It's slorp time

Cool and queer queen..Alliteration is my passion, except for when it isn’t.

[rainbowlack]

y'know i wouldn't mind mosquitoes biting me so much if it was just like a sex thing

[mawofthemagnetar]

The problem with being low support needs is that people mentally autocorrect that to “no support needs” and then proceed to give you absolutely nothing and then get surprised when you implode after six months.

[thwarp]

Oh hey look, it’s me

[tpwrtrmnky]

A lot of online left discourse immediately evaporates if everyone involved internalizes the following:

The bourgeoisie are capable of reading Marx and then structuring their methods of exploitation in a way that looks like the workers gaining ownership and autonomy to misdirect analysis.

[mrbossguy-ten-billion]

conapiracy theories usually make your situational literacy worse. i think this is counterproductive!!

[tpwrtrmnky]

It's not a conspiracy theory, it's a well-documented phenomenon economists have been writing about.

[invisible-goats]

isn't that the whole thing with the phrase "at will employment" in the usa? sounds like autonomy, actually means you can be sacked whenever?

[valntinemacabre]

first and only digital circus fanart

[modern-xp]

Every time I hear "too expensive" when it comes to socialized funds, I just think, Damn. If we just took the money from billionaires, the trillionaire, and big companies, we could have so many cool things.

What if we brought back independent scientist as a job? Like, with the new money we got, we just funded scientists like we fund the arts. Same with healthcare. Just like, instead of funding Big Stealing Oil and Big Hoarding the Economy, we just like funded researching and shit.

What's stopping us?

[modern-xp]

AI bros who use ChatGPT in their minds are so funny to me. Like, “Hang on. Let me prompt real quick… Okay, so I have an idea.” Buddy’s learnt to think for themself.

Anyways, new type of guy: System with a ChatGPT introject.

[revivivivify]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

happens to humans in real life as well

[tiny69fr0g]

Gender envy

[cat-skull]

imo the term "walkable" in "walkable cities" should be understood to mean "wheelchair accessible" as well, not just literally "possible to walk in". the act of walking in a city doesn't automatically make it walkable

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

When I was in uni my housemates had a baby, and we taught them some sign language so they could communicate before all their mouth parts were coordinated yet. None of us knew Auslan but two of us were familiar with the signs that the State Emergency Services used in the field so we worked with those.

The kid learned to request a drink, which is great, because that's like the #1 most important thing for a baby to be able to request, but instead of learning any of the other signs they just used modified versions of the drink sign to ask for all kinds of things. They couldn't actually make the proper drink sign (it requires some level of hand control) and used a modified wave, so they ended up with a whole bunch of subtly different waves to ask for stuff. Which was pretty fun in public because strangers would coo over this adorable baby who kept waving at them when, in practice, the baby wanted their ice cream.

[enitnerolf]

Babies are physically capable of making simplified signs from about 8 months. Speech usually comes at 12 to 18 months. That's half a years worth of frustration about not understanding/not being understood that can be minimized by teaching a child basic signs.

General advice is: start signing at 6 months. This gives the child time to observe, draw the connection, and learn. It also gives you the time to build the habit and practice. Start with a few signs, and wait till you see the child react to them before you introduce more. At 8 months you will start to see the child signing at you to communicate. The signs will be botched. That's ok. Just like with speech, make sure your reply contains the word/sign so they know you understand and can see the 'proper' version without feeling corrected.

Another tip: caregivers like to teach signs like tired and hungry and diaper. Signs that they (the caregivers) find relevant. Make sure to also offer signs that are relevant to the child, like their favorite toys, more and done.

[catgirl-kaiju]

okay, so i got my tax return and it was a pretty good size, so i went and bought some new underwear, pajamas, and clothes from torrid. after i submit my order, i get a little popup from torrid letting me know i can "play to earn back $75"

this sounds like a scam, but it's coming from a fairly established and trusted clothing store so i was like... let's see what the nature of the scam is. i get taken to something called smart wallet that informs me that, yes, i can play to earn back $75 from my purchase if i reach a certain level in one of 3 mobile games. alright, should be simple enough. let's see how this works.

i went with "Disney Solitaire" because the chances i'd get addicted to the game or spend real money on it are basically underground. the goal is to "Get to Scene 9" in order to make back that $75. alright, doesn't sound too bad. probably deceptively difficult in some way, but you're gonna need to do a lot better than a game made for babies to prevent me from getting my money.

