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Modern research shows the public work together selflessly in an emergency, motivated by a strong impulse to help
âThe notion that people panic and run screaming for the exits is a Hollywood fiction,â said Prof Stephen Reicher, an expert in group behaviour at the University of St Andrews.
âCharacteristically, people stay and help each other,â he said. âWe found this during the 7/7 attacks on the underground and the 1999 attack on the Admiral Duncan pub in London, where people looked after each other even though they feared other bombs.
âIn our own research on the Leytonstone tube attack in 2015, there was an amazing level of spontaneous coordination by bystanders: some directed others away from danger. Some distracted the attacker. Some confronted the attacker. Each was able to act because of the others. Heroism was a feature of the group, not just the individual,â he added.
Prof Clifford Stott, a specialist in the psychology of crowds and group identity at Keele University, agreed. Modern research, he said, showed âbystander apathyâ was a myth. Instead, strangers often work together in emergency situations with highly sophisticated unity.â
Bystander apathy is a myth invented by the New York Times to cover up that the police were called by several residents of the building, but the cops refused to act. The cops then told the Times that 38 people just watched her die (a seemingly arbitrary number and a physical impossibility based on where the attacks occurred), and the Times ran with it. In fact, Kitty was alive when the cops got there, and was being held and comforted by one of her friends who lived in the building because one of the people who saw her get attacked from across the street called her friend to go get her. Because people care.
You have just been attacked. How likely is it that someone will come to your help? If you remember the infamous case of Kitty Genovese in 19
I will always re-blog this. The story of Kitty Genoveseâs murder has gone down in history as a story about everyone watching it happen and doing nothing and none of the story is true.
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I also have hard time saying no, this is a great set of tips!
Do you believe in Finland?
Yes
No, but I use to
No.
As silly and seemingly harmless as this joke is, please give it a rest. It's not funny and not completely harmless.
(I'm mainly just copy-pasting from a previous post about this topic.)
"Finland is not real" sounds as ridiculous as "birds aren't real". So it's just a harmless joke, right? But not everyone will know the context of the joke. Most people making this joke know nothing about Finland's history or relationship with Russia (or Sweden, but that's less relevant). Even ridiculous lies start feeling truthful when repeated often enough and can be used as the first step for bigger lies.
Today people are joking that Finland isn't real. How silly! Let's keep the joke going! So what about when in five years' time Russia starts pushing propaganda to the West saying Finland isn't a legitimate country, just like they've been doing with Ukraine? The idea is already in your head in the form of a "harmless joke."
It's not funny to question a nation's existence and sovereignty, even as a joke, especially not now.
If Finland isn't real, then Finns aren't real people. If Finnish isn't a real nationality or a real ethnic group, then "they're just (confused) Swedes (or perhaps even Russians)." Both Sweden and Russia are historically Finland's oppressors.
Here's Russian state media saying "it's all ours, of course" in reference to Finland and some other countries.
Here's Russian state media saying they "want the Russian Empire", which would include Finland. Although, the guy immediately follows up by calling for genocide against Finns (and Poles).
Here's a Russian state official calling for the invasion of a bunch of nations, including Finland, because it's "all our lands."
To quote @lurks-no-more from the post linked: Taken by itself, it's mostly harmless⌠but it's part of a broader flood of misinformation and disinformation that pervades the internet, and contributes to the blurring of objective reality. And that is dangerous, because it can and will be used by bad actors and authoritarians to spread their hateful lies and bullshit.
As @mint-ty points out regarding the post linked earlier: There's also a big misconception that all fake info has a purpose. While in reality a lot of it is just thrown around randomly to see what sticks. The key point is to find what resonates and what can be utilized further. So if jokes about the lack of sovereignty resonate with any of you - well. You might be susceptible to more than just this.
