i'm afraid the character limit in the former bird app is destroying my potential

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I think it’s normal for people to be mad at each other sometimes even if they’re close friends or family or intimate with each other. Like I think that’s a normal and healthy part of relationships that can happen sometimes

“Why were you on Mad At Me island” because at the time I was mad at you and yet our friendship has weathered that without trouble

You HAVE to let yourself be angry sometimes and you HAVE to understand and accept that people will be angry with you and you HAVE to be able to think about it and talk about it and work through it because it's not a moral failing to be angry.

You cannot have successful relationships by hiding your feelings and running away from potential conflict.

trying this new technique where i stop trying to justify putting energy into a drawing and serenely accept that im going to be making big wastes of time <- NOT NEGATIVELY. its ok to feel like you're wasting time (brief scream of pure agony escapes my mouth) sorry

do not. strip away all my favs distinctive characteristics until hes a hollow shell you can use as a reader stand in by which to fuck that other guy

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

[ID: Screenshot of the "about:config" page in Firefox, with the setting "browser.ml.chat.enabled" set to false. /End ID]

While you're there, you can also disable some other ML features this way (toggle them to false) (ref)

For everyone in the notes asking how to do this on mobile, I found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1fa5c9n/psa_you_can_access_aboutconfig_in_androids_stable/

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head.

Apparently this needs to be said so

Forgetting things is morally neutral! Memory issues are morally neutral!

You're not a bad person if you...

... and anything else I might have missed!

so itchio has shadowbanned any games tagged with 'nsfw', 'adult', or 'erotic' so they don't show up in searches, and several devs have reported that their r18 games have been removed from the site with no warning

you know, maybe the internet shouldn’t be controlled by payment processors and terf lobbyists. and maybe people should be more concerned about this rise of censorship on queer media.

just to help spread accurate and helpful info about this as much as possible.

itch have less than 25 employees, and are just the latest target of a long running campaign to get payment processors to crack down on NSFW and LGBTQIA+ content (which the right wing hate campaigns see as one and the same) please blame itch as little as possible, yes they capitulated here, but they have very little power in this arrangement and have always been on the right side in the past. Hell, Steam have also complied, and they have way more power, and way more revenue from NSFW games, if they could have fought back they would have done. this is not a betrayal from itch, no matter how disappointing it may be.

the group claiming responsibility here are "Collective Shout" who claim it took roughly 1000 phonecalls to mastercard to get them to comply. They have the current admin and culture war momentum on their side, but we have way more than 1000 people on ours.

Mastercard (US): +1-914 249-2000 Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111 Visa (US + Can): +1 (650) 432-3200 Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440 PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000

Mastercard (Aus): 1800-120-113 Mastercard (US): 1-800-307-7309 Mastercard (UK): 0800-96-4767

there are also some petitions gaining momentum, but phonecalls are probably going to be more effective in this case.

https://www.change.org/p/tell-mastercard-visa-activist-groups-stop-controlling-what-we-can-watch-read-or-play

https://action.aclu.org/petition/mastercard-sex-work-work-end-your-unjust-policy

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

This is a big blow for comic artists, who have vanishingly few venues left to post work with adult content (and remember, the groups responsible for this don't distinguish between "nsfw" and "queer") for sale online.

It's gotten demonstrably worse over the past decade, and right wing groups and credit card processors are the ones responsible.

really fun duo you have there. mind if i add arbitrary roles to their relationship dynamic so i can write one of them as an overprotective caretaker and the other as a naive helpless baby?

remember when i was a bright-eyed 20-year old and i thought i would get a career in the art or game industry and live a moderately happy life alone but unbothered

the older i get the more foreign the concept of hope becomes

oh you're fine. its just growing up around the 90's means you were always promised this big future that would pay off and everything would work out if you tried hard enough, only for it to all be snatched away by capitalism's cold iron grip.

like if you tried your hardest the world would be your playground but instead you're hit with a recession and increased tuition and increased prices and increased costs of living and just the general vibe of capitalism which does nothing but wrap you in a cold soaking wet blanket under a guise that promised to keep you warm and healthy. now you're sick and tired and cold and the highlight of your life is you're alive.

you guys grew up knowing the world was bad and getting worse but also sometimes better. You're born into a recession with the world in chaos and hungry for equality and blood. keep your eyes bright and stay positive. absolutely please don't let the world take the light out of your eyes the way it stole mine. Look at the sky at night and know your future is as bright as a star and you have nothing but a million planets to shine on with a billion eyes to reflect in.

i feel bad for even posting the first two parts bc people are asking why its so bad and its like. its not that bad i just got handed a bad hand. if you're over or under 30 you're fine just keep going

i need this as my wallpaper but yeah this

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if the phrase "self care" doesn't resonate with you, try calling it "system maintenance" and see if that clicks.

Reblogging to add amazing tags from @meta-theory

#this both makes things more fun and also is a really good analogy#because there are four types of system maintenance and that makes the term much more exact than the nebulous ''self-care''#and therefore much more helpful to those of us who uhhh struggle with nebulosity#for anyone curious the four types are:#1. corrective (to fix current problems)#2. preventative (to avoid future problems)#3. adaptative (to re-adjust to any changes)#4. perfective (to work towards a better system)#I really like this idea I'm gonna make a checklist

people say folks with adhd struggle with "delayed rewards" aka long term goals and as such we tend to focus more on short term rewards. what they don't talk about is that at when we Do accomplish long term goals we don't actually feel anything proportionate to the amount of work we did to achieve it. In my head I suffered for a while and then money spontaneously appeared in my bank account.

"Don't you feel satisfied that your windows are so clean now?" It sucked and it sucked and now I don't care. I just remember the sucking.

Reblog if you remeber the sucking

Obsessed how in Ghibli films, you can never go back to the magical world you've visited - the gate closes, the era ends and we will never be who we once were during the adventure! And that's life, it just goes on

And in this one too, Mahito leaves the tower and it crumbles behind him, but he can still remember? In this one, he carries the memento with him, not unlike Chihiro and her charmed hair-tie, but it's framed in this kind way - 'You're not supposed to remember, and you must forget, but you can carry it with you for a while yet' and this gentleness absolutely fucking ruins me.

i'm bisexual because i'm attracted to both flesh and machinery

im bisexual because im attracted to both the divine and the mundane

A precious little detail in the early Trigun manga is how Milly is consistently the one person noting Vash's mask slipping off.

This peculiar part of their interactions returns for ons chapter in Trimax, the well-known Colorless Expression, which is in huge part narrated by Milly.

This is like a little arc about her coming to her own understanding of Vash.

Bonus point: one time Vash soothed Milly instead of unsettling her ( ´･ω･)

holding yourself accountable and tearing yourself down are two different things

how to do it (asking seriously)

be aware of what you’ve done wrong. forgive yourself and learn from it rather than beating yourself up over it and thinking it’s just a part of you that can’t be changed. know that you can’t go back and undo it but also that in the future you can do better and not repeat the same regret. self hatred stemming from regret is hard to control, but it can be managed with patience and practice.

DON'T focus on:

DO focus on: