Resident Of The North Atlantic Garbage Patch

Briar | she/her | 25 | 🏳️‍🌈| 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿| Chronically ill artist and writer who occasionally makes things | lethal combo of autism + adhd | Professional Zonai, PMD, Subnautica, and Outer Wilds Enjoyer™ | Newly obsessed with the Architects and Project Hail Mary | there is no consistent theme to this shit show

[briarbramble]

This whole thing of going: “omg holy yap!/yap alert!” Or “I ain’t reading all that” etc, in response to seeing a post or message that is exceeds the character limit of a twitter post is an attitude that seriously needs to hurry up and just die. Same with people mocking others for verbally “speaking too much”. It’s ridiculous.

I’ve officially hit my boiling point with this bullshit, I am so truly sick of it. It’s unbelievably rude and disrespectful to do this, and quite frankly it’s just fucking cruel. It’s so deeply unnecessary! When someone does this they are simply just telling someone to shut up, trying to shame them into being silent because they personally cannot endure a mild annoyance, or even bring themselves to be polite about voicing this. All the while having the fucking gall to frame the “yapper” as being the rude one who is violating an unspoken social rule!

I also believe this is honestly indicative of how wide-spread and prevalent anti-intellectualism is becoming. That now anything longer than 1-2 paragraphs of no more than 3 simply worded, short and sweet sentences is now the threshold for a post or message to be seen as an insufferable “wall of text” or an “essay” apparently. How the fuck is anyone supposed to effectively communicate and explain anything like this? All it does is stifle and entirely shut down open discussions! I fucking hate this, it’s miserable!

It frames open and precise communication that values detail as being shameful. It conveys that being caring, passionate, and just emotionally genuine, as all being negative traits that must be corrected, and thus are “deserving of” social ridicule. It makes the world a less interesting, inquisitive, curious and thoughtful place and I just… despise it so much!

And this isn’t even me getting into the ableism aspect of it! I personally know the lasting damage this shit can do to one’s confidence, self-perception, self-worth and ability to communicate in a way that is just… sustainable, because that’s the impact that years and years of being told I’m annoying and I need to shut up or “calm down”, be less of myself, has had on me! As someone who is autistic with adhd, and that comes with being hyper verbal. Over, and over, and over again, ridiculed and mocked for a behaviour I simply cannot mask without destroying myself. It makes me never, ever want to speak!

All because it’s apparently just too much to ask that people simply just give “annoying” and “yappy” people like me the benefit of the doubt! Just a tiny bit of fucking grace! No, they need to wound me, it’s not enough for them to just ignore me, and I’m not allowed to be upset about it or even defend myself, lest I be scolded for “taking the bait” or “taking it too seriously” or not being the “more mature” person. It’s not fucking fair!

I just want to be genuine, friendly, passionate and talkative without being mocked for it! I’m so sick and tired of being forced to justify how I think and exist.

[npdclaraoswald]

A doll youtuber I watch has made a video about the history of Polly Pocket, and she's describing the plots of the dvd specials, one of which features an elderly woman named Ms. Throckmorton, and my reaction was

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

[bleedthebeat]

Hey. Don’t cry. Baby black-footed cat at the cameron park zoo, okay. his name is maverick he’s about a month old and he just hit one (1) pound

[drumlincountry]

Why do they even make apps for ADHD. You want me to use my 24/7 handheld immediate distraction device? To manage my 'gets distracted too easily' disorder? Ooooh we developed the perfect tool for managing your anemia. Its hosted in Dracula's castle. 👍

[shortshortking]

Picked up my phone to consult my task list for today and now I'm reblogging this instead, case in point

[tpwrtrmnky]

the real answer to almost every "does [identity A] belong in [identity B] spaces" question is actually just "these spaces are informal social groups and if you're cool you can hang, don't worry about it"

[tpwrtrmnky]

You can be Homer Simpson at the lesbian bar. It's fine. Don't worry about it.

[lizardlicks]

not without those fire exits I'm not. have fun in your death trap, ladies

[crowboy-bebop]

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

source: hellgate osprey cam

[curlicuecal]

[spectral-mycoblin]

I was inspired by the sheer range of emotion displayed by the osprey and the smug little interloper

[corvidcall]

to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies

[o0fyuu0o]

Saw these easy to read instructions on Twitter. Stay safe 💚

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

Great time to start pricing this out by the way, fire season starts… on the summer solstice this year, that’s fun. Signs point to it being a doozy.

[tagfer]

cell phone doesn't like water because it is a combination of the other three elements. it is a rock (earth) that we fill with lightning (fire) that can control radio waves (air). if it contained water too, it would be too perfect; it would be like a god. to prevent this, the universe kills the would be uniter-of-the-elements. it's basic science.

[heronbrew]

Hey op google what LCD stands for

[tagfer]

i took an oath in third grade to never do drugs

[mercifulmother]

– Animorphs: The Reunion, K.A. Applegate

[revacholianrobot]

In hindsight it's very insulting to be told that flunking out of college due to adhd is actually "quite common"

[revacholianrobot]

just like, if there's a history at your institution of disabled kids not being able to make it you realise that's your fault right. like why don't you fucking do something about it. i guess they tried to do something about it with me and it failed so they let me go. crazy. nice work. why should we try to do any better.

