the majority of videos that i see are just people talking about their hobbies & current events, but content with tags like #brainrot etc is certainly there for folks to find too

that’s a beautiful tabby kangaroo! 🤩

you must have a hell of a voice to be able to do all of these! fair play, break a leg & i hope you enjoy the party 🥳

for double reference points, you can go by temba wide-arm 😎

“please don’t scare me as i am very small and scared of everything”

i love misabel, she’s these emojis as a person:

🥺 👉👈

they’ll spend money on anything except fixing the housing crisis or cost of living crisis, it seems.

which is something that in turn would cut down on “keyboard warriors” as they put it, because when people aren’t priced out of living their lives, they have other things to do!

i really worry about what spaces kids online are going to be pushed into, with all these bans. so many people my age were groomed on internet forums when we were kids; i imagine social media bans are going to push kids into spaces like that, where it’s not technically considered a social media site, and there’ll be little to no adult supervision from anyone who’s not in the inner circle of the forum.

The social battery is at -69%

-nice 😭

more cute li’l black cats for the rest of us! 🥳

the two i’ve had are both the sweetest softest babies. 🤩

i never said you said that either; i was just attempting to tie the conversation back to the research there, apologies for my clunky writing!

i’d be fine if the researchers had asked the nonbinary people in their study whether they consider themselves trans or not, then the researchers would have learned new things about transness & what it means to individual people! 💚 but disappointingly, the researchers seem to have excluded them from transness by default, without asking. 🥀😮‍💨

i’d definitely recommend having these conversations in person (or over video- or voice-chat if they’re long-distance friends), so you both can have a better idea of each other’s tone & how you’re each feeling in the moment

if you have the capacity for it, let your friend know that they can vent to you about things along these lines, if they start to feel like that again. and/or that you’ll be on hand for distractions.

you seem to be placing a lot of blame on yourself, but ultimately, you can’t force someone to want to stick around. what you do have control over, is whether you made sure your friends know they can reach out to you for support, then actually show them examples of that over time.

The printer running out

are they willing to talk about it / can you talk to them about what you’ve been going through?

it might feel like something you’re burdening/guilting them with, or “making it about you” or something, but speaking as someone who’s lost others to suicide & made some attempts myself, it’s all too easy when in that SI headspace to forget or dismiss the knock-on effects that happen to everyone else after someone kills themselves.

it might be useful for them to know that they would be missed, that people care deeply about them, that the world’s not better off without them, and to hear about the ways that that near miss is affecting you.

idk, i think we tend to be very afraid to talk about mental health & we want to leave it up to the mental health professionals etc, but healing happens in community first & foremost, imo

i agree that people can call themselves whatever they want, they know themselves best!

these researchers don’t have the right to make that decision for others, though.

french sign language is one that a lot of other sign languages drew from, so it might be a good starting point for finding similarities / etymologies of signs.

that said, you’ll still need to learn those different sign languages from different places, in order to communicate with people there, just like with any spoken languages.

sign languages are typically very localised, due to Deaf communities often being fairly isolated. (Deaf people here in ireland have historically had difficulties communicating with one another, because signs would end up evolving differently between the girls’ schools & boys’ schools, for example)

yeah, it’s v weird & ill-informed of them to not count nonbinary people as trans. even the way they shove these two sentences into one paragraph, as though being nonbinary is somehow detransitioning:

One thing to consider is that this study began almost a decade ago, in 2013, and the way we frame transitioning and “detransitioning” has been evolving. When the researchers started the study, no one they interviewed identified as nonbinary or used they/them pronouns, Olson told NBC News.

i’m pretty sure nonbinary people were trans before 2013, but those researchers also had plenty of time to, y’know, do research on it in the meantime 😬

i’m sorry to hear that ❤️‍🩹

i hope you can get your hands on some paxlovid, and that you can rest as much as possible. if you think you’re resting enough, rest some more for good measure!

even occasionally masking is better than nothing, it’s breaking those chains of transmission! 💪

unfortunately, the covid vaccine only really prevents the worst outcomes (hospitalisation & death) for about 4-6 months, it doesn’t prevent transmission or long covid.

i’ve got my fingers crossed for a vaccine that does prevent transmission or long covid, but in the meantime, wearing a well-fitted mask really does work!

between measles and covid, there are a lot of people walking around who are immuno-compromised now & don’t even know it yet, beyond a vague idea that they don’t remember being sick so often before a few years ago.

i really hope that the us swings away from fascism & eugenics and moves towards things like free healthcare asap, because it really doesn’t have to be like this.

the huge cheers from all sides for the death of a healthcare ceo really shows that there are basic needs like healthcare & housing & UBI that have broad support, far beyond what culture war BS would have people believe, imo.

fadhb ar bith!

ó b’fhéidir! tá na múimíní anseo cheana fosta: !moomin@sopuli.xyz

the two were good friends & when basquiat died in 1988, haring made this as a memorial:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pile_of_Crowns_for_Jean-Michel_Basquiat

haring passed away just two years later.