incalculable messes

Nad, she/they, 30s, actuallyautistic, M'sia. AO3 "Fishfootidentity". A multi-fandom blog with a fondness for audio posts, run by a symbiote birb in a human host. Posts often queued or scheduled. Aspiring towards intersectionality and harm-reduction. In most cases, tired of the world.

[cookiedoves]

tundra swan in a bonnet sketch 🦢👒

[boybeetles]

You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes

F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???

[boybeetles]

Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖

[yetanothergreyjedi]

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you

[heatherwitch]

My resolution last year was to do one thing before bed that would make my morning feel easier, and that’s become a daily habit that I’m carrying into this new year.

Some nights even filling up the kettle and setting an empty mug out for my morning tea felt hard. But I was always thankful for it in the morning.

Other nights, one thing would lead to another, and I’d wake up in a clean house with everything ready to go.

And, on a rare few nights, the one thing that I could do to make my morning easier was going straight to bed and allowing myself to rest.

What stayed the same each day is that I would take a moment to think of what I could do for my future self and do it, even after a hard day. And I would wake up knowing that I had done my best and any effort—no matter how small—was a kindness to myself.

[one-bite-is-undercover]

I’ve been doing a lot of “a treat for future me” moments lately.

[heatherwitch]

That’s a great way to look at it, and I love this artist! (Anna-Laura: instagram / website)

[sadclowncentral]

(grabs you by the shoulders) you have to make room for new experiences in your life. you have to go through the unpleasant work of leaving your comfort zone, even if just for a few minutes at a time. because if you don't, your brain will trick you into stagnation. you will start to believe that the world can barely fit you in it. but that's not true. it's the opposite way around. you can fit the whole word inside of you. your task is only this: to welcome it with open arms

[hideki-koga]

ノゴマ（Siberian rubythroat）X face

[shubbabang]

[dark-wizard-guy-fieri]

context (via @mellorocket)

[chimthecappy]

doubly funny that I saw a compilation of all the corporate accounts like "aw thanks elmo, we're doing well" meanwhile all the flesh and blood real human people are extremely not okay

[artistefish]

Okay but Elmo had actually the best and sweetest response to all this trauma dumping:

And then all the other Sesame Street character accounts joined in:

And now I’m thinking maybe we’re gonna be okay… 💗

(Comment compilation from this Twitter)

[aqueerkettleofish]

I kinda feel for the poor person running Elmo's Twitter.

"So, boss... I may have messed up."

"What did you do, Ray?"

"Well, I made a post for Elmo saying 'Hi, how's everybody doing?'"

"I mean, that's kind of what we pay you for."

"Yeah, but.... <sigh> it turns out pretty much everyone is hanging on by a thread, badly enough that they needed to tell Elmo."

"Oh."

"God help me, boss, I think Elmo needs to be there for them."

"Get the others."

[shu-of-the-wind]

this is the energy that jim henson would be proud of.

[anna-neko]

and important addition

Source: instagram

[snowysoul-squrirel]

Always reblog this. Elmo and his friends will be there in your times of trial and doubt, to help you through your torment

[importantcatpics]

[stjohnstarling]

It will give you a far greater understanding of the world and make you a more interesting person if you follow the chain of influences on the things that you like as far back as you can go.

[stjohnstarling]

People sometimes ask me how I know about so many things and it really is mostly this and reading Wikipedia articles.

[wildrobinstudio]

Birbfest 2026: many-coloured rush tyrant

[marauders4evr]

The thing that abled people who advocate for the disabled community don’t get is that there are times when disabilities/accommodations clash. Horribly.

Like I spent years having to come up with a solution to get therapy dogs into a series of residence halls. Why years? Because we had to decide who got to stay and who got to leave: the people who needed therapy dogs or the people with severe allergies to animals. Who got the alternative housing? 

Things like fidget toys might seem great for some disabled people but having them in the room could be distracting/overstimulating for others. The same goes with stimming. It can’t be helped but neither can the anxiety that another person in the room feels as they watch/hear it. Additionally, something like a weighted blanket might immediately calm one kid down and send the other one into a panic attack due to the claustrophobia it causes. (*Points to myself*)

Every Metro bus in New York City has a series of seats at the front that can be lifted up to accommodate people in wheelchairs but if I’m in one of those spots then someone with a cane/walker has to journey even further to sit down.

The flashing lights of a fire alarm are there to help deaf/hearing impaired but if they’re not properly timed, they can also cause a person to have a seizure.

The worst part about all of these is that there is rarely a concrete solution that makes everyone happy/safe. And I’m not here to offer any because I don’t know them. I’m just here to remind you all that as you’re taking your education/health classes, as you’re reading your textbooks, as you’re preparing to go be an advocate, just remember that there is rarely ever such a thing as a one-size-fits-all solution to advocacy and that something you do that can help one disabled person might actually hinder another.

Food for thought.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

I have heard this referred to by some in the disability advocacy profession as “duelling disabilities” and it’s definitely something I wish people would be more mindful of when discussing accessibility.

