Never Forget Mike Brown
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“Oh they are targeting Latinos” Latinos are mostly partly Purepecha, Mexica, Maya, Mixteco, Quechua, etc. etc. “Looking Hispanic” = Looking Native. Also if anyone doesn’t know this the Oglala band is the band Sunka Wacan (sacred/crazy horse, famed untouchable war chief in the fight against colonization, guy with the sacred stone tied to the back of his head, etc) was from. We should all be very worried for our Native friends and family members.
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80% of roommate disputes can be solved or remediated with increased communication by everyone
10% of roommate disputes can be solved through compromise, changing life-long learned behaviors, and education
5% of roommate disputes can be solved by moving out
the remaining 5% of roommate disputes you are going to have to get a decent lawyer and abandon all previous moral convictions to destroy that person but not with your mind because you don’t want them to live rent free in there too
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Hey to be clear this is me following your reasoning down out of curiosity and not an argument I am trying to make or a situation I am currently in but: wrt turning to CAM due to having no options being Understandable and herbalism being Real But Un(der)controllable, how do you feel about the use of herbalism in situations where people can't afford or access Actual Medication? Is willow bark better than nothing for a headache? Is an unreliable blood thinner better than no blood thinner?
Anonymous
An unreliable blood thinner is worse than no blood thinner because an unreliable blood thinner means that you could be getting the correct amount of the active compound to keep you healthy, or you could be getting too little of it and have clots building that could kill you, or you could be getting too much of it and put yourself at risk of bleeding to death.
Taking unreliable doses of something broadens the risks of what the thing could be doing to you so that you have a wider variety of negative outcomes than you would from forgoing the medication at all.
This is a nightmare, of course, when you’re talking about not being able to afford chemotherapy or medication for your heart failure because it seems like anything is better than nothing, because doing nothing is going to kill you, but see the thing is that taking unreliable doses of an herbal compound is also likely to kill you it’s just going to do so while costing you money out of pocket, giving you false hope, and possibly while convincing other people that it’s a good idea to follow your lead and take treatments that will kill them.
I actually consider the sale of herbal remedies to sick people who can’t afford good medication a particularly hideous form of grifting. I am so aggressively opposed to CAM and herbal treatments specifically because they are often marketed toward people who are too poor to afford proper medication, or who are chronically ill or in pain and are looking for any relief to their symptoms because the medical industry has nothing to offer them.
I fell down this rabbit hole in the first place because of being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and suddenly finding myself being targeted by a ridiculous amount of woo that would not have made me healthier but would have offered me comfort and cost me money while not making me healthier.
Sick people deserve real medicine. CAM doesn’t offer that to them.
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Just gonna drop these here as a starting point :)
How to identify, and then deal with, your emotions
Creating and enforcing boundaries
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy skills
Emotional intelligence ideals to aim for
Self-care self-evaluation (find out where you’re starting)
How to make a self-care checklist
How to start a self-care habit
KhanAcademy: Understanding the Self and Society (some units more relevant than others)
Emotional education activities for children and teens
Social-Emotional Learning activities for kids (information can be adapted for adults)
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Audio transcript : Hamster balls are like so dangerous for small animals. You know why? Because like, they can’t extend their back properly, so their back is like thi– (cuts off abruptly as the creature in the hamster ball is revealed to be a crab; pauses. The following is said with an affectionate tone like one uses when speaking of a cute animal:) Well, he can’t break his spine ‘cause he don’t have a spine.
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rlly embarrassing when ppl act like topping/bottoming has any bearing on anything beyond how you like to fuck. grow up
you’re like, inches away from asking who’s the man and who’s the woman lol
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Concept: Adam Westifying the modern Bat-family. Like, what would the 1966 Batman version of Jason Todd look like? Or Damian Wayne, for that matter?
(The second one is tricky backstory-wise, as of course the show would absolutely never acknowledge Bruce Wayne having relations out of wedlock – we might have to get creative there!)
