can y’all like just let people enjoy what they enjoy and not force them to like dumb shit just because it’s allegedly “meant for them” or “progressive” or “feminist” or what the fuck ever? or let people hate certain things without assuming they’re bigots? can y’all not be insecure jackasses and stop taking dumb shit so personally?
Even if you’re unemployed, even if you’re taking time off from school, even if nobody is calling and making plans with you, get out of bed, take a shower, put on clean clothes, wear some cologne or perfume, turn all the lights on, do some laundry, clean up a little bit.
Doing all this stuff causes a shift in your perspective. Do it in spite of your situation.
That’s the only way to create sustainable happiness, because if your behavior is dictated by your circumstances, you’re always going to be miserable.
Don’t let the world determine your mindset. Let your mindset determine how you view the world.
This is the most neurotypical shit I’ve ever read
Diagnosed bipolar and major depressive to the point I had to be hospitalized for it but fuck me for tryna keep it positive nahmean cool copypasta tho hate yall
mentally ill person: *trying to cope and recover in practical, pragmatic ways* someone, inevitably: what kind of neurotypical bullshit is this
a lot of this website has fallen into the trap of equating being pro people who struggle with mental illness with being anti recovery, and even goes so far as to glorify and enable maladaptive symptoms and behaviors. This is a monumentally stupid idea. Illnesses and disorders are called that for a reason. They are not Cake and Happy Funtimes. They make you miserable, they make the people around you miserable, and everything sucks.
Posts that say “Keep trying to do this thing, even when you struggle with it,” are saying that for a reason. It’s fighting back against the illness, refusing to let it claim you. Yeah, it’s hard! Yeah, it sucks! Yeah, it’s okay for you to take a break if you need to! Yeah, it’s perfectly fine if you can’t do it alone and need to ask for help! Sometimes lots of help! But keep fighting. Keep resisting. It’s your life at stake.
*valid does not mean healthy, or good, or to be privileged above common sense and kindness
A distinction for anyone who is young and hasn’t figured this out yet:
You are allowed to have whatever emotions you want. No one can control your emotions. Emotions are healthy responses to things.
You are not allowed to have behaviors that are harmful just because you have certain emotions. Your behaviors are what you can control, and they are far easier to control than your emotions.
You can be jealous about someone or their talents until you turn green, but it is harmful to yourself and to that person if you try to sabotage them because of it. You can be so angry you can literally feel your temperature rise, but this does not give you permission to rage at others.
Your emotions are valid. They are always valid. You are a person of value. However, you behaviors are not always justified just because of those emotions. You may not be able to control you emotions, but you can certainly control your behaviors.
And if you cannot control your emotions, be aware that no one else has any obligation to control your emotions for you by altering their views or behavior.
They always have but a lot of more people are going to try to capitalize on fear and hatred these days. Regardless of your views, please try to verify stories and get as much background info – dates, police reports, etc – before you believe them or share them as what they’re labeled. If you get corrected, post a retraction or even an apology as soon as you can.
Part of fighting for justice means knowing the truth and not being manipulated by media we already know fucked up immensely.
Today’s twist and world events lately have showed us lefties how small the bubble we live in is. No matter how loud we scream out our ideals, the “silent majority” exists. In the process of fighting for our rights and ideals, we have long dismissed the fact that they too, have their own concerns. They have felt ignored and lied to by the people in power, and clearly the left hasn’t done well enough to keep them in the loop. We throw them fact sheets and numbers and figures, but we have failed to address their insecurities.
Now, it’s time to start a conversation. Speak up and listen in return, despite your differences. Share your concerns, and explain why they matter.
Because in the end, emotion trumps reason after all.
For you and everyone who feels the same, take a look at this link for a list of things that he will not be able to do as president. There are so many things that he isn’t able to do and can’t do. Look after yourself, anon, and remember that you’re not alone.
Sorry to break in with this on a very much Sherlock-only kind of blog- I promise not to make a regular thing of this, but this is something that’s happened TWICE now.
This is Beyli. He’s a two-month old foal and he’s adorable. He belongs to a friend of the family.
So adorable, in fact, that a member of the public spent a nice afternoon feeding him. You feed the ducks and that’s ok. right? It’s a nice thing to do.
They fed him turnip. He choked and gave himself a stomachache as a result.
The problem is that horses can’t really burp and horses can’t vomit. Their digestive systems are fine-tuned and when they go wrong, they go really wrong. Colic in horses is difficult to treat and in Beyli’s case, like many others, proved to be insurmountable. With pain medicine not working, after 4 hours of doing their best with no improvement, the vet called time on his suffering rather than let him go on to a very slow and painful end.
