For anyone on here wanting to stay in touch on non-twitter places, I'm on Insta @/ohmy/holymoley and mutuals feel free to DM for Discord.
No idea what my online presence will look like if twitter stops being a thing, but those are presently the places to find me.
Beloveds always say "yes I'd still love you if you were a worm", but when you start biting them and trying to suck out their blood, all of a sudden it's "ow no not like that" 😔
"AI" is a marketing buzzword being used to describe several dozen pretty much unrelated technologies and treating them all like one thing is unproductive
No. Everyone does not need therapy. What everyone does need is emotional mentorship, spaces to build self reflexivity, spaces to be seen, heard and validated; Spaces that support collective evolution. That isn’t always therapy. Therapy is just one intervention. Not the ultimate.
As someone training to be a therapist I think about this often... Therapy as an institution has been shaped by/ born from capitalism and colonialism. It's a poor replacement for things typical to indigenous life (community, elders, connection to body and land, griefwork etc)
watching people who’ve had their brains blown to crumbs by qanon adjacent conspiracies try to figure out that different materials burn at different rates. it’s the faux curiosity that’s so infuriating “can someone explain why these trees haven’t burned??” yes! many people can!
Indigenous/houseless/disabled ppl are seeing the worst of this & every other disaster here btw. The rich will be fine. You’re not morally superior for erasing internally oppressed ppl from your worldview
We’re in a hilarious time when instead of people understanding that they’re ignorant of something and can and should remedy that ignorance, they try to frame the not knowing as something radical or progressive.
This will also be an unfathomable ecological disaster that will decimate a huge freshwater ecosystem because if there is one thing that unites power structures the world over it is anthropocentrism
SARS-CoV-2 weakens your immune system sort of like AIDS does.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, valley fever is one of the infections that can indicate the progression of HIV to AIDS when it occurs in individuals w/ weakened immune systems.
Time once again for my occasional series "Women with great hair fleeing gothic houses!"
And today everyone is in white. Good luck keeping that clean out there on the heath...
biden signed an anti trans healthcare bill into law because it came attached to defense spending last night btw, just to reaffirm yet again that both parties are willing to sacrifice marginalized ppl to maintain Empire.
This is likely to be one of my more controversial takes, but ultimately the smell produced by a homeless person taking shelter from the cold on public transport is *harmless*. It might be unpleasant, but it can be tolerated (or avoided) in the name of compassion.
learning that oil spills are inherent characteristics of drilling - not just a mistake/oversight - and also completely impossible to clean up... changed something in me
"we can no longer blame covid" meanwhile everyone, INCLUDING CHILDREN, are getting infected 2-3X per year with a brain damaging virus. Teachers' analysis, like this, can not be taken seriously when you leave covid out every single time