[startledoctopus]

another useful term is “competing access needs” or incompatible access needs.

[startledoctopus]

i just came across the term “access friction” that was coined as an extension of the “competing access needs” to remove the idea of competition, winning and losing

Access Friction Explained - Calling Up Justice!

Calling Up Justice is creating a resource on access frictions because there are multiple meanings and applications of the term. Access frict

[kelpforestdwellers]

This is also one of several good reasons the phrase ‘fully accessible’ means nothing without further context. Your venue is fully accessible? To whom?

[pseudocurios]

stamps from a series on historical antarctic explorers. hungary, issued 1987.

[subplotsideshow]

Enough of book titles that are in the format of Blank of Blank and Blank. We need to start titling books like Fall Out Boy songs; borderline gibberish and barely related to the content within.

[sugiichi]

Asio flammeus [コミミズク,Short-eared Owl]

飛び出し注意！😆

[catboybiologist]

Oh if I'm shit stirring about random bullshit today

Every argument against nuclear power compares it to renewables, and yet every time a nuclear power plant is taken off the grid it is at least partially replaced by fossil fuels

[catboybiologist]

"Oh but it's temporary renewables will fully replace them in the future" we don't have time we don't have any fucking time the worst nuclear disasters and waste storage practices on the planet would be NOTHING compared to the utter devastation of fossil fuels

[catboybiologist]

"it's not public sentiment that takes nuclear plants offline, they're too expensive to run" they're too expensive to run because in most of the world (including right here in California) they're the least subsidized form of power. Governments usually subsidize or socialize all energy production, yes including fossil fuels, to keep the grid up and cheaper. Nuclear is often given the least amount of money- less than oil or natural gas, and often less than coal.

And THAT is a result of public sentiment.

[catboybiologist]

"well I agree with you but only when we do more research on safely storing all of the waste" every nuclear power plant in the US has enough "temporary" on-site waste storage to store all of the waste they will ever produce in their lifetime safely for centuries, even without transferring it to long term sites

[catboybiologist]

This is so fucking frustrating in environmental circles too. I feel like it's the equivalent of people telling new Yorkers that they shouldn't have voted for Zohran because he's not going to make a socialist utopia that could exist in a few decades from now

[catboybiologist]

We don't have TIME we don't have fucking time we don't have time

Solar and wind are inconsistent and need storage of some kind, which we need to research and build more infrastructure for

Large scale hydro is an ecological disaster and we are running out of places to do it anyways

Any more experimental technique needs more research

With a serious push for nuclear we could decarbonize the entire fucking grid in a few years with a consistent power baseline, and then supplement with renewables whenever possible and to handle peaks and troughs

[catboybiologist]

Governors Brown and Newsom of California both made major pushes to fully close down one of our two nuclear plants and slowly take more and more reactors at our last nuclear plant, Diablo Canyon, offline. The promise was to replace it with wind and solar.

They've largely been replaced by natural gas.

Based on napkin math I did about this like 5-10 years ago, five nuclear plants similar to Diablo Canyon running at full capacity could power the entire state of California alone. You could do it in three or less if you add in our renewables.

That's 1/8 of the population of the US decarbonized in a few years.

[catboybiologist]

I did these loose calculations for an argumentation and rhetoric course I did in undergrad so that's what this is based on, yes I understand that this is uncited, out of date napkin math with no precise numbers, but the situation has likely online gotten more promising with better and better nuclear plants.

But if ya want a little benchmark:

Right now, with a SINGLE nuclear plant operating at LESS THAN HALF capacity, 9% of California's energy production is nuclear. And we're planning on phasing it out entirely.

[catboybiologist]

Pulling out this classic xkcd to demonstrate my fucking point https://xkcd.com/1162/

The sheer scale nuclear operated at means that it's capacity to eliminate the ills of any other form of power dwarfs any possible problems they have

The amount of land scoured, spilled on, devastated, unusable, and people killed by fossil fuel mining, emissions, and leakage will always be more than thousands of Fukushimas and Chernobyls. You don't even have to start splitting hairs about "oh those were old plants anyways" or "oh that was mismanaged" because even the worst, most extreme, most avoidable situations for nuclear, represented in those two incidents, still do not reach anything close to the scores of dead left behind by fossil fuels.

[thriron]

and coal often contains radioactive particles WHICH ARE PUT IN THE FUCKING AIR

[ridleymb]

When the cat lies on you

[natalieironside]

Due to my weird childhood and my weird brain, I have this very unhelpful compulsion to conceal Everything I do from Everyone. I Cannot be observed performing any action, no matter how mundane. My nervous system is convinced I'm gonna, like, Get In Trouble for eating food at dinnertime or sleeping in my bed at bedtime.

I've taken to asking myself, "Okay does this task actually require subterfuge or am I stealing a balloon on Free Balloon Day"

[natalieironside]

I see from the notes that we're all havin a normal one 👍

[art-and-things-of-beauty]

Winifred Austen (1876-1964) - The foraging party, watercolour, 34 x 44,5 cm.