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Greetings! You may call me Jupiter ✨️

I'll be posting mostly everything here, and I'll update this pinned post whenever I create a doomed to fail sideblog!

I'm a full time nurse that's training in the art of clowning, also I practice folk craft and various other witchery so do with all of that information as you will! 😂

For now, this blog will be mainly art, fanart, perhaps some poetry, updates about the book I'm writing, and discussions of my DnD campaign I'm building. Among other things if it catches my eye of course.

New blog for my dnd ideas, crafts, and character designs here!

@dungeons-and-fagons

New blog for my clowning here!

@sillyclownpockets

Welcome to my chaos I hope you enjoy your stay! 💛

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swagpaws

[VD: A TikTok titled "My 10 favorite (inexpensive) holiday gift ideas for the blind & visually impaired." The first clip shows a person pointing up at the title as they voice-over: "These are my ten most favourite gifts for the blind and visually impaired".

The following items are demonstrated in the video and described in the voice-over:

1. Assorted bump dots - Various kinds of stickers with protruding dots on them that can be put onto appliances to make them more tactile.

2. Pocket money brailler - A device that allows you to imprint braille onto paper notes, indicating their value.

3. Liquid level indicator - A device hung on the edge of a container with metal prongs that detect when liquid has reached it.

4. Braille Pop-It - A pop-it with the alphabet in braille on each bubble.

5. Tactile Rubik's cube - A rubik's cube with unique textures for each color.

6. Braille color clothing tags - Tags with braille to indicate what colour a piece of clothing is.

7. Signature guide - A card with a rectangular slit in it to guide the user when writing their signature.

8. Low vision playing cards - Cards with very large and colorful numbers on them.

9. Pop-A-Cell - A plastic card with 6 bubbles you can indent to practice braille characters.

10. Talking keychain clock - A clock that says the time aloud when you press a button.

End VD.]

swagpaws

rbing again to boost my description! please make sure to rb this with a description! its a bit painfully ironic to see a video about blind people without a description... yknow, so visually impaired people can access it

#need to get that signature guide for when i run discharges at work

tearlessrain

what companies who sell you anti aging stuff don't want you to know is that if you're chill about aging, your perception of attractiveness changes as you get older. there is no "wall" where you suddenly become ugly and unfuckable because in my experience what actually happens is you get into your thirties and suddenly realize that people in their thirties are hot as fuck and the "flaws" that the beauty industry wants you to panic about are a feature not a bug, and based on the std statistics in nursing homes I don't really expect that trajectory to change.

partywithponies

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

partywithponies

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

dasloddl

op disabled reblogs but I think the point still stands

deadchannelradio

dick grayson age 17 goes running in the wee morning hours trips on a raccoon gets bit real bad by it goes to the ER to get his rabies vaccine and texts everyone he knows like haha only in Nyoo Yawk !! Gets an immediate call from bruce telling him off for not already having his rabies jab which turns into a blowout argument resulting in them ceasing to speak again and his bill is so crazy he cant afford rent on his apartment because hes already broke as fuck and he gets evicted starts to sleep on fire escapes etc but hes already working on a case probably about some ninja cult or some bs and tracks them out to some fuckass state like iowa where he solves his case but can’t actually afford gas to get home and also he doesnt have a home anymore so why even bother and ends up sleeping at a loves upright on his motorcycle which is out of gas because again he is 300 dollars overdrafted and getting worse in fees by the day and going by some name like Archibald or something and feeding this dog which did bite him super bad but he now has his rabies vaccination so hes fine probably please ignore the infection It’s Getting Better but the dog has started resource guarding him and barking whenever someone gets near him and wakes him up also he’s becoming somewhat of a local celebrity like oh yeah thats Archibald he’s my bestie at the loves i give him cigarettes sometimes and he’s living his worst life for like Way too long before there’s some kind of emergency and everyone is like Wait where’s our special guy?? And bruce tries to call him and contact him multiple ways but his phones are variously busted waterlogged run over shot up and out of service due to not paying his bill and ends up calling the titans and is like Um would any of you happen to know where my ward is. And everyone is like WELL WOULDNT YOU LIKE TO KNOW WEATHERBOY and then roy calls him to be like warning your fuckass father figure is trying to blow up your spot and gets the This line has been disconnected message and he’s like. Um.

