A plethora of hyperfixations

She/they, Just a lil blog for all the shit I like. Currently The Amazing Digital Circus. TERFS/Radfems Dni

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The new wave of talk singing sucks so bad

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Healthcare workers don’t make themselves the victim challenge: impossible

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I hope there’s a version of me that got diagnosed young and understood and was taught to accept she had limitations. And that she found a career that wouldn’t push her past her limits. And that she’d be able to live her life fully because she’s not drained. And I hope she’s not in love with everything that pushes her to her breaking point.

[eldbitch-horror]

But I am glad I’m the version of myself that I am. I don’t know my limits so I push until I find them. I have the emotional self discipline of a monk (at work). I am rock steady and reliable. Teachers pet grows up to get big raises it turns out. And I am learning to do things tired. I am unstoppable and unbreakable and maybe the other version of me wouldn’t be.

[eldbitch-horror]

I hope there’s a version of me that got diagnosed young and understood and was taught to accept she had limitations. And that she found a career that wouldn’t push her past her limits. And that she’d be able to live her life fully because she’s not drained. And I hope she’s not in love with everything that pushes her to her breaking point.

[eldbitch-horror]

Just a reminder that if you get spoiled when you’ve been warned spoilers are floating on the internet but you’re too chronically online to just avoid it

That’s on you

[eldbitch-horror]

Quitting nicotine is so easy you just have to feel like shit for the rest of your life

[radicalgraff]

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

[lady-of-vitreous-sight]

btw. really, really important cooking skill that not enough people are talking about: substituting ingredients.

i feel like all I see is make fun of people for making bad substitutions, but substituting is just so important.

knowing and being comfortable using a red bell pepper instead of a green like the recipe says. using chocolate chips instead of chocolate chunks. using colby instead of cheddar. using turkey instead of ground beef. ricotta and cottage. almonds for walnuts. parsley for basil.

and then there's plenty of more advanced shit. water and heavy cream/half and half instead of milk. making your own seasoning blend because you ran out. celery salt for regular salt. sour cream for plain yogurt.

this is a skill, and it is an essential skill. you have to be comfortable not precisely following the recipe, or you'll find all cooking to be monumentally more stressful. the goal can not be getting it perfect, it is getting it done.

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Something that kinda suck is that ADHD content for AFAB people seems to be made for children or mothers.

[egberts]

the world's smallest carnivore is called the "least weasel" 😭😭 i'm dying but like if it's the smallest carnivore then it sure is the least amount of weasel you can have 😭😭😭

[sator-the-wanderer]

Look at him: this is absolutely the least amount of weasel you can have

[daughterofsarenrae]

To really put it in perspective

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I have been out of work fairly consistently since January due to a stress injury. At first I thought I’d get fired. They were very understanding. So understanding that at my first ever performance review they gave me a significant raise????? This job is something else ❤️

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I have had people tell me I’m very articulate or have a wide vocabulary

And I’m almost positive it’s this websites fault

[doomhamster]

I just saw someone say "I thought everyone knew that right-wingers never seek to understand, and in fact don't WANT to understand, the things they rail against, like gender identities" and that's true.

But I wish more people would grasp that this isn't a function of being RIGHT-wing, it's a function of being any-fucking-WING. The idea that you don't have to understand how something works in order to judge whether it's Good or Bad, and in fact trying to understand something Bad is going to contaminate you spiritually, is very much in evidence on the left as well.

It's just that the left-wingers have a different list of "I don't want to know about this and you knowing about it makes you suspect at best" topics.

[eldbitch-horror]

When I was really little we were at sea world and the lady taking orders at a food spot we were at had some facial hair. I of course asked my mom why. She chastised me for even saying it out loud

And I think that’s why I have a beard now

[pawberri]

I saw some snippet of a callout post for an autistic trans woman where they list social faux pas she committed, and I think we allistic people should all feel 100x more ashamed of not telling people in the moment how we feel about what they're doing. I think its extremely evil and cruel to not only lie to an autistic person and blame them for it but also to feel justified shaming them for your behavior. And it's currently the social norm to do that

[pawberri]

Everytime we as allistic people sit and force a smile or sigh and act subtly grumpy or otherwise lie to an autistic person's face about how we feel about what they did it is in fact Our Fault that we are enduring whatever the autistic person is daring to try and share with us. You can literally say something out loud directly. The literal structure of our social existence will always traumatize autistic people unless you can give a fuck enough to consider it isn't their fault that you didn't communicate with them

[pawberri]

Even I couldn't understand this until my wife was in tears because I had internalized the idea that it was her fault that people were uncomfortable in a conversation where no one told her they were uncomfortable and blamed her for it. Allistic people punish autistic people for so many Percieved slights, or even decide together afterward what exactly the slight was and then make their collective judgment behind the autistic persons back. Not only do we get the benefit of communicating nonverbally through obtuse social cues the autistic person can't parce, we then get to say that we weren't going behind their back because we all did those social cues they are too disabled to understand Right in front of them. No, what you did was choose to suppress your feelings and then reap the social benefits of being in on the discomfort.

[bumblewyn]

this is literally why many autistic people genuinely worry that their friends secretly hate them, by the way. because many people in the past did.

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[eldbitch-horror]

70 dollars for 3/4 of a tank I FUCKING LOVE IT HERE