#Environment benefits

[danielnelsen]

while i get where this comes from and it’s true to an extent, i reeeaaaally don’t like how people try to explain “trans men don’t [necessarily] have male privilege” with things like “some trans men don’t pass”.

like sure that’s the most obvious example (someone who is seen as a woman won’t have the privilege that comes with being seen a man) but you’re still acting like being a passing trans man is just a free opt-in to male privilege which is………kinda the issue.

[untitledgoosegay]

re last reblog I do see fanfic culture pushing/replicating a certain model of "what trauma looks like," "how trauma works"

this is a problem across all areas of society obviously, but transformative works are, well, transformative. they're about crafting and modifying narratives where the fan-creator sees a flaw or a lack -- often for the better! don't get me wrong, I've done my fair share of "I take a hammer and I fix the canon," it's the main thing that gets my creative gears spinning -- but what happens when that "flaw" is simply a narrative not conforming to popular expectations?

some people just don't get PTSD from events that sound obviously traumatic. they're not masking, and they're not coping; they just straight-up didn't get the permanently-locked stress-response that defines PTSD. they walk away from a horrible experience going "well, that sucked, but it's over now." some people do get PTSD from events most people wouldn't find traumatic. we don't really know why some people get PTSD and others don't. but fandom has an idea of events that must be traumatizing, of a "correct" way to portray trauma. you see the problems with this lack of understanding in e.g. fans pressuring the devs of Baldur's Gate 3 to add dialogue where the player character badgers Halsin about his own feelings on his abuse -- because he must be traumatized, and his trauma must fit a certain mold and presentation of sexual trauma, under the mistaken impression that anything outside that narrow window is somehow "wrong" and disrespectful or even harmful to survivors.

take, for another example, the very common trope of a traumatized character who hates touch or sex "learning" to like touch or sex as a part of their healing process. certainly that can be healing for some people; other people will never like, or want, touch or sex, because of trauma or because they just don't. the assumption that someone who doesn't want sex or doesn't like to be touched must be traumatized, must be suffering from this perceived lack, is seriously harmful -- to asexual people, to people with sensory issues around touch, and to people for whom healing from trauma means freedom to refuse sex or touch.

and there's a secondary trope, one that's slightly more thoughtful but ultimately repeats the problem -- that once someone has learned that their boundaries will be respected, they'll feel it's safe to soften those boundaries. once they feel safe refusing touch or sex, they'll feel comfortable allowing it on their own terms. but many people don't, and many people won't! many people will simply never want to be touched, and never want sex, and they are not suffering or broken or lacking because of it. the idea that proving you'll respect someone's boundaries entitles you to test those boundaries -- the paradox is obvious, and yet this is something i've seen hurt (re-traumatize) people i care for.

people are imperfect victims. people don't heal in the ways you expect. many people have positive memories of their abuse, of their abusers. many people hurt others in the course of their trauma, in ways that can't easily be unpacked in a 5k oneshot. very few narratives of trauma and recovery actually fit the ones put forward by popular children's media and romance novels -- which are the ones I most see replicated in fandom spaces, because they provide the clearest narrative and easiest catharsis, and so they're easy and soothing to reach for.

that's not necessarily a bad thing! i am not immune to goopy romance tropes. i am not immune to teary catharsis. not every fic has to grapple with ugly realities. but there's a problem when these narratives become predominant, when people think they're accurate and realistic depictions of trauma, when the truth of trauma is unpleasant and uncomfortable, and doesn't fit any single narrative, let alone one of comforting catharsis

[fawntastic]

Why’d they have to pit two bad bitches against each other

[todaysbird]

anybody here who farms insects for human consumption and would be willing to participate in a interview for a (positive) article around insect farming? please dm me with your email and i’ll reach out!

[yardsards]

fuck any job interviewer that's like "so how much money do you expect to be paid for this position"

idk dawg??? as much as you're willing to give me??? don't make me play "do i lowball it and risk getting underpaid or highball it and risk not getting hired" mind games. i did not come here to play the fucking price is right. you're the one writing the paychecks here.

