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[greyrehash-deactivated]

hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello? hello! hello? hello! hello! hello! hello!hello! hello!

[bogleech]

I actually have a masquito question! Iirc citronella candles are bullshit right? If so what would be the best way to make a backyard more pleasant to grill out in outside of dosing myself in bugspray. I get huge hives from the bites and need to figure something out.

Yeah, there really aren’t hardly any scent products that actually work well on mosquitoes. DEET is unfortunately one of the only chemicals that will work, but it’s not great for people or the environment.What’s actually much more effective though? A strong fan. If you can plug in a big box fan, or several, aimed at you while you’re cooking and where you’re sitting and eating, it will blow away a big chunk of mosquitoes because they fly very very weakly.

[bowelfly]

As it happens, one of my day jobs involves testing spatial and topical insect repellents. In my experience, most spatial repellents are basically useless. The exceptions to that rule being metofluthrin-based ones, which are very capable of keeping the mosquito population down, but do so by just straight killing all the mosquitoes and all other insects in the area, and are also pretty toxic to aquatic vertebrates.

However, I will say that on the subject of topical repellents, I strongly suggest looking into ones with the active ingredient PMD/lemon eucalyptus oil. It’s less nasty than DEET, and in all the arm-in-cage studies I’ve partaken in, PMD based repellents were shockingly effective. In particular, I don’t think they’re on the market yet, but keep an eye out for products that combine a high PMD percentage with vanillin. The repellency on that shit was ridiculous plus it smelled pretty good.

[bogleech]

Oh this is a rad addition!!

[socialistexan]

“First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice“ - Martin Luther King Jr, Letters from Birmingham Jail.

[the-a-j-universe]

Did Biden’s brain fucking fall out of his head? He wasn’t like this before was he?

[socialistexan]

Pssssst… He was always like this. In fact you can argue he was even worse in the past, since at least now he isn’t pushing for a constitutional ban on abortion and gay rights, or on “locking those people up” during the 94 Crime Bill (it’s a long video, but I recommend watching it for the clips of Biden)

Y'all’re seeing the real Biden now, not the Uncle Joe meme.

[dreyblr]

This situation in Sudan makes me so so so so so mad and angry because they CUT OFF the Internet so people can’t say what’s happening there and they rely on US to be SAVED because they’re currently living a NIGHTMARE they can’t even go to the streets NORMALLY and they can’t do ANYTHING ABOUT IT BECAUSE THERE IS NO INTERNET. THE SUDANESE PEOPLE RELY ON US. DO SOMETHING.

Here’s how you can help:

Donate to the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees: https://donate.unhcr.org/int/south-sudan/~my-donation

Donate to the Sudan Relief Fund: https://sdnrlf.com/campaign-cat/featured/ 

Donate to the International Medical Corps for Sudanese Medical Aid: https://www.gofundme.com/f/sudanese-medical-aid

Share share share share!!!!!

They count on us!! If you know any other way we can help, please tell me!!

[pileofknives]

Happy Father’s day I just remembered the best pair of tweets I’ve ever seen

[pooyngalfuturo-deactivated20240]

IM FCKING SCREAMINNGNGNGSKLNSGK

[spongebob-autisticquestions]

One thing I worry about in society is how autistic people seem to be more at risk for getting in trouble for things they didn’t even do all because of not understanding the situation in the first place

For example: I remember one time I was shopping at a supermarket, and after paying, a staff member walked up to me, and without explaining why, asked me if they could look inside my bag. I was only aware they suspected me of shoplifting (which I hadn’t) because of a previous post I’d read about another autistic in a similar situation. Imagine if an autistic person, unaware of the hidden context, declined to let them look inside the bag. They’d already be deemed as suspicious when in reality, they just didn’t want someone to look inside

Another time I was about to go to a university party organised by the university itself. I was carrying an empty Coca-Cola bottle ONLY because I was drinking one beforehand, and couldn’t find a bin. Without warning, a staff member grabbed my empty bottle and took it away. At first I thought they were just being helpful until I saw the stern look on their face, and then I was confused (only later did I realise they might have thought I would refill it with alcohol later on or something). When I was unable to get in due to not having enough money, I had a shutdown due to the noise and confusion, and was then screamed at to get out despite the fact I did nothing wrong

This is the kind of thing autistic people have to deal with. Society has to learn to understand that just because a person isn’t reacting the way you expect, and seems “suspicious”, doesn’t mean they are. There’s a high chance they’re an autistic person who may not be fully understanding of the situation at hand, especially when the other person isn’t explicit about what’s going on