Here's also a whole video about the topic:
âThey asked me to tell you what it was like to be twenty and pregnant in 1950 and when you tell your boyfriend youâre pregnant, he tells you about a friend of his in the army whose girl told him she was pregnant, so he got all his buddies to come and say, âWe all fucked her, so who knows who the father is?â And he laughs at the good jokeâŚ. What was it like, if you were planning to go to graduate school and get a degree and earn a living so you could support yourself and do the work you lovedâwhat it was like to be a senior at Radcliffe and pregnant and if you bore this child, this child which the law demanded you bear and would then call âunlawful,â âillegitimate,â this child whose father denied it ⌠What was it like? [âŚ] Itâs like this: if I had dropped out of college, thrown away my education, depended on my parents ⌠if I had done all that, which is what the anti-abortion people want me to have done, I would have borne a child for them, ⌠the authorities, the theorists, the fundamentalists; I would have born a child for them, their child. But I would not have born my own first child, or second child, or third child. My children. The life of that fetus would have prevented, would have aborted, three other fetuses ⌠the three wanted children, the three I had with my husbandâwhom, if I had not aborted the unwanted one, I would never have met ⌠I would have been an âunwed motherâ of a three-year-old in California, without work, with half an education, living off her parentsâŚ. But it is the children I have to come back to, my children Elisabeth, Caroline, Theodore, my joy, my pride, my loves. If I had not broken the law and aborted that life nobody wanted, they would have been aborted by a cruel, bigoted, and senseless law. They would never have been born. This thought I cannot bear. What was it like, in the Dark Ages when abortion was a crime, for the girl whose dad couldnât borrow cash, as my dad could? What was it like for the girl who couldnât even tell her dad, because he would go crazy with shame and rage? Who couldnât tell her mother? Who had to go alone to that filthy room and put herself body and soul into the hands of a professional criminal? â because that is what every doctor who did an abortion was, whether he was an extortionist or an idealist. You know what it was like for her. You know and I know; that is why we are here. We are not going back to the Dark Ages. We are not going to let anybody in this country have that kind of power over any girl or woman. There are great powers, outside the government and in it, trying to legislate the return of darkness. We are not great powers. But we are the light. Nobody can put us out. May all of you shine very bright and steady, today and always.â
â Ursula K. Le Guin
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DO NOT LET SOCIAL MEDIA TURN YOU INTO AN AMERICAN
As an American: Seriously, please donât
ok well i don't
"Americanization" is a real phenomenon, and how non-Americans should be cautious of it is taught in different countries at school. It's taught in Greece and people from other countries told me their elementary or middle school teachers (using the American grades, to make it make sense to the majority on the site) talked to them about it.
It's common sense here, except for USians, so I'll analyze it a bit more for the dominant demographic here. In a globalized setting, the most dominant culture affects the others and sets the trends. The way our language works, how we think, our levels of politeness and intimacy, and our levels of respect. (flash news, they are going down đ)
I don't want to imply that there is nothing good in the US. There are plenty of positives in the country. It's just that for the rest of the cultures online it's a constant daily fight to not forget our roots, with the degree US media and brands have permeated our lives. In Greece at least we watch more US American media than Greek media nowadays, and many of our shows are rip-offs of USian ones, with little adaptation to Greek reality and culture.
And to demonstrate the amount of this exposure, a 22-year-old Greek asked me the other day "if something happens we call 911, right?" This might have literally cost them their life, in a dangerous situation! Because all the movies and songs they consumed (not an unusual thing for the Greek youth) were what they knew. And I found a similar comment in this comment thread.
Lots of Americans in the notes failing to understand this post. It's not about not liking the US. It's not about you feeling ashamed or guilty for being American. It's not about you.
It's about American media drowning out native language media all over the world, and workplaces requiring the English language in your repertoire more and more. It's about proper translations and foreign language dubbing of films disappearing because "everyone speaks/should speak English anyway." All of this is leading to the deterioration of native speaker groups of languages worldwide.
In my country, Dutch language courses can't find enough people who want to study the language, while English language courses are overflowing with people who want to study the language. There is even widespread distaste for the Dutch language for being crude or sounding rough or what have you. That's our native language!!! That is our culture in its purest form!!! That is knowledge we inherit from our parents as they did from theirs!!! That is how we learned fairytales and folk stories and myths!!! That is the language that shapes our communication and our way of thinking!!! To hate your native language is to hate yourself at the deepest level.
And yet it's so normalised. Droves of foreigners living in the Netherlands will never learn a word of Dutch, because "everyone speaks English anyway." We are the world's leaders in non-native understanding of English, but it comes at a cost. A grave cost we will continue to pay.
If you're looking to support your non-American friends in any way that is not performatively shouting "I hate being an American" into the void, first of all, unlearn that hatred of yourself and your culture. You are of no help self-flagellating, and there is a difference between holding your country accountable for its issues, and denying yourself your culture because your country is doing and has done bad things.