[catgirl-kaiju]

the game is really bad (go figure for a game i'm basicallybeing payed to play), but it's at least patronizingly easy. so far the challenge has been to push past my distaste for the disney branding and close every pop up letting me know about extra features in the game as soon as possible. it's looking like it will take me multiple days to do this, so i figure live blogging will help me get through this. i'll be adding to this post my thoughts on this stupid game

[catgirl-kaiju]

i have almost gotten through "Scene 2" basically, you have to play levels of solitaire to earn stars, which can be used to unlock elements of a "Scene". you get 1-2 stars per level and so far elements cost between 1-5 stars. each "Scene" is a famous scene from a different disney movie. if i were engaging with this for the intended reasons, it would probably be exciting and addicting to unlock these scenes. because this is essentially my job, i am mostly just bored. i do not care about recreating the "under the sea" scene from the little mermaid with a generic mobile game art direction, i'm only in this for the money.

[catgirl-kaiju]

playing with the volume on my phone turned off so i don't have to hear any of the music or sounds, btw

[catgirl-kaiju]

this game has already shown me so many purchase pop-ups and none of them are compelling in the slightest. i'm here to make money, not spend it

[catgirl-kaiju]

they made her into the type of white girl you find on dating sites who has a hiking photo on her profile and her meyers-briggs type in her bio

[catgirl-kaiju]

oh yeah, and there's constant google play achievements almost certainly to give me a little dopamine rush so i'll become addicted. this shit is so crass. fortunately i do not care at all about the achievements so risk is still minimal. the only mobile game i've gotten really and actually addicted to before was a Godzilla mobile game, and you can probably guess why that was.

[maidslime]

I need mentally ill trans girls out there to know they're loved, I need physically disabled trans girls out there to know they're loved. I know every day can feel like you're a burden and terrible, but you're loved and wanted, you are not a burden and even if you were we want to carry that burden.

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[fiore-firelily]

[mosswall]

"English doesn't really have any equivalent whatsoever to Japanese honorifics, so we just completely leave them out of our subtitles because there's no way that our English-speaking audience could possibly grasp their significance in explaining these character's relationship with each other"

There is a character named Robert Thomson.

At work, he's known as Robert by his coworkers and Thomson by his boss. At home, the people in his neighborhood call him Rob. His parents, spouse, and closest friends call him Robbie. His best friend from childhood calls him Robbie and also sometimes calls him Roberto. The children in his neighborhood call him Mr. Rob but when he does volunteer work at the library the kids there call him Mr. Thomson. Children in the wild who don't know him personally call him sir. When he goes to anywhere with reception, he's typically addressed as Thomson.

So explain to me again why English speaking audiences can't grasp that those kids are calling that woman Oneechan because she's a young adult woman that they aren't personally acquainted with, and more importantly why you chose to localize that to her given name and not the equivalent of "Miss" or even "Miss Given Name"? Because if your goal is to replicate the experience that the original Japanese audience would have with those characters, you're failing spectacularly. Because now not only do you have a bunch of kids going around calling adults by their given names when in the original language they're calling them a cultural equivalent to Miss or Mister, but your insistence on removing all honorifics and just using names means that there's no absolutely zero difference in the way a person is addressed by the people closest to them and total strangers. Which is not only wildly inaccurate to how the Japanese audience would experience that, it's not even that accurate to English, either.

[andhumanslovedstories]

I truly enjoy how much Animorphs is like “here are our young heroes, each with a distinctive trope to fill in the group!” And then it makes you watch how the pressure of each person’s role grinds them to dust. And also they have homework.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#IM SORRY THEY DO HOME FUCKING WORK IN ANIMORPHS??????

Yeah they're students. If they don't keep their grades up or if they miss too many classes (or miss classes at suspicious times) then they risk drawing the attention of the faculty and/or their parents, some of whom are the enemy and some of whom can just make future espionage a whole lot harder. There are multiple missions where they're like "okay, this is incredibly time sensitive but it'll take a full day or longer so it has to wait for the weekend and we'll have to all lie to our parents about sleeping over at each others' houses. It's gonna have to be done at the last minute because we've gotta go to class. Also, remember to get that English paper finished, we can NOT afford to have you grounded right now."

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

They also get disembowelled and/or eaten a lot

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#animorphs#its actually devastating i bever got into these#they wouldve been a million times more up my alley wtf was i reading harry potter for

It's not too late. You can still read them.

[cheerfulomelette]

These have been out of print for an age, and the authors have given their blessings to share the PDFs. Here's everything, including companion/side books and the non-canon Alternamorphs books, in reading order:

Animorphs PDFs : K. A. Applegate : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

All of the Animorphs books by K. A. Applegate, as well as the other books set in that universe. I got them here. I am not the one who collec