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Consumed by the fog || all my posts are ok to rb unless I say otherwise || art requests are open! feel free to ask

[the-muppet-joker]

The Androgynous Person in my Bugs and Slime Class smiled at me today. Can they tell I am like them? I want to be a bug so they will look at me

[pangur-and-grim]

I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything

[sandersstudies]

Our youth and family nonprofit theatre is doing the musical Annie with a cast and crew of about 100, mostly children. Yesterday we had a two-show day with limited time for kids to rest and eat in between.

A parent offered to set up catering to be delivered for anyone who didn’t want to or couldn’t leave the site, and asked that anybody who was interested contribute a small amount to the cost. A few parents started asking if they could pay for other families who might not be able to contribute, and put in extra.

The whole cast was fed. There was food left over. Very few families left to get food or brought food from home because there was an abundance. Kids got seconds. Kids got seconds of dessert.

It’s been said a million times, but people balk at the idea of socialism and taxation and “paying for freeloaders” because we’re devoid of community and isolated. Nobody feared “paying for freeloaders” because those freeloaders aren’t faceless, they’re kids who go on playdates with your own children, or families who offered your child a ride when your car broke down. If we could think about other people as members of our community instead of faceless, we would be more generous and sharing almost instantly.

[inbabylontheywept]

my wife tried to do the thing where you pull a tablecloth really fast and the dishes stay in place but instead of a tablecloth it was a towel and instead of dishes it was our poor long suffering cat that was just trying to sleep on said towel. poor baby got whipped across the room fast enough that its meow got dopplered into meeeeeeOOOWWwwwwww

[pocket-dictionary]

[10thingsihateabout-all-yall]

Every night i scroll for hours, waiting for the post that sends me into hysterics so i may fall asleep. thank you, goodnight

[peach-pot]

trans guy who doesn’t realize he’s turning into a werewolf because he assumes it’s all just normal side effects of starting testosterone

[peach-pot]

trans girl who doesn’t realize she’s turning into a vampire because she assumes it’s all just normal side effects of starting estrogen

[peach-pot]

post paused, let’s talk about this now

[grimtrespasser]

[transcyberism]

I actually think it's so funny that the way a hormonal IUD works is that it just lies to your uterus and fools it into believing it's pregnant. but instead of a fetus there's just a little plastic doodad in there. I'm pregnant and it's The Contraption.

[transcyberism]

my dumbass uterus: "man this thing has been cooking for like 5 years I bet it's gonna be the most awesome baby of all time"

my IUD: still just a plastic thingamajig

[ajarofpickledtears]

[chilewithcarnage]

i don't need tumblr premium because I report every ad I see

[chilewithcarnage]

'is this ad malicious?' as far as I'm concerned all ads are malicious

[coelii]

reblog to give your headache to elon musk instead

[kinkykinard]

[neoliberalismkills]

reblog if women with swords

[transhuman-priestess]

We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.

[anoraktrend]

Linux is a very good and powerful alternative.

[transhuman-priestess]

[transarsonist]

reminder: you cannot Personal Choises your way out of an Intentional Structural Problem

[yurigirldick]

Fun fact! School Chromebooks block Linux. It's not an easy alternative. You are missing the point

[beezlebutch]

"Pride month is over"

WRONG! Your pride month is over! Me and all the other disabled queers are having pride month two: disability edition

[jehandant]

Reblogging this again bc people in the notes are asking a lot of "Am I included? Am I disabled if I have x?" and I just wanted to add the flag here to show people who the pride month is for.

This is the new flag, the old one was more vivid and in a z shape, but it's been made more neutral to be inclusive of people with seizures or sensory issues.

Each stripe represents a different aspect of disability:

Red: Physical disabilities

Yellow: Cognitive & intellectual disabilities

White: (And this is the key one I think) Invisible AND undiagnosed disabilities

Blue: Mental illnesses

Green: Sensory disabilities

If you're autistic or have ADHD? this is your pride month. If you have a mental illness, it's your pride month. If you're hard of hearing, this is your pride month. If you have an autoimmune disorder, this is your pride month. If you are not diagnosed with anything but you know something is up with you: THIS IS STILL YOUR PRIDE MONTH.

