Rosie

like the first signs of a flare up from stress/over exertion used to be red face + fever + rash on my hands

but the lines of my tattoo will become raised and then a little itchy before it progresses to that point

and im discovering that, yeah, if i just listen to the wizard and rest/recuperate/stop pushing myself when it starts acting weird, i can sometimes avoid triggering the other symptoms

*Zooms in*

w-wait.

“study”

the op linked the study in the replies & i’ve been skimming it & it’s actually rlly rlly interesting to think abt

"Despite domestic and international prohibitions on torture dating back more than half a century, recent public opinion polls show that approximately half of adults in the United States think that torture can be acceptable in counterterrorism (Tyson 2017).

Particularly since 9/11, we have seen a resurgence of debate over the use of torture where many politicians and members of the public assert that torture works to produce actionable intelligence (Murdie 2017). Yet, many interrogation professionals disagree and maintain that torture is ineffective and often counterproductive (Fallon 2017; Lagouranis and Mikaelian 2007).

The disconnect between public and expert opinion on torture is especially troubling given that public support for human rights has consistently been one of the major bulwarks against violations."

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Clickable link:

This is why media literacy is so important. This is why it is so important to analyze and understand what biases and politics went into the making of media, werher conscious or unconscious and what messages can be taken from a media, no matter how "silly" or "unimportant" the media might be in the eyes of its defenders.

Per the actual first line of the article:

You cannot get accurate information from a person who will be hurt if they say "I don't know," or whom you do not trust or believe until they've been so hurt they will say anything to make you stop.

False confession under torture is common knowledge. The idea you can get an honest one is nonsense. It's an assumption people make. It has no evidence. It is not reliable.

And we accept that heroes torture people as a better alternative to killing them and that it works. That you can do it if it's bad enough and everything will be better after. Because you did it for a good reason.

There's some people in the comments saying "fandoms have always been like this" and others saying "No, it's worse than it was." And both are to some extent right. Fans (or at least a small percentage of fans, and the larger a fanbase gets the larger a group this will describe) have always been Like That; but they did not always have the level of access to creators and actors that they have now.

The notion that a performer needs to be constantly available to public scrutiny, that their personal information should by default be available to any rando with google, is pretty new. It used to be that actors would only be expected to engage with the public on limited, specific, and controlled occasions, usually with security provided. Now they're being asked to rawdog exposure to the mob 24/7 on their own.

(Also, production companies have always always always been exploitative cowards, just to get that straight; reading the biographies of literally any actress from golden Hollywood years makes that clear. It's just, again, more public now.)

Lost my mind a little and added (if my math is correct) 5,615 beads to Nim Teasdale's Odenwald pattern. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!

The goal was “soothingly weighted but not uncomfortable to wear, even as someone with chronic pain.” It could have been a little heavier, so maybe I’ll make a shawl with larger beads another time, but I’m very pleased with this one. I used size 6/0 seed beads, applied as I go with a .6mm crochet hook.

Yarn-wise, used 2 cakes of YarnArt Flowers. I knitted the fully purple sections from both, then knitted all the way through the yellow-oranges with a single ball. When I hit the beginning of red-oranges, I used yarn from both cakes, alternating between them. (Not the entirety of both, I played it by ear to make sure I made it through the full rainbow.)

I do have edited charts with bead placements. I will only share them with Nim's permission.

…and the vet was like, “You know the thing with geriatric cats is—” and I was like, “What do you mean, geriatric?! It’s a little baby, look at her!" Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts (2025)

ilya rozanov appreciation week: day one favorite moment: confronting alexei

Heated Rivalry (2025-) 1.05 "I'll Believe in Anything"