[alphacrone]

i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.

[olliemnjones]

[tommyssupercoolblog]

Because the notes are full of people arguing over which game is better

[daco-showman]

why can rockstar games institutionalise you for life like nikita kruschev for being autistic

[transhuman-priestess]

He didn't steal 10 million dollars. They made that number up as a loss, they never fucking had it. Rockstar has spent more than a billion fucking dollars on GTA VI and will likely make billions more when it gets released.

Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.

Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.

And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?

Capitalism is disgusting.

[fuckblast]

Nobody should buy GTA til they free Arion Kurtaj

[transhuman-priestess]

What with GTA VI going up for pre-order i'd just like to remind everyone that rockstar conspired with the UK government to lock an 18-year-old away for life for hacking them.

[wifegideonnav]

the emotion i just experienced is kind of indescribable

[wifegideonnav]

the funniest part of this post to me is that the reblog:like ratio is nearly 1:1. nobody’s just liking everyone who sees this video goes yeah i gotta inflict it on as many people as possible

[crossroadsbishounen]

[shikiimisaki]

[junglejim4322]

Unironically I think the early to mid 20s age group in America has unbelievably bad consent boundaries on all levels and so much language to defend it but this makes me sound like elon musk if I say it however the commonality of someone who will be like “I had 47 panic attacks and it’s your fault” if you tell them no is insane

[junglejim4322]

I rejected someone and got called “the scariest person I’ve ever met” with so much therapy speak interspersed like alright okay alright okay alright okay

[junglejim4322]

“You just say whatever you’re thinking and I don’t know how to handle it” was verbatim part of this conversation. Also everyone hates to see an autistic bitch

[transhumanisticpanspermia]

When I was in this age bracket, there was a huge emphasis on improving consent culture via graceful rejection, and it's gone by the wayside. Which sucks.

Twice in my youth (once in high school and once in college) I was in situations where I was asking someone out and I could tell they were calculating in their heads the risks of rejecting me, and both times I said, out loud, "you can say no, I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't prepared for either answer." And then they said no. This wasn't some spark of special wisdom I had - I knew to do it because feminist conversations among my age group brought it up regularly. This isn't happening nearly enough anymore.

More recently, I was really glad when we got to "rejection sensitive dysphoria" in my IOP program and it was one of those symptoms where the therapists really emphasized how it affects others. Because it does.

Being someone who cannot handle rejection makes you much more likely to violate boundaries, and yes, that includes sexual ones. Yes, you, reader who has never hurt a fly. If you don't want to stumble backwards into sexually assaulting someone, fix your RSD meltdowns. If you keep them up it's only a matter of time. Because if you're nice enough to interact with, but are known to have RSD meltdowns, guess what happens when your friends and acquaintances need to reject you?

[radical-eve]

[ironbound-oberon]

I have cochlear implants and I can only buy parts to fix them or upgrade then from 1 corporation bc of tech exclusivity. upgrades to get new processors for both ears cost $23k & insurance only covers 90% (and it’s “good” insurance)

cyberpunk dystopia is already here for the disabled. fight for universal healthcare, fight against capitalism NOW.

[dovewithscales]

I want all the abled people reading this to go price check a power wheel chair.

The future people fear with subscription fees for body parts is already here. The plot of Repo! The Genetic Opera is already here. Disabled people are already facing impossible prices for aids and treatments they need to live.

[jameelaillustration]

One of the coolest things to remember is that because prey animals have eyes on the side of their head, they are looking at you when they're in profile, not facing you! Hot tip for artists and animal lovers!

[actuallycuteanimals]

Okay not really. The thing about animals with eyes on the side of their head: they DO in fact look directly at things and they CAN use binocular vision. I am going to use horse examples because horses are what I know best.

A horse uses binocular vision when it is trying to see something better - monocular vision gives a wider field of view but no depth perception and is not very clear.

When alert, the horse will look directly at something, facing it, using binocular vision to determine what it is and whether it is a threat.

A general rule of thumb with horses is that whatever their ears are pointed at is what they are looking at.

In the first image, the horse is looking at me. In the second, she is not.

In this set of images, she is investigating that blanket. You can clearly see her head pointed at the object and she examines with her binocular vision and nose.

Now, in this case, the horse is looking at me without his head facing me. You can tell he's looking at me with his monocular vision by how he has one ear facing me.

In most of the professionally done horse reference pics you see, the horses are going to have their ears pricked up and alert and be using their binocular vision. Why? Because it just looks better. How? Either the horse is investigating/curious about the camera or person holding the camera OR someone standing where they want the horse to look has just snapped their fingers or whistled or waved an umbrella or something to get the horses attention.

I just find it silly to say that the prey animals are not looking at you when facing head on, when the examples you gave do not seem to demonstrate that. To me, all of the squirrel and bird pictures look as if they are looking at the viewer - with the side view being a more 'relaxed/trusting' sort of look while the front view is a tenser investigation. The horse does not look like its looking at the view in either drawing - the first looks relaxed and looking somewhat to the side, the second looks alert and gazing directly in front of it.

