Acting NT

In particular the fact that I recently started using an old Atari computer from the 80s as my main music-composing computer really got me thinking - since I have no nostalgia for this computer whatsoever. Yet it literally has superior MIDI tracking speeds in comparison to modern computers. 

So much discussion of Nostalgia basically focuses on media. And you might make an argument for like hand-drawn cartoons, or video games actually being a complete package rather than an incremental DLC pipeline. However it’s hard to say those things are like… actually “Better” since there is so much subjectivity. 

so many of ao3′s userbase is so adamant that ao3 is nonprofit 

Yeah because it is. Look up the Organization for Transformative Works in the IRS database of tax exempt organizations, or GuideStar’s non-profit report listing. EIN 38-3765024, BRIDGE Number 5584273916.

Let’s check out their Form 990 and see how much they paid their staffers:

And it’s a whooping $0.00.

They invest in stocks

Oh heaven forbid. It’s pretty standard for any moderately-sized nonprofit to make conservative investments, so that their reserves do more than simply accrue interest in a bank account. Nobody is taking a vacation to Comoros on that money.

“Once nonprofits get larger, however, some are able to start thinking for the future. Taking money and putting it toward longer-term goals like capital spending or a permanent endowment requires prudent investment. In order to take initial seed money and grow it into a substantial nest egg for use toward those longer-term charitable purposes, nonprofits are allowed to invest in stocks, bonds, funds, and other typical investments.”

https://www.fool.com/knowledge-center/can-a-nonprofit-organization-invest-in-stock.aspx

it’s owned by a corporation

Yes, AO3 is part of the Organization for Transformative Works, which is indeed incorporated. Again, pretty standard for a charity. Let’s review the OTW’s Certificate of Incorporation:

it’s been in beta for literal fucking years

Finally… who cares? Gmail was in beta for five years, and that was with all the resources of Google behind it and 100 million people already using it.

“the label is just a way for Google to signal users that they’re still tweaking the e-mail service and adding new features”

Same thing for AO3. The reason AO3 is in beta is because it doesn’t have a finalized codebase and it’s too unstable to make an API out of. They could put out a post tomorrow saying ‘we’re out of beta’ and nobody would bat an eye. The website isn’t perfect, but it’s more than functional. And yes, there are a lot of features that can’t be added without overtaxing the existing hardware resources, so why not try a GreasyFork userscript?

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

Your trauma is real.  

I believe you.

You didn’t deserve to be abused.

—

Kate Bornstein

When you deprive people of basic human rights, submit them to torture, and abuse, Don’t allow them to move about freely (detain them without trial for no crime), take away their dignity, their bodily integrity, their ability to remain in their homes, to connect with the people they love, to choose how they spend their days: when psychiatric “treatment” is coercive, it often results in trauma, and harm. There are non coercive, non violent, respectful, dignified, effective ways to help people dealing with extreme emotional states or altered states of consciousness. There is no such thing as being hurt for your own good.

a list-rant

1. there is not enough discussion of the benefits, nay, the necessity of mad pride + criticism of a compulsory medical model of madness on social media

2. there is not enough discussion of the place of people who have/could be diagnosed with what the medical community calls eating disorders in mad pride + how to approach such experiences outside the medical model

3. there is not enough camaraderie + discourse between mad pride + disability pride + their combined power to eat away pillars of capitalism so that this motherfucker will burn to the ground faster than it already is

4. i’m sick of being told that my suffering is pathological because it is not a pathology to experience psychological, emotional, or mental suffering under capitalism. full stop. capitalism is unsustainable therefore it is not a sign of illness not to be able to sustainably function within it. full stop.

5. it blows my mind that people still need suffering +/or extreme psychic/emotional states to be validated by a medical doctor as something outside our control in order to cease shaming + discriminating against people who are suffering +/or experiencing extreme psychic/emotional states. people only let gay people be gay if it was considered an illness for a while, too. you still have to get a diagnosis for a trans person to get care. it’s insulting to think that something is only valid if you “can’t help it”. how about we don’t shame difference? WOW

6. BTW criticism of the medical model does not negate, erase, or criticize biological sources or influences on madness, nor does it negate or erase the autonomous choice to imbibe pharmaceuticals or other chemicals in order to ease suffering or struggle. it opens up space for autonomous choice + diversity of frameworks without shame.

7. the autonomy of mad people living mad lives is inherently anti-capitalist + a source of radical praxis

8. mad pride is not ~*~romanticizing mental illness~*~. mad pride with a diagnosis of an eating disorder is not ~*~pro-ana or pro-mia~*~. the fact that y’all are so terrified of crazy + suffering people finding value, worth, + beauty in their lived experience is terrifying. let people beautify their lives. let people take up their own space on social media. if you don’t like how they do it, don’t follow them.

9. the fact that we’re working so hard to convince people who suffer that they’re not suffering enough if they can find value + sources of pride in their existence + experiences unless those aspects of their existence or experiences are normative is damaging ablist bullshit

10. as a psychiatric survivor, i’m not talking out of my ass. i have a stake in this.