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finally remembering to make this
idk who needs to hear this, but put on that brace. use that cane. sit more often. if it is something that will help you, let it help you. go buy a brace, a cane, a shower stool, a portable chair, whatever it is that will make your life even just a little bit easier. you deserve it. whether you are diagnosed with something or not, let the aid aid you.
Cat paw prints in the medieval floor tiles of the 12th century CE St Peter Church in Wormleighton, England
remember when websites were written on purpose, and not generated by autocomplete in the instant you run the web search? anyway, unrelated, this webpage purporting to relay expert knowledge on which plants are safe for my snake's tank just told me I would know if he was biting them and getting irritated because he would start pawing at his mouth.
no but the “”ai”” boom is crazy bc they made the entire internet so shitty that the only reason to use it is because it’s where all the people are and now they’re getting rid of the people. like i’m straight up logging off and going to the library there’s nothing on here anymore
‘here’s how to tell if an image is ai’ ‘signs the person you’re talking to is a bot’ ‘how to tell if a song is ai generated’ ah but consider this: i am shutting my laptop and walking outside
I saw a bsky post last year where someone said their grandma couldn't tell what was real on the internet anymore so she stopped using it and I really, genuinely think the techbros currently ruining everything have never even considered that possibility. their projections and pie charts and market share research and whatever simply do not take into account a scenario where people lose interest in being online. like yeah we're pretty much all gonna keep using the internet to book travel and look up words and order pizza, but in terms of how we spend our leisure time? I'm still extremely online, but in the last few years I've been learning candlemaking and carpentry and sewing, and I was already spending a lot of time cooking and reading books and skating at the rink and hiking, and an afternoon spent on any of those things always leaves me feeling better about myself than an afternoon spent doomscrolling. I think my daily life is going to keep reflecting that more and more as the slop encroaches, and it sounds like I'm far from the only one feeling that way. silver lining to everything, I suppose.
in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years
the theories get even more egregious during the imperial era, with people straight up thinking she joined the rebellion in secret and is loading her songs with subliminal rebel propaganda. their main piece of evidence for this is if you play a certain song backwards, it sounds like she’s saying “freedom” in shyriiwook. the fans get really defensive if you point out she’s performed at the yearly empire day celebration thrice now and her family historically owned ewok slaves
i regret to inform both you beautiful people that this isn’t going to go how you think it will
spiff fans (also known as “spiffies”) insist that the two decommissioned venator-class destroyers spiff purchased, the bad blood and the reputation, are for diplomatic purposes that benefit the rebellion. jedi’lors have concocted theories that she served on both ships during the clone wars and was respectful of every clone that served there, despite her courtship of a gravball player that thrice advocated against the clone veterans being granted natural citizenship
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all goofing aside I don't understand the urge to reimagine Tay'lor Allisoarn Spiff as a secret Jedi fighting for the rebellion when the rebel alliance is literally like overflowing with women fighting the empire. Gara and Ke'Cha and Mileu and Halcey are right there. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't like Taylor but why would you hang all your hopes of taking down the empire on her
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Isn't Lady Gara a force sensitive?
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Hence why I put her in the list of famous force using women who are in the rebel alliance?
(okay ignore the fact I've put an image in here but this is ops icon)
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#im sure op has this post muted by now but Ur icon is so real op
The icon is because of this post
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btw to just clarify for anyone who sees this reblog of this post
op is basically saying something along the lines of "yea ik tay'lor spiff is a jedi but like. why is she y'all's only force using rebel icon when there are all these other force users in the rebellion???"
i might have worded this badly but hopefully i got the main point across
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Hi OP here I most CERTAINLY DID NOT SAY TAY'LOR SPIFF IS A JEDI???
(based on this post)
you wouldn't believe who showed up in today's Jango Fett comic issue
(Jango Fett #4 by Ethan Sacks and Luke Ross)
head in my hands. she looks so much like the design i made too
how are u falling for hypothetical propaganda
happy 100k to this post. this awful awful post
For disability pride, think I want to focus on this one thing that been bothering me
Been very frustrated lately by lack of phone call accessibility as someone who lacks speech but needs a lot of resources to stay healthy.
