thedreadvampy

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Look for going to the bookshop:

look for realising that you may be dressed as some sort of goth monk from the waist down:

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looking for opinions both from americans and non-americans: what would you consider to be the big 4 american cities in terms of like, vibes-based cultural impact?

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meanwhile Sam's garden centre look

garden centre fit. was really feeling Randomly Attached Chains today. belt chain as a necklace necklace as a wallet chain.

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garden centre fit. was really feeling Randomly Attached Chains today. belt chain as a necklace necklace as a wallet chain.

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we are creating Nice Balcony

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“no one’s ever mad at me unless they tell me so” is the best assumption i’ve ever made

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"there's no way out of this system our country is soooooo unwalkable and we have no public transport" well yes as long as the population considers it their god-given right to drive for 2c a mile and will riot if it ever becomes more expensive:

there will be no incentive to improve public transport infrastructure

the culture will remain entirely car-centred and unwalkable

your politicians will continue to invest in destroying billions of lives to keep American gas prices down with your full consent and encouragement

cheap gas in America means poisoning indigenous communities it means CIA-backed fascism it means bombing the middle east it means the continuation of genocide because America has incentive to back Israel and the UAE to maintain control in the Middle East it means tearing up the Amazon and sending death squads to anyone who tries to raise legal objections to being literally poisoned en masse. it means the planet continues to burn but it also means continuous political and economic violence against people across the world to ensure America can pay pennies for dollars' worth of labour, damage and pain.

but you know. it also means you are not getting out of six lane car hell at any point. 'if America is going to be hell it should have to be comfortable' well then why the fuck would there be any incentive to change that?

we're in the imperial core here lads. you more than me because let's be real the UK has been a ghost economy carried along on its own momentum since 1945, but it's still the imperial core. justice in the world does in fact mean our quality of life may get worse. we did not have an inherent right to live cheaply and luxuriously on the bones of millions to begin with.

It sucks for us sometimes but we gotta accept that while you might be sore about it and it might in fact have actual serious implications for our personal wellbeing, our lives and comfort are not worth more than someone in Nicaragua or Jamaica or Afghanistan or Congo who also has to get to work in an unwalkable community, but who doesn't get super cheap fuel and is in fact paying more for everything so that you can pay pennies.

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My god, we are never getting out of this Hell are we, Americans are the fucking spoiled brats of the world and yet they demand to be pampered more

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The potential harm of psych hospitals is often talked about like it’s impossible to study because you can’t ethically do controlled trials around hospitalizing/not hospitalizing (which id argue should be a point against them, as you’re committing a massive invasion and violation of autonomy for something you have no proof improves long term outcomes. Lack of data works both ways). But this study actually attempted to do this, it looked exclusively at “edge cases” (patients where there would be a reasonable disagreement between doctors on whether they should be admitted) and it showed that involuntary hospitalization in this population is associated with higher risks of suicide, accidental overdose, job loss, homelessness and even violent crime in the following three months. I think most people don’t realize how subjective these evaluations can be - one doctor in the sample admitted only 11% of er psych patients, while over 40 over the 400 something doctors admitted 100%. Anyway the conclusion was that “better safe than sorry” admitting actually more dangerous than discharging in those situations. Good to have data on this.

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My god, we are never getting out of this Hell are we, Americans are the fucking spoiled brats of the world and yet they demand to be pampered more

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people are clowning on this guy on reddit but uhhh let's pause for a minute and ask...so what happens if someone has a skin condition? what if part of their face has been burned? what if they're missing their eyes? and so what if they just have a fuckton of tattoos? recognition algorithms are aligned with the most ""average"" / ""normal"" features which means any deviation gets denied access to shit we didnt need age verification for 1 year ago. i dont care if it's a choice versus not, dont care if it's accessing porn or wikipedia, this needs to stop

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me.

genuinely I sometimes believe that Twitter casts a summoning charm because 100% of the time if I tweet about a bus not showing up it will appear within minutes

40 minutes I was waiting for the no 14 bus to show up. There were meant to be three of them in that time. began to think I'd imagined the 14 and it never existed. posted a complainy tweet after 40 minutes and lo! What is that at the end of the road? Can it be?

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bus broke down lmao

genuinely I sometimes believe that Twitter casts a summoning charm because 100% of the time if I tweet about a bus not showing up it will appear within minutes

40 minutes I was waiting for the no 14 bus to show up. There were meant to be three of them in that time. began to think I'd imagined the 14 and it never existed. posted a complainy tweet after 40 minutes and lo! What is that at the end of the road? Can it be?

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doesn't stop me being super late because the bus arrived 5 minutes after I needed to be at my destination. but it does give me an unearned sense of control.

genuinely I sometimes believe that Twitter casts a summoning charm because 100% of the time if I tweet about a bus not showing up it will appear within minutes

40 minutes I was waiting for the no 14 bus to show up. There were meant to be three of them in that time. began to think I'd imagined the 14 and it never existed. posted a complainy tweet after 40 minutes and lo! What is that at the end of the road? Can it be?

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genuinely I sometimes believe that Twitter casts a summoning charm because 100% of the time if I tweet about a bus not showing up it will appear within minutes

40 minutes I was waiting for the no 14 bus to show up. There were meant to be three of them in that time. began to think I'd imagined the 14 and it never existed. posted a complainy tweet after 40 minutes and lo! What is that at the end of the road? Can it be?

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Was off work today cause I had to go do stuff in the morning and I am not joking. I got in from that, fell into bed and slept for 4 hours. absolutely blacked out. Now I need to get up to go to therapy and I'm just like hggggggggggg

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Hey guys - not said much about this on Tumblr, but I’ve been fundraising for Alzheimer’s Society in memory of my grandmother, who passed away in March.

I’m doing the charity’s Swim for Dementia challenge (swimming being one of Nana’s favourite pasttimes!), aiming to complete 5 miles by the end of July.

I’ve got about 4,250 metres to go over the next 10 days - any sponsorship gratefully received!

So far this month I’ve swum in an alpine lake in Switzerland, a saltwater thermae in Germany, and the historic Brockwell Lido in south London…although I suspect the rest of my miles will be done in my local pool!