Tania Melnyczuk @ekverstania Imagine a doctor refusing to diagnose you with a condition for which you have the symptoms, because the doctor believes the condition is rare, and therefore there's an imaginary quota on how many people are allowed be diagnosed with that, and you're not one of those people. Tania Melnyczuk @ekverstania Now imagine that some cataclysm happens—like a pandemic of a virus that causes lasting after-effects—and now symptoms that correlate exactly with those supposedly rare conditions increase rapidly throughout the population. Tania Melnyczuk @ekverstania For the doctor who believes in those imaginary quotas, there's only one explanation: patients have been infecting each other with hypochondria via the Internet! And they're fixated on these rare symptoms which they want to believe they have! It's mass hysteria!

Julia Marie @julia_doubleday Drs have such weird control issues that you literally have to go into every apptmnt acting like you've never heard of the concept of medication. I'm not just talking opioids or benzos. I mean even if you want migraine meds for a migraine you have to let them come up w the idea

Julia Marie @julia_doubleday You can't go in being like "I'm having migraines and I've seen that the first line medication intervention for migraines is triptans so l'd like to try that", many drs won't LIKE THAT. You have to go "oh nooo my heeeaddd hurtttsss what do i dooo" Julia Marie @julia_doubleday And then when they suggest medication you go like "oh, really? A medication? You think that could work? I don't knowwww". Like genuinely as a patient this is the shit I do to make sure doctors prescribe me things lol like reverse psychology on a toddler

Wheels! A glint of steel and a flash of light!
Screams! From a streak of fire as they strike!
@cyanfacade.bsky.social as Aoi
#warframe #warframecaptura #tennocreate

Comic: Types of Board Game. [Each panel has a person, a person with a ponytail, a person with shoulder-length hair, and a person with a white hat seated around a table with different board game and pieces on top. (1) Boring: PERSON 3: Each turn, roll a die and move your token. Turns proceed clockwise around the table until we all get tired and go home. (2) Abstract: PERSON 1: Each turn, you can place any number of red triangles or blue squares on a hexagon, or move any hexagon to a... (3) Hyperspecific Theme: PERSON 2: It’s October 2, 1814. The Congress of Vienna convenes. You are each in charge of distributing and lighting candles for the opening ball, which was held at these three locations... (4) Overcomplicated: PERSON 4: It’s a cross between *Twilight Imperium* and *Cones of Dunshhire*, but implemented entirely in category theory. Every cone is a monad, and... (5) Cooperative: PERSON 3: We’re working together to sort these decks of cards using only hand gestures. After that, we’ll silently organize my junk drawer. (6) Branded: PERSON 1: You can play as Phoebe, Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Ross, Joey, or, due to an ill-advised tie-in, Goku. (7) Party: PERSON 2: Each of the cards in your hand has a bad word on it. On the count of three, yell the... (8) Social Deduction: PERSON 3: Remember, per our *find the secret murderer* house rules from last week, discovering that a player has committed a real-life murder does *not* count.

Types of Board Game

xkcd.com/3235/

These are all Taylor Swift quotes.

When the devs pipe up

hello to everyone else included in the "anti-ai ai haters" blocklist the technical advisor of bluesky just followed 🫡 it's an honor just to be nominated

It's still so crazy that in 2024 a huge chunk of bsky's userbase hit a peak of "we're ready to pay subscriptions for bigger features and support the platform, just tell us when it drops 🫡" and then within six months the Bsky team gleefully cut through all that good will with surgical precision

[louder, as if that'll improve reception] THE BLUESKY DEVS WOULD BE VERY UPSET BY YOUR JOKES ABOUT VIBE CODING IF THEY COULD LOAD YOUR POSTS

When you see all the people labelled rude, essentially shadowbanning them under the default settings, remember that literally *every single* rude label has been manually applied by a mod. All of them.

It's not a filter grepping on cusses, it's someone physically clicking a button.

♡

Why, the chief/lead technical advisor, recently subscribed to a list of "AI Haters" which seems to have been upset that I posted this:

bsky.app/profile/winc...

Unclear if they're bothered by the observations in the text, or that I still read books rather than AI summaries.

as much as it feels like Everything is Internet now, Very Online is still smaller than you think

He also did the bookcover/ in-book comic illustrations for Anthony Horowitz' Alex Rider Series.

I see uncritical support for the IOC's one time only, all or nothing, SRY gene test 'to identify men' platformed today. Fun fact about that. It's entirely possible to test positive after being pregnant with a boy. Fetal DNA can cross the placenta and linger in the maternal bloodstream for decades.

'Voidscarred', another one for Games Workshop/Black Library! I used to collect Eldar, so naturally this one was super cool to paint for them.

I have an appropriate Junimo to celebrate every occasion, let's go lesbians! #lesbianvisibilityweek

stitcheshandcrafts.etsy.com

*bullies generational talent off the internet for incredibly vindictive ex reasons* where did all the cool artists go

If the first adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness is a Minions movie I think Guillermo del Toro might burn down Hollywood.

I made a starter pack of captura'ers! wanted to add more people but bsky is having a moment right now (again >.>)

if you want to be added just leave a comment here, only requirement is semi regularly posting captura & being active on bsky not just "follow elsewhere bye"

#warframe #warframecaptura

I need tp draw more of this guy. Its gunna happen. You can't stop me.

learning that a guy wrote a book about how SF/Fantasy nerds were one step away from unironically becoming fascists in the 1970s was holy shit he got us, he called it

a very sparkly hydroid for @libraviathan.bsky.social 🦑✨
#warframe #warframefanart

An important thing to remember regarding the shitshow that is Pragmata discourse online is that the games actual demographic; the coworker, just thinks it's a neat scifi version of the new God of War games.

Half of the discussion on twitter is fake.

I demand that in woke 2 any time a character is depicted in a cisheterosexual relationship there be a long explanation as to why they're het and a long digression about how when they knew they were cis from when they were very young

french tumblr post anonymous: "why is bread masculine but Baguette is feminine....... is the baguette transgender?" translatingpostsingrench: "i will let the community decide: baguette, a trans icon?" yes: 94.6% no: 5.4%

I'm still eternally thinking about this

The Whispering Valley is free on GOG buff.ly/z9UzW6j #ad

Direct link to redeem on GOG (must be logged in) buff.ly/3NLY1O8