With rise of AI, it's only getting worse and worse.
More places changing their systems to incorporate AI answering machines.
Thing is...
Whenever I hear most people ranting about this change, it's usually about how annoying it is from an abled-person perspective or environmental or ethical impact.
Which are important valid reasons to be upset. I share those sentiments too.
But feel like disability is once again forgotten about within important discussion about change.
AI creates terrible language accessibility issues.
In fact, that's why it so annoying to deal with it.
In the past, if a place didn't have a call center or desk person to answer calls, they use extentions.
That meant you had to press a few numbers to get the right person.
Now with AI, you're expected to have a full conversation with a robot.
Tell them why you're calling, who you need to speak to, verify your info so the humans don't have to later, etc.
These bots can be bad at understanding what able-people are saying, so imagine how they handle these disabled callers:
People who use AAC (speech aids/devices)
People who slur, stutter, have "strange" voice or pronunciation
People with rapid or disorganized speech
People who use poor grammar & who don't speak full words or sentences
People who mix up similar common words
People with "deaf accent"
(i don't know if there is a different preferred term for this. Im sorry if I sound offensive. Please Lmk)
People with non-communicative speech such as vocal tics, echolalia, or babbling
Anyone who uses speech or language in a way that needs a human mind to interpret
Anyone whose voice sounds notably different
Ability to understand what AI is saying can be harder too:
d/Deaf people and other hearing differences
Auditory processing disorder
Receptive language disorder
Developmental disability, especially intellectual and learning disabilities
(AI can't help people who need things explained a certain way. AI unreliable and fails to adapt a lot.)
Anyone who frequently can't make out sounds and/or speech
Anyone who frequently has trouble with meanings in conversation
The problems I often face with AI answering machines (and that I'm sure many other disabled people have faced as well):
AI slightly mishearing me/my device
AI mishearing so badly that it basically makes up a fake conversation
AI not hearing me/my device at all
AI registering tics and stims as answers
AI "explaining" an instruction by repeating the same instruction again word-for-word
AI directing me to the wrong person without trying to confirm what I said
AI sometimes just... hanging up on me right after I speak my first answer...
These are the machines being put in front of
hospitals
doctors offices
mental health centers
pharmacies
transportation and in-home care
health insurance member services
medical supply companies
government resource agencies
non-profit organizations
advocacy groups
justice centers & other legal resources
customer service lines
many other places disabled people often need to access from home
It's another example of some of the most vulnerable being pushed away from the things we need, and we're also being forgotten in these discussions about things that can affect us a lot
Next time someone is ranting about AI job interviewers, please also remember:
the AI pharmacy assistants that make it impossible for someone with a speech disorder to sort out their meds
the AI scheduler that won't allow a D/deaf person to access the right extension of the clinic to set up an appointment
the AI agent that confuses an intellectually disabled person into anger and tears
the AI answerer that hangs up on a mentally ill person seeking help in crisis because they aren't speaking coherently enough
Human beings need to be at the forefront of human resources and issues for disabled people especially. Please remember us. Please fight.
Happy disability pride ♡
Guys, we've talked about this.
You need to give your domesticated wading ghosts larger death pools. I understand if you can't find a real Well, but you need an enclosure at least 5 times the size of the spirit itself.
Thank you for the PSA, and it’s certainly good advice! I am happy to report that in this particular photoset we’re looking at a temporary holding tank, possibly being used to keep a lab employee safe during a routine water test. There is a strict no-shared-space policy for outside contractors at reputable spirit preserves, both to keep the ghost from becoming frustrated at its inability to approach what it perceives as prey, and to ensure the safety of outside parties. Training sessions focusing heavily on positive reinforcement are used to get the ghost accustomed to the holding tank as well as short trips between the pond and an appropriate secured location. Many health checks and enrichment activities can be conducted directly at the water source, but sometimes a more controlled environment is required. Please be assured that the ghost in the photographs is doing ‘well’. ☆⌒( ＾ ▽ ゜)
not to give green day credit but it is immensely funny how often Big Corporation For Guys Men Guys Guy Corporation will be like hi green day play my event. and green day is like ok Big Corporation For Guys Men Guys Guy Corporation but you know we suck dick and penis and want to kill politicians and we are going to play our song we suck dick and penis and want to kill politicians .and Big Corporation For Guys Men Guys Guy Corporation is like ok green day thats cool. and then green day plays their song we suck dick and penis and want to kill politicians. and Big Corporation For Guys Men Guys Guy Corporation is like wtf green day you cant do that you cant play your song we suck dick and penis and want to kill politicians. and this has been happening in a cycle for 30 years.