deadchannelradio

Gives dick’s titans communicator a ring because while dickie g going dark for 2-4 weeks at a time isnt unusual his phone is typically NOT DISCONNECTED. And dg immediately picks up and is like Hey man !!! What’s Up !! And they wind up having like a 30 minute conversation in the way men often do before roy is like by the way bruce was bothering me and was wondering where youre at and now i’m also wondering where youre at. And dg is like I’m at the loves! Roy voice …is this a code word . I dont know it. Dg voice The gas station. And by this time roy has a suspicion and is like. How long have you been at the loves. Dick grayson voice Have I Told You About This Dog I’ve Been Feeding?

deadchannelradio

Roy finally manages to fish the information as to which loves he is at out of him after like a GOOD 20 minutes of conversation wherein dg keeps trying to change the subject usually by talking about the dog (which only bit him a little a couple times) or the people he’s been talking to and bumming cigs from and is like WHY ARE YOU IN IOWA “ninja cult” IN IOWA? “Do i look like i’m in charge of where people decide to set up evil communes” and drops the pin in the titans group chat with a demand that one of those quickfooted motherfuckers zip over and grab him and LEAVE THE FUCKING DOG which group chats are a new technology so his several texts do show up out of order. Wally ends up calling roy and roy puts dg on speakerphone and silences wally so wally can hear the insane conversation theyre having about whether or not the dog is of a redeemable character or likes him for anything other than the gas station hot dogs that dick keeps fishing out of the garbage and feeding it and if dick is named archibald now or if that’s the dogs name and if it’s acceptable to name a dog after yourself even if it’s a fake name you’re going by as a cover. And wally is like okay i’ve heard enough and grabs him and donna has to go get his bike and then wally has to go to the loves again the next day because dg keeps trying to climb out the window and go get his dog even though he’s like maybe a minute away from sepsis because that infected bite wound Was Not Getting Better. Wally takes that dog to the ASPCA as it’s actively trying to bite him and there’s now a photo of the flash doing intake for a stray on twitter and a selfie on the aspca’s wall. To this day whenever he’s gone off the deep end (read: in a manic state) the titans refer to it as “he’s at the loves” and if you mention it to DG he’s like I Loved That Fucking Dog Man. I Can’t Believe You Made Me Leave That Dog. With a deep guttural sadness in his voice. When he gets haley roy’s like this isnt like that fucking dog at the loves again is it and dick’s like I LOVED ARCHIBALD. AND NO ITS NOT. but it absolutely is.

#this is amazing op #new favorite nightwing fic right here

the-delulu-main-character

AMERICANS!!! DO NOT DO THIS TO FLOCK 'SECURITY' CAMERAS. REPOST AND SPREAD THE WORD

do not get IR blocking fabric or thick wool to cover your nose and mouth

do not get IR blocking sunglasses since facial recognition has moved up to targeting and identifying the upper face

do not avoid having your phone or any bluetooth devices around these cameras as they can detect and track those signals

do not buy cheap green lasers 1 milliwatt or above from etsy or walmart or amazon (i will not try and find a link if you ask)

do not use them to fry those fuckers from a distance damage the delicate inner sensors by pointing the beam in the lenses

AND unless you want to cost Flock more money in repairs, do not buy a small circle saw or a reciprocating saw and cut down the pole

OR do not climb said poles, spray paint on the solar panels, cover the lens with paint or a sticker, then use bolt cutters to sever the wires

when doing all these things, DO NOT avoid using latex gloves as fingerprints can leak through

DO NOT USE DEFLOCK TO FIND FLOCK SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS NEAR YOU

remember, flock is for YOUR safety :) even though crime rates have not gone down since they were implemented, they're being abused to track down exes and s/os, and many face pools or houses or schools or gymnasiums! Where there are no liscence plates to be found!

