06/10/2017 20:49:31 ¶ ●

## Surviving Halloween with Psychosis

sockknitteranon:

> rachell800:

> > its-a-trans-thing:

> > > tinyshinytimelord:

> > > > mentalhealthwarrior:

> > > > > - The picture test: If you can’t tell if something is a hallucination or not, take a photo! If it shows up in the picture then you have a keepsake of that crazy creepy Halloween decoration. If not it’s a hallucination (or a vampire. No, i’m kidding it’s a hallucination.)

> > > > > - Is some kid in mask causing paranoia? Ask them where they got their costume. Did they make it? How did they get the idea? Focusing on the person inside of the costume will help you remember that it’s just a person!

> > > > > - Avoid haunted houses, haunted hayrides, ect. Actors will not stop scaring unless it’s an emergency, and I’ve yet to find a place that teaches actors how to deal with anything other than physical injuries. (I once met a haunted house actor who said causing a panic attack meant he was “doing his job right.”)

> > > > > - There’s no shame in asking friends and relatives to avoid sending jump scare videos or anything else that could cause paranoia.

> > > > > - Here are some tips on how to tell if a video is a screamer.

> > > > > - (from freeasthepaperburns) Boggart it! If something is making you upset, make it silly. dance with the shadows, sing to the creepies, I bet if make a fish face at the scary face it’ll be a little less scary. I know this is harder than it sounds, but I’ve gotten better at it over the time, and find it helps!

> > > > > Stay safe babes!

> > > > SIGNAL BOOST

> > > For any darlings who may need this! Stay safe sweeties! - Mod Naga

> > Boggart it! Yesss I love this advice!

> 1. Share this to help people with psychosis.

> 2. For everyone with anxiety etc, look in the post above for a link to “how to tell if a video is a screamer” that link is helpful to EVERYONE.

06/10/2017 20:59:27 ¶ ●

kidspointofview:

> nicenonbinarythings:

> > princessoforlais:

> > > a new law is about to be passed in Saudi Arabia that will allow the government to execute people for coming out or being openly gay online.

> > > ignoring the fact that this is literally something out of some kind of dystopian novel, in the interests of safety i’ve emptied out my face tag and may temporarily deactivate or password protect this blog.

> > > please reblog this and get the word out, and if you pray, please pray for me and my fellow Saudi LGBTQ+/MOGAI family.

> > ALSO, for those who need it [x]. its a post on erasing all traces of yourself from the interwebs.

> this is not something to read and keep to yourself. please spread this around. may Allah keep everyone safe.

08/10/2017 23:33:11 ¶ ●

atoasterwow:

> I saw someone post this with the assumption that it was a big pile of shit and so did everyone who rebogged it so I’m posting it for the positive attention it actually needs and deserves.

08/10/2017 23:35:29 ¶ ●

nightshadezombie:

> I think I sprained something reblogging this so damn fast.

08/10/2017 23:44:51 ¶ ●

## The EU Suppressed A 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn't Harm Sales

thewightknight:

> > The Dutch firm Ecory was commissioned to research the impact of piracy for several months, eventually submitting a 304-page report to the EU in May 2015. The report concluded that: “In general, the results do not show robust statistical evidence of displacement of sales by online copyright infringements. That does not necessarily mean that piracy has no effect but only that the statistical analysis does not prove with sufficient reliability that there is an effect.”

> > The report found that illegal downloads and streams can actually boost legal sales of games, according to the report. The only negative link the report found was with major blockbuster films: “The results show a displacement rate of 40 per cent which means that for every ten recent top films watched illegally, four fewer films are consumed legally.”

> > The study has only come to light now because Julia Reda, a Member of the European Parliament representing the German Pirate Party, posted the report on her personal blog after she got ahold of a copy through an EU Freedom of Information access to document request.

> > The European Digital Rights organisation suggested in a blog post that the full contents of this report were intentionally suppressed, pointing to a 2016 academic paper by two Commission officials. The paper, “Movie Piracy and Displaced Sales in Europe”, only mentioned the part of the Ecory report that highlights the relationship between piracy and blockbuster film lost sales, and excluded the other findings of the report. Additionally, the paper didn’t even disclose that the cited information came from Ecory’s study.

12/10/2017 22:29:19 ¶ ●

## Puerto Rico: US officials privately acknowledge serious food shortage

revolutionaryduelist:

> I can’t focus on anything enough to write about Homestuck today, so I’m gonna talk about something that matters a lot more instead. I know this isn’t like, part of My Brand, but Puerto Rico is part of who I am and why I’m here. And since I couldn’t be part of the day of action officially, this is what I’m doing instead.
> So here’s what it comes down to:

> I can’t stop thinking about the Homestucks in Puerto Rico.

> And yes, it’s myopic to focus on a people suffering who happen to be part of a fandom. Everyone is human and nobody deserves this kind of suffering.
> Puerto Ricans deserve help because they’re people, full stop.

> But people weren’t designed for numbers to track this scale of suffering, and even having spent part of my life there, the devastation my little island is going through has been more than I can relate to, or even imagine.

> So it’s this particular memory that sticks out for me, and those particular people that stand in for the unfathomable many who are suffering right now.
> I’m going to tell you guys a story, and try to put the place I remember into the context of the Island’s current struggle, and the sorely lacking support of the American government.

> Then I’m going to talk about what we can do to help.

> I can guarantee that at least one of those things is something you can do. Even if you can’t do anything but blog about fandom and talk to friends online–and trust me, I get it if that’s where you are. There’s still something important I want you to consider trying.

