#broken systems

[alixx-black]

Virtually Innocent: A Preview

"Virtually Innocent" is a #novellathat explores #crime in a broken #lawenforcement system ripe with cover-ups and #abuseofpower where an innocent man being convicted for a crime he didn't commit in a #dystopian #prisonculture through #virtualreality

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WHITMAN CITY BULLETIN After three years in development, the Virtual Reality Prison Retraining Program (VRPR) is ready to launch! Citizens first started voting on policy changes five years ago when the virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors were initially taking off, first changing the medical diagnostic processes that have since allowed medical…

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#abuse of power #broken systems #dystopian #fiction #new adult #novella #original fiction #prison culture #sci-fi #science fiction #scifi #Short Fiction #virtual reality #young adult

[nokingsonlyfooles]

Jordan Peterson, et. al. : Enforce rigid hierarchy! People at the top get the most resources!

Most People I See Fighting For Change: Enforce rigid hierarchy! ...But give the people at the bottom more resources! Boom! Problem solved!

A Few Tankies: Enforce rigid hierarchy! But put the workers (or their representatives) on top! That'll do it!

Me, Almost Inaudible: Dismantle rigid hierarchy...? Anyone...? Hello...? Please...?

#politics #society #life itself #broken systems #disaffected anarchist woes

[theirsanguinebeloved]

our safe space has been invaded

#red filth #maggots #broken systems #no #nononono #yandere #darling #purifytheair #yandere irl #darling irl #irl darling #irl yandere #lovesick #obsessive love disorder

[purifytheair-mysanguinebeloved]

fuck.

#red filth #maggots #broken systems #no #nononono #yandere #darling #purifytheair #yandere irl #darling irl #irl darling #irl yandere #lovesick #obsessive love disorder

[falling-through-the-cracks-again]

I'm here because I don't know where else to be.

I'm in therapy, and have been for years. I know what MY problems are, and I know what my mom's problems are, and I know the system is broken. My mom probably has bipolar and a personality disorder which means she can't make good decisions about her life and money, and that puts her in danger of homelessness and other problems a lot. But according to the government, she's capable enough so they won't step in and I can't step in so I have to watch her slowly destroy herself again and again and pick up the pieces once the storm has passed. It's aged me a good bit in the last few years.

Even after dealing with this my whole life, and dealing with it even more in the last few years as one of the few remaining responsible people in her life, I'm still struggling so hard. Why do none of the many self-help and psychology books I read exactly reflect my experiences or give me any solid answers to navigating those kinds of experiences?

My friends and family don't have answers. Religion doesn't have answers. My people are tired of listening to me and I can't blame them. But if I keep bottling these feelings and thoughts up, I might explode, or shrivel up. So, here I am.

Maybe somewhere out there, someone can relate. If so, I hope maybe something good will come from this. Maybe you and I will feel less alone.

#mental illness #broken systems #mental health in america #poverty #mentally ill parents #adult children

[mystikalrootz]

DFS/CPS~The Broken System rarely discussed...

As one who previously saw many children's needs go ignored by a system I was mandated to report to, I am fired up over a previous student STILL falling through the cracks. Pluto is coming to tear systems down & I am 100% ready for it, kids deserve better!

This is a different type of post than you usually see from me, yet in alignment with Pluto’s shift into Aquarius soon. That shift is sure to shake up and crumble systems and parts of government entities that aren’t working anymore, or maybe never worked to begin with. This particular system that claims to “protect children” is only noticed by individuals who must deal with them, or by those who…

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#broken systems #CPS #DFS #dismantling #foster care abuse #save our children

[zhukzucraft]

new official Real Life TM heights

#real life smp #skizzleman #bigbstatz #trafficblr #mcyt #real life spoilers #what a wild tag omg #also btw if anyone is booping me - my system seems to be broken and i can't see it :C

[sprucewoodmpreg]

im not even grianpilled but i have to admit i fuck w his thang of making games with rules that are clearly Meant To Be Broken in pursuit of narrative. or content. life series where the most interesting story beats tend to come from players being hyperaware of the rules + how they try to bend them. and now this permit stuff where the previously (mostly) straightforward shopping district has turned into Ok How Can We Cheat The System

#it's like. uninteresting systems given interest through rules that are supposed to be questioned or broken #it's a recurring thing with every little game he introduces #though i supposed this could be said for like. most games n rulesets. the rules create tension Which Is The Point #but with how often grian is the instigator of this shit. and considering the whole Youtuber/Content thing. it's a bit funny

[cemeterything]

yeah.

