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Hello people most strange and enticing! It's a pleasure to meet you!
I'm Quanta (formerly Aikya Kat)! (they/them) :)
Neocities: this is a WIP, in case I lose access to all social media this will probably still be up
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I think the government shouldnāt ban social media for under 16s. This is because for many young people social media is how they communicate
We call upon the UK Government to reject any calls or lobbying that propose to restrict or ban the use of virtual private networks ("VPNs")
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I am an extremely chaotic AuDHDer who is utterly and completely obsessed with formula one, cats, space, and creating my own music. ā¾ļø
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some lore about me:
I'm nonbinary, and I'm queer and acespec.
I'm desi indian.
I have glasses.
european (which does not negate the gayness)
im a minor chord
I have a load of mental illnesses and stuff...so that's fun! (/sarcastic)
I have two piercings in both ears
I have ⨠allergies āØ
I'm intellectually gifted.
I'm agnostic, I guess?
I'm totally not a black hole....
Please be aware that I am a minor (but I'm not above making a grown adult cry)
YeAh I tOtAlLy WiLl NoT hAvE a MiLlIoN hYpErFiXtAtIoNs At EvErY gIvEn MoMeNt.
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What I post:
Currently obsessed with tts and vat7k
My favourite current f1 drivers are 44, 81, 16, 12, 41 and 31.
Favourite past f1 drivers are Seb Vettel, Logan Sargeant, Nico Rosberg, Ayrton Senna, Mika Hakkinen and Alain Prost.
Interests (/fandoms):
Formula one
Greek mythology
Physics/space/science
Rapunzel's tangled adventure
vat7k
Rotg
Philosophy
Cats
Carmen Sandiego
anne with an e
+ Other nerdy stuff that I can't remember right now
Expect me to do some advocacy occasionally. (autism, mental illness, allergies, queer, anti racism, youthlib)
I also post doodles, the occasional life update and political posts? If that's what you call them. Tbh most of my posts are reblogs.
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#aikya's writing any posts involving my fanfics or original stories (if I ever post those!)
#aikya's music any posts that involve my musical escapades (if I ever post those!)
I try to tag common triggers, but be aware that I might miss some.
When interacting with me:
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Absolutely feel free to send me asks! I love getting them.
You can tag me in tag games even if we're not mutuals.
Moots feel free to send me messages; my messages are only open to blogs I follow
Be warned that I may not always respond. This is totally not your fault, I probably either couldn't answer because of online privacy reasons or I was busy and stressed out and I didn't have the time to respond.
I won't answer questions more location specific than what continent I'm on.
I won't answer questions more age specific than under 18.
I won't share any pictures of my face or body.
If a post of mine doesn't have an image description or the image description is bad, absolutely make an image description and tag me so I can add it to my post.
I try to tone tag but sometimes I forget or can't tell.
Please don't repost my art or writing or music or other creations without permission, only reblog.
Don't mind if I'm confused during interactions. This will probably happen a lot.
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Quotev (og versions of fics and where I'll post any original stories):
A thousand infinities
Mastadon (I am on a server that allows minors):
10 Posts, 9 Following, 0 Followers Ā· Hiya! I am known as Quanta (formerly Aikya Kat)! (They/them). I'm a weird lonely creature who is oft lo
Please be aware that I have no money to donate. I sincerely apologise, but I will ignore donation asks. I will most likely not share them as I am unable to make a mature judgement on sharing things like fundraisers.
DNI:
If you've come here just to make other people miserable, then kindly f off. Anything racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist or otherwisedly bigoted is not allowed or welcome on this blog. Nor is any kind of hate speech attacking particular users for who they are. All you are accomplishing by sharing things like that is creating the vague impression that you're boring and a bit of a jerk, so pls kindly go consume your socks (/nsrs) if thats why your here. If you are consistently horrible then I WILL block you, so be warned. Also, please do not share anything nsfw with me or send flirty messages as I do not feel comfortable with it.
Minors dni blogs please dni as I am a minor.
If you believe people with mental illnesses like schizophrenia, BPD, antisocial personality disorder or other mental illnesses are "evil", dni and please get your facts straight. We are not.
Other blogs:
@athenaswordfish is an rp blog where I role play Pallas
@odysseus-f1-au is an rp blog for the F1 au
@epic-detector it's kinda in the name. pls tag in non specific epic stuff you notice.
@kyas-doodles is my art blog!!!! all my art will wind up on there :)
Well done if you made it this far without dying of boredom! Have a treat perfectly adjusted to your dietary requirements and tastes :)
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I saw this video about a doctor who performed an MRI on a 5 year old and discovered she essentially had ābrain damageā from excessive iPad use, as the white matter in her brain couldnāt form properly due to an understimulated environment.
