…what the fuck happend to me today. I was arranging one of my friend’s art supplies (coloring supplies in specific) because i saw it and could not handle the fucking mess those colors are in, while arranging it in a gradient i realized that many colors we’re missing, some shit cant fit where im arranging them in meaning i cant make the gradient, and it started getting harder to breath, i was shaking, and my heartbeat fucking increased. I went back to my seat and decided to try and arrange a tray of plastic eggs our classroom has, they we’re mixed and matched but i didnt mind and then i realized i couldnt arrange them properly then it got fucking worse. What the fuck happend to me? Can someone help? I am a confused fuck.
i do think there is a degree to which certain kinds of Instagram activists have convinced themselves that traumatising themselves in solidarity is a useful form of activism. "I'm having nightmares and crying so much I want to be sick because of all these videos of dying children but I can't look away while people are getting hurt" I mean don't you think you'd be able to help more if you weren't having nightmares and crying all the time?? don't you think this is a one-way trip to burnout? don't you think maybe increasing the amount of trauma going around is counterproductive? I dunno bro there's something to be said for bearing witness but there comes a point where you gotta look hard at yourself and go "am I helping, or am I just making myself suffer so I don't feel guilty for not suffering while somebody else is experiencing bad shit"
“It definitely broke our spirits,” said Brittany Harris, 17, a junior and the co-president of the club, when she heard that the board didn’t want to accept the grant that students had worked on for weeks.
LGBTQ teens won a grant for their school. Adults sent the money back. (Now no longer paywalled!)
A underrated moral panic is the UK government's deep and enduring hatred of ninjitsu. From the days of video nastys banning nunchucks and shuriken from the media but not touching depictions of any type of weapon people actually have or use to Keir Starmer promising to ban ninja swords to solve knife crime, famously committed primarily with replica Japanese swords, forever. There are still presumably people with ASBOs for pretending to be Naruto in 2004, when Tony Blair executed a raid on the servers hosting Real Ultimate Power and declared once and for all that Britain will not stand for dishonorable stealth combat no matter how many shadow warriors are sent by Brussels