthy diet, etc.

Now, while I respect that there are positives to this (exercise and eating well is rarely a bad thing, and the stretches he does almost certainly have helped him to lengthen his time with mobility), there is also something to be said for accepting a physical disability for what it is. In later videos, he clearly had shifted that mindset toward something a bit more realistic. Where, in the beginning, he had been certain that he would somehow heal himself through positivity and such, he later says that may never happen, and he wants to enjoy doing what he can, while he can, instead of being in a constant battle with himself.

That being said, he does run an organization (I believe he runs it?) that seeks to fund research and find a cure for muscular dystrophy of this particular variety. And, while watching his videos from oldest to newest, I've been grappling with my complicated feelings regarding cures.

Why Are Cures a Complicated Topic?

The reason cures are a complicated topic is because, for a lot of us, cures are unlikely to ever be developed - at least not within our lifetimes and probably not within our children's lifetimes. Many physical disabilities and disorders are just too rare, too unknown, the cause unclear. For us, we have to just accept that this is something we have to live with, for better or for worse.

The other reason is that people are often proponents of seeking cures for things that don't need curing, such as autism. Obviously I haven't polled every autistic person alive, but I have known and read content from countless autistic people. I don't think I've ever found a single autistic person who wanted to be cured of autism. In fact, I would say most of them were pretty vocally oppositional toward the idea, for good reason. 90% of the difficulty that comes with being autistic comes from societal ableism and accessibility issues on a systemic level.

My Thoughts on Cures

I can't speak for everyone with incurable physical disabilities that are unlikely to have a cure developed, nor can I speak for everyone who's autistic, but, speaking for myself, talk of cures can be extremely uncomfortable to me.

I asked myself why. Because, in reality, there shouldn't be anything wrong with researching a cure for something like LGMD. It causes people great difficulty and often great pain. For certain variants, it causes early death.

And, after reflecting on my feelings for a long while, I think I've figured out why the word and the concept bothers me so much.

Cures Are Often Used as a Crutch for Ableism

There are, broadly speaking, two camps of people who want cures:

People who want to improve their quality of life, the quality of life of someone they love, or who want to prevent future generations from the difficulty they or a loved one have been dealt

People who are uncomfortable with disability and want it to go away

This is a venn diagram with a large overlap. The number of people who are purely in camp 1 is much smaller than you might hope.

Why Is Wanting to Get Rid of Disability a Problem?

Okay so here's why camp 2 is a problem. Let's say, for the sake of the argument, that every disability has a possible cure that just has to be found. Why is that a problem? Disability is bad, right?

Wrong! Disability is completely amoral - it has no goodness or badness. It just is. Ideally, some of the more painful disabilities could be cured to prevent pain and early death. However, the problem with viewing disability, in a vacuum, as bad, is that your opinion of the disability will inevitably rub off on the people with the disability.

When you view disability as an adversary, you view disabled people as a problem to solve.

Just as John Graybill II explains in one of his stair-climbing videos a few years into the series, he had spent so long trying to fight the progression of the illness, that he had spent every day in passive anger and frustration. He had forgotten to just enjoy his ability to climb stairs. And he said that he wished he could go back and just enjoy it - stop timing himself on his stopwatch and trying to beat his times. Basically, even as a disabled man himself, he had spent so long looking at his disability as a problem to fix, he hadn't been properly enjoying being a person and just living his life.

When you apply the same fix-it approach to someone who doesn't have a disability, it's equally easy for them to forget the personhood of the people with disabilities. Only, instead of it being directed at themselves, it is directed at others. They push their disabled loved ones to just try harder, just push harder and for longer, eat right, try this, do that, think right, take vitamins - if you just try hard enough, you can beat this!

Except... most of the time, you can't.

The idea that doing everything right will allow you to beat a chronic illness is just ableism in a scientific hat. You're afraid - of being disabled, of the consequences of disability, of someone you love being different, of them looking weird, becoming weird, being seen in public yourself or with someone disabled, of being uncomfortable, of having to put in more energy and effort into helping someone with special needs.

The list of things people are afraid of is endless, and the positive spin on that ableism is simply fighting to fix it.

Make it go away so that you don't have to deal with it anymore.

And then, when you take that approach and apply it to the countless disabilities that don't have cures and may never have cures, you end up with boatloads of people who are seen as problems to solve. They feel like a burden to their family and friends. They're pushed to do what hurts and will actually cause more long-term problems for them by forcing themselves to do things they shouldn't be doing - things that damage their bodies, which aren't meant to do those things anymore.

