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Bosses and Coworkers: you've got a great work ethic, going above and beyond
Me: I am literally just doing my job. Everyone else is slacking off.
Everyone Else: (magically knows somehow the secret amounts of work the boss is actually asking of them, which the boss cannot tell anyone for Reasons)
There always seems to be a gap in instructions (from bosses, parents, teachers, friends, whoever) between 'required' and 'expected', and this gap is:
invisible
never explained
always a different size
you have to guess the size
if you guess wrong you either get Praised or In Trouble
At least on 'the price is right' you know (because someone *actually told you*) that you are playing a guessing game and that there is an over/under mechanic and that the conquence of guessing wrong isn't a punishment or damaged relationship or getting fired
On an unrelated note my psychiatrist has given me a referal for a formal ASD evaluation
This post is about the neurodivergent frustration of having to deal with neurotypical authority figures who don't say what they mean but I love the pro-union labor-rights energy I'm seeing in the notes
Sub Radio dropped this today :0
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a little get-together at Portiaās cottage!šš°āļø!
Illustration made back in last May for the cover of @vesuviancuisine!
Listen american football definitely has structural and safety related problems, i enjoy the games but i wish it was better structured
But
If a boxing fan says that football should be illegal because of the injury risk (a real actually type of guy i met once) you have every right to laugh in their face
Look intuitively, this sounds correct, but in reality⦠according to a 2017 study on brains of deceased football players that were donated to a brain bank, 99% of tested brains of NFL players, 88% of CFL players, 64% of semi-professional players, 91% of college football players, and 21% of high school football players had various stages of CTE. (1)
Meanwhile, according to a 2016 study on retired boxers, about 11% of all retired boxers examined had a mild case of CTE, and about 6% of the boxers had major neurological problems. And if you just looked at boxers who were over the age of 50 and fought in over 150 fights, the rate of CTE went up to 50%. (2)
Iām sorry, but it is absolutely reasonable for a boxing fan to say that American football should be illegal due to the injury risk, because American football is a much more dangerous sport than boxing in relation to the risk of traumatic brain injury.
And if youāre surprised to learn that American football is more dangerous than the sport where you literally punch each other. Well. Iād say that thatās part of the problem, actually.
(1) Mez J, Daneshvar DH, Kiernan PT, et al. (25 July 2017).
(2) Iverson GL (January 2016). "Suicide and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy". The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 28 (1): 9ā16.
Genuinely didnāt know that, but you are correct
I think that a lot of people donāt!
To be clear, I personally donāt think that itās necessary to outright ban American football. There are a huge number of things that we could do to make the sport dramatically safer, short of just banning it altogether! But I think that part of the issue is precisely that people donāt know the relative risks of these things. Many fewer parents are comfortable letting their kids play the āhit each other in the headā sport than are comfortable letting their kids play American football, and thatās absolutely an issue of informed consent.
We need to start by acknowledging how dangerous American football truly is.
[Image ID: the Garfield "you are not immune to propaganda" meme /end]
A lot of criticism of delivery apps focuses on the fact that they offer convenience and variety, which I find much less compelling than criticizing the fact that the apps often send their contractors on fetch quests from Hell.
There are real labor problems here. Base pay is often insulting. Customer tips carry too much of the burden. Workers need better protections, more transparent algorithms, protection from arbitrary deactivation, and actual recourse when the app or a customer screws them over. Car-dependent delivery is also an environmental and infrastructural problem, though in a denser city Iād still be doing this work; Iād just be doing it by bike.
But when people talk about delivery work, I rarely see them talk to actual delivery workers. I see a lot of abstract arguments about convenience, consumer decadence, āhustle culture,ā and internalized neoliberalism. Meanwhile, when Iām out working and waiting in restaurants for orders, the other Dashers I meet are usually people who only speak Spanish, people who read as neurodivergent, visibly physically disabled people, or some combination of the above.
I have not met this mythical Disco Elysium poor ultraliberal hustlegrinder-wannabe people seem to be arguing with. Maybe that archetype exists somewhere. If it exists among any kind of gig worker, it would probably be rideshare drivers. But most of what I see looks less like ārise and grindā and more like āthis is one of the few forms of work available to people who need flexibility, low barriers to entry, limited managerial surveillance, or a way to work around language barriers, disability, burnout, chronic illnesses and injuries with symptoms that come and go unpredictably, caregiving, rĆ©sumĆ© gaps, or discrimination.ā
That does not make the current system good. It means the current system is filling a real gap that a lot of supposedly better systems do not even acknowledge.
