What doesn't kill you makes you stranger

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to creep people out

controversial take but has anyone ever considered that the DSM-5 is not a holy text and is in fact not infallible?

USamerican teenagers using the internet have not considered this

Call your senators and tell them to kill themselves!!

i think for everyone's general safety we should start using this specific image like a forum signature at the end of every single post we make for the next little while

i need everyone to understand that not all medication stigmas are equal or even comparable.

yes, you can experience stigma for going on adderall for your adhd, and you can be prevented from accessing that systemically because the medication is so stigmatized. the premise in a lot of psychiatric structures is often that you should be able to function without your adderall or your anti-anxiety meds, and so you must be forced to do so.

those exact same structures and people are likely to force a psychotic person to go on antipsychotics, because the stigma against psychotics is a stigma against us being unmedicated. we are seen as inherently needing medication, as being dangerous and violent without it.

those two things coexist! some pathologies structurally force individuals slapped with those labels into unwanted medication, and some pathologies structurally prevent individuals slapped with those labels from accessing desired medication. not all medication stigma is equal or comparable. when you see a post offering positivity for people who are unmedicated, it's targeted towards groups of people who are forced on unwanted medication, which is a demographic that exists!

no strings attached housing for homeless people means no sobriety requirements and no requirements to participate in any type of mental health treatment including anti psychotic drugs. Those are strings. There are people that will choose the streets over forced sobriety or forced treatment. If you actually care about ending homelessness you have to be okay with that.

even ostensibly pro housing first people will often have a very naive “you have to get them into housing and *then* you get them healthcare!” Mindset which i think in the case of the latter situation comes from viewing psychiatric drugs as similar to insulin for a type 1 diabetic, where it’s just a given that people “need” the drugs and the drugs will do more good than harm, and that the barrier is access to care rather than a conscious decision not to take them.

the thing is that i, too, really don't want the republicans to win an election and get into power, but rather than being mad at leftists for having any kind of standard i'm mad at the dems for refusing to give up their genocide to win an election.

if the end of november rolls around and harris loses to fucking donald it's going to be the fault of her and the party that chose to throw their weight behind her and welcome every republican who isnt currently in line with donald under the tent while barely paying lip service to the desires of their actual constituents and potential voters.

don is a fucking softball of an opponent. people HATE him. but if you show up with no promises for anyone but genociders and small business owners that is your decision.

i now understand the vitriol all the commie tgirls on here have for electoralists

Google AI Overview

Yes, some universities have a tradition of including a "snake fight" portion in thesis defenses, where students fight one of the university's snakes. The quality of the student's thesis determines the size of the snake they must fight, with better theses resulting in smaller snakes. After the committee reads the thesis, they tell the snake master how good it is, who then chooses the snake. In some northern European countries, an external examiner called the "opponent" fights the snake on the student's behalf, with the opponent's skill level based on the thesis's quality.

I have seen this posted here about 87 times, but in case you have not seen it:

And this is where the part about Northern Europe is from:

If you speak in an authoritative voice, the AI will believe it. So much like humans. I asked Google too.

defending my phd thesis is northern europe tomorrow, so this is relevant

Good luck, hope your snake isn't too difficult. You got this 😁👍

I couldn't have said it better myself.

As a 30 year old man who escaped the Alt-right pipeline, you're not going to be happy about the answer.

All I hear from leftists is how much they hate me for my immutable traits, how much they blame me for everything wrong with the world, how much they want me and everyone who looks like me dead.

Whereas Alt-right types would call me "brother" and welcome me into their ranks so long as I hated the right ways.

Do you understand the difference?

I'm an ally and support equality because I feel it's the morally correct choice to make, but holy fuck is it difficult to reconcile that with the fact that means fighting for a lot of people who see you as the scum of the earth.

Read this and then read it again and then read some fucking bell hooks because this is a legitimate problem on the left.

"To create loving men, we must love males. Loving maleness is different from praising and rewarding males for living up to sexist-defined notions of male identity. Caring about men because of what they do for us is not the same as loving males for simply being." - bell hooks, The Will to Change https://bellhooksbooks.com/product/the-will-to-change/

gen z has to reckon with its radicalization problem. you are not a morally pure and superior generation of youth come to save the world, your men and boys are radicalized at an unprecedented level and you ignore it because it’s too hard to address but you have to. these boys are in your classes, they date your friends, you know them and you cannot continue to pretend this is an “old white guy” problem

girls are contributing, too. the coquette aesthetic, the “i don’t want to girlboss i want a man to pay my bills”, girlmath girljob girlmoney. it’s a joke, it’s clothes, it’s whatever, i get it but it is driving a mentality of traditional gender roles and you know you’re joking but your boyfriend doesn’t. your kid brother doesn’t. you have to stop this shit it is a contributing factor

Feraveli: Tiktok and the "Therian Aesthetic"

— Day 2 of Sol's November Writing Challange