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U A C U G U U G A C C C

NO FUCKING RNA 🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫 NOT ALLOWED 🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫

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Shhh!!🤫

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can cabby and test tube be married please :)))))

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haven't posted in a bit, go my lesbians in stem

📁 🧪

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feed them

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Remembering that one time someone I (formerly) followed misinterpreted a character so fucking badly that it sent me into a rage. Theyve even ignored a lot of decent evidence that contradicts what theyve said and its crazy how they don't see the issue with how they present themselves and other peoples info that those people graciously provided. like at all.

i wanna go in detail so badly abt this but im going to be skinned alive so id rather not

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Something that ppl without bfrbs need to realize is that if we remove a way for us to pick or pull or whatever it is you do, then you just find something else to replace and not in a good, healthy way most of the time

Like, yes putting chapstick on keeps me from picking and peeling my lips, but then I just go from that to biting the inside of my mouth. If my skin is too raw and covered in too many scabs (I really don't like bleeding all over things so I try not to pick scabs anymore) then I'll just go to pulling out the hair on my arms and legs

Don't even get me Started on wearing gloves or bandaids, the rational part of my brain goes "we need these to stop picking" but then the other rational part of my brain that is controlled by derma goes ".....but I can just take them off and go back to picking lol"

A lot of 'solutions' aren't usually that helpful to some people (like me, although some tips can be helpful for other people). In reality they're just quick fixes that are temporary and don't do anything to actually CHANGE the behaviors. Not to mention that some of these things (like wearing gloves) can get in the way of your day to day life and bring more attention to it than just a couple scabs on your face

A lot of the advice I've noticed is focusing on our bodies, "cover up this part of your body and you'll just stop :)" but what happens when you can't do that? What advice are you going to give then? Playing with fidget toys is good but that can also be a very temporary thing unless you're carrying one with you at all hours of the day. Sometimes you just need to do things with your hands and thats when you can slip. It's really about the behavior and habit itself rather than the area thats being affected

I know its well meaning but non-bfrb ppl need to realize that it's a compulsion for a lot of us and we can't control it or even recognize when we're doing it sometimes. So if you give us a tip, just know we've probably heard it a thousand times and it hasn't worked. Don't let that stop you from trying to help and being supportive of ppl with bfrbs! But just don't get offended if the person with the bfrb brushes you off or doesn't take your advice

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Yeah you support mentally ill people, but are you normal about bfrbs?

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Test Tube’s exit interview would have been vastly improved if they only had the interviewer be more critical of her. Them being on her side and basically encouraging the way she talks about Cabby is part of what I mean when I say things like “the narrative vilifies Cabby” and honestly it would have been nice to see Test Tube need to get defensive about it in her interview instead of everyone and their mother deciding Test Tube must be right because it’s Test Tube,

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So, Discord has added a feature that lets other people "enhance" or "edit" your images with different AI apps. It looks like this:

Currently, you can't opt out from this at all. But here's few things you can do as a protest.

FOR SERVERS YOU ARE AN ADMIN IN

Go to Roles -> @/everyone roles -> Scroll all the way down to External Apps, and disable it. This won't delete the option, but it will make people receive a private message instead when they use it, protecting your users:

You should also make it a bannable offense to edit other user's images with AI. Here's how I worded it in my server, feel free to copypaste:

Do not modify other people's images with AI under ANY circumstances, such as with the Discord "enhancement" features, amidst others. This is a bannable offense.

COMPLAIN TO DISCORD

There's few ways to go around this. First, you can go to https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/requests/new , select Help and Support -> Feedback/New Feature Request, and write your message, as seen in the screenshot below.

For the message, here's some points you can bring up:

Concerns about harassment (such as people using this feature to bully others)

Concerns about privacy (concerns on how External Apps may break privacy or handle the data in the images, and how it may break some legislations, such as GDPR)

Concerns about how this may impact minors (these features could be used with pictures of irl minors shared in servers, for deeply nefarious purposes)

BE VERY CLEAR about "I will refuse to buy Nitro and will cancel my subscription if this feature remains as it is", since they only care about fucking money

Word them as you'd like, add onto them as you need. They sometimes filter messages that are copypasted templates, so finding ways to word them on your own is helpful.

ADDING: You WILL NEED to reply to the mail you receive afterwards for the message to get sent to an actual human! Otherwise it won't reach anyone

UNSUSCRIBE FROM NITRO

This is what they care about the most. Unsuscribe from Nitro. Tell them why you unsuscribed on the way out. DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY. They're a company. They take actions for profit. If these actions do not get them profit, they will need to backtrack. Mass-unsuscribing from WOTC's DnD beyond forced them to back down with the OGL, this works.

LEAVE A ONE-STAR REVIEW ON THE APP

This impacts their visibility on the App store. Write why are you leaving the one-star review too.

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Regardless of your stance on AI, I think we can agree that having no way for users to opt out of these pictures is deeply concerning, specially when Discord is often used to share selfies. It's also a good time to remember internet privacy and safety- Maybe don't post your photos in big open public servers, if you don't want to risk people doing edits or modifications of them with AI (or any other way). Once it's posted, it's out of your control.

Anyways, please reblog for visibility- This is a deeply concerning topic!

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this fucking ad i just got on my blog. yes that’s 31 seconds of scrolling (fast!!!!) to make it to the end

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companies make billions from you thinking you're ugly btw. only ugly thing is their bottom line. log out of tiktok right now.

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my favourite amputee & prosthetic resources

disclaimer: i am not an amputee or limb different person in any way. this is just a short post on resources from amputees and limb different people that i find very interesting and educational. if you find issue with this post or the links here, please tell me!

i mostly use these resources for designing osc gijinkas and for imagining those gijinkas in various situations as with any other character (e.g. since arm prosthetics are quite difficult to use, i like to learn about how exactly a character born without arms might prefer to use their feet for most activities). you can use these resources just to learn for the sake of learning. you can use them for making ocs. you can use them for gijinkas. whatever you like, i just hope this can be helpful :)

number 1

the channel is almost entirely in French but the visuals work just fine (and many videos on here have english captions, and iirc some are spoken in english too). this is super useful if you wanna learn more about people with a total lack of arms, especially because she doesn't have any arms from the very Top of her shoulders. she doesn't use prosthetics (can't, she doesn't have enough residual limb) and was born this way which gives a really interesting insight into how people without arms live daily life.

number 2

this video is what i mainly base my nickel gijinka's prosthetic on! intriguing look into how body-powered prosthetics work as fully mechanical devices. no electric components.

number 3

of course i have to add this post. it's a Classic which goes into a problem i see a Lot in all sorts of media and fandoms. it's also in video format on youtube if you prefer. great read/watch!

number 4

this is a tumblr blog about disabled characters and how to represent them properly! you can find lots of information on all sorts of disabilities so it is generally just a very Useful blog. However, since none of the mods are amputees, ive added a post they have made with links to many reblogs of posts From amputees & limb different people that they have found & reblogged!

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Idk go my cabtube 🏌️

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Cabby with some pink stims bc I kinda vibe with cabby wearing pink also this is probably like the 69420th stimboard I requested ever

!!Cabby Stimboard!! (with pink)

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