reminds me of the time Rage Against the Machine were vying for Christmas Number 1 (british public was doing a little trolling) so the BBC had to let them come on and play 'Killing In the Name Of' live on the breakfast show, and they asked them not to swear and they swore
me when I tell the guy who sings "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" not to do that
....why are we not giving Green Day credit?
You know, the band who had Pansy Division as openers in 1994?
Who wrote an entire fucking ALBUM, not a song but A WHOLE ALBUM, protesting the Bush administration?
The band where the lead singer stopped the show to jump into the audience and deck a guy who was harassing a girl?
Like they've been walking the walk for 32 years I THINK IT'S OKAY TO GIVE THEM CREDIT
Albert Square, Manchester (1910) by Adolphe Valette | Contemporary Art (2015) by Emily Allchurch
the top is an original, from 1910, the bottom is a new version painted in 2015
THE BOTTOM IS A PAINTING????
also does a really good job reminding the view just how much air quality has improved since we stopped burning coal in every building lol
Stardew valley is problematic because it forces you to have an outside cat in a threatened woodland environment
The threat to the woodland environment being me of course
it really is disappointing how much leftist talking points and criticisms of individuals are directly drawn from critique of the appearences of individuals or oppressing factors related to them. people who can't critique Elon musk without critiquing his social inadequacy when he's autistic, people who can't critique graham linehan without calling him ugly, people who can't critique Donald Trump without bringing up that he wears diapers, or is ugly, etc. etc. etc. idk bro the fact that these people are fascists who directly get people killed feels a bit more important!
guys. Guys please you're allowed to say big boy words. please we cannot keep just rolling with the sanitization of every space on the internet ok. you're allowed to say suicide. you're allowed to say porn. they're not bad words, they're just words.
also by ''censoring'' the words with silly spellings you're actually making it much harder for people to filter out. please just say Sex you don't have to call it woohoo like it's the fucking sims. i promise the Word Police aren't going to arrest you
okay, like, listen. imagine if animals formed a support group for people who aren't human. and all the resources were like "for creatures with four legs" and the birds went "hey, we don't have four legs? can we be included please?" and the other animals went "oh my GOD stop making things about you. humans have two legs so you can't possibly be oppressed for having two legs." and also no one is even talking about insects or arachnids.
this is the most vivid analogy for the experience of being queer on tumblr that i have ever seen
just in from tiktok: pictures of babies in diapers on the side of a diaper box is pedophilia
I don't know if stupid pearl clutchers know this, but the largest cohort of people who need diapers/nappies, has traditionally been babies, and it is a long established norm to put images of the target customer demographic on the packaging.
If people can't detach their sexualisation of continence aids from the children (and adults) that need them, that's their problem and actually they are the one who needs to stop projecting their sexualisation of children on diaper packaging as something the rest of us need to care about.
Ahhh, takes me back to when I was on the lj crochet community 2+ decades ago and there was a meltdown because someone posted a photo of their four year old wearing a beanie with cat ears and said "You can't see it, but he is naked because 'cats don't wear clothes'" and a whole section of the comm melted down and accused her of wanting pedos to find the photos.
I cannot stress enough: all you could see was this child's head and shoulders.
As the wank continued, someone else posted a photo of a baby in a diaper holding a crocheted pillow, and guess what happened.
Everything old is new again.
Huh.
So there's this woman I follow on YouTube named @aketchjoywinnie, and she lives in a traditional village either in or near the border with Uganda. She does a lot of short videos on the local culture and diaries going up through her current day-to-day, which is that she has a suitor she likes and is hoping the tribal elders approve the match.
So I'm sitting here crocheting and watching YouTube shorts and she just straight-up rewired my brain chemistry. She's explaining how dowry works, and then she said "in some western cultures, the dowry can be an expensive ring."