[moongothic]

Going back to this thing briefly

When adapting this chapter into an episode Toei did not explain nor demonstrate to us what the fuck that spike was (instead they gave us Sables #378545), so we're no closer to finding out what kinda new moves Crocodile might have up his sleeve, whether that really was a Haki-infused sand spike or what

But when I was checking the melting point of sand out of curiosity (to figure out if Crocodile has a fighting chance against Akainu, which in theory he does because Akainu isn't hot enough to melt sand (in theory)), I was reminded of the fact that sand is mostly made of silica

Or, in other words, quartz. Sand is, on average, made of crystal. Of course, sand is also made of other things and other minerals (not just quartz), but if we wanted to assume Croc's DF is made of one element and one element alone, then let's just assume it's 100% silica, right

And now I can't help but to wonder now though

Could Crocodile have learned a new technique where he somehow compresses and hardens his sand so much it can turn into large, solid crystals? Or more specifically, sharp pointy stabby weapons to murder people with? 'Cause. How fucking cool would that be

Also considdering how much Crocodile likes his bling, being able to form crystals to murder people with would arguably be on-brand for him

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Pluralities

sci-fi novella

a burned out 20-something with premonitions has a gender-questioning journey, after quitting their job and becoming friends with benefits with a trans guy

with a parallel narrative about a runaway alien prince in a space empire and his complicated friendship with his sentient spaceship friend

audiobook arc from netgalley!

[celebrityhero]

yeah adhd is cringe now because it's kind of becoming 'overdone' and people on social media talking about it turned it into the disorder that causes every single problem on the planet thus making life basically unlivable. annoying extremely long post under the cut you know how it is

but I feel it is two-pronged as a repetition online because i do think it has effected more parts of my life than i ever realized and being diagnosed with it plus autism did make me feel like i had to come to terms with a lot of things about my life and my behavior that i assumed were not only normal and i was being dramatic about but also so normal and typical that everyone did them and i just had to learn how to stop having problems with it. the second prong is that i think people are kind of using it to wash away possibly all personal responsibility. i hates ta says it but i do think the notion that people with adhd benefit from more discipline is most definitely true. i can do things at my own pace and it is probably better for me to not inflame my pots every fucking day (and pots will improve with exercise & honestly i am eating like shit lately but pots hasn't been too bad bc of it though i imagine it will worsen if i don't improve it soon) but 'my own pace' involves a lot of simple mistakes that i really do just miss and have to let go and forgive myself for that an average person would not have to do.

THAT ALL BEING SAID... i can only remember so many things from my childhood that lead me to believe my adhd diagnosis is 'legit' in the sense that i was just reading an article that illustrated that internet usage is actively depleting our attention spans, giving us 'checking' behaviors, giving us mutlimedia split focus (can't remember if that's the term in the article I wanted to link it after I was done reading it if it held up), like this stuff is a no-brainer it's stuff i noticed happening to myself as a little computer addict eight year old && i was just blogging on allykatzz and playing webkinz but i still felt like something was happening to me mentally and changing how i was thinking and behaving. this is stuff we all have noticed over time too, so i guess my inquiry for the uprising of adhd diagnosed individuals is if your internet usage is plentiful and if reducing it has ever made you less distractable? I Have Found that reduction of usage does not make me less distractable and i seem to be able to entertain myself without a personal entertainment machine. but i also have never reduced internet usage for longer than a week if that. but i do remember things about being a kid that lead me to believe i really do have adhd, how it persisted into teenagerdom is hard to say because as a 'digital native' (another term from the article) i only lived so many years of my life without using a computer a lot lol. i would like to mitigate that too though.

and i think i have gotten better at choosing what i want to do online and also trying to fight the online checking behaviors or even ones like 'omg i can't post xyz online because it's CRINGE!!!!' but i like to type a lot sorry screw me kill me behead me run me over with with your gay little bike i really don't care if it's cringe. i yam what i yam. and i think choosing what i do online is a step towards reducing my contact with online world which is a step towards better discipline that hopefully reduces my adhd symptoms.

because even the age old adhd diagnosis checker of do adhd meds work for you? then yea you probably have it, doesn't really feel Real to me because if the internet is changing our cognition, even able to reduce the gray matter in our brains and things, then who's to say that it isn't also making adhd medication work for people who otherwise did not naturally otherwise qualify for adhd? like to be honest even when i qualified for adhd diagnosis from a therapist & a psychiatrist, i wasn't given extensive testing. they didn't go over my childhood. they didn't bring in my mom to ask about how i was doing or what i was like. it's not standard to inquire about someone's internet usage. i truly think we are getting to a point where we might need to start changing someone's internet habits before we consider evaluating them for anything, but i am not a psychologist nor am i deeply studied in these things, nor do i even have a precursory survey of psychology or anthropology or whatever else one would need to study to Really Understand these things. i just am making observations and i do talk to people irl, i think my internet presence gives the impression i do not do that. but i do! and among my peers and my age group i do think it's a cause for concern that we are addled with distractible qualities. i think getting distracted is normal and i've talked to my mom about our shared webbing thought patterns and i guess i call into question how natural that is for me. would i have ever developed that if i didn't go online?

