junø @juno@pixie.town

Ableist trauma is having learned to reflexively make up excuses why you didn't do something, because nobody ever believed you when you told them the truth.

So apparently Google is blocking uBlock from Chrome.

I hereby rebrand Google Chrome as "Google Firefox Downloader".

@schmidt https://mozilla.social/@schmidt/111425629715478127

Asking the psychologists out there:

So from my experience with how otherwise healthy people deal with stress, and triggers I know there is a behavioral pattern in which people who have experienced severe stress over longer periods of time and are presented with the possibility of avoidance will avoid any triggers connected to that stressor. Basically as a mechanism to avoid stress induced trauma.

Somehow it is my working theory why societies tend to become crisis-blind if they feel they aren't directly affected.
Like, we ignore the climate crisis and engage in cliomate-destroying behaviour like meat consumption, recreational fossil fuel burning, consumerism etc. quite similar to us ignoring the ongoing Covid Endemic. We are moved by those things when they first occur but if we hold up that mental load for too long, we simply become blind to it.

So I wonder if there's a term for that or if I am completely off here.

"Why do you care?"

Why *dont* you care?!

"We don't need to visit Egypt, we've got Suez at home."

Suez at home:

don't use medical language as an insult

that's names of personality disorders, developmental disorders, widely-documented neurodivergences, classes of injury, none of it

go ahead and get rid of references to drugs, too, while you're at it

talk about what people do and are doing and keep doing, not about what medicalized group you assume is sufficiently inferior to 'normal' people to do what they do

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This comic has been living rent-free in my brain for years now

"Research shows 150 Indigenous communities acknowledge multiple genders; colonialism introduced idea of binary"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/indigenous-lgbtq-words-1.6953445

I know most people don't understand what the big deal is with masks. The "big" deal with masks is they are so small and insignificant a "sacrifice" to help vulnerable people that it makes it abundantly clear that every other fight we are up against will be unattainable if the inconvenience is modestly above that. Yes, that is why all these other fights have suddenly risen altogether. They see how little comfort you will give up to help another. So-called leftists caved, they saw opportunity.

Seems it might not be common knowledge that if you have covid, you *mustn't* push yourself to build your activity levels back to normal. There's a high likelihood that Long Covid is a type of ME/CFS, a disabling chronic illness which often follows a viral infection. Everyone with ME will tell you: do not push yourself! At that delicate phase of recovery you could seriously risk becoming permanently disabled. Rest as much as possible, and err on the safe side!