schizoetic

My partner and I were watching the Times Square YouTube stream for NYE and had to immediately turn it off because of the pro-genocide (israeli) propaganda that happened. Disgusted but not surprised.

Total snowflake behavior is people pretending to cough when they see someone wearing a mask.

They had me thinking mental illness is scary until someone who has one was staring back at me in the mirror. And then I realized it wasn't actually me that was the threat.

Disabled people have reported having Do Not Resuscitate orders placed in their medical files without consent.

In the UK people with learning disabilities were sent letters urging them to voluntarily sign DNRs

In triage protocol for hospital overwhelm - disabled people are often 1st to lose care

Anarchy is NOT Democracy Despite the efforts on behalf of aspiring populists to prove otherwise, anarchy is, by definition, not democracy. Democracy, believe it or not, is a form of government. Anarchists are for a complete rejection of all authoritarian institutions/structures on principle. All governments impose themselves on the Earth and all life on it. So long as they exist, autonomy cannot.

Fuck democracy!

Overhearing my family talk about world politics is like overhearing kids talk about what they think sex is.

Pie graph titled Biomass of All Land Animals on Earth showing three categories: Humans, All the wild animals that still exist and Livestock. Approx 65% is shown as “livestock”; approx 30% or a little less are humans. And less than 10% are wild animals. Source: Kalahari Lion Research, based on data from Harvesting the Biosphere: what we have taken from nature (MIT Press, 2015) by Vaclav Smil.

There are more chickens on the earth than ALL wild animals combined. The suffering in factory farms is something I don’t want to consume or contribute to, and neither to climate change. It’s why I avoid all grocery store meat &fish.

Capitalism degrades all life on earth to commodities.

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your rage, grief, and sorrow exist because you are filled with love. love for the world and everyone and everything that inhabit it. do not let these emotions turn into despair. do not allow them to stifle you. let them fuel you and drive you. love is also an action, not just a feeling, so act.

Old black and white archival photo of a man standing in front of a mountain of tens of thousands of bison skulls and another man standing on top.

About 50 Million bison were purposely murdered in order to starve Indigenous people to steal the land.

Starvation as a tactic to steal land and commit genocide is well documented here.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 and may your olive groves flourish again for your children in a land that knows freedom.

Two set of land maps showing gradual land dispossession over time of Indigenous peoples via settler colonialism in Palestine and what has become the United States. The map key shows land “inhabited and stewarded by native peoples” and “land controlled by settlers”. Both countries show four maps each. The Jewish Voices for Peace logo in on the bottom right corner as identifying the source of the graphic.

From X credit: @jvp.bsky.social “Today & every day, we contemplate parallels between the colonization of Turtle Island and Palestine. Supporting Palestinians’ right to return and right to self-determination in their homeland goes hand in hand with supporting Indigenous people’s demand for #LandBack”

Free Palestine sticker on a post

Spotted in downtown Phoenix
@krime.bsky.social

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22 - Most importantly seeing me as a person. Someone with just as many complexities as anyone else.

19 - Not holding grudges no matter how embarrassing I may be to you when I was lost in my mind.
20 - Joining me outside to feel the comforts of the outdoors once I was stablized.
21 - Providing (consensual) hugs.

16 - Understanding that delusions may hold very big power over someone and can persuade someone to do things out of "character".
17 - Being supportive of my being sober.
18 - Guiding me away from toxic individuals who don't have my best interest at heart.

11 - Accepting sometimes things given to me might get ruined or broken.
12 - Playing calming music.
13 - Laughing with me and not at me.
14 - Gently encouraging personal hygiene.
15 - Accepting that nonsensical writings, rambling, or actions happen.

7 - Talking to me in good spirits. In psychosis a bad mood is contagious.
8 - Reminding me to take my medication or softly reinforcing their importance.
9 - Not acting like I'm unruly and viewing me with eyes of compassion.
10 - Providing me with basic comforts like food, drinks and clothing.

3 - Being kind. No matter how unwell I was I could still detect kindness.
4 - Having someone to advocate for me.
5 - Simply keeping me company. A silent distraction from a mind full of delusions goes a long way.
6 - Letting me vent, however I needed to

1 - Remaining calm since everything was amplified to me. Yelling at me could do something like trigger my mind to think nuclear bombs were falling.
2 - Listening to me without intentionally confirming my delusions or feeding them. This kept me safe from spiraling.

A thread of ways people helped me while I was in psychosis:

A thread of things you can do to help someone while they're in a psych ward:

11 - Most importantly show good vibes. When living a mental nightmare this can help improve state of mind or even delusions and hallucinations. Like even a smile can help tons ngl.
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10 - Advocate for their personal needs such as dietary preferences

9 - Understand that someone unwell might have a long grueling road of recovery ahead of them. Best thing to do is accept them regardless of what occurs.