Hmm itās almost like thereās supposed to be adult figures responsible for monitoring her screen time and making sure she develops properly⦠certainly this isnāt the result of neglect at the hands of her parentsā¦
āThis 5 year old is brain damaged by excessive iPad useā
Translation: This 5 year old is developmentally impaired by neglectful parents who used an iPad as a stand-in for social and environmental stimulation / interaction for hours at a time during critical early stages of child development. The iPad is the cop-out.
āChildren donāt have the strength to hold pencils anymore because they only use screens.ā
Translation: Parents arenāt making the conscious effort to help their children develop necessary skills and letting iPads raise them.
When are people going to realize the iPads and whatnot are the instruments through which the neglect is happening through and not the cause? How the fuck do you let your child have such a severe lack of physical strength in their hands that they canāt hold a pencil properly?
People will see a study suggesting children with higher screen times have poorer or negative developmental outcomes and immediately say itās the screens causing this, and not the more likely fact that higher screen time = less engagement time with their environment, physical exercise, parents, family, and their peers, all of which are NECESSARY for a healthy upbringing as a social species.
Itās like saying a dog who was kept in a cage all its life and left with atrophied muscles was damaged by the cage, and not by the fact its owners were too lazy to play or walk their dog in order for its muscles to build properly. The cage is the instrument of neglect and the owners are the perpetrators, in the same way parents are the perpetrators and weaponizing screen time as an excuse and painting themselves as helpless bystanders.
this is in itself a reactionary argument: the idea that the blame lies with the parents primarily, and so the solution to this lies in reinforcing the family form. (i.e. retvrning to a time before ipads where parents "actually parented" their kids.)
even if we ignore the fact that this isn't citing an actual study (or even citing the video citing the study), and all the longstanding problems with fMRI studies in general, and the comparison between children and dogs... what is the implicit call to action here? to shame parents into parenting better?
the solution to child neglect of any kind is to build better care structures beyond the family & enable youth autonomy. every single time. it is not enough to point fingers at parents when young people are structurally excluded from public life. we have to actually do the work.
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
talk to your coworkers about this. remember that the "taking advice from everyone except the experts" thing cuts both ways. you can be the non-expert guy at work who isnt an expert and gives someone advice they decide to follow based on vibes, but your advice can be the right advice instead. this is something we can all do.
the vitamin k shot has zero side effects, it is literally just a vitamin that does nothing except prevent babies from bleeding to death internally. its one of those things that does absolutely nothing except what it's supposed to do, is cheap, and has drastically reduced infant mortality this century and the last
Pro Publica followed up on this by contacting Joseph Mercola, one of the major shithead snake oil guys who previously told people to avoid the vitamin K shot, and this situation has gotten so bad that Mercola actually released a statement walking back his previous anti-vitamin K position and telling his followers to please get the shot. which is great, maybe hes growing as a person, and it will save lives, but jesus christ things have to have gotten dire for MERCOLA to be changing course on this
when i was a kid i had moments of being so fucking diabolical because i realized at some point the best way to leverage power over my family was to do shit that would make everybody late
our house was in the middle of nowhere surrounded by woods so when i decided i didnt want to wear dresses anymore if we were going to some event & my parents insisted i had to wear a dress i would just go hide in the woods. was so committed i almost made us miss a flight once bc my mom packed a dress in my suitcase
i only promised to stop doing this if my parents got me formal boys clothes to wear which eventually they did. i don't feel bad about resorting to violence bc i asked politely and they said no. proud of 10 yr old me for evil annoying lesbian behavior
5th grade was the last time I wore a dress for school pictures. When my parents attempted to force the issue for 6th grade, I climbed onto our roof and pulled the ladder up after me. My dad borrowed the neighbors ladder. As soon as it touched the roof I pulled it up too. By the time I had 3 ladders they were willing to negotiate, and 2 hours late for work.
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itās actually wild how terrified of the general public most usamericans are. like you donāt realize it if youāre someone who mostly walks and takes transit and spends a lot of time in populous public spaces but then you talk to one of the thousands of people that seemingly never set foot in any public space besides a parking garage or a starbucks and you suddenly understand why itās so easy for fascist rhetoric about the dangerous alien to take root. this countryās median voter pretty much never interacts with strangers who arenāt their coworkers or people they met on dating apps
saw a post on instagram that was literally someone citing statistics saying public transit is one of the safest travel options out there and the comments were literally just āummmmm op this is so ableist and misogynistic of you :) donāt you know the average public transit user is a dangerous violent criminal who wants to set you on fire :)))ā
it must be so terrifying and sad to go through life convinced if you set foot outside your car in public or interact with people outside your nuclear family youāll instantly be raped and robbed by the Evil Poors no wonder so many of these people are reactionary tar pits
I think thereās a really odd gap in general supply chain knowledge in which people scapegoat AI as this new devastating environmental concern, when internet data centers have been an environmental problem before that. The internet already had the infrastructure to support it in 2017, before GPT-1 was released. Data centers are not a new problem. The internet already had a large physical presence, but people didnāt really think much of it until there were new AI-related developments (and then attribute all data centers to being related to generative AI? Where do people think YouTube videos are stored? The literal clouds in the sky?)
