the krusty krab

ya mom's chest hair

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[yuyuuyuyuu-deactivated20230726]

[afblearnfrench]

Paris

[catchymemes]

[animatedtext]

[dankmemeuniversity]

[pissvortex]

for everyone asking why it’s bad to have sex with and marry a 90 year old man with dementia who thinks you’re his dead wife so that you can take his money: please remove your brain from your skull and rinse it off under some hot water to remove the built-up grime that has accumulated over the years of exposure to the internet

[hellsite-yano]

what the fuck did I miss

[worthlessclericbuild]

[dingdongyouarewrong]

[ratliker1917]

I think one good reason to not overly focus on some imagined inherent moral goodness of people who have been horribly oppressed throughout history, and it's better to focus on the fact that the violent oppression of any people is inherently horrifying and worth fighting against, is that it leaves you incapable of properly assessing why, for example, the Spanish colonization of Mesoamerica was a crime against humanity. For all intents and purposes the Aztec state was itself a major regional oppressor, and its practice of raiding other neighboring peoples to obtain victims for human sacrifice earned it the hatred of practically every other indigenous group in the region, to the point that when the Spanish laid siege to Tenochtitlan the vast majority of its army consisted of indigenous people who they easily recruited due to their collective grievances against the Aztec Empire. None of this changes the fact that what the Spanish went on to do, the systematic annihilation and subjugation of every culture in the region, Aztec civilization included, is among some of the worst crimes against humanity in history. The Aztecs don't need to be good or moral or anything like that for us to understand that what was done to the people of Mesoamerica by Spain was utterly monstrous and has had horrible consequences for the indigenous people of Mexico up to this day.

[larktb-archive]

This is why a huge chunk of South African white supremacist propaganda is based around proving that "the blacks were equally as bad" during the colonial period. Yes, the Zulu kingdom was absolutely an oppressive state based around assimilating nearby clans and tribes. Yes there was warfare between ethnic groups and tribes which ended in mass blood shed. No, this doesn't excuse apartheid or the genocide of numerous groups in the country. Colonized peoples don't need to be perfect to be victims of horrendous crimes againsf humanity which still effects people to this day.

[podencos]

[onlytwitterpics]

[redcap3]

[thekwikemart]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[the-autisticats]

What’s Visual Snow Syndrome (VSS), and why do so many autistic people have it?

I learned about this the other day, when I posted about palinopsia (visual trailing/afterimages) being common in autistic people, and a couple of our followers told me about their VSS. I did some more research, and discovered that I also have it.

Visual Snow Syndrome is a neurological condition that interferes with visual processing. It’s caused by hyperactivity and hyper-excitability of nerves in certain areas of the brain that process visual information.

The core feature of VSS is constantly seeing tiny, fuzzy “feedback” in the environment. It’s kind of like seeing the world through a staticky TV screen. Some people’s visual static is larger than others. Mine is relatively fine-grained, but it gets bigger and more obvious in low lighting.

Some of the other symptoms of VSS include:

Palinopsia (visual trailing/afterimages)

Photophobia (sensitivity to light)

Increased and enhanced ectopic phenomenon, such as floaters, phosphenes, and Scheerer’s phenomenon

Seeing glare, starbursts, and halos around lights

Difficulty seeing at night/in the dark

Seeing random flashes of light and/or color, without cause from the environment

It’s common for people with VSS to experience comorbid migraines, but VSS is not the same thing as migraine aura.

So, why do autistic people often have VSS?

It comes down to the fact that VSS is caused by the hyper-excitability of neurons in areas of the brain that process visual information. A core feature of autism is hyper-excitable neurons, especially in areas of the brain that have to do with sensory processing. So it makes sense that autism would often inadvertently cause VSS.

Here are some illustrations of visual phenomenon that VSS causes, in case you want a better understanding of what the world looks like for me and many other autistic people.

Visual snow/static:

Palinopsia/image trailing:

Scheerer’s Phenomenon (tiny bright moving dots):

Starbursts around lights:

Floaters:

I hope y’all have learned something :)

I’ve found it very intriguing to realize that the way I see the world is more unique than I once knew!

~Eden🐢

[jazzybot4]

Um.

