weltenwellen:

To Be Alive
Gregory Orr

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jabberwockypie:

jabberwockypie:

The thing about Harry Potter is it just makes me fucking tired?

I don’t especially give a shit if somebody is reading the books or watching the movies in private, but if you’re being loudly, stridently, openly fannish about it you’ve got to be aware at this stage of things how that’s perceived? At the bare minimum, being perceived as transphobic wasn’t a deal breaker.

A doll forum I frequent is discussing whether or not to ban pictures of Harry Potter merch, and wow do I recognize a lot of the people going “Um, nobody cares about politics actually, sweetie” “Why does everything have to be political?” as having said some virulently transphobic shit elsewhere.

Someone asked me “:( So you want to DIVIDE people?”

Yes. You can’t UwU Let’s All Get Along about whether or not a given group of people should have human rights.

You can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding.

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fanby-fckry:

where-was-there-was:

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cloud–atlas:

actualdraccus:

unluckyxse7en:

moondane-lovers:

TO ANYONE WHO USES DISCORD- FOUR AI SCRAPING BOTS HAVE BEEN SECRETLY ADDED TO YOUR SERVERS WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT

Saw this going around and tested it myself, and I can confirm that this is unfortunately legit. Four hidden bots have been placed in any existing or newly created Discord server that are harvesting data, images, and most concerningly, one seems to be a face swap bot.

Due to them being invisible, banning them from your servers isn’t possible without their ID’s, which I’ve typed out for easy access.

1153984868804468756
1288638725869535283
1090660574196674713
1104973139257081909

Banning is done with the /ban command with each string pasted in one at a time. Four ban commands in total.

Image proof below and further information. This was in my PERSONAL server that has existed for +5 years. Discord is harvesting your shit without your consent, fight back.

Hey so in case you’re like me and wondered: Can you ban members without them being in the server?

The answer is yes, you absolutely can! It’ll look like this - the numbers you paste will be what’s “banned”

However my sibling tried this in her servers and found that One of them was NOT a string of numbers, like so:

And for clarity it isn’t a difference in user or device, this is what she got elsewhere:

So if you ban these numbers and the message shows the actual username? Pretty sure that means they were in there.

Very unpleasant way to check the veracity of this post but hopefully this is a helpful tip for anyone who was concerned - my sib would have No Reason to add these in herself and didn’t have any clue it was in there.

Personally, I’d say even if you are still worried about misinfo/fearmongering/etc from this post, think of it this way - worst case scenario is you’re banning a bot you’ll never use or need. Not a person, a bot. There’s no real damage done playing it safe and running the ban commands through, aside from maybe losing some time doing so.

Best of luck everyone.

Wishing I’d seen this more quickly - Had to take these things out of a lot of creative spaces just now. I’m not convinced that the username only shows up if they were in there, but I do think it’s better safe than sorry, especially when peoples’ art is involved.

@quidnunc-life @inkvoices @alistrawrites

@returnsnull7404 hey this is VERY much real I just took all of them off my discord

what the actual fuck

one of them was on my personal server and ALL OF THEM were on our writing server

All four of them were in my personal server holy shit-

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liedownquisition:

On Jason and Killing the Joker

Honestly it gets a little ridiculous to me that, at this point in comics, that people still go on about “Jason doesn’t actually care about stopping Joker and helping his victims” ect ect like….

Yeah, okay, in UtH he could have done away with him at any point, because in that story it wasn’t just about killing Joker. He wanted Joker dead, and he was willing to do it. But Bruce’s reaction, his involvement was integral, because that’s the story that Winick was telling. Not a story about Joker’s death, but a story about Jason & Batman and with Joker and Jason as representations of where Batman and his methods fail, because interrogating Bruce’s no kill rule is a very, very, very-very-very common storybeat.

And, frankly, if we go to Lost Days, the first time that Jason tries to kill Joker… Well, I don’t know what Winick was trying to convey, but that looks a lot like a PTSD flashback holding him back from finishing the Job:

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Red Hood: Lost Days #6

He ends up walking away from this, his plans likely shifted to include the confrontation at the climax as we saw in UtH itself. Which, yknow, he also flat out had a gun to his head in order to kill him?

They don’t really go into other opportunities to kill Joker in post-Crisis, though some people like to point to in Countdown when Jason doesn’t approve of Earth-51 Batman as proof that it wasn’t about killing Joker, except that that Batman did what Jason EXPLICITLY said he didn’t want in Under the Hood and went on to kill all of his villains.

