bug

he/them | lover of the light. what lights? any lights. round, wide, squiggly, covered with glass, made with lead, in the attic, above your bed, in the sky? sometimes. lights in boxes, square lights, lights square but round at the edges, bulbs, lamplights, torchlights, bandlights, squeezy lights, sleepy lights, street lights, neon lights, firelights, i'm not picky when i see it i may get trippy i love the light💡 call me bug for short :]

[life-spire]

[weepingwidar]

Liu Yin (Chinese, 1984) - This Green Onion (2025)

[thunderstruck9]

Liu Yin (Chinese, 1984), This Green Onion, 2025. Acrylic on canvas 200 x 230 cm.

[dinuguan]

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

(eating a pill i found on the floor of the club bathroom) hope it's a placebo. i don't need any effects right now

[neurotypicalabusesurvivor]

This is a friendly reminder that none disabled people often do benefit from the same accommodations disabled people benefit from.

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

Yeah okay I'll reblog that!!

[multishipperpirateking]

My dad used to work for Vodafone and likes to tell a story about when he was working on a voicemail transcription service.

And there was a woman there who was some form of disability advocate (it was the 90s so her existence in the company was a minor miracle) and apparently she completely blew his mind on that project.

See, he'd imagined that this service was exclusively gonna be for deaf people. Obviously very useful for the very small number of people who couldn't hear their phone, but why would you even own a mobile phone if you couldn't hear?

But she described to him all the times he might want to read a message instead of listen to it. Maybe he was in a loud football crowd. Maybe there was important info that he needed to copy down that was spoken too fast. Maybe he was holding his sleeping newborn (me) and didn't want his phone to be loud and wake them up.

This doesn't feel as revolutionary as all that to those of us that have only ever known phones with the ability 'send text message', but given the timing and placement of this conversation I wonder if this woman and this project is *part of the reason text messaging exists*. The first text (SMS) message was sent by Vodafone UK in 1992 - where + when this conversation was happening - and then for a long time it was supported exclusively for 'messages from the carrier', and this project was an early potential extra use of the SMS protocol.

So Yeh, building for disability is kinda handy..

[the-fallen-blue]

can you imagine how often you would use sign language if everyone knew it

[stainedinink-deactivated2026041]

reblog to give the pervious person a nice rock

[druidshollow]

i thimk trans women and trans men and nonbinary people and everyone whos not cis should all love eachother forever and embrace eachother and listen to eachother and protect eachother. we should all be eachothers' shield

[druidshollow]

yes definitely. thank u oldmanyaoi-jpeg

[chronicillnesshumor-deactivated]

[memorycycle]

dont worry everyone i will save us all at some point

[sikoi]

me looking up the definition of a word i totally know the meaning of i just have to make sure it didn’t change for some reason or i made it up

[legallybrunettedotcom]

as a lover of information since i was a child, the concept of "useless knowledge" never sat right with me. they should re-name trivia to something else. essentials.

[anatheyma]

#dailyaffirmations

[charlesoberonn]

I offered somebody a penny for their thoughts and they gave their two cents. That's a 100% return on investment.

[tpwrtrmnky]

The least useful online space to hang out in is the type that's designated for "aspiring [creative skill]" with no users in them who actually make a living doing that skill. Someone who's been aspiring to create something without actually making anything for significant amounts of time has no useful advice for you if you actually want to do it.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Don't get stuck preparing to make something forever. Start making something, finish it quickly and move on. The first thing you make will suck, and then in the process of making it you'll have learned a whole bunch of stuff, which will make the next thing better.

[importantpics]

[tam--lin]

I don't want to put the user on blast but I just saw a "you're never too old to start" post about the Artemis II astronauts, and, respectfully, they are astronauts on our first trip back to the moon since Apollo because their entire lives have been building up to it. Christina, the youngest on the crew, wanted to be an astronaut since childhood, has two bachelor's degrees, and has been involved with NASA since 2001, well before she joined as an astronaut. Jeremy joined the Canadian equivalent to Civil Air Patrol at 12 and did his undergrad in space science. Reid started out as a Navy pilot in the late 1990s. Victor went to a public Ivy, has three master's degrees, and became a Navy test pilot 20 years ago. These people's whole lives have been building up to this.

We are not yet at the point in human space travel where you can just up and career change to being a working astronaut* unless you already are very well-established in a closely relevant career (like medicine), or you're part of a specialty program training mission specialists (like Christa McAuliffe was).

*as opposed to a space tourist

[tam--lin]

Perhaps a better message, if we insist on mining on here, is, "it's normal for people who are experts in their fields to be middle-aged, actually"

[indar0]