[kedreeva]

I will add on for (at least some) birds.

This bird is not looking at you.

This bird is intensely looking at you

Many animals move their pupils. In both photos you can see her pupils, but they're only facing forward in the second.

Here she is intensely examining a chip in front of her face.

She is not looking at me- actually she's not really looking at anything she's listening to something she heard outside.

Peas most often look at things sideways when they need a wide field of view, too- like when they are scanning the sky for hawks, they will walk puffed up with their head tilted to the side to look up.

But when they want to actually look at something or someone, they will look head on as well. It's just that unlike animals with forward facing eyes, they don't HAVE to look at you head on.

[utopians]

mormons undoubtedly in the top 5 worst things the united states has ever invented which is really saying something

[utopians]

sorry that sometimes when I stay up too late I start posting abt how much I hate mormonism but the spirit just moves me to do it

[utopians]

like the mormon church is just such a perfect microcosm of everything wrong with christianity as it's practiced among the american right wing. everything abt it is so disgusting. one of the most utterly repulsive spectacles of racism, misogyny, and bigotry to ever leave a stain on the earth

[agni-bi]

Bringing this back because there’s been a bit of a push from Mormon influencers to normalize Mormonism, and as an exmormon I’m here to say fuck that

Do not allow the LDS Church to rebrand itself as some kind of harmless quirky church that just has a few silly rules. It’s a fucking cult that brainwashes its members and actively harms marginalized people. Mormonism deserves every ounce of hate it receives and then some

[catlips001]

FUCK. honestly just FUCK. We missed a very important day yesterday.

[battebitch-deactivated20200410]

what was yesterday, cat?

[catlips001]

[catlips001]

I’m not missing it this year.

[enron-intern-1998]

I scheduled this post 364 days ago and squinted at it at least once each day from then until now the day of anniversary when I share my experience with you, personally.

[natequarter]

[id: a screenshot of a youtube video. it is entitled, “raccoon birthday party.” the video shows a raccoon celebrating its birthday. the date in the bottom right hand corner reads, “may 25th, 1997.” /end id]

[sentimentalslut]

trying to explain to tumblr that the Middle Class in not their enemy

[sentimentalslut]

saw someone say that someone complaining about only having 7k in savings makes them contemplate “doing something bad”

you know that 7k covers like. one hospital visit WITH insurance, right?

[sentimentalslut]

“people who make six figures shouldn’t be allowed to complain —“ most people who make six figures are, these days, solidly middle class. where i live, a combined household income of $110k is *lower middle class*.

“people who can afford homes —“ are typically 400-600k in debt for them. also if “can own your own home” is your threshold for the rich you are contemplating eating, i think you are genuinely stupid

“boohoo your investments dropped, stop complaining rich boy” idk how to tell you this but. most of us have a retirement account. you should probably open one

[dirt-mann]

[stormtide-leviathan]

WHERE is todayborday

[gollumni]

Bestie Labor Day is September 4th

[shyflops]

[alphabetcompletionist]

AB DE HI LMNOP RST W Y

16/26

[kir-rat-jay]

Which is different from the USA Labor Day for some reason.

[puzzledemigod]

[professional-dog-hugger]

callout posts in 2014: this user is sending mean messages to people! please be warned!

callout posts in 2015: this user is stealing bones from cemeteries for witch rituals!

callout posts in 2016: this user Actually A Nazi

callout posts in 2017: this user watches an anime I don’t like

callout posts in 2018: i went through this user’s youtube like history and found a video from JonTron that they liked in 2012, proving that they’re a bad person

callout posts in 2019: this user plays E-Rated Video Games, which are meant for children, which seems pretty sus to me idk :/

callout posts in 2020: this user stole 5 gallons of purified water from the New DC Resistance Camp and was last seen headed towards Sunken Brooklyn

[ave-aria]

what I REALLY don’t like is this post was made in 2017

[lagtrainzzz]

[depressed-cryptid-deactivated20]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[soundlessdragon]

Two days ago my husband said "...and he was pissed" and I said "don't say that around the kids!" so he corrected himself to "and he was liquid angry" and I've been laughing since

[soundlessdragon]

He is an ungrateful man 😔

[by-dying-i-live]

[mariacallous]

[greatpoetryfun-deactivated20260]

Friendly reminder as we head into tax season (for US Americans), that the major tax preparation companies are fully prepared to lie and mislead you into paying for their tax preparation software when you might qualify for free software through the IRS.

Don’t fall for their bullshit. Visit IRS Free File and see what services are available to you. The requirements vary depending on your household status and income, but if you make less than $79,000/year (which is nearly everyone I know), you probably qualify for something.

[rat2rrj]

HR block also did this shit to me, fuck em

[infectiouspiss]

little miss awful body temperature regulation is taking his hoodie off again

[infectiouspiss]

little miss awful body temperature regulation has put his hoodie back on

[possessable]