Get REAL- Question everything!

Then there's the "normal" that means that the thing predictably Just Happens, nobody has to do anything wrong or weird to make it be like that. It's normal in the sense of being a morally neutral, expectable thing.

Then there's the "everyone poops" level of normal. For the kind of things that are literally so normal that it would be really fucking weird if there was somebody who has never encountered it.

(it's going missing...)

We're having a global problem because English got picked as 'The Common Language' <sorry everyone!>. plus also = rapid, shortened electronic forms of communication lack breadth and variety. This context dependent aspect of communication is an instilled function in language learning. Extremely hard to TEACH this, because it requires EXPOSURE to various forms of a word, being used in different contexts.

For native speakers, this SHOULD include exposure to OLDER works and a variety of modes: formal/informal; business/personal; prose/informational etc. it also requires the neurological flexibility that comes with CODE SWITCHING.

Denotation is what a ESL student learns about a word. English is Loaded with connotations though;

Implied vs. explicit idioms and figurative speech slang and pop culture generational inversions

-people without the foundation which builds Semantic Nuance, may only know a single meaning for a word that has multiple meanings.. AND they cannot guess which synonym one means. 🫥😶😒

thinking of rip-tides and rouge waves

the hidden pits in the Western RedCedar rainforests

rockslides and flashfloods

If you know what you'd have to do to solve a problem, but you just don't want to do it, your main problem isn't the problem itself. Your problem is figuring out how to get yourself to do the solution.

If your problem is not eating enough vegetables, the problem you should be solving is "how do I make vegetables stop being yucky". If your problem is not getting enough exercise, the problem you should be solving is "how do I make exercise stop sucking ass". You're not supposed to just be doing things that are awful and suck all the time forever, you're supposed to figure out how to make it stop being so awful all the time.

I used to hate wearing sunscreen because it's sticky and slimy and disgusting and it feels bad and it smells bad, so I neglected to wear it even if I needed to. Then I found one that isn't like that, and doesn't smell and feel gross. Problem solved.

free-to-use “the only ship that is bad is censorship” badge

—> “proship & proud” badge

how someone sets their boundaries has absolutely nothing to do with censorship.

censorship is when someone tries to control other people what they can or can’t create and consume.

censorship is not about a random person disabling their own comments section for whatever reason. censorship is not about people blocking other people on social media as their way of setting boundaries and curating their internet experience. censorship is not about disrespecting other people’s boundaries and censorship is not about tolerating it when other people disrespect you or your boundaries.

Day 1 of tdf: spun up the Eider from my breed samples. There was this adorable crimpy bit that made it into the combed top!

I managed to spin and ply (thank you little narwhal plying tool) the whole ounce in the hour and a half I spent on a discord call with my guild for kick off today!

just block and make it clear that this attempt to fuck with the trans* community on Tumblr isn’t going to work.

from "Promoting and Protecting Human Rights in relation to Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Sex Characteristics" by the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions

For those who haven't heard of Shivy Bhat: he was 19 years old and already being abused by his family while living in California, when after asking his mother if he could cut his hair, she demanded he give her access to his phone and was outdated as trans. Under the pretense that they were taking a trip back to India to see his grandmother, Shivy's family kidnapped him, planning on forcing him to live in India in order to "fix" him by teaching him to be a "cultured Indian girl," and planning on forcing him into an arranged marriage. They had taken away all his identifying documents and his phone. He managed to escape with the help of a local queer feminist group, which then resulted in a legal battle as Shivy's family tried to accuse the group of kidnapping and sex trafficking to get access to him again.

Stuff like this makes me question if I’m actually passionate about anything

but in my experience 95% of my hallucinations are getting spooked by very clearly hearing someone knocking on my door or calling my name from another room or hearing footsteps walking behind me which are "just" my brain recreating the horror of an abusive childhood

(not trying to put you on blast specifically, you're just a good example to jump off of)

media and pop culture hypes up psychosis a lot as The Worst That Can Happen out of sanism, so even when you try and filter that cultural bias out you still assume it's based on something

when, no, psychosis is actually very simple: it's just hyperactive pattern matching. it's your brain's signal-to-noise ratio being off balance, it's seeing images in random static. it's not always this special uniquely big thing, it's in fact quite mundane a lot of the time.

no one is immune to psychosis, it's not purely the realm of the insane. anyone is one bad night of sleep or one bad case of food poisoning or one bad fever away from being just like me on my worst days.

- don't let strangers on the internet CONVINCE you of anything. do you own research.

There are many things that can cause hallucinations! Human nervous systems are very easy to disrupt. a 'hallucination' is the firing of sensory nerves WITHOUT the presence of actual stimulation

"Hypnagogic hallucinations and hypnopompic hallucinations are considered normal phenomena. Hypnagogic hallucinations can occur as one is falling asleep and hypnopompic hallucinations occur when one is waking up. Hallucinations can be associated with drug use (particularly deliriants), sleep deprivation, psychosis (including stress-related psychosis[15]), neurological disorders, and delirium tremens. Many hallucinations happen also during sleep paralysis." source - Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination

- it can be smell/taste/touch/hearing/visceral/vestibular...

which means that tinnitus can be a hallucination! "Up to 15% of the general population may experience auditory hallucinations (though not all are due to psychosis)" - this is from wikipedia, which I would never rely on as a primary source.. other things that can cause hallucinations (which are NOT psychosis):

migraines

dehydration

vestibular disorder

Parkinson's disease (and other neurological disrupting diseases)

sleep deprivation

head injuries

hypnagogic and hypnopompic states

hypnotic suggestions

Autism

She literally went “debate me! Debate me!” Over and over like the grifter she is and when she couldn’t get what she wanted and when “no” wasn’t enough she resorted to retaliatory sex-pestery, posting an image of somebody’s body with intention to shame and embarrass and spawn more waspish tittering from her internet followers.

(1) A person (A) commits an offence if—

(a) A intentionally shares a photograph or film which shows, or appears to show, another person (B) in an intimate state, (b) B does not consent to the sharing of the photograph or film, and (c) A does not reasonably believe that B consents.

(2) A person (A) commits an offence if—