PedanticPractitioner

i gave up and started using this as the dumping grounds for all the political shit i reflexivly feel the need to reblog. antifash, antiterf, anti ai. this gets depressing nut at least i can offload it here rather than storing it in my brain.

[madlibs18]

generational screenshot. put it in the louvre.

[byjove]

‘Nuclear Family Month’ is so funny as a concept. I have never seen a nuclear family worth celebrating.

[dragonessmiralis]

The Addams

[byjove]

Do Grandmama, Uncle Fester and the rotating cast of possibly existent cousins mean nothing to you? 😔

[dragonessmiralis]

I may in fact be stupid

[byjove]

It’s okay. Understanding the enemy (the concept of a nuclear family) is the first step to defeating it.

[magicalmysteryperson]

Nuclear Family Month is a thing? That... that can't be real.

oh wow. it's real.

....real stupid.

[byjove]

sadly. microdosing Tumblr on the worst news stories I have had the misfortune of reading.

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

art by @niochemblyat

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

I always know its getting toasty out in the world because girls start reblogging this post like crazy

[beholdingslut]

in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY

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Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).

[punkrorschach]

happy first day of pride everyone

[vaspider]

I listen to this song at least 2 or 3 times a week and multiple phrases from it have become vocal stims in our house.

[politijohn]

Source

Happy Pride Month!

[lgbt-tiktoks]

Description: [A video of a woman riding a galloping horse bareback while holding a large rainbow flag.]

[nattousan]

i felt like these tags really added to the experience, thanks @cynderxdustypaws for your knowledge

[naamahdarling]

This is one of the most powerful images I have ever seen, and I will reblog it every single time because every single time it brings tears to my eyes.

[byjove]

I love reading Wikipedia pages about random plants and animals before I go to bed at night. Oh, this plant likes swamps and fens? Me too.

[byjove]

why

[byjove]

btw, I’m banned from editing Wikipedia for the next 11 months so I can’t fix that q for them

[drafty-castle]

Isn’t doddering dillies what we’ve got in the White House?

[beardedmrbean]

[jellybeanzrock]

Today I was chatting with two guys and mentioned I was aroace. It went a little something like this.

A: wtf is that

B: it means she’s not attracted to people in that way

A: bro you can’t just not pick a side, that’s crazy

B: nah, it just means she’s spectator mode

A: OHHH IT MAKES SENSE NOW

I have never felt more validated or laughed so hard

[depsidase]

[todayintokyo]

German company Kärcher has used its high-powered pressure washers to create an enormous Godzilla on the Iwaya Kawauchi Dam in Saga Prefecture, Japan, to celebrate the dam's 50th anniversary. Godzilla will remain on the wall for 2 to 3 months.

[feathery-dreamer]

I'm glad I lived to see pressure washing art, that's a massive upgrade from writing "wash me" on a dusty car's window

[athingofvikings]

@mr-crocodile

[mac-n-cheese-flavored-arson]

There are a lot of reasons that aba therapy is abusive and ineffective but one of the big ones is that instead of redirecting actually harmful dangerous behaviours while filling the need that they're filling, autistic people are just abused until we can mask well enough and the behaviours stop

I have two examples here, tw for autistic self injury

I used to bite myself, I did it every single day and there were years where I had a permanent bite mark on my arm, I would do it so hard and so often that it caused open wounds and then I would pick the scabs and keep biting, there were multiple times as a kid I got infections from this but I needed it to regulate my sensory issues and anxiety. I also chewed on metal or plastic constantly, sometimes choking on it, destroying my teeth, and cutting up my mouth from the sharp ends. In highschool an autistic friend introduced me to chewy necklaces and bought me one from stimtastic and being able to redirect my biting towards things meant to bite ended me biting myself or chewing on dangerous things almost immediately

My younger brother also used to hit his head against the wall and there was once that he gave himself a concussion from doing it too hard for too long, and bruises and knots were extremely common. My parents assumed it was tantrums and punished him until he stopped and he started having daily meltdowns instead because he was severely unregulated. My grandma started filling up a two liter soda bottle with water and giving that to him every time he was hitting his head against the wall until he started asking for the two liter instead! No more injuries, no more pain, and no more daily meltdowns! Eventually he was able to redirect this to banging his head against his bed which was even safer while filling the same sensory need

We needed to be taught not to do our original stims, repeated open wounds and infections and repeated head injuries was genuinely something that couldn't continue forever, and replacing those stims with things that were physically safe was the best possible outcome for that situation! But in aba therapy, both of the safer stims we started doing would still be punished and we'd still be abused for them just because they're weird or not socially acceptable.

Aba therapy is meant to make autistics appear nuerotypical but it's not actually meant to help us regulate sensory issues or cope with things that are distressing, sometimes redirecting autistic behaviours is absolutely necessary but punishing a behaviour that's meeting a need without allowing an alternative doesn't work

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Job Loss and Regaining Meaning

Got a letter from the Oklahoma City Housing Authority a couple days ago. It stated that they would have an apartment for me as soon as one was available. It also gave no time line. It could be a couple weeks. It could be over a year. I've heard horror stories about people waiting for several years to get into a low income apartment. Even with social security disability insurance paying for my doctors' appointments and treatments, I couldn't have afforded to move out of Nebraska if I didn't have family help.

