Hey. Minors following me. Internet safety is key!! NEVER include these in your bio/byf:
Medical diagnoses - this is nobody’s business but yours. You don’t owe anyone an explanation for why you are the way that you are
Trauma - same reason as above
Triggers - people can use these against you! Don’t give people tools to hurt you. No one has to know what tags you block. Just block tags to stay safe!
Age - age is okay for adults to include but is iffy when you’re a teen. Predators want this information, don’t give people more than they need. Just state that you’re a minor, that’s all that anyone needs to know.
In general: stay safe. If you’re not comfortable with every stranger out there having access to this information, you shouldn’t post it on the internet.
Play devil’s advocate and ask yourself about what would happen if someone searched for your information with intent to hurt you. You do NOT owe anyone an explanation!
adding on to this post, i agree w all of OPs points, but i also highly advise against super young teens posting their face on the internet, its so easy to take peoples selfies + name and find stuff out like your school and then figure out the rough area in which you live. same with your phone number. be super careful about what you put out there. once you post it, it really is here forever.
OP already said this so I’m just reiterating to emphasize:
The golden rule of information sharing on the internet is: What would happen if someone saw this who wanted to hurt me?
If the answer is that it would make it easier to harass you, identify you, contact you, or god forbid find you, don’t put it online. You can’t fully control who does and does not see that information–not even with privacy settings.
I had a dream that Captain Picard negotiated a treaty between the Kree, the Shi'ar and the Federation to defeat the Daleks and some Dabo girls were worshipping the Face of Boe in Knowhere so get ready for the age of MCWhoTrek I guess
I love Mando’s vibe. Imagine some guy rolling up to your shop in a beat up honda civic. He steps out wearing an armani suit. He opens his wallet and offers you two dollars to fix his car.
There’s this emperor, and he asks the shephard’s boy, “How many seconds in eternity?” The shephard’s boy says, “There’s this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it. And an hour to go around it. Every hundred years, a little bird comes. It sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiselled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.” You must think that’s a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that’s a hell of a bird.
in case anyone is looking through the notes trying to find the original artist it’s will mcphail !! feel free to check out his site but also here are some other things he made too !!
OOOHHH CLICK ON THAT LINK THIS GUY IS FUCKING GREAT
HOLY SHIT
this guy GETS IT
oh my gosh that last one
it’s 2 am, and I’ve been DYING for 20 minutes from ‘Tip: spice up your panic attack with a harmonica’
We have this one on our fridge. (January 14th 2019, The New Yorker.) it isn’t even funny, it’s just a mood
I LOVE Mcphail’s work but how am I just seeing his evolution of man for the first time?!
I need you all to prepare yourselves to vote for Biden in November.
I’m not happy about it either. I wanted Elizabeth Warren to destroy Trump on the debate floor. I wanted to watch her shatter the glass ceiling. I wanted student loan forgiveness, Medicare for All, and refugee and immigrant protections.
But I’m not going to get that. So I am going all in for Biden.
This can no longer be a matter of “well if I don’t get my way THEN I’M NOT VOTING”. I’d hoped you all learned your lessons four years ago, but from what I’ve seen on social media, that’s not been the case. Biden is not ideal but he is better than the alternative. He is a Democrat who will continue Obama’s legacy. And you have a shot in hell of getting progressive movements like Medicare for All under a blue majority Congress; we do not have that under Trump.
Biden is more willing to listen to the progressive factions of the Democrat party than Trump is. We will get shit done under him.
We cannot survive a second term of Trump. I need you all to hold your noses, put on your big girl pants, and deal with it. Prepare to vote for Biden.
Also, I’ve reviewed most of his plans and they are good. No, they are not as good as Warren’s plans. But he commits to LGBTQ+ protections, repealing the transgender in the military ban, and his refugee/immigration protections are way better than I expected (he actually has some culpability to the deportations under the Obama administration).
He is a good choice, guys. Maybe not the best. But he will get us to where we need to be and is a fucking return to SANITY in the government, which we badly fucking need.
Two, TWO Supreme Court justices are on the table for the next president, plus all the other federal judges McConnell has been stacking benches with the past three years. That’s Roe v. Wade, and a whole lot else, for the foreseeable future.
The reality is that we live in a two party system and while I do not want Biden, I am capable of recognizing nuance and shades of gray. If it comes down to Biden, as it very likely may he will not do as much damage as four more years of Trump, and that is an ethical imperative.
This is also why we all MUST vote down-ticket as well.
Biden’s win allows RBG and Stephen Breyer to retire.