[eimearkuopio]

"oh, I definitely don't have that part of it" she says until she scrolls down and finds out the world doesn't look like that to everyone. (I don't have the image trailing, and I'm not sure about the one below it, but all the others yes)

[tehnakki]

I was recently diagnosed with BVD but I didn't realize all these other visual effects were connected to adhd (also recently diagnosed).

[thebibliosphere]

wHAT

[rat-femurs]

in grade 6 and every time we had a movie day or class party id ask my mom for a can of doctor pepper but i had to keep it in my backpack and it always got shaken up and would explode when i opened it bcus we all know dr pepper has much more chaos inside the can than any other soda and anyways my whole class instinctively knew every time that my doctor pepper would explode and we'd have to pause the movie and clean it up and id usually be covered in dr pepper for the rest of the day and be super embarrassed and this happened to me about twelve times throughout the year. you might be wondering why i couldnt keep my dr pepper in my locker until we watched the movie and its because i didnt have a locker in grade six after i left a piece of pumpkin pie that my teacher gave me in there for a month and it rotted and molded so bad and there were maggots everywhere so one day i locked the locker and refused to open it ever again so for a whole year i carried all my stuff around because i was afraid to go to admin and tell them about my maggot pie because someone started a rumor that if the principle figured out you did something bad she would lock you down in the basement storage room that was infamous for having a giant rat that lived inside of it and i was afraid of rats after seeing ratatouille because i thought a rat might climb inside my hair and start controlling me and force me to do things i didnt want to do like make soup

[chokopoppo]

[bonjourfrenchwords]

La France est beaucoup trop belle pour être privée de tous ses amoureux. Promettez que vous reviendrez ! • France is far too beautiful to be taken away from all its lovers. Promise you will come back! • 📷 @toits_de_paris

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[wizardoutofoz]

They did not even go through a SECOND of grief. Instant recognition of the humor. These are people who know the world’s whims and can roll with them.

[gwendolynlerman]

Languages of the world

French (français)

Basic facts

Number of native speakers: 76.8 million

Official language: Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guinea, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu

Language of diaspora: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Chile, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Tunisia, Uruguay

Script: Latin, 40 letters

Grammatical cases: 0

Linguistic typology: fusional, SVO

Language family: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Western Romance, Gallo-Romance, Oïl

Number of dialects: 4 main groups

History

842 - earliest text in French

9th-13th centuries - Old French

14th-15th centuries - Middle French

1539 - French becomes the official language of administration

16th-17th centuries - Classical French

>17th century - Modern French

<20th century - language of diplomacy

Writing system and pronunciation

These are the letters that make up the alphabet: â à a b c ç d é è ë e ê f g h î i ï j k l m n ô o œ p q r s t û ù u ü v w x y ÿ z.

French is written with 26 Latin letters, 14 diacritic letters (à â ç é è ê ë î ï ô ù û ü ÿ) and 2 ligatures (æ, œ).

The orthography is quite complicated because much more is written than is pronounced. 

Speech also sounds are more complicated than the language learner would suppose because some vowels are dropped and groups of words are pronounced together as one.

The French accent falls on the last syllable of words, but words that are pronounced together and which form a rhythmic unit only have a single stress. Consonants that are normally not pronounced are sometimes pronounced when followed by a vowel. This is known as liaison.

Grammar

Nouns have two genders (masculine and feminine), two numbers (singular and plural), and no cases. Gender, however, is specified by the accompanying article.

An interesting feature of French is its vigesimal numeral system, according to which 80 is quatre-vingts (“four twenties”) and 95 is quatre-vingt-quinze (“four twenties fifteen”). Belgian and Swiss French (as well as some other varieties) use base-ten numbers, so 95 is nonante-cinq.

Verbs are conjugated for tense, mood (conditional, imperative, indicative, and subjunctive), person, and number. Some tenses are only used in formal situations or in literary works.

Dialects

There are four main dialect groups: European French, North American and Caribbean French, African French, and Asian French.

Metropolitan French, spoken in Paris, is considered the standard in France. In Europe outside of France, we can also find Belgian French, Swiss French and Aostan French.

There are two main dialects in Canada: Quebec French and Acadian French. Other varieties include Caribbean French and Louisiana French.

African French is divided into four categories: West and Central Africa, Northwest Africa, Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, and creoles in the Indian Ocean.

Asian dialects include Indian French, Cambodian French, and Vietnamese French.