[yourheartinyourmouth]

only 5% of people with adhd who go to college finish a degree. FUCKING. FIVE!!! PERCENT!!!!!!!!!!!

that should disgust and enrage you.

if any other demographic of students had a 95% failure rate, we would be demanding reform and studies to understand why that’s happening

when i was at my first university, trying to get accommodations for my ADHD, they just kept asking me what accommodations i wanted, and refused to answer when i would ask what was available to me. how the Hell am i supposed to know what i can have? what’s available???? also, i don’t know!!!! i’m an adhd sufferer, not a fucking disability expert for the fucking college, unlike you, DISABILITY EXPERT WHO WORKS FOR THE COLLEGE.

but because the us is OBSESSED with making sure no one gets anything “”for free””, she literally would not tell me what my options were until i broke down in tears and asked her why she was refusing to help me. and then she did a big sigh, like i was fucking up her entire career by *checks notes* asking the disability center in my university to help me, a disabled student

at the second uni i went to, i tried to explain to a dean that i was literally two gen eds that had nothing to do with my degree away from graduating and that i was burnt out and broke and exhausted and suicidal and i just needed to be able to finish my degree without the gen eds. and this. fucking. guy. looked me right in my face and said in the most patronizing tone he could muster “if you can’t handle it, then maybe college just isn’t for you.” keep in mind that up until that semester, i had been an honor student who made Dean’s List every semester and didn’t get below Bs. if it hadn’t been for my mental breakdown, i would have graduated cum laude, maybe even summa cum laude.

but this dean of students looked a disabled person right in the face and said well i guess you just can’t do it, short bus

[jecook]

Pulled these from a couple articles really quick but yeah the statistics are not kind. I remember writing a scathing essay about my issues with ADHD and college as part of an assignment for academic probation. I got back an email calling me entitled and lazy. Somehow, this thread helps me feel a lot better. I still have about a semester of school unfinished that I’m unsure if I’ll finish but… yeah. Makes me feel better to know it’s not just me.

[lady-harrowhark]

PSA: The Job Accommodation Network maintains a searchable database of accommodation suggestions for a wide variety of disabilities.

The full database can be accessed here and the ADHD page is here. The full database can be filtered by disability, by limitation, by work-related function, by topic, and by accommodation. Many of these accommodations are applicable to academic settings as well as the workplace.

Here are the section headers for ADHD accommodations ideas to give an overview of what the page contains - this post would become Do You Love the Color of the Accommodation if I attempted to list them all here

The ADHD page linked above also includes case examples and strategies for determining what sort of accommodations might be necessary. More broadly, the JAN website as a whole is a treasure trove of information related to the Americans with Disabilities Act and resources for both individuals and employers.

[trambrosia]

Oh fuck that's really nice, I will read it

Also just heard a podcast interview with a software developer who had good suggestions

Being a developer with ADHD

Do you feel like ADHD is holding you back? Maybe you don't personally have ADHD but you work with folks who do and you'd like to support the

[dandelionsresilience]

The head of disability accommodations at my college just kept ablesplaining to me that “accommodations are to level the playing field, not give you an advantage,” and that her job is to “protect the school’s rights” rather than help disabled students. The only accommodations they would offer me were 1. extra time on tests, and 2. an alternative test-taking location - neither of which I needed. I ended up getting (most of) what I actually needed by unofficially asking the individual professors, but it should have been legally protected.

[xxxball-fondlerxxx]

oh my goddd yes. i remember in high school when i had a meeting to get a 504 plan it was so terrible. it took MONTHS to even get the meeting, and then they also did not tell me what accommodations were available, they talked down to me the entire time like "you know this isn't gonna just get you out of doing your work, right?", and thats not even MENTIONING the fact that i only found out about the existence of 504 plans in my sophomore year, and i found out about them from other students, not the school!

[algenpfleger]

here’s a quick-ish lighting study from a fury road screencap

[bace-jeleren]

What…?

*Zooms in*

WH A T!?!?!?!!!!!!

[tibalt-the-fineblooded]

[trilllizard666]

nice screencap edit there op-

w-wait.

“study”

holy shit

[klubbhead]

For those of you still figuring it out: THIS ISN’T A SCREENSHOT, ITS A FUCKING PAINTING.

[simpleanddestructivechemistry]

HOLY SHIT

[dyke-parade]

i think the funniest thing rocky does in the phm book is straight-up refuse to believe grace for multiple hours when grace explains relativistic physics. and then finally accepts it in the face of evidence but stays really pissed off about it. i wish we could’ve seen that shit like “where is einstein now, question, rocky just want to talk”

[kreechurthecrazykat]

Grace, explaining how humans evolved: yeah so basically we evolved to be persistance predators where we would just slowly walk towards our prey and track it until it got so tired it couldn't fight back or run away and then we killed it :)

Rocky, who is an Eridian, an AMBUSH predator, who can't see light and so cannot track things the way humans can, and that doesn't have a lot of stamina and literally won't be able to wake up once they fall asleep: grace what the fuck statement--

[mycabbagesmycabs]

clicking Mark’s new video and him ending it with “I can finally escape the blood ocean and curl up into Ryan Gosling’s arms” made me put my head into my hands.

It makes me feel like this

[quasi-normalcy]

[charcoaldustonmyfingers]

Some more Skyward Sword Zonai AU doodles!

The struggle with Skyloft is that it’s so colorful, yet the Zonai architecture of TOTK is all white marble. But! Stone is a lot more durable than, say, paint and fabrics, so it could be that a lot like Ancient Rome and Greece, Zonai architecture was once incredibly colorful! There is even a little evidence for this in the BOTW exclusive Zonai ruins, as the rock there appears to have red, white, blue, and yellow tinted rocks interspersed with the green.

However, since Skyloft is only an island, its inhabitance would not be able to mine for more Zoanite to make new contraptions. Hence, construct Scrapper not working anymore, the jewelry being made of wood and not zoanite, and the slow decline of the island over time necessitating the return to the surface.