This font is definitely the Powerpuff girls

34|Queer af|They/Them|Forever a Pokemon lover I'm here, I'm queer, my joint pain is moderate to severe

[emotional-support-possum]

TL;DR: don't tell your neurotypical management team you're neurodivergent. It will 100% backfire.

If you're neurodivergent and work under a purely neurotypical management team, don't disclose your neurodivergence to them. Just don't do it. Even if you think that it'll help them understand why you work and communicate the way you do.

Made the awful mistake is disclosing to my practice manager that I am on the spectrum, having been diagnosed nearly two years ago. Did it thinking that maybe, JUST MAYBE, she was a reasonable enough human that this would allow her to better understand me.

(Mind you, I had no intentions of ever telling her. My direct supervisor knew and she said she was not going to disclose this to PM, that if I wanted her knowing, it was up to me. I was absolutely fine with her not knowing.)

Nope. Awful mistake. Shit has only gotten worse. I'm pretty certain at this point I am being discriminated against. But I don't have any justifiable proof that'll hold up in court.

So now I'm forced to leave my team, all of whom I adore, to relocate to a different office where, while still under the same management team, I am no longer under the same roof as them, so I can hopefully go back to enjoying my job.

Y'all, I did this in an attempt to be better understood and it absofuckinglutely backfired.

Fortunately, knew direct supervisor has a child who is neurodivergent and she knows I am as well, as I have offered support to her. So this is hopefully going to be good for me. Because I'm terrified I'm going to get fired if I stay where I'm at

Oh, and I can't apply for anything else within the company (I'm in school through them, so I can't exactly leave) until September because of a written warning that followed a verbal warning that I absolutely never should have received in the first place (which would have made the written a verbal. It was a deserved warning. No denying that. The verbal was literally just a manager on a power trip). So before anyone says "just apply for a new job"...I can't.

[binturong-of-the-day]

The binturong of the irregular hexagon

[pokemon-cards-hourly]

[butt-rice]

i wish there was a way to say "you're right, but this is really ineffective and even counterproductive messaging to anyone who doesn't already agree with you" without sounding like an asshole

[azurele]

*packing my suitcase for a 3 day trip* hm, but what if I need my terracotta warriors..

[emotional-support-possum]

So, someone tied a Get Well balloon to a dead raccoon on the side of the road near where I live and it was the funniest shit I've seen in a while

Picture under the read more. Quality isn't great because it's a screenshot from my dash cam, as someone had come and removed the furry friend before I returned from work

[victusinveritas]

CeCe Rogers on Facebook writes: "Two Black Tennessee lawmakers were physically escorted out of chambers this week while Republicans quietly held a hearing to approve gerrymandered maps that would eliminate the state's only majority-Black congressional district.

No referendum. No special election. No public vote.

Because they know what happens when voters actually get a say — just look at Virginia, where the people spoke so loudly that Republicans had to drag the courts in to override them.

This isn't new. During Reconstruction, Black Americans held more congressional seats than at any point in the prior 90 years of American history. And white supremacists spent the next several decades tearing that down, through gerrymandering, poll taxes, and voter intimidation.

150 years later, the same tools. Different suits.

The audacity of escorting Black lawmakers out of their own chambers while dismantling Black political representation, and then telling us the courts aren't political, is breathtaking. These are the same courts they're counting on to make it stick.

This is a coordinated, multi-front assault on Black Americans. And we need to say it exactly that plainly."

[henk-heijmans]

Barn cats wash themselves on a fence, New Jersey, 1982 - by Walter Chandoha (1920 - 2019), American

[parkchanwoohoo]

[pokemon-cards-hourly]

[inbabylontheywept]

my grandpa was a good man. and it really wasnt his fault - recreationally lying to kids is a proud family tradition - but he told me, once, that cutting a worm in half resulted in two worms.

i think he said it so i'd be more morally okay with fishing? i actually dont remember the context.

point was, he told me this, and he understimated (by a very large margin) how much i liked worms. i was a worm boy. very wormy. and after hearing that, i went home, and i dug through the garden, flipped over every rock, did everything i could to gather as many worms as i could, and then i uh.

i cut them all in half. every worm i could find. all of them. with scissors.

i then took this pile of split worms, and i put them in a box with a bit of lettuce and some water and stuff and went to bed expecting to double my worms overnight. i have math autism, so i had a vague understanding that if i did this just a few times in a row, i would eventually have a completely unreasonable amount of worms.

i was very excited to become this plane's worm emperor.