and for as much as im leaning into confirmation bias for my own self i do remember as a kid being very sure i didn't have adhd, because i knew some kids who did have it and they read to me as stupid--keep in mind i had already developed a maladaptive narcissistic coping mechanism to protect myself, so i tend to chalk that up to that rather than to me finding my peers beneath me in a genuine way. though maybe i did genuienly find those people stupid in a shameful way. i viewed adhd purely thru a lens of ability, and that is real that the things that matter about adhd is how it affects one's abilities, and as a kid i didn't like to think of myself as unable to do things. it was true that i would get bored of reading books even if i liked them, and i would need to jump into some other activity, but a) i was a kid! and b) i liked drawing and writing my own stories way more than i liked engaging with something someone else made (and i was always very sure that i could do what other people did but better, i guess i can't decide if this is a child ego thing or maladaptive narcissism because i have only recently recognized and tried to grow out of this). i liked reading because i liked visualizing, but i would often become distracted and skip ahead, or distracted and begin daydreaming--these are things my mom also said she did. i rarely got in trouble but when i did it was because i was being disruptive because of my quirks like clicking pens or shaking my legs, and there's also the angle of inattentive adhd or adhd in girls being a little more tempered and not as noticable or diagnosable. but while all of those things are true how are we supposed to feel absolute certainty that i definitely have adhd and have had it since i was a kid? how do we know if that wasn't all byproduct of internet addiction or otherwise internet mental erosion?

and i propose the same question to everyone who uses their adhd as this life-changing, shocking, mind-bending deliverance of the good psych world that has persisted, hidden from their self-perception for years of their lives. yes, it can be true, but with how it's utilized in the common consciousness i just call it into question. there are those tweets about how people with adhd can't do anything, annoyance at its permeation throughout the digitalscape verbalized through little posts poking fun at the phrasing of those adhd information posts, which i also think are funny. and i DO concur that a lot of this stuff is cringe and frankly yeah overdone. i do question how is it possible that we all have it? how is it possible we all have a developmental disability? how is it possible that every single person who has this diagnosis, myself included, can not stop bringing it up whenever they make a mistake or lose focus for 5 seconds? it wasn't paramount for a good chunk of our lives so did it really reframe our self-perception that severely? as a kid i thought people with adhd were morons! even if i didn't mean it and i was just being ignorant or narcissistic, i could have never imagined myself as being just like them. they were loud, obnoxious, had no control over their actions it seemed like--and we can kindly ignore that i had similar experiences that i was not self aware about for a long while, just for the sake of argument. as much as i think that it makes sense why this surge happens and why the annoying 'omg sorry i have adhd' 'btw i have adhd' 'as someone who struggles with adhd...' seems to be the case for every single diagnosed person for not no reason, i do agree with the general perception that it all seems a touch overblown. oh, i don't know, it's just a little too convenient that every single thing is just too difficult for those with adhd. the poor dears.

[hooked-on-elvis]

"The Trouble With Girls (And How To Get Into It)" (1969) Directed by Peter Tewksbury; Screenplay by Arnold Peyser and Lois Peyser; Produced by Lester WelchStarring; Cinematography by Jacques R. Marquette; Music by Billy Strange. Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — Based on Chautauqua by Day Keene and Dwight V. Babcock. CAST Starring Elvis Presley... as Walter Hale. Co-starring Marlyn Mason... as Charlene; Sheree North... as Nita Bix, or Miss Bix; Edward Andrews... as Johnny; John Carradine as Mr. Drewcolt; Anissa Jones... as Carol Bix; and Nicole Jaffe... as Betty Smith. Guest star Vincent Price... as Mr. Morality. Production ran from late October to mid-December 1968.

[lemons-pears]

FUN MOTH FACT:

if you're part of the team, the unit, the company, wherever, beware: moth is the type to affirm. as long as you're considered a teammate, you're getting praised-

old or current unit, he doesn't care. might fumble a little with addressing people but he's adjusting-

get positively reinforced B)

"Ading- matalas ang mata mo! Nice shot!"

"Wh- Sergeant that's not my name-"

"...Right then. You have very good eyes! Good job on the field! Keep up the good work, trying your best is the best!"