#🐉 #this isnt a criticism of doctors specifically btw (although some of them deserve to be criticized) but a criticism of the broken system

[demigods-posts]

imagine during the third book where percy gets his final recommendation letter. he is approached by a god or goddess who asks him to reconcile past relationships. because to move forward, you can't let the things of the past hold you back. so percy gets closure with the side characters from the pjo og series. clarisse, nico, thalia, and rachel. and it just gets progressively more intimate until he has to confront one final person: the ghost of luke castellan.

#percy has to confront the notion that even he strongly dissaproves of how luke tried to dismantle the neglectful system #he's old enough to understand why he did it #and begrudgingly admits that he's angry too #by talking with luke percy has to confront the man he could've been #and bonus points that grover and annabeth are with him #so grover offers luke something as his protector #and annabeth gets to reconcile what was broken #and it helps luke move on as a ghost so he can try for isle of the blessed and attempt at a better and honest life like he wanted #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo text post #pjo headcanon #percy jackson #annabeth chase #grover underwood #clarisse la rue #thalia grace #nico di angelo #rachel elizabeth dare #luke castellan

[cheecats]

Tears for two.

#// scopophobia #// animal death #cheez rambles #cheez design #my art #warrior cats #the broken code #a light in the mist #shadowsight #ashfur #bristlefrost #// shadowsight grieving both his loyal friend and his abuser in the same heartbeat and how utterly confusing and mortifying that is for him #// his guilt- his shame- his humiliation- his self doubt- *chewing on my fist* #// anyway something rough i wanted to get out of my system bc i want more art of Shadowsight as a big soggy guy sdlkgjlks

[markscherz]

I clicked on that wikipedia link you posted for H. fleischmanni and was surprised to see that the section talking about the frog’s natural predators was titled “enemies” instead of “predators.” The word “enemies,” at least to me, seems strange in this context because it seems to anthropomorphize the frogs, which as far as I’m aware is something zoologists try to avoid doing with animals. Is there a scientific reason for “enemies” to be used here, as opposed to “predators”?

Regrettably, a huge number of problems of this kind have been built into Wikipedia by the Wikipedia Education Foundation-supported courses. Students carry out an 'assignment' that involves a dramatic expansion to a given wikipedia page based on any literature they can find. That revised page is then subjected to 'peer review' by their classmates. But because they are unfamiliar with (1) the literature, (2) the contents of other wikipedia pages, and (3) how wikipedia actually works, the resulting pages are often full of misinformation, redundancies, and weird formulations.

You have accurately identified one such idiosyncrasy. 'Enemies' was a very common formulation for 'predators' in the 1800s and early 1900s, but we have largely left it behind, for precisely the reason you say, and hence it sounds jarring to our ears. In this case it is a minor problem (you should have seen how the Paroedura masobe page looked before I cleaned it up), but irksome nonetheless.

#not sure how much sense it makes for non-experts to be responsible for scientific things on the most comprehensive online encyclopedia #the taxonomy system on wikipedia is TOTALLY broken #because no single person has a good overview #and also because WIKIPEDIA DOES NOT WANT YOU TO CITE PRIMARY SOURCES #WHICH IS TOTALLY FUCKED UP #in which Mark goes on a small rant about wikipedia being edited by people who aren't experts in what they're editing #which is the whole *thing* that Wikipedia *is* #old man yells at cloud vibes #answers by Mark #anon #anonymous

[apollos-olives]

glad that everyone is taking israels ass to court for the occupation but tbh that should've happened 75 years ago. so. i'm not celebrating this when the decency was missed years ago.

#they won't even do anything #we will win by revolution. not by a broken system.

[positivelypresent]

Don’t blame yourself.

#positivelypresent #quotes #self love #artist problems #creative problems #broken system #fix the system

[appri-dot]

I like to draw nutcracker yaoi for character reasons trust fencer(hurt fella) belongs to @ballcrusher74

#this is dumb yaoi angst but i need to get them out my system #also a wip #i wont post the final product probably because the cringe will catch up but for now i WILL gush abt how silly their contrast could be #metal body damaged wooden body worn #woody just way more emotionally driven because fencer is literally the only nutcracker he can connect with #the silly tendrils bristling as a defensive display but involuntary because hes so scared #woody talks in more broken sentences to fencer because he infers that he can understand him as is a lot better then his human crew #fencer very nonchalant because its not the first time his shits been rocked on the job #i worry this is ooc for fencer so idk how far i will finish it #but ugh i need to stop using these 2 as nutcracker behaviour dolls #SORRY BUT DAMAGE TO A METAL SHELL BEING MORE SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE THE VIOLENT VIBRATIONS #THUSLY WHY NUTCRACKERS IMMEDIATE BECOME EXTRA AGGRESSIVE WHEN HIT WITH SHOVELS #im normal im normal.... #woody mimics a human in body heat because the wood better insulates the interior of his body #tw blood #tw body horror #tw gore #lethal company