(I am not going to get into arguments about whether or not US American culture exists. It does, and if you think differently you are welcome to change your mind.)
Secondly, learn about other countries. Learn a bit of Chinese. Take an interest in the Italian political system. Ask your friends about their countries' folklore. Watch documentaries about art from Nigeria. Absorb information that is not fed to you by American media.
And thirdly, quit expecting your non-American friends to communicate in a way that appeals to you. The French and Dutch will always seem rude to you because our way of communicating is far more direct than the way you communicate. People from other cultures may seem vague to you because their way of communicating is far more indirect, and you're not used to that either. Quit being frustrated when you don't get what we mean exactly. Quit assuming we mean the absolute worst thing you could imagine just because you didn't get what we meant the first time. Ask us to explain if you need us to, and learn to accept that we are different from you.
We are already adapting to your culture 100% of the time we are online. It's your responsibility to adapt to us, too. At least do your friends the courtesy of learning about and adapting to them.
We are already adapting to your culture 100% of the time we are online. It's your responsibility to adapt to us, too. At least do your friends the courtesy of learning about and adapting to them.
Also like people who say "just leave tumblr if you don't want to see american stuff" it's fucking everywhere it's not just online, it's offline too, our politicians keep trying to copy the USA, your tarrifs bankrupted small sellers all over Europe, your proxy wars and ability to just stop wars with a phone call also influence us, in south america Venezuela is currently risking being bombed to distract people from the fact that your president is a paedophile.
Emerican Johnson once had a good video (which I can't find any more) about how he moved from being a capitalist into a socialist, which involved leaving the USA and then realising that people outside of the USA can't choose to ignore politics from the USA because of how much it affects everyone.
There's a good video by Jack Saint on cultural cringe, and how even unintentionally when there's a culture which is considered modern (like it fills the cinemas) it can make your own culture seem boring and shitty meaning you go towards the other culture and abandon your own history and sometimes even language. Like an interesting example of this is how 'white walls' are considered cool in Indian social media because of how there's so many people from the USA who have just plain white walls for their videos, rather than traditional Indian house designs. Especially because IKEA is expensive and out of reach for most people in India, so having a plain painted white wall with IKEA furniture is actually a status symbol!
There's been so many times I've tried to get through to a bunch of people from the US the sheer amount of stuff we can't avoid. But I think the indoctrination which people in the USA do go through has been made quite clear in some of the recent videos from Evan Edinger, where he can point out where the absolute nonsense he's recieved in his comments is mentally from, as he grew up in the USA but once he lived in another country he realised all the wool which had been pulled over his eyes.
Many people from the USA when confronted with the truth seem even unable to unwilling to actually listen to people from outside the USA. They just get angry and combative. Like arguments like "We have problems inside too!" Like yeah of course you do, we know, we can show you paths to help. "Why are you attacking us, there's lots of POC in the USA" do you think there's only white people outside of the usa? do you think there's only white people even in Europe or something? Very racist argument to make. "I'm not listening to an X" if the place someone comes from means you won't listen to them, never mind the xenophobia it just makes you look like a child if you say an argument is based on who someone is rather than what it says.
I remember sitting in a call with a few people in @ayeforscotland server as we watched the 2025 US election results coming in and verbalising my feelings on it which summed up as
"I cannot wait for the time that I (a Scottish Person) no longer need to know how many Electoral college votes Georgia gets."
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you guys aren't gonna like this but if you want ao3 to be a neutral archive that will host anything that includes shit made with ai no matter how objectionable you find that
Ugh. I hate AI fics but you're RIGHT. Just like with everything else we don't like, we can still just. Not engage with it.
no. I disagree. ao3 is an archive of fan content. as in, created by fans. An AI is not a fan. it's not a person. it can't write or create. ao3 is an archive of transformative work and chatGPT cannot perform meaningful transformative work, it can only regurgitate slop.
and yes, as others have said, ao3 still does have certain limitations. You can't plagiarize - and AI is a plagiarism machine, you can't post 'iso' or 'placeholder' fics, etc. It can absolutely choose to say the content it hosts must be made by humans without censoring the acual content.
^^^^^
Except that Ao3 absolutely cannot choose to say the content it hosts must be made by humans without opening the door to the very censorship it was created to avoid.