The Long-Term Consequences of Ableist Pushes for Cures

So back to that argument about all disabilities being curable with time: what's the problem with making some disabled people uncomfortable if, one day, all disability is cured and there are no more disabled people?

Well, the simple answer is this: that's never going to happen, and if you think that way, you're a eugenicist.

Even if every disability is curable with time, the ends do not justify the means - the means being to humiliate and degrade disabled people by treating them like problems.

And it would take decades, maybe even centuries, of those means to even reach the ends. But we'll stop that argument there, because there will never be an end to disability.

Why There Is No End to Disability

So, the thing about disability, is it will never cease to exist. Even if it was a good goal to have, which it isn't, it's never going to happen.

Disability is often caused by gene mutation. At one point, none of the gene mutations for our current physical disabilities existed. They developed. And, just as the current disabilities developed over time and with gene mutations, so will new and different ones. Even if we cured all of the current disabilities, there would always be new ones, likely developing as fast as we can cure the existing ones.

Additionally, a lot of disability is not congenital. People who are in accidents and lose legs will never be able to regrow those legs. Even if eugenicists managed to prevent any "deformed" babies from being born without limbs, people would lose them from accidents and infection, and all kinds of things.

In a world where all congenital disabilities were cured, what quality of life do you expect people in wheelchairs to have?

Because I think I can confidently say that, if everything congenital were cured, a day wouldn't pass before accessibility laws were thrown out the window. We would be returned to the days where disabled people are hidden away and can't leave the house - kept as shameful secrets by families who resent them, or shown off as paragons of strength and virtue when/if they're able to be fitted with a working prosthetic.

Neither of these outcomes is positive.

The Slippery Slope of Cure Ideology

So, on to another argument: there is a lot of danger in letting cure ideology go unchallenged.

I want to clarify again, that I don't think we should never research cures. I'm challenging, specifically, the social movement behind cures that is often driven by eugenicism and ableism.

So, why is it dangerous to let that exist? Well, let's look back at the reason I mentioned that people are in camp 2: they are afraid of being uncomfortable. They are afraid of what's different from them. They view difference as a problem to be solved - a disease or a disorder.

You can see this exact principle in action when people fight for a cure for autism. It's being fought for by the allistics who know people with autism, not usually the autistics themselves. It's being fought for by parents who are angry that their child is different or won't look them in the eyes. They see them as an obstacle to overcome, not as a person who has a different way of socializing. Even in the best case, where they see them as a person more than a problem, they are seen as a person with a wrong and disordered way of socializing.

Imagine, for a moment, that there was an allistic trait that people treated as disordered or wrong the way an ableist might treat hand-flapping or lining up toys. Let's take a direct comparison - something one does when they're happy - like laughing. Imagine, for a moment, that something you do when you're joyful, is treated like a maladaption. Perhaps, in this alternate universe, smiling is normal, but laughing is disturbing to people. You spend your life desperately trying to repress your laughter, hiding your joy, even though it's the most natural thing in the world to you. How would you feel hearing people chanting positively, with smiles, taking donations, running marathons and dancing, all for a cure for laughter?

Really, really, genuinely think about it.

Imagine living your entire life like that.

This doesn't just relate to autism.

The reason this ideology has to be challenged is not just by the concrete example of people trying to cure autism, it's the root of the ideology, that different is bad. That the majority being uncomfortable means the minority is wrong and needs to be fixed.

Is this ringing any other bells for you? Because autism isn't the only thing I desperately hope they don't find a genetic link for.

If fighting for a cure for anything people deem different and weird enough goes unchallenged, people will attempt to cure anything they don't like. Like being gay. Or being trans.

And I'm not talking about conversion camps that try to brainwash you into thinking you're not gay. I'm not talking about the abusive Christian approach, I'm talking about the eugenicist scientist approach.

If a genetic link were found or if there was some kind of actual biological difference, that could mean people trying to test fetuses for the "homosexuality gene" or whatever. It would give a concrete path for eugenicists to try preventing gay and trans people from ever even being born.

And, if that biological connection is found, how long do you think it would take for people to start excitedly pushing for a cure to "homosexuality" or "transgenderism"?

What is the point of this post?

It's food for thought.

