#depressing world

[wordswithkittywitch]

"I don't want to see anyone blaming abstaining voters for this!"

Of course you don't. The entire idea of abstaining was that you could pretend this didn't involve you. Not getting blamed was more important to you than doing any kind of damage control, more important than protecting any of the people you said you wanted to protect. And in this moment, I don't really care what you want. Of course, this isn't entirely your fault. Of course other people made this worse. But if you're going to pretend you had nothing to do with this, forgive me if I ignore you.

[wordswithkittywitch]

Have they been experiencing "censorship" or have they been blocked and don't know the difference? I feel honouring the words they use here legitimises the imaginary bullying they're claiming to experience when they just haven't yet learned that their actions, too, have consequences.

[bixels]

As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

[stil-lindigo]

lead balloon (the tumblr post that saved me)

if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.

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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.

I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.

I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.

If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.

[moonlitmourningjournal]

[thebestworstidea]

I added "Thank you for the quiet, positive changes you've implemented during your Presidency." before this paragraph and

"I understand the urge to perform better than the Republican's notorious tendency towards election counts, however I think it's necessary in this case. Don't let them do what they've been accusing others of doing." after it.

PROOF IN CASE YOU NEED IT

[frenchublog]

[adhdandcomics]

shout out to my folks with insomnia & depression & delayed sleep phase disorder & sleep apnea & disabilities & other sleep disorders diagnosed, undiagnosed, and just my plain old night owls & night shift workers!! we r so fucking cool & exist every day in a society not made for us at all. and NONE of us are lazy bums or bad people for staying up late & sleeping in till noon or two or whatever whenever you get up!! no matter what anyone says!! you’re incredible and i love you!!!

[wordswithkittywitch]

I'm sure the last thing anyone needs is one more person weighing in on this, however: I've never used Tiktok and have no plans to change that; if a Tiktok is worth watching it will cross platforms one way or another. However, the only thing that terrifies me more than an entire social media platform being outright banned is the mindset "This censorship is okay because it doesn't affect me personally." (or worse, "This censorship is okay because I find the people affected by it annoying.") is setting a precedent that a social media platform can be shut down because people able to write or lobby for legislation object to how it's being used.

Don't get me wrong, about a third of what I see coming off of it is misinformation getting debunked, and a lot of it really grinds my gears knowing that misinformation probably reached more people than the debunking. But if we let this be the solution, it will not stop with Tiktok.

[sepdet]

we cannot change the country when part of the country is so completely against what we believe in. it's not like we can get rid of those people. Unfortunately that means we have to have a candidate who will drag along our annoying uncle who just doesn't get it.

because the goal is not to be morally pure but to accomplish as much as we can and mitigate harm as much as we can.

We have lived through this before.

People said Gore wasn't good enough, that he was Bland and uninteresting and middle of the road and something had to change. So they voted third party or they didn't vote at all. And the Democratic party didn't wake up, and we got George W Bush and all the absolute hot garbage that came with him.

And they said Hillary Clinton was the wrong candidate, that she was middle of the road at best and conservative for the Democrats at worst, that she was entitled and they were going to vote for a third party or they didn't vote at all or worse yet, they voted for the other candidate as a joke because it's not like those votes change things, you know? And the Democratic party didn't magically wake up, they didn't majorly change, and we are still dealing with the fallout from that.

And that's not only twice in my lifetime, but twice in my voting lifetime. One of the important things you learn in therapy is that you cannot change other people, and you cannot set your expectations based on how you think they ought to react to certain things.

If you are refusing to vote, or voting third-party because of what you think it's going to make someone else do, please reconsider.

If you want to make the liberals or the centrists or whatever you want to call them wake up, you're going to need to do something that hasn't already been done twice in the last 20 years.

[stealingpotatoes]

heres a crappy venn (??) diagram explaining the dynamics in the tl4j time travel au bc it's easier than trying to write a full plot

[the-moon-whisperer]

[mothcrumbs]

sluts will save me,

[sleepyc63]

a non-modernized take on my anthro au! starting with spears and riv :D

[amid-fandoms]

i love that he gets to experience immense levels of happiness and appreciation alone AND with his soulmate by his side. i love that he gets to have that now. happiness and pride look amazing on him x

[ihavealavalamp]

Never Quite Free, The Mountain Goats [x]