#repair therapy

[futurebird]

Right to Repair Therapy

For me, right to to repair isn't just about ewaste, and preventing corporate gouging.

It's about mental health. Being able to fix your gadgets is therapeutic. Empowering. Good for the soul.

Today I fixed my expensive bluetooth earbuds. Their batteries couldn't hold a charge for a full hour. (Turns out this was due to a botched firmware update and totally Sony's fault!)

This is the guide I used:

We tried a course of new firmware but the patients continued to deteriorate (as the specialist predicted.) Surgical intervention was unavoidable. The patients are currently convalescing in the charging dock. The procedure was smooth and they will only have minor scars, but a full recovery cannot be guaranteed until they reach full power and take one last course of software updates.

Surgery was successful. The seams won’t be the same ever. But it’s only noticeable if I look for it.

In a world full of complex technology it's easy to feel small and helpless. And maybe I'm too much of an idealist, but I think that if everyone could experience the joy of fixing or modifying a gadget now and then we'd all be a little more open minded, a little more daring. A little harder to push around.

[ando666detonao]

don't you ever read a piece of fanfiction so good you just

[tangledinink]

concept: oops, draxum didn't put enough human dna into the turtle soup

[safe-haven-safe-place]

[mattzerella-sticks]

You know what? Maybe it's a controversial opinion but it makes sense why, no matter what Jason does or how he changes or how long ago it was, Bruce will always hold how he has killed people in the past over his head.

We're talking about a man who puts on a cape and cowl every night because of the memory of helplessness he has from being a kid who watched his parents be mugged then murdered in front of him. A man who has control issues. A deeply troubled man who has contingency plans for even his children.

There is nothing Jason can do if Bruce isn't willing to work with him. Not as Batman and Red Hood, but as Bruce and Jason.

The ball is in Bruce's court.

He needs to start putting in the work to forgive Jason, forgive himself for the perception that he failed Jason by 'letting' him become a killer, and change how he sees Jason. Because while he sees his son, Jason? I'm betting he also sees a Joe Chill-esque 'monster' he had a hand in releasing on the world. Doesn't matter that Jason has a no-kill policy now. This is Bruce's problem he needs to fix.

And how does he do that?

Therapy.

[sepulchritude]

Why is my mom trying to insist on sending me tuition as if she didn’t tell me multiple times that they’d stop supporting me if I transitioned. As if I didn’t say okay and have been transitioning and covering my own tuition for two semesters already. Why is she saying “we intended to pay for your tuition” like nothing happened and as if we haven’t already had this conversation. What happened to my parents why do they always use money like this.

[osatokun]

I have no new pics but look at Charlie's cool coat

[ryuichifoxe]

what the hellllll, you had more stuff happen to you in two months than me in half a year 😶 are you doing alright??

I can't say I recommend this much excitement in the span of two months. Either I'm cursed or had too much fun in Pennsylvania and Virginia, so the universe bounced back in the form of an attempted isekai. On Friday the 13th!

[buttercupbuck]

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[image description: 4 gifs of evan buckley and eddie diaz from 9-1-1. the gifs are arranged in two rows, 2 gifs per row. the two gifs in the left column depict a scene from season 5 episode 13, and the two gifs in the right column depict scenes from other episodes of season 5.

gif 1: buck stands outside eddie’s bedroom door. speaking to eddie through the door, he says, “hey, eddie. it’s, uh...it’s me. can i come in?” after he asks if he can come in, he tries during the door knob.

gif 2: from season 5 episode 11. standing in eddie’s kitchen, buck stares at eddie with a bemused expression as eddie dismisses his concern and turns away from him.

gif 3: buck looks around briefly before speaking to eddie again through the door again, warning, “all right, eddie, i-i’m gonna come in, okay?”

gif 4: two gifs. the first is from season 5 episode 14. the camera follows eddie as he walks into his dining room, where buck is standing and putting away christopher’s coloring utensils. the second is from season 5 episode 18. eddie listens to buck as he talks and patches up eddie’s bedroom wall.

