Autistic Codex

I’m aromantic, acespec, autistic, an apostate, and a nerd who loves history, science, fiction, and fanfiction. Pronouns are he/him/his and age is 21+

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[turing-tested]

why didnt you call the cops or cps?

how about this: when i was 9 and my stepdad beat me until i passed out and i told my friends at school, my teacher over heard and i was interviewed by cps. they also went to my house when i was at school. when i got home, my step father was waiting on the couch, and told me who visited him that day. he told me if i ever snitched again he would beat me to within an inch of my life.

how about this: my mother locked me out of the house when i was 14 and when i cried so loud the neighbors called the cops, the cop told me i should have been respectful of my mother who was trying to sleep.

how about this. the demon you know is less scary than the demon you don’t.

children in abused households are raised to fear the idea of being taken away. children in abusive households see that help makes things worse.

dont you ever blame an abuse victim for not going to the authorities.

[turing-tested]

yes this okay to reblog!

[isuggestyouthliberation]

cpc + the cops are more invested in maintaining the social power of adults over children than they are in the wellbeing of those children.

[ninefoldrin]

If you know of a kid who’s being abused, just talk to them. Ask them how they feel about calling cops/cps before you even think of touching the phone. This includes “mandatory reporting” scenarios. Become a safe person for them to talk to about things that they don’t feel safe telling anyone else because anyone else will call the cops and very likely make things worse. Be someone who can offer comfort or advice when they need it. Be safety and stability for them in a chaotic and dangerous world. You may find a point where you can offer them a way out of the abuse, but only do so with their consent. They know their situation better than you do.

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a suggestion

[hikewne025]

I may have hiked to far. Yall think I should go in? I dont even have the right load out.

[autisticcodex]

I go into Lost Sectors with whatever loadout I happen to have all the time, even when it’s far from optimal. I say go for it.

[kibumkim]

Some of these kids are going to lack independence for awhile because wdym you cant go to the movies by yourself lol?? I was at the mall with my friends and my mom would just pick us up when we were done. Like whenever people talk about how some kids lack independence and stuff remember that the parents are responsible for enabling and encouraging that behavior

[regsgarden]

@this-is-adultism

[this-is-adultism]

This is adultism.

This kind of overbearing-ness can also be a tactic for isolation and is just very controlling, making it favorable to abusers.

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[laterkiss]

happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈

[doomtribble73]

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a suggestion

[its-emimi]

Happy Pride month! 🌈

[itgetsbetter]

thank u clippy

[kawuli]

random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google

I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)

[yomikoreadsbooks]

Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines. 

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted. 

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy. 

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden. 

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching. 

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar. 

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results. 

https://www.mojeek.com/ 

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. 

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/ 

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine

[zebruh]

the post I stole this from got reblog turned off but I wanted to rb it so here

[whitepeopletwitter]

[blanketfortarchitect]

[rebloggingistheenemy]

[inviernodel95]

Thank you. I hope everybody thinks this

[hotvampireadjacent]

Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.

Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

Ice operations have moved to harassing folk in Memphis

[castformbignaturals]

Huh. I wonder what else is going on in Tennessee (and specifically Memphis) right now?

Oh well, I’m sure it’s a total coincidence.

[quasi-normalcy]

(For those not in the know, @castformbignaturals is alluding to the fact Memphis is a majority Black city that stands to have its congressional representation entirely wiped out by redistricting led by the Republican governor of Tennessee who has, of course, welcomed the ICE occupation with open arms. Again, the project of MAGA is to reintroduce Jim Crow)

[noneedtofearorhope]

i think it's unfortunately a step beyond jim crow. they want to reintroduce chattel slavery.

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a necessary suggestion

[diserbillyti]

tbh one of my frustrations with the way I'm disabled is that sometimes hallucinations are actually kind of funny, but in a way only you, the hallucinator, can actually 'get.' Other people find them scary and disconcerting, because we are in a culture that teaches that hallucinations are always scary and disconcerting, perhaps because they make the hallucinator violent and dangerous and perhaps because we are suffering "victims of our own mind." idk.

So I'm trying to explain to my friends, all of whom have some kind of disability goin on but who do not have psychotic conditions, that I have this One Recurring Hallucination

and OK, that hallucination is this really deep, authoritative baritone jazz lounge singer bloke voice saying, like an order, "you should pull your teeth out, pull your teeth out, use a wrench and pull your teeth out," and variations thereof. I have no idea where this comes from. I don't know if it's like, a movie or something I watched as a kid that has been in the back of my head forever, or what. I have some hallucinations and have even had delusions where, once I came "clear" again, I could place as "oh, that probably happened because I saw [movie] before I was sick," but this one is just sort of inexplicable to me.

So OK imagine. It's 5AM. I am half asleep. I am staggering out of bed and into the shower. Standing there, bleary-eyed, attempting to force myself into consciousness, and I hear this Giant Black Guy say "hey. pull your teeth out. with a wrench." And I'm like, I don't know, Disembodied Voice of a Louis Armstrong Soundalike, that seems like a dumb fucking idea.

And this is hilarious to me right. But y'know I tell the story and I look around at my friends and they're all like, frightened and concerned

[autisticcodex]

My god, that is hilarious.

[vash-the-trans-catboy]

Cute little rainbow heart for pride month tumblr but how about you stop disproportionally banning trans women and marking sfw queer posts as mature

[our-queer-experience]

you all deserve BETTER

[star-mom-selkie]

happy pride month

[sunshien-deactivated20220126]

my mom asked why i don’t read as many books as i used to and i just said it was because i read a lot of unpublished stories from independent writers online and she thinks that’s very good of me to give undiscovered authors a chance

hahaha

i just read gay porn

[jessicachastains-deactivated201]

#unpublished stories from independent writers online

[neverthehurricane-deactivated20]

#so that’s what we’re calling it now

[david-tennants-little-fangirl]

[thefarfire-deactivated20150205]

Never stop reblogging this

[official-graveyard-posts]

Official graveyard post