pro palestine protest today in London and suddenly nobody is allowed to wear anything that "conceals their identity" in certain parts of central London and the excuse of "based on evidence" it's so clear this is just racial profiling and islamophobia and a gateway for police harassment and even when asked about masks the pigs are still trying to cover their trail. ok fascist police state
ALT
ALTthey’re already trying to change the narrative of the strike.
Keep an eye out for this kind of anti-union narrative spin in the coming days, especially when it's sourced from Matt Belloni and similar (Belloni is an entertainment reporter who wrote a lot of anti-WGA, pro-AMPTP garbage during the strike!) Ellen Stutzman is chief negotiator for the WGA and knows what she's talking about.
okay I've finally formulated this feeling into words,
the thing about the "do it scared" mantra is that depending on your specific brand of brainweird, you may have to first,,, learn to be,,, scared. and also the difference between general anxiety and legitimate alarms.
like, I tried to do everything scared for basically all my life and it mainly led to a series of breakdowns because I was so allergic to my own emotions, fear being one of them, that I had almost no connection to my wants/needs/gut instincts, and therefore simply couldn't cope with Situations.
anyway I'm not saying it's a bad policy, I think it is really good in fact, but if you are trying it and finding things keep imploding for no reason, could be worth checking whether you are even letting yourself be scared in the first place.
Yep! As a therapist, ‘do it scared’ is helpful for people with anxiety disorders- provided they are able to process their distress! The ‘do it scared’ approach’s goal is to help people understand that their fear doesn’t control them and that actually being afraid isn’t a bad and doesn’t prevent them from doing things they want to do. Which means that if you’re not able to recognize and process your fear, the exposure doesn’t work.
Modifications to this approach involve mindfulness (specifically learning what fear feels like, how distressing it is, what triggers it, why the fear happens) as well as learning your zone of tolerance, because if you’re pushing yourself into the point of sheer mindless terror, that’s not helpful. Also, anxiety stemming mainly from trauma can benefit from the ‘do it scared’ approach sometimes, but it tends to need trauma work along with it.
enough reclaiming slurs, I think in 2023 we should reclaim nascar. they banned the confederate flag on all properties & their stance on lgbtq+ isn’t just performative bc in 2013 they fined a driver 10k for using a homophobic slur, condemned indiana in a statement for an anti lgbt law, and partnered w carolina’s lgbt+ chamber of conference in 2022. nascar was founded by anti-cop moonshiners/bootleggers who drove suped-up fords to out-run the police. #yaaascar
To this day, my favorite argument I ever had was with my Nascar-loving family about how a thin blue line flag on a Nascar is antithetical to the core tenets of Nascar.
There is no organization more rooted in ACAB than Nascar. Literally, the only reason it exists was that a bunch of moonshining families had to build cars that could outrun the cops while on supply runs during the Prohibition Era. The goal was to make the car look like a regular vehicle so they could pick up supplies or drop off illegal alcohol without arousing suspicion. But if the cops were on you all you had to do was put the pedal to the metal and that little truck could outrun them with no problems.
And of course, families would be in competition over who made the best alcohol, and whose car was fastest. So, they would have races on the weekends. When prohibition was lifted, the races continued. And that is why we have Nascar.
It really frustrates me how people look at American car culture and scoff at it. Formula One racing is more exciting and more dynamic to watch, but the history of it is not as interesting: a bunch of rich assholes who made specialized cars for racing. And to this day, it is still a rich man's sport. Whereas Nascar was about a bunch of so-called hicks in the backwoods who used some basic hand tools and trial and error to make a junker into a racecar.
i used to be too shy to interact w fanfic authors, but after i finally started to do so, that i realised they're the same @ me
pillsbury now making all of their dough safe to eat raw is SO funny to me
like they gave up on YEARS of telling people not to and changed their production accordingly bc we just wouldn't stop
WE BROKE 'EM, BOYS
"PUT THE SALMONELLA BACK" is a bold stance to take, but i respect it
idk who's running pillsbury's brand response account, but JESUS FUCK do they deserve a raise
slosh29 is NOT having your nonsense, amplexis
things are getting HEATED on the cookie boards
i wanna study this commenter under a microscope
depressed beyond words
btw guys, ublock and youtube have been in an arms race for the past few weeks so circulating filter lists is pretty useless since youtube gets wise to each one in a matter of days. what you should actually do is remove all your custom filters related to youtube and then force update your filter list whenever you see the anti-adblock pop up again
I haven't been using custom filters at all and have yet to get dinged by YouTube with uBlock literally this whole time