When I first applied for social security disability insurance in 2006, it took until 2008 to get approved. I was denied several times and ultimately hired an attorney to speed up the process. For two years I was dependent on my family for almost everything. I had zero income other than what my parents gave me under the table because I couldn't handle even a minimum wage customer service job. The factory job I held for a couple months wasn't bad until my work suffered from sleep deprivation. I did well in work that didn't involve working with the public. Even people who donated to the Goodwill store where I worked on the loading/unloading dock were often nasty and barbaric.

Sadly, most jobs I ever had available to me were customer service jobs. There were a few factories in Kearney (the town I lived in from 2005 to 2022). But those jobs were tough to get because everyone wanted them. Factory work was far better than customer service, at least for me. Paid better too. But there really aren't nearly as many factory jobs in my nation as there were in the past. The 20 something barely making a living working even 40 hours a week at a fast food place and living in his parent's basement would have probably been working a factory job and had union protection if he was born 100 years earlier. Or he would have been a self sufficient homesteader growing his own food and eating meat from his own herds had be been young when the Homestead Act was passed. They used to tell young people who couldn't find jobs in their hometowns "Go West young man." There is no frontier anymore, at least not until space exploration ramps up.

People talk about how US companies are moving manufacturing out of China and back to the US (this is often referred to as near shoring). But even most of those jobs will be automated. Even fast-food drive throughs are starting to be automated. I imagine that any job that can possibly be automated will be once automation becomes cheaper and better than human labor. Our managers don't care about the work you put in. If they did, they wouldn't have outsourced your job decades ago. I get so frustrated when I hear someone go on about how hard they work. You do realize that your boss doesn't care about how much work you put in. Ironically, I kind of don't either. You just as well be a draft horse to most bosses. And draft horses eventually got replaced by tractors and automobiles. Putting in lots of work by itself doesn't make you special, certainly not in eyes of the people paying you.

Bosses have been outsourcing jobs for decades because it was cheaper to have it done in third world countries with fewer labor laws, fewer unions, and fewer environmental regulations. Eventually third world countries will resort to automation. I totally understand why people start their own small businesses, buy rental properties, buy farmland, and do the digital nomad thing. I imagine that self-employment, subsistence farming on small homesteads, and free lancing will become very popular again. Those were the historical norm until the Industrial Revolution. In most African countries, these never truly went out of style. Maybe they are just ahead of the developed world in that regard. Even illiterate peasants grew most of their own food for most of history. The modern worker doesn't even do that.

I lost my career to disability. It took a few years before I came to terms with the fact that my career died. I went through all the stages of grieving and death. While it wasn't a physical death, it was the death of my career and possible family that I was grieving. My previous self who was poised to be a very productive member of society and a great father died. But the building of something new is often built upon the ashes and ruins of the old. My reborn self became a blogger and independent scholar. While I doubt I will ever make above poverty wages, I am content with what I do. I guess this blog will be the closest thing to a legacy I will ever have.

Source: Job Loss and Regaining Meaning

[dreamingnemleria]

[drafty-castle]

I have that every time I see a political ad that “endorses conservative [name]” i automatically assume the guy is a pedophile.

[v-for-fili]

Happy pride month to my dad. When I came out as bi to him, this man googled what it ment, look at me and said "ohh. Yeah. You get that from me. You'd have far more siblings of I only shaged women." And went right back to his work emails.

[frightfullytreeish]

[charlizetheronsbush-official]

tv pitch: a completely average workplace sitcom except that it’s established at the end of the pilot that it takes place on the 90th floor of the world trade center in 2000. every episode the date is shown, just to build the sense of impending doom. the show is otherwise a completely generic the office ripoff. the intro sequence is a montage of airplanes taking off.

at the end of the second season, we reach 9/10/01. after six months of waiting, season 3 drops. now it’s 9/12/01. nothing has happened. the characters carry on as normal. fans of the series go insane. the show never explains what happened, and continues to pretend it’s a normal sitcom.

[auxryn]

Wait a minute. Influenza rips through the office on 9/10/01. All the main cast are sick in bed the next day.

On 9/12/01, they are no better but are out of sick days and need to return to work. They are transferred to a new office building because the old office is unavailable.

They continue working as if nothing happened, unwilling to acknowledge that most of the side characters are dead.

The viewer is left to wonder if the living should envy the dead. Perhaps this office is some form of purgatory, which the others have escaped.

In the climax of the final season, the workers form a union and make demands of their employers. They are all fired. A new crew of fresh-faced recruits files in to take their place.

It is a happy ending. Through the termination of their employment, they have finally escaped the samsara of office life.

In a final scene, they are seen to be having fun with side characters from previous seasons, including those who died on 9/11.