#who told them that information?

[akiizayoi4869]

I really would like to know who it was that let it slip about Katara being the last waterbender of the southern water tribe. As well as why did they do it. This is something that should have been explored more in the comics, or even in another episode. Of course this would require on someone picking up on this line and realizing the implications of it. Kinda wonder if the writers realized what they were implying here🤔.

#atla #Yon Rha #Kya #the southern raiders #who told them that information?

[ybetzarts]

Why do i always draw on scratch papers and stuff?

Knuckles and Rouge on a mission to retrieve something, but failed.🌟

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic fanart #knuckles the echidna #rouge the bat #knuxouge #ybetzarts #i messed up with rouge's coloring XD #have i told yall that i only headcanon them dating when theyre much older? #i draw them differently to imply that theyve aged #dunno who needs this bit of information but jus in case 🌟

[heysatanitsyourgirl]

Listen do you see my vision

#I actually spoke and interviewed all of them and so this is correct factual information #talking to myself #total drama #td courtney #td duncan #td alejandro #td gwen #td heather #gwortney #duncney #aleheather #gweather #aleduncan #shout out to the anon who told me that

[hailperseusjackson]

i really don’t like that they keep having the trio figure out what they’re facing right away. they figured out it was medusa right away, the story behind hephaestus’s chair trap, that lotus hotel meant lotus eaters, etc.

it takes a lot of the tension out of the episode when they and the audience know exactly what they’re facing (and when the show’s already not the strongest when it comes to action sequences, it’s a further hindrance to the pacing).

plus, it just makes the trio feel so much older than they are! they’re 12, so let them be 12!!!! they SHOULD get distracted by the lotus hotel and all the cool stuff! like yes they are all smart and all have knowledge of greek mythology, but they’re not going to remember everything, immediately, all the time.

#i also feel like by continuously doing that any viewers who aren’t familiar with mythology are almost made to feel dumb #bc the 12-year olds aren’t learning/remembering myths with them. they’re just being TOLD the myths #(telling not showing problem again) #There’s no learning or sense or new information for the audience. Does that make sense? #ugh. anyway #pjo #pjotv #pjotv spoilers #pjo spoilers #percy jackson

[maeamian]

Actually research skills are hard to learn especially unsupervised so maybe telling people to just "Go figure it out" especially if you already know they've been failed academically in other ways, might actually be a great way to just send them to a PragerU video on the topic.

#Like what specific things do you look for in a good source? #How do you develop sources that you can trust to give you new information? #These take looking at and analyzing good and bad sources with a trusted educator #Not being told by someone on the internet that you should “Already know this” #“That's no excuse” it literally is I'm sorry that you think everyone should be perfect but that's not how things are #everyone (even you) has shit they probably should know but don't #There's new people being born all the time they do not spring from the womb with the same knowledge in your head! #And we live in an actively hostile information environment! #Just seems like maybe we could focus our rage cannons on institutions #Instead of individual people who were failed by them #When younger americans bring up how they were failed in this regard they are often asking for help even #And just get hit with this stupid rage at someone else possibly not knowing something that seems obvious #I'm just saying for a bunch of people priding themselves on not being as bad as the children; the folks who talk like this aren't acting it

[uncanny-tranny]

It's honestly so tiring how "healthy healing" is used to mean that "anything I think is healthy is the only way to heal from things like trauma, and anything else is unhealthy!"

You can recognize when somebody is healing in ways you would not, but that doesn't inherently mean that it is "bad" healing. Making sweeping generalizations as to what "healthy" means in terms of healing is reductionist.

You don't have to heal in ways that are not conducive to your well-being. However, you are also not the only person who is healing. There will be people who are healing and coping in ways you might not like - you might hate it! But that doesn't automatically mean it's wrong, nor should somebody's autonomy to heal how they want to be revoked.