A Makeship plushie has a bigger carbon footprint than a thousand LLM queries but it is seen as an acceptable environmental impact, because it has been deemed socially acceptable to contract low wage factories in the Global South to make toys to sell to customers worldwide at a 3000% markup, with all the profits staying in the Global North. Not many people think of that environmental impact
the nature center I work at has classrooms of kids and parents with kids coming in all the time, and I am amazed at how adults treat kids and behave around kids.
Not even always the sense of being openly mean to the kids, but in the sense of acting like they must behave rigidly a certain way at all times and that if anything is one minute off schedule or if kids have any unstructured time at all it is the End Of The Fucking World.
So many adults hustling kids from activity to activity, all snippy and harried as though every single thirty minute Scheduled Activity Block is an unmissable appointment and the whole building will blow up if someone is five minutes late to something.
We have these exhibits with animal bones and rocks and pressed flowers and stuff that are clearly placed at child height and the way parents will SNAP at their kids to DON'T TOUCH THAT DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING amazes me.
There is so little tolerance for kids acting silly or just being playful or anything, the adults will act so annoyed and stern and harsh for the littlest things.
In those kids' situation I would be shitting my pants with anxiety all the time, The level of uptightness and intolerance for any little bit of disorder makes me secondhandedly anxious.
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- it takes itself completely seriously. i want ZERO irony/making fun of itself. i need some actor man to take a potato chip and eat it with total seriousness.
- light and L have an insane amount of tension, iām talking destiel levels of eye sex and queerbaiting, but they are never allowed to kiss. maybe when L dies they get one ambiguously queer line. but itās gotta stay at least a little bit ambiguous
- misa isnāt explicitly homophobic anymore but she is like That #ally (just more subtly homophobic) (obviously shes gay but she doesnāt know that yet). instead of āare you on THAT side of the fence ryuzakiā sheās like āitās FINE if youāre gay but light is MY boyfriends and i just donāt think itās APPROPRIATEā and L just ignores her completely. she claims L as her Gay Best Friend despite him never confirming if heās queer and her not really liking him. for Diversity
- sheās like i canāt be homophobic i do a pride month photoshoot and L is like okay. i donāt care
- focus on how the 24 hour news cycle, overwhelming access to information, and constant fearmongering and doomscrolling drives light fucking crazy (sorry i have to be weird about light here)
- instead of a magazine light very blandly watches porn on his laptop. looking actively bored. L doesnāt say explicitly āyour son is gayā but he looks over at soichiro and says something like āhm. heās popular with girls, you said? okay.ā
- some awful misa and light sex scene but it cuts between that and light at Lās grave, their months handcuffed together, etc. hannibal style or something idk iāve never seen it i just got a play by play from a friend
- naomi gets a bigger part because sheās awesome
- light and L are stuck in ambiguously queer purgatory but rem is very explicitly in love with misa. they kiss once before she dies and from then on misa seems a little more subdued with light. like sheās not so sure she really wants him
- when the detectives are talking about L someone mentions how heās āon the spectrumā and everyone nods seriously. later itās mentioned again and L overhears and heās like you can just say autistic. everyone apologizes profusely but he does not give a shit
all the rights that come with marriage you should be able to have without marriage btw. you should be able to designate a person who can visit you in the hospital regardless of your relationship to that person.
What to do if your account gets wrongfully terminated
So by now most of you have probably heard that my account was suddenly terminated (aka banned) on Saturday afternoon. Iām back now, and since I had to do some digging into this on my own, I figured Iād make a post for others to reference.Ā
How to tell if youāve been wrongfully terminated
You will find yourself suddenly locked out of your account. For me, I had just made a post when I got kicked to the login screen. My password wouldnāt work, so I tried to reset it, at which point I got this screen:
Now, if Tumblr legitimately terminated your account - meaning, you broke a rule and they banned you for it - they should send you an email telling you why. So, immediately check your email. If you donāt get anything, it was probably a glitch. These happen shockingly often, so thereās a whole process to it.Ā
How to get your account back
First, submit a support ticket. Tumblrās support email does NOT work, you MUST go through their site. SelectĀ āTerminated accountā. Write a POLITE message explaining the situation. Describe what you were doing when you suddenly got kicked off, and state that to the best of your knowledge, you havenāt broken any rules, or that if you did, you would be willing to delete the offending posts. Include your url and email.