DO NOT DO THESE THINGS and enjoy a life under surveillance!

enjoy living in the country where 87,000 of these cameras were used to track down a woman who got an abortion!

enjoy living in the country where there's no consequences for a flock exec to watch a inside of a gymnastics place without their knowledge!

Remember, this is their American Dream.

EDIT: 53 cities have cancelled contracts with flock and are now turning to Axon, in which 🎺 invested 1-5 million dollars earlier this year.

inthetags

Reblog and put in the tags the book that is physically nearest to you at this moment.

#the secret garden #my decorative copy :)#second closest is what if we get it right #a book about possible futures in climate change

e-the-village-cryptid

There’s a particular attitude I often see on the internet that goes something like “If you aren’t part of a particular marginalized group, then you could never understand their experience, so don’t pretend to relate.” And while obviously you’re never going to relate to every aspect of that identity unless you are also of that identity, I feel like this attitude really diminishes opportunities for finding kinship and bonding in similar experiences even if those experiences aren’t exactly the same and/or are the result of different identities.

For example, I’m white and neurodivergent, and I was talking to a Black neurotypical friend about masking, and how I feel like I have to change the entire way I present myself in order to not be considered weird in public. She responded with “Oh, some of that sounds kind of like code-switching— how I have to switch away from using AAVE in white-dominated settings in order to be accepted.” And then we bonded over how frustrating and ridiculous it is that AAVE and stimming are both considered unacceptable in “professional” settings.

Another time, a straight Jewish friend was telling me about a book she had just finished reading, which was written by a Jewish author and had a Jewish main character. She was saying that it was really nice to read a book written by a Jewish author, because even when gentile authors do their research and write a pretty accurate Jewish character, they never quite feel Jewish— you can always tell the author was a gentile. And I said “Oh that sounds kind of like when I read queer characters written by straight authors— you can always tell the author was straight even if they do their research and get things fairly right. So even though I’m happy when any book features queer characters, it’s really especially nice to read queer characters written by queer authors.” And we bonded over this similar experience, and we were both excited that the other understood even if we were coming to this experience from different angles, and then we swapped book recommendations. This conversation is also a great example of when that internet attitude DOES apply— when someone outside of a particular group is trying to understand that group’s entire experience well enough to accurately write the world as seen through their eyes. They’re never quite going to get it right, and that’s ok! It just means it’s important to also have Own Voices authors writing those types of stories also.

Sometimes it seems like people who have been in internet circles exhibiting this attitude for too long are afraid to ever try to relate to the experiences of anyone in any groups other than their own for fear of causing offense, which is honestly pretty counterproductive. Understanding each other and bonding across groups should be the goal! Relating to each other is not a bad thing!

soul-hammered

i’d add that these points of what COULD be solidarity are also used AGAINST others by malevolent anti-worker racist forces, and you hate to see it. see: some thumbfaced cop yutz whining about how the irish were slaves* but you don’t see THEM complaining, THEY pulled themselves up and never asked for handouts. :( they could instead be going “hey wow we both got screwed over, and we could have banded together as workers, and yet” *they weren’t but they were discriminated against in other ways i guess

zephyrzeitgeist

They certainly were, and that actually adds to the point of this post-

When the Irish were suffering through the potato famine(the English being a major facet to how badly they suffered), the Choctaw sent what they could to help, $170, because they empathized with their plight.

There is a sculpture in Ireland commemorating this, called Kindred Spirits.

And recently Irish donors cited that gesture as they raised $2 million in aid for the Navajo and Hopi tribes for the fight against COVID.

canadianwheatpirates

This post is great because goddamn is this a problem in internet social justice stuff, and I wanted to add one of the best takedowns of it that I’ve encountered. It’s from an anthropology paper from the 80s where the author is working through four “pitfalls” of performing materials from a culture other than your own, mostly with an eye to white anthropologists performing materials from nonwhite cultures. One of the “pitfalls” he lays out is exactly this – the refusal to even try and engage with another culture, because you believe you couldn’t possibly understand or relate and so therefore you shouldn’t bother:

Instead of facing up to and struggling with the ethical tensions and moral ambiguities of performing culturally sensitive materials, the skeptic, with chilling aloofness, flatly declares, “I am neither black nor female: I will not perform from The Colour Purple.”

