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Consider it an April Fools' ploy against my phallus
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BVLT for eating fur stacy kitty in breeder hetro-monogamous relationships
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The enemy has hacked my redscarepodnet account and no longer displays me as the benevolent user BoodooSpeak. I'm currently thinking of which demographic I should blame it on. My name has never been PereMarquette and the people of Boston are hoping for my downfall.
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it doesn't cast a shadow
poetry
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suit for a telepathic, financially irresponsible micropeepee
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sometimes even when im not feeling particularly schizo i get a sense of inevitability regarding a want or desire. thinking i can manifest a thing puts me in the mood to do the work needed to get the thing, so it's probably selection bias and schizoid tendencies that give the process a sense of magical control⦠but i can still have trouble shaking that feeling
though i hope it's a mirage because it would be disappointing to find out that the possibilities in this universe are shaped by my desire
why would i deserve that power
what's on your vision board
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Game 5 of the WNBA finalsβ¦
— American AF πΊπΈ (@iAnonPatriot) April 1, 2025
I canβt believe what I just watched. π€£π€£ pic.twitter.com/oHGmbT6icx
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I totally realize most people are going to disagree with me here but I feel compelled to say that closing 4chan for a joke wasn't a very kind thing to do. We have seen TONS of posts from vulnerable populations talking about how that forum is a source of support and humor in a dark time. Irony and dirtbagism aside, taking away that support without warning was not okay.
You can say I'm being silly, or humorless or reactionary. Whatever. I love the anonymity and I love that community. But sometimes I come home after dealing with ableism and our nightmare reality all day, and that forum is one of many things that make me feel better. It wasn't a good feeling to find 4chan closed for the sake of irony. Maybe that's laughable or pathetic. But for me, it's true.
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You might have known that things were bad in the UK, but perhaps you did not expect them to be worse than war-torn Yemen or Iraq. Well sadly they are if a 2024 report is to be believed. Carried out by US non-profit Sapien Labs, it has listed the ten most unhappy places, with the UK beating a whole host of poverty-stricken, conflict-ravaged countries to come second ahead of only Uzbekistan.
Yemen and Iraq are, respectively, the tenth and ninth most unhappy places in the world. But seemingly, for all of the problems faced for their citizens, people there are still happier than in the UK.
The report used criteria such as mood and outlook, social self, adaptability and resilience, drive and motivation, cognition and mind-body connection to ascertain the list, with the UK performing poorly in every category.
Using data from 500,000 people in 71 countries, researchers aimed to "provide an evolving global map of mental wellbeing and enable deep insights into its drivers that can be used for more effective management of population mental wellbeing through evidence-based social policy and interventions."
The UK's poor ranking might surprise some, given the tribulations of countries higher up the table, but in 2023, the Office for National Statistics recorded an overall decline in personal wellbeing across the UK.
Similarly, mental health charity Mind has warned on numerous occasions of an unfolding mental health crisis, particularly among men and young people.
So, what of the other nations in the top 10. Ireland came in at eighth, ahead of Egypt in seventh.
It seems that for all of its beaches and sunny weather, the people of Australia have struggles that may not seem obvious on the surface, with the nation listed as the sixth unhappiest country in the world.
Surprisingly, Australia was found to be the sixth unhappiest nation on earth
The land down under scored particularly poorly for drive and motivation, as did Tajikistan in fifth and fellow beach abundant nation Brazil who was ranked fourth.
South Africa was found to be the third unhappiest nation on earth, with factors such as high levels of crime and poverty a potential reason as to why.
Whilst researchers did not comment on specific countries and reason behind their unhappiness, the report did find characteristics amongst many of the nations languishing towards the bottom.
Researchers said: "The impacts of owning a smartphone at a young age were especially pronounced for the dimension of Social Self and drove symptoms such as Suicidal thoughts, Feeling detached from reality and Feelings of aggression towards others.
"In countries that are generally at the top of the list in this report, and less developed countries in general, the average age that young people first own a smartphone is typically older."
They added that a correlation with countries with a high consumption of ultra-processed food was found with countries where such food was popular seeing "substantially poorer mental wellbeing at all ages."
They added: "A third factor is diminished family bonds. For example, across a sample of 407,959 respondents, we found that 10% of 18-24 year olds did not get along with any of their family and preferred not to see them compared to only 3% of the oldest generation."