I want, not only my abled followers, but my disabled ones as well, to reflect on how they feel about cures - about being cured or about curing others.

I want you all to ask yourself, am I in camp 1 or camp 2?

Your goal in supporting a cure should be to prevent death, to prevent pain that cannot be overcome through systemic support and accessibility, to help people live lives with quality.

Your goal in supporting a cure should never be to remove something that makes you uncomfortable. If you're abled, it should never be to make your life easier or alleviate your feelings of guilt, resentment, or stress. It should never be to make people normal, especially not people you care about.

And, on a final note, remember that the things you see in a disability you know nothing about may not have anything to do with reality. If you see a disability for the first time and you immediately wish for a cure for it, simply because it looks painful, maybe find out if it actually is first. Sometimes we attribute pain and misery to things that are no big deal to the people dealing with them. And, in doing so, we also attribute heroicism and virtue to the people dealing with them - which they did not ask for.

Don't make disabled people into a project. Don't use them as inspiration porn - putting them on a pedestal and using them as proof that "anything is possible."

Treat disabled people with dignity and respect.

Treat disabled people as people, with or without them jumping through every hoop you think will make them better.

Think about how fucking annoying it would be if, every time you got up from a chair in public, everyone stared at you, or even praised you for it. How uncomfortable would you be if no one ever saw you as yourself but as some kind of ambassador for strong, amazing people who are so so so cool because they can tie their shoelaces.

Think about how fucking infuriating it would be if every tenth person you walked past turned to you, looking sad, and said "god bless you."

Think about how old that would get, and how fast.

That's all. Just think about it.

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This is so fucked up. This article is from 2017 but afaik is still accurate. Let me know if anything has been done about this since then - possibly during the early pandemic?

TL;DR most medications seem to be stable for leagues longer than their expiration dates say, and their expiration dates have been extended federally after doing periodic potency testing with the drugs hoarded by the US government, but the FDA refuses to extend the official expiration dates. It's illegal for medical professionals to dispense expired drugs, so perfectly good medications are being thrown out constantly.

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Alright everyone listen carefully

Have you ever heard the phrase, "don't feed the trolls?"

Maybe you have, maybe you haven't. What it means is this:

When some bigot posts a reply under a post, if everyone just blocks them without saying anything, that bigot gets no traction. They disappear into the void.

If every second reply is a reply arguing with them or telling them to fuck off, guess what? The bigot won.

You have now guaranteed, collectively, that every person who goes into this reply section gets nothing but a barrage of garbage interactions with a bigot. You've ensured the reply section is nothing but arguing and you've also encouraged the bigot to reply further. It doesn't matter how many times you say "wow you're still replying? Everyone hates you, just fuck off" that bigot is going to keep replying because you keep offering engagement on a silver fucking platter. "I'm just responding to you @ ing me :/" and they're right! You are part of the problem here! You literally notified their account with engagement.

Stop engaging with bigots!!

Block them! Ignore them! Let them disappear into obscurity!

Not only does this make reply sections an unnavigable mess, you're also spamming ops notifications with replies to the bigot. So they either have to get constant notifications with the topic of bigotry or they're forced to turn off notifications to their post which forces them to lose out on positive engagement they could also be getting.

Let your positivity and your refusal to engage with bigotry outweigh your desire to prove how moral and just you are. You don't need to prove you don't agree with the bigot. You don't need to point out the flaws in their reasoning. They don't care. They thrive off of sowing chaos, so you're helping them, not educating them.

Put that revolutionary energy into something more useful than yelling at a brick wall on Tumblr. Your desire to do right and affect positive change is a valuable trait, but this isn't going to do either of those things. Find a positive way to put that to action.

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Always so funny to me when people say "people always say X until Y happens and then suddenly they Z"

Have you considered... That the people saying X... Are a different set of people... Than the people doing/saying Z? Like... Have you considered?

The constant assumption of hypocrisy is so funny like did you know there are more than one (1) groups of people

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Okay, for anyone who saw my recent post about the Black roots of American music, I have continued my journey to the genres dominated more by white people and then more modern stuff as well and I have more links to drop if you're all interested in learning some music history with me!

The history of bluegrass:

Recent developments regarding a German museum for techno music and the erasure of Black and queer groundwork done in the US:

A list of metal subgenres and what makes them different. Spoiler: there are a shitload of metal subgenres and they all somehow make sense. Also, some of the music you thought was rock is metal. The more you know!

