What I like about this comic is that it doesn’t “trivialize” mental health problems in and of themselves. It’s clear that the koala IS genuinely traumatized by what’s happened. But it does emphasize that the mental health problems are a symptom of some real tangible problem that needs to be dealt with immediately.

[Image ID: A comic drawing featuring a koala and two humans all in what used to be a forest. All the trees have been chopped down and only the stumps are left. The koala is clinging to one of the stumps and trembling with a terrified look on its face. The two humans are standing next to it. One of them is pointing at the Koala and saying, “This young koala has a mental health problem,” and the other person is taking notes down on a notepad. End ID.]

@mental-autopsy

This comic is from March 2015, so it’s not commenting on recent developments. But the destruction of koala habitats was already going on back then,and the choice is certainly intentional. This artist made quite a lot of comics commenting on the destruction of koala habitats:

and about mental health too:

Let Sylvando be ripped. Let Sylvando be absolutely jacked.

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i can't find sources on this anywhere any more, but i distinctly remember reading a blurb about Gene Ray's Time Cube that mentioned how one guy somewhere else in the US read Gene's ramblings and actually parsed enough meaning out of them that he became the world's first and only convert to Time Cube Thought other than Gene himself. this guy then flew down to Florida to meet his visionary prophet face-to-face, whereupon they promptly got into an argument over the fundamentals of Time Cube so bad that they never spoke again. i guess it was always possible to create a religious schism with the theoretical minimum of two people but it's funny to see in practice

i think one of the most important things you learn about making connections with others is that a significant portion of the time people just do not know theyre doing what theyre doing

sometimes someone is acting selfish because they just didnt think you had any interest in what theyre hogging. sometimes you dont get invited to the movies because your friend could have sworn that you said no. sometimes you think someone is mad at you because theyre bad at hiding how little sleep they got. we are all like little worlds that briefly crash into one another from time to time and we just arent physically capable of seeing the whole picture at once in those moments. and learning that really changed everything!

coordinated cosplays are cute but I think a bunch of people cosplaying the same character and then walking around a convention in a roving pack is much funnier

I actually think it’s less funny when there are canonical reasons for there to be 29 versions of the same guy. Yeah yeah we’ve all seen a thousand versions of Spider-Man or Link. But 15 Imperator Furiosas riding an escalator? Beautiful. An elevator full of Kim Kitsuragis? Perfect. A lunch table occupied only by Nick Valentines? I can imagine nothing more inspiring.

Total fucking madness that we let fast food joints sell us this little-ass hash brown patties for three fucking bucks. They're making like ten, maybe twelve dollars per fucking individual potato. Jack in the box wants $3.29, nutritional info pegs their hash brown at 64g. Just with a Google search, a potato will weigh anywhere between 140-285g. They're making $7.19-$14.64 per fucking potato. And I figure they're using the largest they can get, and potatoes are fucking cheap dude. And let's say they're paying the same price we do for potatoes, like 4 bucks for 5 pounds. Same serving size. They're making that into $116 fucking dollars. They're making fucking fried potatoes --delicious, broke slop-- into an expensive treat, a luxury. What goddamn horseshit. When is it enough? When are you going to just let loose? Can you really keep living like this?

#why i just buy a pack of frozen hashbrowns at aldi now instead lmfao#ridiculous(via @xaveria)

when a boy tries to shotgun a bong hit with me i always suck it out of his mouth like a *remembers i cant say “dementor” because harry potter is a significant part of an ongoing culture war against trans people* like a Ghostbuster

Omnomnom the rings of Saturn

I want to eat space ramen next~

I'm about to wii sports resort to violence

I'm about to have a wii fit

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this is so fucking funny i don't even care if it's real

Massive Minnesota W read em for yourself

I was planning to drop the items from the linked tweet thread onto this post, but there are SO MANY new bills that it became a wall of text - line after line after line of incredible things Minnesota has enacted in a single session.

I'm.... actually blown away. the political landscape often feels so hopeless, but the DFL pulled themselves together, getting every member on board for these changes - real changes that are going to protect health, keep people out of jail and housed, and improve work conditions massively. this should be a beacon for every other state democratic party - change doesn't have to be incremental. things can get better and they can get better right now. get crackin'.

Take it. Take it. Take it. Take it. Take this. Take this from me. Take this from me. Take this from me right now. Take it from me. Take it from me. Take it from me. Take it out of my fucking hands before I freak it out. Take it from me. Fuck this thing.

All the notes want to know what this is which on one hand would ruin the joke but I can't stand by and just not tell people what an animal is so this is a desman and desmans are literally water moles. They're moles that evolved away from digging to become pure swimmers. They were common in the Miocene but now there are only two species.

AWROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

there's something so compelling about stories where a character's virtues intensify into flaws that lead to their downfall. loyalty and love becoming so all-consuming that compassion outside of them ceases to exist. duty overwhelming any moral compass until order becomes more important than justice. selflessness so intense it becomes self-destruction. let me watch while whatever saved the hero in the beginning destroys them. let me see them fall to their own worst impulses disguised as what once made them good.