"...!?" [Shadow.exe has stopped working]

[icewindandboringhorror]

I have found a beautiful perfect humble rock specimen that is light yellow with a weird dark yellowy brown lining, somewhat resembling a chunk of smoked gouda cheese... effervescent

[9w1ft]

Don't you find the strict rules of society in Japan overwhelming for you and the kids?

not one bit

[eaglesnick]

“It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

— Ralph Chaplin

While more and more homes in Britain suffer severe flooding because of climate change, Rishi Sunak has decided that North Sea oil and gas extraction should be speeded up.

“Hundreds of new North Sea oil and gas licences to boost British energy independence and grow the economy. ”  (GOV.UK: 31/07/23)

This policy has now been confirmed and will be included in the king’s speech. More concerned with winning votes than the catastrophic effects of climate change:

“Sunak has already watered down the government’s climate targets, pushing back the deadline for selling new petrol and diesel cars and the phasing out of gas boilers, prompting furious condemnation from the automobile and energy industries.” (Guardian:05/11/23)

The excuse used by Sunak to justify his planned increase in fossil fuel production  is "to reduce emissions and boost UK energy independence."

These claims are simply not true.

Encouraging more oil and gas production does not reduce emissions - it increases them. If you expand the global market for fossil fuels then more will be used with the obvious accompanying increase in emissions. What is more, Rystad Energy, an independent advisory and business intelligence company, has stated that:

“ UK oil rigs are among the highest carbon emitters in Europe. CO2 emissions released into the atmosphere from extracting North Sea oil and gas reached 13.1MM metric tonnes in the UK in 2019, or 21kg of carbon dioxide for every barrel of oil produced – far greater than the Norwegian North Sea, which produced 4MM metric tonnes of CO2 in 2019, or 8kg of CO2 a barrel.”  (Guardian: 13/10/22)

But let us put this evidence aside for the moment and give Sunak the benefit of the doubt regarding emissions, and look at his other claim that increase extraction of gas and oil from the North Sea will “boost UK energy dependency".

Again, simply not true. It was reported only a few weeks ago that the UK EXPORTS 80% of North Sea oil which is processed abroad and then sold back to us at whatever international price makes the oil and gas industries the most profit. (CNN Business: 27/09/23)

The only way to secure energy independence is to have state ownership of our natural assets. But that is not The Tory way.

Unlike the Norwegian government, who invested their countries enormous oil and gas revenues in economic sectors across the world, creating a State owned sovereign wealth fund now worth $1.2 trillion in assets, our Tory government squandered the money, continues to allow private investors to reap the profits, and have refused to create a UK Sovereign Wealth Fund because they are ideologically opposed to public ownership.

While Sunak is forced to sell licenses for oil and gas extraction in order to secure at least some  benefits from our natural resources, the Norwegians impose  a 78% tax levy on private oil and gas companies.

“UK should match Norway’s 78% North Sea oil and gas tax, thinktank says.” (guardian:28/10/22)

But that isn’t going to happen. Instead, our ideologically driven Tory government, opposed to taxes of any kind and especially those aimed at the rich and corporate world continue to draw  headlines like these.

“Shell and BP paid zero tax on North Sea gas and oil for three years.” (Guardian: 30/10/22)

and

“North Sea oil and gas industry offered ‘get-out’ clause on windfall tax.”(Guardian:09/06/23)

The stark contrast between the way successive Tory Government’s in the UK have managed the “bonanza” of North Seal oil and gas and the way the more socialist Norwegian governments have utilised their natural resources couldn’t be more stark.

[merakisphere]

*Volume up!* This exercise demonstrates how fidget tools and stims can help distract your mind during sensory overloaded environments. While the chaos in the above video is playing, try focusing on the movements of Fidget Bloom. Do you find it helps? As the chaos gets more intense, combat it by spinning the apparatus. When you add the tactile nature of this, you can just imagine how greater the effect will be.

What makes this different compared to other stims? The variety of movements and shapes offers your mind several ways to find distractions and tune out the outside world. Plus, you can wear it when not in use, and then fidget with it when you find yourself in overstimulating situations.

Share your experience with how you handle sensory overload situations, and what you do to negate it. I'd love to hear your thoughts! Share this video, and let's get a good discussion going!

[amastelaire]

i NEED to burn some shit up

[razzek]

A quip about AI I was thinking about yesterday:

AI ingests human input (words, art, etc) much the same way a jet engine ingests flocks of birds, breaking everything down into a slurry of it’s former parts. And much like an engine ingesting a bird, everything falls out of the sky as a result.