[sunderwight]

had a thought of what if Airplane had leaned a little more into the self-insert idea for Luo Binghe when he was still at the early stages of writing, with an end result that Luo Binghe actually Looks Like That because he basically looks like Airplane but with long flowing hair and a more idealized figure

SQQ going "why the fuck did you make his face so pretty???" and Airplane bullshitting about plausibility while trying really hard not to blush. twisting his fingers and scuffing his toe like jeez bro he's not that good-looking...

which of course sets SQQ off because how DARE!?! not 'that' good-looking?!?! just look at him! he's xianxia Helen of Troy with a face that launched a thousand harems! like okay sure with looks like that it does make sense that half the female population was willing to timeshare a marriage with him, but it's also totally unfair to SQQ, who has no recourse against those looks either! and who could? that is the most beautiful face ever!

Airplane's getting flustered. tries valiantly to make the case that objectively speaking Luo Binghe isn't that good-looking, it's just that SQQ is biased, but boy does that not go over well. SQQ has hitched the tattered remnants of his self-perception as a straight man onto the idea that Luo Binghe is just so devastatingly attractive anyone would want to hop into bed with him, and he is not letting go of it, so Airplane is just gonna get wrecked with inadvertent compliments

bonus if the Shang Qinghua look is actually the result of several illusions because when Airplane first transmigrated in, he got the same face too, and foresaw potential problems if the half-demon protagonist turned up looking like him. so he used illusions. he doesn't actually look all that different, in fact! the illusions just make it so that when people see him, they get a strong impression that he's unremarkable, so they don't really register what his face actually looks like and their brains fill in the assumption that he must just be kinda plain

oooh ooh double bonus if the system inserted a behind-the-scenes explanation for it too, which is that Shang Qinghua is actually unwittingly related to Su Xiyan!

and the whole thing comes to light post-epilogue when Shang Qinghua's illusions get stripped away by some monster-of-the-week, while everyone except Mobei Jun has a freak out about why do you look just like Luo Binghe?! (Mobei Jun isn't freaking out because he already figured out how to see past the illusions and just assumed everyone else wasn't mentioning it for some human cultural reason or something) and then Yue Qingyuan calmly explains that Luo Binghe's mom is Shang Qinghua's matrilineal cousin. Shang Qinghua's mother and Luo Binghe's human grandmother were half-sisters.

what? how does Yue Qingyuan know? you think that Cang Qiong doesn't check up on the candidates for the peak lord positions before handing off power, doesn't make sure there are no conflicts of interest or divided loyalties to other sects? what sorts of things do people imagine Qiong Ding's diplomats do? (I don't know either but, for the purpose of this scenario at least some of it is tracking down this stuff -- YQY handled most of it personally for his generation's ascension because he didn't want anyone else digging into his and Xiao Jiu's pasts) anyways, the connection could have been troublesome for its ties to Huan Hua Palace, but by the time it came to light Su Xiyan was deceased and there was no evidence that Shang Qinghua had ever even met her. so it wasn't deemed significant enough to matter, was just made note of and then mostly forgotten

so Shang Qinghua is like "oh THAT is why you kept bringing her up to me back then?!" because at the time he'd just been fully in "haha how would I know anything about the impending plot and the tragedies I am both partly responsible for and powerless to prevent haha that's so funny shixiong I KNOW NOTHING" mode, which luckily at the time was easily read as him just not wanting a dead cousin he never met to tank his chances of securing a promotion

SQQ is floored. he is having issues about this. Shang Qinghua is related to Binghe? Shang Qinghua looks exactly like him?! wait. Binghe has human family? still alive? like grandparents and stuff out there, who might want to meet him...?

Luo Binghe decides to step in at that point because he does not want to meet any more relatives! no more surprise relatives! no!

luckily this distracts Shen Qingqiu from thinking about all of the things he's said to Airplane about Binghe's looks for long enough for Shang Qinghua to flee the scene

#svsss #scum villain's self saving system #bingqiu #moshang #cumplane #well kinda cumplane anyway #by implication #long post #what if sqh can't get his illusions back up #everyone keeps bothering him even more now to ask why he's hot all of a sudden #it's even worse than when they just used to bother him about fixing broken doors or balancing budgets #sqq is not gonna be normal about this #'you said binghe wasn't a self-insert!!!' 'well by the end he definitely wasn't...' 'were you this hot irl? why were you poor?!' #'wtf is that supposed to mean...?' 'with these looks you surely could have found somebody willing to support you!' #'bro are you asking me why I wasn't a sugar baby?!' 'of course not!' 'you totally are asking me why I wasn't a sugar baby' #'...but you must have gotten offers' 'only from the hot single ladies near me on my computer and they were all viruses' #etc etc etc so on and so forth the usual insane banter those two have