[kamlo]

please stop treating the word neurodivergent like it means the overlap between autism and adhd

[kamlo]

i dont know how to articulate this well but some of you act like neurodiversity starts with adhd and ends with autism. you talk about "the neurodivergent experience" and everytime you mean "the overlapping experience of adhd and autism."

please remember us when talking about neurodiversity. ocd, dyslexia, dyscaculia, personality disorders, tourettes, intellectual disabilities, schizo-spec disorders, etc. all fall under neurodiversity.

please stop saying neurodivergent when you mean "autism and adhd."

this post is okay to reblog but do not clown on it

[theconcealedweapon]

[foolsmask]

Just out of college I worked as a bank teller. That job was soul crushing, but this isn't about that.

I had a coworker about my age. Her husband worked in a manufacturing position. He claimed (but never confirmed) his coworkers were undocumented immigrants. He swore that they didn't pay taxes and his wife believed him. I tried explaining to her that a few small companies might be able to get away with paying people under the table, but not a large manufacturing business like the one he worked at. I explained payroll taxes to her and how the company would not grossly underreport the number of employees because the first time they got audited they would be shut down, and this place was a major brand. She refused to believe me that those workers paid any taxes, up until one of them came to our branch to open an account. Then she saw his paystub and was really confused that he had taxes withheld, so I explained how IF this man was undocumented, the system had too much to worry about to chase down one guy cashing a check. She was floored by the revelation.

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

The "illegal immigrants are getting benefits and social security" is one of the oldest and most believed lies from the right.

[thedreamthieves]

283,000 likes………giant meteor strike the earth rn holy shit. oh my god.

[insomniac-arrest]

"maybe it's not your pussy" is such a funny phrase and also correct. People wonder why chores are so hard and it's like, friends we used to have a whole intergenerational team on this and now Grandma is locked in a beige box. Cooking is hard.

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog the problem is capitalism and not your pussy

[blackgirlmagicx]

[trapny]

[memewhore]

[anger-birb]

[kitstacean]

Im gonna shill for Marie Kondo again but this is why I find her books (yes, books, the TV show is fun but ultimately misses a lot of the core ideas) so good.

A lot of home org advice fully misses this aspect. Kondo not only acknowledges it, but leans into it. And ultimately this helps motivste me to keep my space tidy - it's really hard to me to keep on the nebulous goal of self-care, but much easier to get up and put things away if I envision my salt and pepper grinders as like, retail workers who are now standing in an empty shop (my dining table) and just wanna go home (the spice rack where they live).

Normie tidying process: that heater should be put away for summer! I mean, I'm not gonna need it

Me: well it's just chilling and also I can't be arsed.

Kondo: that heater has done a good job keeping you warm over winter and now it should get to go have a rest in the cupboard

Me: !! Sabbatical for my heater!! Thank you for your service sir and have a very nice break!

[wormofmouth]

just saw a tiktok or something where the person was saying they did this and they were on a hike and they were like "i managed to get myself to go on this hike because i promised my boots we would go" and its like. OH YEAH. THAT.

[elizabethanism]

ok well this blew my mind

Mirror Life by Kamran Javadizadeh | Poetry Foundation

In Pilgrim Bell, Kaveh Akbar reaches across languages to write "documents of barbarism."

This is also true with filmmakers. Western filmmakers pan their cameras mostly left to right and Iranian filmmakers do right to left.

[mindfulnesspoet]

Time seems such a universal concept and then I find out the different ways people perceive everything and remember “it’s all appearances to consciousness”

[glamourweaver]

But the coolest part of that time-direction study, was there didn’t seem to be a consistent pattern to how aboriginal Australians arranged the images, until it was realized that the issue was where the participant was sitting, because they were consistently arranging them East to West.