Jason Todd: Kidnapped by the Joker, ‘rescued’ and trained by the League of Shadows, came back as a Green Hornet style antihero.
Tim Drake: The only thing that would change for a ‘66-style Tim is dropping the death of his parents. Aside from being too grisly for the ‘66 vibe, the comedic shenanigans of Tim trying to hide his secret identity from his parents are too good to pass up.
Damian Wayne: Bruce and Talia were Bat-married and Bat-divorced in Bat-Vegas.
Cassandra Cain: Again, there’d be less murder. But otherwise Cass fits right in.
Stephanie Brown: The child of a third-rate villain turning to heroism to annoy her villain father? The showrunners would have loved Steph.
I don’t know enough about Duke Thomas or the rest of the recent Batfamily to really say, but I have noticed that their backstories just keep getting more and more grim. Lighten up, DC.
I think Cass probably needs more detail…daughter of dangerous hired thug David Cain and villainous martial artist Lady Shiva (who either had a similar Vegas thing or they’re actually married in this version) , trained to follow in their footsteps, can read body language, for her first job she fights Batman and Robin and…does some wacky style violence on them or something where they almost die, but is overcome by guilt at the last minute because she can read the fear they so valiantly hide, and betrays her father to join them instead.
She’s very taciturn but does a lot of exaggerated physical comedy and her hypercompetence at martial arts is also executed in a comedic way, she jump scares people a lot, and there’s a running gag where people talk to her, she doesn’t say anything back and just looks at them, and they’ll nod and act like she just said something super eloquent.
Not super familiar with Duke either, but the Joker would just have to kidnap his parents instead of driving them insane right? Or maybe go insane very temporarily but Duke manages to reverse it pretty quickly.
Helena Bertinelli would come from a very comedically exaggerated mob family (definitely leaning into Italian stereotypes but the comics already do that in a more gritty way) none of them die but she hates them, sometimes she hits people too hard and sends them flying and everyone is like “oh that Helena!!!”
Babs becoming Oracle…that’d be tough to handle, but it definitely wouldn’t be because of the Joker, she like, falls saving someone or does a heroic sacrifice or something, it’d be a little darker than the show usually goes, but she’d somehow not be depressed at all and adjust to her new life quickly, and does sick kick flips with her wheelchair sometimes.
Batwoman/Kate Kane: this would dip into the show actually dealing with social issues which is unusual, but not being allowed to fight in the military is perfectly transferrable, her twin sister and mom got kidnapped at one point, her sister came back as a much more comedic villain. Renee’s easy too, you just have to take away the alcoholism bit , and they can be hilariously bitter exes.
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Chinese-language dramas I watched in 2025
Please excuse how late this is! These are all the Chinese-language dramas I brain-rotted over in 2025. Here’s to another great drama year!
I’ve dated the shows that are not from 2025. These are from least to most favourite:
A Dream within a Dream
Felt like I was watching a different show to everyone else when this aired or that I had lost my funny bone somewhere because I didn’t find this very interesting and I didn’t find it funny. The heroine’s antics made me feel like there were no stakes and nothing mattered.
Flourished Peony
An utterly gorgeous drama when it comes to costume and set and kind of fizzles out when it comes to everything else. Yang Zi is the star and everything else kind of fades in the background (except for the ex-husband who is Shen Yurong-lite.) A little soap boxy for a historical drama.
The Glamorous Imperial Concubine (2011)
Someone awaken Freud from the dead and force him to watch this! This show was all over the place and the heroine had me clutching at my hair at her stupidity but the villains were spectacular. I have never seen so many fascinating middle-aged women in one show. The mother-son relationships were utterly insane and everyone needs about a decade of therapy.
Had I Not Seen the Sun
My first Taiwanese show! I was really impressed by this intense revenge drama and was seated every day after work to see what happened next. It falls a little behind for me due to some of it’s interpretations of mental illness (I can forgive inaccuracy but not laziness in storytelling. People suddenly recovering from a severe condition without medication or therapy because the plot line is over is LAZY writing) but I was very impressed with Tseng Jing-hua’s portrayal of a quiet young man turned serial killer.