Because there is no way to tell with 100% accuracy that a piece of writing was created by or with the aid of generative AI, and anything less than 100% accuracy is completely unacceptable, no nuance, no exceptions. You can tell with 100% accuracy if something is not a fanwork--like an ISO or placeholder post that does not contain a fanwork--and you can tell with 100% accuracy if a fanwork contains a link to a payment apparatus or is otherwise soliciting payment for fic in violation of the TOS, so these things can be disallowed and, when discovered and reported as violations, dealt with by PAC. And you can tell with 100% accuracy that a fic has been plagiarized, meaning that it has pulled entire passages word for word from another fic and this can therefore be detailed in a report in order for PAC to take action. (This is important to note because while generative AI is in fact The Plagiarism Machine, that can only be proven on the back end via the datasets used to train it. You can't actually look at generative output and tell which place the words were ripped from, because LLMs operate on statistical probabilities of word order, not actually pulling phrases wholesale from a specific work.)
But you cannot tell with 100% accuracy that a particular passage has been generated with AI.
And we are already seeing the problem with spurious AI accusations! People are claiming that 'excessive use of em-dashes' is a 'tell' for AI, when the only reason em-dashes exist in AI-generated output is because the machines were trained on human-generated writing that used them! (And as a writer who frequently ODs on em-dashes and italics, I find that particular 'tell' especially insulting. My overuse of em-dashes comes from my own brain, thank you very much.) So the only way to actually tell that someone on Ao3 is using AI to write their fic is if the admit as much up-front.
Guess what would happen if Ao3 decided to ban AI fics from the platform? Those fics would stop being tagged, and then we'd run into the exact same problems we had on FFN with fics being grudge-reported by bad faith actors, which was one of many reasons Ao3 was created in the first place--so that people couldn't do that.
Generative AI sucks and I think everyone who uses it to create fics is a loser, but I'd much rather be able to avoid them by excluding a tag or muting an author than have to worry about some asshole who hates me trying to get my fics deleted by reporting me to PAC for suspected AI use.
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you know whatâs really genuinely unsettling? the degree to which men fucking do not want to sympathize with/be interested in women.
male audiences will happily watch a dozen superhero shows, but then something like Agent Carter or Supergirl turn up and theyâre panned from the first trailer and have to struggle for ratings. male audiences will watch countless installments of a franchise as long as itâs about men doing man things but the second a character like Rey or Furiosa or god forbid four entire female Ghostbusters steps up and takes a position of prominence itâs âpandering sjw bullshitâ.
itâs not pandering. men just aggressively donât want to have to be invested in a womanâs narrative and itâs really gross.
anyway re: everyone telling me to âStop making this a gender thingâ or some variation on that
this isnât like⌠an opinion Iâm pulling out of my ass here? this starts where earlier than tv shows and hollywood blockbusters, when all the kids in a class are reading Harry Potter or Percy Jackson or Eragon o Lord of the Rings or Maze Runner or whatever the hip book is right now. the books like that, the ones that become popular reading, are overwhelmingly about male leads, because male is still considered the default.Â
thereâs a split in YA literature, between books that are âfor everyoneâ and âfor girlsâ, and thatâs honestly the entire issue in a tiny little box right there. stories about men are supposed to be accessible for everyone, but stories about girls are seen as 1.) inherently for women and 2.) something that only women will care about.
men grow up in a society that doesnât make them go out of their way to get into the heads of women and empathize with then. historically itâs been very easy for men to not engage with female-led media if they donât want to, whereas (like someone else commented on this post) girls and women have had very little choice in the past because everything was about men. we didnât even question it.
and now the women are arriving in mainstream media in ways that say theyâre important and they matter and
small (or sometimes not so small) but loud-enough-to-be-acknowledged groups of men lose. their. shit.
because they think thereâs something inherently Not For Them about a womanâs story, and they never learned how to deal with it.
