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Fred Wright

When I talk about the value of work vs. the wages the worker gets, this is exactly what I’m talking about. And today, more of that value winds up going to the shareholders than even the business owners.

#marxism democracy and capitalism #politics

Soviet era Stein made in Japan. Wild.

anocana

this bot that generates metal band names and corresponding album art is fucking incredible

anocana

i added alt text to the images, if you're checking the notes you might want to reblog this version

garrettauthor

This made me so fucking angry I have to inflict it on all of you.

thyrell

what’s the punchline here

thyrell

wait

thyrell

fhtagn-and-tentacles

BEETLEJUICE

by Jonathan Wayshak

steakandcheeeese

Lmao you’re an adult, you shouldn’t be using the word squick. Use trigger. Use your grown up adult words to explain how you feel instead of leaning on a cutesy uwu term that no one outside of tumblr uses. It’s embarrassing.

Idek if this is serious or ironic honestly

steakandcheeeese

#like...why use this baby word when you can just say how you feel about it

Found this in the original post tags and I just... SIGH

Here’s the thing, anon. Squick isn’t just ‘I don’t like this’, it’s ‘I think this is gross and it makes me deeply uncomfortable but I pass no judgement on those who enjoy it, because I acknowledge that everyone is different and those same people may have the same visceral reaction some of the things I enjoy’ and was originally made popular in the kink community.

So yeah, if you want to say that every time you come across a trope or whatever you find icky then go ahead, say that every time.

Also, this term dates back to Usenet in the early nineties, so sure, go off.

sugarfey

This frustrates me so much because squicks and triggers are fundamentally different things and as someone with PTSD, the distinction is super useful!

Squicks are things I find personally gross but may not be gross to someone else. They don’t upset me or provoke my PTSD, they simply do not pop my corn. Example: Omegaverse. I don’t like it, it makes me uncomfortable and I’m not going to read it, but if you like it, you do you.

Triggers are things which directly provoke my PTSD. This means that my triggers may seem completely normal and innocuous to someone else, because my triggers are so personal and intrinsically linked to a specific event in my life. My reactions to these triggers can include panic attacks and flashbacks to this traumatic event. Sometimes being triggered can affect me for several hours or even days.

Describing something as either a squick or a trigger allows me easily establish the difference in my potential reaction to something without having to go into painful detail about why bodily fluids might make me back button quickly but poker games might leave me a crying wreck.

oopsabird

Making this distinction, and having a specific word for something that is not your slice of pie, but also not an actual psychological trigger, is also REALLY important for making sure that the word “trigger” can retain its original, specific, purposeful, and collectively understood clinical meaning (both inside and outside online fannish communities).

If we encourage everyone to lump things that just make them slightly uncomfortable or simply aren’t to their taste in under the word “trigger”, it actually dilutes the meaning of the word. It makes it harder for us all to, for the most part, collectively agree on and understand what exactly is being described when the word gets used.

And that destruction of shared precise definitions is a problem! It is really useful to have the communal language to be able to clearly and quickly delineate between “this grosses me out, no thanks” and “this is going to set off a trauma episode, rattle my brain, and probably throw off the rest of my day/week as a result” while also maintaining your privacy, and to know that you will be understood in what you are saying. Not having it is actually detrimental to the effort of making our communities safe and navigable for people living with trauma. Which is a goal that is much more important to me, personally, than the idea of not being “cutesy” (a word which in this case which sounds a lot like it’s being used as a euphemism for “cringe”).

(Also, one has to wonder if people told Shakespeare he was being childish when he made up entirely new words that are still widely used in the English language today...... 🤔)

depsidase

omghotmemes

yourladyindank

As a parent I would’ve gone ape shit. Hog wild. Absolutely goddamn bananas on this motherfucker

almost-john-work-deactivated202

Bruh look at this maths teacher straightup violating the commutative laws of addition and multiplication.

This man is not nitpicking or being closeminded, he’s objectively wrong by the laws of mathematics.

gearsmoke

This is the sort of thing that made me punch a teacher when I was a small child.

umbrellanumber5-deactivated2021

Ableists like to label you as what you’re worth to them.

gearsmoke

I have to disagree with this. To me, functionality is about the level of Independence one can achieve. I need some help, but I can live on my own. Unfortunately, some people need to be dressed and fed. They cannot be left alone, because they lack the connection to the outside world to survive in it without help. I have observed people at many points on the spectrum, and they've needed various amounts of help. So while being self-supporting would be nice, happiness is more important to my functioning.

So y'know you can be all 'it's about exploitation' if you want, but that doesn't make it universally true.

#autism spectrum

So an interesting and unintuitive thing about plants: the paternal genes that fertilize the flowers have no effect on the maternal plant's fruit. So the fruit is only an indication of half the genes in its seeds.