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LMAO WAIT I JUST REALIZED MY ZILLYBLOG HAD BEEN GONE FOR DAYS

looks like a Tumblr hiccup? I just got an email from support that said "your blog has been restored, sorry about that". there was no initial "we've deleted your blog" or "this was reported for x reason" or "this was flagged" email

but I'm scrolling back now and realizing yeah, I've been reblogging to this account instead for a couple days. that's so weird lmao

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i’m not posting the actual tiktok because it involves another patient being recorded without their knowledge and clearly not doing okay but y’all we were so close to mental illness being destigmatized. we were so close but now the general public sees mental illness as two separate groups - the quirky relatable depression and anxiety, and the weird cringy scary schizo-spectrum disorders, ocd, personality disorders, and so on. #mentalhealthmatters as long as it’s not one of those weird scary illnesses

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OJ simpson has entered valhalla

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If you had to pick, what's the ONE trait in a fictional character that makes you immediately go "oh this one's mine"

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The “generation gap” is an important social tool for any repressive society. If the younger members of a community view the older members as contemptible or suspect or excess, they will never be able to join hands and examine the living memories of the community, nor ask the all-important question, “Why?” This gives rise to a historical amnesia that keeps us working to reinvent the wheel every time we have to go to the store for bread.

Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Berkeley: Crossing Press, 2007, 114-123), 117

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The internet is flooded with AI-generated photos and they're getting harder to spot.

Most of the time AI is used for click-farming, but lately images have been used in fake news stories and product scams.

Most important: THINK CRITICALLY. AI will eventually get too good to make obvious mistakes. Being media literate means checking not just if an image is real, but if the source is trustworthy.

If you're not sure, don't share! You might be spreading misinformation.

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I think that saying novels should only be about good normal upstanding characters is uh. Encouraging authors to appropriate other people's experiences, and goes against the "own voices" principle. Because you have to have something wrong with you to write a book.

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A woman went viral for being turned down for a next interview for a role, she asks the recruiter what she did wrong, the recruiter tells her they were “concerned about her lack of effort in her appearance.”

She explains she wore a freshly ironed blazer with a collared top. Her nails were painted a professional beige. She got a blowout for her hair, so a professional style. She had on subdued gold earrings.

The only thing she wasn’t wearing was makeup; she states she really doesn’t wear makeup, and only had chapstick on, as her skin is sensitive. Her lawyer mother has already explained she has no legal case against the company for any type of gender-based discrimination.

Just in case anyone wants to ask why feminists still refer to the “pink tax” or rail against more and more elaborate makeup trends being pushed on girls and women.

Women being punished socially for not wearing makeup is still a feminist issue.

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Looks like Wattpad is having a NSFW purge. People are talking about it on r/wattpad and r/fanfiction. Anyone here use wattpad and notice? I wonder what the scale and criteria they are using is.

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Oh boy. AO3, brace yourself!

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"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

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Oh my god

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you: suck my dick me, an intellectual: inhale my richard

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