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@wild-fucking-lesbian02

Any and all pronouns. Ready to kill god. Not here for a long time, just here for a good time. Also, plants and lizards are cool. taken by disasterofahuman.

Intro post! 

Hi! I use she/they/he pronouns primarily but any are fine. 

I mainly reblog and do shit posts. 

No homophobia, racism, ableism, nfsw, pedo,  etc. just dont be a hateful pos. 

I hope everyone here is doing well and having fun! Remember to take care of yourself. 

More stuff about me under the cut 

shoutout to the poor person who tried to email the registrar and instead emailed the mailing list of all registered students resulting in every student at this university realizing, at 1am on a sunday, that they all had the power to send emails to every single student at once which in turn resulted in a grand total of 2,201 emails being sent in a two hour period to Every Single Student at this school. all of us. every single one.

things that have come out of this email chain:

  • a administrative investigation into a dude who was racist in the chain only to be immediately dogpiled by everyone else
  • a discord created for anyone at the school who wants to join, the link sent out in the chain
  • the email address used to make the chain (registered-students) being signed up for target emails, which worked
  • the same racist dude from before having pictures of his face sent in the discord so now everyone knows what he looks like in case they come across him
  • a girl with a funny name that i won't say for the sake of. it's her full name. becoming a meme and embracing it so hard. she has her own channel in the discord and people were wearing merch with her name on it yesterday i saw them in public (meaning i saw people wearing masks with her name written on them with sharpie)
  • discord user t.hanos who only ever sends that one gif of thanos where the t is on top of the rest of the word. they also have their own channel and it is Only that gif
  • all of the professors being mostly unaware of what's going on bc there wasn't a single person in charge on the chain it was exclusively students
  • the IT department having to explain why their mailing list for all registered students didn't have any kind of security on it
  • everyone who's ever tried to email somebody a question once ever wondering why all these people were awake to send emails at 1am on a sunday but cannot be reached ever when there's an important question to be answered

If I go into one more restaurant and see a qr code menu I'm gonna puke like sorry but nope! No! That's not easier! Menus are already reusuable just give me one! Easy five second interaction. What if my phone is bad at qr codes? What if I'm on a low battery? Paper, paper, paper. A hard copy. Physical objects lets get this bread. Ordering through the app when you're sitting at the restaurant is even worse!!! The boomers are right about this one.

Something I find kinda jarring about this here 21st century is that the average person with an internet connection and an ounce of pirating know-how has access to more movies and tv shows than anyone has ever had in the history of forever and yet there are still people trying to argue that the screenwriter strike is bad because it means we might experience a temporary lack of new television

Not to mention the absolute BOOM of people streaming everything from original art to video games to chatting to fitness, the countless podcasts about anything you could ever be interested, services that offer access to audiobooks of just about any title you can think of (with many of them free).

Like. Go find a new streamer to watch for free. Listen to a new book for free. Listen to a storytelling podcast for free. You’ll be fine. Quit bitching about people possibly getting reasonably compensated for their goddamn time

Picking my mutuals up by the scruff of their necks

“Someone is gonna love you goddamit and if it has to be me then so be it

i went to a tiny counterserve diner once and accidentally poured sugar instead of salt all over my hashbrowns and was eating them sadly anyways. the waitress took them away and started making me another one and I tried to protest, but she just snorted and said "we're not catholic here". now every time i'm doing something painful out of obligation i think about how that is not repenting, this body is not a catholic establishment, there is no nobility in suffering.

This is fucking embarrassing ‘journalism’ from the BBC.

Guy goes to an NHS doctor, flat-out states the nature of his investigation and gets behind the scenes information on assessments.

Then he hits up three private clinics actively looking for an ADHD diagnosis, has his friends fill out witness forms, and is shocked when he receives a diagnosis.

An utter disgrace.

Turns out, if you go and lie about your symptoms, they’ll diagnose you.

Consider me fucking shocked.

thank you, random white man, for this insight on the condition known to be underdiagnosed in women and people of color

i found the article and it's like, comparing and contrasting private and public clinics I think? It's a little opaque to me (American) what the significance of this is

I'm not sure what the point of this was. Like, the article doesn't really even touch on what his methodology was—it doesn't actually state whether he was filling out the forms honestly, and knowing how an evaluation works and going into the evaluation with the goal of "demonstrating" something about an evaluation infuses inherent bias into everything

this is just yet another thing that serves to create paranoia about people getting prescribed stimulant meds. Something that, in the USA, is difficult to the point that it blocks people from obtaining the care that they need all the time, and i know in many other countries it's even harder

Like, why did he feel the need to do this to begin with. I'm sure that if he went to several different doctors trying to get a diagnosis of chronic constipation, he would get one, because listening to a patient when they bring a concern up to you is Your Job as a doctor

@headspace-hotel uk person checking in! when you go public for an adhd assessment, waiting lists are YEARS long with often no indication of when you'll finally be seen. thus, many people – who are desperate for care – will pay money (which you don't have to do for public healthcare) to go private.

so basically it's stigmatising people who were so desperate that they were willing to find £1,000 to get help.

So this asshole was actively taking precious opportunities and resources away from people who need them?

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Is your conclusion “he tried to prove that private clinics are bad, something something, less people will be able to go to private clinics for these resources as a result” or “he took 3 diagnoses in private clinics which could have been 3 other people’s diagnoses and resources”?

He seems to have bypassed the atrociously long waiting list for the NHS appointment - which he biased anyway by disclosing his investigation to the NHS doctor.

He then fabricated symptoms to three private clinics which require two other people to validate his symptoms - all in a bid to frame them as predatory.

This could have been an investigation into underfunding of the NHS and absurd waiting lines forcing people to use private clinics. Instead the story became ‘ADHD is a fun trend and you can just pay to get a diagnosis’.

It’s malicious journalism that casts doubt in the public’s mind. Some people are now not going to believe other people’s ADHD diagnosis on the back of it.

we also want to challenge his assumption that private clinics apparently taking less time to diagnose obvious adhd is a reflection on their lack of diligence - it's much more a reflection on how much more gatekeepy the nhs is encouraged to be, especially when it's about "invisible" or mental health or neurodivergent conditions (we had 11 hours of meetings before getting diagnosed autistic by the nhs at 55 - a diagnosis six different other autistic people had spotted right away)

you see this with gender care too, nhs gender care (assuming you ever make it to the top of a six year waiting list) is like "yes come and see us for a year before we'll consider hrt for you - but not if you're fat or have mental health conditions because fuck you" while private clinics are like "yes we confirm that you are trans, why on earth would we make you wait?"

Yeah, I wonder if the NHS considers the entire time from the start of assessment. Their ‘thorough assessment’ is someone else’s frequent misdiagnosis and the doctor even not believing them at face value.

Mob boss who gets equally passionate about rewarding loyalty as punishing betrayal. What?! Johnny Backstabs killed two of my rivals and saved my daughter from assassins?! Incredible!! I want him loved! I want him wifed! I want his bills paid! I want his rent gone! I want his dog pet! I want his gender trans’d! I want her car fixed! I want flowers on her doorstep! Get this DONE!!😡🥰😡

i know unicorns are usually silver or lavender with those skinny horse legs built for running but id like to see more unicorns with natural colouration built like tanks like these beasts

we need like a scale of unicorn. on one end you have amalthea last unicorn who is the peak of elegant otherworldly unicorns with silver and lavender colours. we need the opposite of that. we need a unicorn who looks like the horse version of a trucker

like this