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[allycat75]

Does this sound familiar, Boston Dumb Fuck?

Maybe you are a better liar than you think.

(This is one of those posts I encourage the trolling spies forward to their baked-out used car lot balloon. If there is any hope of him becoming a fully formed human being, this behavior cannot hold!)

Stop shushing and learn the lesson!!!

[roboyomo]

i might not be able to ocpost in form of a new drawing today (fucking damnit) but.,,,, have this more than a year old drawing of the oc lore mc,, (his name is yaku, or okazaki yaku if you wanna use the full name). pls hold this little critter as i try to give some tiny bit of oc lore info about this guy and the main antagonist below the cut

Yaku is more of a confused and anxious guy at the start as he literally knows nothing (he just died and got to afterlife, let him have a moment to adapt). Which then gradually turns into being more serious and (mostly) collected in specific situations, while also being a big overthinker that is nervous about anything sudden happening. He is a 20 year old man that slowly forms a family bond with like. everyone at his now "forever" job (Except for a few). That same job being fucking hand-picked out of the billions of people out there to become one of the warriors at the top company of what would be "Hell" to take on many different tasks and requests, as well as the protection of the world he now belongs to. Though at the same job, Yaku is considered as 𝘵𝘩𝘦 weakest employee/warrior, literally weaker than the fighter that is a child (All because of a certain lore mechanic for those same warriors or fighters but it is,,, too much to explain in one post). All the employees were supposed to be blessed by the Gods as to truly be worth of the role that grants great responsibility for the billion of souls living in the same world they are in, and Yaku did get his blessing, Blessing of Thunder.

Moving a bit further from that, Yaku has very big attachment issues in a way that he will get emotionally attached to someone a bit toooo hard if he truly enjoys their company (literally what happened with him and all of his coworkers he loves them all so much). The problem is that one of those of coworkers is quite literally the main antagonist, Kenix or Yi Dal if you prefer his real name (has lore mechanics attached to him based off one of the Deadly Seven Sins). Yea Kenix's and Yaku's relationship is fucking complicated, especially since Kenix is Yaku's uncle (i don't have the time to explain the confusing family tree okay)

Kenix has a brain rot going on, in the quite literal sense (He is cursed and with each day, he loses his sanity and detaches from himself more and more to the point of not being able to have full control over his actions if he is just. a tad bit more insane than usual), so he treats Yaku very badly in the first story arc. He wants to feel guilt over his actions, he desperately wants to be able to feel empathy for his nephew - but with every passing day, he is forgetting about his morals as he is losing 𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧. Despite all that, Yaku is already way too heavily attached to Kenix as he is his relative (some heavy found family shit is going on), so he tries to see the best in him, give Kenix a new chance each time to prove that he can get better. But that is not happening any time soon, Yaku,,,,

anyways ending the ocpost at this. I am sorry if this is a cringe premise for the lore but i swear. i poured my heart into this for more than two years and it means so so SO much to me it is my most comfort thing ever, it will make sense later on with more posts like these [screaming and crying] (and if you wanna,,, you can send asks about specific oc lore parts you want to know or just the ocs in general,,, just saying)

[warningstandbygo]

The great thing about being an Adult is that if you randomly get Extremely Overwhelmed by Existence, no one can stop you from going into your closet in your bedroom with your laptop, changing into a onesie, and sitting in the dark quiet enclosed space all by yourself (even though you're the only one here because your spouse isn't home from work yet).

[wickershells]

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[moonlessbeast]

Literally cannot express enough how much I miss people I’ve lost constant touch with and how badly I wished I could reconnect. But I have chronic fatigue so severe at this point that I literally can’t and it’s sooooo defeating

[emmenai-kalliston]

no rizz just constantly "jokingly" tell him how fucking hot he is

[cryptidanomoly]

wow dad it's almost like pushing my adhd brain against the grindstone of "you're smart, do better" throughout all of my school years has/will continue to have negative consequences 😒