HOLY FUCK
Like
She's not wrong
She's absolutely not wrong
We tend to view an engagement ring these days as consumerism for consumerism's sake but it was historically a way for a man to show he had the wealth to care for a wife, and, should anything happen to him, it was something she could sell to support herself through the mourning period while her family helped her get everything back together.
"If you can propose with a dowry of a ring, why can't you propose with a dowry of fifty goats?"
SHE'S NOT WRONG.
(Also you should go give her a follow. She's so sweet and joyful and I love her.)
Bride gift, not dowry. Bride gift comes from the man or his family, dowry comes from the bride's family. And yes, jewelry has always been both a way to display wealth and a source of emergency cash.
There are a number of ways money can change hands at a marriage. Sometimes it goes to the couple, to help them establish themselves, sometimes it goes from one family to another.
My brother in law's wife grew up in rural China, an only child (of course). When he traveled there to meet her parents, he understood that he would be expected to provide a substantial gift to her parents, enough to help ease their old age. They were Chinese village middle class, but he's urban American middle class and thus far wealthier.
He thought he might have to buy goats, but it turned out her parents wanted a boat. A nice little fishing boat with a motor and fish-finding sonar.
And that's what they got.
I'm just saying what she called it. I'm assuming she knows her culture better than we do.
Well, she might not be as familiar with the English language terminology because the British had dowry instead of bride price, so we don't have as much experience with the term.
Bride price says "women are highly valuable. If you want our daughter, you must compensate us for the loss." Dowry says "women are a huge burden. We will pay you to take our daughter off our hands." They are actually enormously different and have very different implications for women.
Her culture may call it dowry when they speak English, but the British, who for obvious reasons invented most of the words we speak when we speak English, had dowry as a cultural thing, and when they encountered societies that did the opposite, they didn't call it "male dowry" or "reverse dowry" or something, they coined a completely different phrase. (A phrase that itself carried sexist implications, as it was positing that women in that culture were property that could be sold... in most cultures with bride price, it is not thought of as buying a family's daughter but as compensating them for losing her labor. Which just goes to show you that people who have dowry find it very hard to comprehend women being valuable in a culture.)
Anyway, as a native English speaker, I wouldn't call it dowry even if she does, because the word "dowry" has a specific meaning in English and what she's talking about is actually neither dowry nor bride price. It's the man paying the woman for her companionship and labor, or, viewed another way, it is the man expressing that he can take care of the woman, as the woman in the video said. It's given directly to the woman on marriage, not to her parents, so it's not bride price... but because it's given to the woman and not to the man, it's not dowry.
(Another interpretation of dowry, more charitable, is that it consists of things the woman will use to make a household -- cups and plates, cutlery, blankets, etc -- so it's not a gift to the man, it's the property she brings to the marriage in order to immediately get started on the work of a wife. But I have also heard this referred to as a hope chest, assembled by a girl as she grows into a woman in "hope" that someday she will marry, in which case it's not a dowry because the girl herself is building it and she will keep it, she'll just share it with her husband.)
Damn, this shit is complicated. :-)
Alara?
Let me make this very clear.
I am not going to let a white woman from the US correct a Black African woman in a traditional village on her own culture.
What you are doing is gross. It assumes that because she's African she can't speak fluent English (and that the version of English she speaks isn't as "correct" as BSE because it's a dialect), and that you can speak over her because you clearly know better than she does.
I don't normally take you to task for bad takes, but this goes well beyond "a bad take." You are actively engaging in racist behavior.
STOP.
PERIOD.
Oh, I've also seen these shorts and they're super cool! What is NOT cool is that both of these people came onto your post assuming that because Aketch Joy Winnie is an African woman from a traditional village that she must be uneducated and not fluent in English. Which is weird because English is one of the official languages of Uganda and widely spoken, and SHE WAS AN ENGLISH TEACHER. She literally has a degree in English and Literature! She studied hard for that! And the part about not understanding British English? She used to live in London for several years while modeling!
And even if she wasn't literally an English Teacher, assuming she isn't fluent in English and can't possibly understand what she's saying is not cool!