A horse needlessly suffered and died because someone fed him the wrong thing. They weren’t necessarily malicious, they were just hugely ignorant. And worse, they were hugely entitled. There were already signs asking people not to feed the animals. As I said, this has now happened TWICE to the same family, and they’re by no means alone.
PLEASEDon’t feed horses that don’t belong to you.
Horses can have disorders, diabetes, allergies and dietry requirements and you have NO IDEA if what you’re giving them is acceptable or not. Even ‘safe’ things like carrot and apple could be ‘wrong’ for this particular horse. Grass clippings? Not okay. Grain? Not okay for a horse that hasn’t been regularly eating it.
Don’t assume. i have seen walkers pull up random plants and offer them over the fence INCLUDING TOXIC, DEADLY weeds like ragwort. I’ve seen horses offered dog-biscuits and bread. I’ve heard of horses being regularly fed by strangers thinking they were being under-fed, when the horse in question was on a vet-given diet to control weight and other conditions.
Don’t feed horses that don’t belong to you even little treats and things like sugar cubes because it gives them bad manners. They start biting and harassing people. It’s bad for their teeth and too much sugar is terrible for them.
In some places if the owner has liability insurance, if you can be identified, YOU will be legally responsible for the vet’s bills. And if you’re thinking ‘well, they’d never identify me’, then that’s besides the point.
Please. You wouldn’t feed someone’s dog without asking, I hope. You definitely wouldn’t feed someone else’s child.
TL;DR: Don’t feed other people’s horses. You can make them SERIOUSLY ill. Treat animals in fields like animals at the zoo: you’re welcome to look, but don’t meddle with their care.
PLEASE DON’T FEED OTHER PEOPLE’S HORSES.
Signal boosting the shit out of this. I watch this happen regularly at one of the stables I volunteer for, because the pasture is next to a hiking trail. Seriously, DON’T DO THIS.
if you aren’t out as a trans man, do not submit any pictures to the blog fuckyeahftms
theres a blog (dirtywhiteboi67.blogspot.com) that frequently links to and reposts pictures of trans men from fuckyeahftms, effectively outing them, in the name of showing how “testosterone is poison to the female body,” and “transgenderism was made to fix homosexuality and is a lesbian epidemic”
this blog also gets photos of trans men from other sites like instagram, some who explicitly mention they’re living stealth
the blog mostly features young trans men, including many who are minors, and typically writes a few paragraphs misgendering them and condemning “transgenderism”
if you’re a trans man, i would be extremely cautious posting any pictures of yourself online right now if you’re concerned about being outed
Whatever you do, don’t go after Dirt. Don’t visit her website, youtube channel, tumblr, or any other social media account. Her website automatically tracks every visitor, she is relentless and it isn’t hyperbolic to assert that there’s no end to the vitriol.
Dirt has been harassing trans people since at least the early 2000s, probably IRL before social media became a thing as well. Dirt, based in the US, has close friends in England and Australia who have equally nothing better to do than join her in keeping a 24/7 “watch” on trans people sharing pictures and other identifiable information for them to “expose” forever more. If you can get to a free part of the web, it doesn’t matter if you had to fill out a form, log in, or how otherwise of a “closed” space it is, Dirt could be there. Dirt doesn’t just have dirtywhiteboi67 as a username, but also several sock puppet accounts.
She is one of several reasons that I’m careful about how much identifiable information I put out online. Her raison d’être is disclosing trans men with the explicit hope of causing us harm. Unless you’re a US based lawyer with endless supply of funds and support, do not engage. It took over 20 of us forum mods from around the world wasting more time and energy than I can justify just to keep her out from our closed communities on another blogging platform. And some of them who got too close to the fire received letters threatening legal actions. Dirt is to trans men, as Bug is to trans women.
Do not engage under any circumstance.
Boosting this, because Bug and Dirt are disgusting wastes of human tissue, and a good reminder to me of why I do not post selfies on my blog – I’m not a minor (I’m 35), but I’m very stealth, and losing that could mean I lose absolutely everything that keeps me alive.
Be careful, folks. Don’t let these disgusting, stupid, bitter people use you to fuel their machine.
Yep. If you are stealth, STAY STEALTH. Don’t post pics of yourself- or even specify your name- on sites where you specify you’re trans.
In addition to these people who have no life and are so insecure as to believe that trans people somehow invalidate their homosexuality because they are unavailable to bone to the Discerning Gold Star Lesbian for some reason, it could also cost you a job if the employer finds out about your history, especially in a more conservative area. Sad, but true- it happened to me last year.
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