As a disabled person who is burnout-prone and demand-sensitive, contracting as a delivery driver has given me an unprecedented level of financial flexibility. I can work when I have capacity. I can stop when Iām deteriorating. I can build my day around my actual body instead of being trapped under a manager who thinks āreliableā means āable to perform the same way every day no matter what.ā That matters. It does not cancel out the exploitation, but it is also not fake just because it is politically inconvenient.
And delivery itself is not some inherently decadent evil. Sometimes people live alone. Sometimes they are sick. Sometimes they are disabled, exhausted, overwhelmed, grieving, overloaded, or recovering from something else - perhaps the stress and fatigue induced by their own job. Sometimes they need medicine, groceries, or a meal that will actually unplug their sinuses instead of whatever generic community-care slop someone thinks they should be grateful for. Humans are allowed to need specificity. āFoodā is not the same as āthe food I can actually eat right now.ā
A serious labor critique would ask how to make delivery work safer, better-paid, less tip-dependent, less car-dependent, less algorithmically punitive, and less precarious. It would ask what kinds of flexible, accessible work should exist for people who cannot thrive in conventional employment. It would ask how cities could support bike delivery, worker cooperatives, public infrastructure, and real protections without simply replacing one bad system with a moral sermon about how nobody should ever want takeout.
But a lot of the discourse does not do that. It treats convenience itself as suspicious. It treats wanting flexible work as false consciousness. It treats the needs of disabled people, immigrants, and other people who can't fit into traditional employment structures as details to be swept aside in favor of a cleaner political image.
I guess the opinions of delivery workers only count when they are politically convenient.
I've been using this tool called tumblr-utils to back up my tumblr blogs. it creates a locally navigatable archive of a given tumblr url's posts, which is more convenient than the post soup you get from tumblr's native blog export feature.
what that means is that I have a folder on my computer with the name of my url with an index.html file in it, and when i click on that file to open it in a browser I get a simple page with a list of years and months. selecting a specific month will send me to a list of the posts i made or reblogged in that month, similar to tumblr's own archive page. the contents of the post including images are stored locally on your machine.
It can also make a separate index file that organises posts by tag, which is great if you're a consistent tagger, but it will list every single tag you've ever used so it can take a while to find the tag you're looking for in the list if you're a habitual tag commentator. generating the tag archive also takes a while depending on how many posts have to be processed.
you can make it back up any blog as long as it's not set to private. I have backups of both my main and sideblogs and it keeps them in separate folders.
it's had some trouble going all the way back to the start of my main blog in 2012 just by sheer volume of posts, but by making it fetch posts from one month at a time I've been able to go back to 2015 (that's tens of thousands of posts), which was good enough for my purposes.
it might be a little scary to use if you've never touched the command line before, but there's both text and video instructions to set it up and using it is just a matter of typing the command and letting it do its thing in the background.
This document has a really good guide for setting it up, along with some other options for backup. I've been using tumblr utils for a while myself, and I run an incremental backup once a week.
I've been using this fork, which is being more frequently updated lately.
Description: [A video of a woman riding a galloping horse bareback while holding a large rainbow flag.]
i felt like these tags really added to the experience, thanks @cynderxdustypaws for your knowledge
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Oh hey this is Gemma and hereās her updated version with the progress pride flag. Sheās a wonderful person (and this is the same horse, Gage, because roans are WILD).