I'm gonna have to put the rest of my research on hold for a couple of days because I've got a transatlantic flight in the morning so I'm gonna be traveling for like 20 hours straight and then sleeping

I hope some of you enjoy reading these like I did!

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So I was grabbed hold of by my music hyperfixation today and it turned out, today's the day I learn more about the history of American music as made by African Americans. Since, you know, they did most of it.

I've known for a long time that American music has deep roots in Black experiences and culture, but it was always such a behemoth of genres and artists that I didn't know what exactly I liked or where to start.

So, today, I figured I'd do what I do best and start with all of it at once.

Okay, not exactly. I'm doing it in chronological order. But in order to accurately order the shitload of playlists and folders I was making on Spotify, I needed to know what order those genres were discovered in.

I am not in school for this, I'm not educated on this and, as a white person, I don't feel like I have the nuance, experience, or understanding to properly write a massive post about this topic, but I did want to share a few articles I've read today, because they were extremely well-written (as far as I can tell), informative, and moving.

Reasons to Read These

African Americans have been the driving force in just about every music genre that's come out of America. If you don't already know that, or want to know more, you should read these.

Do you find music and musical evolution fascinating? You should read these.

Are you queer? Disco is part of queer culture as well and the overlap between Black and queer culture in that time period leans heavily on disco, which is fascinating and part of your own history. You should read these.

If you care about racial tensions in the US, the article that talks about Earth, Wind, & Fire goes into the ways disco impacted racial tensions in the US in the late 70s. It's good knowledge to have under your belt. You should read these.

Bonus shout out to The Get Down on Netflix. I watched this a year or two ago and was obsessed with it for a few days until the fixation passed. This is part of the driving inspiration for me looking into the history of disco and hip-hop so extensively today, because the vibes in the show were just... enrapturing. And, looking at the Wikipedia page for it to double check how it was received by people who know more than me, it does seem to have good reception. I especially like that they involved historical pioneers in its creation (DJ Grandmaster Flash, who invented modern use of turntables for hip-hop, DJ Kool Herc, and Kurtis Blow, all in their 60s and part of the original hip-hop scene in the Bronx). So if you want to watch something that will get you hyped about disco and hip-hop, I can just about promise you that'll do it. Needless to say, I will be rewatching it very soon.

Long but detailed and very well written. Has many artist suggestions:

A shorter summary for someone who wants a quick read:

I hope some of you will click through and learn something with me today c:

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It would genuinely benefit a lot of you, both internally and in how you interact with people, if you could learn to say to yourself, "this isn't about me," in place of, "this isn't true about me so the person saying it is insulting/being mean to me."

Sometimes generalizations are made on the Internet. Sometimes the only way a meaningful message about something can be said is by using a generalization.

If you're part of the group being generalized (and that generalization isn't racist, phobic, or otherwise directed harmfully at a minority by someone outside of that minority), and the generalization doesn't accurately describe your actions or beliefs

👏 That👏 Statement👏 Is Not👏 About👏 You👏

If you are willing to admit that the majority of people in the generalized group do behave or believe like op said, congratulations, you are agreeing with the statement!

Making it about you does multiple things:

It makes you upset over someone saying something inaccurate about you when it wasn't about you, which is silly and unnecessary

It makes you inclined to disalign yourself with the group calling out bad behavior, because you've incorrectly counted yourself as one of their named adversaries

It makes you more likely to become an actual adversary to that group because their callouts and concerns make you feel guilty and uncomfortable and your brain, if it doesn't want to accept that, may try to counter it by deciding that group is unreasonable, illogical, or x derogatory thing

It encourages you to feel and act like a victim when you're not, which is both bad for your mental health and a great way to make others uncomfortable around you

If you make comments to defend yourself when it wasn't about you:

It clogs up tags and responses with needless discourse

It derails and dilutes the original message

It informs minorities that you cannot be trusted to maturely handle their concerns because you're going to take it as a personal criticism when it's not about you

So basically, if you feel defensive about something you read, ask yourself:

Is this statement an accurate description of my actions or beliefs?

If the answer is yes but you feel guilty about it, it is about you and you should take steps to actually do what the post is suggesting and counter that behavior or belief that you don't want to have.

If the answer is no, it wasn't about you. Reblog the post and move on.

