trust issues;

Nobody should buy GTA til they free Arion Kurtaj

What with GTA VI going up for pre-order i'd just like to remind everyone that rockstar conspired with the UK government to lock an 18-year-old away for life for hacking them.

today's reason I fucking love the open source community: Ageless Linux, a brand new Debian-based operating system specifically designed to break the law by giving children access to computers that explicitly refuse to track their age.

reblog this post to help a child break the law

oh goddamn this whole page goes so hard actually, please go read it. what an impressive, visceral takedown of this dumb law

so much of the problem with psychology and diagnostic labels to me is the fact that symptoms are often defined through outsiders and what they see from you, not what you experience internally. sure, NPD has symptoms that are like "you're entitled" and "you exploit people," but these are things that would be hard to be introspective about if you have a disorder that is literally known for making that difficult. all these symptoms come from what a doctor would potentially see from you, which makes it even more subject to personal bias and interpretation of what you must be feeling rather than what you actually are. hence why a woman might be more likely to get diagnosed with BPD or HPD but the man right next to her gets diagnosed with NPD or ASPD, despite both often having the same symptoms. or white people are more likely to be diagnosed with major depression or GAD, where a black person with the same symptoms will get diagnosed with OCD or bipolar. because it's all subject to bias and assumption from the outside, not internal experience from the actual person with the disorder

not to mention, the fact we even have disorders like NPD, ASPD, ODD, HPD, and the way that we describe the symptoms of them, etc... is pretty fucked up. histrionic comes from female hysteria. narcissism is self-obsession and vanity when NPD is a lot more complex than that. "anti-social" basically just means antagonistic and unacceptable behavior. ODD is "we're going to label you as a psychopath: child edition." like. while i do understand wanting to rehabilitate these labels and to some degree i support it (if this is the label that the system is going to put onto you, ie NPD etc, then we should be accurate and informative about what it actually is instead of letting people treat it like Evil Demon Disorder), at the same time i can't help but hope that people really do understand that the perception of these disorders as Bad Person Disorder goes all the way back to its diagnostic label and the people who gave it that name and those symptoms to begin with. its not just that people are mean about it when it's applied. the entire system and categorization of these terms is fucked up. why did we name a disorder after narcissism. why did we name a disorder after female hysteria. why did we name a disorder "oppositional defiant disorder" and start applying it to children, especially black children. simply accepting the labels and making them not have a terrible meaning in our own spaces is one thing, but on its own it is not enough. we need to change the whole fabric of how this type of shit even works and is defined in the first place.

i swear my consequences dont even have actions

I feel like ODD being an official disorder in the DSM should be the thing that makes everyone go “hm” about how psychology is practiced

[looking a child directly in the eye] i diagnose you with Shitty Bitch Syndrome. this makes it legal to do medieval german tortures to you by the way

also you would be surprised at which group gets disproportionately diagnosed with this disorder. did you guess black people. because its black people

if you are a trans woman you have to sing to yourself. if you voice train that’s fine. if you don’t voice train that’s okay. but you have to sing to yourself

may every trans woman have a safe place to hear herself sing.

audiences have no idea how to be uncomfortable anymore

watch movies that make you uncomfortable read books that make you uncomfortable go to plays that make you uncomfortable watch tv that makes you uncomfortable look at paintings and sculpture and artwork that makes you uncomfortable. it is spiritually and morally and ethically and artistically really really good for you. think about why you are uncomfortable. what biases do you bring to art? what biases does the art bring to you? how do you reconcile this? how does your worldview grow and expand and change? all this and more will be answered and available to you if you just engage with art that does not coddle you and treats you like an intelligent human being that can sit through discomfort

nothing in the world makes me more evil than just being kind of annoyed