(i think i was...six?)

anyway, i did not become the inheritor of the worm crown. i instead woke up to a box of dead worms and cried. a lot. i got diagnosed with panic attacks as a teenager, but i think i had them as a kid, i just had no idea what they were. i was kind of processing that a.) i had killed what i had assumed was every single worm in my yard, and thus would have no more worms, and b). i was going to like, worm hell.

(six year babylon spent a lot of time worrying about god.)

so i kind of freaked out, and i climbed a tree, because god can only smite you if you're touching the ground (?) and i sat up there mostly inconsolable until my mom came out and asked, hey, what's up? what happened?

so i explained to her that i had killed all of the worms, forever, and was also Damned, and she took me to the compost pile, and we dug for all of five seconds and found like twenty more worms.

the compost pile was full of worms.

she then told me that a). there were more worms, and we could put them back under rocks and stuff and recolonize our yard and b). that one day, i would die, and go to heaven, and be able to talk to the worms face to face. that i'd be able to tell them all that i was very sorry, and that i killed them on accident, driven only by excessive Love, and that she was positive they would forgive me because worms have six hearts and no malice.

at that point, i think i was sixty percent tear-snot by weight, and i had no choice but to gather enough worms that i could hug them. which my mom helped with. and then after that she helped me put some worms back under each rock.

and for my epilogue: i spent a significant portion of my childhood in trees. and for many years after, even when my mom didnt know i was watching, i would catch her giving the space under the rocks a light spritz with the hose. not because she loved worms.

but because she loved me.

[emotional-support-possum]

Love when I'm spiraling and not a single damn person I've reached out to is able to chat because it's fucking mother's day. Love that for me

[crazy-brazilian]

[pixelartpeach]

This did not brace me for the actual contents of the site

[pixelartpeach]

Reblog to give a trans person a fresh and perfectly ripe mango wait huh

It's the wikipedia image??? How big could it be

What

Huh???

[bonesbeetle]

can see the pores on that thang

[crow-with-a-pencil]

Reblog to give a trans person a shockingly high resolution mango

[corpsecoded-deactivated20250106]

in the club getting psychosexual

[sovietunion]

[airprime7]

@funnier-as-a-system

[mylordshesacactus]

[so-much-for-subtlety]

in 2015 we didn’t have AI psychosis so people had to make do by believing a dress was white and gold

[thickness-protection-program]

Because it was

[queer-as-city-folk]

Is the gold in the room with us right now?

[thatoneliquidbicricket]

yes. the dress is gold.

...

the dress has always been gold

r u saying this doesn't look white and gold to u???

...

[queer-as-city-folk]

what.

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

it's a white and gold dress in cool blue dim lighting w/ bright warm light behind it, making an optical illusion. we're not fucking doing this again

[im-mender]

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

oh god fucking damn it

[kaban-bang]

I know tumblr likes to exclusively make it about bloody hospitals but this is what Color Theory is about

[theflowergrrl]

HOW DID THIS DISCOURSE COME BACK IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2026!???

[marzipanandminutiae]

when I tell you people were shouting up and down my dorm's hallways about this when it first happened

(the dress was by Roman Originals and it was in fact blue and black. but they made a one-off white and gold one for charity later)

[headspace-hotel]

I remember when this happened lol

Some people see the photo as showing a white and gold dress, some people see a black and blue dress. What colors you see has nothing to do with "understanding" how color works in a photo, it's perception that differs.

[headspace-hotel]

tags from @mnemonomancy

Yes! It's actually very interesting. The Dress was such a huge phenomenon because people genuinely perceived different colors for no obvious reason

Saying "its just color theory" doesn't completely capture it, as per the wikipedia page, we still don't know exactly why this photo of a dress Does That. The meme actually kicked off quite a bit of scientific research into how the brain creates this grand hallucination we call perception. It's not trivial or stupid at all