Notices by Rabbit Cohen (bathyspherehat@mastodon.online)

I love samples in music. I can feel so lost in a song, and then it's like "Oh hey, it's my friend Amen Break! From drums!"

@evan Oh yeah, it's a long term problem. I was just thinking about it.

@marnanel Well, when the population ages, old people starve.

The short term solution to low birth rates is immigration. I worry about what the long term solution might be, though.

"They used an em dash! That's ChatGPT!" Girl, that's a Mac user.

People on reddit have a lot of superstitions about ways to tell if a post is fake, and they're extremely confident in them.

@evan It's still significant progress on my part psychologically, because I was legit scared of jeans for a while after gaining weight because of eating disorder recovery.

@evan Ok, so 76-100% at this point in my life, with the caveat that my jeans are the stretchy kind. They're not jeggings, which I would classify as soft pants, and they have to be buttoned and everything. But they're like, part spandex or something while still looking and basically feeling like jeans, if that makes sense?

@evan Yes. Honestly, it seems like the most direct and obvious way to deal with the problem of voter suppression.

"Help" is another good replacement. Instead of "They're doing that to get attention," try "They're doing that to get help."

"Oh, it's just a cry for help." THEN FUCKING HELP THEM.

Most people who self harm don't do it for attention. But even if that is the reason, that doesn't mean that the distress isn't serious or valid. If someone is in such dire need of attention that they resort to doing physical harm to their body, that's a serious problem. That's not something that should be ridiculed or disregarded.

Here's an exercise: when you find yourself saying "They're just doing it for attention", replace the word "attention" with "support". "They're just doing it for support." It feels different, doesn't it?

Another aspect of this is that often, people who self harm don't necessarily know why exactly they're doing it. I certainly didn't when I first did it. Sometimes it's not that specific - there's just a need to do something that feels drastic.

Someone who self harms for attention is either unable to communicate their needs effectively, or they've tried to communicate those needs in healthier ways and been ignored.

@evan I haven't that I can remember.

@evan Actually, I think it was given to me when I was a baby? Or like a similar twice baked bread type thing.

My toxic trait is that I like bread to be soft.

(This is all in a good natured, joking tone. Nobody is actually mad here.)

I was trying to explain to Derek why I don't like the multigrain bread he buys, and I described it as "gravelly", so he started describing the bread I like as "bread for babies".