LeafShutter

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[therarityofcharity]

Okay, story time! I had this friend that seemed really cool and we aligned on a lot of things. They were hella anti military, which is super fucking valid, but it was to the point where they told me if I wanted to stay friends with them, I needed to force my husband to cut off his mom because she teaches first aid and swim lessons on a base. Being anti us military is an incredibly valid stance, but to try and force me to force another person to cut off their only family because they work on a base? His mom isn’t even a soldier, she’s fucking red cross and is working with the military to teach first aid and water safety lessons! The things he was saying legit felt like talking to a fed that was trying to sow division. It would’ve been bad enough to set that line and try to force me to cut off my family, but that’s not even MY mom! I have zero say in whether someone else chooses to cut off their family, that is not a decision me or anyone else can make for someone! It was just such a wild ultimatum to get from someone I considered a friend and I essentially told them, “hey, i agree with a lot of your points about the military, but it isn’t my place to force someone to cut off their only family and it sure as hell isn’t yours”

Anyways, suffice to say we are not friends anymore and if my husband cuts off his mom that will be his decision alone because that is his family and will affect him, not me and not this random “friend”

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[beardedmrbean]

[breadandm]

somebody posted this Calvin and Hobbes strip and i cannot overstate just how topical this fuckin thing is

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[theconcealedweapon]

When people say that healthcare is a human right, dipshits will often argue that nothing that requires the labor of others is a human right.

This is ridiculous, because doctors have to do MORE labor because of capitalism.

Think of how much labor doctors have to do when arguing with insurance corporations in order to get them to cover something that the patient needs.

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[chilewithcarnage]

[cherryjams]

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

[bladespark]

My mother used to make computer cores as a "work from home" side business. As a child I got spending money via un-winding the ones that failed testing so that the magnetic center could be re-used. I got between $0.05 and $0.25 per core depending. Mom got more for the finished ones, of course, though I don't know how much. Her sister was an expert, and did the more complicated kind, some of which ended up in satellites and/or were used by NASA!

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.

[natnormalatall]

roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that

the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[georgewiman]

"I meant to do that" after walking into a lamp post while carrying coffee

[a-moment-captured]

Signs of Autism that no one really talks about from a mother with an Autistic child:

Your child hears EVERYTHING. You whisper in the kitchen and somehow they repeat the entire conversation word-for-word from across the house.

Food texture battles. It’s not “picky eating.” It’s “this chicken nugget feels different from the last chicken nugget and now the entire meal is cancelled.”

. They remember random details forever. You forgot something you said 8 months ago… but they didn’t.

The meltdown after holding it together all day. School says they were “perfect. Then they come home and emotionally unload like a shaken soda bottle.

They notice patterns adults miss. Street lights, sounds, numbers, routines… their brain is always analyzing something.

. They can be brutally honest. No social filter. If your outfit is questionable… you’re about to hear about it.

Random deep interests that become their whole personality for months. Dinosaurs. Elevators. Weather. Train schedules. Hot Wheels. They will become a certified expert overnight.

They struggle with transitions. Stopping an activity suddenly can feel like their brain hit a wall. They may script conversations. Repeating phrases from movies, YouTube, or past conversations.

Needing to rewind videos and music to repeat them over and over

[georgewiman]

Getting diagnosed at 67 was made more difficult because finding someone alive who remembered me as a child. But apparently most of these applied to me

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[georgewiman]

Starving a lot of people to make a few people rich, is what we're doing

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[georgewiman]

Jesus Christ THIS!!!

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