[800-dick-pics]

as a black autistic person this type of shit is so fucking dangerous and common for me

im already “suspicious” for being black and my autism makes other ppl see me as a direct threat

ive had white and non black allistic people threaten to call the cops on me for stimming inside stores, push me out of places bc “looking like i was casing the place” (no i just wear sunglasses constantly bc light is too much), ive been in situations where i had to pinch myself n make my inner palm bleed to make sure i wasnt being nonverbal to a cop that could just kill me for not responding 110% calm and nice or stimming bc “sudden movement” is dangerous coming from a black body, ive had other white autistics call me weird and suspicious for doing the same things they do bc they inherently see my blackness as something to watch out for

a lot of what “suspicious” is about is based on racist and ableist and as someone whos always gonna be getting the brunt of suspicion in society bc my blackness affects every aspect of how im treated, i think its important to bring up that white autistics are often going to be given the benifit of the doubt, offered empathy and shown more respect when dealing with the situation of doing something “wrong” in the eyes of allistic people

for a white autistic, not understanding/processing a situation makes you suspicious

but for black autistic people were always assumed a threat to the safety of others so things escalate pass suspicion very quickly

a cop may see a white or lightskinned autistic person having a meltdown in public and see the autism and still might harass u about it (bc acab) but they will bring more empathy to you durring that time

a cop might see me a black person having a meltdown in public and try to arrest me,might shoot at me bc they feel “threatened” might use excessive force bc i look “aggressive” or they have no patience for being nonverbal, might harass me bc i “look out of place”

this isnt just cops tho, its the whole damn world, ableism and antiblackness together is so terrifying and it kills

[theocseason4]

When my daughter asks me why I named her Rhony I’ll just show her this video

[trapcard]

I love hereditary

[bitterblackbitch]

[ariesmarsinthe3rd]

all 5 of them are having a completely different experience and conversation

[bunnyalope]

cyberpunk did it again

nsfw warning

https://twitter.com/neondreamgirl/status/1138564581125763075

shut up about how cyberpunk “isn’t transphobic anymore” for fucks sake its literally got a “haha woman with a dick” joke and i swear to god if one of you says “its satire!” it isn’t its literally just “hahaha woman has penis how shocking” its indistinguishable from a transphobicc joke in any way shape or form

[bunnyalope]

i’m going to request that non-trans women reblog this (and make sure to tag it as transmisogyny ffs)

[femmedesyeuxnoirs]

[classiclinds-deactivated2024103]

A person with an abusive nature will always register you standing up for yourself as an act of betrayal. Betray them.

[spacejelly710]

This is so important. As a good person, you may choose to stick around to prove to someone that you’re not a bad person. You have nothing to prove to a bad person. You cannot help everyone. You cannot fix everyone. It’s not your fault.

[nevver]

Mirror mirror, Eric T. White

[perksofbeingdisabled]

Vintage on disability rights.

[littleredspaces]

Don’t let the black and white trick you. The Capitol Crawl was in 1990. This is not ancient history.

[somekindaspacecadet]

This was in 1990.

[bogleech]

Finally growing one of my favorite plants

[ayellowbirds]

gasp! Are those cobra lilies?

[i-can-do-tricks]

oh shit!!!!!! oh shit it’s June 9!!!!!! it’s 6/9!

But what’s more, since its 2019, is that:

it is exactly 50 years between 6/9/69 and 6/9/69

[sounddesignerjeans-deactivated2]

Visit Original Link

Easily the best audio post I’ve ever made

[halgorithmic]

Guys lemme tell you bout this thing

To give you perspective , I dont really feel my legs unless I’ve worked out for at least five minutes and it’s been like this for a couple years now so when the first couple seconds popped up I was like “yoo this kinda sounds good? Familiar?” Then THAT shift happened and istg I could feel all of my limbs and they all were screaming at me with the fight or flight response. Freaked me the fuck out man but good song

[sounddesignerjeans-deactivated2]

come listen to my song, it will tear off your fucking legs

[perfectlygenericblog]

“Oh, your song slaps? That’s cute. This one amputates.”

[uberfluss]

if i had my soul it’d escaped at this

[hawkyaly]

Opposite of the original song, no contagious dancing, only paralyzing fear.

[5-to-4]

“Striking vipers” (2019) dir. Owen Harris

[bpd-dylan-hall-deactivated20190]

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL

“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”

[raginrayguns]

My mom learned it because she figured she’ll go deaf when she gets old

[manyblinkinglights]

My family went holiday SCUBA diving once, and a couple of Deaf guys were in the group. I was really little and I spent most of the briefing overcome with the realization that while the rest of us were going to have regulators in our mouths and be underwater fairly soon, they were going to be able to do all the same stuff and keep talking.

[tell-the-stars-hello]

The only reason some form of sign language is not a standard skill is ableism, as far as I can tell.

[emoracreations]

For anyone interested in learning, Bill Vicars has full lessons of ASL on youtube that were used in my college level classes. 

https://www.youtube.com/user/billvicars

and here’s the link to the website he puts in his videos:

https://www.lifeprint.com/