#I cannot emphasize enough that this is what modern eowyn is doingĀ #POST canon when sheās gotten over much of her depressionĀ #god I would love to watch modern au eowyn experience the joys of breaking out of heteronormativity to explore gender and sexualityĀ #I DO NOT and REFUSE TO have hard headcanons about what sheād concludeĀ #(thatās a lieā¦sheād be pretty butch. but def still a woman. and a Kinseyā¦I can never remember which direction the scale goes but imo sheāsĀ #genuinely mostly straightĀ #eowynās story concludes w her happily marrying a wonderful man and taking up a position of rule much as she was raised to doĀ #and she becomes a healer which IS feminine-coded irl and in canon or at least in rohanĀ #if only bc in contrast war is very masculineĀ #but also is presented as a on a totally different axis to genderĀ #ā¦I lost the thread or at least the sentence structure thereĀ #my point is eowyn isnāt opposed to her own womenhood & etcĀ #and sheās not even wholly opposed to the social expectations which bind herĀ #sheās opposed to the point of glory-seeking suicidal depression by the fact that they BIND herĀ #any bindings would be equally cruelĀ #when she breaks these boundaries entirely and eschews also the rohirric masculine ideal of death in battle is when she ultimately finds joyĀ #in the freedom to pick and choose what parts of her identity SHE will define for HERSELFĀ #tldr: imo ideal modern queer eowyn is in her mid 20s and sheās beaten the metaphorical witch-king & gotten aragornās athelas pickmeupĀ #and come around to making out with faramir on the city wall in full view of literally everyone (THIS IS CANON)Ā #and she still has bad daysĀ #but mostly sheās just a background character in someone ELSEās ficĀ #and every time she appears she has a different hair color/hairstyle/piercings/tattoos/gender presentation/pronouns/any and all of the aboveĀ #she identifies as a horse for 2 weeks though thatās mostly to prank Eonwë #sheās dating faramir throughout this except kinda theyāre on hold while she figures herself outĀ #except they do also keep meeting and kissing and more. so.Ā #she has a secondary crisis when she kisses a hot girl in a club and is into it and questions if sheās really gay and even faramir is justĀ #her clinging to the heterosexuality to whcih sheās accustomed?Ā #but she gets over this p quick bc a) she knows about bisexuality; b) she takes her antidepressants the next morningĀ #and c) she and faramir go riding a couple days later and sheās like ānvm def do still want to jump himāĀ #ā¦closing parentheses) (via @tanoraqui)
as a chemist i would like to say BWAHAHAHAHAHA
image description at explainXKCD:
explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.
its a bit easier for astronomers
NO! Whereās the non-metals and metaloids?!
are they hydrogen or helium
oxygen, carbon, sulfur, xenon, iodine, neon, etc etc.
ooo okay i see the confusion. you're listing off a bunch of metals there
ā¦. Youāre breaking my chemistry nerd brain. Hhhuuuhhhh???
im an astrophysicist
but but, science is science?!
and different fields of science have different conventions and definitions for their unique contexts
The Sound of Music + textposts pt. 26/?
Why weren't TTRPGs popularized centuries before video games? Large scale printing for complex rulebooks needed the printing press, but even then, it wouldn't justify taking off as late as the second half of the 20th century
A lot of it boils down to dumb luck. Hobbies resembling modern tabletop RPGs have come and gone before, but none of the ones that came before Dungeons & Dragons ever managed to blow up into a broader cultural phenomenon.
For example, tabletop American baseball simulators that use rules tech very similar to that of modern indie tabletop RPGs ā complete with d66 rolls and Big Stupid Tables full of increasingly improbable random events ā have been around since the 1880s, and by the mid 20th Century, dedicated players were using them to simulate entire virtual leagues in a way that would be instantly recognisable to modern indie RPG fans as a form of solo journalling RPG. Robert Coover's 1968 novel, The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop., dramatises the hobby in a way that strikingly pre-figures the later Satanic Panic's fearmongering about D&D players becoming so immersed in the game that they lose touch with reality ā pre-dating D&D itself by over five years.
It never went anywhere from there. Such games still exist, but the hobby remains insular to this day; it just never stumbled into the right combination of time and place to grow beyond its roots. And it's not even the first time a niche hobby had approached something like modern tabletop RPGs and just never taken that final step. We can speculate about the whys and wherefores, but ultimately, a lot of it ā ironically, given the subject matter ā boils down to a cosmic roll of the dice.
(One of my favourite counterfactuals is speculating what the modern tabletop roleplaying hobby would look like in a world where it kicked off half a century early by growing out of tabletop American baseball simulators in the 1920s rather than historical wargames in the 1970s. Imagine!)
AO3 users, in your opinion, do you think a properly rated and properly tagged fanfic that portrays an explicit sexual encounter between a minor and an adult (both are fictional characters) deserves to be taken down from the platform by AO3?
Yes, AO3 should take it down
No, it shouldnāt be taken down, and AO3 is right for being anti censorship
Iām not on AO3
*AO3 allows works that fall in this category on their platform (they are anti censorship, therefore any fanwork is allowed, including works that depict taboo subjects)
This poll was submitted to us and we simply posted it so people could vote and discuss their opinions on the matter. If youād like for us to ask the internet a question for you, feel free to drop the poll of your choice in our inbox and weāll post them anonymously (for more info, please check our pinned post).
No, it shouldnāt be taken down, and AO3 is right for being anti-censorship. Archive of Our Own was built on the principle that fictionāeven when dark, uncomfortable, or tabooādeserves a space for expression as long as itās properly rated and tagged.
The platform doesnāt condone real harm. It acknowledges that writing and reading about difficult subjects can be a means of processing, exploring, or understanding them. Removing works purely for their content sets a dangerous precedent where subjective morality becomes the arbiter of art. Once you start erasing what some deem too much, thereās no clear boundary for whatās next.