When this strange coupling of naive empiricism and sociobiology – only blacks can understand and perform black literature, only while males John Cheever’s short stories – is deconstructed to expose the absurdity of the major premise, then the “No Trespassing” disclaimer is unmasked as cowardice or imperialism of the worst kind.

[…]

In my view, the “Skeptic’s Cop-Out is the most morally reprehensible corner of the map because it forecloses dialogue. […] The skeptic, however, shuts down the very idea of entering into conversation with the other before the attempt, however problematic, begins.

[…]

The skeptic, detached and estranged, with no sense of the other, sits alone in an echo chamber of his own making, with only the sound of his own scoffing laughter ringing in his ears.

– Dwight Conquergood, Performance As A Moral Act (1985)

(I would also generally recommend this paper for anyone who’s trying to talk to anxious white liberals, because I think the framework is really useful for people who’ve never had to think about intercultural communication before and are worried about fucking up. Showing them the major ways of fucking up, including that refusing to try is fucking up, means that they can direct that anxiety to looking for whether they’re falling into the pitfalls.)

aevios

[ID= sculpture of multiple large metal feathers /end ID]

aqueerkettleofish

The thing, though, is a lot of “you wouldn’t understand” gets used as a weapon to silence debate. It’s just another form of the Oppression Olympics where the team that wins the gold gets to control the debate, and the team that wins the silver… is just another villain.

It’s a particular favorite tactic of TERFs where you’ll hear them say shit like “Well, I’m a lesbian, so you shouldn’t be arguing with me about the use of the word ‘butch’”.

You’ll see this sort of thing in the extreme fringes of all sorts of movements, and it’s a wonderful way to get people to insulate themselves from “the enemy”, which is really everyone who’s not specifically of the same identity… and of course, those people of the same identity who are willing to interact with “the enemy”.

roach-works

you also see this weaponized to fragment and nitpick to death the Own Voices movement in writing– rather than pressuring established publishing houses to pay and promote marginalized writers the same as normative writers when they’re writing stories of their own kinds of people, individual authors are scrutinized over whether they’re ‘authentic’ enough to write the characters they have. can a bisexual REALLY write a lesbian? is a biracial black woman authorized to write a latina?? if someone writes a trans romance, are they nonbinary enough for that to be okay?

it’s a deeply fucked up crab bucket way of policing identity and authenticity, to take as a foregone conclusion that every identity exists in its own impenetrable silo, and no outsider could manage to write good enough to ‘pass’.

apolladay

Do you consider yourself a people person*?

yes

nuance

Voting ended onAug 3

* people person: A people person is an informal term for someone who is friendly, outgoing, and skilled at interacting with others. Key traits include active listening, empathy, and a natural ease in social settings.

#nuance #'natural' ease in social settings i do not have #i worked every day for my apparent ease in social interactions #but im a nurse with a patient load of 6 to upwards of 12 different people a day not including family doctors coworkers etc #sometimes you arent naturally good at every social interaction but you werent naturally good at speaking when you first started either #practice makes comfort! i wont ever say it makes perfect bc ive walked away from plenty of small talks #picturing that dark souls 'social interaction fumbled' meme #but the practice means that i can go from ome that i know i did poorly in and hop right into a new one without the fear of failure #i got rambly but you get the idea

sufjansjoy

does anybody know how to get out of bed. or be a better person

sufjansjoy

wow

syn4k

i like the phrases "it's not for me," "it's not my thing," and "i'm not the target audience" because they're the most concise way to express "this thing that you enjoy has merits but idgaf about it" without being aggressive

houseofpurplestars

This is important and it is also important to practice letting people have opinions (and criticism!) without taking it personally or acting like its an attack against you. It's easy to think "I like this thing so when someone doesn't like it that means they don't like me or they think I'm wrong" and then get RSD about it and lash out.

Practice not taking opinions personally. Being polite is one thing but no one wants to feel like they have to "walk on eggshells" around you because if they say something other than "it was perfect and I loved it" you're going to blow up in their face. People will simply stop trying to engage with you.