Dominion and Devotion
This show was practically made for me. Girl disguised as a prince who then becomes the emperor and has an antagonistic yet heated relationship with her sly head eunuch who put her on the throne. It didn’t rank higher because it’s not very long but very much to my taste.
Love of the Divine Tree
The dynamic from the start between the chaotic shifu and her feral disciple (wow Deng Wei, I’m impressed!) was fascinating and something we rarely see. I was also hooked when they reversed the dynamic as both actors have great chemistry. But then the reversal stayed for the majority of the show as if the creators couldn’t bear to stray away from the more established trope of older experienced male lead and young innocent heroine. The villains were incredibly lame and the plot limped to the end.
A Love Never Lost
Such a fascinating and incredible drama that is not afraid to portray the Qing dynasty as old, corrupt and rotting from the inside out. Beautifully shot, acted and really conveys the depth and meaning it intended. Biggest weakness is definitely the writer’s attitude to themes in the female lead’s plotline but I wholeheartedly recommend this.
Fated Hearts
Pure crack. Had me frothing at the mouth all day every day on this website. Pure gothic and vengeful fun with enemies to lovers, fun villains and a fast paced plot. Minus points for that one character (don’t even have to name her lol).
Legend of Shen Li (2024)
What happens when a god falls in love with a chicken? What happens when she falls first but he falls harder? What happens when you put Zhao Liying and Lin Gengxin as romantic leads in a show? Pure sparkling magic? The chemistry was fire and the storyline was classic big romantic xianxia that I love.
Winter Begonia (2020)
A love letter to Peking Opera with a gorgeous array of costumes, sets and music. I had so much fun watching this and was completely romanced by the wintery setting and the characters. But it’s Yin Zheng’s performance as the opera performer Shang Xirui that was the heart of this beautiful show.
Legend of Zang Hai
I was expecting to be underwhelmed by this hyped show and I wasn’t. This was soooo exciting to watch and was a revenge story truly done right. Zang Hai’s descent into a hell of his own making as he goes up against some truly frightening people is a role that Xiao Zhan ate all the way down.
Princess Agents (2017)
Some Chinese shows affect me so much it feels like a terrible illness and that’s what happened with Princess Agents. I got so emotionally invested in character’s desire to get to Northern Yan that I felt like I’d almost been there myself. The romance in this show felt like the old-fashioned explosive kind that doesn’t leave anything behind. This was my show of the year.
My OTP of 2025
Obviously it was Chu Qiao and Yan Xun. I had no idea that this was even on the cards when I went in to Princess Agents (Zhao Liying and Lin Gengxin as a couple have been on every single piece of marketing I’ve seen for this very famous show) so when I slowly started to realised I was shipping them I thought I had a bad case of second lead syndrome until the prison arc hit and BAM no-one else stood a chance. Their love was a bonfire that engulfed the whole show and the ending on the frozen lake murdered me.
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FANDOM, THE TWIN CITIES NEED YOU
Alpha News, our local fascist outlet that “leaked” Jonathan Ross’s video of him murdering Renee Good, which also pushed George Floyd conspiracy theories, with an anchor married to loathsome fascist police union boss Bob Kroll (Liz Collin), has set up another doxx line, this time for ICE observers.
WE NEED THEM TO BE OVERWHELMED WITH USELESS INFORMATION.
Please help us! We are under occupation!
Their post about it:
This is something you can do 100% remotely that is VERY HELPFUL to stop observers from being intimidated out of doing this vital work. It is not an exaggeration to say spamming this line will save lives: the more observers we have, the fewer people ICE can abduct, abuse, murder, and send to concentration camps.
PLEASE REBLOG AND SHARE.
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Concept: Adam Westifying the modern Bat-family. Like, what would the 1966 Batman version of Jason Todd look like? Or Damian Wayne, for that matter?