AO3ās tagging and rating system gives users control: content warnings, filters, and tags exist so readers can make informed choices. That autonomy is the heart of artistic freedom: allowing expression without forcing exposure. Fiction isnāt an endorsement. Itās exploration. Protecting the right to create freely, even when the subject matter disturbs, preserves a space where imagination and critical thought can coexist without fear of punishment. AO3ās anti-censorship stance upholds that integrity, and thatās worth defending.
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Happy pride!
Let me know in my inbox if there are any other flags you would like to see me draw :]
Edit: Iām gonna turn off my asks temporarily while I go through my requests bc if I get any more I fear I may explode šš (Iāll turn my asks back on after I finish all of them though!)
"what are you a cop" is bookaziraphale's entire mindset btw. "is it very angelic to hoard books and be mean to customers" what are you a cop? "should you really be married to your adversary" what are you a cop? "should your husband be parking his car there" ah you ARE a cop. explodes your ticket notebook with his mind. like in his mind if the lord herself doesn't come down to tell him off he's doing just fine. because he's doing it. and if she DOES come down (where is the flaming sword I gave to thee) well then. what is she a cop
no so true. in fact I think this was a key experience in his conviction that he is correct about everything ever. after all she did not ask him again
book Crowley: youāre an angel, you canāt do the wrong thing book Aziraphale: you are absolutely right. everything i do *is* the right thing book aziraphale really took ādo what thou wilt shall be the whole of the lawā and ran with it
[ID: The first add-on shows tags from pronouncingitwang reading "#it is soo fucking important that not only did he lie to god #he thought it was so important that he wrote it in as a correction to the bilton and scaggs bible he wanted that shit printed+distributed" and the last add-on shows tags from indieninja92 reading "#MY BOY #as i like to say 'aziraphale did nothibg wrong... but not through lack of trying' #the greatest angel ever to sincerely attempt to shoot an eleven year old in the face" /end ID]
And when he knows heāll HAVE to help the cops, heās desperate to leave so that he WONāT have to help the cops!
[ID: A snippet from the Good Omens book. It reads āThere was the sound of a siren outside, abruptly broken off as a bullet hit it. Aziraphale nudged Crowley.ā The next part is highlighted, and reads āāGet a move on,ā he said. āWe're going to be knee-deep in police at any moment and I will of course be morally obliged to assist them in their enquiries.āā /end ID]
Every morning, the queen asked her magic mirror to show her the most beautiful person in the world.
The mirror replied "To whom?"
"The miller who made the flour for my bread," the queen would say, or "Whoever spun the thread my shawl was made of".
The mirror would show her, and she'd be amazed.
The first time, she says "To me," and the mirror dutifully shows her her reflection. And she is pleased.
The second time, she says "To the King," and she is pleased to see herself once more.
The third time, she says "To the Royal Advisor," and is once more satisfied to see herself.
The fourth time, she says "To the scribe who takes the King's letters." She is shown the man's wife. And she seethes, but quiets herself, for it is only right that a man loves his wife.
The fifth time, she says "To the Court Wizard," and is shown the man's departed mother as he remembers her from his youth, radiant and smiling and warm and larger than life.
The tenth time, she says "To the Stable Master," and is shown the fastest horse in the stable, majestic and free as the wind even in captivity
"To the baker," she is shown the man's daughter, young and adorable and full of joy and laughter.
"To the artist who did my portrait," she is shown a painting of a woman done by the man's teacher, who he still looks up to now that he is well established himself.
"To the Royal Knight," she is surprised but not displeased to see the castle's entire guard force in the middle of doing drills.
The one hundredth time she asks the mirror, and it asks her "to whom?" she once again says, "To me." And she does the same the one hundred and second, and again and again and again.
It is a different person each time, and they are all beautiful.
In case anyone finds it helpful because mobility aids are horrifically expensive and inaccessibleā¦
And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damageā¦
Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.
He also is working on cheap, open source, accessible designs for beach chairs, off road chairs, motorized attachments (think smart drive), and so on. Plus he skateboards in his wheelchair. Cool dude, helpful info, pass it on.
It's incredibly sad people have to resort to this, but it's a damn good resource. Use it. Spread awareness. Maybe one day people with physical disabilities won't need DIYs like this. But until then, reblog and share.
This is Accessibility!
That's so amazing! It is unfortunate that so many people will need this, but very very cool that it exists
That other link seems to be broken.
Thank you so much for putting the working one!
I will add it to my original reblog as well.