play outer wilds.
fuck it if you need convincing start watching this and stop when they tell you to stop
kandi portal gun this took around 2 days to make but i'm so proud of it aaaaaaa
I FINALLY FOUND IT AGAIN
The audio from this is from the Mexican comedian Sofia Niño de Rivera. The translation in the tiktok is better than Youtube's autogenerated captions (obviously), but here's the original:
The whole thing is on Netflix with English subtitles, highly recommended
I feel like there's a necessary counterpoint to the "torment nexus" problem, namely that science fiction itself isn't free from the political and cultural biases of its creators or the capitalist incentive structure of media production. Like, every time there's an article about research into cloning extinct species, there are a bunch of comments to the effect that "There's an entire series of movies explaining why that's a bad idea." And that's true: there's an entire series of blockbuster monster movies (that very much make their money off of the spectacle of prehistoric monsters running amok), based on a thriller novel written by a reactionary, that hold that if you develop this technology, you will get the plot of a monster movie.
Like, the Cybermen were partially inspired by Kit Pedler getting squicked-out by the then-new technologies of pacemakers and organ transplantation. It's not a good argument.
absolutely simmering with rage cause I was gonna make this exact post. it woulda been funny too. it woulda been like “I like the torment nexus meme as much as the next guy but like, a guy wrote a whole entire book about how you shouldn’t put dinosaurs in a zoo. sometimes it’s the sci-fi writers who are wrong” and it woulda gotten 50-60 notes. maybe even reposted to reddit. but I didn’t. I let the idea roll around in my head too long, and the opportunity passed me by. now I sit here, nary a note to my name, watching someone else live the dream that could have been mine. let my tragedy be to you a cautionary tale. sieze the day, my friends. there is no greater a curse than a life unlived. i love you.
I've seen this before, but it's been years and it just came across my Twitter in its dying days. The words are from a favorite author of mine, Maggie Stiefvater, and they are the words I most need to hear when it comes to dealing with chronic pain and illness. I didn't need this the first time I saw it, six years ago. I need it now. Maybe you do, too.
found a source for this text. here's what it says, for those who can't see the images:
a very wise woman gave me a piece of advice. She told me to start a journal. In the morning, she said, write down the percentage that I felt I was that day. 20% Maggie. 90% Maggie. Then I should write down what I accomplished that day.
I thought at this point she was going to tell me to admire how much I’d gotten done each day despite being ill. I didn’t want that; I didn’t need a pep talk. I needed my brain.
But that wasn’t what she said. She told me: write down what you’ve managed to do on a 20% day, what you’ve managed to do on a 40% day. Eventually you’ll have a guide so when you wake up and you’re at 20%, you won’t try to do the things you do on a 40% day. You’ll know you can just go watch a movie or sit with your goats or whatever and not feel guilty, because you were never going to write words you could keep or be able to exercise or whatever.
And that was the right way.
It meant I no longer labored for 12 hours each day, doing nothing but trying to smash my way through a draft. Instead I slowly began to write bits and bobs in on my good days. A funny thing happened then: once I was not spending every second forcing myself to do things I couldn’t, I found I had enough energy to actually start to work on myself. To look for patterns in my good and bad days. To research healthcare providers and new studies on what was wrong with me still. Slowly I found I was able to chain more of the 60% days together, then 80% days. Slowly I began to realize that although it was taking months, I was improving overall.
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it's not even about one tag having more suggestive stuff, if you look through both tags, (if you type a period after tgirl it still works) they have the same amount of suggestive selfies! And I've seen more explicit photos BLAZED by cis women! I've legit seen underwear pics right on my dash in front of my fucking salad. Go to hell GO DIRECTLY TO HELL.
I saw a post like this about “crossdressing” which has since been unblocked. As of today, “tgirl” is still blocked. Calling them out works, make them change this NOW
Doctors are like HERE is your APPOINTMENT if you are late I WILL PERSONALLY kill YOU but when you show up on time they are like I; am so so sor..ry.. Theree, will bbe abt housand yeaars, delayy
This post is so funny bc people are like "that's bc of all the other people before you who ran late or had a problem that took too long (more than 15 min)" wow that's crazy, it's almost like there's an industry-wide problem with overbooking doctors based on the deranged idea that somehow healthcare will be able to be squeezed into the time it takes to microwave a tv dinner and every patient will never have any issues with travel time and that problem is passed onto doctors and patients. It's almost like it's a really bad quality of care to expect someone to cancel their entire days activities to see a healthcare professional once every one to six months for 15 minutes.
I wish I had the brazen self-confidence of the people in my notes who've just watched a 10-minute video or read a 2-page article about an egregiously complex topic
the concept of a freakshow never fully went away. nowadays people collect posts/screenshots of disabled/mentally ill people literally just Existing Online and put them on their accounts with the intention of displaying them for people to hurl abuse towards. And they think that this is a Normal and Moral way to behave and carry themselves.
Also? TLC shows are often freakshows rebranded to be inspoporn or "these are obviously freaks but we're HELPING them". I'm a literal bearded woman and had a TLC show producer reach out to try and make a show about me in 2018. See also: British tabloids and reality shows. They're even more aggressively obvious that they're into freaks. Freakshows are everywhere in modern media.