(The second one is tricky backstory-wise, as of course the show would absolutely never acknowledge Bruce Wayne having relations out of wedlock – we might have to get creative there!)
Jason Todd: Kidnapped by the Joker, ‘rescued’ and trained by the League of Shadows, came back as a Green Hornet style antihero.
Tim Drake: The only thing that would change for a ‘66-style Tim is dropping the death of his parents. Aside from being too grisly for the ‘66 vibe, the comedic shenanigans of Tim trying to hide his secret identity from his parents are too good to pass up.
Damian Wayne: Bruce and Talia were Bat-married and Bat-divorced in Bat-Vegas.
Cassandra Cain: Again, there’d be less murder. But otherwise Cass fits right in.
Stephanie Brown: The child of a third-rate villain turning to heroism to annoy her villain father? The showrunners would have loved Steph.
I don’t know enough about Duke Thomas or the rest of the recent Batfamily to really say, but I have noticed that their backstories just keep getting more and more grim. Lighten up, DC.
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Bare with me on this one
I find it hard to believe that Hua Cheng was hiding his motivations for challenging those gods. Like sure he didn’t announce his reasoning (most likely to avoid implicating Xie Lian in his nonsense) but it probably wasn’t all that hard to figure out either. And while he wouldn’t be running around with a sign that says “from Xianle” taped to his back, things like his favorite philosophies to bring up during the debates or the style of his clothing would probably make that an easy thing to figure out (Alternatively everyone could just see who might have a reason to hate those 35 specific gods. List probably isn’t all that long)
Au where heaven drags Xie Lian back up there to either a) demand to know why one of his citizens is doing this bullshit and did he order it, or b) demand that he take care of the problem somehow
Pei Ming: Listen, I know a lot about desperate slut behavior-
Ling Wen: Congratulations on cultivating self-awareness
Pei Ming: -And this is a textbook case.
Mu Qing: What kind of sluts have you been hanging around?
Feng Xin: Desperate ones. Pay attention
Pei Ming: Back to my point! Maybe we can get this Hua Cheng to leave if we find the scrap collector and point the ghost in the right direction
Ling Wen: your highness we called you here so that you tell your boyfriend to calm down
Xie Lian: my what.
Ling Wen: Crimson Rain sought flower…? the man who’s been causing hell trying to avenge you…?
Xie Lian: I have never heard of this guy in my life
Lol
Pei Ming (owner of the second largest collection of brain cells in heaven): None the less, this might be a task only you can accomplish. This ghost has a unique blade-
Xie Lian: 👀
Pei Ming: And possesses great skill-
Xie Lian: 😮
Pei Ming: And he has yet to be beaten
Xie Lian: 😳 Yeah I’ll see what I can do
Feng Xin: How did you do that!?
Ling Wen: Dianxia is a former martial god who has not had a spar in decades. It hardly takes a genius
I think this could yield a highly fertile fic territory where Hua Cheng finds out that Heaven is offering Xie Lian a safe return to his position if he can take down the Ghost King, so he makes an elaborate plan to take the fall and dramatically be ‘defeated’ so that Dianxia can rise again, but his plan keeps being thwarted by the fact that Xie Lian is dead determined to get to know him and find out his motives so they can broker a compromise where nobody has to get hurt
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To this day I still don’t believe that anyone actually thought you could generate infinite chocolate via an optical illusion. That’s a thing people tell themselves to feel superior
The defining feature of tumblr is not “the website where people actually think infinite chocolate is possible”, it is defined by a group of people refusing to break kayfabe, another group being genuinely confused by an optical illusion (NOT the same thing as thinking infinite chocolate is possible) and a third group who is certain they are a lot smarter than the other two.
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one of the best things about pjotv percy going so hard with the yearning is that he is still in fact actually deeply oblivious to the nature of his feelings so even absolutely unhinged shit like “i’d burn down olympus for you” is genuinely him just Having A Real Normal One With His Good Friend Annabeth
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