the best main character gives you the confidence you need by the end of the movie but also respects the autonomy to choose sidekick life and doesn't push
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the best main character gives you the confidence you need by the end of the movie but also respects the autonomy to choose sidekick life and doesn't push
I love this! Maybe I'm too much of a control freak for sidekick
Psychology Today: she's back on her shit CAPTCHA: listen I tried hills, tractors, boats, and roadsigns. I think we're just gonna have to admit she's a person
We all keep coming up against narratives that end with "if no one does anything, fascism will happen" & this illusion of the ideal future self that would DO SOMETHING if fascism DID descend is NOT serving us fascism is HERE, w/o any fanfare but w/ MUCH prologue the things you WOULD do ...do now.
ah yes, I think that's what my link explains, but they call it "dialogue dash" because we can't have nice things apparently
Me, an insufferable American white lady from NH: oh look thatās neat! (I assume this link is terrible in ways Iāve failed to appreciate.)
AI ruined the em dash for me much in the same way that ABA ruined the phrase āevidence-basedā for me. Like, I just canāt trust it anymore, okay?
& for me thatās every time until I learned AI fucked that up for me so now I generally use line breaks instead
"supposed to" š¤
me: *emails 236th therapist about my new private practice* Psychology Today: Are you SURE she's not a bot? CAPTCHA: she got the bike, the traffic lights, the bus, the motorcycle, the car, AND the bridges...so...can she point out all the FIRE HYDRANTS?! me, clearly a bot: alas i am foiled
onlooker: aslynn this isn't a movie no! it isn't! movies have scripts cool soundtracks a high likelihood of a happy ending no! it isn't a movie! but it is a story your story how will you respond when fascism shows up at your door? what will it look like? what would you do? think about it.
I sorta hope I'm arrested when we reach lvl 40 fascism because I won't tolerate the part where we lose internet well otherwise
i don't mean to be dramatic, but "the point of no return from fascism" is when we're all dead, fellas it's that simple
before anybody tries to arrest me for inciting a riot (prematurely) don't do crimes unless you know you're doing crimes! I'm sure not telling you to do crimes but when oppression becomes law and survival becomes a crime, I'm choosing the criminal life, fellas hopefully not a choice we have to make!
(Madeline was a gift to us all and I miss her.) I have only really been paying attention since 2016 and I feel like if I am aware enough to be concerned, it is concerning that more people are not concerned
shot cuts to miles of increasingly urgent roadsigns that say stop! cliff approaching! watch out! danger! nazi's are here! holy fuck martial law! ignoring the courts! & yet inexplicably still: AAAAAaaaaĀŖĀŖĀŖhhhhh - FWOMP! unless we do something do something! the things we would do, if & when: plz do
I am generally doing the things I would do, I'd like to think, for this stage of early onset fascism! I can't tell you about the things. Don't tell the internet about the things. Do the things you would do & do them now. Plz.
*run headfirst into a-la Wile E. Coyote
We all keep coming up against narratives that end with "if no one does anything, fascism will happen" & this illusion of the ideal future self that would DO SOMETHING if fascism DID descend is NOT serving us fascism is HERE, w/o any fanfare but w/ MUCH prologue the things you WOULD do ...do now.
I assume we don't mean this one
you'd think that this would be just the job of...the news i know i know i know i know, we don't live in that utopia
This thread is the recycled canine autism joke repository, so youāre in the right place
Canine Autism is generally referred to as "being a cat" and must be differentiated from horse fly autism which makes you appear indecisive before flying into walls (apparently) Gnat 'Tism is not caused by vaccines, as the needles would make their tiny fly bodies explode
we risk being dragged even deeper into the quicksand of fascism, absolutely, but our feet are already well stuck in this cement mud mix & it's going to take a lot to get out & it would be better if we didn't drown in it mobilization long overdue
inch closer into* because we're already here & we know it gets deeper and darker
the list of books I WANT TO READ and won't ever read is way too long for this ever to make it near my reading list
ugh, good luck. it's never easy. š«¶š»
There are some new intensive outpatient programs popping up in New Hampshire if you happen to be local to me, but we need to triple this service level in our country to even come close to the access required to address the crisis at hand.
I feel like if you are a judge or an attorney we should not be learning anything new in your book besides your favorite foods and the one time that jerk made fun of you at the middle school dance
I can neither confirm nor deny shit for 50 years after a patient dies, even though I donāt want money or a book I just want justice & THIS BROAD can do THIS??? seems āparticularly trickyā
Why touch grass when you can BE grass?
