My nerd safe place

40-something autistic non-binary queer nerd

[entrailer]

sometimes you invent mind prisons for yourself for no good reason and youre like "i really like being in the mind prison" even though you dont actually like being in the mind prison

[hemipenal-system]

even if jk rowling wasn’t a bigoted jackass i think i would not associate with harry potter just because of how over-the-top embarrassing the fandom is

[hemipenal-system]

and to be clear the idea of “separating the art from the artist” is kinda bullshit because:

1. the artist is still alive and benefitting from you engaging with the art

2. the art is deeply fucking reflective of every single (and there’s so many) way(s) the author is bigoted as fuck.

compare hp lovecraft, who also wrote a bunch of stuff that was obscenely racist. however, hp lovecraft is dead as shit and can’t do anything bad with the money. jk rowling is using your money from harry potter merch to wreck the lives of minorities

also harry potter really just is bigoted in every way possible. i don’t think i can think of a single minority that doesn’t at least have a problematic depiction alluding to them

[hemipenal-system]

jk rowling naming trans characters:

- Esther Gen

- Inya Bathrúm

- Ima Poivoit

- Bathtub H. Ormones

- Doubleyew N. Beeyay

[aint-love-heavy]

I know we talk a lot about the literacy crisis and the horrible anti-intellectualism happening rn but I think we need to talk more about how much of an entitlement complex the stupidest among us have developed

[onemillionwordsofcrap]

Hey there other peopless children did you know that dictionary.com is a hamndy damndy website you can KEEP OPEN ON ANOTHSR FUCKING TAB

[depsidase]

[jess-abides]

This is it, this is the one

[ms-demeanor]

Everyone: Californians are such whimps about the weather. "Oh no there's half an inch of rain, whatever shall i do?"

Also everyone: When there's a hurricane you should never drive through water more than six inches deep, water that's a high as your ankle is enough to sweep you away.

Every major street in southern California when there's half an inch of rain: I used to be a dry riverbed in a desert, but today I am a river again :)

[ms-demeanor]

This isn't even bad, it's just an entire lane turned into a Slip & Slide for about half a mile.

"Don't you people have storm drains?"

Yes.

They're why the slip & slide isn't over the curb here.

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

Reviving this meme from when Australians and the British were complaining about our weather and not being taken seriously. I absolutely feel you, best of luck with your rough weather

[depsidase]

[critter-of-habit]

FLUFFY HOOD

[totally-cis-offical]

Wait that explains everything so so much

[rainbow-demoness]

And since we don't face direct punishment for missing positive social cues like we do for negative ones, our coping skills and compensatory hypervigilance don't develop the same way. So we go through a world of never recognising positive signals, sometimes spotting negative signals, and knowing for sure there's more negative signals we're still missing, because those keep blowing up in our face.

Kind of fucked tbh.

[maliciouscrow]

My favorite flavor of Xena episode is when they meet someone that Xena wronged in some way (usually killing their parents) and hates her and Gabrielle is like “free my girl!! She did all that but have you seen her shoulders?”

[butchbubbles]

reblog that post about Black people, whitey

[butchbubbles]

i mean "posts about Black people" in a broad sense, that can mean anything from struggles to Black joy, and when you see the notes, most of the time it’s double digits, three if I'm being generous.

start being comfortable posting Black people's words in your blogs, the same way you'll reblog posts about transness, gayness, disability, because these specific topics can affect you

start actually giving a fuck about Black folks and reblogging our words is the barest minimum

[cosmicanger]

Petoskey stones ~ fossilized coral that lived 350 million years ago - the rocks rounded in the surf along the shore of Lake Michigan near Petosky, Michigan

[requiem-on-water]

[kosmogrl]

[stuckinapril]

In every relationship or friendship worth having, there will be inevitable moments of awkwardness, anger, miscommunication, frustration, or impatience. It’s how each person decides to navigate that that determines how much they care about one another. If you internalize those moments as an overarching statement that speaks louder than all the good times you had with this person, you are practically shooting yourself in the foot. If you decide to walk away at natural moments of friction, either that person didn’t matter all that much to you, or you do care but elect to self-sabotage all moments of connection because you fear abandonment or negative reactions from people you care about. Either way this is unsustainable and guarantees a lifetime of loneliness.

[vexic929]

I think a lot of what pro-AI people are really wanting is stuff that already exists but they don't know it's out there like

can't format a work email? templates

don't know how to write a resume? templates

writing a thank you card or a condolences card or a wedding invitation? templates templates templates

not sure how to format your citations in MLA or whatever format? citationmachine.net

summary of something you're reading for school/work? cliffsnotes.com

recipe based on ingredients in your fridge? whatsintherefrigerator.com

there's a million more like, guys, we don't need AI, we never needed generative AI

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I'm constantly seeing people like "look what this guy did with AI to make his life easier" and it's like. A script that the guy wrote in 2021.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[bakersfield-row]

I’m going to have a fucking breakdown

[germaerobics]

HAAAANK! NO HANK!! THAT'S NOT A BACTERIOPHAGE! THOSE WOULD BE WAY SMALLER THAN A TARDIGRADE! THAT'S A RADIOLARIAN, A TYPE OF UNICELLULAR EUKARYOTIC ORGANISM KNOWN FOR ITS ELABORATE MINERAL SKELETONS! HAAAANK! THAT'S THE WRONG MICROBE!!!