Think about that.
We can push Joe further left. He’s not perfect, and he wasn’t even my fourth choice, but he can be persuaded.
We can do NOTHING as long as Mitch McConnell remains Senate Majority Leader. No bills will get passed. They won’t even get a debate. Nearly 500 House bills are sitting on McConnell’s desk right now, gathering dust.
We are FUCKED if Republicans get to nominate even one more Supreme Court justice.
Get your ass out there and hustle for Biden. Make sure everyone you know is registered and can get to the polls. Adopt a Senate race and get to work.
Stand up and scream, “Senate Majority Leader Elizabeth Warren” when you get frustrated.
the annoying thing about adhd is that like, most of the symptoms you can’t even argue are “evolutionary flaws” or “chemical imbalances.” literally it’s just that it’s not good for lining somebody else’s pockets. being “distractible” helps people notice predators or juicy berries out of the corners of their eyes. hyperfocusing on a task until it’s done is literally exactly in line with what an alleged persistence predator would need to do to actually follow through on hunting other animals. there’s so many little things that are obviously beneficial to have outside of a fucking factory assembly line
NEUROLOGICAL DIVERSITY IS AS IMPORTANT TO SURVIVAL AS GENETIC DIVERITY, and OUR CONCEPT OF DISABILITY AND NEURODIVERGENCE IS BUILT ON A FOUNDATION OF OUR OWN MAKING
When I lived out in the woods and spent my time herding sheep and hunting bullfrogs, nobody gave two shits that I walked around barefoot and said whatever popped into my head out loud.
My hyperfocus and poor sense of time made me a hard worker, my compulsion to sort and organize random crap kept the property clean, and my special interest in native flora and fauna meant I could go out into the woods thanksgiving morning and come home with all the pricy mushrooms and herbs we couldn’t normally afford otherwise.
Who cared that I was awkward? There was nobody around except the occasional customer or temp worker, and those kinds of interactions could be entirely scripted.
Who cared that I dressed funny, had frizzy, dry hair, talked flat, and ate raw onions? Who gave two shits that I built forts out of scrap metal and twine? How did it matter that I passed time running in circles over old truck chassis’?
There were no bright lights, no packed-in crowds, no huge collections of shouty, screamy, smelly people. Nobody stared at me for more than a few seconds. Nobody critiqued my body language.
I was a bit odd, yeah, but all I knew was that I was smart and creative and better than other people at fixing problems.
I went damn near fifteen years out there not even suspecting I might be autistic. Nobody even thought to bring it up.
Now I’m in the city, and I have a hard time going into the middle of a store. I hate the mall. My eyes hurt. Ambulances and fire trucks and cars with bad brakes go by and I cover my ears and nobody else does. I’ve been told I come off as “quirky”.
My question is, though, if an atypical person is in an environment that suits them, can anyone tell?
Most folks only know who’s blind when the lights are on. If the sky went dark tomorrow, we’d have no idea.
Most “mental illness” is either evolutionary adaptation that isn’t suited to current conditions, or behaviour adaptation that was a survival trait in a situation in the past but is maladaptive in present conditions.
Things like PTSD are about having adapted to a dangerous situation and then reacting to any event which is similar to that danger. If you have been shot at in the past and expect to be shot at again then ducking when you hear gunshots is normal and healthy. It’s only maladaptive when there’s no chance of being shot at.
It occurred to me yesterday that germaphobes are more likely to survive a pandemic.
Humans brains rarely do anything that’s never useful. Sometimes they just do things that aren’t helpful right now.
Everyone stormed the grocery stores yesterday and I kept hearing about the carnage, so I went today to pick up a few things but mainly to see if it was crazy as they were saying. There was still lots of food but definitely lots of bare shelves, and opportunities for market research.
All the toilet paper and tissues were gone except for the little boxes of tissues with lotion.
Almost all the root vegetables were gone, except parsnips and red onions.
There were no bagels IN bags but there were lots of bulk bagels in open displays that anyone could just walk by and sneeze on, which reads as a failure of imagination.
ALL the pasta was gone except a huge pile of acini di pepe, which I guess no one knows what to do with.
Likewise almost all the tomato sauce, except a few jars of Lidia’s. Sorry, Lidia, but $10.49 is a little steep, even now.
Almost all the rice was gone except for the instant packets that you just have to microwave.
The frozen vegetables were all gone, including the edamame, but not the green soy beans.
All the Traditional Medicinals “Breathe Easy” tea was gone (makes you wonder how effective it is…)