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Reblogging to clarify, because some people aren't seeming to understand the point of this post.

This isn't about defending Kissinger or aligning him with Jews.

I am aware that he spat on his Jewish heritage. This is about keeping goyim aware of what they're reblogging because, whether Kissinger was ashamed of being a Jew or not, antisemites will still use his being Jewish to spread antisemitic rhetoric which will cause further harm to Jewish people who, unlike Kissinger, we should care about.

It's already been happening because of the genocide, and people have been ignorantly reblogging and parroting dogwhistles left and right. I am simply reminding people that this is another extremely convenient outlet for antisemites to trick well meaning leftists into thoughtlessly hitting reblog in the name of pissing on Henry Kissinger's grave.

Try to make sure you're not pissing next to a Nazi.

Okay I'm gonna go ahead and jump on this real quick before the ball gets rolling too hard.

Please be cautious in the words and criticisms you use over Henry Kissinger's death and make sure you're critical of what you're reblogging.

He's Jewish and his death is going to be a great opportunity for antisemites to spread antisemitic rhetoric that uncritical leftists are going to reblog without a single thought because they're overenthusiastic about celebrating the death of an old warmonger

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Okay I'm gonna go ahead and jump on this real quick before the ball gets rolling too hard.

Please be cautious in the words and criticisms you use over Henry Kissinger's death and make sure you're critical of what you're reblogging.

He's Jewish and his death is going to be a great opportunity for antisemites to spread antisemitic rhetoric that uncritical leftists are going to reblog without a single thought because they're overenthusiastic about celebrating the death of an old warmonger

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Irritates the hell out of me when people respond to a post or comment like, "everyone does this, it's not just [disorder/illness/neurotype], it's called being a person."

Yeah and everyone coughs once in a while but it doesn't mean someone with pneumonia doesn't cough?? It doesn't mean pneumonia doesn't cause coughing??

Everyone gets dizzy once in a while but it doesn't mean vertigo doesn't exist??

Just about every symptom or group-common trait is going to be experienced by people who don't belong to those groups or have that disorder. It's about the frequency and intensity with which that symptom or trait comes up.

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I fucking hate the way game culture has evolved from everyone being so fucking used to games being unfinished, unpolished, and half made upon release so that anytime someone goes into a game dev discord into a channel made for suggestions and makes a suggestion for a very good quality of life or accessibility feature, there's always that one guy who has to be like, "There's already a mod for that." Or, "Just mod it."

No! I will not just mod it! I should not have to mod my game to get basic accessibility or quality of life! That's what continued development is for! That's what suggestion channels are for! Quit encouraging developers to release half made games because "someone can just mod it to be better"

It shouldn't be the job of the community to finish a damn game!

Not to mention if the game is updated, it can break the mods and make them obsolete anyway! I do not want to have to rely on 6 different developers/modders all deciding they want to keep up with the same game in order to have basic game functions! That is what the game dev team is for!

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I don't know who needs to hear this but you do not need to waste space in your sharps container for trash OR the syringe - just the needles. Cap the needles and pop those bad boys off the body of the syringe and make your sharps container last about 3 times as long.

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So, I've heard conflicting opinions on this before and I just started a game that has this and it made me think, hm, maybe poll time

\* White and black meaning the actual colors/shades, not the skin colors

\** We're talking about this in a purely thematic sense and assuming the media is not using all white people on the light/good side and a lot of Black people or NBPOC on the dark/evil side, because obviously that would be racist regardless of light/dark motif

Reblog for a bigger sample size and leave your thoughts in reblogs or replies. White people, don't clown on/talk over any POC in my notes istfg. Let's make this a good faith discussion. If you don't know how to share your thoughts or have a discussion without being an asshole, your comments are getting deleted

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Okay at this point I can only assume the massive uptick in the use of the word "degenerate" has to be caused by the surge in antisemitic psyop bullshit going on because of the genocide.

I don't know who needs to hear this but

STOP CALLING PEOPLE DEGENERATES

It's a fucking Nazi dog whistle. Google it. Do some research. Quit calling people degenerates.

It's bad enough when it's about random people you think are monsters but using it to refer to a Jewish person... I'm about to start blocking people on sight when I see this word coming out of their blog.

Call the behaviors of evil IDF soldiers what it is: evil and unforgivable. But don't just uncritically parrot Nazi terminology without a single fuck to give for how that's impacting Jews as a whole