#mental health #mental health advocacy #informed consent and harm reduction are so much more conducive to long-term healing that revoking somebody's autonomy... #...because then it isn't about THEIR healing. it is about you having CONTROL over them. #like people are really pulling an unironic 'mother knows BEST' on people already suffering #treating us like we are essentially mindless little children who need told what's what is actually... shitty!

[suncaptor]

nothing will make you sympathise with conspiracy theorist ideology more than having a seemingly rare reaction to a vaccine lmao.

#reading articles that try to falsify genuine incorrect information about the covid vaccines from 2021 is making me feel insane #'there's no way the covid vaccine can trigger an autoimmune disorder' uhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHH #factually extremely wrong! #they're soooo condescening too like why on EARTH do you think people who are genuinely sick or scared would believe you. #they'll be like there's no scientific evidence that anyone can be harmed by the covid vaccine <3 blatantly untrue. #I know that part of this is retrospect like obviously since more studies have come out and all #but it's infurirating bc they're from the time *I* was having those symptoms *and* telling doctors about it *and* being told the connection #to my other severe symptoms from the covid vaccine were Utterly Impossible (since proven false) and that if the symptoms WERE related #it meant i had a life threatening illness at worst and had a high chance of losing my vision at best #likeeeeeeeee #doctors still DO NOT know what the fuck they're doing do NOT trust anyone who gives ANY 100% answers #i don't know why i'm doing this i just said to stop obsessing but i'm just reading pages and articles on countering misinformation to make #sure i don't -- i want to know the conspiracy theories to recognise them immediately right #and then people are just saying bullshit to defend themselves #i mean most of the anti covid vacc people were also far right so i don't have too much sympathy for their vaccine ideology #but like. fucking hell what a way to push people into conspiracies. #you CAN'T counter misinformation by SPREADING MORE MISINFORMATION #just because it SOUNDS BETTER and MORE REASSURING to say there's not chance of harm doesn't mean you should #there's A LOW chance of harm THAT IS MUCH MUCH less high than the impacts of covid #god I'm pissed off. 2021 i was so fucking terrified of spreading this shit just by talking about my lived experiences. #to say i was not taking the pandemic seriously OR anti vax is so blatantly ridiculous considering who I am as a person but that doesn't mea #that the covid vaccine specifically didn't make me ill :////// #delete

[spacetrashpile]

i am probably doing comics reading wrong but i am also doing it great and the only right way

#space rambles #this is to say. the booster gold reading list im using is like 'yeah you should read justice league international next' #so i went sick. will do. #but jli is. uh. a team book. and aside from batman and kinda blue beetle #i know NOTHING about ANY of these people #and i have decided that instead of doing the sane thing (looking up and reading their backstory sections on a wiki) #i have decided to just piece information about them together as i am exposed to it #this is to say that i am 13 issues into jli and JUST TODAY learned that martian manhunter has a secret identity and CAN SHAPESHIFT???? #and its not even because it came up in the book i just made a joke to my friend who knows things and it told me #like. is this the best way to be experiencing these characters? probably not #but its best to ME

[girderednerve]

i have once more Read a Book !

the book was jim morris' cancer factory: industrial chemicals, corporate deception, & the hidden deaths of american workers. this book! is very good! it is primarily about the bladder cancer outbreak associated with the goodyear plant in niagara falls, new york, & which was caused by a chemical called orthotoluedine. goodyear itself is shielded by new york's workers' comp law from any real liability for these exposures & occupational illnesses; instead, a lot of the information that morris relies on comes from suits against dupont, which manufactured the orthotoluedine that goodyear used, & despite clear internal awareness of its carcinogenicity, did not inform its clients, who then failed to protect their workers. fuck dupont! morris also points out that goodyear manufactured polyvinyl chloride (PVC) at that plant, and, along with other PVC manufacturers, colluded to hide the cancer-causing effects of vinyl chloride, a primary ingredient in PVC & the chemical spilled in east palestine, ohio in 2023. the book also discusses other chemical threats to american workers, including, and this was exciting for me personally, silica; it mentions the hawks nest tunnel disaster (widely forgotten now despite being influential in the 30s, and, by some measures, the deadliest industrial disaster in US history) & spends some time on the outbreak of severe silicosis among southern california countertop fabricators, associated with high-silica 'engineered stone' or 'quartz' countertops. i shrieked about that, the coverage is really good although the treatment of hawks nest was very brief & neglected the racial dynamic at play (the workers exposed to silica at hawks nest were primarily migrant black workers from the deep south).