(also once again, because  LOT of yaâll donât seem to get this here: Iâm trying to talk about knee-jerk reactions to female-centered works - often before they even come out. not whether or not you personally thought [x show or movie] was good. ya feel?)
i donât think iâve ever read a single post that iâve agreed with so totally and so immediately and hereâs why:
i love books, right? and from the ages of about 11-15 i was insanely invested in teenage/ya fantasy and sci-fi. harry potter, percy jackson, all of the books op listed above- and one of the things that made those books so great was that you could have a conversation about them with anyone! a lot of the guys in my class also loved this type of genre and iâd often talk about books with them (even my own brother has read all of the books listed above) weâd have long, interesting conversations about these books and it was great.
but then iâd mention something about the hunger games, or the divergent series, or uglies, the raven cycle, mara dyer, the mortal instruments, the selection, etc. and the response would always be the same: either âi havenât read itâ or âi couldnât get into itâ or âit doesnât seem like my type of thingâ
even outside of the ya genre, looking at something like contemporary fiction or whatever- do you know how many guys will talk endlessly about the great gatsby or catcher in the rye or any other male-centric novel? but when you bring up something as influential as pride and prejudice or jane eyre or practically /anything/ written by/focused around a woman- you get the same responses as before
society has made it so that women have no choice whether to engage with male-centric stories or not: from children, a big portion of the media we consume focuses on the male perspective and like,,, thatâs not necessarily a bad thing /in itself/- the bad thing is that it doesnât work both ways and itâs not an even split. whereas young girls are surrounded by and expected to empathise with films/books/media concerning men, itâs not the same for young boys: they have narratives that either focus entirely or largely around them.Â
women have no trouble consuming media that focuses on a male narrative because itâs been labelled as the default, the ânormalâ- whereas men struggle to watch/read anything that doesnât focus around them because theyâve never /had/ to.
This is very cool and will have an immediate positive impact for families. Idea very much originated in Finland but great to see it spreading.
Baby boxes contain everything from clothing, nappies/diapers, books, thermometers, baby wraps, muslins, a changing mat, nursing pads, information for new parents, and condoms.
The box itself acts also as a bed for the baby to sleep in.
This is so important to me. I have always been in favour of the idea, but getting one of these baby boxes really reinforced to me how good a thing it is.
I'd been living in the US and Germany for over a decade before moving to Scotland in 2018 when I was 30 weeks pregnant, and not settling into a home and getting signed up with a GP until like 35 weeks. I thought there was no way I'd get one, but they made it happen.
I used everything in it SO MUCH. The play mat. The toys. The portable changing kit. The carrying wrap. The clothes. The EAR THERMOMETER (invaluable in 2020, as it turned out). And immediately I had several observations about it:
1. It was a big equalizing and bonding factor between new parents. Almost everyone I saw was using the baby box gear, so there was no visible differentiation between parents with lots of money and parents with very little. We all had the same stuff. And you'd share a smile with fellow parents when you both had your baby in the same outfit or tucked into the same carrier.
2. Seeing charity shops full of those items and realizing no one needed them because everyone with a baby already had their own. This was a real reminder of the success of the program, making sure everyone had what they needed, but I wish I'd had the wherewithal to organize somethingâsince those items don't need to be passed on or handed down within Scotland (since everyone has them), I remember thinking it would be good to collect them up and send them on elsewhere afterwards. Baby gear has so much life still in it after it's used, especially things like play mats and carriers.
3. It made me feel INCREDIBLY welcomed and included. I'd been in Scotland for a handful of months when my baby was born, but I was treated like someone who'd lived here for years. I remember feeling deeply emotional about it. They included a poem in the box which to this day I can't read without BAWLING. It sounds stupid but the poem was one of the most impactful inclusions for me as a newcomer. https://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/media/lnbjz4ok/welcome-wee-one-poem.jpg
Everyone deserves this. It's such a simple way to give all babies a good start. I hope parents in NYC are able to get it.

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today i learned that the finnish word for âhazardous wasteâ is ongelmajäte, which can also translate as âproblematic garbageâ and my roommate and i immediately agreed this is a word that belongs on tumblr.
Your fave is ongelmajäte
in german itâs SondermĂźll which means special trash and that too belongs on tumblr
One manâs ongelmajäte is another manâs sondermĂźll.
Hey Europe! Chat control ainât dead, itâs coming back tomorrow!
Thatâs right, itâs getting sneaked into your governments without you even knowing it,
So you need to pipe up and listen up, make some noise and make it loud as possible
Fight for your privacy, donât let them take away your rights!
Contact your representatives and share this online. Make sure the representatives know that Chat control will not be sneaked in
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
Share this even if you donât live in Europe, cause many Europeans donât know about this and they deserve to know!
Everything the new chat control will do!
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Just before a decisive meeting in Brussels, digital rights expert and former Member of the European Parliament Dr. Patrick Breyer is soundin