Ah man, I do wish there was a higher res version of this image. It’s beautiful!

Genuine questions for the purpose of discussion: should photos of spiders also be marked as NSFW for arachnophobia? What other phobias should and shouldn’t be considered in this?

I do not have any genuine phobias, so I concede that I’m speaking out of my limited knowledge coming only from years of solo and group therapy for other issues, but NSFW tags are intended to block images that you wouldn’t want your boss (or mom, or general public) to see you looking at due to them being sexual or otherwise inappropriate. There are a lot of things that are going to trigger phobias and other very difficult feelings for a lot of people, but I don’t think it’s feasible to ask that everyone accommodate all possibilities when posting images or sharing stories. I think it’s a positive thing to tag content warnings in bodies of text, for example, and at the same time I think that a person that can have an extreme reaction to what is otherwise an innocuous image due to a personal issue needs to take responsibility for it.

I hope this doesn’t come across as minimizing the very real struggles that people with phobias have to deal with on a daily basis, and as a whole I support making public spaces more accessible.

ETA: my understanding of a phobia is having an irrational fear so severe that it causes very real and disruptive anxiety and panic upon being exposed to the phobia. If seeing an image like this causes you discomfort or unease, but doesn’t really affect you severely or impact your life negatively, is that really a phobia?

Oh when that happens my heart sinks and I pretend it didn’t happen so I have an amorphously-shaped yolk that’s considerably less runny than the other one (my go-to is two sunny side eggs)

What are you doing to your sunny side up eggs that accidentally results in scrambled eggs?

I’ve been seeing his comments everywhere lately

I was honestly really surprised and proud of my boomer, right leaning father coming to me and talking to me about his support for Luigi and hatred of these private health CEOs. To be fair were Canadian, but even he’s experienced enough difficulty getting access to good health care that he understands just how evil these corporations are.

Ah right, there’s that. Though the question was about physical health I thought.

This is some really fun art. I love the style, colors, creativity of it all!

Nothing is really inherently wrong with GMO last I checked, has any new science come out showing there is?

Damn those mice are cute

Wait what??? I’ve been using AccuWeather because I enjoyed the way they presented their weather information but knowing this I’m going to be switching immediately.