Just some ghostly musings

eternally tired | 30 | a failed fibre artist, seamstress, and gardener | actuallymute | a bit of a mess.

[aghostintheforest]

a class on accessibility should be a requirement of medical school

[woodsdyke]

once i was in the TSA line for a flight and it was SO LONG that TSA decided to just drop all the security protocols. leave everything in the suitcase including electronics. keep your shoes on. don't go through the fancy 360 scanner, just the metal detector. get out of here. and i was like ohhhh so you admit this is all just your stupid community theatre production that you've made me be a part of for all this time and it doesn't actually mean anything real. okayyyyy

[maxknightley]

the thing is that vibrators really do work well as personal massagers. and that makes me wonder if someone out there really is using a bong to smoke tobacco

[mikufanclub]

even on the computer im nervous to interact with ppl AM I A BROKEN PERSON

[dragongirlsweetie]

boss makes a spider i make a slime. that's why i . thas why, tthats why i uhhh. t. thawhy

[dragongirlsweetie]

t.gats why i can't think up an end to the rhyme

[evilwizard]

GET BACK TO WORK

[redstonedust]

you ever notice that some people seem to think its only acceptable to have hobbies as an adult if you have autism. like okay yeah sure special interests etc etc its not an unreasonable thing to link together but also if you cant enjoy toys and games over the age of 20 i think youre the one missing out. get a lil whimsy in your heart.

[play-now-my-lord]

ME: hold up. you see that? train's been through here FRIEND: how can you tell ME: tracks. they're not fresh, maybe 60, 80 years old FRIEND: no chance it'll come back, then ME: don't be so sure. That's well within their lifespan... and they're highly territorial

[oleskyfm]

All love and respect to yuri visual novels but I am a meathead who likes to shoot and kill things in games, too, and I wish we lived in my ideal fantasyland where there was simply a healthy appetite for games of any type but with a lesbionic coat of paint and an ecosystem to support them. A squad shooter/tactics game, but the squad is dykes .. some sorta mecha game where you actually get to fly the damn thing around and choose between your copilot, your loyal mechanic, or your emotionally charged rival.. crime chillers, spine thrillers, swashbuckling adventures, dork ass RPGs and immersive sims and braindead co-op campaign shooters but with two gay broads… a better world is possible.

[gayteensupreme]

"queer-owned business" means nothing anymore. OpenAI and Palantir are both queer-owned businesses.

[gayteensupreme]

if this is how you find out that both sam altman and peter thiel are gay im sorry

[str-ngeloop]

chunnibyou guided meditation

[cryptotheism]

Breathe in. *Feel* the demon energy welling up in your cursed eye. Breathe out. Relax your phantom dragon wings.

[fairycosmos]

accidentally got stuck in a compulsive thought loop instead of living any sort of life

[transhuman-priestess]

Them: whatcha thinking about?

My brain: The Nixon administration canceled NERVA due to lack of interest in a manned mission to Mars, but as interest has grown in recent years, the idea of nuclear thermal rockets is dismissed as impractical and dangerous despite the proof of concept being sound and most of the research already done. Talks now involve large chemical rockets and mining fuel off the moon despite us having this technology in our back pocket and it being perfect for the application, because people are terrified of nuclear powered anything, even though the radiation created by a nuclear thermal rocket wouldn’t even tip the scales compared to the cosmic rays bathing the planet every day since time immemorial. Imagine where we could be by now if we hadn’t abandoned this tech in 1973?

Me, out loud: oh, you know, boobs.

[woodwool]

worst part of being an adult is how often youre forced to nag. you Have to be annoying or youre never getting anything done. which is unfortunate considering how common it is to teach kids to never nag and be annoying ever

[faceless-crowd]

Mafia boss smoking a cigar: Why’d you gotta squeal, Squealin’ Stephen? I trusted you. Now I gotta send my best goons to show you what happens when you cross the Big Boss…

Guy tied up in chair: uh…theres just one guy over there.

Mafia boss: Yeah. That’s Lil’ Tony. He’s got one of dem conditions where he’s got multiple mooks n’ his head. But when Big Tony fronts you’re gonna be in big trouble.

Lil’ Tony: We actually all agree we’re gonna kick your ass.

[flowerbleedme]

it's not frequent enough to be considered a meme or a trend, but I like how every so often this site gets a new "woke mafia boss" variation.

[frostops]

People will say things like “oh ypu think because this character dresses and presents as woman and uses a woman’s name and is happier being seen as a woman than a man means they can’t just be a feminine man? Not very woke of you” and expect you to take them seriously

[thepplprty]

What is it with diabetes that makes people think they know more about it than the people who have the disorder. People hear the word diabetes and flock to compete with who can be the most ableist.

Found a video of a girl showing off Diet Soda detector strips (if there's any diabaddies that see this and want it I can link them, they're super helpful), and half of the comments were "you're diabetic you should just be drinking water..." First of all, not only are you just wrong, but you seriously expect diabetics to just never enjoy themselves? Ever?.

Saw another comment under a video about type 1 saying "you did this to yourselves. you ate too much sugar and you got yourself into this situation." And it's just so funny because they're Wrong™️. Type one diabetes is autoimmune and fully hereditary, and not at all effected by diet.

I mean, I know the answer. It's diet culture. People on their fancy diets think they're a superior human being because other people are "unhealthier" than them, and they hear diabetes and think "big fat and lazy with a bad diet" and think they're allowed to walk all over them since they're so superior. Despite the fact that it's a completely false stereotype that doesn't apply to most diabetics.

And btw please do not come under this post saying "but other disorders have that too" this is a vent post about diabetes. Do not derail.

[alarajrogers]

The other thing about diabetes type 2 is that what the evidence actually suggests is that there's an underlying metabolic disorder that causes weight gain and sugar craving before actual diabetes develops.

A lot of type 2's start out as hypoglycemic -- their pancreas is over-producing insulin, causing blood sugar crashes. Insulin stuffs sugar into fat cells, causing people to get fat, if there's too much of it. The overproduction of insulin is a response to slow-growing insulin resistance. Because sugar is a vital part of human energy, people who cannot easily process sugar due to insulin resistance and insulin over-response may crave sugar in order to have enough energy to function.

So you didn't get diabetes because you got fat. You got fat because you were on track to get diabetes. and nobody is addressing the metabolic disorder. Hypoglycemics can be quite skinny -- I was for years. But if you're skinny, nobody is concerned about the fact that you are passing out when you haven't had enough to eat. Because only being fat is ever a medical problem. People who are "normal" weight obviously have nothing wrong with their metabolism whatsoever. :-(

[anistarrose]

enjoying a character acquiring a disability in a "fascinated by how they might adapt and what disability aids they might use as well as how they gradually unlearn internalized ableism" way when the rest of the fandom enjoys it in a "purely tragedy/angst fuel synonymous with the character suffering" way is like. how you actually arrive at the level of suffering that the rest of the fandom thinks is caused by just existing with a disability