agree. my own thoughts:
if a therapist is ever telling you what you "can't" do in interpersonal relationships, they're not doing their job. their job is to guide you towards you building your own best life, to find your own answers in a safe environment, ...it is not commanding you to do stuff because they think it's "right"
you should be on board with every decision made about you.
When Black Birds Fly. It feels an extremely particular type of sick to me. It's one of my favourite movies, and I haven't watched it all the way through yet. The rainbow vomit aesthetic of it is, as far as I can tell, unique. Most people hate it.
It's also unique in that it's the only thing I've had to stop watching despite being very interested. I'll finish it fully one day.
I've probably watched other things people would consider more extreme, but for some reason, this one gets to me, in the best way. Not even necessarily just disturbed, also... overwhelmed.
The horrendous, stilted acting and animation is not accidental, it is a precursor to how nothing in the movie will be comfortable.
cryptid energy
People who do this professionally, or even as a volunteer, receive training for a reason. It is likely one could hurt more than help, despite the best intentions.
Maybe try signing up for a hotline? They'll give you the training required to at least give a solid attempt as well as more rationally limit the amount of people you feel obligated to handle.
The dog has swimmer's syndrome.
As far as anyone can tell, the original is from a tiktok animal "funny" explotation/abuse account.
They have several repeat videos of this dog doing the exact same behaviour, they seem to keep them in tiny enclosures, and keep feeding it milk. Milk is not good for dogs, especially not that much. There's no guarantee that they feed the dogs regularly or humanely.
It's difficult to actually tell context because of the nature of these types of channels. Labradors can have food aggression, especially pound dogs, that needs essentially "dog therapy" over time to abate. Considering animal abuse is rampant on the channel in general, I don't have high hopes here. The channel posting this specific dog over and over does not give context.
The last few videos with those two dogs does show some progress with the labrador starting to gain walking ability, so maybe they are trying to rehabilitate, but they're still giving them insane amounts of milk. They don't look bone thin, exactly. Again, hard to say with no context.
If there's an original source with more information, chances are it's on some website somewhere in chinese, which can be difficult to convince browsers in english to find :/ Language barrier. I've spent a few hours looking, including trying reverse image search. I've seen this a few times and memeified animal abuse bothers me, so wanted to know if it's... not. If someone knows actual context with source links, I'd like to know.
Huh. I actually found a few to put on my to-read from this list. Thanks.
Odd website.
I literally just found out yesterday you can utilize a virtual second monitor with (some) split screen multiplayer games to stream the "second screen" to a friend, giving you a multiplayer experience that you could previously only have with online connections, having totally separate screens with streaming which blows my mind, and this comes out today rather than having to try to figure out how to set it all up myself. Sick.
At least on my instance, the top right hand corner on all thumbnails has a little symbol that shows if it is a "link picture" or an "expandable picture."
The link symbol looks like a box with an arrow, the picture symbol is the generic white outline hills and sun symbol it seems like many places use for images.
Doesn't really answer your question directly, but it might help?
I have no interest in further talking to someone who brings up what the article counters with zero counterpoints, and just insists the original point progressively louder.
(Edit: Total comment rehaul to better explain my position, but similar sentiment.)
You can sort of block publishers/devs, if they have their own "steam page." If you click on the publisher/dev in the listings underneath review scores, if it takes you to an actual dedicated page you can click the gear icon on the right and click "ignore this creator."
This does not completely block them but it has them show up in less places (or are greyed out in some places.) Basically they can pop kinda randomly up in sales when steam forgets to add that, or greyed out in the tabs section on the front page (new and trending, top sellers, popular upcoming tabs)
It's not the cure-all "erase EA" button I'm sure we'd all prefer, but it does help a little.