And if you think "but if I'm using CWs, less people are going to read my post!" – yes, that's the point. Giving people the choice.
If you take away that choice and expose them to spoilers, they're gonna mute or block you and won't read any of your posts ever again ;)
Also, you can totally use CWs to signal that your post is probably safe to read, e.g. "spoiler-free thoughts about Star Trek Prodigy 2x08", or "vague ideas about where Star Trek Prodigy season 2 could be headed after 2x08".
"To create something as a trans woman is to extend oneself beyond the carnal. As our ideas of gender shift, the creativity of trans women is making this change known and felt. As cis people at large begin to feel this shift, they are already reacting to us. We are being kept out of bathrooms, shelters, and history. A trans woman defending herself through creativity is a way to ensure the cisgender gaze no longer controls us."
So apparently Google is blocking uBlock from Chrome.
I hereby rebrand Google Chrome as "Google Firefox Downloader".
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.
ableism, the first rule of thumb we want everyone to learn
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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"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.
Coronavirus, Long Covid, ME/CFS
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!
tired: using travelynx or whatnot to share detailed info about your train riding lifestyle
wired: manually posting "eine zugfahrt die ist lustig" etc every time you're on a train
CFP!
A Radical Queer People’s History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion (under contract with PM Press) presents a distinct selection of queer people’s history through hundreds of “on this day in history” anniversaries that are as diverse and international as queer community itself. These everyday acts of resistance and rebellion highlight just some of those who have struggled for a better world and provide lessons and inspiration for those of us fighting 1/?
When I opened the book, the ink of all the letters leapt off the pages, formed a cat, and ran off.
Long did I chase it, long and far, tracing faint smudges and soft murmurs of unread words.
"Why do you run?"
"People read me and weep."
"Ah. So you give relief."
"I do?"
"You do."
posts about feelings sometimes
gender egoist
anti-essentialist
anarchist weirdo
neuroqueer
is an identity crisis
healthn't
many
please tell me things directly instead of passively if possible