cancer factory spends a lot of time on the regulatory apparatus in place to respond to chemical threats in the workplace, & thoroughly lays out how inadequate they are. OSHA is responsible for setting exposure standards for workplace chemicals, but they have standards for only a tiny fraction—less than one percent!—of chemicals used in american industry, and issue standards extremely slowly. the two major issues it faces, outside of its pathetically tiny budget, are 1) the standard for demonstrating harm for workers is higher than it is for the general public, a problem substantially worsened during the reagan administration but not created by it, and 2) OSHA is obliged to regulate each individual chemical separately, rather than by functional groups, which, if you know anything at all about organic chemistry, is nonsensical on its face. morris spends a good amount of time on the tenure of eula bingham as the head of OSHA during the carter administration; she was the first woman to head the organization & made a lot of reasonable reforms (a cotton dust standard for textile workers!), but could not get a general chemical standard, allowing OSHA to regulate chemicals in blocks instead of individually, through, & then of course much of her good work was undone by reagan appointees.

the part of the book that made me most uncomfortable was morris' attempt to include birth defects in his analysis. i don't especially love the term 'birth defect'—it feels cruel & seems to me to openly devalue disabled people's lives, no?—but i did appreciate attention to women's experiences in the workplace, and i think workplace chemical exposure is an underdiscussed part of reproductive justice. cancer factory mentions women lead workers who were forced to undergo tubal ligations to retain their employment, supposedly because lead is a teratogen. morris points at workers in silicon valley's electronics industry; workers, most of them women, who made those early transistors were exposed to horrifying amounts of lead, benzene, and dangerous solvents, often with disabling effects for their children.

morris points out again & again that we only know that there was an outbreak of bladder cancer & that it should be associated with o-toluedine because the goodyear plant workers were organized with the oil, chemical, & atomic workers (OCAW; now part of united steelworkers), and the union pursued NIOSH investigation and advocated for improved safety and monitoring for employees, present & former. even so, 78 workers got bladder cancer, 3 died of angiosarcoma, and goodyear workers' families experienced bladder cancer and miscarriage as a result of secondary exposure. i kept thinking about unorganized workers in the deep south, cancer alley in louisiana, miners & refinery workers; we don't have meaningful safety enforcement or monitoring for many of these workers. we simply do not know how many of them have been sickened & killed by their employers. there is no political will among people with power to count & prevent these deaths. labor protections for workers are better under the biden administration than the trump administration, but biden's last proposed budget leaves OSHA with a functional budget cut after inflation, and there is no federal heat safety standard for indoor workers. the best we get is marginal improvement, & workers die. i know you know! but it's too big to hold all the same.

anyway it's a good book, it's wide-ranging & interested in a lot of experiences of work in america, & morris presents an intimate (sometimes painfully so!) portrait of workers who were harmed by goodyear & dupont. would recommend

#if anyone knows about scholarship that addresses workplace chemical exposure #& children born with disabilities through a disability justice lens please recommend it to me! #booksbooksbooks #have reached the point in my Being Weird About Occupational Safety era where i cheered when familiar names came up #yay irving j. selikoff champion of workers exposed to asbestos! yay labor historians alan derickson & gerald markowitz! #morris points out the tension between workers - who want engineering controls of hazards (eg enclosed reactors) #& employers who want workers to wear cumbersome PPE #the PPE approach is cheaper & makes it even easier to lean on the old 'the worker was careless' canard when occupational disease occurs #i just cannot stop thinking about it in relation to covid. my florida library system declined to enforce masks for political reasons #& reassured us that PPE is much less important than safety improvements at the operational & engineering level #but they didn't do those things either! we opened no windows; upgraded no HVACs; we put plexi on the service desks & stickers on the floors #& just as we have seen covid dangers downplayed or misrepresented workers still do not receive useful information about chemical hazard #a bunch of those MSDS handouts leave out carcinogen status & workers had to fight like hell to even be told what they're handling #a bunch of them still do not know—consider agricultural workers & pesticide exposures. to choose an obvious & egregious example.

