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No joke this vine has a better understanding of transmisogyny than 40% of this website

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I was already, obviously, really mad about all the intellectual theft that genAI is normalizing, and then I found out that Anthropic apparently stole my book. My book! Mine! The result of many happy (if eye-watering) hours in archives and many more hours -- years -- of writing and editing than I want to think about. I am filled with bloodlust and joining a class action lawsuit.

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so that's how my life's going at the moment

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Arnold Schwarzenegger mpreg movie

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people are so focused on what the world should be that they miss opportunities to make positive impacts on the world and one way this manifests is the left’s trend of not voting

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Intrigued by the people who say they're into history but cannot stand the thought of hearing about the thoughts, feelings and opinions of people whose values were shaped by a completely fundamentally different environment, and immediately become offended and outraged by the idea that someone whose world was completely different would have a different worldview without being ontologically irredeemable and evil in every way.

Looking up different times, thinking "there better not be any fucking 'it was a different time' in here."

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i hate when you open a new tab and all the articles are like YOU ARE LOSING YOUR RIGHTS AS WE SPEAK!!!!! heres a list of actors from cheers who died

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Working from reference and doing realism is very low-stess for me - I sweat so much about what it means to be creative that I sometimes psych myself out from drawing. Right now, this might not be as unique or individual as another piece night, but I'm getting to just focus on drawing and how it feels to create, and that's really nice

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The Sun Will Come Up, Abel Macias, 2019.

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Gravity Weapon

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Photographer says that’s a fisherman, but I know a wizard when I see one.

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Melanocetus johnsonii specimen found 2 km off the coast of Tenerife while a group of researchers were observing pelagic sharks.

Anglerfish normally live in the bathypelagic and mesopelagic zones (200-2000 meters deep),

The specimen died minutes after this video was taken and has been preserved by a museum in Spain.

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Tiefling Paladin

By Lumen-Fox

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Percy Sketch

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Hey sorry I really did not mean to start things. I was just curious cuz I've seen a lot of posts. My understanding was that antipsych is like anti psychiratrists, all doctors are bastards, pro medication for all, anti mental hospitals, mad pride people just have different brains that respond differently. I see now that maybe not? I'm really sorry about my question

Oh, it's fine, you're perfectly fine. You didn't do anything except ask a question, and I believe there is no such thing as a bad or wrong question, and I'm the one who decided to reply. I'm also the one who answered--and absentmindedly tagged antipsych, which meant the post got shared around a lot with folks who follow antipsych discussions. They were unsurprisingly largely irritated by the critique.

I don't think I articulated this well in my original answer, but antipsychiatry movements are always anti-intellectual movements in that they seek to delegitimize the authority of the psychiatric establishment, at least as it currently exists. That's why I brought up RFK: he is the flowering of exactly that kind of anti-intellectual movement, once it's fully realized and has taken off its mask. It's also why I brought up various waves of anti-psychiatry movements targeting access to antidepressants and to stimulants for ADHD: because those ideas never quite went away, and they are flourishing today alongside many other anti-intellectual movements seeking to delegitimize the authority of traditional medicine itself.

I fully believe the various folks who contacted me to insist that their anti-psychiatry movement is really about the toxic, traumatic, and harmful practice of coercive institutionalization and/or about access to gender-affirming medication. However, I just don't think that these folks understand how risky the ideas they promote truly are, given the moment in which we find ourselves. Or, well, the one I personally have found myself in: I am American, and I only have my own experiences to draw on, so I will be talking in terms of American politics as I move forward. Bluntly: bad actors, or people convinced that they know better than evidence based medical practicioners and scholars, will not respect "but our goals weren't to challenge access to antidepressants or HRT!" They will use the existence of your movement as cover--and sometimes, as support--to pass their own agendas, whatever they happen to be.

We live in a society that exists in a political context. One of the things I feel most strongly about my politics is that it is important to think deeply about whom you want to work in alliance with and under what circumstances: political movements need broad coalitions of people who don't necessarily see eye to eye with one another on all points, but it can be easy to find yourself. That's happening right now in my profession to open science advocates concerned about research transparency, who have found themselves used as a fig leaf for a deeply hostile federal government to attempt to strangle scientific research in its bed and adopt a Lysenkoist view of scientific funding. The outlook for scientists here is very, very bad right now, and it would take a major mandate of power and Democrats a) seizing both houses of Congress and b) being willing to use the power of impeachment liberally and freely, among other things, to change that. We are being strangled.

Given that context, I am deeply willing to work with antipsych advocates when it comes to decarcinalizing mental health care and reducing the nightmarish power that institutionalized psych providers can exert over patients. I am also willing to work with these advocates on projects like building alternative forms of support that don't expect patients to switch rapidly from total unsupported freedom and coercive environments with no choices left. There are a lot of places where psychiatry needs to be better and to view patient/provider interactions as a dialogue rather than a unilateral imposition of power, just as there are a lot of places in medicine writ large that need to reckon with that.

However, I am not going to pretend that I think the movement's rhetoric doesn't present an open threat to my continued access to the care I, personally, need to survive. I am not going to pretend that anti-psychiatry movements are always a net good for disabled or struggling people, and I am not going to pretend that I don't have deep misgivings about the framework that antipsychiatry advocates use to drive their rhetoric.

I'm open to further discussion, generally speaking... but only discussion that actually engages with my real fears on this point or the real ways that disabled people have been and remain hurt by antipsychiatric initiatives. (For example, much of the gatekeeping surrounding ADHD stimulants is driven by antipsychiatric moral panics.) No one has so far, bluntly. Calls to tell me to "read X philosopher" are beside the fucking point: I don't care about philosophy itself, I care about evidence-based outcomes and how to get there most effectively. I do not think that insisting that expert knowledge is devoid of value is the way to get there, and I remain unimpressed by the various people yelling about how angry they are about my assessment of the movement.