But when we get into post-Flashpoint comics and beyond. In Three Jokers (an Elseworld), Jason kills a Joker there. Yeah, he grovels and sobs at Barbara to forgive him and suggests he’d give up killing for her but he… also still killed him while knowing full well that she’d be upset. (which was honestly out of character for her but that’s a whole different tangent)

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Batman: Three Jokers #1

In the Death of the Family storyline/Batfam event, which was actually prior to Three Jokers but I’m too lazy to reorganize this post to put them all in chronological order, there’s this:

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Teen Titans (2011) #16

Which I mean, Jason did believe this was Joker at the time, but he replaced himself with a fake full of Joker gas. IDK, it was weird. But, suffice to say it was with full intent and action to kill him.

Just for fun organization to me and saying to hell with it: There’s also the elseworld in “Suicide Squad: Get Joker” where, like, the whole point is killing Joker. Yeah the ending is left vague on purpose as to whether Jason kills Joker or if Joker successfully talked Jason into killing himself, but frankly I find the latter scenario harder to believe? Jason may not want to live but if it’s not a scenario where he can take both of them out, and he HAS to pick, he’s not going to choose to let Joker live, lol. He can always kill himself later if it’s really that bad. That’s like… way easier.

Fuck, the entirety of Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing, which IS mainline canon, is started with Jason trying to kill Joker, look at him when he thinks he’s finally done it:

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Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #5

That one ended up being Clayface and Jason briefly worked with one of the Jokers after to try and kill the other one, in the end one of them killed the other and it’s left unclear which. (I think it’s implied that the original is the one who survived? idk, it’s deliberately hard to tell)

And of course most recently with DC KO where, plainly, Jason tries Really Hard to kill Joker A Lot. And it gets brutal, both Jason beating the shit out of Joker as Robin, and then also smashing Joker’s face in with the old Red Hood helmet from before he was Joker. The only reason he survived was because he had a Deus Ex Machina auto-defibrilator to restart his heart.

So can people please shut the fuck up about “He could have just killed Joker! It shows how much he doesn’t ACTUALLY care about saving people” and acknowledge that he doesn’t kill Joker because DC won’t fucking let him.

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sweaterkittensahoy:

oca-rinn-a:

xxscrabiesxx-deactivated2025062:

hey folks if you have an android phone: google shadow installed malware.

Android System SafetyCore - Apps on Google Play

Provides safety features for Android devices.

play.google.com

I had to go and delete it myself this morning.

Important info in the notes:

Just checked. It didn’t show up in the Play store, but it WAS on my phone. So, check your phone as directed above.

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bisonwares:

bisonwares:

💫COSMIC COLLECTION HAS LAUNCHED💫

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Check out the early bird tiers and see more photos on the page. We are so excited to finally share this, thank you so much for the support!

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WE ARE FULLY FUNDED?!?!

In just an hour and a half you guys funded the cosmic collection! ;w;

We have been working on this project for a year and now it is officially coming to life, thank you so so much. We can’t believe it!!

Seriously THANK YOU!!!! 💕

artandbrimstone:

bad habits

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parkchanwoohoo:

parkchanwoohoo:

Once you start noticing how the incapacity to handle discomfort affects how people live their lives it’s actually pretty shocking how it ruins pretty much every conceivable aspect of existence. Interpersonal relationships, romantic and platonic. Career and education opportunities. Your politics Your willingness to go anywhere. The kind of food you eat. The kind of art you expose yourself to and your ability to read it. It’s never just one thing, it touches everything, and once you notice it it’s like suddenly being able to see germs or something. Just this horrific catastrophe people look at you askance for screaming about. As I grow older and see what became of my friends and peers who could not learn to handle discomfort, the more I’m like. This is a genuine societal issue

When you can’t handle discomfort, eventually discomfort itself starts to feel like you’re under attack. Your body enters flight or fight mode, and your amygdala starts screaming at you that you are In Danger even when the “danger” in question is like, making an unpleasant phone call or like, you’re reading a book about something gross.

Your ability to make frank assessments about your situation becomes compromised, because, well, when you’re under attack who’s going to stay still and go “Let me think this through?” Of course you’re going to panic. The phone call isn’t just unpleasant, it’s potentially life-ruining. Someone is going to think you’re dumb and that’s going to be TRUE and then I guess you die or something except dying would be better. The book isn’t just gross, it’s actively coming for you, tainting your mind with the memory of its contents, it has RUINED you.