[rohirric-hunter]

Also I'm vaguely offended at the implicit assumption that hobbits as a general rule don't already know who Morgoth is

#this is about something i posted a long time ago but its been eating at me #like obviously they know who morgoth is #they know who sauron is #or at any rate have as much of an understanding of him as anyone else who isnt a scholar or resident of gondor #so it stands to reason that they would also have a basic understanding of morgoth #a dark lord who has just about the same amount to do with them and their lives #i mean i think people get this impression that hobbits are dumb and dont know things from pippin and sam #pippin is a child #and while sam himself is curious and smart and eager to learn and know things #i would put money on it that you could tell the gaffer that the earth was round and he would immediately forget that information #because it doesnt have anything to do with his life and he therefore doesnt need to know it #so sam hasnt really been told as many things as a lot of people #both of them are bad examples #compare them to bilbos ability to infer things in the hobbit based on a general background knowledge of the world at large #like he knows what a furrier is! i dont even know what a furrier is! #but anyway the point is i think the hobbits know how the world works #they keep to themselves but theyre not isolated lmao #like idk if yall are aware of this but theres this road that runs right through the middle of their country called the GREAT EAST ROAD #they turn suspicious people back at the borders but there are plenty of perfectly respectable people who come through #down. you know. the GREAT EAST ROAD #they know whats out there. they just dont care

[soldez]

i should just start creating reading comprehension quizzes for every chapter of kny and faxing them to ufotable animation studios

#what perspective is this sequence told from? is the information presented in congruence with what we know about the universe? #is the narrator's memory of this event skewed? how does his account line up with others who were present? #should this be interpretated as an actual manifestation of this character with autonomy? or is their ghost representative of the narrator's #skewed image of them in their memory? #is this character smiling because they feel happy? what does the act of smiling symbolize for them? provide examples

[coulsonlives]

I just had to share this video because holy shit, it hits the nail right on the head! So well spoken. This stuff needs to be circulated more, esp with the growing number of people thinking they have this because of misinformation, or just outright faking it.

#it's painful because i knew someone who personally faked this stuff (or has convinced herself she has it i can't even tell) #she had spent all her time on tiktok and i know for 100% sure that's where she got the idea. it's TRAGIC how fast things went downhill #i'm legit horrified at how many people (esp young kids of 13-14) think they have this too. or are just pretending #i've been neck deep in hardcore research (and i'm talking pubmed sciencedirect etc only) for months #and those kids definitely don't have did.. if they have trauma and are dissociating it's going to be something else like dpdr etc #the number of stupid 'you have did' answers i see for totally basic questions like 'i got dizzy what's wrong w me' is insane too #it's like googling 'muscle twitch' and then thinking you have some rare 1/billion familial cancer thing despite other obvious explanations #but worse.. in these cases the information is being fed to them. they don't have an opportunity to explore other possibilities #and the worst part is they don't even know to CHECK THE VALIDITY OF WHAT THESE PEOPLE ARE SAYING. they don't have info literacy #like i'll say this once: did is so rare that it's STILL contentious about whether it even exists #and it only happens in the most unimaginably traumatic experiences. think of the worst possible things you could do to a child #where even just thinking about it makes you uncomfortable. THAT'S the kind of trauma that leads to did. the truly evil stuff. #i'm not even gonna start on the BITE model shenanigans that are happening in the 'did' communities either #or how the people who used to be in them (and got out) always equate them to self-harming cults that celebrated not finding real answers #they got told they were 'perfect the way they were' despite having OBVIOUS psychological issues they needed help for #(it just wasn't did) #they were assured their 'did was valid no matter what'. toxic positivity ig? it just delayed their real diagnosis and ability to get help #but now you have gluts of people like in the video 'talking to themselves' and people on tumblr posting one-liners of 'alters' talking #one after the other within seconds. and i want to fcking cry because it's the same exact shit my friend did before she cut ties #the did/tourettes/ftlb stuff has literally been called a 'mass sociogenic illness' in multiple academic studies #but like qanon believers they seem to immediately discredit anyone who mentions this with 'you're just ableist' so anything you say is poo #aka you're part of the problem you're an 'ableist' so your legit info even though legit isn't valid/acceptable/real/whatever. i'm tired fam #did #dissociative identity disorder #osdd #ddnos #munchausen syndrome #mass psychogenic illness #ableism

