The punchbag?

Gonna text my crush I’m gonna treat him like Iran treats US naval bases 😌

(/s absolutely not texing him that lol)

Borderline personality disorder (BPD). Its a very hard condition to live with and very stigmatized, even within mental healthcare (some therapists refuse to see patients with BPD). I have a friend with the condition and I love her very very dearly; she works her ass off to manage the condition, which I imagine is a little easier now that she knows she has the condition and can understand a bit more what’s going on and what might be productive in improving things.

The reason its relevant is that a large component of BPD is relational volatility. And additionally, an unstable or fluctuating sense of self, persistent feelings of emptiness, relational paranoia, intense emotions and difficulty regulating them resulting in emotional volatility, impulsivity, and higher risk of suicidality and other impulsive high risk coping strategies (dangerous driving, risky sex, self harm).

Though in the perspective of my friend there are also other large components of the condition that are less often engaged with or discussed because they aren’t what affect other people, which she feels has been much of the focus in how people try to adress BPD, rather than the patient’s experience of distress, not all of which is relational. For example psychosis is very common in people with BPD but very rarely discussed. She has explained BPD as being, in some ways, like a cocktail mixture of other personality disorders.

It’s also my understanding though, that when the patient is seeking to adress the condition (which is not always easy with personality disorders), BPD is very responsive to treatment, which is really cool :)

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/borderline-personality-disorder

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9005124/

Please take all of this with several grains of salt, this is intended to be a rough overview because my love for my friend gives me an interest in talking about the condition compassionately, but I’m not a researcher or healthcare professional. I just care about my friend a lot, and much of the therapy I’ve done (DBT, dialectical behavioral therapy) was developed in part as a treatment for BPD

Because it regards wanting to be seen as a guy as fundamentally lesser than being seen as a girl or as androgynous.

Something that transmascs put up with in basically every single online trans space because they’re always transfem dominated, and sometimes their transfem sisters forget the masculinity they revile might actually be meaningful to someone

This does make me sad for masc and transmasc folks. Still a good meme though

I’m a less technical user and prefer the much friendlier and thoughtful user experience, but I don’t wanna have to tinker and edit configs and install extensions.

I know folks who do scripting also find it a more thoughtfully constructed scripting language for the fact is is not POSIX compliant.

There are tradeoffs, but there are upsides also :)

The banter at the end is fucking hilarious

Actual dumbest timeline

Aaaaaaa! Yay!! ☺️

Why is she incorruptible…? Calling people that seems of dubious wisdom to me 😅 its kinda hard to say whether she’s corruptible until she’s sat in a position of serious power long-term, and generally “incorruptible” isnt a good adjective for humans 😅

I guess its better than the exemption not being there. Best would be no age verification though.

Its unfortunate they really only name and shame random shovelware vpns it looks like. So it feels difficult to tell whether their points apply to any other real options people have heard of before…

Changing the word “said” to “testified” would improve the headline

Those things are all leftist positions 😅 to me it just sounds like you hate the culture and attitude of chronically online leftists. Which is really fucking understandable, I can see how their behavior and rhetoric would be alienating

But leftist political ideology is about building a society that structurally supports all of the things youre talking about. Because when you build a society that is supposed to support those things under capitalism there will always be a structural conflict with those causes (neoliberalism IS about trying to build those things under capitalism. It has not worked out great).

Those things are expensive and make no money. The position of leftists is that capitalism is structurally at odds with the outcomes you care about, and that we need to build a world that is structurally aligned with those causes.

But yes, chronically online leftists are generally interpersonally immature, spiteful assholes, and are unfortunately not super fun to be in community with in online spaces.

She isn’t a log cabin republican, I assume she just didnt know. We don’t have them where we live.

This makes me sad only because my sweet gay neighbor just went on a roadtrip and brought me back a rainbow tiedye bucees magnet thats on my fridge.

And for now its gonna stay cause it was a nice gift, but now bucees has made it feel complicated for it to be there :/

I think wonder and/or curiosity fit Sagan pretty well

No! 😀

I can’t remember just about anything lol, but that does make me feel better, thank you

I can’t remember how old I am sometimes…