ocd is not fucking destigmatized

"intrusive thought" gets thrown around by assholes talking about putting strainers on their heads or stepping on a leaf who in the next sentence will say "if your thoughts are about actually hurting people they should put you in a psych ward". compulsions and rituals get seen as proof you're "crazy". ocd insight CAN be delusional, even. pocd and sexual ocd is especially demonized, though even something as "harmless" (to others. not *us*) as contamination OCD is still mocked, belittled, and seen as a sign something is fundamentally wrong with you. I have seen people twice my age advocate for violence against anyone who thinks the way I've been forced by my mental illness to think since i was 6, maybe 7 years old.

OCD is not destigmatized.

hey. if you're one of those people carrying something you're struggling with but that you absolutely cannot put down, i see you. if other people rely on you to live, meaning you cant take a break on helping them without putting them at risk, i see you. i understand you. i know how frustrating all those "its okay to take time for yourself!" posts are when taking time for yourself would cause immense suffering for others. im sorry that youre carrying that alone and that i cannot help you with it. but i see you. you are not the only person feeling this. your feelings are valid and do not mean you're a bad person, or doing a bad job. youre doing great. but im sorry you have to.

A Mini Guide to RSS Feeds

With all the talk about Twitter and social media going on, I felt really inspired to do a comic about RSS feeds. This is a really barebones guide but I hope it helps you stay updated with your favourite webcomics, artists and websites. The nice thing about RSS feeds is that almost any kind of site has one, so if you wanted you could add user feeds from tumblr, twitter, mastodon, etc. here’s some helpful guides on how to add those (1) (2) I hope you found this little guide helpful. I’m just a simple guy who’s passionate about RSS feeds, comics and staying updated using both. Go forth and make the feed of your dreams! Topaz Comics | Topaz Comics RSS | Art Blog | Art Blog RSS

Because this is seemingly relevant again!

An update is that I’m now using Feedbro as a social media alternative (while still using Feedly for webcomics).

I’ve written a little about it on my personal blog!

Reblogging here because I recommend RSS readers for blogs, newsletters, webcomics, even tumblr blogs. Whatever!

we need to go back to hating tumblr. no more hellsite (affectionate). don't even think of giving these clowns your money. if i see you with a checkmark next to your name i'm opening fire

*sound of gun cocking* they can be disabled

tumblr's current business model isn't profitable and never will be and no amount of scolding from staff blogs or tumblr ad-free pay piggies is gonna fix that. don't let yourself be guilted into buying merch, badges or ad-free. you're throwing your money into a bottomless pit while the techbro ghouls running this website laugh about you at their next board meeting while applauding the shmucks coming up with new ideas on how to twitter- or tiktokify the website

''but tumblr needs to make money!!!''

if tumblr really wants its regular user onboard with keeping the website afloat then we should at least demand that they do the bare minimum in keeping the site functional. and right now, they're not even doing that. every change they've made lately has made the website/app worse. i should give my money to tumblr so what—they can make a more intrusive version of tumblr live? remove the chronical dashboard? come up with an even more transphobic way of doing content moderation? yeah, no thanks

it should be illegal for landlords to charge for in building laundry

it should be illegal for landlords

just some notes on this:

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dating-type app but instead of matching for romance it connects writers/artists+ who don't want to do research with autistic people with the appropriate special interest

the creators get the needed information without needing to filter out filler and translate technical jargon, and the autistic person gets someone who's willing to listen to their infodumps. what is there to lose

everyone's saying it but yeah the new tumblr desktop layout is complete garbage lmao

yknow what i really can't fucking stand. how every social media now feels like it's designed for mobile first but then subsequently there is NO design for desktop and they just kinda slap a mobile interface onto a widescreen canvas and fill it with a solid color. like why is what feels like 60% of my dashboard just negative space on a 16:9 monitor. the entire thing is so fucking claustrophobic and just bunched together. use the space!!!! why are the timeline switcher tabs at the top of the screen getting cut off!!! you could fit all of them!!!

LIKE WHAT IS GOING ON HERE

zooming in to like 110% makes it a LITTLE better but it's still way too much empty space on the sides that could be used so much more meaningfully, and then going any further than that just starts to literally cut off the content i actually want to see, like at a certain point in order to cut down on negative space i can only fit half of a post on screen if it's long enough. on a 4K monitor. i don't understand why so much modern website design conflates "compact" with "efficient". they are not mutually exclusive but they're also not synonyms!!! 16:9 will not hurt you!!!! some of my favorite stuff is in 16:9! like psychonauts 2! everyone wants to be psychonauts 2! what are you afraid of!!!

flatid planthopper nymph, Singapore. hemipterans (true bugs) like these have mastered the art of covering oneself in weird waxy filaments, which are shed along with their last juvenile molt, revealing a sleek, gossamer-winged adult

btw i highly recommend smashing things in a safe and contained manner when you're upset. the instinct to rage and destroy can be sated by the sound of broken glass. find a place and a few objects to shatter, it's good for the soul. i just took a hammer to my ex's bong and i feel so much more normal now. you don't always have to be careful and precious with the world around you, you're allowed to destroy things too, i give you permission. violence can be healing when you're inarticulate with rage :)

have some vicarious violence 🫶

If you want to smash stuff but you don’t want to have to clean up a mess, throwing ice cubes at a brick wall is highly satisfying.

my goal is to install so many browser plugins to strip out ads, sponsor breaks, and general shitty parts of Youtube's functionality that the site's staff email me personally to beg for mercy

Any recommendations for such plugins?

these are all for Firefox. if you use Chrome, I would encourage you to not do that

uBlock Origin obviously.

SponsorBlock is the other one I've used for ages and it is great. It depends on user-sourced info, so it won't always have anything for you, especially for smaller channels, but it lets you skip over things as specific as 'don't show me the non-music bits of music videos.' But also, mostly, sponsors, and other advertising-y things that are part of the video itself.

I was introduced to Youtube Search Fixer just today and it is promising for things like 'don't force me to watch shorts in this shitty Tiktok-wannabe UI' or just 'fuck shorts entirely, actually.'

Enhancer for Youtube isn't so much doing things that would make the devs cry as just adding lots of customization options and--this is important--it lets you disable autoplay.

some of these add-ons have overlapping functionality and you probably don't wanna enable the same stuff for all of them, lest they Tussle

you ever take a uquiz and realize halfway through that you don’t respect the author and their opinion is useless to you

everyone shut up except this person

You people are fucking embarrassing. Stop praising a dog for shitting on the floor

help

I think if a studio exec says they want to force you to starve to death so you’ll be made to accept garbage wages, you should crush them in a hydraulic press incredibly slowly

Like the fact that rich people have gotten to the point where they think they can just be like “oh yeah I’m literally trying to kill you” without fear of repercussions is beyond infuriating. They need to know what it feels like to be beaten to death by hammers.

tumblr in 2020:

'can i copy your homework?'

'yeah just don't make it obvious'

the like to reblog ratio being almost the same is so funny, people are NOT happy with at this update lmao

i fucking hate everything.

a major reason why we need piracy sites. now that physical media comes secondary to digital streaming, piracy really is the only way to keep movies/shows like this from disappearing entirely

Dont you just love how corporations add zero value to the humanrace.