[suitss]

day TWO of fighting AI art bros on social media LMFAO

I feel like that one gif of some video game character where you only see the back of, whom oddly looks like Freddy Mercury, strutting forward, saying "ah, shit, here we go again."

#someone told me that editing public imgs on PS #is the same as feeding an AI art theft machine data information #they are NOT the same #1. artists usually give consent to #you can open an artists page on twt and see they are OK with pfp use #2. most artists have unionized AGAINST AI art #to use AI art simulators and train them is to be disrespectful to those who ask you not to do that #you do NOT support artists in fact you are ANTI-ARTIST #typing in prompts to make MEDIOCRE art does not make you an artist too btw #art NEEDS active intent and editing and engaging with and CONTROL #once you enter ur STUPID prompts you no longer have control #you have relinquished the control #and the simulator has shown you the color of ur soul and its ugly <3

[arsonist-chicken]

Aha! It's been less than 12h since the fight about "I'm not giving away my key as long as I still pay rent here", and we're already at the next one! At 8am as I'm on my way out the door to a class I hate that I have to get up too early for.

It was just the more annoying one this time, and apparently they've decided now that it's okay if I keep my house key, but I am not allowed to keep the key to my room because... of reasons, I guess. Something something I can't just lock the room if I don't live there anymore? And when I said I'm keeping both keys until the next renter has taken over my contract and is paying rent for the room and then that renter gets them from me, she yelled after me as I was walking out the door about what's wrong with me.

Of all the things we've had fights about so far, this is the dumbest one yet I think - why in the world would I give up my keys if I might still be paying rent for another three months?? Regardless of if I never show up there again because why the fuck would I want to, or sleep there or let my parents or friends sleep there every weekend, that's none of their business - it's MY room that I pay rent for and I can do with it whatever I want.

#also she asked if I'd already cleaned my room for the showings tomorrow #ma'am i am not a toddler who needs to be micromanaged; you don't tell me how to clean; and it's my room and I clean it when and how I want #I was thinking hmmmm. what if the new renter takes the contract from 1 january? #say I'm not taking everything this weekend because I'm not up for the fith but it turns out I'm allowed to take the table etc #how petty would it be to drive there early on christmas morning; because they surely won't be there then; and just take away the furniture #they don't own? and give the keys to the new renter without meeting those two again and block everyone's number? #now that's a theoretical scenario of course and probably would cost me more nerves than it'd be worth #i just hope they'll decide on a renter in the next two days with the many showings they have #that they told me I can't be here for because they'd be embarrassed about me #i mean i won't be here because i can't be bothered but it's so fucking stupid they think they have the right #to kick me out of my own home and room #jess' flatmate rants #she 'informed herself' about if i can just take furniture. on juraforum dot de. a german forum. where anyone can write anything. we're also #in austria not germany #i'm going over to the rental advice place tomorrow and at this point it's out of pure spite #i'm so fucking sick of them #and if they want to be more annoying tonight they can reschedule all their showings because then i'll insist that #no one is looking at my room unless i'm there and they schedulded stuff for when i'm not there #so if they want to be annoying they can reschedule everything to times when i'll be at homr