[bat-incooking-school]

Some people might wonder "how did it take you so long to get diagnosed with autism?"

Well children, when I was tiny, it was a common belief that girls couldn't have autism

But even more damning (and funny) is the fact that my brother had a special interest as soon as he became aware of his surroundings. His first special interest? The yellow lines on the highway. He would open car doors /While On The Highway/ so he could look at them better. He'd scream if he could see them out the window but couldn't open the door for a closer look. My whole family had to buy mini vans so that they could put him in the middle of the back seat so he couldn't look at the damn yellow lines on the highway

So that's what I was competing with

[rotp-on-ao3-goofing-blog]

The signs were there, it's just that the other guy had air horns on his.

[bat-incooking-school]

My autism was a standard traffic sign

His was a neon flashing advertisement of the DSM

[barely-an-artist]

I'm so sorry you lost at autism, bat

[bat-incooking-school]

He stopped crying and making noises at night ridiculously early on because he didn't want mom to pick him up! I never stood a chance! 😭

[bat-incooking-school]

Just want to say that I think about these tags at least once a week. I should change his ringtone to boss music

[programmerhumour]

Anon visits webpages in 2022

[mornington-the-crescent]

As others have pointed out before, if you visited a web page 20 years ago and it acted like that, you would rightly assume your computer had gotten a virus.

[bombing]

no your honor I absolutely can make my case like an adult. first things first, fuck the defendant and fuck his family too. secondly,

[bythestardoggedmoon]

[donuts-multifandom-hellhole]

Something that I get chills about is the fact that the oldest story told made by the oldest civilization opens with "In those days, in those distant days, in those ancient nights."

This confirms that there is a civilization older than the Sumerians that we have yet to find

Some people get existential dread from this

Me? I think it's fucking awesome it shows just how much of this world we have yet to discover and that is just fascinating

[sleepymccoy]

@makaeru peer review cos this made me check when the Sumerians happened and I forget how recent history is for every other continent. 7000 - 8000 years ago just isn't that long when you're in Australia, and the amount of detailed history we have access to here is wonderful and should be recognised more internationally

Source (non Aboriginal)

And a quote I picked out from a longer interview with an Aboriginal local elder about the area where he touched on the history

Source (the rest of the interview is really interesting and all transcribed, have a look if you're curious)

[chaotic-archaeologist]

This is part of my Ancient Civilizations class that I teach, which does a whole week about Australia and the Torres Strait Islands because I was sick of never seeing them represented in USAmerican history contexts. With the help of @micewithknives and @acearchaeologist I've learned so many incredible things about Australia's past and it's been incredibly rewarding to share them with students.

[aggressivelybicaptainamerica]

My favorite fact about Aboriginal oral history is the fact that we pretty recently discovered that the Aboriginal myth of the 7 Sisters, an origin story for the Pleiades star cluster, accurately reflects a point TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO when two stars in the constellation got close enough together to no longer be distinguishable by the naked eye.

The story? 6 sisters running from something that took their 7th sister.

[jinkohhh]

as a gilgar gunditj woman, i was not expecting to see my culture on my dash.

thank you for spreading our words and treating our culture with respect.

[iraffiruse]

[tim-official]

see every time i see this status i get angry because i’ve played through literally every scenario in rct1 and there is no place where this is a thing. there is never more than one park per map. and in rct2 you can’t make that happen i the scenario editor either. it is not remotely within the game’s functionality to simulate two discrete parks and these games were coded in assembly for christ sake so it’s not like someone modded it in by adding the line “int const TOTAL_NUM_POSSIBLE_PARKS = 2;”. there is no conceivable way this post is anything close to true and even though i know how writing all this out reflects upon me as a person and even though i know exactly how meaningless and trifling of a takedown attempt this is on some random facebook screencap with hundreds of thousands of notes im going to post it anyway because i’m too petty to have any say in the matter

[marinella-ela]

[ackwardroots-deactivated2022090]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

it is both normal and healthy to have protective maternal feelings towards tiny bottles of condiments

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i just want my children to be safe and happy in life

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

#when I was little my grandmother had a bottle of tiny Tabasco just like the one in the last picture #and I played with it like a doll. made clothes and hats and all kinds of things#for this tiny bottle of Tabasco

normal and healthy

[lore-gore]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

tiny condoment

[pollsforadults]

Spin the wheel. Now, imagine you're on a first date with someone who says they`re a [result]. How does this affect the odds of a second date?

100% guarantee I'll want a second date

It's significantly more likely

The odds don't change

It's significantly less likely

There wont be a second date. Absolutely not

Remaining time: 5 days 19 hours

Picker Wheel - Spin the Wheel to Decide a Random Choice

Picker Wheel is a wheel spinner for a random picker. Various functions & customization. Enter choices or names, spin the wheel to decide a r

(anon submission)

[onlytiktoks]

[garfs-7thlife]

Don’t Press Those Keys! How to Spot the New "Captcha Scam"

A new CAPTCHA scam tricks users into running malware that steals personal data. Learn how to spot the fake pages before it’s too late.

Added the article just for extra explanation :P stay safe yall (if you saw me fuck this up No you didn't)

[fluffyplushiesworld]

Happy Pride Month Tumblr ✨

[indigobuntings]

I can't believe home depot literally produced a wildly successful science fiction musical and we all just pretend it didn't happen. on one hand yes it had a boring white guy main character but like.... home depot just... Made it? And it had shit ton of box office sales? and no one even talks about this. this is like avatar (2009) all over again

[indigobuntings]

OK so. After a lot of frantic googling I realized this was all a dream. home depot did not in fact produce a wildly successful science fiction musical. I was on allergy meds and took a nap and my brain simply prophesized this. slightly disappointed because I wanted to watch it.

[krchov]

(by @galwednesday)

[hydrachea]

> turns on my computer

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

> disables a new AI fea

[ralfmaximus]

would you like to try new AI thing?

Yes

Ask me again in 3 days

Voting ended on21h

[history-and-stuff-and-things]

[ralfmaximus]

Looks delicious

[afloweroutofstone]

My favorite category of government program to run across is "program you've never heard of doing extremely important work to solve a major problem which you have also never heard of." On that note, the US drops millions of pounds of sterile bugs over Panama each week in order to prevent a parasite infestation from moving into North America. Everyone say thank you to the Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of the Cattle Borer Worm (COPEG)

[afloweroutofstone]

This program had its funding cut during the DOGE cuts last year and now the parasitic worm they were trying to slow the spread of has officially arrived in the United States.

[meret118]

A Horrific Parasite Is Back — And Elon Musk's DOGE Could Be Partly To Blame

Cuts the department made to USAID included a program dedicated to preventing the spread of the screwworm across the U.S.-Mexico border.

More here.

[digitaldiscipline]

I want to help readers understand that the mentions of Elon Musk and the invasive parasite are not both talking about him.

[important-animal-images]

[lokaror]

i eat your grandads clothes

[flyingsquidzeez]

Macklemoth

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[ralfmaximus]

My kiddo’s school required a Facebook account to access vital information like snow days. The app used to recharge their lunch money account required a Facebook account.

I scheduled a meeting with staff. Told them I wasn’t doing that.