Check your email. You should immediately get an automatic message saying theyāre looking into the problem. If you donāt that means that Tumblr marked your email as spam (because they banned you).Ā If you need to, resend the ticket using a different email address at the bottom. Explain that your account email doesnāt seem to be going through and thatās why youāre using a different one.Ā
Wait.Ā Tumblr Supportās hours of operation are 9-5 EST, Monday through Friday. If, like me, you submitted your ticket on a weekend, you may be in for a wait. If you donāt get a response within 24 hours, DO NOT SEND ANOTHER TICKET, but instead reply to the email they sent you. Iāve seen it advised that you should send another ticket only if the problem isnāt fixed within the week.Ā
Check you url often.Ā Tumblr will likely never respond to your email letting you know what happened or that youāve been reinstated. Check your url every so often, and if it finally loads as your blog (instead of theĀ āThereās nothing hereā screen) you are free to log back in.Ā
And thatās it! If it was a glitch, they SHOULD reinstate your account, but you MUST submit a support ticket letting them know whatās going on.Ā
Okay, so, in the years since writing this guide, Iāve both seen some discussion as well as made my own observations that lead me to believe this is not just a glitch with Tumblrās code.
More likely, if youāre reading this because you got termed, your blog was caught up in a bot dragnet.
Tumblr, like all social media, has bots. And Tumblr also does regular bot purges. Itās strikingly clear to me when these purges happen, because this post will gain a ton of notes in the span of a day. Occasionally, but not always, this will happen shortly after I notice an influx of bot followers.
That means that, for most people experiencing this problem, you are doing something that triggers Tumblrās automated bot removal process. I cannot say what it is. Social media tends to keep their bot removal criteria vague, so that people scripting bots canāt evade capture.
Which sucks for the innocent human bloggers caught up in the purges, but it also means that if you can get someone to double check your blog, you should be reinstated pretty swiftly.
My blog has not been termed again, but if you check the notes of this post, you will see plenty of people who got their blog back using this process, many of them in the last few months. So these steps should still work.
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Because under the post about giving minors the right to medically consent, people are spreading a ton of misinformation on this - largely because they just do not question the stuff they just assume are "normal". Which here is: "kids are all afraid of needles and therefore if we let them consent or not to medical proceedures, they would just not consent and not get vaccinations, because needles hurt".
And, look. Here is the thing: no, needles do not actually hurt a whole lot. And while, yes, certain procedures that involve being stabbed by a needle hurt more if you are younger for a bunch of reasons... that is actually not the main reason children fear needles. Because, again: the pain is not that bad. And most kids, especially young kids, whose motor skills are still developing, usually will have a bunch more hurting scratches, bruises and the like at any given moment than there will be pain from the needle.
No, from what research can tell, the main reason kids are afraid of needles, is more that for many of them needle procedures are very traumatizing. And that is largely because of the consent issue.
Imagine you are a person who is still pretty darn new to that whole human thing. So for one, yes, your brain is actually not that great in understanding what pain is dangerous and what pain is a safe limit of pain. So yes, someone intentionally hurting you (like with a needle) is really kinda scary. But then there is also the thing where this person hurting you is not telling you why they are doing. The people who you normally trust with keeping you safe (your family) is betraying you, by just holding you down and scolding you for crying over it. Or maybe it is not your family, but some strange nurse who is holding you. And while you are scared, because someone is intentionally hurting you, while someone else is restricting you, the adults around you are telling you, that your emotional reaction to this is actually bad and you are wrong for reacting that way. They might in fact lie to you and tell you that something that is insanely scary to you is "not that bad", instead of just understanding that it is super scary to you. And that is then what you start to expect whenever you see a doctor prepare a needle: people holding you down, hurting you without reason, and telling you that you are wrong for being upset, actively gaslighting you.
We have research on this. And this research is pretty clear: most kids are actually somewhat okay with needles, if you inform them why you are doing it, allow for them to have their emotions, talk to them about their emotions, and allow for them to set at least some conditions.
And frankly, I hate how many people just accept the framing of "kids are naturally afraid of this because it hurts". Like, folks, I know y'all are fucking Americans and that in your culture it is kinda normalized to like put kids into like some sort of fortified hamsterball to stop them from like doing typical kids stuff. But... let me tell you: if you do not do that, kids will actually very regularly engage in dangerous play that they know will often end up in injuries that are going to hurt. And, no, they are not to dumb to understand that. The kids know that this is what might happen because of their play. They actually just take the risk. Yes, they will cry if they get hurt, because - again - their nervous system is still calibrating how it relates to pain. But they will likely do that thing again and again. I can tell you: I fell down a tree so often during my childhood, and I still climbed it. Again and again. So did most kids I knew. Like, fuck, we lived next to a forest. We played "Tarzan", and tried to go along paths without touching the ground. And we fell. A lot. And we still did it.
It is not the fear of pain that makes kids afraid of doctors. It is the fear of the associated force, and gaslighting.
āWe didnāt pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers,ā says automaker
Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people.
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