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He/Him, bi and proud of it, 20, interested in far too much, reddit refugee disclaimer: I'm horny on main, this was decided democratically and you only have yourselves to blame here PFP credit goes to Kévin Gemin, @k-eke in ca en hi fr ru

[beaft]

i am not a psychiatrist but i do find it really weird how autism checklists are so often focused on "outward" signs of autism rather than what is going on internally. i don't know how to explain it but "do you make eye contact with other people" feels like a much less relevant question than "how does it feel when you have to make eye contact with other people?"

[beaft]

while i'm here, the other one that always pisses me off is "do you interpret idioms literally, for example 'bull in a china shop'?"

well, no, obviously. i know what "bull in a china shop" means because that is a popular phrase with a clearly defined meaning. and if i hadn't heard it before, then i would still not interpret it literally, because it has the cadence of an idiom and i would probably be able to work out from context what it meant. what is the point of this question

[beaft]

third and final complaint: "are you good at noticing subtext?"

i feel like the problem with this question is best illustrated by a conversation i had with a friend a while back, where i said something like, "i feel very safe with you because you don't do subtle hints and you are always very straight-up with me about what you are thinking and feeling."

and he laid a hand on my shoulder and was like, look dude i'm gonna be straight up here. i am subtle with you constantly and you simply do not notice <3

[beaft]

@luckyybones hope you don't mind me screenshotting but you are actually so correct

[temporalreverie]

anyone have that picture with the 100 pool toy baltos. Its like a modern terracotta army

[temporalreverie]

THEY SHALL PROTECT MY MAUSOLEUM

[mollyjames]

quick little halply doodle for this morning

[kurhanchyk]

[kurhanchyk]

are you okay i noticed you reblogging "a raven with a damaged wing. it can still fly with ease" again

[thekenobee]

the funniest man on the planet

[demilypyro]

[ego-tempestas]

thought that said Canadian for some reason

[yokowan]

dealing with code written by scientists who are bad at programming? obnoxious at worst. generally simple enough that you're better off rewriting most of it.

dealing with code written by scientists who are good at programming? absolutely terrifying. you are presented with a hundred thousand lines of python code written by someone who has no formal training and whose first programming experience was teaching themselves fortran 77 on an old mainframe computer. not a single good practice convention is followed. unreadable syntax tricks you've never seen before are used to save like two or three lines here and there. there are absolutely arcane performance optimizations that have never been seen outside of like one paper published in the 90s and make the program like 5% faster. there's also freshman CS student level optimizations that they completely missed. there is basically no documentation. you are left to learn how it works with the source code and a dozen examples which have maybe three or four comments between them. good luck. may god save your soul.

[queer-as-city-folk]

At what point will gay English diverge enough to be considered its own dialect

[ego-tempestas]

I mean we've already had Polari but I doubt that's what you're talking aboutq

[markv5]

Крутой) via https://t.me/russian_cat_meme

[xiaq]

Question about your helmet. Did you add the ears yourself? How are they attached?

@deadums They’re Helmet Flair (like for motorcycles) magnet ears. Once you have the magnets installed they pop on and off really easily (great for swapping out for devil horns etc. or for when you’re landing in high wind and your lines get caught on them, lol)

[kiss-that-knight]

@/medievalcombatwales on tiktok

[kiss-that-knight]

[tpwrtrmnky]

I don't know who needs to hear this but in case it crosses the right timeline here it is:

Gamergate was more than a decade ago.

You're supposed to change and grow as a person in that timeframe.

Are you planning to spend even more of your life acting like feminists are the biggest threat to gaming in the middle of a hardware price crisis?

Take the L and move on. There is a life waiting for you beyond this.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

oh fuckkkk man not the SERIAL UNALIVER

[genderkoolaid]

the serial unaliver part is easy pickings. why is this college student going to active crime scenes in the first place? presumably alone other than her professor, otherwise the police at said crime scenes would provide more protection than a college professor ever could. is this a situation where a college student told her professor that she was going to illegally investigate a recent murder crime scene entirely on her own. professor of what even. what's this girl's major

[xidnaf]

public transit should be free. healthcare should be free. there should be a universal basic income and it should be enough to live a pleasant life, not just to survive. we should have a georgist-style land tax. we should have a 100% estate tax. we should nationalize the railroads and the electrical grid and cellphone companies and facebook and amazon and banks in general. it should be impossible for any one person to have a net worth above like five million dollars or an annual income above like 800k because it would all immediately get taxed away. publicly traded corporations should be illegal. anything with more than like 10 employees should legally have to become a worker-owned cooperative. but other than minor common-sense reforms like that i actually kinda like capitalism, so i think of myself as more of a centrist liberal than a socialist.

[pansyfemme]

me when i FUCKING get you *image of two mourning doves cuddling*

[paperandpencilsandskips]

[elbiotipo]

More than "here in the Southern Hemisphere we have inverted seasons :)" thing, which is TECHNICALLY true, I would go a step further and encourage to think about that "much of the world does not exactly has a spring-summer-fall-winter season sequence as they show in cartoons"

[paperdragonsong]

I will scream about this to anyone who listens forever. AUSTRALIA DOES NOT HAVE "ENGLISH SEASONS BUT BACKWARDS" and the insistence that it does creates a massive layer of alienation from the natural world.

I never really realised how much difference it makes until I went to England and realised that here the change of seasons is an obvious, visible, physical change in the world. Like, everything REALLY IS orange and foggy in autumn! In spring there are flowers EVERYWHERE, so much more than any other season, and the trees really do have all blossom and no leaves. Even if it doesn't snow, in winter there's frost all the time and the trees are bare and the sky is visibly greyer all the time. You don't need to be told "this date is the first day of spring", you can SEE IT (although this is getting way messier and less precise due to climate change).

By contrast, most places in Australia the seasons we're taught feel like arbitrary categories - and is it any surprise considering they're colonial constructs? Orange-leaved autumn and blossom-covered spring is a cartoon stereotype with no relevance on a continent where ALL NATIVE TREES ARE EVERGREEN!! Snowy winters are a joke in the desert, and even sunny summers don't ring particularly true considering that much of the country is in the tropics, where summer means monsoons - not that I've ever seen the concept that WE HAVE A MONSOON SEASON taught at an Australian school.

Most Indigenous nations around Australia had six or more seasons, revolving around wet and dry times as much as hot and cold, and marked by the appearances of certain native animals and flowers. Schools need to start teaching the real seasons, and explaining that climate cycles are too complex to generalise globally, or else we will keep raising generations who view the natural world as hostile and unpredictable and climate predictions as generally irrelevent and frequently wrong - and I'm sure I don't need to spell out why that's a problem in the era of climate crisis.

[tiredtransgal]

i want to add that 40% of the world's population lives in the tropics, and the 4 season model just doesn't make much sense for a lot of places in there. usually it's just the wet season/monsoon season and the dry season. it's often hot year round.

the 4 season model as you and i know it is a european invention, though 4 season models aren't unique to europe! most notably china has the same type of season subdivision.

in general the way humans define seasons is largely subjective and varies across cultures. the one you were taught is not at all universal!

[shegayonmygirl]

hang out and smoke weed we must, young skywalker

absolutely faded, we have to be

[shegayonmygirl]

ain't nothing to me this shit

[shegayonmygirl]

absolutely fucked I am

[shegayonmygirl]

can't believe you all did this without me.