Obviously, you want to try avoiding danger whenever possible. So you create a world in which you avoid all dangerous things. Traveling? Well that’s scary, what if you get robbed or lost? Better to avoid it (plus there are so many things to read, rules to remember, forms to fill out… it’s just too much, it makes you uncomfortable, which means YOU’RE IN DANGER, what if you FORGET SOMETHING CRITICAL? Better to avoid). A new job? Well what if it’s worse than your current one? You at least know the rules here. The unknown is so much more uncomfortable, which is DANGEROUS, so better to stay where you are. A dark-skinned foreigner? Do they even speak English? You don’t know how you’d communicate. They don’t know the laws here, surely? Plus what if other people think you’re racist? It’s so uncomfortable which means THEY ARE A DANGER. Best to avoid at all costs, keeping your bag clutched tightly to your chest. Vaccines? You don’t really know what’s in them. The explanations have a lot of words you don’t understand. That makes you feel suspicious and dumb, which is DANGEROUS. You said something that was kind of rude? UNCOMFORTABLE. THIS PERSON IS ATTACKING YOU. FIGHT OR FLIGHT. Someone says you were incorrect about something? DANGER. Someone says you reacted impulsively and seem to have misconstrued someone’s words as a personal attack? YET ANOTHER ATTACK.

Eventually you lose yourself and become this. I don’t even know. This totally reactive thing, unable to think analytically about anything (which is uncomfortable and a danger), unable to assess harms, unable to encounter anything new without having a meltdown. And none of it is a real escape because, well, you’ve created a life defined entirely by aversion to discomfort, which is the most uncomfortable life you can possibly imagine. Of course such people end up falling into fascist ideas about Why Your Life Sucks. When you build a life around trying to maintain as comfortable an equilibrium as possible, you cauterize the parts of you capable of growth, expansion, creativity, learning; at the same time, the knowledge of your own stuntedness is haunting so best not to think about that either. The world becomes this horrifying mirror maze where the only way to survive without offing yourself is by projecting your flaws onto others, bitterly externalizing your self-hatred (who could live like this and NOT hate themselves) just to avoid turning it inward. You end up living like a hollowed-out sea urchin

A lot of people I’ve met seem to think that mental healthiness is characterized by a lack of discomfort whatsoever, and are therefore justified in building a life where all discomforts can be avoided. On the one hand, I completely understand the impulse. Lord knows I have had colossally shitty times and wished I could just retreat into bed and fall asleep for as long as needed for everything to blow over. But like. You also have to understand that that’s a fantasy, not a solution. When you have grown up living a crap life with nothing but discomfort, the ability to avoid it feels like exercising autonomy. But you really do have to be careful about making this your life ethos. I know so many people who have lapsed into total learned helplessness, so consumed by discomfort (mentally catastrophized into dangers) re: looking dumb, looking rude, looking X, looking Y that they just. Idk. Don’t do anything except be bitter. You don’t have to be that way. The solution isn’t “tough it out” because that’s also just a manifestation of your inability to handle discomfort. I also hesitate to say the solution is to focus on how much better your life will be when you do X and Y, because the entire point of the inability to handle discomfort is that it constantly manifests in precluding the possibility of even wanting X and Y in the first place since to want it and not be able to do it IS in itself another source of discomfort.

Idk what the solution is, exactly. I just think it’s important to understand that sometimes things can feel awful and still not necessarily harm you

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dovesndecay:

icymi i’m very disabled and very poor, and every dime that comes in goes to bills, food, and medication, in that order, and i am not often able to acquire the Big or even the Objectively Small But Poverty Says No Things on my own.

I already crowdfund on a monthly basis to pay for the bills I can (someday it will end), so I’m being a big brave boy to drop a wishlist of things I’d really like to get that aren’t bills or food or medication (okay admittedly there is some health stuff)

and if you WANT to and you *can*, it would be cool, but you don’t have to and my feelings won’t be hurt if you don’t even click on it

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shanehollanderss:

They cut off usda funding from Minnesota, which includes wic and snap. Please consider donating to food banks around the area or food drives. Many immigrants are too scared to leave their homes to shop as well and a community member is doing great work.

Link to midwest food bank:

Midwest Food Hub | 2harvest.org

Midwest Food Hub | 2harvest.org

2harvest.org

Link to a community food drive:

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