Notices by Rabbit Cohen (bathyspherehat@mastodon.online)

"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".

"POTUS" comes from the Latin "potus", meaning "the act of drinking alcohol", believed to have originated from the heroic amounts of alcohol consumed by the US founders after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Enough bacronyms. Start claiming acronyms are just words. "Potus" comes from Latin.

The reason you see the modern word "POTUS" written in all caps is that Latin didn't have lowercase letters.

"FLOTUS" is a portmanteau of "POTUS" and "flirt", because in the early US, the president was only allowed to flirt with his wife.