Be a little fruity, things get dicey /s
Thereās one of those memorial forests here where you can be a tree and while my legacy deserves something a bit more bougie, Iāll take a birch tree for sure š«¶š»
Shout-out to my inpatient colleagues getting all the long weekend frequent flyers discharged this morning to begin the cycle again since there isnāt nearly enough mid-acuity care for psychiatry, in any country but especially ours sending you all wishes for intact belonging bags & ink in the printer
I wish but no I just post pictures of my plants a lot Hereās one on a trellis that says āfuckā
current resident: is it your birthday? because this USPS email makes it sound like it might be. either way congrats on the merlot, macarons, and what I fantasize are vintage fashion boots for the coming fall season
sometimes I still get shipping notifications for the house we lived in 6-7 years ago today's delivery includes poshmark, wine club, and a little online cookie shop so I'm thinking about moving back
Flush Susan Collins and her concern away... More on Graham Platner: The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Taking on Susan Collins | The New Republic share.google/CX0TCMmPT1o1... šŗ bsky.app/profile/ronf...
@eeka1313.bsky.social was it this one? www.concussedfilm.com
many things š«¶š»
šÆšÆšÆ there are (horrifically few though) very solid studies on that, as well And I saw it first hand (This thread below started with talking about lil nas x)
Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse š¤ āIt could happen at any timeā
There are innumerable systemic issues and also countless individual bad actors who fuel the mistrust of disabled & chronically ill individuals This poor reputation is well deserved Itās time we (colleagues) do more about it instead of just commiserating when allies tell us our colleagues are dicks
colleagues: the behavior of many people in our field cultivated this deep distrust of healthcare people donāt trust us for good reason & we need to be gentle Itās on us to rebuild this rapport Weāre not entitled to a patientās trust just because we carry a license and wear a lab coat or whatever
Hey, medical professionals: gonna need you to back way the hell off on judging disabled folksā distrust of you. Many if not most of us have been subjected to humiliation, invalidation, or literal pain by members of your profession. Maybe practice some active listening or a self craniorectomy.
You know what, Iām still pissed. You can have some data. Thereās a problem here, and weāre not it. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
No, I tried watching it years ago and never got into it
āHello maam will you sign our petition for kids who donāt want to play football? Weāre being forced & bullied & fear injury, as we are feigning here, as performance art to illustrate how unfair it is to make us play sports ballā Oh sorry Iāll sign my name & my neighbors too Iām sure they wonāt mind
He really appears to just be holding someone elseās crutches and then leaning on them at doorsteps
No but I love this for you
This is why malingering is not confirmed! Itās the wheelchair bandage sports jersey combo that makes the whole thing suspect Not the walking and rolling combo in isolation Thank you for highlighting this important point! Itās mainly the crutches dude I was taking about anyway!
āIndividuals noted to be walking unassisted during periods which they may not have been aware they were being observed. Malingering strongly suspected.ā
3 kids walking up my street in athletic uniforms, one walking, one with crutches, and one with a wheelchair & a dressing on his head going door to door?? For reasons?? I am hoping this is a community theater production about the dangers of concussions in football because if this is fundraisingā¦!
The orange oligarchy and their goons have had the same idea about a cure They think weāre poisoned and need to be cleansed Eradicated Not healed & anyway the only healing we need is from the trauma of existing in a society that thinks of us as pathology while simultaneously ignoring our needs
"You'd think you'd want a fresh eye," said Edward L. Hunter, a former head of the Washington office of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Youād think.
Lupron a synthetic hormone w/ chelation is one "It was chemical castration (!!!) of Autistic kids to delay puberty & chelation therapy to rid the body of heavy metals that presumably were causing your autism" "For that, MD DPH censured David Geier for practicing medicine without a license.ā
RFK has hired another thimerosal conspiracy theorist, David Geier he and his father are known for several discredited studies connecting ethylmercury in thimerosal with autism This link was fabricated for money David & Mark Geier also promoted bogus and dangerous treatments / therapies for autism
The actual term Or my ranting? bsky.app/profile/audh...
@audhd-psychnp.com I read this today, & it made me think of NDs vs NTs in a metaphor way. It talks abt using limited filters in space photography to avoid info overwhelm, aiding easier analysis vs no filters & no way to separate it all apart. Like us. Like a bell curve with the NDs at the edges.
Yes!!! This is very similar to #Asterism but more scientifically defined. Love it!
ah, it's a trick often done by Anthurium collectors! My friend has a "Sam's Dream" breed which she was able to cross with itself this way. It's this whole plants meets pokemon culture, they try to breed new ones all the time.
Me: ah, finally. Itās time to do the budget. AuDHD: hiiiii - donāt forget you need eggs Me: Right. I will buy groceries after I do the budget. AuDHD: But you will forget the eggs Me: ok Iāll make a list but why make a list when I can just add to cart thatās a high total, whatās the bud- DAMNIT
AuDHD: hiiiiiiii - me again. We JUST realized that you are STARVING Me: wait, what? We left the house 10 minutes ago & it was full AuDHD: halp, so woozy Me: we stood in front of the fridge for 14 minutes! We are going to be late! AuDHD: *whispers* coffee & danish drive thru
they're *leans real close into the microphone* white people
Between misunderstanding Autistic people and now people with NPD, I do not think empathy is what RFK thinks it is
Usually at a certain point when heās said enough outlandish shit that you say āthatās not grandpa talking, thatās the dementiaā and you donāt let him drive anymore
āI couldnāt - and still canāt - get behind the idea that because Iāve been able to move mountains to get where I am, that it somehow means that the mountains arenāt there.ā š®āšØ Such a good listen, yāall.