> If you have the spoons and mental wherewithal, and you care at all about what I do here, or about Homestuck, or about the friends you’ve made and the people you’ve met through fandom, or about any story that has ever moved you to reach out and make a friend,

> Then I hope you can find the time to read and signal boost this.
> No pressure. I know it’s hard and we’re all tired. Still,
> It would mean a lot to me.

> Keep reading

17/10/2017 23:57:26 ¶ ●

jackietplease:

> hogwartshousespersonality:

> > afatblackfairy:

> > > wetheurban:

> > > > HOW TO HELP TORTURED GAY MEN IN CHECHNYA

> > > > We can’t allow this to continue. A petition has also been launched by change.org and signed by tens of thousands of people.

> > > > It demands a full investigation of all the facts and unlawful repression in Chechnya of the LGBT population and calls for punishment for the ‘guilty parties’ and the end to the practice of extra-judicial violence.

> > > > You can sign that here.

> > > > Instagram.com/WeTheUrban

> > > Can y'all share this please???

> > Guys, we’re sorry this is not Harry Potter related but we couldn’t let it pass. This is important, it deserves attention and this is the biggest plataform we have.

> > We urge you to not ignore this. You can make a difference and your help matters. Please, guys, this can’t keep going on.

> > As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, my soul is broken right now. As an empathetic human being, so is my heart.

> We must support each other, who else will? Please share this

30/10/2017 00:43:32 ¶ ●

fullhalalalchemist:

> the GOP is aiming for a $6.5 TRILLION tax cut for the rich by this year. to do this, they’re just gonna pass this bill, which will definetely bankrupt the federal govt, and so to not bankrupt the govt they’re gonna cut programs like Pell Grants, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security…..basically every program that benefits the poor, minorities, women…

> FIGHT. THIS.

> call your house rep: https://www.house.gov/

> call your senate rep: https://www.senate.gov/

> call your governor: https://www.nga.org/cms/governors/bios

> date: October 26 2017.

> part 1. part 2.

31/10/2017 10:24:13 ¶ ●

## I was thinking over what you said about finding spaces not involved in culture wars. Is this really okay? During the past year when I tried bonding with strangers it turned out they're all anti-kink or aphobic or something. My ex bff called me a "freak" over kink discourse. So I decided I only need my few trusted friends. Others are hostile filth. But some said isolating myself is unhealthy. Is that true? I can't handle the heat, so I should stay out of the kitchen... But it's kind of lonely.

theunitofcaring:

> > I was thinking over what you said about finding spaces not involved in culture wars. Is this really okay?

> Yes.

> > So I decided I only need my few trusted friends. Others are hostile filth.

> Hmm.

> Knowing people from a wide range of backgrounds, and being politically and socially involved, can be healthy or it can be unhealthy. When it means getting into constant fights over your own private life with people who are calling you a freak, it’s unhealthy, and prioritizing relationships with people who don’t treat you that way is a great idea. But I do have some worries about the ways you’re thinking of it here.

> Most people are not hostile filth. It might be that most people cannot be a good friend to you. Most people you’ve interacted with have treated you poorly, and it is okay to decide that you don’t want to interact with them. But lots of people are trying, from the tiny corner of human experiences which they have seen and which they understand, to paint the lines in a way that makes for a good world full of human flourishing. They often suck at it. It’s okay to be annoyed at how much they suck at it; it’s okay to look out at the world and go ‘come on, you could try just the tiniest bit harder to understand me and then you wouldn’t be hurting me constantly and I am sick and tired of your best because your best sucks’.

> I think ‘most people are not terrible, and most people are trying to be kind and good’ is sometimes an incredibly threatening thing to say. Some people have been taught that the only reason they can cut someone out of their life is because they are terrible. So saying ‘no, they aren’t terrible’ is saying ‘I deny your excuse for not having that person in your life’. The thing is, it doesn’t matter if someone is the greatest, most virtuous, most loving, most dedicated person in the universe, if being around them is not pleasant for you you get to stop doing it. Once you believe that, it is a lot less threatening to believe that most people are well-meaning and decent.

> So I think you should feel more okay with not interacting with people and also less inclined to think of those people as hostile filth, and I sort of expect those to be related to each other.

> And this also seems relevant to your feeling lonely and isolated. I think there is a world of difference between ‘spending time with these people makes me unhappy, and so I don’t want to do it’ and ‘these are bad people’. Feeling like everyone in the world except a few trusted friends is a bad person is absolutely going to be isolating! You can’t dare let your current relationships slip through your hands, because they’re the only people who aren’t terrible in an ocean of terrible! You can’t casually enjoy a non-political talk with a stranger, because they are terrible and might turn on you! That sounds exhausting!

> The healthier way to think about this is ‘I get to decide whether interacting with someone is making me happy or making me sad. If it’s making me sad, I get to stop. I don’t have to put up with people who hurt me for the sake of ‘not isolating myself’. Correspondingly, I don’t have to cut someone out of my life for being ‘bad’ if interacting with them makes me happy. I can just decide who I want to spend time with, and deciding not to spend time with someone is not judging them unworthy or evil, it’s just noticing that I don’t like spending time with them.’

> This is categorically always okay. It can still be isolating, if you notice that all of the people around you make you sad, and in that case I urge you to look for people who don’t, because it is definitely important to have people who you actually like interacting with. But I think it will be less isolating than ‘most people are bad and so either I interact with them anyway because it is virtuous or I avoid them and feel lonely’, because it takes the ‘badness’ and ‘virtuousness’ out of the question and lets you just ask yourself what you want.