Brainworms Station

[danikore-does-pole]

“The lightning McQueen crocs stay on during sex”

“Do they?”

“No that would be really uncomfortable”

[imjunebitch]

actually fucking disgusting that glasses cost any money like if you actually think about it for more than a few seconds it is so unconscionably inhumane. this goes for things like insulin and mobility aids and hearing aids too ofc but fuck man, fucking glasses? the thing you need to fucking see? its genuinely sickening and inhumanly evil that those cost ANYTHING.

[information-insecurity]

But??? The hell you mean "but"?? Insulin is something you need to LIVE, you DIE without it. It's orders of magnitude worse than glasses

[baleful-meat-worm]

waiter waiter more depictions of traumatised malnourished characters putting on some weight postcanon to show their recovery from the horrors please !!!!!!!!!!!

[danikore-does-pole]

there is a beauty and the beast retelling that has lived in my head rent free for many years (and it’s not acotar!). It’s this book called a curse so dark and lonely, and the reason it lives rent free in my head is that the main female character (beauty) has cerebral palsy. No where in the books advertising or blurb does it allude to the idea that maybe she’s a bit monstrous to. She was based off the authors childhood best friend who also has CP so she felt incredibly realistic and grounded in reality. The main character also had the typical YA love triangle with the prince (beast) and the captain of the royal guard. It’s very easy YA and I had a lot of fun when I read it years ago. I plan to reread it critically as an adult with more disability awareness but i remember that the main character told the captain of the royal guard “I was born like this, I will die like this, teach me to work around it” and that stuck with me. I’m immensely grateful that there’s a book where my self insert (disability and all) is genre appropriate desirable

[taylortut]

the “sexy lamp test” but for disabled folks: if you can replace your disabled character with a beloved pet dog that needs an expensive surgery to survive then you have to throw out your manuscript 

[taylortut]

reblogging one of my most underrated posts: the dying dog test

[the-haiku-bot]

reblogging one of

my most underrated posts:

the dying dog test

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[karatekamania]

im terrible at being a real person but i think i'd make an excellent fictional character

[karatekamania]

i want to see the symbolism ppl would weave into the fanart of me. i want to see who id be shipped with. i want to see what discourse ppl would have about me.

[homunculus-argument]

Libraries are sneaky, because once you go in, it's soo easy to get a library card, and once you have one, you can pretty much grab one of everything of all the stuff they have there with no consequence, and take it home. But then once you're home and you've read all the stuff you'll have to go back to the library to return the stuff, and once you're at the library again, you're at the library again, so might as well pop in to see what they got, and then you're hauling half their shit home again, and then you'll need to return to the library to return them, so you're at the library again

And the next thing you know you've read 3000 books, your crops are clear and your skin is watered, an angel descents from the heaven to suck your dick twice a week, and also you've got some books to return so you've got a perfectly valid reason to go pop in to the library. Just a little bit.

[notjusthespongenextdoor]

For a city to be walkable. It must also be sittable.

[notjusthespongenextdoor]

#every time I read this phrase the same thing happens#I read it as shittable and go wait that can't be right#oh right they were talking about public benches that makes more sense#but public bathrooms available without fees should also be a thing tho#cities should definitely be shittable#it happens EVERY SINGLE TIME

it must also be shittable

[tam--lin]

it's pretty easy to imagine that you are one of some fractional holdout against AI while everyone else has fallen into some misguided love affair with LLMs, and I am so happy to tell you that this is not the case.

the US public is deeply suspicious of AI's impacts on jobs and education. Kamala Harris and the Republican party are both polling better than AI. 8/10 gen zers are concerned about AI's impact on education and only 18% are positive about this technology. there is widespread, bipartisan grassroots organizing against data centers. 97% of Britons are against Grok's "undressing" technology. the majority of Americans are concerned about AI in arenas like self-driving vehicles and healthcare. Even polling data from companies centered on AI shows significant concern around generative technology. OpenAI isn't meeting internal growth bench posts. On top of all that, Musk and Altman are currently both making fools of themselves in a very public trial.