*taps sign* keep your bros in check, fellas, because shit's going down and it's time for you all to put your behaviors where your allyship lies
"For Black girls with multiple marginalized identities this bias creates perceptions of threat, non-compliance, and harm & set the stage for the tropes of disability and race to converge and crystalize as the predominant narrative of their experience" šÆšÆšÆ #AutRes #BlackSky
Pearls: Non-meds treatment for black girls were dismissed due to āextremely limited cognitive, verbal & comprehension skillsā Adults respond more harshly to Black girls who display behaviors that don't align w/ standards bias enters into clinical judgment, Dx, assessment & leads to adultification
š« "That's why it's a spectrum." ā "Isn't Neurodiversity incredible?"
I'm going to try freezing it when it's fully developed the pollen to do a x self pollination not sure if this sort of thing is your jam but I'll be harassing my houseplant friends for how-to tips when the time comes
@plantpollinator.bsky.social I took this pic for you! It's the var pterodactyl I keep showing off (2nd photo)
do y'all still sell milk in bags?
A similar experience for me is watching all of the different houseplant sellers & collectors pronounce the different genus of plant all sorts of different ways because we've all only read them online for the most part Anthurium pallidiflorum x papillilaminum variegated
I made a whole long thread on this that nobody saw, but tldr: I once went to a sponsored qPCR seminar where they showed a "this is why you check your trace because if it looks like this you throw the whole run out" and then said, btw, that was the raw data for Andrew Wakefield's Lancet paper.
Yeahhhhhhhh Yep
I'm open to alternatives
This labor day I want to remind you that it doesn't take much work to find the evidence that the connection between vaccines & autism was āØ fabricated for financial gain āØ they did it to placate rich worried parents it worked he paid children for blood samples at a birthday party and here we are
Me: Iām Autistic ExBoss: you donāt look autistic Me: [mini TEDx talk] Him: clearly high functioning then Him: how do you work in this chaos? Me: I have ADHD Him: youāre like the least ADHD person Iāve ever met youāre so organized Me, to camera: Thatās where being Autistic has saved me for YEARS.
I need a new paper bag to breathe into
If you're a non-Autistic person & an Autistic person is telling you about something they experience, or struggle with, and it resonates with you... PLEASE, š« Don't say: "Well, we're all a little Autistic." ā Do say: "I find that relatable!" we are asking you nicely, plz plz stop saying that.
Reasons I think Autistic people love inside jokes: Theyāre scripted. You know what to expect. AND whatās expected of you. Repetition is soothing! Often includes a bond over a shared interest or experience and adds to a sense of security. š«¶š» Itās a stim! A shared vocal stim! Such Autistic joy! š„¹
So, the woman whom Giuliani was helping was on the southbound side of Interstate 93. But the car in which he was injured was on the northbound side. And this all happened in the dark of night. www.concordmonitor.com/2025/08/31/r... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Oh silly me of course itās a private jet and doesnāt matter at all āØ
I wanna know if it was in the checked bag or carry on
If heās in a New Hampshire hospital thereās āhopeā
ā¦thatās why?
I mean if he was talking about phlebotomy instead of being an amateur geneticist maybe
spontaneously combust
negative pressure room cuz that shit is airborne
Fun fact: I used to have the monologue āReclaiming Cuntā memorized and would recite it repetitively. I was once in line at a Walmart and upset a couple of older women. (Sorry, ladies. C, curvy Cā¦)
Moral of the story anyone who says they can diagnose based on vibes is gross for one reason or another and is not a safe person to be in charge of anything nevermind someone elseās health and well being
Oh and did I mention she was experiencing the effects of psychosis? This included paranoia! & so then she was paranoid of me because I was not about to falsely reassure her she does not have schizophrenia (especially in light of [redacted compelling info]) But ThE DoCktoRrr
& because I was an attending APRN & "not the doctor" I was the asshole for sayin "HEY. We don't know what's going on. We can't. We wont' know for a WHILE. We just need to focus on what's in front of us and get her feeling better." WELL HER DOCTOR SAID no the ON CALL GUY who DOESN'T KNOW HER said
spoilers: he told her that because he was sorta gross and he wanted to reassure her in a manner that was inappropriate, leveraging his over-expanded ego to fuel his self-serving delusion that he was helping her by minimizing the seriousness of the current situation and the gravity of the road ahead
I know the schadenfreude is tempting but alas, I cannot this time. his insurance pays for the good drugs and I hear the 19yo girl who hit his car was injured
Nationās largest nursing union: Time for HHS Secretary RFK Jr. to go | National Nurses United www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...
it has been "live free and die trying" for many years now
live free or die, ammiright?