[tam--lin]

I wrote this to ground myself because within the last month my workplace and gym have become overrun by AI graphics, then I logged out of Tumblr and immediately discovered that my Chemistry professor has switched to transparently AI generated exam feedback

[innerchildabortionclinic]

this dumbass fake tweet screenshot from reddit had me in hysterics earlier for some reason

[threedollarsdotcom]

hey its me your doctor. idgaf

[durandahlia]

[ladyshinga]

OceanGate tried to scrub the internet clean of traces that it ever existed, taking down its Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn pages

OceanGate, the deep-sea exploration company that created the Titan submersible, has removed its Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn a

poor things, well we should definitely make this easier on them by never repeatedly mentioning their name and deeds on the "reblog things forever" website

[septicake]

yea that'd be a shame

by the way, just so everyone knows what not to do, shift+r reblogs a post instantly

just make sure you don't reblog anything about oceangate because that would completely undermine their entire plan 😇😇😇

[curoopeez]

You also shouldn't queue a post, that would make people keep remembering this post for a longer time, which is the opposite of forgetting

[ralfmaximus]

June 18, 2023 never forgor

[starryhoundbloo]

Shout out to my mom who explains my transition as "Having a daughterpillar turn into a Boyterfly". It doesn't erase the fact I was an adorable little girl, and also affirms my gender now. I love my mother.

[weirdplutoprince]

Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of someone else's actions that I am directly impacted and severely affected by

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

i dont CARE that its your special interest bitch whats your SOURCE !!!!!!

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

"source: me ! hahaha🥰" NO !!!!!!! SOURCE: First Name Middle Initiall. Last Name, Name of Book, (City: Publisher, year) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fuckyeahfightlock]

No talking about the things that interest you! We no longer trust you to have read books/watched documentaries/learned/comprehended! No sharing interesting things with friends! No giving opinions based on having synthesized information!

I 1000% do not envy young people. It seems even more miserable to be a teenager/young adult now that it was when I was those ages (when it was just, you know, regular miserable. Now it's off-the-charts misery and no fun and be careful all the time and judge each other harshly and be anxious and lonely).

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

Are you lost ? This is about academia and serious topics. If you share information that someone is unable to verify, and they ask you for a source, "well its my special interest" is not a satisfactory answer. You do realise that sometimes people have conversations about serious things where having verifiable information is in fact important, right ? You do realise that some people have special interests wherein not spreading falsehoods is actually of really significant importance ? My special interest is nationalism. I got a degree in the topic. This isnt about someone being wrong about the length of their favourite whale or the year a certain toy was manufactured

Also, I really, really cannot stress this enough, is someone asks you for a source and you cant remember off the top of your head, "I will get back to you on that" is in fact acceptable. You can go double check and then get back to them.

[disabled-models]

Aariana Rose Philip, a model with cerebral palsy, for Interview.

[librarycards]

i think it's very important that people know how common undereating is, esp. for feminized people, and how the lower calorie requirements for "women" are bullshit. you don't need to have a restrictive eating disorder (a psychiatric disability in which your relationship with food + body image is dangerous to your health [sometimes deadly] and prohibits you from participating in your daily life, forming relationships, and so on) to not be eating enough.

you could go your whole life not eating enough and not die or get really sick, but just be tired and grumpy a lot, or perform worse, or have brain fog, or a million other things. like there are so many gradations between "should have a snack" and "has a severe eating disorder". maybe you don't have an eating disorder, but you should still start eating more than iced coffee for breakfast. try it sometime!

[theslightestbitofahint]

OP is right.

My sister "was an overweight teenager" and started limiting what and when she ate in her early 20s. She was soon very excited to be "skinny." I was happy for her; I'd seen how much the bullying had hurt her and it's something she's still healing from in her mid 30s.

I started offering her snacks one day while we were hanging out. She told me she was good and I didn't press it, but I also didn't let the fact that she didn't accept a snack keep me from having a snack. I offered here a bite again when there was just enough left to split between 2 people and she accepted. "Alright, you talked me into it" with a lighthearted laugh.

She's still healing, like I said. It's a few years later and now she ALWAYS says yes to a snack. We don't have big servings of "junk" foods, but we'll have mixed nuts or fruit until they're all gone. She texts me all the time that she has more fun with me than most people. I say the same to her because it's true, and a part of me smiles knowing it's because she'd consumed enough food to enjoy the experience. Or, at least, more food than she probably would have otherwise which helped her body feel better during and after we hung out.

[librarycards]

As someone who is trying to heal their bodymind somewhat from 12+ years of severe malnutrition/anorexia, I’m incredibly touched by the gentleness and care you offered your sister. Often people approach people with eating disorders with very paternalistic, violent solutions that require violating our trust and our consent. I can tell that you love her for who she is, even when she is struggling. She’s very lucky to have you, and I hope that in the future, more ppl with EDs have comrades like you in our corner. I mean it.